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Previously on The West Wing:

Andy's pregnant, it's twins

and, of course, I'm the father.

You know I'm going to get sued.

I work for Senator Hoynes.

Yeah.

Sometimes I wonder if I'd listened to you two years ago

would I be President right now?

You did it for the widow.

SAM: And for Will Bailey

who was running the campaign and worked his ass off.

You might be asked first thing tomorrow if you're endorsing me.

Am I?

Toby, is the President endorsing Sam?

We think you should run.

What do you think?

I think you should win.

C.J.: Mr. President, how do you

interpret the margin of victory?

PRESIDENT: Well, the votes have been counted

and the people have spoken, and it's clear that their will

is for me to be able to do and have anything I want.

Mr. President, Arnold White, Associated Press:

What's the first legislative priority for your second term?

There's a new guy from AP?

Yeah, what's your legislative priority?

Well the President of Turkmenistan

just officially extended the date of adolescence to 25.

So, things like that.

LEO: I think he also renamed the month of January after himself.

That's just greedy.

Real power is knowing when

to leave a little something on the table.

C.J.: Sir, what legislative...

Patients' Bill of Rights, prescription drugs

keeping the economy growing, find a surplus again

keep the surplus growing

use the surplus to build schools worthy of defending the military

that Fitz and Hutchinson are gonna build

to fight urban wars, then pay the teachers some money.

Okay, sir, I asked you for

a legislative priority, you gave me nine.

It's a big country, Arnold.

Debbie! Where the hell, first of all

are you and where are my...

You left your glasses in the mansion...

and the Ipswich clams in Chesapeake Bay

can hear you bellowing right now.

Ipswich clams don't come from Chesapeake Bay.

They come from Ipswich.

Not anymore.

Have her beheaded for my birthday.

Good morning, sir. Good morning.

They'll ask you how you feel

about housing starts going down. I don't care.

C.J.: Sir... Long as I'm keeping this one.

GDP growth is strong.

You bet your ass it is.

Which, by the way, I can pat anytime I want now.

The voters have spoken.

Lowest inflation in 20 years.

Housing starts are cyclical, which is the thing.

What do you got?

There's gonna be a lot of flooding in Missouri.

FEMA's on the ground?

Yeah. All right.

I've got the Swiss Ambassador

in my office, I don't know why.

Sir, you and I enjoy your funny jokes

but Idaho, you know, not so much.

You'll take it easy in there?

I know my people.

Yeah, sometimes it's hard to believe I'm one of 'em.

Good luck. Thank you.

Ambassador Von Rutte.

Okay.

Thank you for seeing me without an appointment.

What's going on?

A communication from Teheran.

You understand our mission is the only one...

The President appreciates it.

The ayatollah's son has a congenital heart condition

Eisenmenger's Syndrome.

His best chance is a simultaneous heart and lung transplant.

They ask Japan?

Their procedure's different.

They want yours.

What's wrong with Japan's?

Well, I don't know how to, um...

No one's...

It hasn't been successful? No.

Not once? No.

Okay, then ours is better.

Anybody else do this?

Just the U.S. and Japan.

No, Japan doesn't do it yet.

Coming close doesn't matter on this.

It's not the Gemini missions.

I'm gonna talk to the President, Chris, but if it means

bumping an American off the donor lists...

Iran has a donor.

A donor or a dissenter?

This is from Doctors Without Borders.

It wasn't directly from the ayatollah?

They were approached by the ayatollah's brother-in-law.

This is coming through you, through an NGO

through the brother-in-law.

Guy's gonna put his son's life in the hands of the infidels

but he'll keep his distance, huh?

The hard-liners control the Majlis.

Things are difficult for him with the Shehab missile tests.

He cannot have a problem with his right flank.

No, much better we should have a problem with ours.

I'll talk to him.

The President?

Don't get me wrong, Mark.

I think January is a good month.

