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Previously on The West Wing.

( tires squealing )

Mr. President?

G.W.! Blue! Blue!

Josh...

didn't you hear me shouting for you?

I need a doctor!

Pulse/ox is 92 on 15 liters.

I need to get to New Hampshire.

Josh, I'd like you to come to Nashua, New Hampshire

Thursday night and hear Jed Bartlet speak.

I work for Senator Hoynes.

Come to Nashua Thursday night.

Why?

Because that's what

sons do for old friends of their father's.

If I see the real thing in Nashua, should I tell you?

You won't have to.

Why?

You've got a pretty bad poker face.

Two shooters in that window.

We got them both from the roof, but there was a signal.

There was somebody on the ground?

White male, 20, 25, maybe five-ten.

TV Anchor: The White House is telling us

that there will be a press conference at 7:30 Eastern.

That's about four hours from now.

Deputy White House Chief of Staff

Joshua Lyman is currently undergoing

extensive surgery to repair a collapsed lung

and to remove a bullet that remains lodged

in his thoracic region.

Now, for an update on his condition

let's go live now to Lynn Blakely

who's standing by at George Washington Hospital.

She's got the latest for us.

Wait. We're not going to Lynn just yet.

Now, I'm being told that authorities are reporting

another gunshot victim, a woman who had...

( helicopter approaching )

( sirens wailing )

FBI!

Let me see those hands!

Police! Hold it right there!

Get down!

( officers yelling )

Get on the ground!

Get all the way down!

Get on the ground!

Get on the ground!

Get on the ground!

that a suspect has been taken into custody

and is being questioned by Federal law enforcement.

At this time, we cannot, we are not releasing

any information whatsoever about the suspect.

C.J., can you tell us anything, his name, where he's from

ethnicity, if you guys suspect a motive?

Yes, Steve, I can tell you all those things

because when I said

we weren't releasing any information whatsoever

I meant except his name, his address, his ethnicity

and what we think his motive was.

All: C.J.!

I am releasing the name of Stephanie Abbott

A-B-B-O-T-T, of Silver Spring, Maryland, who was in the crowd

and sustained an injury to the left femur

which is the thigh bone.

The President remains in stable condition

in the recovery room

and is expected to be released sometime Wednesday.

Josh Lyman is now in his

sixth hour of surgery to repair a collapsed lung

and a ruptured pulmonary artery.

We likely won't have an update on his condition

until the procedure is complete

which they expect won't be for another six or eight hours.

We'll keep you updated in the next hour.

Thank you very much.

( reporters clamoring )

Ma'am, does the President know

they've arrested a suspect?

Yes. I told him.

He's pretty groggy

after the anesthesia.

Sam. Toby. You've got a phone call

in the other room.

Donna...

do you want to throw some water on your face?

You know, I... I should ask:

Is there anything I'm supposed to be doing right now?

No.

I mean anything that Josh's office

is supposed to be doing?

Should I be making sure it's farmed out?

No. I'm sure it's covered.

You got them on the phone? Yeah.

Guys?

Sam: Yeah, we're here.

Sam, I need you to come back to the White House

and speak to Nancy McNally about a letter the President

was supposed to sign.

She'll know what you're talking about.

Yeah, all right.

And Toby? Yeah?

They're still asking about the tent.

Yeah.

I'd be more comfortable with the no comment

coming from the Secret Service, so...

What's this?

They want to know why the President

exited the building in the open air.

I'll talk to somebody at Treasury.

I'll do it. Let me.

Toby: No. Someone.

Toby, we were all in the meeting together.

Go back to the office.

Okay. Okay.

Man: Can the ships pass inspection?

The ships will be registered in Libya and Panama

so they won't be subject to the O.P.A.

which wouldn't allow an American company

to keep a tanker like this in service very long.

I think 2017.

I think 2015, and we'll check that

but you get the idea.

I think all that's left, then, is to dot the Ts, huh?

Actually, I have a thing.

