All language subtitles for The West Wing (1999) - S06E19 - Ninety Miles Away (1080p AMZN WEB-DL x265 ImE)_track3_[eng]

Previously on The West Wing:

What do you think
you're doing?

Excuse me?

We don't push
agendas here.

I don't believe I am.

I was in a lock-down
for 77 hours once.

Where was that?

Overseas.

Oh, okay, I get it.
The CIA.

I could look you up.

I have code-word clearance.

Not this code you don't.

We have the ability
to effect more change

in a day at the White House

than we'll have
in a lifetime

once we walk out
these doors.

What do you want to do with it?

( sighs )

Jorge, por favor.

Ah, canceladas.

Por ahora, no?

Y esto está conectado
con este rumor?

Que mierda, Jorge.

No sé, no sé.

No quiero perder
esta oportunidad.

Inventaremos algo, okay?

Gracias, Jorge.

Hasta luego.

Leo, do you know

what time it is?
Good morning,
Mr. President.

I'll be the judge
of that.

It's a little
after 5:00 a.m.

5:13, to be precise.

Well, it wasn't
my favorite thing, calling you.

Yeah. I had to run
the gauntlet upstairs.

That can be special.

"The world breaks everyone,

"and afterwards, many are strong
at the broken places.

"But those that will not break,
it kills.

"It kills the very good
and the very gentle

and the very brave
impartially."

"When he was good,
he was very, very good,

and when he was bad,
he was horr..."

Hemingway was a monster.

He hated his mother,
treated four wives miserably,

trashed his friends,
grew paranoid, had breakdowns,

and, like his father,
killed himself.

Well, aside from all that,
why are you harassing me

at 5:13 a.m.?

I've been on the phone.

There's a rumor about Castro.

There's always rumors about him.

And at some point,

they'll be true.

We've been laying groundwork
and making progress--

slow, granted...

A year, but who's counting?

But if the talks we've cobbled
together with Cuba blow up,

and this number
reaches zero,

and we've got nothing
to show for it but...

And for this,
you're reading Hemingway again?

It's been ten years.

I remember.

In 30 days, you read
the complete works of.

It was hot.

It was dry.
I had time on my hands.

Changed my life. Well...

not Hemingway, exactly.

Sierra Tucson can do that.

Sir...

I've got an idea.

Charlie, have you seen Leo?

He's gone.
Gone?

I saw him packing up

when I came in
a couple of hours ago.
That would be night.

Yeah, it was
still dark out.

Muchas gracias.

Señor McGarry,
you made it successfully.

How was your trip?

The boat ride
wasn't a lot of fun.

Oh, the weather.
It's been bad.

Seemed like a good
idea at the time.

( speaking Spanish
inaudibly )

Please, enter la finca
de Señor Ernesto Hemingway.

Gracias.

C.J.:
Mr. President?

7:53.

7:49.

It's 7:53,
and I had 7:53.

It doesn't reflect kindly,
sir, if I may say so,

to what looks nothing so much
like trying to welch on a bet.

Mr. President, you requested
the EPA's ozone standard report.

I know Leo had it...

We've been
expecting you.

I had 7:53, and
Debbie's watch stopped.

Sir?
Just a small wager

about how long
it would take

before someone
came to inquire

about where
Leo might be.

I don't understand.

Who knew he was such
an Ernest Hemingway fan

that he'd drop
everything

and go and visit
Hemingway's house?

The one in Idaho or
the one with the six-
toed cats in Key West?

Good question,
Charles Young.

You know, I
forgot to ask.

Me da mucho
gusto estar aquí,

especialmente
en esta casa.

Esta muy necesitada
de un buén retoque.

A lo mejor podríamos
ayudar en eso.

Creo que tenemos
apurarnos.

Por eso es que estoy aqui.

MAN 2:
You admire Ernesto?

Very much. His writing.

The best of it.

MAN 1:
Señor McGarry,

le presento al
Presidente de Cuba.

How about, "Good morning?
Coffee? Eggs over easy?"

Seems there's a suspicion
there may be termites.

This is a revelation.
In the White House.

Hold the eggs.
Two companies want
to do some tests.

It could be some
kind of ant as well--

carpenter ant, maybe--

and there's fear
it might be related

to the outbreak of
the woolly adelgid.

The woolly what?

They've been attacking hemlocks
in the Smoky Mountains

and across Virginia
and are closing in.

You're making
this up.

You gave me the
briefing book.

What do you think,
the Roosevelt
or Mural Room?

Are these people coming here
to sit and talk?

Well, they may
have to munch
around a bit.

