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Previously on The West Wing:

Seventeen schoolgirls were forced to burn alive

because they weren't wearing the proper clothing.

Am I outraged?

That is Saudi Arabia, our partners in peace.

C.J. Cregg? Yeah.

I'm Special Agent Simon Donovan.

I'm with the Treasury Department, U.S. Secret Service.

You don't get to put a bomb in Iran.

There are no other issues on the table right now.

How can you be sure it's not a rogue thing?

First of all, from how far away can you do this?

I can respect a certain perimeter of privacy.

What does that mean?

I don't need to see you naked or anything. Okay.

Welcome back.

We are back.

And it was a success.

It was.

What'd you bring me?

I brought you a collector's plate

of a moose racing through the woods.

I love moose. I know how you do.

Bonnie, you get a hat with a moose on it.

You like a good hotel gift shop, don't you?

I do.

GINGER: What do they eat in Helsinki?

They eat moose.

You ate a moose?

No. I don't like eating things

where the cartoon character can talk

and, you know, hatch a plan.

Yeah.

I'm going to go to bed.

I just came back for mail messages.

Yeah, Crane from U.P.I. needs a call back tonight

about Segal for Ways and Means.

Mrs. Bartlet would like you

to go over her remarks to the I.B.E.W.

and the Whip's office called about one-minutes on the floor tomorrow.

What's this?

I don't know. It's marked "personal."

You don't know who sent it?

There's no return address.

Think it's porn?

I don't know.

'Cause I'm pretty tired

but if it's porn I mean, really good porn...

By the way if my innocent joking's

making you uncomfortable in any way...

No. I'm hoping it's porn.

No. You understand?

I'm driving myself home.

You want to follow me in a chase car, that's fine.

But you have been annoying me for six days.

You annoyed me here for three days

then you annoyed me in Finland.

You're quiet, you're polite

and you're... you're there.

You're always there.

I can't shake you.

You followed me to Scandinavia and back.

Well, that's...

Don't give me the "Aw shucks" answer.

"Well, that's my job, ma'am."

And don't call me ma'am.

Don't call me ma'am, don't call me Ms. Cregg.

This isn't a western.

I'm required to call you ma'am or Ms. Cregg.

There are rules and regulations.

Okay, okay, secret agent man

here's my rules and regulations--

I'm getting in my baby blue

'65 Mustang convertible

and I'm going to feel the wind in my hair

and any place else I want.

You can look at my taillights.

I think I'm not allowed to do that either.

I will see you at home!

Okay!

There's no way you're letting me walk out the door.

So what is it we're doing?

I'm sorry?

What's your plan for me?

I don't have a plan.

Are you going to let me drive myself home?

No.

I've got your spark plug.

Is that what you meant?

You've got my spark plug?

And the battery.

Also the fuel pump, starter relay

timing belt, the ignition fuse

and, well, also the engine, I guess.

Did you leave me anything?

Wiper fluid.

You can clean your windshield.

No, actually, you need the battery.

Yeah.

C.J., listen.

Yeah.

This just came in the mail.

It's an opposition spot.

What are you talking about?

MAN: Honor, morality, truth.

Values we deserve in America's house.

Throwing mud to cover up his failure.

Refusing to sign a clean campaign pledge

so he won't have to defend his broken promises.

Jed Bartlet.

What's he hiding from us now?

Who sent you this?

That's the thing.

What?

I don't know.

Good morning.

My man.

Yes.

You came back to me.

Just like I promised.

I missed you.

When did you find you missed me the most?

The nights.

Of course.

Did you bring me anything?

I did.

Where is it?

It should be in my office.

Wow.

Open it.

I'm just happy it's not moose.

What is it?

Moose.

It's sauna-smoked moose meat.

Nicely packaged in a burnt pine box.

The hinges are made from hand-woven Lapland ribbons.

I missed you so much.

Where am I supposed to be right now?

The basement. Office C.

MAN: Throwing mud to cover up his failure.

Refusing to sign a clean campaign pledge

so he won't have to defend his broken promises.

Jed Bartlet.

What's he hiding from us now?

No "paid for by" tag line.

You've looked at it three times now.

What are you thinking?

If I wanted to sink the Bartlet campaign

this is exactly the ad I'd run.

In May?

No, but I would show it

to the other side to let them know what happens

if they hit me first.