I have a thing I was going to mention.

Just a proposal to throw out there.

When I was a Congressional aide

we had an expression:

"No idea was too stupid to say out loud."

So here it is, and bear me out:

Instead of buying these ships, don't buy these ships.

Buy other ships. Buy better ships.

That's my idea.

What's he talking about?

That's a perfectly fair question, Sam.

What the hell are you talking about?

And the good news is, we have a no-penalty clause

we can exercise if we pull out before the first of December.

But, Sam, we want these ships.

This is as little as we've ever paid for a fleet.

Well, there's a reason why they don't cost a lot of money.

They're 20-year-old, single-hulled VLCCs that nobody else wants.

When they hit things, they will break

and they will hit things because they don't have

state-of-the-art navigation systems.

They don't have G-3 tank gauging

or EM-5000 engine monitoring

the recommended staletronic or electropneumatic ballast.

And yesterday he didn't know

the difference between a ship and a boat.

Sam, I thought you told us

you covered our liability.

I did. Strictly speaking, I did.

But there's a broader liability to think about.

People drove past Exxon stations after Valdez.

We've got P.R. firms for P.R. problems.

There's a Suez tanker ready to launch

in the Koje Island Shipyard in Korea.

Chevron just dropped the option.

It's sitting in a cradle. Let's go get it.

Sam, could I talk to you for a second?

308,000 deadweight tons, carries 2.2 million gallons.

You can have it today for 46 million.

Sam?

$46 million?

That's a good price.

Sam, what are you doing?

I think I have an obligation.

What are you doing?

Maybe they want to buy safer boats

but we never gave them the option.

Are you trying to get fired?

Maybe they're really going to thank us

for this suggestion.

Knock it off, Sam.

Look... Knock it off!

I'm looking, uh, operator...

I'm looking for the number of a law firm in Manhattan.

Here's the thing:

I can't quite remember the name of the firm...

No, wait, wait, wait!

I just got back from New Hampshire

where I saw this guy, and now I have to...

Listen, it's a very famous firm.

They handled Shearson.

You must know...

Okay. You know what?

I'm just going...

Okay. Bye.

Aah!

That's amortized over...

15 years.

Pretax?

Sam?

Hmm?

15-year pretax amortization?

11 million extra dollars.

We're back to this. Money will be spent.

You can spend it now or spend it later

but it's cheaper to spend it now.

Sam... It's also the right thing to do.

Spend 11 million extra dollars. Sam...

Spend it on a better boat. Damn it!

The Amoco Cadiz: 68 million gallons

of crude oil off Brittany, France.

Braer, a Liberian tanker

26 million gallons off the Shetland Islands.

I just pulled these off the Internet last night.

The Exxon Valdez, the Aegean Sea, The Argo Merchant--

Look it up. I'm sure they're...

Spend 11 million extra dollars. Sam, that's enough.

You don't want to pay for it?

Sam! Pass the expense on us.

A half a penny at the tank. Here's five bucks.

Sam! A thousand people are on me.

( knock on door )

Sam, we are in the middle of a meeting.

Yeah.

Sam, we're not indifferent to the concerns of the environmentalists...

Loch: Excuse me, Sam?

Yeah.

It doesn't quite feel like I have your attention.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm not going to need that.

Sam?

Sam?

Sam, please keep your seat.

Sam, where are you going?

New Hampshire!

If you'll just follow me.

Sam. Yeah.

I wanted to see if...

How's your head? Oh, fine.

I wanted to see if you talked to Nancy McNally.

Yeah, and she talked to Counsel's Office

and they're going to work on a few things

to see what we like, but I can tell you...

Sam, you didn't happen to notice...

When the shooting started, you didn't happen to notice

who pulled me to the ground, did you?

They pulled me down No.behind a police car

and my necklace came off.

Oh.

You talked to Nancy McNally?

Yeah. Okay.

Oh, C.J.-- Yeah.