Yeah, the President, Generalissimo...

whatever he comes back as.

( groans )

Messages.

Goodwin at AP.

What else?

Judy Vanderbass, who's the wife of our Ambassador to Vietnam.

You've been to her house for dinner.

Yeah I'm pretty sure I ate a Springer Spaniel.

Why's AP on my phone sheet?

'Cause Triplehorn told him you are the reason

there won't be a deal on prescription drugs.

I'm the reason?

"With Lyman negotiating..."

( slams folder on desk )

Yeah. I'm starting to feel

ill-will toward the minority leader.

And I've had it up to here with the Welsh. I'm not kidding.

He was campaigning with us, like, a half-hour ago.

School's back. Go see him.

Let's call that Plan A.

Plan B is you go see him.

Karen Kroft.

And National Parks screw me up again.

Yeah.

( groans )

I'm going to head up to the Leader's Office.

See if you can get me the first three minutes he has.

And Judy Vanderbass?

Let's do this: find out what her problem is, solve it

and then, I don't know, do something else.

You're the reason there are term limits.

Yeah? You're the reason...

Nothing, nothing's happening, nothing's there.

( sighs )

The view from the canvas, it's educational, you know.

Yeah, I've had extensive education.

( sighs )

What was the final... margin?

127 votes.

A hundred and twenty-seven.

That's about 12 lawn signs.

Wasn't your last election also...

82 votes.

The President says all you need is one, the rest is for ego.

Uh-huh, and how many did the President win by?

About 31/////2 million.

Yeah.

He's got a pretty healthy ego, though.

I don't know.

Maybe the job wasn't for me.

I like land, I like dirt...

I like things that live on land and dirt.

I like hotels.

I like a good concierge.

Could you be a little more sympathetic?

I'm a loser.

Not a big one.

Okay.

The President thinks there's a place for you.

That's nice of you guys.

It really is... but I was thinking about....

I don't know, I was thinking about maybe trying for a job

with the National Park Service.

Huh. We were thinking the same thing.

A job with the National Park Service?

Yeah.

As what?

The Director of the National Park Service.

Are you kidding me?

No.

You're not kidding?

No.

Is this just because...

Do you want it? Yes.

Yes.

Then get yourself a big hat

and Leo's gonna call you in a couple of hours.

Susan, Karnow and Duffy are the first three for tea.

Okay. All's well that ends well.

Karen Kroft? Yes.

National Parks Chairman? Yes.

Nice. She was very happy.

I think Andy's about to get sued for election fraud.

Andy was trying to get sued for election fraud.

Really? Yeah, she's a pistol.

C.J.: Before I forget, Susan, Karnow and Duffy

are the first three for tea with the President

at 3:00 p.m. in the Map Room.

Susan, Karnow and Duffy.

Next week it's Mark, Leslie and Eric.

MARK: Who's running Sam's campaign?

Sam's putting his team together

and I'm gonna start referring those questions

to the campaign's press office.

Let's start with John, then Katie.

REPORTER: Mr. Seaborn, how does it feel to have the nomination?

SAM: There is no nomination, there's a primary

and if someone gets 50% of the vote, there's no general.

But there are no other Democrats running

and the party's endorsing you.

Yes. So wouldn't you say you're the nominee?

I suppose you'd have to, yes.

Have you staffed the key positions yet?

I'm gonna let Will Bailey answer those questions.

Yeah, the Campaign Manager is Scott Holcomb

Finance Director is Betsy Wadkins

Communications Director is Mark Stearns...

Excuse me for a second. Can I talk to you?

Yes, sir. Political Director is Tom Baker

and the Volunteer Coordinator is Paula Montgomery.

Over here, please.

Thank you.

Hi.

Hi.

Scott's campaign manager? Yes.

What's your title?

Citizen Bailey. I'm not kidding.

I'm the Chancellor of Germany.

Not the Chancellor per se... Will, what the hell is going on?