Every campaign has one in the drawer.

We didn't.

TOBY AND SAM: Yes, we did.

"Honor, truth, morality."

It's an ad about M.S.

Do we make up a counter and keep it in a drawer?

I'll take care of it.

Did you see this? I saw it last night.

I'm going to talk to the Counsel's office.

You think it goes to the FBI?

If this was stolen, I don't want Sam to end up

like the girlfriend of an indicted senator.

C.J.: Do you have any reason

to believe it was stolen?

No. How can he be an accomplice to a crime

he had no reason to believe occurred?

You want to find out?

No.

We shouldn't go to the FBI, yet.

More than likely, it's multi-jurisdictional...

No, I'm saying we shouldn't go to law enforcement.

It's going to seem like

we're trying to suck the FBI

into investigating Ritchie

and the FBI works for us.

He's got a point.

Plus, we're all tainted.

Just stick it in a drawer

and forget it.

No.

JOSH: What are you suggesting?

I sit down with Kevin Kahn.

No.

No.

SAM: Bruno?

I'm sorry?

What do you think about

I sit down with Kevin Kahn?

Oh. No.

Sam...

He's a friend of mine.

I don't care if he did your bris.

I don't trust Kevin Kahn

and I don't know what this is yet.

What is the danger? What is the danger?

Where is the danger in my sitting down with Kevin

and saying someone sent this to us?

If it's you, we've got our own in a drawer

and if it's someone else, you've got a mole

and we don't want anything to do with it.

How do we lose in court, in public

in the voting booth?

There are only two things here.

Either somebody's trying to hurt us

or somebody's trying to help us.

Just so you know.

Would you talk to Leo?

Yeah.

I have a meeting.

Apologize for the skyboxes.

They weren't that bad.

I was there.

How was Helsinki?

Good. Good.

I accidentally ate a moose.

Let me look at this again, okay?

Morning.

ALL: Good morning.

Listen, I've got an idea for a new kind of award show.

You should tell your entertainment divisions about this.

At the moment the winner's name is called

the four nominees who didn't win

drop through a trap door right under their seats.

Am I crazy or is that not pretty good television?

( chuckling )

Speaking of good television...

Yes, I've been asked by Bruno Gianelli

to apologize for the skyboxes in Miami.

We'll do better at the Garden.

Well, what about spinners?

Last time you were all staffing the President

and there was no one

to speak to during the big speeches.

We've got a better surrogate program this time.

Governors, some of the big mayors

some of us will be available to you

and some of us

still have to staff the President.

We come directly to you if we need more floor passes.

Absolutely.

We, uh, should really be talking about programming.

We have to? Yes.

And we have to call it programming?

Call it what you like; we call it programming.

The panels were a little dry last time.

Two panels

on deficit reduction.

( chuckles )

Monday night we've got real people

the President's met across the country

reading planks from the platform.

Scott O'Leary's

doing the keynote.

The Harlem Boys Choir is singing the national anthem.

Tuesday is Mrs. Bartlet and Rev. Lydell.

We've got a panel with women senators

on biomedical research, breast cancer breakthroughs

medical privacy issues...

Look, uh, a Dean Martin roast itain't, but...

We're talking about cutting back on our coverage.

You only covered two hours a night last time.

How much more can...

We're talking about an hour.

( chuckles )

You can't do an hour a night, that's just...

See, you don't understand.

We're talking about an hour for each convention.

We cover the acceptance speeches, that's it.

One of these times you guys are going to come in here

and say that and it's going to be true.

LEO: How long is it?

I don't know. Four or five hours, maybe.

You'll be fine.

They do all the Henrys?

They take all the Henrys, they do a thing

they call it War of the Roses.

I'm told by those that saw it in London

it's spectacular.

Catholic Charities bought out a Broadway theater.

We're going to go.

We're going to make some money.

Everything was fine except the part where we go.

You know why?

Because the Royal National Company's got

all the King Henrys up there.

And I'm still number one at the box office.

I love my job when you're like this.

Let me ask you something.

Which Plantagenet do I most remind you of?

You want to please...

Good morning.

ALL: Good morning, Mr. President.

FITZWALLACE: Mr. President, we have reason to believe

there'll be an attack on a U.S. military installation

sometime in the next 48 hours.

We have a credible threat.

We just got done

with Helsinki and the reactor.

Yes, sir.

How do we know?

