This moment in the pilot episode of 'Mad Men' predicted how Don Draper would end up

Warning: Spoilers ahead

We finally learned the fate of Don Draper on Sunday's series finale of "Mad Men."

For many, it was a surprise to see Don receive such a tame farewell as he sat in meditation on the Pacific Coast.

But looking back on the pilot episode of the series, there's a moment that not only explains how Don sees life, but explains how things would turn out for him on the show.

It's a scene between Don and potential client Rachel Menken (Maggie Siff) towards the end of the episode. Don invites Rachel out for drinks to apologize for the way he treated her at their meeting that afternoon.

Then the conversation turns more personal when Rachel admits the main reason she's not married is because she's never been in love.

Following Rachel's remarks, Don's confidence is completely shattered and he turns back into Dick Whitman (his real name from his childhood).

Look at Don's reaction once Rachel is done talking.

This back and forth showed two things to the audience that they would have to remember for the rest of the show:

1. That Don wants everyone to believe that he doesn't care about anyone and will live his life only how he sees fit.

2. When he meets someone who has had a similar "disconnected" existence as him, he can't help but pull closer to them.

This is evident with Rachel, who he begins to sleep with in season one of the show, and even tells her he grew up with a prostitute for a mother and a drunk for a father. Like most of the women in Don's life, Rachel figures him out and leaves him. But Don always had a soft spot for Rachel. Her ghost even appears as a vision to Don following her death in the last season.

Sunday's final episode finds Don in the same predicament he was in that evening with Rachel back on the pilot.

Completely disconnected from anyone who ever loved him and sitting with a blank stare at a hippie commune, he meets Leonard.

The two are sitting in a group discussion when Leonard takes the hot seat and tells the group, "I've never been interesting to anybody. I work in an office. People walk right by me…I go home and I watch my wife and my kids, they don't look up when I sit down… It's like no one's cared where I've gone."

Leonard, like Don and Rachel, is out of place and sees the world laid out in front of him the way other people live it. He drives that home by telling the group a dream he had.

Hearing this leads to Don's transformation back to Dick Whitman once again. And Don can't help but to react once more.

In this case, with Leonard weeping, Don stands up, walks to Leonard and embraces him. Neither are alone anymore.

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