So I just re-watched Season 1 and I couldn't help but think that they dispatched Adam Whitman's character a little too quickly.  Though I would admit that this hadn't entered my mind at all during the subsequent seasons, perhaps owing to the finely crafted progression of the whole Mad Men storyline, reviewing the first season definitely got me wondering about Adam and how Don truly felt for him.

Don after all, called later to check up on him, perhaps to apologize for blowing him off, or maybe to give him more guidance about what to do with the money.  It's just too bad that it was too late by then and as a result, we are left pondering how finding his long lost brother would have panned out had that tragedy not happened.  Could Adam, the one innocent person in his life as Dick, have been the one person who could allow him to reconcile the constant issues with his past and his present?  The introduction of Anna Draper certainly served this purpose and again, I would admit to not even thinking about Adam too much during that period in Season 2.