The N.S.A.'s been monitoring web sites of the Bahji Cell

operating out of Syria.

They've been looking for picture codes

and they intercepted cellular calls.

Sir, that tracks with what our advisors in Kazakhstan

gave us earlier this morning.

And the Russians are holding a prisoner in Chechnya

who verified it'll be military.

Which are the most vulnerable?

The Navy's Fifth Fleet

in Bahrain, Jaber Air Base, Kuwait

Prince Sultan Air Base

Incirlik

Seeb North Air Base.

General?

I'd like to order Force Protection Delta for all bases.

Keep nonessentials off and limit troop movement.

And, Admiral...

Yeah, sir, I'd like

all carriers and destroyers into harbor

where can give them water security.

So ordered.

I don't care if you know anything new or not

I need updates every half hour for the next 48 hours.

ALL: Yes, sir.

Thank you, Mr. President.

This is obviously a negotiating position for you

so what is it you need?

You want us to vote a member of the Rules Committee

out of the convention every night or something?

The Secretary should eat a jellyfish?

You know what, sir?

Don't talk to me like I'm other people.

The four of us are news directors.

And there isn't a day that one of us isn't begging the person we work for

to let us-- for the love of Jesus Christ--

do the news.

Is the Republican nominee Rob Ritchie? Yes.

Is his running mate Jeff Heston? Yes.

And that question--

as impossible as it may be to believe--

becomes even less suspenseful

when talking about the Democratic ticket.

And will there be anything of any force or consequence

in the platform?

No. Will there be a floor fight over it?

What does it matter?

And you're getting huffed because the four of us

are questioning the wisdom

of presenting a four-day infomercial

in prime time under network news simulcast?

We'll show the acceptance speeches

and the balloons.

The balloons aren't news, but it's nice television.

Morning. Morning.

This is Donovan, 702. I've got Flamingo.

That code name's not going anywhere, is it?

Thank you, Jamie. Sleep well.

Thank you.

I'm going shopping at lunch.

Sure. Where are you going?

Does it matter?

I'd like to let the manager know

I'll be carrying a gun.

I'm taking my niece, Hogan, shopping for a dress

for her junior prom.

Okay.

You're not going to say that

Hogan's a strange name for a girl?

For a boy, too, I guess.

My older brothers are golf crazies.

Okay.

Well, this is our first time out.

This is exciting.

We're not under the umbrella of the President's protection

so there's a couple things I want to tell you.

In a populated place, a department store

I always walk ahead of you.

I don't like more than five feet between us

so if you ditch me because my back is to you

that would be too far.

Also, it would give me no choice

but to surround you with department store security

before you made it to men's accessories.

You're a very recognizable woman.

If you're surrounded by security

frankly, people are going to point and stare.

Anything else, Agent Sunshine?

It's Special Agent Sunshine, but that couldn't matter less.

At the risk of being un-gentlemanly

I can't carry bags.

My hands always have to be free.

Plus, you're not my valet.

Yeah, but I'm still growing

and I've got my eyes on the prize.

Barney's on Connecticut at 12:30.

I'm optimistic.

The stats of people being hurt while buying a prom dress

are very encouraging.

It's a junior prom.

Then you're fine.

Okay.

I'll be around.

CAROL: Good morning.

Hey.

Can I tell you about some early wires?

There's a buzz in the U.A.W.

that there's going to be...

That was a strange thing I just did.

I was telling him that I was taking Hogan shopping

for a junior prom dress.

A few moments later, he referred to the prom

and I made a point of correcting him.

Why would I do that?

I felt so unnatural while I was saying it.

You were uncomfortable with the image he had in his head

of someone who was old enough to be the aunt of someone

going to the prom.

You didn't want to be charged for the extra year.

I'd say that was ridiculous

but I also referred to my older brothers.

Yeah?

Yeah, but isn't that the kind of thing you do

when you meet a guy and you're... ?

Never mind.

It was obviously some kind of left brain hip check.

I'll take care of it.

Okay, the United Auto Workers.

Yes, talk to me about them.

Josh. Hey, Martha.

I'm sorry to bother you.

I know you have, like, a million other things to do.

We have a record It's no pof you receiving a gift

from the Finnish Office of Protocol.

Some sauna-cured meat.

Moose meat.

Yeah. Showed up on eBay.

What are you talking about?

