| The sixth episode of Mad Men, titled "Babylon", brings | | | | to Israel, Don finds an excuse to call Rachel Menken, |
| the crew at Sterling-Cooper into May 1960, as Peggy | | | | who he shares a mutual attraction with. Rachel is |
| Olsen beings her unlikely climb up the corporate ladder | | | | brought in to try shooting out some ideas for the Israel |
| past her secretarial beginnings. Peggy is able to | | | | campaign, yet mostly serves as an excuse Don uses |
| impress the ad team with her suggestions, enough to | | | | to try getting closer to her. |
| have Don Draper start consulting with her for ad copy | | | | Conflicted, Rachel decides to leave Don to his 'utopia' |
| and the enigmatic 'women's perspective' with the more | | | | of a false paradise full of advertising promises and |
| female-oriented accounts Sterling-Cooper is involved | | | | phony aliases to try and hide the true motivations that |
| with. | | | | guide him. |
| Elsewhere in the office, Roger Sterling and Joan | | | | Don retreats back to Midge, his regular mistress, and |
| Holloway keep their extramarital affairs secretive and | | | | enjoys a nigh of debauchery with Midge's |
| mutually-non-committal until the white-haired Roger | | | | drug-obsessed artist friends in an attempt to forget |
| makes a offer to Joan to buy her an apartment. | | | | about Rachel (and Betty as well). The prior discussion |
| Roger being married automatically puts him off of | | | | about 'utopia' that Rachel brought up comes into play in |
| Joan's radar as far as a serious relationship goes, and | | | | future episodes where Don and Betty seemingly have |
| she playfully rejects his offer to escalate their | | | | a great life when viewing things from the outside, but |
| relationship, in the process putting a halt on the physical | | | | as the original Greek for 'utopia' translated as 'a |
| advantages of their furtive liaisons at the same time. | | | | non-place', the facsimile of life that Don creates around |
| In coming up with an ad campaign for promoting travel | | | | him has always been bound to shatter. |