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= The Inheritance (Mad Men) = "The Inheritance" is the tenth episode of the second season of Mad Men. It was air on October 5, 2008, in the US. it was viewed by 1.30 million viewers. It was directed by Andrew Bernstein and written by Lisa Albert, Mart Noxon and Matthew Weiner.

Plot
The episode starts with Don, Pete, and Kinsey discussing their trip to California. Betty’s father gets a stroke, so Don and Betty both visit her father’s house where Betty meets with her brother and father. Soon Betty realizes that her father has mixed up memories and mostly forgets who Betty is, because of which there an incident between Betty and her father which shocks everyone in the house. Later Betty finds out there is someone living in her backyard for quite some days. The episode ends with Don and Pete on the flight to California.

Production
The episode was called “the inheritance” to sum up the main elements of it, which are the conflict between two generations and being an adult. In Peter’s case, he had a conflict with Trudy and his mother about adopting a child. It shows the importance of Peter’s reputation and the people who raised him in the making of his decision. In Draper’s residence, Betty's change of role is very annoying to her, but there is no escaping. She needed to be the adult in several parts of the episode. She tried to re-achieve her role by going to Don but realized it is not a solution and ended up facing her reality.

Critical Reception
Will Dean wrote a blog about the episode, where he discussed the main scenes of the episode which are Betty’s, Pete’s, and Glen’s. For him they were “all about the confusion between the psyche of the adult and child.” Unlike Noel Murray who focused on the relationship of the characters, especially marriage. He said to summarize his opinion, “marriage in the Mad Men universe: a social obligation through which people, on rare occasions, are able to satisfy their needs. And the family unit is designed to raise kids to enter into their own obligatory marriages. This is what gets passed down.” He gave the episode a grade of B+.

Cultural Reference
When Pete and his brother talk about the donation that their father made to Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center for performing arts it hosts many prestigious organizations which are in arts, the very first structure which was completed and occupied was in the year 1962. It was located from 60th to 66th street west in Lincoln Square in Manhattan. When Betty’s father says the Yankees having a hall of a year, in 1963 won their 28th pennant and made a record of 104-58. They finish ten and a half games ahead of the Chicago.