Munch? Just keep them
far away from me, thank you.

They do handle
a very large constituency.

You mean a small
constituency.

Well, size doesn't count.

Changing the subject
right now.

Any word from Leo?

Still in Hemingwayville,
as far as I know.

Did you know he
even read Hemingway?

History, books
about fishing, thrillers.

Graham Greene,
Charles McCarry...

But you never saw him
reading Hemingway?

Can't say I did.

SLIGER:
He is 79 years old,
so it could be true.

Where'd the
report come from?
Miami.

Miami. Well,
that's reliable.

C.J., a report's come
in the last hour

that Fidel Castro's
seriously ill.

Has it been verified?

We have nothing firm yet.

It's from Miami.

So it could be accurate.
It could be wishful thinking.

There's a lot of Chicken Little
down there, or it could be

the cover for
something else.

There's a history of everything
from assassination attempts

and psy ops forays
to invasion plans.

I thought all that had stopped.

The CIA did.

Yeah.

We're talking
decades back.
Wasn't long ago.

How long before you nail down
the information?

Well, there's a rabid
Cuban-American community

that could be involved--
old zealots,

young hotheads-- and
a ton of agencies--

FBI, DEA, NSA,
NIA, INS...

Which doesn't answer
my question.

KATE:
We may never get
a straight answer.

Miami, South Florida,
South Florida, Miami.

It's Chinatown.

I don't care. Pin it down.

By the way,

I haven't collected
my winnings yet.

Mr. President?
Excuse me, sir,

I think that would be
my winnings.

Sir, there's a
rumor about Castro.

Debbie, let's pull up
the drawbridge

for a couple of minutes.

I'll sound the trumpets,
alert the gatekeeper,

and I think get
the federal government

to attach your wages.

Believe me,
they already do.

Castro's always dying.

He's dying
from hypochondria,

or the exiles are trying
to kill him,

or the CIA's trying
to kill him.

You know, he collapsed
a couple years ago.

Same thing--
endless rumors.

Then he reappears
in fresh fatigues,

trimmed beard,
and launches into a speech

of such length
and intensity,

it would've put away
William Jennings Bryan.

NSA seems to think even
if it is a false alarm,

it may be significant.

That's kind of what
Leo said.

Why am I suddenly
getting the feeling

that there's something
going on with Leo

besides Ernest
Hemingway?

My apologies, C.J.

Look, before you were
Chief of Staff,

we began secret
exploratory meetings in Canada

with representatives
of the Cuban government.

Leo's gone to Canada?

Actually, no.

Cuba.

With perhaps a thermometer
and a stethoscope?

And an offer. A new deal.

And what does he say?

I'm waiting
to find out.

And when you find out,
is it your plan to tell

the rest of us who try and help
you two run this place?

One night in 1961,

shortly after the
Bay of Pigs fiasco,

President John F. Kennedy sent

Pierre Salinger
out on a mission:

come back with a thousand
Cuban cigars by morning.

Petit Upmanns
is what the President smoked,

and before 8:00 a.m.
the following morning,

Salinger had managed
to corral 1,200 of them.

JFK smiled, thanked him,
lit one up,

then he opened his desk drawer

and pulled out
a long piece of paper,

which he signed immediately.

It was a decree
banning all Cuban products

from the United States,
and ever since then,

we've had an embargo against
that mosquito of an island

90 miles away
which has never worked,

while long before,
we threw out

our anachronistic policies
toward Russia and China

that are thousands of miles away
and far more complex.

If these meetings become public,

the reaction
in the Cuban-American community

and on the right
will be ferocious.

If the Cuban government makes
certain accommodations

before that...
The Florida primaries

are right around the corner.

This comes out, sir...

This comes out, we can
bring out the shovels

and bury the
Democratic candidates

in that little fiesta.

You're sure the country's
ready for this?

Who knows who's going
to be sitting here next?

Who knows what's going to happen
after Castro?

All I know for sure
is there's a moment here,

and before I'm gone
and he's gone,

I am not going to let it pass.

Oh, what a beautiful morning.
Oh, what a beautiful day.

You wanted to see me?

I find that highly improbable.

Been here three weeks.
Bring me in, Coach.

All right, sport.

You know Senator
Rafe Framhagen?

I don't like this already.

He called the President
and then Leo and then me,

and guess what that means.

None of you wanted to talk
to him. Which leaves me.

See, you do know the senator.

What's not to know?

Brilliant, bilious, impossible.

Fires staffers for putting
paper clips backwards on briefs.

Which way on a paper
clip is backwards?

And that one other thing.
I've heard.