Well, you know that's a no-no, right?

I... yeah. I gave it to...

Who?

Nobody.

I'm sorry, Martha. I'll take care of it.

Thank you. You can get back to your real job.

MARGARET: The Washington Times tomorrow

is printing their annual list of assistants' salaries.

Where do they get the information?

The White House has to submit it

to a Postal and Treasury subcommittee

and it traditionally gets leaked by the opposition party.

And a lot of us were thinking

that instead of giving the press a reason to write a story

we'd hold off on the bitching

about how little we're paid for a month

so that we can deal with it the way it should be dealt with

which is with our bosses.

Okay, so no matter what it says tomorrow

it's a privilege to serve our country.

Try not to everybody use those exact words.

I wasn't here last year.

The press really cares what assistants have to say?

We're not assistants in this kind of story.

We're White House staffers, or prominent Democrats

with close ties to the President. Got it.

Thank you. Thanks.

Jo-Jo?

Good morning.

Did you try the moose meat?

I didn't, and I'll tell you why.

I'm saving it for a...

It's up to 180 bucks on eBay.

eBay? Look...

I don't understand.

I don't need to tell you that you can't sell...

I gave it to an intern.

You did?

I'm sorry. I appreciated you giving it to me

but if I'm going to eat a moose

there's going to have to be

some kind of prize at the end of it.

Who's the intern?

Well, how about if I'd rather not say?

Donna.

Come on, I'll take care of it.

Fire the intern.

Hey.

Hey.

You want phone messages?

Yeah.

Daniel Harris, the Deputy Whip's office

Kevin Kahn, your father...

Kevin? Yeah.

He just called?

Yeah.

Get him back.

I have Sam Seaborn returning for Mr. Kahn.

Line four.

Kevin.

Fine.

You're just calling?

You couldn't have called at a better time.

1:00 at Old Ebbitt, okay?

Ginger...

Yeah?

I have a lunch.

We're expanding the potential target list.

To include what?

Holy hell.

Dover Air Force Base and Fort Myer.

How could they possibly have the capability

to strike a U.S. base?

We're not sure

but we've processed calls through a VR program.

They identified Muhammed Sabeh

a Bahji Cell leader.

Leo, he doesn't have a history

of empty rhetoric.

What would they be striking with?

The calls refer to weaponry

that was smuggled in.

We don't know what kind or what level of force.

Why would they pick those two?

There are a couple dozen bases on the seaboard

that are bigger than Dover and Fort Myer.

Why not the Carolinas?

That has us concerned.

The only thing those two bases have in common

is their proximity to another military headquarters.

PRESIDENT: The two Henry IV's, Henry V

three Henry the VI's and Henry the VIII.

You understand this is nontraditional Shakespeare?

What does that mean? It sounds modern.

The director uses music and song

and other theatrical devices along the way.

Well, it doesn't sound bad.

No.

Let me ask you something. Yes?

If Shakespeare wrote a play about me

how many parts do you think it would be?

Sir?

Think about it.

Yes, sir.

N.S.A. has new cellular intercepts.

The list of possible targets now includes

Dover and Delaware, and Fort Myer in Maryland.

And they're close to putting the White House on the list.

What are we doing?

Combat Air Patrol's over DC

and we've vectored aircraft away from the district.

Mr. President?

I want you to start getting yourself into a mental place

where you can order an unidentified plane shot down.

We're sealing a one-mile perimeter.

Fitz is about to call you

and ask you to put the Coast Guard on alert

for the Atlantic.

We're leaning on Arab intelligence sources.

They're not what they used to be.

We're leaning on them?

Yes, sir.

We have to talk about the bunker.

I'm not going to the bunker... Sir.

I'm not going to the bunker.

It sends a terrible sign.

I'm sitting in this room.

Ron and I have been through this...

You haven't been through it with me.

I'm trying to tell you-- if the time comes

they're not going to give you a choice.

You're telling me that the Secret Service...

you're telling me my own body guards

are going to escort me to the bunker?

Your feet may touch the ground a couple of times along the way

but I doubt it.

I know you said you didn't want taffeta

but what do you think?

I think it's great except for the taffeta.

Do you like this?

Oh, it's a little pink.

Aunt C.J., stop looking at the Vera Wangs.

Why?

'Cause they cost a month's salary.

But I'm the cool aunt.

This is what I do.

