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Previously on The West Wing:

I need a doctor!

I need help!

Single gunshot wound.

Entry: left fifth intercostal space

Is it serious?

Yes, it's critical.

I've gotten a lot of calls

about pieces people want to do on how staffers

are handling the shooting in the aftermath.

Psychological? Yeah.

How did that bullet not kill you?

Just lucky, I guess.

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

Hi.

Hiya, Josh.

Hi.

I'm Stanley Keyworth.

This is Kaytha Trask.

Josh Lyman.

Hi.

Do I call you Doctor?

Sorry?

Is it Dr. Keyworth?

Oh, whatever you want.

You can call me Stanley if you want.

And Doctor...? I'm sorry.

Trask, but it's not Doctor.

I'm not a psychologist.

Kaytha is training as a traumatologist.

I was wondering why there were two of you.

Kaytha's training.

You don't mind, do you?

No.

What happened to your hand?

I, uh... I cut it putting down a glass.

It broke?

Yeah.

The glass broke?

Yeah.

Well, uh, let me tell you a little about who we are.

Sure.

We're from ATVA.

Yeah.

That's The America Trauma Victims Association.

Yeah.

We're commonly called in by the government

to work with trauma victims.

I'll give you some examples.

The pipe bomb at Lancaster Middle School

we worked with the parents and the kids...

Tulsa, Hurricane Beth

the Chatham fire, the Iowa tornadoes

the FBI raid in Rock Creek.

So, you are familiar with us.

Dr. Keyworth, I'm the Deputy White House Chief of Staff.

I oversee 1,100 White House employees

I answer directly to Leo McGarry

and the President of the United States.

Did you think you were talking to the paperboy?

No.

In your wildest dreams

did you imagine that I would

walk into this room without knowing exactly

who you are and what you do? No.

Then why did you lie to me right off the bat?

Josh...

She's not here training.

As a matter of fact, she is.

I read briefing books every day on subjects

considerably more complicated than ATVA.

She is here training

in trauma therapy.

Yeah, but that's not why there are two of you.

No.

That's not the reason why there are two of you.

No.

I get up, go to the bathroom

go to my office, answer the phone--

one of you watches me.

Yeah.

Stanley, you got off to a bad start.

Yes, I did.

Yes, you did.

Let's start again.

You going to lie to me this time?

No.

You going to lie to me?

Haven't yet.

Really? Yeah.

How did you cut your hand?

You're not talking to the paperboy, either, Josh.

a few minutes ago.

Do you want some coffee? No, thanks.

Tea? No.

Maybe later. Yeah.

The woman I asked, uh, works for you, I think-- Donna?

Yeah.

She works for you?

She's my assistant.

Was she at Rosalyn?

It's Rosslyn.

I'm sorry?

The shooting took place in Rosslyn, Virginia, not Rosalyn.

I'm sorry, I'm not from around here.

Where are you from?

San Francisco, California.

I always thought it was San Franchesca.

Was she with you?

Donna?

Yeah.

No.

Who was with you?

Everybody was with me.

We'd just gotten done with a town hall meeting.

We'd just gotten off television.

Who's everybody?

The President travels with a large group.

Who was...? It was geared to young people.

There were Department of Education people there

event staff, obviously C.J. Cregg and the press corps, Leo McGarry

was there, Bob Shanahan, Toby Ziegler was there

Ziegler's deputy, Sam Seaborn

Zoey Bartlet was there, obviously, Charlie Young...

Who was with you?

Josh, I'm trying to get you

to tell me what happened.

Stanley, I walked out of the building

I heard gunshots, people started screaming, I woke up in a hospital room.

Okay.

What happened three weeks ago?

I don't know what you're referring to.

I don't know what I'm referring to, either

but some of the people that you work with

became concerned with your behavior about three weeks ago.

Well, I've been concerned with their behavior

since way before that.

Josh... They were talking

about the pilot.

The pilot?

Robert Cano

the Air Force pilot.

And what about him?

I don't know.

You just said that they

were talking about the pilot.

I said that they may have been talking

about the pilot.

Well, that's not what you said.

There was a lot going on.

There was the IMF treaty

the Petroleum Reserves, Alaska, the President's...

