When the crew finds out that Sterling and Cooper is about to be sold off again by their British overlords, they come up with a plan. First, they have Lane Pryce fire them all and send a telegram about it to London. This happens on a Friday, and the telegram won’t be read until Monday, which gives them a short, but important window. The next step is to ransack the old office so they can get supplies and client portfolios to help with their new company, the cleverly named Sterling, Cooper, Draper and Pryce. Of course, they don’t know where anything is, so they call in Joan, who had been wasting her talents as a shop girl at the time. They bring on Pete as a partner to secure his client list, and Lane gleefully accepts his fate when the old company fires him. The look on Paul Kinsey’s face when he realizes that the old guard has left without him would make Danny Ocean proud.
