In episode 9, the ever in control, compartmentalized and heavy defended Don, finds his well-ordered work-life thrown into chaos because of the overwhelming emotions generated by the women in his life. His secretary dies, his daughter runs away, he orders his wife to pick his daughter up but she defies him and then he tries to forcefully to remove his daughter from his office and she resists him. Don has became impotent both at work (his auto-parts advice was ignored) and in his family life, especially in his ability to influence his daughter.
Don's emotions are in turmoil and he reverts to a male stereotype where he suddenly believes that not he, but a variety of women should be thrown in his daughter direction as a stop-gap solution to his own feelings of emasculation. He attempts to throw his wife, his older secretary, his psychiatrist love interest and finally his younger secretary at his daughter, all in an effort to keep Don from actually talking to his daughter and sharing his feelings. There is only one woman in Don's life that he shared deep feelings with, and she's now dead. At the end of the episode Don takes out his journal, the only place for him now to share his feelings, but this will change...
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