You need to call back Debbie at the Today Show. Why?

We said you might be willing to do the morning shows

when they go on the air at 7:00.

No, that's not a good... They just wanted...

I'm not going to do any interviews just yet.

I'm not doing it.

I'll take care of it. Which one of our people...

It was a mistake. I'll take care of it.

C.J.? Yeah.

I really don't want to be this guy, so...

Somebody around here thought I should do the morning shows.

I still don't have an answer.

Who was in charge?

3 1/2 hours, the President was under anesthesia.

Danny, it's... a little complicated.

There's something called the National Security Act of 1947.

There's the 25th.

Nancy McNally, Bill Hutchinson, the White House Counsel

they're all working on it right now.

Yeah, but they're going to tell me

who was supposed to be in charge.

I want to know who was in charge.

And we are working on that information.

We're working on it.

( phone ringing )

Hello?

Yeah.

Isobel, it's 6:30 in the morning.

( sighs )

Yeah.

( knock on door )

Man: Excuse me. C.J.'s here.

Thank you.

Good morning, Isobel.

Hello, Roger.

I asked her to be here 45 minutes ago.

I'm sorry.

I said, I asked you...

Roger... It was 6:30 in the morning.

I wasn't quite ready for work, but I am now.

How can I help you?

Are you aware that the Golden Globe nominations

were announced this morning?

I wasn't.

Am I up for something?

C.J., Atlantis only got two nominations.

For the entire studio.

Best Comedy Score

and Supporting Actor for the kid.

That's what $20,000 a month bought us.

Roger, I think we put together a very aggressive campaign.

Two nominations.

That's two nominations more than a lot of people got.

Are you aware that the new

Premiere magazine list is coming out Monday?

The hundred most powerful people in Hollywood.

Yeah.

Yes, I am.

And I can tell you that you're on it

and congratulations, and it must, you know

feel... good being that powerful.

I went from third to ninth.

I dropped to ninth. Do you know how that looks?

Do you know how many other people were ahead of me?

Eight?

Lady, you're...

The movies were bad, Roger. All of them.

Even the little kid was bad, but he's a little kid.

He had a couple of scenes

big eyeglasses, little lisp.

He's going to the Golden Globes.

You know why the New Coke marketing campaign failed?

Because nobody liked New Coke.

The movies were bad.

If the movies were unknown, I could help you.

But they weren't.

They were just bad.

Roger, would you excuse us for just a second, please?

Sorry I talked to him like that

but did he really think

he had The Maltese Falcon out there?

The thing is, C.J., he's big business for me.

I'll apologize to him, Isobel.

I'll find someone to make him Man of the Year.

I'll ask around in Vegas.

He wants you fired.

He thinks you're a smart-mouth.

He's going to pull his business unless you fire me?

This was never what you wanted to be doing, C.J.

You've always felt it was beneath you.

It is beneath me.

C.J.... So take me off film and television.

I don't know anything about it anyway.

We have plenty of accounts...

I need to keep his business. I'm sorry.

You're firing me?

I'm sorry.

Out here in the hallway?

C.J.... I need someone to call me a cab.

I'm sorry?

I couldn't get my contacts in this morning

and I broke my glasses getting out of the car.

I can't drive myself home.

I need someone to call me a cab.

Could you call a taxi for C.J., please?

I have to go back in.

Mmm.

It was a bad movie, Isobel.

Assistant: Yes, I need a taxi to Beverly Hills, please.

Hello?

Hey, C.J.

Who is that?

It's me.

Toby?

Yeah.

What the hell are you...?

C.J., you fell into the pool, there.

I can't see.

Yeah, well, maybe

uh, kind of try and feel your way to dry land.

Want a hand?

Shut up.

Avert your eyes.

What?

I'm climbing out of the pool.

My clothes will be clingy.

Avert your eyes.

( chuckling )

C.J., I really didn't come here...

Avert your eyes!

Okay.

Oh, turn around.

