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Previously on The West Wing:

So, we're dumping
State's language?
WILL:
Yes.

Which means we'll
need some of our own.
Yes.

Is the President going to send
U.S. troops in, knock this off?

The White House is monitoring
the situation very carefully.
I can tell.

Katie.
State Department
estimates yesterday

put the dead at anywhere
between 3,000 and 7,000.

Are there revised
estimates today?

15,000.

PRESIDENT:
Hey, this guy

you hired
for the Inauguration speech

gave me a little backchat
a few minutes ago.

Bailey?
TOBY:
What are you doing?

Familiarizing myself
with his tone.

You're not thinking
about policy language?

I'm doing both.
'Cause we have
five days.

I'm just as big
a cotton candy ass as they are.

Yes, sir.
You're just going
to let that hang in the air?

Of course not, sir.
You're a much bigger

cotton candy ass than they are.

Damn right.

( ball thumps on Plexiglas )

( thumping continues )

You're not ever worried
about the window breaking?

During moments
of peak frustration.

When the Speaker of the House
threatened to repeal

the 16th Amendment.

A couple of Yankee games.

And there was the time
Congress censured my boss.

But it's always held
up, that window.

That window's a
game-day player.

What do you need?

Leo was just in here.

What did you say to the
President last night?

The President came to my office.

He just dropped in.

I know.
What did you say?

His speech transcript
was right on top.

He read it.

What did you say?

He said, "Why is
a Kundunese life

worth less to me
than an American life?"

And I said,
"I don't know, sir, but it is."

Didn't we talk about this?

Yes.

I wasn't giving it a shot, Toby,
it was a casual conversation.y.

With the President?

He came here.
He was standing in the doorway.

The Dow plummets because
of casual conversations

with this man, but
that's not the point.

What's the point?

You can't get
in his head

this close
to something
this important.

You've got to keep the train
on the tracks.

I apologize, but there's...

No, no "but" at the end of that.

Not on this one.

This one haunts him.

It haunts everyone.

Well, I finished the language.

How is it?

Bloodless, compromising,
and half a loaf.

That's foreign policy.

( clears throat )

"America stands today

"as the one truly
indispensable nation--

"the strongest force
and the proudest voice

"for peace, pluralism
and prosperity

that the world has ever known."

Okay. Keep the
ancient Romans

out of the first ten
rows, and we're fine.

"Today at the dawn
of a new century,

"America needs a new commitment
to protect our own security,

to model freedom to the world."

To model it?

I figure if we're not going
to help create freedom

from tyranny, then let's at
least sell some BarcaLoungers.

The U.S. doesn't help
create freedom from tyranny?

I forgot to add,

"where our own interests
aren't necessarily involved."

"To do what we can
to fulfill

"humanity's promise

"and to prove
that self-determination

is the watchword
of all mankind."

The watchword of all mankind?

I don't know what that means.

Don't worry,
neither will anyone else.

( snickers )

The speech is good.
It's better than good.

There's one paragraph
that's vague,

and we're going to live with it.

Which is more than you can say
for the Kundunese.

I'll be in my office.

I heard once--

I don't know
if this is true--

I heard once that
you convinced the President

to let you rewrite a section
of the State of the Union

with less than 24 hours to go.

It was the second year,

and everybody was
a Republican

whether they were or not,
and people at the DNC

had convinced him
to include the line,

"The era of big government
is over,"

and you couldn't live with it.

Because government
should be a place

where people come together,
and no one gets left behind.

An instrument of good,
and that's exactly what we heard

in the State of the Union
the next night.

There were maybe four people
in the room

when I had that conversation.

Well, if I'd have been
one of them,

I'd have repeated it
to everyone I met.

Anyway, I'm going to move on

to some language
in trade and commerce.

Okay.

Ghana, Nigeria,
and what did I say?

Zaire.

Ghana, Nigeria and Zaire.

The Arkutu met
with representatives

from those countries.

They met for three hours,

and we're told the talks
were amicable

but that no progress was made.

