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Original Air Date: Oct 23, 2011

Guest Cast:
Goran Visnjic: Niko Lonza
Alexander Blaise: Philippe
David Harbour: Roger Anderson
Erin Cummings: Ginny
Scott Cohen: Everett Henson

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Original Air Date: Oct 16, 2011

Guest Cast:
C.J. Wilson: Howard
Jeremy Davidson: Richard Anderson
Jay O. Sanders: Douglas Vanderway

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Original Air Date: Oct 9, 2011

Guest Cast:
Victor Slezak: George Manchester
David Harbour: Roger Anderson

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Season 1 | Episode 102 | Aired 10/02/2011

Guest Cast:
Veanne Cox: Miss Havemeyer
Jeremy Davidson: Richard
Annabelle Wallis: Bridget
Kate Jennings Grant: Judith
Cheryl Horner: Female Passenger

It’s another beautiful day in the Big Apple as Dean drives his black convertible to Idlewild for his next flight. But while Dean’s enjoying a nice drive to the airport, things aren’t going as well for Colette, whose taxi has a flat. The dashing Captain comes to her rescue and offers a ride to Paris in exchange for dinner and coffee service. It’s a pretty good deal, but Colette sweetens it by taking the wheel of Dean’s car for the rest of the drive. There’s clearly some chemistry between these two, but when Sanjeev congratulates Dean about climbing back into the dating pool, he makes it clear that they’re just friends. We’ll see.

Laura faces another tough inspection from Ms. Havemeyer, who seems to relish criticizing her in front of the other stewardesses for gaining a pound. Maggie, who’s never one to back down from a bully, challenges the stern inspector to step on the scale herself. There’s a tense moment where we’re not sure who’s going to come out on top of this power struggle before Ted comes in to save his flight attendants. It’s time for departure, so Ms. Havemeyer will have to have that showdown with Maggie another time.

Just before takeoff, Kate meets her handler, Richard, who gives her a new assignment. She needs to deliver a package to a contact in Paris. She’ll know the agent when they exchange a special bit of conversation about the time. Kate’s ready to go, but she seems distracted by something. She looks like she’s spotted something or someone in the crowd boarding the plane. She rushes on board and checks the manifest to find out the worst has happened—her mom is on the plane!

In the air, the two Cameron sisters debate who’s going to handle mother. They try to settle things like adults—with a game of rock, paper, scissors—but when Laura loses and still can’t handle it, Kate reluctantly volunteers. We flash back to a roadside diner after Kate and Laura have just ditched the wedding. Laura’s scared that her parents will never forgive her, but her big sister is there for support. Things take a bad turn when their mother shows up. While Laura tries to hide under the table in her wedding dress, Kate goes out to confront their mom in a pretty tense shouting match. Things go a little more smoothly in the air, but not by much. It becomes pretty clear to Kate that her mother is there only to see Laura, and that hurts. She retreats quickly and tells her little sister it’s time to fight her own battles.

Things are much better for Laura, who goes in thinking she’s about to be disowned, only to find that her mom just misses her and still wants to be a part of her life. Everything seems great between mom and daughter, but when Laura tells Kate how well things went, the elder Cameron sister immediately suspects her mom is up to her old manipulating ways again.

Maggie is facing a troublesome passenger of her own. A businessman in First Class gets flirty with her during meal service, but she’s a pro and plays it off nicely. After a cocktail or two, the passenger tries to force himself on her in the galley and she doesn’t handle that quite so well—she stabs him with a serving fork! The jerk isn’t seriously wounded, except maybe for his pride, but he tries to report Maggie to Ted anyway. Trying to look out for her, Ted gets the man to ease off by offering to have Maggie bring him a scotch before landing. He thinks he’s the hero once again, that he saved her job, but when she hands Ted the drink and tells him to serve it himself, it’s pretty clear she didn’t appreciate the “rescue” this time.