I tried calling you at your office.

They said you were fired.

Were you stealing things?

Roger Becker dropped from third most powerful person in Hollywood

to ninth most powerful person in Hollywood.

Does he still make the playoffs or is the cutoff line...?

They take it seriously.

C.J., Jed Bartlet's very impressed with you.

He likes the work you did

with that girls' group with the stupid name.

Emily's List? Yes.

That girls' group with the stupid name? Yes.

Emily's List. Early money is like Yeast?

It helps raise the dough. Yeah. I get it.

They raise money for women candidates.

Early money is like yeast.

It helps raise the dough... for the candidates.

I really do get it.

Bartlet's impressed with me?

Very impressed.

And one of the big keys to his game plan

is bringing you on as Press Secretary.

He's never heard of me, has he?

No.

Toby...

I'm here on instructions from Leo McGarry.

McGarry wants me?

Yes. Come join the campaign.

How much does it pay?

How much were you making before?

$550,000 a year.

This pays $600 a week.

So this is less. Yes.

Toby... does he know I've only ever worked statewide?

Does he know I've never worked on a national campaign?

Yes. It's graduation day.

You really think I can do this?

Yeah.

Is Jed Bartlet a good man?

Yeah.

Toby?

Yes.

Then... let's go into the house

so I can change my clothes

and we'll talk about it.

C.J.? Yeah?

The house is over there.

Okay.

Ron: One of them was using

a nine-millimeter Beretta.

The other had a .357 Desert Eagle.

Ron's saying that these are absolutely the wrong weapons

to use for a shooting of this kind

and that's why the injury count was as low as it was.

We don't know what the injury count is yet.

( door opens ) Yeah, but his point is...

Charlie: Excuse me, sir.

I was told you wanted to see me.

Yeah.

Charlie, the guy the Secret Service have in custody

is named Carl LeRoy.

He gives a statement in which he says

that he and the two shooters were members of an organization

called West Virginia White Pride.

They tried to kill the President 'cause Zoey and I are together?

No.

Why did...?

Charlie, the President wasn't the target.

According to the statement

the President wasn't the target.

Oh.

Okay.

Okay, well...

Okay.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Sure.

Dad, I'm going to...

Go.

We don't know what the injury count is yet.

Margaret: He was supposed to sign a letter?

If the President is going under general anesthesia

he usually signs a letter

handing over executive powers to the Vice President.

And the President didn't sign a letter?

Nope. We blew that play.

Is there going to be trouble?

We'll see.

To be honest with you

I don't really care right now.

Can... can I just say something, you know, for the future?

Yeah.

I can sign the President's name.

I have his signature down

pretty good.

You can sign the President's name?

Yeah.

On a document removing him from power

and handing it to someone else?

Yeah.

Or do you think the White House Counsel

would say that was a bad idea?

I think the White House Counsel would say that's a coup d'etat.

Well, I'd probably end up doing some time for that.

I would think.

Leo... And what the hell are you doing

practicing the President's signature?

It's just for fun.

We've got separation of powers

checks and balances

and Margaret vetoing things

and sending them back to the Hill.

Leo, who thought it was good idea for me to do the morning shows?

I did.

Why?

The President's not ready for cameras.

If it's the Vice President

it's going to look like we don't have a president.

And I'd like the White House

to start climbing out from behind the bushes.

I think it's a bad idea.

Why?

I just...

it's inappropriate while Josh... I think

You know, until...

What's wrong?

Nothing.

C.J....

Nothing.

I'd rather not do it, but, obviously...

Have Sam do it.

Okay.

Listen, the letter...

Yeah.

The 3 1/2 hours.

I don't know how much longer I can dance around Danny

and it's going to be Danny times a hundred by lunchtime.

Have him come see me.

Yeah?

Yeah. Okay.

She doesn't want to do the morning shows.

She says she's been getting a couple questions

about why the President exited in the open air.

They remember that the Secret Service

used to construct a tent or a canopy.