Practically day and night.

A wooden leg.

Passes out in his car,
though, they say.

There you are, your assignment.

Godspeed and l'chaim.

Oh, yeah, you've got all
the indications, all right.

Indications of what?

Subterranean termites.

You know these fellas
outnumber us 1,000 to 1.

Pile all them up and all us up,

ten times the weight
of all the folks in the world.

Probably swarmed in through
a crack I saw in the foundation.

There was some damage
under a window.

Swarmed? What window?

The window near that weird round
room looks over the Rose Garden.

The Oval Office?

Yeah, people appeared
from every which way.

Never seen such a thing.

Maybe some

evidence here.

Hey, that's
a 200-year-old mural.

Oh, yeah.

How may rooms

you got here?

135.

Whew. I better
get on it.

This might take a while.

If you don't find more trouble
what do you plan to do?

Sentricon Termite Colony

Elimination System
should do the trick.

What does that involve?

Dig some holes,
install some stations,

drop in a few grams
of Recruit II and wait.

( drill whirs )

Okay, hold on one second.

WOMAN ( whispering ):
Mr. Senator,
Cliff Calley is here.

The senator will see you now.

( sighs )

( knocks )

Yeah, come on in, son.

What are you drinking?

Diet Coke'll be fine.

( laughs )

Diet Coke.

Oh, that's a Georgia drink.

In Florida, we
drink orange juice.

Fresh, shipped up
every week. Vitamin C.

We can inject it with
something, if you like.

( chuckling ):
No.

So they sent you, did they?

I have that privilege, Senator.

I remember you.

We breed lawyers
around here like minks,

except we can't wear you
in the wintertime.

Well, here's Linda Lee.

Do me a favor, darling.
Would you freshen mine up, too?

That is a sashaying piece
of pulchritude, isn't it?

Well...

Some people say

that beauty and brains
don't go together.

Well, I'm talking smart
pulchritude around here.

You know why you're
here, don't you?

There's the water table
in the Everglades,

the-the hurricane damage
on the Gulf...

They didn't tell you.

I'm sorry, sir?

Of course not.

Send ignorance
to combat truth, huh?

All right.

Well, you go back over there.

You, you tell those people,

those people the senator
so graciously tried to call,

who didn't bother
to call the senator back,

you tell them that
I've heard it, too, the rumor.

What rumor?

That Castro thing.

And somebody knowledgeable
better come see me right quick.

When Leo was Chief of Staff,

I could heckle him a little.

We used to bend our
elbows together

right in this room,

down home back when.

Now he's gone.

Probably only
that NSA gal, huh?

Gal?

You like repeating things, son?

I seem to be getting good at it.
Yeah.

Yeah, you go back
a couple of years,

get her out of those power suits
back into the Sunshine State,

there'd be some
serious pulchritude.

She's a buttoned-up babe now.

Babe?

I'll bet she knows
what's going on.

You mean Kate Harper.

Just a warning shot
across the bow.

If some heroic
new Cuba agenda

is being contemplated
by the Bartlet administration,

it's going to backfire.

The House may have that bill
that waters down the embargo,

but my Cuban-American
constituents

are just gonna raise bloody hell

over that bill
with Democrat candidates

and no such bill is ever
gonna see the light of day

out of my commerce committee.

Now, did you get that, son?

Or do you want to repeat
some of it?

( knocking, door opens )

C.J., Cliff's here.

What's next, boss?
That was so much fun.

You saw the Senator?

I'm full of Vitamin C.

Nothing stronger?

I think his orange juice
was spiked.

What did he want?
I'm not really sure.

You're not really sure?

This repeating thing
must be contagious.

I assumed it was gonna be
an infamous doddery senator

who'd run out of paper clips,

but it seemed to be
about Fidel Castro.

You got my attention.

A rumor about his...

Health.
Whether he's alive or dead.

I gather he was wondering if
the White House was behind it,

or part of it,
or up to something.

What is this city? Just
one big game of Telephone?

Is there anything I should know?

There's a rumor about
Fidel Castro's health.

Yeah. One other odd thing.

He suggested I talk
to Kate Harper.

Well, she's the Deputy
National Security Advisor.

I don't think that's it.
Why's that?

I can't exactly put
my finger on it.

The senator just sort of
indicated between refills

something other than that. More.

Margaret, get
me Kate Harper.

Let me guess then.

Back to the bench for me?

This is disgraceful.

I'm actually starting
to like you.

She's gone for the day.

REPORTER:
Does the White House
have specific knowledge

about Mr. Castro's health?

