Everyone is alone.

Yup. That seemed to be the message of the finale of Mad Men’s fifth season. The last scene of the episode had Don Draper ordering an Old Fashioned at a bar. A young blonde woman at the bar asks, “Are you alone?”

Cut. We won’t know Don’s answer until Season Six. But we do know that the end title music was “You Only Live Twice,” the James Bond classic.

Some of the Monday Mad Men recaps are saying that Don is returning to his old ways (he ordered an Old Fashioned after all).

Other characters were seen alone at the end of the episode, too. Peggy alone in a hotel room, peeks out the window and sees two dogs mating.

Roger standing naked by a window, looking like he’s about to fly. Tripping on LSD all alone.

Pete in Trudy’s arms. She’s just told him that he needs his own place in the city after he comes home bruised from the fight on the train.

Pete’s love interest Beth undergoes shock therapy treatment and Pete visits her in the hospital (after a brief tryst at a hotel the day before). She doesn’t recognize him because her memory has been wiped away by the treatment. After a season of Pete the A-hole, he’s really quite compelling in the hospital room scene, as he tells Beth about his “friend”;  his speech is a spectacular piece of writing.

“He needed to feel that … he knew something. “That all this aging was worth something.”

Whoa.

Some people are calling the finale tame but I think it was a slow, steady burn into the hiatus leaving us with lots to think about after an incredible fifth season.