I'm going to talk to Ron Butterfield.

He's going to say the Secret Service

doesn't comment on procedure.

I know, but maybe I can talk him out of it.

I... I should try anyway.

You don't have to, Toby.

Yeah. I should, though.

Okay.

TV Anchor: ...won the non-binding straw poll

pulling in 48% of the vote.

Senator William Wiley of Washington State

drew a poorer-than-expected 22% of the vote.

But the story this morning is the 19% of the vote

picked up by former New Hampshire Governor Jed Bartlet

who leapfrogged several Democratic candidates

to finish a surprising third.

And we're going to go now to Governor Bartlet

who's standing by live...

Okay, I'm told we don't have the Governor at this moment.

So, while we try...

Okay, who can tell me what we did wrong there?

I blew it. What's next?

"We didn't have the candidate."

That's right. Anybody who answered...

What's next?

Josh: Toby wants to say something.

Which one is Toby?

I am.

And which one are you?

I'm Josh.

What was it you wanted to say?

Let's get out of New Hampshire.

Why?

Nothing to win here.

He's right.

The New Hampshire primary

isn't held in New Hampshire anymore?

You can't win the New Hampshire primary.

I'm going to win the New Hampshire primary.

Which is why you can't win it.

Josh: You're incredibly popular in this state.

You're a Democrat who was elected with 69% of the vote.

That's unheard of.

There's no way you can exceed expectations.

All you can hope for is an "as expected"

and there's the possibility you can embarrass yourself.

I appreciate that. Thanks.

Toby meant the polls.

I know what he meant.

Toby: So Hoynes will be in a fight

with Wiley for a strong second place finish in New Hampshire.

Meantime, we're going to be in South Carolina

and we're going to be the only ones there.

We won't beat Hoynes in South Carolina.

We don't have to beat Hoynes in South Carolina.

We just have to beat Wiley.

Wiley's going to drop out after South Carolina?

If he doesn't finish higher than third.

Are we going to get his endorsement?

We're going to get his money, that's for sure.

It's for sure?

Josh thinks it is.

Which one is Josh?

I am.

Okay.

So, we finish second in South Carolina

we pick up some steam, some endorsements--

mostly some money, going into South Dakota, Vermont and Maine.

Sam: Where we'll come away with a split, maybe better.

Now the prohibitive nominee for the Democratic nomination

has lost three of the first seven contests...

And half the actual primaries.

Sam: ...leading into Super Tuesday.

Josh: Hoynes will win the South.

We'll take the North and the Pacific Northwest.

This race will be decided a week later in Illinois.

Illinois's going to be High Noon.

do we have a shot at California Sam, iand New York?llinois

If we win in Illinois, we're going to run the table.

Well, that's it, then.

And we've saved people the trouble of voting.

What's next?

Our point is that it's...

I understood the point.

We're going to South Carolina to set up Illinois.

When I ask what's next

it means I'm ready to move on to other things.

So, what's next?

Leo: We're done.

Fantastic.

Well, I feel bathed in the warm embrace of the candidate, Leo.

He's really very easy to like

once you get to know him.

How many people get that far?

Not that many.

Okay.

Donna: Josh Lyman.

No, he's not available right now.

This afternoon he's got a media session

and then a 4:00 with finance.

If you leave your name, I can give Josh the message

when he gets back.

Thank you very much.

Hi.

Hi. Who are you?

I'm Donna Moss. Who are you?

I'm Josh Lyman.

Ah.

Yes.

I'm your new assistant.

Did I have an old assistant?

Maybe not.

Who are you? I'm Donna Moss.

I came in to volunteer

and the woman assigned me to you.

Which woman? Betsy.

You mean Margaret? Yes.

Who are you? I'm Donna Moss.

I'll be working as your assistant.

I'm going to talk to Margaret.

Actually, Josh... Yeah?

When I said I was assigned to you Yeah?

I may have been overstating it a little.

