| In "Flight 1", the second episode of Mad Men Season | | | | Herman 'Duck' Phillips tries to turn the negative into a |
| Two, the show opens to several workers at | | | | positive by suggesting that they help American Airlines |
| Sterling-Cooper arriving with loved ones to a New | | | | spin the tragedy into something forgivable to the |
| Jersey party thrown by Paul Kinsey. Kinsey is showing | | | | common people to save face. |
| off his hospitality, along with his African-American | | | | Before Don can hear Duck's proposal, Pete Campbell |
| girlfriend Sheila, to people like Joan Holloway (whom | | | | warily enters Don's office to inform him that Pete's |
| Kinsey had a prior affair with). At the party, Peggy | | | | father was on Flight 1, and asks Don for advice on |
| Olsen flirts with a single man and ends up making out | | | | how to react. Don is shocked, and is only able to tell |
| with him following the party. | | | | Pete to 'go home', as it's what a normal person would |
| But when he invites Peggy back to his place, she | | | | do in Pete's situation. When Duck finally gets the |
| instantly rejects his advances, perhaps still feeling the | | | | chance to spring his idea for American Airlines to Don, |
| psychological effects of her unwanted pregnancy in | | | | Draper is livid about the proposal. He is completely |
| Season One. Back at the Sterling-Cooper office the | | | | against getting rid of a good small client for the chance |
| next day, the entire staff huddles around the radio as | | | | to sign with a bigger, yet obviously more troubled |
| news of the 1962 American Airlines Flight 1's crash in | | | | company, and this further alienates him from Duck and |
| Jamaica Bay is reported, killing everyone on board. | | | | will set up many more battles between the two forces |
| This obviously puts a ruffle in the plans for | | | | in future Season Two episodes. |
| Sterling-Cooper's Mohawk Airlines advertising, yet | | | | |