28 Facts About Lane Pryce

Lane Pryce is a fictional character in the television series Mad Men, portrayed by Jared Harris.

Lane Pryce is shown to be caught between two worlds and struggles to be himself while adjusting to life in America.

Lane Pryce genuinely enjoys the United States and sees it as far removed from the rigidity and economic decay back home.

Lane Pryce does enjoy a drink but not as much as Don, who is known to drink during work hours.

Lane Pryce is not particularly keen on football but was seen in a bar with fellow expats cheering England's performance in the 1966 World Cup Final.

Lane Pryce was able to make contacts to set up a potential account with Jaguar.

Lane Pryce begins by firing many employees, including long-time employee and head of accounts Burt Peterson.

In Season 4, Lane Pryce's marriage falls apart when Rebecca, who genuinely loves him, finds the strains of homesickness and culture shock too much to bear and returns with their son to London indefinitely.

Lane Pryce makes monster noises and slurred Japanese remarks to a married couple in the audience, which Don considers hilarious.

When Lane Pryce's family is supposed to come to New York to see him, he is instead visited by his elderly father, who intends to bring Lane Pryce home to England to sort out his affairs.

Around the same time, Lane Pryce begins a relationship with a young African-American Playboy Bunny named Toni and later introduces her to his father.

Lane Pryce's father beats Lane with his cane and orders him to return to London to reunite with his family.

Lane Pryce takes a short leave-of-absence from the agency and later returns to New York with his family, who by now are more accepting of being overseas.

Lane Pryce's work has been vital, but he struggles to make ends meet.

Lane Pryce forges Don's signature on the Christmas bonus he expects to receive in two weeks' time.

Keen to win the account, the partners ask Lane Pryce to extend their line of credit to pay Joan for the act.

Lane Pryce tries to lie his way out of it before he admits to embezzlement.

Erupting with anger, Lane Pryce says that he could not bear the shame of asking for a loan and has never been adequately compensated for his contribution to the agency and feels owed and entitled to the money and meant it to be a two-week loan but was frustrated by the announcement that the partners would not receive bonuses and then makes a snide remark about Don's jet-set lifestyle and tries to justify his own fraudulent actions.

Don says that he will cover the $7,500 himself and not tell the police or the other partners but that Lane Pryce is fired and gives Lane Pryce the weekend to "think of an elegant exit" and resign on Monday.

Don offers comfort and says that Lane Pryce can start again somewhere else.

Lane Pryce was talking about her vacation plans to celebrate her new partnership.

Lane Pryce seems grimly happy when she responds with muted anger.

Lane Pryce puts his affairs in order and tries to kill himself by carbon monoxide poisoning but fails when the Jaguar fails to start.

Lane Pryce goes back to SCDP and types a resignation letter and hangs himself in his office.

Lane Pryce sees knocked-over furniture through the small gap in the door and notices a strong and unpleasant smell and goes into Pete Campbell's adjacent office to say that she thinks that something is wrong.

Lane Pryce is shocked that everyone has left Lane's office as is.

Joan in particular feels guilty for rejecting his advances and confesses to Don that she wonders whether Lane Pryce would have killed himself if she had slept with him.

Lane Pryce reveals to no one that he had fired Lane the Friday before the suicide.