Thoroughly unmilitant Mary

The episode opens up with Ted giving the news and apparently talking immediately about the upcoming strike that is about to happen if the union and management cannot reach a deal.

And finally, Ted signs off and says, "I'll be back tomorrow night with the news." And Murray says, "Or not, if there's a strike." Murray and Lou are very pessimistic.

Ted sa-- I'm sorry, Mary says that they are being pessimistic, and they don't know for sure there's gonna be a strike.

And Murray references the 'sixty-one strike that apparently went on for four months.

Ted and Gordy come out, and Gordy asks Murray how the strike is going, what are the talks about it, and Ted asks, "What strike?" And Mary says, "Ted, you just talked about the strike." And Ted says, "Oh, did I? I wasn't listening." And Mary asks Gordy his opinion, and he hopes there won't be a strike, but he apparently writes his own weather, so he wouldn't have anything.

And once the writers go on strike, then everyone else goes.

And someone walks in, says hello or good night to everyone.

He's on the negotiating committee, whoever this guy is.

Apparently, it's snowing outside.

Lou calls for Mary to come on in, and Gordy says he's predicted fair and warmer for tomorrow.

Mary finally walks into Lou's office, and Lou starts explaining to Mary, "Do you know what we are?" pointing to her and him.

"We're management," Lou says, "And when there's a strike, management is expected to report to work." And Mary says, "Then you expect there to be a strike?" And Lou says, "Well, I'm not saying that, but I remember when I had to cross my first picket line like you're gonna soon.

I felt rotten," Lou says.

"They were all my friends, guys I'd spent long hours with, being swearing at me, and I had to do it," he says.

And M-Mary asks if that was the big strike of 'sixty-one, and Lou says, "No, that was the big bartender strike of 'fifty-nine." And we flip scenes to Mary's apartment.

She's in the kitchen preparing dinner.

There's a knock on the door, and Mary says, "Come on in, Rhoda," just knowing that it's Rhoda.

And Rhoda says, "Are you hungry?" Rhoda says, "Starved." And Mary thought she was bringing leftovers, and all she's got is a salad, and that's what Mary made.

And Rhoda's is soggy, and Mary's is a Waldorf.

And Rhoda says, "All right, yours can be dessert." And now they start talking about the strike down at the station, and Mary says, "There's not definitely gonna be a strike." And Rhoda says, "More definite than you think." She was picking up s-signs at the-- She was working, and she saw people picking up signs, getting ready to picket.

Um, Mary says that she isn't looking forward to having to cross the picket line.

And Rhoda says, "You're gonna cross the picket line?" And she says, "I have to.

You're management." I-- Mary says, "I have to.

I'm management." And Rhoda says, "You're management?" And Rhoda is appalled at this, says she's the first-- Rhoda is the first person in her family to sit down to dinner with management and explains her father couldn't tolerate management.

And Mary says, "Go ahead, make jokes, but when I have to cross that picket line, I'm gonna-- not gonna be happy about it." And Rhoda tries to make her feel better, but Rhoda says, "It's life," and then calls her a scab.