Once in Paris, everyone explores the city in their own way. Laura goes out for what she thinks is going to be a nice meal with her mom, only to find her former fiancé, Greg, waiting with flowers. It’s an ambush and Kate was right all along! When she finally does talk to Greg and asks him to let her go, he understands. She needs to have some adventure in her life, even if it’s without him. Kate begins to get into it with her mom when she finds out about the stunt she pulled, but just as the shouting match is about to start, a young woman asks her for the time. It’s her contact! And not only that, it’s her friend and former stewardess Bridget Pierce!

Quelle coincidence! Dean has enlisted Colette to help him find Bridget, the missing love of his life. He needs Colette to guide him to a club that Bridget once took him to, where he was introduced to a friend of hers named Gaspar. The problem is, Gaspar only speaks French and Dean doesn’t. Colette translates for him as they ask about Bridget and the Maitre D’ drops a bombshell—Bridget was secretly married. We didn’t think Dean could get more heartbroken than when Bridget disappeared, but it looks like we were wrong.

While Dean is drowning his sorrows, Kate speaks with Bridget inside a cathedral. They make the exchange and Bridget reveals what’s in the package. The night she took Dean to that club, she was delivering some film to Gaspar, who is an agent himself, when a British agent told her that her cover had been compromised and she would have to disappear. The box that Kate handed to her contains her new identity. She’s not actually married—that’s a cover story to throw Dean off the trail—and she’s lost everything because she made a mistake. She warns Kate that the same might happen to her and tells her she can still get out of this if she wants, but Kate is as dedicated as ever. When Kate returns to her hotel room, her mother is waiting for her with her passport. It’s only got one stamp in it, but that’s not what’s important. What’s important is that it was issued the same summer that Kate became a Pan Am flight attendant. Her mom does care about both of her girls, she just maybe isn’t the best at showing it.

A tipsy Ted stumbles upon Maggie on the way to his room. He tells Maggie he got her a surprise and when she opens her door, she finds a roll with a serving fork stuck in it. He says he admires her toughness, but she makes it clear he still doesn’t get it. She knows part of her job is to flirt with businessmen and she can handle that, but what she can’t handle is the fact that what Ted did was make it okay for that guy to try the same thing with another woman. It’s clear from the look on Ted’s face that it’s a sobering thought.

Dean, on the other hand, is a long, long way from sober. He and Colette get a little bit lost on the romantic streets of moonlit Paris, but neither one seems to mind. In fact, it looks like they’ve found each other when Dean starts a sweet, slow dance with the lovely Colette. Maybe these two are becoming more than just friends? We’ll see.

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Season 1 | Episode 101 | Aired 09/25/2011

Guest Cast:
C.J. Wilson: Howard
Veanne Cox: Miss Havemeyer
Jeremy Davidson: Handsome Stranger/Richard
Hope Allen: Evelyn
Will Chase: John
David Harbour: Sabel/Anderson

The golden rays of a fresh sunrise gleam off the tail fin of a Pan Am 707 jet as the exuberant melody of Around the Worldrings in our ears. It’s 1963 and the dawn of a new day at the New York International Airport—it won’t be rechristened as John F. Kennedy International until later this year—and it’s the morning of the new Pan Am Clipper Majestic’s maiden flight. Her passengers, dressed to the nines with men in suits and hats and women wearing the latest fashions, wait eagerly to board one of the first commercial jet flights from New York to London. The sense of anticipation and the excitement of a new adventure are palpable.

We first meet the women of the Majestic’s flight crew as they go through inspection. It’s Laura Cameron’s first flight as a Pan Am stewardess—a rare and select group of women who came to represent America’s premier commercial airline. Laura, who has found herself the unlikely cover model of the latest issue of LIFE Magazine, is clearly feeling some first day jitters. Colette Valois, another member of the Majestic’s crew, is there to save her from a very tough uniform examination. On their way to the aircraft they run into Laura’s sister, Kate, who’s also a stewardess assigned to the Majestic and she seems to have some mixed feelings about having a family member in her flight crew. Once on board, the ladies meet their young Captain, Dean Lowrey, who’s preparing for his first flight in the left seat. The ladies find it hard to avoid the constant attempts at flirting from First Officer—don’t call him a “co-pilot”—Ted Vanderway. The crew’s nearly assembled and the passengers have begun to board, but there’s one person missing….