Look at this.

Oh, good gracious-- black silk couture gown.

I'd have to be

five-eleven to look good in that.

As luck would have it, that's my height exactly.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

I'm just going to take this one, too.

What is it that you look for exactly?

You know it when you see it.

What do you mean?

Look this way.

Now look this way.

Now look this way.

Now look this way.

Now look at me.

What did you see?

Uh... over here

there was a mother with two kids.

Over here there was a man in a coat

and I can't remember what else.

Over here, I can't remember.

And over here was the checkout counter.

And there were some people there

and I can't remember what else.

Anything bother you?

No.

What about the guy in the coat?

What about him?

It's May.

Why is he wearing a coat?

I don't know. I don't know either

but until one of us leaves the store

I'm always going to know where he is.

So you're always looking.

Yeah. We're actually not supposed to talk that much.

Sorry.

So what would it take

for you to brandish your weapon?

What?

I mean, excuse me?

What would it take right now

for you to just reach in and brandish your weapon?

Something pretty extraordinary.

How long have you been with the Secret Service?

Well, I went to college

basically on an Army scholarship

which means that after you get out

you have to serve a certain number of years.

Then I was with the Chicago Police force for a few years

and I've been with the Secret Service

for the last nine.

Have you ever brandished your weapon?

Yes.

Have you ever fired it?

Yes.

What?

I'm just trying to think of when in the last nine years

an agent would have had to fire his gun

unless you...

You were at Rosslyn.

Well, you're a good guy.

I'm sorry, am I not allowed to touch you?

No, it's okay.

Aunt C.J., you're not going to believe this.

What?

Hogan, we're going to tell her another time, okay?

Okay.

Is Simon bothering you?

No.

If he is, if he ever does

I want you to shriek at the top of your lungs, okay?

Okay.

Hey, Stacy.

Margaret.

I thought Margaret was the girl

who worked here before.

I'm the girl who worked here before.

I'm Margaret.

You changed your hair.

No.

Come on in.

Someone asked me to give this to you.

The CEQ is waiting for me

down the hall.

Two precinct captains from Iowa want jobs in Commerce.

What do you think?

I don't care.

But Andrew Jackson said

if there's a job that can't be done by a Democrat

let's abolish the job.

Okay.

C.J. says A.P. asked

for his transcript, and he said no.

Why?

He took a semester of tap.

Seriously. I don't know.

I'll ask him.

Thanks.

And, uh, about the Iowa thing...

You may not get an answer today, okay?

I don't want to give him too much knucklehead stuff.

Every time you say something like that, I buy canned goods.

What's with this tape?

You don't want to see it on television.

What? I said you don't want

to see it on TV.

See you later.

Mr. Gianelli.

You can call me Bruno.

KAHN: You sounded funny on the phone.

No, I was just surprised you called.

Why?

I don't know.

What do you think of the idea of the two of us

having lunch or coffee once a month?

We can be emissaries.

We can maybe help keep things

under control if it gets bad.

I think it's a good idea.

How do you feel

about getting your candidate

to sign the Clean Campaign pledge?

My candidate's the President.

Yes, he is.

I apologize.

When was the last time we saw a genuine dialogue?

McKinley v. Bryan.

So what if instead

of the Cross of Gold speech...

I'm sorry about the thing.

What thing?

The open mike.

I'm not talking about that.

I think you are.

Sam, it was not that big a deal.

Most of us laughed about it.

Really?

Yeah.

Look, something's happened, and I want to tell you about it.

What?

Somebody made an attack ad and sent me a copy.

Which one's getting attacked?

The President.

They sent it to you? Yeah.

This is "Morality, Truth..." Yeah.

We've seen it.

You've got a mole.

We don't need it.

We don't want it.

Thank you.

I'll get to the bottom of this.

Hello.

Hello.

It's wrong of you to make me fire the intern.

I'll fire him.

No.

Why?

First of all, it was moose sausage

not the prints to Los Alamos.

And this is the White House, and not Williams-Sonoma.

He's an intern.

He's makes nothing. He has to pay rent.

He can't do it this way.

And I'll make that clear to him, but he shouldn't be fired.

And you know why?

'Cause 20 years ago

75% of the people who graduated

from the Kennedy School of Government took jobs

in public service.

Last year, it was a third.

We need these people.

All right.

Look, when Martha-- was it Martha?