Steve?

C.J., there's a 1948
U.N. Convention on Genocide,

and the U.S. is
a signatory.

Simply put, it says
that if it's determined

that genocide is taking place,

the United States
is compelled to intervene.

The problem is

the Convention distinguishes

between acts of genocide
and genocide.

It distinguishes between
acts of genocide and genocide?

It does. Mark?

How many acts of genocide
constitute a genocide?

I don't know. Danny?

What's the weather report
for Sunday?

Two below with
the wind chill.

That's a full lid.
Good night.

C.J., thank you.

Good night, C.J.

Two below, that's beach weather
for the President.
Yes.

So, what is the
distinction?

Danny, I have no idea.

I have no idea
what the distinction is.

All I know is, I got
a memo from State--

close your notebook--
a memo from State

to make sure not to
call it genocide.

I want to talk to you
about something.

No, we're not going
to do that anymore.

We're not going to
talk about Shareef.

This isn't about Shareef.
Okay, then what?

It's a little
about Shareef.

Good day to you, sir.
C.J....

I said, good day, sir.

Get in there,
would you?

Nobody takes me seriously
when I say "good day, sir."

Get in there.

Did you find the pilot?

Shareef's pilot?

I can't remember his name.

Jamil Bari?
Yeah.

Yes, I did.

He went to Augsbury Aviation
in Bavaria.

He's survived by his wife,
Merita, and his two children.

You don't even want
to say you were wrong

and apologize for your
superior attitude lately.

I do. First I want
to tell you this.

Rifts at the Pentagon.

Jets and the Sharks.

I talked to an officer

who works in U.S. foreign
intelligence activities there,

and he believes that
Miles Hutchinson

is the Commander-in-Chief.

And in the course
of the discussion, he told me

the President had rescinded

Executive Orders 11905
and 12333.

The President hasn't rescinded
any Executive Orders.

Well, not publicly.

This was an incredibly
clumsy attempt

on the part of this officer
to send a turf message

to the President,
and obviously he's not a rogue,

so I thought I'd give you
the heads-up.

The President appreciates it,

and it's not like
it's anything new.

I don't know who the Jets are
and who the Sharks are,

but it's Fitzwallace
and Hutchinson.

That's pretty much
what I'm writing.

Who here can a researcher
talk to about Pentagon employees

who are detailed
to the White House?

Josh's office.
You can get it
from Donna.

Okay.

Hey, what are
Executive Orders 11...?

11905 and 12333?

Yeah.

Making it illegal to assassinate
a foreign leader.

I told you it was a little
about Shareef.

( door closes )

TOBY:
All right, last looks.

JOSH:
C.J. says there are
three references to "mankind."

Can we make it "humankind"?

Yeah.

Foreign Relations
would like "war" changed

to "war and strife."

Yeah.

Where we say,
"tens of billions wasted,"

the OMB would like us to say
"billions and billions wasted."

No.

Then that's all
for me.

Got those?

Yeah.

All right.
Let's leave the building.

What do you say?

Anyone playing
at Iota tonight?

I don't know.
Let's just go. Ask C.J.

There's that club called Iota
in Arlington.

They usually have
some good people.

You want to come out?

WILL:
I appreciate that.

I should stay here
and put in the changes.

Ginger or Bonnie
will do that.

Yeah, but there are going
to be notes,

and I should probably
be sharp tomorrow.

Okay.

He's frustrated
with the foreign policy section.

He wanted to change it.

The language?

No. U.S. foreign policy.

Hang on. Will?

Yeah.

Listen, the President
takes seriously

the question of whether or not
to risk American blood.

I'm sure he does.

He can't just
send people someplace.

I understand.
Is that it?

No. "Do what we can

to fulfill
humanity's promise"?

You're kidding me now.

No. Leadership wants to cut it.

Okay.

Where does
the President's Catholicism

distinguish between
American blood

and other kinds of blood?

It doesn't.

The voters do.

The voters that you champion
and that I can't stand.

Yeah.