But you mentioned the pilot.

I didn't mention the pilot for any special reason.

I was saying that there was a lot happening

three weeks ago.

Okay.

Then let's talk about three weeks ago.

( horns play Joy to the World)

( horns continue playing )

Toby?

Yeah.

What the hell's going on?

What do you mean?

Who are these guys?

It's a-a brass quintet.

I'm sorry?

A brass quintet--

two trumpets, trombone baritone horn, French horn.

Do you like them?

Do I like them for what?

To play Christmas carols here in the lobby

in the mornings and evenings as people are coming and going.

You like them?

No.

Why?

'Cause this isn't the Paramus Mall.

( clears throat )

Let me tell you something.

For the last two Christmases in this White House

I've been accused of not being in the proper spirit.

I was called names.

Not this year.

For the next three weeks

I will be filling this lobby with music

in the mornings and the evenings

so that we may all experience this season

of... would you people

stop playing for one damn minute!

...this season of... peace and joy.

Okay.

So, what do you think?

They seem fine.

And the loose change they collect

goes to pay for musical instruments

in D.C. public schools.

Toby.

Ben Zaharian stepped went off the reservation last night.

What'd he do?

He...

You guys can keep playing.

He was at a Q&A at the NRDC

about drilling the North Slope.

He was asked if the President would

consider tapping into the SPR

and he said tapping into the SPR has a lot of merit.

I'll get into it.

Thank you.

Sam.

Yeah.

Ben Zaharian did a Q&A last night

and was asked a question

about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

And he said the SPR is for emergencies like times of war?

He said tapping into the SPR has a lot of merit.

I'll talk to a deputy.

Would you, please, and go in and give C.J. a heads-up.

Yeah.

C.J.: ...expressed his confidence

that when the IMF and the World Bank

meet in Prague next week

some of those restrictions will be relaxed.

To what extent could Pete Didion's objections

throw a wrench in the works?

C.J.: Well, Congress isn't in session

but you mean...?

Yeah, after the first.

He sits on the Foreign Aps sub-committee, so...

Mark?

C.J., this is way out of left field

but do you know anything about a woman--

I don't know how to say this--

going a little crazy during a tour?

A White House tour?

Yeah, a woman saw a painting

and started screaming.

I don't know, Mark.

There's a painting

of Dolly Madison in the Grand Foyer.

You catch it in the wrong light, it can scare the living...

Okay. What else? Katie?

C.J., last night

the Energy Secretary gave a speech

at the Natural Resources Defense Council

about the perils

of drilling the North Slope.

During a Q&A, he was asked about

tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserves

to help ease oil prices.

He responded that the idea had a lot of merit.

Does this signal a shift in policy since last June?

Well, no, it doesn't, but I will say that a bad idea in June

isn't necessarily a bad idea in December.

Why? You don't need to lower the price of heating oil

in the summer. Thank you, everybody.

All: Thank you, C.J.

Thank you.

Is somebody going to speak to somebody?

I'll talk to a deputy.

Please.

What do you suppose that was about with the woman?

What woman?

The woman who went crazy on the tour.

We get about five of those a week.

Really? Yeah.

What exactly about the White House tour makes them go crazy?

The blue blazers.

You're going to talk to somebody

at the Energy Department?

Yeah.

Good save.

Thank you. Where's the President?

The Situation Room.

What's going on?

Something about a pilot.

Officer: Ten-hut.

President: What's going on? Sit down.

Mr. President, an F-16 Falcon

from the 27th Fighter's Wing at Cannon Air Force Base

in New Mexico has left his group.

What does that mean?

Returning home from an exercise

the Flight Leader visually realized

that the tail plane was no longer in formation.

There was no communication from the aircraft

and now it fails to respond to urgent radio calls.

Is he in there alone?

Is there a crew?

The Falcon's a single-seat fighter.

Did he crash?

If he crashed, it would have triggered electronic signals

that would've been picked up by ground bases.

Is there a chance he's trying to contact the ground and can't?

A massive collapse of this plane's

communication systems isn't very likely.

Ken, what does he have up there?

Well, he's got a 20-millimeter

Vulcan cannon

and seven A.I.M. Sidewinder missiles.