Yes.

When Martha came to you, and you thought it was me

you wouldn't give her my name, right?

Yes. So let me just...

I said all right five minutes ago.

I was just underlining my point.

Nicely done.

Okay, I'm through.

Excellent.

BRUNO: We could guarantee them a floor fight.

Really?

A good one.

For four nights?

Whatever.

Okay.

You got a better idea?

What about corporate sponsorship?

You think?

Why are people footing the bill for this anyway?

The Nabisco Democratic National Convention?

It's better than four nights of professional wrestling.

How much better? I don't know.

I wouldn't mind hitting some of the people.

I can make it look it real.

This is ridiculous.

I'm telling you, they are not really...

I was in the room.

They are not serious.

I was in the room.

And he talks, and he wants

to get these things off his chest, but in the end

if we had Tiny Tim and Miss, uh... Miss Whats-her-name

doing the roll call

they would cover it like that.

So, let's give them a little bit of a...

There's a... A little bit

of what they want.

Like what?

Well, me--

I like animals that can do math.

You want to help?

I'm not that worried.

I was in the room!

And I don't believe it is possible

that these four people got together

and decided anything.

Wait a second.

How is it possible that these four people

got together and decided something?

I mean, how-how is it possible

that they got together and agreed?

The penny drops.

Bonnie?

I still think it was about

the skyboxes.

Yeah.

Get me David Wolczek at the Justice Department.

Yeah.

The FBI says a Bahji communication was traced

to Khaled Madani

which is one of 11 AKAs used by Abdul Al-Yossi.

This doesn't mean anything to me.

INS says Khaled Madani's still

in this country on an expired visa.

Where?

Bethesda.

About a half hour ago

agents raided a duplex rented under his name.

There was no one there

but they found drawings and digital tape

of the National Archives

and the Supreme Court building.

FITZWALLACE: These were detailed drawings with exterior

air vents and notations of the number of guards posted.

Are we able to take a guess at where and when now?

No, sir.

( sighs )

What about Adbul Shareef?

Isn't Shareef supposed to be helping us

with intelligence out of Qumar?

He's not.

We should put the President on Marine One.

FITZWALLACE: It's not my call, but I don't think we should.

They've doubled the counter-assault

on the surrounding buildings.

If it's me, I say the President's grounded

till we know where Madani is.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Thank you, Mr. President.

I'm not going to the bunker.

There are going to be people

who aren't going to the bunker

and when I get out

I'm not going to be able to tell them what to do anymore

and I like doing that.

Let's get Abbey to New Hampshire

but I'm not going to the bunker.

And if you say I have to

then I'm walking across the alley

with the Chief Justice

and I'm handing John Hoynes my resignation.

And as soon as he's sworn in

I'm telling him to appoint me his Vice President

'cause I'm not going down to the bunker.

If the agents come, the agents come

but tell Ron he better bring more than a couple of guys.

Bruce?

Hey, Donna.

You put that thing on eBay?

Yeah, somebody bought it.

I can't believe you did that.

What?

You put something from the White House on eBay.

Do you know how embarrassing that is?

For who?

For me, Josh, the President.

For everybody who works here. For you.

I don't work here, or, more accurately

I don't get paid to work here.

I don't care.

My landlord does.

I file, copy, deliver

get coffee, get pizza and I do it for free.

And that's exactly what you signed up for.

In fact, you had to jump through 14 hoops to get the gig.

Did anybody lie to you? That doesn't matter.

That's all that matters.

You're like a college athlete justifying...

( sighs )

This is what you signed up for.

Now, you're not going to be fired

but you are going to be transferred out of the West Wing

and you're going to have to give me $210.

Why?

'Cause I'm the one who got the thing off eBay.

It's covering a check I wrote already.

I'm out $210 for free moose meat

I didn't want in the first place?

Sorry.

( sighs )

Go back to work.

What?

This.

Sam's encouraging the President

to sign the Clean Campaign pledge.

What the hell?

And they talk about the tape.

Is this all of them?

Yeah.

Excuse me.

We understand you have a counteroffer.

Yeah. You broadcast all four nights of the convention.

Why?

'Cause the public owns the airwaves

not you, and you have a legal obligation to serve the public.

The public could care less

about the nominating conventions.

So, why?

You have an FCC public obligation.

Show me a station

that's lost its license

for not running enough public interest programming.