I'm going to put
these changes in.

What's his level
of frustration?

It's high.

He's here on
a temp job.

He's that
invested in...?

( loud crack )

This never
happened before, has it?

No. No, it hasn't.

Sorry.

BARTLET:
Charlie, I'm going
to change my mind again

on the Bible.
Mr. President,

you have to imagine
my utter surprise.

Aren't you afraid
that one day

I'm just going
to kick your ass

like it's never
been kicked?

What Bible would
you prefer, sir?

Let's go with
the Washington Bible.

Well, as I said, that
might be problematic
to get by Sunday.

Just put it on a plane.

The Freemasons won't
let it travel by plane.

What do the Freemasons
have to do with it?

The New York Freemasons

have the Bible
Washington was sworn in on.

It can't travel on a plane

'cause the altitude
does something.

Take a train.
They have a rule that
when the Bible travels

three Freemasons
have to go with it.

Buy three tickets.
Well, it's four,

'cause you need one
for the Bible,

but the larger problem is...

Are you trying to tell me

that Freemasons
don't like me?

Not a huge demo
for you, no.

But they're good people,

and after all, a president
is being inaugurated,

so let's see what we can do.

Thank you.
Good night, Mr. President.

Hey.
What's going on?

I saw C.J. smiling before.

Has something
good happened?

Yeah.
What?

You didn't rescind
two Executive Orders.
I didn't?

It was an NSC Presidential
Decision Directive--

it's different.
It's not different.

It is, and that's how
I was able to look
C.J. in the eye

and say you didn't
rescind 11905,

and that's how she
was able to look Danny
Concanon in the eye

and do the same.
Well, then it was
a dodged bullet.

No, sir, we didn't
dodge nothing.

They hit what
they aimed at.

Leo, come on...
It was a shot across
the bow, it was.

This guy giving
it to Danny.

You're being paranoid.

And you're being
unbelievably naive, sir.

You think
in your wildest dreams

that Hutchinson's
running an offense?

He's that pissed I asked
for a Force Depletion Report

he's going to show me
in Danny's byline I go to Kundu

and he says here's
what happened in Bermuda?

Hutchinson?

I do. In my wildest
dreams, I do.

( heavy sigh )

Abbey's already gone to bed.

I should get up there.

Hey, the Chief Justice wrote
another opinion in verse.

Want to hear it?
No.

"I say this denial
is not fit for trial."

Good night.
Thank you,
Mr. President.

Abbey.

Abigail.

Abbey, the kids
are eating sugar.

( soft gasp )

Oh.

How you doing?

You know I gave the kids candy
all the time, right?

Behind my back?
Yes.

You bought their love.

Well, it was for sale,
and I wanted it.

Come to bed.

I'm going to stay up
for a bit

and read and watch some news.

Okay.

Tony's grandkids are in there
watching a video.

It may still be in there.

I think he has a...
Laurel and Hardy movie.

His grandkids were in here?
For a while.

We had to move
them because...

What do you care right now?

I don't.

Come to bed soon.

For the record...
Yeah?

Frederick the Great
told his generals...

to defend everything
is to defend nothing.

And?

I don't really know
what that means, do you?
No.

But I'm mostly asleep right now,

and also I don't
know what you're
talking about.

Well, that makes two of us.

Who made you crazy?

Not that someone
has to make you that way.

I'll be in soon.

You gave the girls candy?

I was their dealer.
Live with it.

Come to bed.

( door closes )

* Why are all our heroes
so imperfect? *

* Why do they always
bring me down? *

C.J.:
Tanq and tonic.

JOSH:
Uh, two.

Cynthia, I left a message
for Donna.

She might call.
Sure.

* The statue in the park
has lost his crown *

* William Faulkner, drunk... *

Guy across the street
is beating up a pregnant woman.

You don't go over there
and try and stop it?

Guy across the street
is beating up anybody,

I like to think I go over
and try to stop it,

but we're not talking about
the president going to Asia

or the president
going to Rwanda

or the president
going to Qumar.