Is his intention

to defect with a military asset

or is his intention to blow something up?

We don't know what his intention is.

Don't our fighter pilots have to go through

some kind of psychological testing?

Well, they go through extensive screening, sir.

He was deemed psychologically fit to fly.

Let me ask a ridiculous question.

I know the answer is no, but is there any way

to bring this plane down without shooting it down?

No, sir.

Okay. What about populated areas?

We can take him over the Sierra Madres.

Mr. President

it's possible the pilot lost consciousness

due to a dramatic loss of air pressure

and that's why this is happening.

We've scrambled F-16s out of Edwards to get a visual sighting.

If the pilot is dead

they'll see signs in the cockpit.

If he's conscious

he'll know he's been painted, and he'll be given an order

by the interceptors to land at a designated area.

If he doesn't, that's when we make a decision.

Yeah, okay.

Keyworth: And that was the first time you heard about the pilot?

I'm sorry?

That was the first time you heard about the pilot?

No.

I wasn't in the Situation Room.

I don't sit in those meetings.

But that day was when you heard about the pilot?

Yeah, they would tell me a little bit later

'cause I had an assignment.

Having to do with the pilot?

Yeah.

What was it?

I'm sorry if this question sounds rude

but how long will we be here today?

Well, I'm sorry if this answer sounds rude

but as long as I want.

I was asked here by Leo McGarry.

I know who asked you here.

Three weeks ago-- the pilot.

For the fourth time, there was a lot going on that day.

I'm not sure why we need to be fixated on...

What was the assignment with the pilot?

I was supposed to look into his personal records

to figure out why he...

( knocking )

It's the coffee, Josh.

( coffee cart rattles )

Josh: When did you find out?

We were in the Situation Room an hour ago.

How long has he been up there?

90 minutes since he broke formation.

They've deployed the 57th Fighter Wing

from Nellis in Nevada

the 388th, the 58th from Arizona

the 301st out of Texas.

How long before I see this on television?

I'm amazed News Center 4 doesn't have their traffic copter up there right now.

And how long before we make visual contact?

About ten minutes.

What do we know about the pilot?

Not as much as I'd like to.

You want me to get into it?

Get the biographical info.

How did this guy get through

a fairly intense psychological screening process?

We gave this guy an $18 million warplane.

I'll get into it.

Ooh, sorry.

Donna...

I have the personnel file for the pilot.

How did you know I was going to ask you for that?

Seriously... I'm tuned to you.

I anticipate your every need.

Yeah, but to be walking by with a guy's personnel file?

They called me ten minutes ago, Josh.

Don't be a yutz.

Ah.

On the other hand, you're a very handsome man.

What do you need?

You're a very powerful and a very handsome man.

What do you need?

You know how I never ask you for anything.

What do you need?

Yo-Yo Ma is playing at the Christmas party.

Which one?

Congressional.

Fine.

I can come?

Give me the file.

Can I come?

To the congressional Christmas party? Yeah.

You can take your Pablo Casals.

You can keep your Rostropovich.

I say Yo-Yo Ma rules.

Hmm. What?

This guy, that pilot?

What about him?

He's got the same birthday as me.

I'll be in here.

Sam: Josh.

Yeah?

So, I spoke to Jesse Witt at Energy.

I dressed her down pretty good.

They're not going to get us to change

our policy on the SPR

by announcing we should change our policy.

I told her that

in no uncertain terms. And?

I think we should change our policy.

I kind of have to do this thing right now.

Can we talk about it later?

Yeah.

You know this guy--

the pilot? Yeah.

We have the same birthday.

Okay, well, I'm going to talk to Leo

about the SPR.

Yeah.

C.J. Yeah?

Bernard Thatch from the White House Visitors' Office

is waiting for you inside.

Yeah, I asked him to come see me.

Claudia Jean.

How are you doing, Bernard?

I'm not at all well.

That's not unusual, is it?

No.

I understand there was an incident on a tour.

There's always an incident on a tour.

People touch things.

You should punish them for that, Bernard.

I've begged my superiors to allow me.

This had to do with a painting.

