Mad Men Roundtable: Season 3, “Love Among the Ruins”

What I really can’t figure out is why Don is so insistent on taking Betty’s ailing Dad into the Draper home.  Is he just that intent on proving to himself that he’s not as callous as Roger?  He’s doing what Betty wants, which seems to be an extension of some left over guilt from her combative childhood relationship with her father.  He bullies Betty’s brother William into leaving both Dad and the Lincoln behind, while sending he and his family home on the train with marching order to pay Dad’s bills and not sell the family home.  He almost immediately regrets siding with Betty about not putting Gene in a nursing home, though, as he and Betty are roused in the middle of the night by the sound of Gene pouring out bottles of booze, obviously thinking Prohibition is on.  We’ll see what complications arise from this as the Drapers await their impending bundle and all the upheaval that comes with a new baby.