Yeah. Your team's in the field.

What are you talking about? Yeah, Will.

Okay, you and I had this conversation

for two hours yesterday. What are you doing?

I don't think you should go.

You made that clear yesterday.

And I'm doing this now.

SAM: Will... Listen to me.

There are too many chiefs around here.

Well, I'll get rid of some of them. No, you want them.

Scott Holcomb and Betsy, these guys are the best.

We just went from 435 House races to one.

You get the all-star team.

He doesn't want the best, he wants you.

Yes, but the Republicans are starting their starters

so you got to match up.

We match up fine, and you got me into this.

Well, you got you into this

but I owe you the best possible chance to win

and I owe that to Mr. Wilde.

That's ridiculous. Tell him that's ridiculous.

I took the race to show the DNC

that no district should be ignored.

What are you gonna do?

I'm gonna stick around here

for a week and help and thank some people

and then I'm gonna take a vacation.

Where?

I don't know-- France, Italy

Wales... maybe EPCOT.

All right.

All right, I got to head back to Washington.

I'll see you day after tomorrow.

Have a good flight.

Thank you. Have a good flight, Sam.

Thank you.

EPCOT?

I was kidding.

Ah. Didn't know. Yeah.

Sir?

Yeah. It's called penmanship, Watson.

Something your generation wouldn't know about

because of the computers.

How many of these things am I doing?

Sixty.

How many have I done?

Three. Three?

Yeah, this is what I'm talking about.

Your system's slowing me down.

I don't have a system.

You're kidding!

You ready?

Hey, can't we have color codings

and stickers priority lists?

Can I get A little bureaucracy going here?

What are you doing?

I'm doing basically what the President does.

Ask people for things, then thank them for things.

Let's go.

Take the calls to the Mansion.

I'll meet you there after this.

Yes, sir.

( electronic beep )

We had a couple of cats

when the kids were kids named Mr. Finch and Mrs. Wilburforce

or something-- I can't remember-- but...

You know I've never really liked human names for animals.

Really? Yeah.

Okay, well, I can't believe my kids didn't think to ask you

what to name the cats, but they used to bring mice

into the house and show 'em to me.

Yeah? This is how I'm starting to feel about the Swiss.

Yeah.

Good morning.

Good morning, sir. Morning, Mr. President.

Tell me about the boy.

He and a guardian have crossed the border into Kandahar.

A U.N. cargo plane is on the ground.

It's gonna leave at 11:45 Zulu

if you say okay.

11:45? Yes, sir.

That's eleven minutes from now.

Yes, sir.

This meeting's a little premature, isn't it?

We should wait ten minutes. Yes, sir.

This meeting doesn't go in the sit room anymore, okay.

I don't know why the hell it's here.

This isn't a military operation.

It's a secure room.

My office is a secure room, too, isn't it?

Please, somebody tell me it is

or I got to go pack some stuff.

You see my point?

What about the organs?

The organs are in Zurich. ( President laughs )

I'm sorry, that sounded funny to me.

I'm the kid in bio who laughed all the time.

Then on to Paris on Swissair.

Coach?

I don't...

Then New York?

Yes, sir.

So the heart and lungs get here first.

They can last about 40 hours; the flight from Tehran's 15.

Now what's left is to line up a doctor and get the funding.

Go around the room.

If it leaks, you got the clerics.

But it sends a message to the reformists.

Thank you, at a time when they're breaking 70% in local elections.

If you're looking for ways

to temper support for the Shi'ites, I don't recommend...

A benevolent power must... Please, this is not the time

And let's not forget about the Shehab program

and what's-his-name and the transport corridors

The Shi'ites, Manny, that's what you want me

to take back to my thoracic surgeon wife?

Get this boy in preop.

Somebody tell the Swiss to stop standing

in the damn doorway with a mouse in their mouth.

If they're coming in, come in.

You won't regret it, sir. It won't leak.