Oh, yes. It's all in the report. It wasn't a problem.

Yeah, but it made it to the press room

so I just wanted to check in.

The guide was pointing out the Gustave Cailloux

hanging outside the Blue Room.

A woman began screaming completely incoherently.

In English?

If it was a language at all

its origin was unknown to me.

I sent for the agent on duty

who attempted to take a statement

but not speaking whatever language this woman was

simply escorted her

out of the building.

Well, okay.

Thanks for stopping by.

C.J., your necklace is a monument to bourgeois taste.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Bernard... listen

who is Gustave Cailloux, and how long has this painting

been hanging outside the Blue Room?

Cailloux was a contemporary of Courbet

who was considerably more gifted.

This is a painting of the cliffs at Etretat

cleverly titled, The Cliffs at Etretat.

It is a minor work.

What's it doing here?

It was on loan from the Musee d'Orsay

to the National Gallery.

The President, on a visit to the National Gallery

and possessing even less taste in fine art

than you have in accessories

announced that he liked the painting.

The French government offered it as a gift to the White House

I suppose in retribution for Eurodisney

so here it hangs like a gym sock on a shower rod.

You're a snob.

Yes.

President: I'd stay on the phone

with Cashman and Berryhill.

They're going to know when the F-16s have painted him

before I will.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Thank you.

When I was in tenth grade

me and my friends took my father's Ford Country Squire

on a joyride to Vermont.

He locked me in the garage till Easter.

What do you think we should do with this pilot

once we get his ass on the ground?

You think that's going to happen?

No.

Mr. President, they've asked me to talk to you

about your Christmas cards.

They want to know which ones you'll to sign by hand

and which ones get autopen.

I'm going to sign them all by hand.

Sir, we went through this last year.

I'm going to sign them all by hand.

I'm not sure that's practical.

I don't like the whole idea

of the autopen.

Let's do them by hand.

How many can there be?

How many am I sending out?

1,110,000.

Seriously?

Yes, sir.

I'm sending out 1.1 million Christmas cards?

It's a three- tier system.

There are about 1,000 names

on the First Family's list.

Then there are about 100,000

campaign workers and contributors.

Who are the other million?

You send a card to everyone who writes

a letter to the White House.

I do? Yes, sir

and around a million people wrote you.

Okay, but some of those were death threats.

They've weeded those out.

Well, I'm not signing 1.1 million cards.

I wouldn't think so.

Leo: Mr. President.

1.1 million cards?

Yes, sir.

Sir?

Situation Room.

What happened?

He was dead.

The pilot?

Robert Cano, yeah.

Leo came and told me.

What had you found out about him?

What do you mean?

You were supposed to learn about the pilot

and brief the President.

I didn't learn anything.

Well, you must have learned something.

There wasn't time.

It was maybe 20 minutes

between when I got the assignment

and when Leo came in.

How'd he die?

Cano? Yeah.

He crashed into a mountain, Stanley.

No, I mean, was it 'cause he lost oxygen?

Did you have to shoot him down?

This was on the front page of the newspapers.

It wasn't on the front page

of the sports section, so...

It's over.

The F-16?

Yeah. It went into a mountain north of Mexico City.

Was the pilot alive when it crashed?

Yes.

We know that for sure, or we're just...?

There was a radio communication.

Yeah. From the pilot?

What did he say?

He said, "It wasn't the plane."

That's it?

Yeah.

Okay.

So, what do you know?

The same things you know.

He's from Tallahassee.

He trained at Laughlin on T-37s.

Keyworth: What else?

Stanley...

What else did you know?

I didn't know anything.

I knew his name.

I knew his rank.

Uh, I knew where he trained.

I knew his missions.

What else?

We had the same birthday.

That's right.

And what else?

He's got some medals.

One of them's a...

Purple Heart.

For what?

His plane was shot at over Bosnia.

It caught fire, he ejected...

( screaming and gunshots )

...and there were some injuries.

( screaming and gunshots continue )

Keyworth: That's right, Josh.

That's right.

Toby? Yeah?

Bagpipes?

Yeah.

You put bagpipes in the lobby?

Not just any bagpipes, Josh.

