Don Draper
Dick Whitman
CD
Loc. Sterling Cooper
- Motivation
- Advance personal and factional stakes
- Emotional state
- Hardened by recent events
- Last known
- Whitman secret; Betty marriage
Allies
Roger, Peggy rising
Threats
exposure, Betty
Prep pack · temporal graph
Mad Men
About to watch S01E04 · New Amsterdam
Spoiler-free to End of S01E03 "Marriage of Figaro"
100% spoiler-free up to the final frame of S01E03. Continuity pack (season knowledge + staged narrative + relationship web). Nothing from S01E04 or later.
Long gap (passport-weighted): foundational who/where listed first.
Standard
1960s Madison Avenue; Don Draper's stolen identity (Dick Whitman); SCDP and the American sell.
You are resuming mid-Season 1. Hard cutoff: S01E03 (Marriage of Figaro). Nothing from S01E04 or later.
Season 1 - early path (through E1). Board is set; season-end outcomes are not assumed.
You are still early in Season 1. Prior seasons (if any) are fully in force; this season's finale geometry is not.
Don's Whitman secret seeds.
Peggy rises from secretarial pool.
Focus on who wants what, who is allied, and which institutions are pressuring the cast.
Season 1 path through S01E03: E1 "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" → E2 "Ladies Room" → E3 "Marriage of Figaro".
Cutoff discipline: every fact above ends at S01E03. Do not import anything from S01E04 ("New Amsterdam") or later.
Key events (pre-cutoff)
- 01Season 1 through E1: early markers only.
- 02S1E01: Context beat: Don's Whitman secret seeds.
- 03S1E01: Context beat: Peggy rises from secretarial pool.
- 04S01E01: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- 05S01E02: Ladies Room
- 06S01E03: Marriage of Figaro
Character status cards
Snapshots as of graph ordinal ≤ 3 (S01E03).
alive
Peggy Olson
Secretary to copy
Loc. SC
- Motivation
- Advance personal and factional stakes
- Emotional state
- Hardened by recent events
- Last known
- Rises; pregnancy secret path
Allies
Don
Threats
sexism, Pete
Pete Campbell
Ambitious
Loc. Accounts
- Motivation
- Advance personal and factional stakes
- Emotional state
- Hardened by recent events
- Last known
- Blackmails Don early
Threats
Don
Betty Draper
Wife
Loc. Ossining
- Motivation
- Advance personal and factional stakes
- Emotional state
- Hardened by recent events
- Last known
- Beautiful cage
Allies
kids
Threats
Don's affairs
Roger Sterling
Partner
Loc. SC
- Motivation
- Advance personal and factional stakes
- Emotional state
- Hardened by recent events
- Last known
- Affairs and accounts
Allies
Don
Threats
heart, change
Joan Holloway
Office manager
Loc. Office
- Motivation
- Advance personal and factional stakes
- Emotional state
- Hardened by recent events
- Last known
- Power without title
Threats
men
Relationship map
Continuity web
Relationship map
Ink diagram of who is bound, opposed, or entangled as of the cutoff (End of S01E03 "Marriage of Figaro"). Click a name to pin. Edge labels appear on focus.
6 figures8/8 ties shownhub: Don (5)
Hover or click any figure to open their tie dossier. Hostile and tense ties carry direction marks. Secret ties are dashed.
Open threads
Story continues from cutoff
highAll facts above end at S01E03. S01E04 is not included.
Who cares: you
Path to now
S1 through E1
Progress marker E1
Season 1 - early path (through E1). Board is set; season-end outcomes are not assumed.
S1 through E3
Current season path
Last episode watched: Marriage of Figaro. Next: New Amsterdam.
World state
- Status quo at season end is the baseline for the next stretch.
- Treat later-season institutional collapses as unknown until you pass them.
Constrained desk chat
Temporal RAG over this pack only. No model calls. No post-cutoff index rows exist.
Desk · Cutoff desk open. I only know this show through End of S01E03 "Marriage of Figaro". Ask about characters, threads, or events before that line. I will refuse anything later.
Spoiler-free to End of S01E03 "Marriage of Figaro"
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