The last time the White House

had first-hand knowledge
of Mr. Castro's health was 1959.

REPORTER:
But we're hearing
that he canceled a rally

to denounce the US
on Malecon Boulevard,

and that several posters
of the Cuban president

have been removed
from the Capitol.

Well, that could mean he's dead

or it could mean
the Communist government

took down some Castro posters
and plans to replace them

with more flattering photos,
as they did six years ago.

REPORTER 2:
Vice President Russell said

that he "voted for
the embargo in 1996

"and will continue to support it
until this horrific dictatorship

is brought to its knees."

Is he speaking
for the White House?

The Vice President said that
at a campaign rally.

But if Castro is
no longer in control,

how would the White House react?

We don't react to hypotheticals.

In a post-Castro world,
would the State Department

consider declassifying Cuba
a terrorist state?

Only if they reacted
to hypotheticals,

which they and I both don't.

Yeah, you.

Steve.

Uh, the CIA issued a report that

Cuba has replaced, uh, East Asia

as the destination
for pedophiles and sex tourists.

No, I can't issue you a visa.

Next question.
( laughter )

Hoynes's campaign

may be collapsing,

but Russell says
he wouldn't rule out

military intervention to secure

a democratic transition
in Cuba.

Yeah, they're, they're
campaigning in Florida.

What about Santos?

With his surprising victory
in California...

I, I just answered
that question.

If you want to cover
the campaign,

take your questions to Florida.

Steve, please.

Uh, here in Washington...
Thank you!

STEVE:
Senator Framhagen said,

"The worst thing an outgoing
American President can do

is send mixed messages..."

( sighs )

She's a blonde now.

I wasn't going to come.

And stand up a former
CIA compatriot

after all these years?

"It was a time of splendor inI'd
the grass, glory in the flower,.

but we will grieve not..."

What do you want, Andy?

We're not running off
the reservation ops anymore.

We've changed.

Second time I've
heard that today.

No more dirty tricks.
No more messing with elections.

Even for Cabrera.

Still, our, our
assignment's the same, Kate.

And you came all the way
up here to tell me this?

No...

I just wanted to warn
you guys over there

that it's a big mistake

to be digging into
the Cuban tar pit once again.

What are you talking about?

Leo McGarry.

What about him?

You can't touch down in Cuba

at his level.

Whatever the precautions,
word's gonna leak out.

Everybody's on the take

or has an agenda,
or is an agent,

or a wanna-be.

I don't know
anything about it.

You played that beautifully.

I didn't play anything.

Whether you're lying
or covering

because you can't
or won't tell me,

or you're telling the truth...

the one thing
we learned down there,

you can't beat history.

The Bartlet administration
can't pull this off.

It's not gonna work.

The president will be
hung out to dry.

HARPER:
C.J., why didn't anyone tell me?

Excuse me?

I'm the Deputy NSA,

and I don't know
Leo McGarry's in Cuba?

Yeah.

How did you find out?

It's 90 miles away.

It's like driving
to Baltimore.

There's three and a half
million Cuban-Americans...

Kate, do you know
Senator Framhagen?

Florida. He is Florida.

Yeah, I knew him when I was
stationed there in '95.

It was my first posting.

Why would he say to ask you
about Castro's health?

I don't know, maybe
because he assumed

I'd know about Leo's trip.

How close is your source?
Very.

Look, C.J.,
we don't want to get stuck

in the muck down there again.

BARTLET:
Hey, look who's back.

She caught on, Leo.
I had to spill the beans.

You saw him? Talked to him?
How is he?

He's alive, and I think he might
finally be ready to deal,

and he certainly can
talk and talk.

He agrees on the need
for further private,

unpublicized discussions
bilaterally.

The man's indefatigable.

No wonder he's held sway
for coming on 50 years.

Still smoking cigars.

I'm not sure he's ready
to fight for truth, justice,

and the American way.
I am optimistic,

but we've been
down this road before...

I don't want to fail again.

It's a beginning, an opening.

Just thank God he didn't ask
about baseball,

what I think about it,
knowing what he thinks
about it.

That could've blown
the whole thing right there.

He saw you pitch at the Orioles
game, sir. Had some pointers.

I'm sure he did.
Excuse me, sir.

My fear is there seem
to be rumors and more rumors

and rumors within rumors.

When you're talking
about Cuba,

everybody seems to have secrets,

and they never stay that way.

Yeah, you're right.

We don't need
to paint this guy

as some kind of hero.

It's just time to deal
with him, is all.

Now, let's put together
a fail-safe response

on how and what to announce
about Castro's health,

about Leo's trip.