Those guys are the Duncan McTavish Clarney

Highland Bagpipe Regiment.

They're a bagpipe regiment.

They're three guys from Delaware

but they can play.

Two weeks ago, it was a brass quintet.

Yesterday, it was the Capital Blue Plate Banjo Band.

Capital Bluegrass Banjo Brigade

and those guys were featured on local news.

They're pretty loud.

The bagpipes?

Yeah.

That's 'cause the shepherds

would need to call in the goats

from high atop the hills.

Shepherds herd sheep.

They don't do it in Delaware

and these guys can't play in the lobby.

The money that people toss in their cases

will go to buy band uniforms

for the St. Mary's Assumption Marching Red Raiders.

Toby, I'm not kidding.

These guys have a 14-song repertoire.

I can hear the damn sirens all over the building.

The bagpipes.

Josh?

The bagpipes.

They can't play in the lobby.

Toby? Yeah?

Can you hang on a second? Carol?

I met with Bernard Thatch

of the White House Visitors' Office.

Carol: He didn't like my shoes.

C.J.: He said the Secret Service

took a report from a woman

who had some kind of episode on a tour?

C.J.?

Hang on. I should really glance at that report.

Could you get it for me?

Toby, if I could ask the SPR a question...

Would it be possible

to hold the noise down out here?!

Donna: Do you need something?

Josh: I need the CBO spec.

Donna: It's on your desk.

It's like a damn hockey game out here.

Keyworth: Did you know at this point

that there were people

who were concerned about you?

I don't...

I'm not really comfortable with that question.

I mean, concerned with your behavior.

I understand what you meant.

If you look back to the days following the pilot

do you remember anything unusual about your behavior?

No.

Why do you think your friends were saying that?

This is incredibly prosecutorial.

I don't care.

I think if you want to know what my friends were thinking

and why they were thinking it

you should talk to my friends.

I did.

So I gather.

What was going on on the 19th?

The 19th of this month?

Five days ago.

Stanley, to say what was going on on the 19th...

the number of things that go on here

during a day...

Name some things that went on five days ago.

C.J.? C.J.? C.J.?

Yeah?

What are you doing? Eating lunch.

Why is... Something's strange about this photograph.

Listen, why is there no more information

coming about Robert Cano?

It's not the photograph, it's the painting in the photograph.

Why has there been no new information?

'Cause there's no new information.

Okay.

There isn't. You accept that?

Yeah. A perfectly healthy

Air Force pilot kills himself and nobody's asking why?

A lot of people are asking why, we just don't know why

except that he obviously

wasn't perfectly healthy anymore.

All right. Hang on.

Look at this picture.

Does something in this picture look familiar?

It's a man holding a little girl.

Look behind the man on the wall.

The painting. Yeah.

Yeah.

It looks familiar?

It's the same one that's hanging

outside the Blue Room.

Are you kidding?

I need information.

I'm going to the Blue Room.

Yo-Yo Ma rules.

She wouldn't shut up about Yo-Yo Ma.

You don't like the cello?

I like the cello fine.

You asked me what was going on that day

and one of the things that was going on was

that Donna wouldn't shut up about Yo-Yo Ma.

Who was playing at the Christmas party.

Yes.

Now the day of that party

you had a meeting at the Oval Office.

Probably. No.

You did. Okay.

You don't remember having a meeting

in the Oval Office that day?

It's not unusual for me to meet with the President

in the Oval Office five or ten times a day.

The meeting I'm talking about wasn't usual.

Stanley... Come on.

You're pissed at Sam, you're pissed at Toby

you're pissed at C.J., you're pissed at Donna.

Who's next?

Sam: Sir, last year

New England had 16.3 million barrels

of commercial inventory.

This year they have six.

Nobody was next.

I don't know what you heard about this meeting

but it wasn't even my meeting.

President: OPEC will find a way

to punish us.

The Saudis have announced that they'd welcome

the U.S. tapping into the SPR to calm the market.

Even the Saudis think the price is too high.

If the Saudis are that concerned, why don't they just make oil faster?

They're not that concerned.

I didn't think so.

It was Sam's meeting. He wanted the President

to get together with his energy economic advisors on the SPR.

I was only there for political perspective.