No, 'cause we were all in a secure room

except for the ayatollah's staff, a Swissair pilot

and 400 other people.

Laney, is this gonna leak?

Well...

I feel better already.

Mr. Finch and Mrs. Wilburforce.

There's nothing wrong with my memory.

Though those are stupid names

and there's something wrong with my kids.

Come on, Josh.

You know, the Senate's out of session.

You ought to think about putting

a Ping-Pong table out here.

I don't think that would be such a good idea.

A couple of quick rounds

between cloture motions.

Just because the Senate's

not in session...

I'm kidding, Senator.

You've be surprised what people think.

Just from reading the AP wire.

I think you know what that's about.

Yeah, you're running for President.

We hold elections in this country

not coronations.

I'm not saying any different.

Than why is every...

I must've-- I've talked to two dozen

of your precinct captains in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Nearly every one of them's locked up.

They're locked...?

You're recruiting precinct captains

48 months before the next presidential election?

John Hoynes is using the White House to lock up

the Democratic primaries.

If you're saying there's a full-blown nomination fight...

Hoynes doesn't inherit this.

I'm not going to see the party dragged to the middle.

Nothing's being dragged anywhere.

You were with us just days ago.

This is about the future of the party.

Yeah, how about we enjoy

the present for a few hours?

You agree with Hoynes on guns?

On trade? On school choice?

Look, Hoynes is...

Did I just fall asleep for three and a half years?

Do you think a minority leader is irrelevant?

Do you think I can't affect the President's agenda?

I know you can.

I'd like you to be for me, Josh.

Not because you're good at what you do

because of your beliefs.

Okay, I'm not for anyone.

I barely unpacked from the last campaign.

Well.

Hoynes is going to have to release

those precinct captains or we're, uh...

It keeps getting earlier, doesn't it?

Yes.

MARGARET: And they're asking for you

in the HHS meeting and the 5:15's new.

The CEA?

That's ways to fight a possible recession.

What did we say?

Don't say recession in this building.

You just did it again!

What am I supposed to call the meeting?

The robust economy meeting.

Josh is patching it up with Triplehorn.

Good.

And Karen Kroft wants National Parks.

She can't have it.

What are you talking about?

She can't.

We talked about it in the appointments meeting.

The President signed the parks bill.

The job just became Senate-confirmable.

Yeah, that was for next fiscal year.

Turns out it's retroactive.

I just saw the final language.

Thanks.

Whose idea?

How did we miss this?

There are 90 amendments in the bill.

Maybe we put her up, anyway.

No.

We asked her to do it.

She led the charge for a higher gas tax.

We asked her to do it.

I understand, but the U.S. Senate isn't going to

plus the minority leader is already pissed at us

Okay. Thanks.

Ginger!

Yeah. Don't.

Would you... I need a list of sub-cabinet vacancies

that aren't Senate-confirmable.

Mine's not.

A little less

sub-cabinet than that.

No kidding, you want to crash

a space probe into Neptune.

That's fine with me.

I think we've crashed into most of the other planets

but $2.5 billion, okay?

Yes, sir.

We're going to fail, I want to do it on budget.

Thank you, Mr. President.

More thank-you notes?

You know what?

Why don't you tell Debbie

we're going to do calls.

Calls.

Yes, calls.

Calls. Mr. Sarcasm with your dry... "Calls."

I was this close

to renaming one of the oceans after you

but no way.

Maybe... Maybe, one of the species of fish, like trout.

"Trout" is now "charlie."

Went up to the lake

pulled out a couple of nice

charlie for dinner.

Anything else, sir?

Look at the size of that charlie on your wall.

Thank you, sir.

What have you got?

Yeah, we've got a situation.

Yeah?

Reuters has the ayatollah's youngest son

just left Afghanistan

on a C-130.

Is he coming here for a heart transplant?

Heart and lung.

I'm assuming we knew about this.