Then-- if found out--
public reaction,

Congressional reaction,
and the candidates,

what to do about its impact
on the primaries

and the general election,

and Cuba's response,
for that matter.

How soon?

How about the
end of the day?

Are they here yet?

They're waiting in your office.

Can you get me something
while we're meeting?

Kate Harper's file.
I can't.

That would be classified
Was top-secret, above my level.

So what do we have to do?

A formal letter of request,
signed by you.

Write it.
Then forge my signature.

You can do the President's.
Well, yes,

but his is simple, just
a sweeping garland formation.

Yours...

Mine is what?

Angular, aggressive.

I mean your signature.

See the baseline,

the unevenly distributed
pressure,

some countermovement
to the natural flow...

Which means what?

You're concealing something.

It's my signature.

What? Are you a counterfeiter,
some handwriting analyst?

My great-uncle was,
right after the Civil War.

He was a dashing man
with a mustache and one arm...

Okay, by now we could've written
it, and I could've signed it.

Just go do it.

How's it going?

Give me a progress
report. Cliff?

I think there's
an opportunity to use

the rumors of Castro's health
as deflection.

Keep 'em coming.

It's been a kind of Marx
Brothers comedy anyway--

his illnesses and the 29 doctors
who surround him

and claim
he's gonna live forever.

Yeah, I'm not sure how long
that's gonna fly.

Uh, then there is support

in the House to curb the embargo
from both blue and red states.

Midwestern Republicans ready
to jettison the trade part.

Cuba's an economic
disaster area.

CALLEY:
It desperately needs
American grain, meat...

You believe
this guy Cabrera?

Introducing
the Vice President

Congressman, seventh,
eighth term.

Once ran an ad

standing by a picture
of himself with the caption:

"Convicted Felon."

Thanks for the lesson
in local color.

Keeps winning every two years.

Keeps winning saying
the same thing, same words.

Cuba Libre. Cuba Libre.

Then he gets here, doesn't
do or say a damn thing.

Toby, did you call
Josh and Donna?

I want to take the temperature
in the campaigns.

Somebody should make
the son of a bitch obsolete.

To those farmers
who were cheated...

Has he been here?

Who?
The exterminator.

There was a man
yesterday.

The Sentricon
Termite Colony
Elimination System?

As a matter of fact, yes.

We don't want to
quarrel with another
company's product.

That's not why we're here.

We can talk about the specifics
of individual species like RIFA.

R.I.F.A.?

The red imported fire ant.

And we're members of IFAHI
to thwart the spread of RIFA.

And we've got charts to show you

of the spread of
the chinch bug,

the black-
legged tick,

the viral-spreading
mosquito,

and this very year's infestation

by the Mormon
cricket. Here.

We are entomologists,

and while some
control is necessary,
these others...

ORBITZ:
The exterminator.

...have lost sight
of how insects help preserve

the diversity of life,

and are essential to
the ecological web.

Insects can
spread disease,

but they are
also crucial

to studying how
diseases are spread.

But now, the newest discovery,
and perhaps most important,

is they can play a crucial part

in learning about
our own history.

Like this great
White House.

Think Abigail Adams
and the War of 1812.

The burning of
this building.

Now, I'll wager we
go into these walls,

and we will uncover all
kinds of information

and revelations
as yet unknown.

And now
helping solving crimes.

Forensic entomology,
my special field,

is invaluable in measuring
exposure of the victim--

whether homo sapiens,
felis cattus, uh,
canis, uh, familiaris--

to determine the time of death,
or even the method of murder.

You've got to
make a decision.

Do you simply want

to wipe out
the infestation,

or use these little pioneers

to journey into our past
and unveil its secrets

for the first time?

You got it?

They checked
my clothes,

patted me down,
searched my shoes.

My best shoes.

Practically
X-rayed me.

But they didn't do
any personality profile?

That didn't
even occur to me.

Yeah, what
were they thinking?

Here it is.

Kate Harper.

Close the door?
Yes.

( knocking )

C.J.

Charlie, tell me
you have good news.

I'm not sure.

Entertain me.

Enlighten me.

Raise me up to the
rooftops, please.

I think this has
more to do with
the lower depths.

Oh, no, it's coming back
to me now. Bugs.

Rhinotermitidae.

Is that the guy in the suit
I saw with the gizmo yesterday?

It could be.

And he found...
Rhinotermitidae.

We're not tenting
the White House.

No, drilling walls,
unearthing foundations.

There is this other group
who are suggesting

that we observe them
before killing them.

The ones in the Mural Room
with the animatronic...?