What does that mean?

There are only two things

that ever stop the government from doing anything:

money or politics.

So you were there to say

you thought it was a bad idea politically?

Yeah.

Yeah. Did you think it was?

Did you say so?

I'm paid to say so.

What'd you say?

I told him to...

You're not going to understand it.

I'm a fairly well-educated guy.

You need to understand the background.

Did you raise your voice?

To the President?

Yeah.

No.

Okay.

You don't raise your voice

to the President.

Okay.

You certainly don't do it in the Oval Office.

Okay.

There's always lively discussion

and the President's informal with his staff

but there's a line you don't cross.

Ever. You don't ever cross that line.

President: Let's set up a meeting.

Sam: Sir, can I say... You sold me.

We're setting up a meeting.

Excellent.

Can I say I think it's a bad idea?

Why?

It's not something Didion's going to like.

Well, I'm just talking about a meeting

but if I decide to do it, the President

controls the SPR and not Congress.

But Didion controls the IMF vote.

The two aren't related.

Let's move on. The two are related.

How?

Through Didion.

I'm saying the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

and forgiving the IMF debt are not related.

Anything else?

Of course they're related. Josh!

If Didion doesn't like that we're tapping into the SPR

he won't let the IMF debt out of committee.

We'll talk to him tonight.

At the Christmas party, we'll take him aside.

No, sir, you can't just take him aside.

We can't move on... Josh, we can move on...

Josh...

We can't just take him aside!

If we tell him we need his help

then we give him visibility and power

we put him in a position to say no

and be a hero to his party

and who wouldn't want to do that for a living?

Didion's a good guy. We can talk to him.

You need to listen to me.

You have to listen to me.

I can't help you unless you listen to me.

You can't send Christmas cards to everyone, you can't!

Forget the SPR. Let's get the IMF loans

like we said we were going to.

Listen to what I have to say about Didion

and please listen to me!

Josh...

All right, let's move on.

Leo: Josh, go wait in my office, would you?

I suppose if it's just a meeting...

Wait in my office, would you?

Okay.

President: We'll talk to Didion tonight?

Leo: Yeah.

By the way

it's not intervention in a free market

if that's what he's worried about.

I agree.

It's not free trade if the price of oil

is being controlled by a cartel.

Sam, you'll be in on this?

Yes, sir. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. President.

( door closes )

Have you ever heard of ATVA?

Leo...

Have you?

I think I should go back in there.

It's the American Trauma Victims Association. Leo...

We call them in to treat trauma victims.

I know what ATVA is. Specifically we use them...

You're going to sit with the guy.

Leo...

You're going to sit with the guy.

If this is because of what I said in there, I wasn't at my best.

Josh, I'm not sure you were fully conscious

while you were saying it.

Keyworth: Well, thank God for Leo.

Josh: Yeah.

I'm serious.

The man's an alcoholic.

He knew what he was talking about.

I'm not sure it was as bad as maybe it was...

It was.

Stanley, you can ask the questions

or you can answer them

but you can't do both at the same time.

Yes, I can.

Why?

Because I know the answers

and I don't work for you.

Is there going to be a...?

How'd you cut your hand?

Stanley...

No, how'd you do it?

I put a glass down.

Yeah, I don't think you did.

Stanley, I got home from the thing

I made a drink.

I sat down.

I pushed the magazine aside

to use as a coaster.

I missed the coaster.

You missed the coaster with quite a bit of force.

I work out when I can.

I swear, I am completely unimpressed with clever answers.

And I was so hoping we'd have a second date.

You're in nine kinds of pain.

You don't know what's going on inside of you

and you are so locked into damage control that you can't...

You diagnosed me in eight hours?

Josh, I diagnosed you in five minutes.

Talk about the night of the party.

( knocking )

Man: Mr. Lyman, are you in there?

Keyworth: You said you put down the glass

when you came home from a party that night.

Yeah, the Congressional Christmas Party.

( knocking )

Mr. Lyman?

The Congressional Christmas Party was white tie

which is unusual, but the President likes it.

You look good, Charlie.

I didn't know people dressed like this anymore.

I've brought it back.

Yes, sir.

