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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 )