Insectilatronic, apparently.

They say we
can find out

remarkable things
from the termites--

about lumber conditions,

about when the White House
was built, burned, rebuilt.

What presidents smoked,

ate, smelled like.

This, Charlie,
is not a tough choice.

For once, our policy
can be clean and simple.

Just-- excuse me--
kill the damn bugs.

DONNA:
Who is this?

Toby. I wanted to ask you
about this Castro thing.

I'm sorry, I can't hear you.

Donna, it's Toby!
It's Toby Ziegler!

It's so crazy in here.
Wait a minute.

( dial tone )
Hello?

Toby?

( speed dial beeping )

( phone ringing )

JOSH:
Toby?

TOBY:
We're not talking to each other.

Then what's making
my phone ring?

I don't know. The thing's
got a mind of its own.

Uh, what's with Castro?

What's going on with that?

That's what I wanted to ask you.

I-I can't hear you.

It's crazy down here.

It's Guatemala.

( dial tone )
Hello?

I lost you.

How are you?

What's going on down there,
Donna?

You wouldn't believe it.

This state-- it's unreal.
It's like...

Guatemala?

Hey, that's good,
you a speech writer?

What's the impact
of this Castro thing?

It's unbelievable.

Castro's become Che.

Is he alive or dead?

He's wallpapering the primary.

Wait, what?
Uh, Donna, hold on one second.

( dial tone )
Toby, I've got...

Josh?

Josh!

C.J., I should apologize

for you not knowing
about the trip to Cuba.

Yes, you should.

I thought it was worth the risk.

I still do.

Well, while you were gone,

we all got calls
from Rafe Framhagen.

I sent Cliff over,
who said the senator

may have been three sheets.

Yeah.

And he had these questions
about Kate Harper and Cuba,

as if she knew something.

If you're concerned,
why don't you pull her file?

I did.

And this has been
the long way round to what?

A lot of blackout.

Aren't you
getting sidetracked here?

Kate Harper, Navy,

father Navy,
formerly CIA, wasn't it?

Africa, blackout,
Kosovo, blackout,

Iran, blackout.

She got around.

You're in it.

That's impossible.

Turn the page.

1995. Florida.

But why is it in her file?

The CIA
must have been monitoring us.

The rest is blacked out.

What is it?
We had a gathering

of the Bay of Pigs veterans
from both sides

for the first time.

And it was remarkable.

These aging warriors--
enemies, fellow countrymen--

and I had
high hopes.

We were pulling
together,

strand by strand, a dialogue
with the Cuban-Americans

and Cubans.

Never heard any of this.

There was also
an election recount underway.

Congressman Cabrera.

Yeah. I know the one.

I was
Secretary of Labor.

And Rafe Framhagen showed up,
and we started drinking...

and I made a fool of myself.

Talk about
three sheets to the wind.

And when I got back,
it was over.

It had all
fallen apart.

I should have
never left.

So, I vowed then
if there ever was a chance,

I'd put it back together.

If we had a cigarette,
a lighter and the password,

we could be back
ten years.

Except it's so loud in here now,
I'd never hear the password.

Don't you miss it--
when you were undercover?

I miss the excitement,

dressing up and down,
disappearing into character.

And now look at you--

wearing suits
and sitting in meetings

with amazing people.

You've changed.

I saw your ex-husband
not long ago.

He's still down there.

Why did you call me again?

I wanted to apologize.

For what?

I knew back then
what was going on,

what it was doing to you.

I should have
protected you better.

Woulda, shoulda.
But it's...

There was more to it than that.

It's too late
now, Andy.

It was too late then.

I know, I know.

Part of my 12 steps
to make a fool of myself...

especially to those people
who maybe I made fools of.

Thank you.

They have all of it
down there now, Kate.

Leo McGarry's trip.

The deal he's trying
to make with Fidel.

They're going to
break the story.

You're sure?

Yeah.

Don't get caught
in this again

when it goes
to hell.

Cuba. It scums
everybody it touches.

( sighing )

It's freezing out,
and I'm walking back here

thinking this is a building
I never thought I'd be in.

Maybe it's a place
you never quite get used to.

One time,
my father was gone

with the
Pacific Fleet,

and my mother and I were left
at the Key West Naval Base.

There was no housing,
so for a while,

we lived in this boiling trailer
with no air conditioning.

The wind shook it at night
and rocked me to sleep.

It's a long way from here.

Kate, what's going on?

Tomorrow morning,
Cuban-American factions

are going to go public
with Leo's visit to Cuba.

C.J.:
Mr. President,

it is clear now

that the news of Leo's trip
is going to break.