I can't.

So, why?

'Cause if you don't

the Justice Department is going to investigate you

for anti-trust violation.

Anti-trust violations?

A joint decision not to compete for the best

convention programming.

You're accusing us

of conspiring to not show a money-losing program?

Not me so much as the Justice Department.

15 U.S.C. Section 1.

"Every contract combination or conspiracy

"in restraint of trade or commerce

"is declared to be illegal.

Every person who shall engage in any combination...."

All right, we get it.

We all have lawyers that we'll have to talk to.

Yes, no.

There isn't going to be a horse race to cover

either in New York or San Diego

but we gave you the airwaves for free

70 years ago

and 357 days a year

you can say who's up and who's down

who won the West and lost the South

but what's wrong with eight days--

not very year, but every four years--

showing our leaders talking to us?

Not a fraction of what they said

but what they said.

And then th-the balloons.

Like I said.

You have to talk to the lawyers.

Talk to the lawyers.

What'd I tell you?

About what?

About not meeting with Kevin Kahn.

He called me. It was out of the blue.

It was? We're good friends.

He wants to keep things civil. He wants to...

He leaked it to the press.

What?

Your lunch. You're wrong.

He leaked it to the press.

He's got you in favor of the pledge

and you gave him the tape.

I didn't.

This is three, four-- I don't know--

a dozen news cycles where we're playing politics and losing.

Let me be clear.

The pledge is their idea.

Any move we make on it, we lose.

Any move they make, they win.

I agree, this is bad...

and I take full responsibility.

This isn't bad, Sam.

Let me show you bad.

MAN 1: ...his failure

refusing to sign a Clean Campaign pledge

so he won't have to defend his broken promises.

MAN 2: ...for internal use only.

The Ritchie campaign reports that it had no involvement

in the production of the ad

and does not know how the Bartlet camp

might have obtained it.

The ad, alluding to President Bartlet's...

Oh, God.

It's on free media...

everywhere, all day, all night, for free.

You got played, Sam, and...

you forgot that all warfare is based on deception.

One of these times, you guys are going to listen

or you're going to find out

what the crappy end of Inauguration Day feels like.

I can't believe you did that.

I can't believe you did that!

Go to hell.

What happened with the open mike?

It was a mistake! Crap.

You said you laughed!

You think I laughed?

You said... You think I laughed?!

So, that's what this is about?

The ope... that's what this is about?!

That was my candidate

you made a punch line out of.

Is it going to happen again?

I think it will.

Yeah? Yeah.

I think it will, too.

CHARLIE: Sir?

You can send him in.

They arrested him.

Oakland, California.

The Coast Guard boarded and seized a 50-foot boat

200 yards off the Port of Oakland.

What did they find on board?

5,000 keys of ammonium nitrate, and a gallon of diesel fuel.

What was the target?

Fort Point.

That wasn't on the list.

Well, it's military, which was consistent, but decommissioned

which wasn't.

It's not a very valuable asset.

Why did they want it?

'Cause of what's above it.

The Golden Gate Bridge.

The fort fronts the anchorage

and the tie-downs of the suspension cables.

This was on the west coast.

We didn't know anything.

We knew enough.

I'm going to ask this again.

Where the hell was Shareef?

We're not entirely ready to answer that yet, sir.

What do you mean?

Well, you know we've been getting

a great deal of help from the Russians since Helsinki

and that they've

continued to interrogate the Chechnyan

who gave us the target alert

in the first place.

Yeah. The prisoner says

he worked with a Bahji operative

in Grozny who reported...

To who?

Abdul Shareef.

Are you telling me the Qumari defense minister

may have ordered an attack on the Golden Gate Bridge?

We're not ready to say.

We have a diplomatic relationship with this country.

Yes, sir.

He's coming here.

Shareef is coming here in, like, ten days, isn't he?

Yes, sir.

Get ready to say.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. President.

This is Dawson, 8:09.

I've got Flamingo.

Hey, Jamie, could you give us just a second?

Yes, ma'am.

Come here.

Me? Yes.

What were you and Hogan talking about

that you would tell me later?

I was on Eagle's protection detail

in Rosslyn.

Oh.

I didn't know that.

No, it's just...

Thank you.

I'm sorry?

I just said "thank you."

Okay.

Well, I should get going.

Have a good night.

Good night.

( sighing softly )