[Contains spoilers]

Is Don Draper going to fall out of a window? Is Pete Campbell D.B. Cooper? Is Peggy going to write the iconic Coca-Cola commercial?

First of all, no one is falling out of a window. That is just too obvious and silly. Don is stuck at a bus stop in Oklahoma smiling his arse off as we all hyperventilate his phone call to Sally. Is he going home? You bet your tater tots he is. Clue: Flip Wilson. The tv in the motel room shuts off right as Flip Wilson and Red Fox are on talking about how wonderful children are. In real life, Wilson cut back on his work to look after his own kids. Don has always had the lucky of these existential trips because Betty is fine and the children are well cared. That soon comes to an end.

Don’s shedding of the Cadillac is a goodbye to Dick Whitman. The entire town was a throwback to his childhood and forever beating question, will you finally make peace with the past?

We know Coca-Cola is coming. It’s in the boardroom during the lite beer meeting, and it’s in Don’s face at the motel. Who writes that iconic add? Betty’s letter is dated 1970, the commercial airs in 1971. It’s coming- and it’s the child of Peggy and Stan. Peggy says in her final scene to Don, “I want to do something big.” Nothing is bigger than Coca-Cola, even today.

Most people looked at Pete’s storyline as complete. He realized he wanted his family back and rationed that a new job in a new city with them with be the bow to tie everything together. His fall is trusting the bad omen of Duck Philips. Shakespeare would’ve written him as a two headed snake. Is Duck working with McCann to ouster Pete? The omen gets worse when Buddy Holly is the song playing over the credits in the Milk and Honey route. Pete is leaving for a job at Lear jet. Holly dies in a private plane crash. Pete’s father died on a commercial flight. Things will not end well. Campbell make things right with his family and walks out the door saying, “good day.” Look for that to be his last words to Trudy.

All of the other characters are tied up. There story is done. Sally is ready to take care of her brothers, because not even she can rely on Don coming home. Come he will. Are his days done in advertising? I think so, though I hate to believe it. Start his own firm with Roger? That was season four. The era has ended, especially Draper as a Madison Avenue man.