Who are you?

I'm Donna Moss.

I drove here from Madison, Wisconsin.

When did your boyfriend break up with you?

What makes you think my boyfriend broke up with me?

Well, you're too old for your parents

to have kicked you out of the house.

I'm here because I want to work for Bartlet.

I'm a college graduate with a degree

in Political Science and Government.

Where did you graduate?

Hmm?

Where did you graduate?

Okay, when I said I graduated

Yeah?

I may have been overstating a little.

I was a couple of credits short.

From where?

University of Wisconsin.

And you majored in Political Science and Government?

And, uh... Sociology and Psychology. Uh-huh.

And Biology for a while with a minor in French.

Okay.

And, uh, Drama.

You had five majors and two minors in four years?

Two years.

Uh, listen...

I had to drop out.

I had to drop out.

Your boyfriend was older than you?

I think that question's of a personal nature.

Donna, you were just at my desk

reading my calendar, answering my phone

and hoping I wouldn't notice that I never hired you.

Your boyfriend was older?

Yes.

Law student? Medical student.

The idea was you'd drop out and pay the bills

till he's done with his residency.

Yes. And did you?

And why did Dr. Freeride break up with you?

What makes you think he broke up with me?

Donna, this is a campaign for the Presidency

and there's nothing I take more seriously than that.

This can't be a place for people to come

to find their confidence and start over.

Why not? I'm sorry?

Why can't it be those things?

Because...

Is it going to interfere with my typing?

Donna, we're picking up today and going to South Carolina.

If you want to stay in the Manchester office...

I want to come to Charleston.

I can't carry you, Donna.

I've got a lot of guys out there not making the trip.

I'll pay my own way.

With what?

I'll sleep on the floor, I'll sell my car.

Eventually you're going to put me on salary.

Donna...

Look, I think I can be good at this.

I think you might find me valuable.

( phone ringing )

Go ahead.

Bartlet for America, Josh Lyman's office.

Uh, yes.

I think I'm going to have somebody from the press office

get back to you if it relates to...

Yes.

Uh, yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Suction.

Pressure's holding: 131/65.

( knocks on door )

Hey, Spanky.

Oh, God, what'd I do?

Take a walk with me, would you?

They're taking him off bypass now.

Yeah, I just heard.

I'm going to head to the hospital.

You did well on the morning shows.

Thanks.

I told Leo the reason I didn't want to do it

was it didn't feel right with Josh still in surgery.

Yeah.

You know what the real reason was?

The real reason?

Yeah.

No.

I think you do.

Listen, C.J.... Suzanne.

The real reason I couldn't go on the morning shows

and give a firsthand account of what happened

was that I couldn't remember what happened.

I remember walking out of the building.

I remember somebody knocking me down.

I know my necklace came off

and I know a police car window exploded over my head.

All night long, I've been doing my press briefings

using notes from other people's accounts.

But it's morning now and I listened to you on the morning shows

and I know what happened.

C.J.... Sam...

I think you have my necklace.

I didn't want you to feel beholden to me.

I didn't want it to be like an episode

of I Dream of Jeannie

where now you've got to save my life

and the time-space continuum

with you following me around

with coconut oil and hot towels.

Coconut oil? I'm just saying.

Sam, I don't feel beholden to you.

Why not? I saved your life.

Can I have my necklace back?

Thank you.

I'll be in my office.

Sam?

Yeah.

Were you scared?

Yeah.

Me, too.

Thanks.

Good morning.

I have an update

and I can give you a ballistics report.

So, let's get started.

( reporters clamoring )

Ron?

Hey, Toby.

I heard they're about to take him off bypass.

Pretty soon, yeah.

Listen, can I talk to you for a second? Yeah.

Sergeant, I want those people on that corner

Yes, sir. backed up another 200 feet.

And if they move in again

handcuff them to a parking meter.

How's your hand?

It's fine.

You should be home.

What's on your mind?

