Mad Men, Season 5

I think another fissure we?ll see open up this season is between the haves and the have-nots. Roger conspicuously threw cash at all of his problems in this episode: bankrolling the Y&R prank, bribing his co-secretary to pay attention to him (?why don?t you buy yourself a fancy hat?or a mask?), paying Harry to switch offices with Pete (?Eleven hundred dollars, Harry. That?s more than a thousand?). Lane, meanwhile, doesn?t want his wife writing checks to the grocer, never mind the bursar of St. Paul?s. In the Comments, reader Mark Lyons argues that the point of the wallet subplot was to suggest the source of Lane?s money troubles: his wandering eye, which we first saw last season when he and Don went out on their New Year?s Eve bender. ?The money man has money problems,? notes Mark, and predicts that it won?t be long before Lane is making off with the petty cash. Julia, I?ve always thought that one essential role Lane plays is that of the responsible grown-up: It would be a little hard to believe that a fledgling venture like SCDP could survive in a competitive marketplace without someone being hawkish about the budget. If reader Mark is right and Lane can no longer be trusted to mind SCDP?s finances, that would make for a dramatic development indeed. For now, though, it was the picture of Dolores, not the cash, that Lane tucked into his blotter.

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