Maggie Ryan wakes up to a phone ringing in her messy apartment. Bridget Pierce, who was supposed to be the Purser for the Majestic, is a no-show and Pan Am wants Maggie to take the job. Eager to get back in the air, Maggie agrees and rushes out the door. A quick wardrobe change in a taxi and a helicopter flight from midtown later, Maggie is boarding just in time for takeoff.

Colette starts the day thinking she may have found real romance with a regular passenger, until he boards the Majestic with his wife and son. We flash back to a beautiful hotel in Rome where a series of stolen glances and furtive looks gave way to a romantic rendezvous in a private room. Now Colette’s in the extremely awkward position of taking care of her lover’s family, showing his little boy the cockpit and even making polite conversation with his wife! The guy obviously wants to continue the affair, but Colette isn’t interested and we can’t blame her. We’re not even quite sure who to feel bad for when, at the end of the flight, the man’s wife asks Colette to keep the picture her son drew to remind her not to sleep with married men!

We flash back to Laura’s wedding day, which is strange at first because we know she’s not married. it’s Pan Am policy that stewardesses be single. She looks gorgeous in her wedding dress while her overbearing mother nitpicks and criticizes Kate. Their mother doesn’t approve of Kate’s life as a Pan Am stewardess and wishes openly that she was more like her sister. But while Kate and Mrs. Cameron go have it out in the hall, Laura can’t help but look longingly at the travel brochures and the Eiffel Tower snow globe in her sister’s bag. She realizes there’s a whole world out there, a whole other life, that she is about to give up. Kate and their mother return to find Laura on the floor having a panic attack. While mom goes to warn the guests that it’s going to be a moment longer, Kate tells her sister that it’s time to take control of her life and make up her own mind. The next thing we know, the two sisters are stealing daddy’s car and running off to see the world, with Laura determined to become a Pan Am stewardess herself.

Kate Cameron is determined to accomplish something even greater. A couple of months ago in Rome, she was approached by an agent working for U.S. Intelligence and today’s flight is her first assignment! She’s got to swap the passport of a Russian passenger with an expired duplicate. This guy is seriously shady and there are some tense moments where Kate almost gets caught. It’s only when the man recognizes Laura from her LIFE Magazine cover that Kate has a chance to make the switch. We’re as surprised as she is when later, in her hotel room in London, the man is waiting for her! But he’s not a Russian spy, he’s a British one, and he’ll be one of her main contacts. She just passed her first test! She also finds out it was no coincidence that she met her recruiter in Rome. She came highly recommended from their last contact at Pan Am, Bridget Pierce!

Dean spends his entire first flight as Captain worrying. He’s not concerned about flying the plane—he’s got that under control despite Ted’s constant ribbing—but he is worried about Bridget, his missing Purser and the woman he loves. Flashing back to Cuba, we see Dean as First Officer on another Pan Am flight, begging the Captain to wait for Bridget. They’re evacuating the last prisoners from the Bay of Pigs, with Castro’s army gathering around the plane. Bridget arrives just in time with the last group of refugees, and Dean proposes right there on the runway! It’s epic and romantic and we agree with Dean when he tells her to say ‘yes’ because “it would make a great story.” But Bridget doesn’t say ‘yes,’ at least not yet, and Dean gives her his wings for safekeeping.

When word comes through that Bridget resigned from the London office, Ted suspects that means she has finally said ‘yes’ to Dean. With the biggest smile in the world on his face, Dean calls Bridget from his hotel room in London, but becomes even more concerned when he finds out the number’s been disconnected. He takes a cab to her flat, but finds it empty. Well, almost empty. His wings are lying on a table, left there for him to find. Heartbroken, he joins Ted at a local pub where the stewardesses are also having their “debriefing.” Despite his woeful attempts at wooing these women, Ted shares some keen insight with Dean. It’s a new day and these are a new kind of woman. As Dean gets a little wisdom from an unlikely source, a somber Bridget looks on from outside before disappearing into a cab.

Welcome to the Jet Age everyone. Buckle up, it’s going to be an adventure!

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Summary: A spectacular, stylized show without compelling content. Mad Men Light?