KATE:
We don't know
what it'll be--

audio, eyewitness
testimony, photographs--

but we know
it's coming.

CNN will get it;
then the networks.

A delightful prognosis.

C.J.:
We can try

and spin it:
it was Cuban representatives

who initiated
the conversations.

We said we'd listen,

agreed to nothing,
accepted nothing.

No, I hate that.

TOBY:
We haveThe South Carolina
at thand Florida primaries

are less than two weeks away.

And there'll be no mercy
in the Cuban-American community.

We'll be drawn and quartered.

TOBY:
It won't go away
by the general election.

CLIFF:
Russell will
find a way...

Yeah, I can hear
his soundbites already.

TOBY:
Santos is a mystery.

I have no idea
what he's going to do.

Bet he probably doesn't know,
either.

And the Republican candidates--
Walken and Vinick?

I think Vinick probably agrees
with what you're trying to do,

but publicly, he will step back

and let Framhagen and Walken
put on their war paint

and gather
around Little Big Horn.

Wasn't exactly the image
I was hoping for.

So, Republicans
and Democrats alike

will distance
themselves from this

act of madness
of the Bartlet Administration.

I think it's time we look beyond
regrets and elections, sir.

It's here, isn't it?

Another cliff-- yes, sir.

Toby?

Jump.

C.J.

Get me some air time.

I'm going to have a few
words with the nation.

Debbie?
When?

As soon as possible;
we're not going to wait.

I think it's only fair

to let the candidates know
what's coming.

PRESIDENT:
I agree.

Sir, the Vice President
is still waiting.

PRESIDENT:
Get Senator Vinick
on the phone first,

and then Congressman Santos.

Then I'll see
the Vice President.

( door closes )

( knocking )

Leo,

thanks for coming
all the way over here.

Been a long time.

You care to join me?

( laughs )

No, I'm only fooling.

I know you don't
any longer.

Kind of wish more
people around here did.

Uh...

What's Hemingway's word?

Utilize?

How'd you find out?

The boat captain,
the deckhand,

limo driver,
gas attendant.

Does it matter?

It seems to me,
we got a lot more done

around here
when we were utilizing.

Got along
better, too.

Left and right,
elephant and mule.

'Course, these days,
that's one place

where my point of view
is in the minority.

Not the only place,
Senator.

Demographics are changing
in your state.

You were Scotch as I recall.

The good stuff, huh?

Just-Just the way it poured?

Younger Cuban-Americans
don't care.

Ah.

The Cuba Effect on Florida's
going the way

of too much utilizing.

Mm.

So, for the younger
Cuban-Americans,

your solution
is to have an
old man with MS

send another old man
who's had a heart attack

to check on the health
of a third old man,

a man who could be, should be,

and God willing,
soon will be dead.

It's too late

for the Bartlet
administration to go

legacy-shopping in Cuba,
you know.

If I had come
to you first,

what would you have said?

No.

We had to change the calculus,
or you'd bury us.

I am gonna bury you, Leo.

After 45 years,

it's time to admit
the embargo isn't a reason for

or a solution to
Cuba's tragic reality.

The reason for Cuba's
tragic reality is Fidel Castro,

a vicious dictator

who refuses to allow
free press, free elections,

who jails even the
slightest opposition.

You want to legitimize
his government.

The Good Ship Legitimacy
sailed decades ago.

He's there,
has been for a very long time.

The State Department lists Cuba
as a terrorist state.

The State Department, Leo.

The FBI just busted
a Cuban espionage operation,

arrested ten spies.

Yeah. When we've tried reforming
a Communist regime

through embargo
and severing relations,

we've always failed.

When we sought change
through engagement and trade,

we've succeeded.

Well, what about the law, Leo?

Congress
has codified
the embargo.

US Sanctions cannot be lifted
against Cuba

until all political prisoners
have been freed,

until political parties

and labor unions
have been legalized

and free elections
have been scheduled.

Now, no American
president

can just overturn the
will of the people.

It's not the will of the people.

It's a few loud
and shrinking number

of Cuban-Americans,

who came here stripped
of everything,

who floated
over here

in some little
leaky boats,

their kids in one hand
and their dreams in another.

And how many of whom
did we turn away?

May God forgive us.

No one...
No one's disputing that.

And who have become
monumentally successful.

And too many of whom have
become Republicans, right, Leo?

Yeah,

but who we've also pandered to
for far too long.

I'm bringing you
a possible breakthrough.

Oh, there's
no such thing.

We're starting
with an executive order

to provide food and dollars
through the United Nations...