Knew about it? We did it.

The ayatollah's issued a statement.

What kind? Denouncing it.

Bitterly denouncing it, sir.

"Our nation can take care of its own.

Interference from the West is an affront to Islam."

What's the room saying?

They think we're hiding

Leo's meeting with the Swiss.

So, you know, the press coffee...

Can't do it now.

Yes. You're right.

I need you to step out just a moment.

Sure. Thank you, Mr. President.

We're not going to not do it.

I'm saying right now.

I'm with you.

( exhales )

Hi.

Before you say anything

here's my idea.

The kid needs lungs and a heart.

Let's use the ayatollah's.

What are you smiling at?

I'm sorry, it's... I'm sorry, sir.

It's the little note Margaret just passed me.

"The Iranians, they've taken to the streets."

Perfect.

That goes to the Margaret Museum.

Please don't forget, all politics are local.

Ah, bite me.

He's got to say something...

Please.

He's got to say something

to his hard-liners.

He didn't want to try, "My son is dying

"and these guys maybe can fix him

"and maybe if our citizens

"didn't spend quite so much energy

"denouncing the infidels

they'd have time to build a damn medical school!"

The Swiss talked to the NGO

who talked to the brother-in-law

who speaks for the ayatollah.

Okay. But just tell me that they weren't

using cellular technology

'cause I don't care what anybody says

it doesn't work yet.

Think about linking it to the missile tests.

What do you mean?

Send a communiqué through the Swiss.

The ayatollah's got to honor Bahrain.

Stop all tests of the Shehab-3.

He's going to say no.

Then you tell him you'll turn the plane around.

No.

I said you threaten to turn the plane around.

No. Come on!

That's a 15-year- old noncombatant

on his way to a hospital.

I want you to pretend that plane's got

a big red cross on it.

They perfect medium-range missiles.

I understand.

What's that do for hearts and lungs?

Send the communiqué, absolutely.

There's a Bahrain agreement

that says send it.

Tell them to stop. Don't even come close.

I don't even want a scent of linkage to it.

A big damn red cross right on that plane.

I have this problem I'm trying

to put in perspective.

What's the problem?

Triplehorn thinks I'm a secret operative for Hoynes.

Are you?

I don't believe I am.

This ought to help.

What?

Judy Vanderbass didn't invite you to dinner.

Thank merciful God.

Turns out Tish Rackley, wife of your protégé

she had a problem on the CoDel to Southeast Asia.

The rice?

No, really, the whole continent

loves the stereotype.

They eat a lot of rice, Donna.

Mrs. Rackley borrowed

$1,500 from Judy Vanderbass

to buy a hand-carved teak bed frame for $2,000

which is a good price.

And?

Mrs. Rackley's check bounced.

Making it a great price.

The Rackleys are stiffing her, Josh.

What do you mean, "Josh"?

You put him on the delegation.

And I told the State Department

to look after him.

I didn't want him to get in any trouble.

Job well done. Phil Rackley's office won't return her calls.

See if they'll return yours.

Toby.

Triplehorn's on fire.

He needs to build a case against our...

Hoynes is lining up precinct captains

in Iowa and New Hampshire.

This is like ten minutes

after the polls close in California.

And Winnick just called.

It's probably the same thing.

Half the Senate's going to be running.

If it looks like

we're giving Hoynes the keys...

Yeah. We got to back him off.

Okay, devil's advocate.

Isn't Hoynes entitled?

Yeah, but not yet.

We got him on the ticket

by convincing him it wasn't his turn.

We kept him out of the center ring

'cause it wasn't his turn, and now...

There aren't any turns.

Hey.

So...

these two people rob a Starbucks near Seattle

half an hour they serve coffee to make more money.

Know when they make their getaway?

When business slows down.

Beat that.

When's Josh meeting with Hoynes?

Soon.

What do you need?

Alternate Federal Co-Chair

of the Appalachian Regional Commission.