C.J.'s starting to get some questions

about why the President's exit wasn't covered in Rosslyn.

Secret Service doesn't comment on procedure.

Yeah. Ron, a few weeks after the President was sworn in

you got a memo about his protection.

Yeah?

It said, he wanted to enter and exit in the open air.

He didn't like the feeling

of traveling around in an armored tank.

Yeah.

Specifically, it said

he wouldn't use the tent or the canopy anymore.

Yeah.

I wrote that memo

and the President signed it at my urging.

I know.

Ron, I don't think it's right

that the Secret Service be blamed

for what happened last night.

I want the Treasury Department

to hand over my memo to the press.

No, we can't do that.

There are going to be a lot of questions.

There are always a lot of questions. Ron...

Don't worry about it, Toby.

It's not right. You're the guys...

( sighs )

Look at your hand. My hand is fine.

Your hand is not fine. Toby...

Let me go over there and tell them it was my fault.

It wasn't your fault.

Ron... It wasn't your fault.

It wasn't Gina's fault.

It wasn't Charlie's fault.

It wasn't anybody's fault, Toby.

It was an act of madmen.

You think a tent was going to stop them?

We got the President in a car

we got Zoey in the car

and at 150 yards and five stories up

the shooters were down in 9.2 seconds

after the first shot was fired.

I would never let you not let me protect the President.

You tell us you don't like something

we figure out something else.

It was an act of madmen.

Anyway, the Secret Service doesn't comment on procedure.

Okay.

Good job last night.

Thank you.

( sighs )

Secret Service agents carry a weapon called a .357 SIG-Sauer.

The agents on the roof shot the two gunmen

with .726 caliber rifles that are referred to as J.A.R.

which, believe it or not, stands for Just Another Rifle.

They're made specifically and exclusively

for the Secret Service.

I wanted to mention... Leo?

This is our fifth press briefing since midnight

and obviously there's one story

that's going to be dominating the news around the world

for the next few days

and, uh, it would be easy to think that

President Bartlet, Joshua Lyman and Stephanie Abbott

were the only people who were victims

of a gun crime last night.

They weren't.

Marks Davis and Sheila Evans of Philadelphia

were killed by a gun last night.

He was a biology teacher and she was a nursing student.

Tina Bishop and Belinda Larkin

were killed with a gun last night.

They were 12.

There were 36 homicides last night

480 sexual assaults

3,411 robberies

3,685 aggravated assaults

all at gunpoint.

And if anyone thinks those crimes could've been prevented

if the victims themselves had been carrying guns

I'd only remind you

that the President of the United States was shot last night

while surrounded by the best trained armed guards

in the history of the world.

Back to the briefing.

She's good.

Yes, she is.

Leo...

I'm going to the hospital.

Why don't you ride with me?

Sam: We're starting to get

some good exit polling in

from Stark County and Rock Island.

Leo: How good?

We're running at 53 to 58 with the undecideds

from 72 hours ago in the 12th, 14th and 15th.

That's the money.

DeWitt County, Cumberland.

Yeah. Who are you talking to?

I'm, um, talking to nobody.

There's no one at my house.

What's going on?

Nothing. My dad had his chemo today

and these exit polls are going to cheer him up.

Sam says we got the 72-hour undecideds in the 14th and 15th.

Leo, Is there any food in this room that isn't fried?

Well, if there is, let's get rid of it. I'm not kidding.

There's good exits from Stark County and Rock Island.

How good? Good.

Leo, what the hell is this?

That's Sam's draft of your victory...

"I congratulate my opponent on a well-fought campaign in Illinois"?

You don't want to congratulate him?

Yes, I want to congratulate him

but I'd like to call him by his name.

Are we back to this crap again?

Leo, I want to go over this whole thing with you.

Excuse me.

Bartlet: It's the exact same crap

all over again!

It's amateur hour!

Damn student...

You can say it, you know.

It's not like I haven't heard it before.