Like Woodrow Wilson and top hats.

We're not going to wear top hats with this, are we, sir?

No.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mr. President.

Charlie, this is how statesmen dress.

This is how they dress at times of occasion.

Yes, sir. It's regal.

Yes, sir.

Eagle's moving.

Hello, I'm sorry to keep you waiting.

C.J., this is

Rebecca Housman and her son David.

I'm C.J. Cregg. David. We spoke on the phone.

Yes.

Mrs. Housman, I'm C.J. Cregg.

I'm the White House Press Secretary.

Does she understand me?

A little.

This is your painting.

Your father was Augie Housman?

Yes.

He was an art collector.

Mostly of minor impressionists

that nobody else really cared that much about.

He was a French Jew.

And the Vichy laws stripped him of his property.

Yeah.

Well, best as we can tell

the Nazis sold the painting to a Swiss dealer

sometime after your grandfather perished at Auschwitz.

It made its way to the Musee d'Orsay

then to the National Gallery where the President spotted it.

We've contacted the French...

who promptly surrendered...

who wanted to settle this matter amicably.

We'd like you to have

our sincere apology

as well, of course, as the painting back.

Thank you.

Well...

you've made an old woman and her son very happy.

David, do you happen to know

what your grandfather paid for it originally?

It would've been about the equivalent

of 300 dollars U.S.

Yes, that's about right.

Would you explain to your mother

that I've had the painting appraised

and it's worth about 400,000 now?

You should also tell her that if she likes

we'd be honored

to continue hanging the painting

and the longer we do

the higher it'll appreciate.

No.

Officers McDaniel and Smith from the Park Police

are going to escort you home.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

You see, you try very hard to be mean

but then you see that being nice is better.

You're a freakish little woman.

So that moment's over.

Yes.

Oh, Josh, Sam said the Didion meeting went well.

Yeah, we'll support a LIEHEAP subsidy

for air conditioning in the Texas 23rd.

'Cause it's Christmas?

Yeah.

We're starting in five minutes.

Yeah.

( music playing )

Josh: What was the diagnosis?

Keyworth: I'm sorry?

Josh: You said you diagnosed me

after five minutes.

What was the diagnosis?

You have post traumatic stress disorder.

Well, that doesn't really sound like something they let you have

if you work for the President.

So, can-can we have it be something else?

Seriously, I think... I think you might

be wrong about that.

I'm not trying to be difficult.

I don't think you are.

I know that I'm giving you cocky answers

Listen... and I should be...

I know you want me to talk about my feelings.

No, I don't, Josh.

The last thing I want you to do

is talk about your feelings.

I think if you heard

a tape recording of this day, you wouldn't hear

the word "feelings."

What we need to get you to do

is be able to remember the shooting without reliving it

and you have been reliving it.

President: We have polling that indicates that if Johann Sebastian Bach

were alive today, he would've voted for me.

( guests laughing )

Right?

It happened during the Christmas party.

I'm not trying to give you cocky answers, I'm really not.

I am the guy you tell, Josh.

It happened at the Christmas party.

President: ...the Bach Suite in G Major.

Please join me in welcoming Yo-Yo Ma.

Josh...

I was fine.

Josh...

It was... the Bach G Major.

( playing Suite in G Major )

Keyworth: It's a nice piece.

Josh: It is.

Did he play it well?

It's Yo-Yo Ma.

I've never heard him in person.

Well, it's really...

it's really quite something.

( music continues )

How did it start?

I don't know.

Yes, you do.

I was-I was just sitting there.

( music continues )

And then what happened?

I don't know.

What, are you in the fourth grade?

I don't know how it started.

You tasted something bitter in your mouth.

( screaming, gunshots )

It was adrenaline.

The bitter taste was the adrenaline.

( screaming continues )

What happened then?

( music, screaming and gunshots continue )

I couldn't make it stop.

( music, screaming and gunshots continue )

( music, screaming and gunshots continue )

( sirens blaring )

( music and screaming continue)

We got a single gunshot wound.

BP is 90 palp.

( music continues )

( sirens blaring )

( screaming continues )

( sirens blaring )

( music continues )

( sirens blaring )

I couldn't make it stop.