What about it? It's Senate- confirmable.

Inspector General of the Railroad Retirement Board

Director of the Institute of Museum Studies...

My job's not.

Ginger beat you to that joke

and Karen lost her seat because of us.

What do you want me to do?

Start getting used to the fact that we won in a landslide.

We can show some fight on this.

Ernest went down for the gun ban

Janice for taxes...

This is different.

We asked her to introduce the bill. And she knew that.

It's called a trial balloon.

Yeah, but it's also called a recorded vote.

She did that kind of thing for us.

She was our gal on the back bench.

She did everything short of pouring lighter fluid

on the Republican leadership.

They're not going to confirm her.

They're going to make us look bad doing it

and we still got half a new Cabinet to confirm.

They're starting.

Thanks.

The Hopi Relocation guy?

Yeah.

Laney says the plane's still six hours out.

With a headwind, that could buy us another hour.

The problem is... What?

We don't have a doctor. What are you talking about?

What are you talking about?

There are only three who can do this.

Jorrey, who's in the middle of a heart-valve replacement

and Weingarten.

Where's he?

Rappelling the north face of K-2.

Rappelling up or rappelling down?

It's in Pakistan. What does it matter?

It's not in Pakistan, you only think it is.

Okay, but if I need a life-saving procedure

can you make sure the surgeon's suffering

from massive oxygen deprivation?

Who's the third?

Dr. Ehsan Mohebi at Smith-Lansing.

Oh, don't tell me.

Yeah, he fled Iran in 1980

after fundamentalists tortured and killed his father.

The one guy who can save his son

and he tortured his father.

That's just bad staff work.

Charlie! Are we sure about Japan?

I mean, one of these days

they're going to find the fairway, right?

Yes, sir. Would you pull

the First Lady out of whatever she's in right now?

She's with the Women's Caucus.

Well, put on a helmet and pads

and get in there.

Make sure Mohebi's sitting by a phone.

He takes an elevator, we know the number.

That's it.

Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. President.

The National Committee's got a list

of the State Party conventions

where we asked the Vice President to take our slot.

Could you get that for me?

Yeah. And the DPC

sent me this list of his budget roll-outs

and it's for last year.

I need all four.

Okay.

What?

The Deadbeat Rackleys.

I can't... Come on.

You just called them deadbeat.

For the sake of humor.

Well, good one, Gracie.

Who hasn't bounced a check?

Me.

Yes, Mr. I Balance My Checkbook Every Month

and Pay My Bills On Time and Don't Ever Bounce Checks.

Everything you just said in there was a good thing

and just by saying it like Ethel Mertz doesn't make it...

Do you even know what a Congressman makes?

A buck and a half, $161,200 for the Leadership.

To maintain two residences, fly your kids...

Okay...

I know you like to hit with me

but you've got to go sit in the back of class

'cause you just suggested that making only $150,000 a year

was reasonable justification for committing a felony.

Which is what it is, Lulu.

The hell is Lulu?

It's To Sir With Love.

Thank you. ABBEY: I'm going to need the lists.

I have the lists.

I know, that's why I'm asking you for them.

Did you want them? Yes.

I'm sorry, we're talking about the lists?

And your having them and my wanting them.

Yes, ma'am.

Hey, Terry. Bobby, sir.

Yeah.

You pulled me out of the Women's Caucus.

No need to thank me.

Whatever happened to Mrs. Wilburforce?

She moved to Miami and took up massage.

Really?

Last I heard.

What the hell are you talking about?

You're the one who asked me...

Wasn't Mrs. Wilburforce our cat?

She was our housekeeper.

Really.

All right. Eisenmenger's Syndrome.

It's a cyanotic heart condition.

There's something called a ventricular-septal defect...

The ayatollah's son has it.

Am I dreaming

or are you talking to me about foreign policy?

You're not worried the sky will fall down?