Your husband's a real son of bitch, Mrs. Bartlet.

He doesn't like being handled.

Well, I think if he looked around

he'd see that nobody is handling him.

He's not ready yet, Josh.

He's terrified.

Well, is he going to beready?

You bet your ass he will.

In the meantime

you want to kick something, kick me.

Toby! Here it comes.

TV Anchor: With 17% of the precincts reporting

we are now ready to call the Illinois Primary

for former New Hampshire Governor Jed Bartlet.

Yes! Yes!

( cheering )

Hey, get some music!

Yes!

( "Celebration" by Kool & the Gang plays )

Yes! Hey!

Way to go.

Nice Job.

Now let's get

to California.

Leo, we got to replace this music!

We got to replace it with some Doobie Brothers!

Josh... You got to get happy, Donna.

You just won the Illinois primary.

No, Josh... Come, dance with me.

No, Josh, your father died.

TV Anchor: ...a lot of very happy Bartlet supporters.

We are told the candidate

is in his suite refining his remarks.

He's due to make an appearance here any moment.

Just a little under an hour ago now

this room went absolutely volcanic

when the announcement was made...

Female recording: Welcome to O'Hare International Airport.

We'd like to remind you this is a smoke-free airport.

Josh?

Governor.

Your father died, Josh.

I can't believe it.

Yeah. Governor, you-you shouldn't be here.

What happened?

went in for his chemotherapy and he unexpectedly developed

what's called a pulmonary embolism.

It's a...

It's a blood clot.

Yeah.

It went to his heart and there was cardiac arrest.

Yeah...

Yeah.

Governor, you should...

you should really get back to the ballroom

so you can get on a plane and get to California.

He was a lawyer?

Yeah. A litigator.

Did he like that you were in politics?

I think he would've liked grandchildren more.

He would've.

He liked that I was working for you.

He liked that we were starting to do well.

He would've liked tonight.

At least his friends and neighbors will be spared

all the... you know...

He would've been doing some bragging right now?

Yeah. Your name wouldn't have come up, by the way.

"My son won the Illinois Primary tonight."

Three more hours, he would've been able to say that.

He'd have been proud.

He was already.

Trust me, Josh. I'm a father.

He was already.

I appreciate that, Governor.

You should really get back to the hotel.

Nah, I'm okay.

Sir, not that I don't appreciate your having come down here

but there's a ballroom full of people

waiting for a victory speech.

They'll wait.

Yeah, they will, but the people watching television won't.

I've been a real jackass to you, Josh.

Well... To everybody.

Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg, Sam Seaborn...

Yeah? Don't think I don't know what you gave up

to work for this campaign

and don't think I don't know your value.

And I'll never make you think I don't again.

You got to be a little impressed

I got those names right just now.

Delta Airlines Flight 175

to Kennedy International now boarding at Gate 56.

They're calling my flight.

You want me to go with you?

Go with me?

Maybe you want some company on the plane.

I can get a ticket and go with you.

Governor...

California.

You have to go to the ballroom

and give a victory speech in prime time

and go to California.

I guess you're right.

You guess I'm right?

Listen to me, Governor, if you don't lose this election

it isn't going to be because you didn't try hard enough.

But it was nice of you to ask.

Thank you. I appreciate it.

...Delta Airlines Flight 175 to Kennedy International...

They're calling your flight.

Is he going to be all right?

He's going to be fine.

Good.

Leo...

Yeah?

I'm ready.

Governor Bartlet: Tonight, what began

at the Commons in Concord, Massachusetts

as an alliance of farmers and workers

of cobblers and tinsmiths, of statesmen and students

of mothers and wives, of men and boys

lives two centuries later as America!

( people cheering )

My name is Josiah Bartlet, and I accept your nomination

for the Presidency of the United States!

Holbrook: Josh?

Josh?

Josh, wake up. It's okay.

I want you to wake up.

I couldn't hear you, Josh.

What did he say?

He said, "What's next?"