No, you couldn't, Josh

but you'd been trying for three weeks

and that's why you were feeling sick inside.

What happened when you went home that night?

( knocking )

Mr. Lyman, are you in there?

And you had an episode at the party.

That afternoon, you had blown up in the Oval Office.

What happened when you went home that night?

Honestly, nothing.

Okay.

I sat down on the couch.

Can you honestly tell me that when the pilot committed suicide...

I pushed a magazine aside to use as a coaster...

Can you honestly tell me

that you didn't wonder if you were suicidal, too?

I didn't wonder that.

You're lying. I didn't wonder that.

With everything you two had in common?

We had nothing in common.

You knew you had the same birthday.

You knew something else. Who gives a damn if we had...?

Stanley...

You knew he had been shot down once, that his plane

had caught on fire, that he had ejected

that there were some injuries.

Stanley, I made myself a drink.

I pushed aside a magazine...

Josh!

...to use as a coaster.

Josh... how did you cut your hand?

( music playing )

( music continues )

( knocking ) Mr. Lyman, it's the super.

( music continues )

( knocking ) Mr. Lyman, are you okay in there?

Mr. Lyman?

Okay, then.

Okay, then?

That's that.

I'm cured?

Yeah, Josh, you're cured.

No problem. Stanley...

I'll recommend a therapist you'll like.

I like you.

You're too easy a case for me.

I broke a window.

Yeah, stop doing that.

I want to commend you

on not hurting anybody else

and not hurting yourself too badly

but, nevertheless, stop doing that.

And that'll do the trick?

Yeah.

I'm-I'm getting shortchanged here.

Merry Christmas, Josh.

We're done.

I'll call your office

after the holidays and give you a number.

It was nice meeting you.

Hang on.

What happens if tomorrow

some pilot with my birthday decides to kill himself?

Oh, that wasn't what started it.

What started it?

You were already cooking

for a few hours before the pilot.

I was?

Usually with a gunshot victim

it's, uh, a car backfiring

or, uh, a twig snapping

but that's not what it was with you.

What was it?

Kaytha?

The music.

The brass quintet.

Why would the music have started it?

Well, I know it's going to sound like I'm telling you

that 2 + 2 equals a bushel of potatoes

but at this moment, in your head

music is the same thing as...

As sirens.

Yeah.

So that's...

going to be my reaction every time I hear music?

No.

Why not?

Because...

we get better.

All the same, I need some more therapy.

Oh, you're going to get some.

I mean now.

Merry Christmas, Josh.

We could order pizza.

( laughing )

Have a good night.

Stanley, I haven't told you my dreams yet.

Fax them over to me.

Merry Christmas.

How'd it go?

Did you wait around for me?

How'd it go?

He thinks I may have an eating disorder...

Josh...

...and a fear of rectangles.

That's not weird, is it?

I didn't cut my hand on a glass.

I broke a window in my apartment.

This guy's walking down the street

when he falls in a hole.

The walls are so steep, he can't get out.

A doctor passes by and the guy shouts up

"Hey, you! Can you help me out?"

The doctor writes a prescription

throws it down in the hole and moves on.

Then a priest comes along, and the guy shouts up

"Father, I'm down in this hole. Can you help me out?"

The priest writes out a prayer

throws it down in the hole and moves on.

Then a friend walks by.

"Hey, Joe, it's me. Can you help me out?"

And the friend jumps in the hole.

Our guy says, "Are you stupid?

Now we're both down there."

The friend says, "Yeah, but I've been down here before

and I know the way out."

Long as I got a job, you got a job, do you understand?

You wrapped that yourself, right?

The bandage?

Yeah. Yeah.

Donna's going to take you to the emergency room.

She knows?

She was the one who guessed.

I don't need the emergency room.

Come on, it could be infected.

You could have a thing.

How the hell do I know? What thing?

Leo...

Let's go.

I'll see you later.

Okay.

( sighing )

I don't need a doctor.

Are you a doctor?

No.

Then be quiet.

( carolers singing "Carol of the Bells )

( singing continues )

( singing continues )

Josh?

Yeah.

Let's go.

Okay.

( singing continues )

( siren in distance )