No, but I'm concerned about spousal abuse.

What's the problem, Jed?

Don't tell me there's a problem with State...

The only doctor available won't do it.

He's Jewish? Persian.

He doesn't have a choice.

Abbey... He doesn't.

Doctors aren't instruments of the state

and they're not allowed to choose patients on spec.

I can't order him to do it.

Yes, you can.

Through the power vested in me by you?

Samuel Mudd set Booth's leg after he shot Lincoln.

Doctors are liable in this country

if they don't treat the patient right in front of them.

Just for the record

this is why we don't talk about foreign policy.

Which we do, and you don't think we do it enough.

Why?

'Cause Samuel Mudd was tried and convicted of treason

for setting that leg.

So?

What so?

So that's the way it goes, you set the leg.

The patient right in front of them?

Yes.

All right, go back to the sewing thing.

It's the Women's...

never mind.

HOYNES: Couldn't tell you the last time I took

a whole week away, Josh.

You ought to take a vacation yourself.

Yeah, I don't get Hawaii.

Great weather, great beaches, universal health care

I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Remember Neil Spencer, the Rep from Honolulu

who helped us on the ag bill? Sure.

Spent all his time tanning on the Capitol balcony.

'Cause if he went home without a tan...

They'd know he'd gone Washington.

We got to talk politics.

I'd like to.

I'm glad we had that little talk on Air Force Two.

I think from time to time... We need you

to stop shopping for precinct captains.

Excuse me?

We're days after an election, we got to govern.

It's too early... Is that what this is all about?

Triplehorn alone can tie us in knots.

Well, good for Triplehorn.

I've got an obligation to myself here.

You've got a Constitutional obligation, that comes first.

Last time I checked

my Constitutional obligation was to have a pulse.

We need these two years.

It's our last chance to govern, John...

Mr. Vice President.

There are going to be lots of ways...

No zealot like a convert, Josh.

What's that supposed to mean?

It means you'd have been great at Leo's job.

Half this town's going to be running.

I do the President's politics.

He can't govern if I'm seen as...

Being for me?

I don't think there's much risk of that.

You were wrong.

I never went to Hawaii.

What?

We skipped Hawaii.

We went rafting on the Flathead River instead.

Uh-uh. Don't touch that.

Or that.

"The boy's on the plane.

"He's experiencing pulmonary hypertension.

"That's elevated pressure in the lungs, I think.

That could lead to what?"

Doctor, that could lead to what?

I'm sorry. I...

That could lead to what?

Sudden heart failure.

That's what it says here. Follow me.

"His right ventricular pressure has risen

to 102 millimeters Mercury."

Low-oxygen blood's beginning to bypass the lungs.

That's right, and he has something

called "in situ thrombi."

His arteries have lost their anticoagulant properties

and Mr. President, I resent this.

Dr. Mohebi, I don't care.

Why aren't you scrubbing up?

People are taken from their homes in the dead of night

and jailed and tortured for months at a time.

And public executions... Doctor...

Political opponents

dragged outside state borders... I know this.

Don't you think I know.

I won't aid the enemy.

I'll let you know who the enemy is.

That's my job.

It's not a 15-year-old boy.

How do I know these organs were donated voluntarily?

Doctors Without Borders.

You don't know these people, Mr. President.

I do know these people.

You're crazy if you don't think I do.

And I don't need to be told who the enemy is.

Doctor...

It's not your family that's still there.

My family's there.

If the procedure isn't successful...

Nothing will happen to them.

Sir...

Nothing will happen to them.

Who's making that guarantee?

Well, the Swiss, I guess.

Look, I'll use every power of the office

to protect you and your family, of course I will.

But can I just say that this is how

things change for the better.

A world-class surgeon or a school teacher in Afjah

who questions the ayatollah's divine power.

Do me a favor, Doctor.

Go back to Smith-Lansing and look at the kid

'cause I think when you do

you're going to scrub up.