( chuckles ):
Oh, God.

The Department of Treasury
liberalizing business travel

to Cuba, working to involve Cuba
in curbing narco trafficking

and terrorism
rather than treat them

as part of the problem.

And there's the toothless,
gutless foreign policy

we've all come to expect
from the Bartlet Administration.

Just give away the store,
probably billions of dollars

without getting a single
concession in return, right?

Extradition treaty.

He's gonna

resign the extradition treaty?

We're talking.

You're talking?

Sure, he'll romance you.

He'll waltz you around
through the summer

until he gets what he needs...

Maybe he's legacy-shopping, too.

Which is cash.

He needs cash.

That's why he's
talking to you in
the first place.

We finally got the bastard
where we want him,

on the verge
of economic collapse...

That's what we said in 1963.

He'll take your money, Leo--
our money-- and he'll renege.

The rest of the world's
already there.

If we don't get our foot
in the door,

US business interests

and your poor, maligned
Cuban-Americans

will be left out in the cold.

Oh, that is really good.

The Bartlet Administration
is gonna save Castro

for the sake
of American business?

That's rich.

So you're gonna go to war

so a few geriatrics
can get their cabanas back?

That's the trouble
with our policy.

Your rigor mortis stance--

it's holding hostage
the Cuban-American community

you say you so love,

and by proxy, has held hostage
the whole country.

The world,
time has passed them by.

Castro won. Rafe,

it's time.

It's long past time.

Whatever dumb
thing you do

to prop up Castro will
be reversed next year.

Because if you do it,

you lose Florida
in the election,

and the presidency
with it.

Your bottom line is

you care more
about American politics

than alleviating the plight
of the Cuban people,

just like in 1995.

Which year was that?

The one where Cabrera won
the election recount,

and it turned out
his sister-in-law,

who worked for you,
was the chief monitor.

Cabrera did win
that election.

He was a convicted felon,

and you knew at the same time
we were meeting,

talking with Castro's people.

I came down there.

I remember we had a drink...

We could have had a deal,

ended all this insanity
a decade ago.

It was you

who took me aside,
invited me for a drink.

Now you're gonna
climb up on your
high horse, huh?

That's what I got to live with.

We were close once,
back then.

No.

Senator, we just drank
back then.

We were never close.

Hey.

I was looking
for you.

The President goes on air
any minute.

Thought I'd watch it down here.

Alone?

Yeah.

Cuba, Florida.

You know a lot about them.

You were there in the '90s?

1995 maybe.

Yeah.

( inhales ):
Yeah.

I was there
only a few days, and...

I can't remember much at all.

Led me to lock myself

away for 30
days, dry out.

But I believed then,
and I believe now,

this fight is worth it.

There's gonna be hell to pay
tomorrow.

If I'd only

gotten it done ten years ago,

Jed Bartlet could be spared it.
I wish...

CIA would have never let
the embargo go away then.

They're against ending it now.

What about you?

I was in favor
of it then.

And now?

I don't know.

It's not about me.

It's about the President
and what you want for him.

And this is something.

Yeah.

Did we meet back then?

Do you remember me?

No.

Do you remember me?

( grunts )

Where are
you going?

That car, I think that...

KATE:
Not this door.

Okay, okay.

Why don't
I drive?

No.
Yeah.

I think I'll drive.

( mutters )

Here you go.

Okay, okay, okay.

That's good.

Where are you going?

Why not drive off
into the sunset?

( engine starting )

I think we missed it.

Something happened to your eye.

Oh, you should see
the other guy.

Where are you staying?

Are you at a hotel?

On Calle Ocho.

Got a suitcase, pack it.

Airport. If I can find it.

I'm gonna
remember this.

No, you won't.

Yes, I will.

No.

But I will.

Gonna put my head down.

Just for a moment.

Thank you.

BARTLET ( on TV ):
My fellow Americans,

in 1961, President
John F. Kennedy
bought some cigars.

They happened to be
from a country called Cuba,

and since that day,
nearly 45 years ago,

no American has been able
to do it again,

and it's time
for that to change.

This is not about cigars,
of course,

but about our relationship
with a country

that is only 90 miles away.

Change is not going
to come easy.

It's not going to be a change

without passionate discussion
and disagreement,

but a change
there can and will and must be.

The Cuban people

and the Cuban-American people
have suffered too long

under intolerable circumstances
on both shores.

My dream is that every one

of the hundreds
of thousands of Cubans

who draw lottery cards
every year

to win one of the 20,000 slots

allowing them to come to America
will have the chance

to find that same freedom

in their own country.