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This is business as usual.

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The episode tucks beguiling character moments into its margins.

Cleaning out the old guys, its good for us.

It opens up spots.

And an idea will jump up in your face.

But this moment, too, has business on the brain.

I think shell salivate.

), yet chilling because, as Harry observes, He looks like death.

), he might as well be a corpse propped upright in a coffin.

I am so glad I got to roam those hillsides.

The sight of Joan breathes new life into Roger by reminding him that theres more to life than work.

A few minutes later, at a business meeting, he will suffer his second heart attack.

Excerpted with permission fromMad Men Carouselby Matt Zoller Seitz.