Yeah.

What was your father's name?

Raji.

What'd he teach?

Science.

Thank you.

Get him to Baltimore.

You think cell phones, maybe?

Not white-water rafting.

And staff can't make those calls.

They're top tier Iowa people and New Hampshire.

40, 50 calls from the Flathead River?

That really doesn't seem possible.

Unless...

That's what I'm saying.

All right.

I'll take it.

CEQ.

What do I tell Triplehorn?

Tell him it's done.

You're sure?

Thank you, no. I...

They're playing the Eagles.

We're talking 50-yard line.

Toby...

You can't have the job.

Okay.

The parks bill...

we made it Senate- confirmable.

That's the first I've heard...

They added it in conference.

We'll find something.

I don't know what.

You don't have to do that.

Can't be Museum Studies.

God forbid the Senate falls out of the mix on that.

I've made a lot of enemies on the Hill.

You don't owe me.

We asked you to fight a losing...

Yes, we owe you.

This is... when the President calls a play...

I called the play.

I called it.

Raising the gas tax.

It was a loser and I pushed to have you introduce it anyway.

That doesn't make any difference.

Well, look, let's just...

I came out for a gas tax

because someone from Michigan had to.

Gas prices are too low.

It's why the air's polluted.

It's why no one wants alternative fuels.

And, clearly, that argument took the nation by storm.

( chuckling )

In my religion...

the whole symbol of the religion ended

in crucifixion and condemnation.

That wasn't a measure of the experience.

It's just the way it ended.

Yeah, but I'm the Romans.

It's in the living.

It's in the campaigning that you make your mark.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.

You have until

the end of the day on those tickets, by the way.

Welcome back.

Thank you.

And congratulations.

( chuckling ): Okay.

Do you happen to know if the President's still in the office?

He is.

Thanks.

( knocking )

Mr. President.

Can you see Sam?

Sure.

Good evening, sir.

You're the nominee.

There's no nominee.

Everyone's on the ballot.

Is there another Democrat?

No.

You're the nominee.

Yeah.

And I know how you feel.

You like Scott Holcomb?

I don't know him well.

He's terrific.

There's a good guy out there named Will Bailey

if he should come across your radar.

You going to campaign on prescription drugs?

Our prescription drug bill-- yes, sir--

and our Medicare reforms and the Bartlet Energy Plan.

Sam. Yes, sir?

It's okay to run away from me

when you need to.

I would never, Mr. President.

I simply would never do that.

That's not how I'm getting votes.

I appreciate that

but that's not what I'm talking about.

you disagreed with me on Medicare.

I remember the meeting right here.

Then you wrote a five-page memo.

Run towards yourself.

I'm wrong about that. Walk.

You're not going to be used to your surroundings.

Yes, sir.

If you lose, you lose

but if you waste this, I'll kill you.

I'll just kill you, Sam.

Yes, sir.

Anything else?

Thank you, Mr. President.

( knocking )

Good evening, Mr. President.

Hey.

Thank-you notes?

Yeah.

I'm going to bed.

You don't really like making thank-you calls, do you?

Spill it.

How many precinct captains did you line up for Hoynes?

I didn't line up...

Forty-seven.

Charlie showed me the call sheets.

I said thanks on behalf of the ticket.

I can't help it if... Yeah.

They'll think whatever they want.

Well, they think you're freezing the race for Hoynes.

I'm freezing it for us.

We just won four more years.

It's not time for a free-for-all.

This shouldn't be what you do anymore.

Do I call them all back?

We'll take care of it.

All right.

Tehran's going to accelerate

medium-range missile tests by two weeks.

Yeah.

We'll gather the NSC principals in the morning.

All right.

Anything else?

Salmon Afkham was wheeled into surgery 15 minutes ago.

Well, Mohebi's day just started.

Well, I suppose there are worse ways for ours to end.

Yeah, that's right.