S7E2 · A Day's Work

Complete story — includes the ending

A month later, tensions flare at SC&P on Valentine's Day. Pete secures the Southern California Chevrolet dealers' association as clients, but Cutler and the other partners insist on approval from Chevy's corporate office, frustrating Pete, who also feels adrift in California and clashes with his career-focused girlfriend Bonnie. Don declines a rival agency's recruitment overture, remaining loyal to SC&P. Peggy mistakenly believes flowers delivered to her secretary Shirley are from Ted and asks Joan for a new assistant. Sally visits the office unexpectedly, forcing Lou to awkwardly lie about Don's absence while Dawn, still secretly assisting Don and passing him information, is out buying him a Valentine's gift; Lou demands a replacement for Dawn. Observing Joan juggling personnel duties and partnership responsibilities, Cutler urges her to relinquish personnel and move fully into Accounts; despite Bert's objection to a black receptionist, Joan promotes Dawn to head of personnel. Cutler also warns Roger about becoming combative. Meanwhile, Don and Sally reconnect when he admits he is on leave, and she confesses she used a roommate's family funeral partly as a pretext to shop in Manhattan.