We're talking about
the president sending

other people's
kids to do it.

That's always
what we're talking about,

and in addition
to being somebody's kids,

they're soldiers and sailors,

and if we're about
freedom from tyranny,

then we're about
freedom from tyranny,

and if we're not,
we should shut up.

Yes.

Back at the office,
you were telling Will...

He said that to Will
'cause that's what we say.

You weren't even there.
It's what we always say.

On Sunday, he's
taking an oath

to ensure domestic
tranquillity.

And to establish justice
and promote the general welfare.

Stand by while atrocities
are taking place

and you're an accomplice.
I'm not indifferent to that,

but knucklehead
self-destruction

is never going to
burn itself out,

you really want
to send your kids

across the street
into the fire?

Want to? No.
Should I? Yeah.
Why?

And don't give me
a lefty answer.

A lefty answer's
all I've got.

Why are you sending your
kids across the street?

* William Faulkner,
drunk and depressed *

* Tennessee Williams,
drunk and depressed... *

'Cause those are
somebody's kids, too.

* Drunk and depressed. *

( sighs )

Here he is. Hello.
Good to see you again.

Good to see you.

( mutes TV )

( all TVs muted )

Get some more dots.

( clattering )

You know what?
!
What?

The wooden soldiers.

You know what?
What?

The wooden soldiers.

( clattering )

( fanfare plays
over military drumbeat )

WOMAN:
Yes, Mr. President?

Leo McGarry, please.

Right away.

* Rock me to sleep

* Rock me to sleep

* I wish I had somebody
to rock me to sleep. *

I'm not talking
about fighting
two wars at once,

I'm not talking
about fighting wars.

Intervening when
there's violence against

people who are defenseless...
Fine, but if
we go here,

that means they can go there,
and look, there's more injustice

over there.
We elect these people.

And not for nothing,
but if

we'd been
the world's policeman

in the '30s, you and I...

We would've had
a lot more relatives.
That's right.

* Of the sycamore tree...
Where the hell is Donna?

Leave her alone-- she's
having a last night with...

What's his name?

I called her at Jack's,
and I paged her.

Leave her alone.

I've got to go back
to the office.

What happened?
Danny screwed me,

and somebody on one of our
staffs screwed the rest of us.

* The sycamore tree...
( pagers beeping )

I'll get the call.

* Take me in your arms
and hold me *

* Till I close my eyes... *

This is Toby.

You got to come in.
It's the speech.

We're on our way.
He wants you to bring
Will Bailey, too.

You want to call him
or you want me to?

Well, Will's never
been called

in the middle
of the night

by the Office
of the President.

I think he should
experience that
before he leaves.

Definitely.

( phone ringing )

( ringing continues )
Just a second, please.

( knocking on door )

WOMAN:
Mr. Bailey,
it's the night manager.

There's a phone call for you.

Uh, yeah.

( ringing continues )

Mr. Bailey, this is
the White House operator.

Would you hold, please,
for a call from Charlie Young?

Yes, ma'am.

This is not
what happened.
I don't believe this.

Listen to me.
A) It was garbage.

That was totally out
of left field in that piece,

and the unnamed
White House source...
It wasn't mine.

What do you mean,
it wasn't yours?
It got dropped in.

Who dropped it in?
My editor and
my researcher.

They dropped it in?
Yes.

Without your knowledge?
Yes.

And you're okay with that?
How do I sound?!

What was the name
of the researcher?
Oh, you're not...

No, the researcher's
looking out for his future.

He's 23 and
time's a-wastin'.

I want to give
him a Lexus.

What's his name?
C.J...

What's his name?!

That's going to stay
between me and my boss.

The researchers talked
to three different people

on background--
just nuts and bolts.

Asking how many
nuts and bolts

doesn't get this quote.

As a matter of form,
he tells them what
I'm writing about.

C.J., I don't know
who he talked to.

I sent you to Donna
when you asked...

I'm saying it wasn't
necessarily Donna.

I mean, in a million years,

do you think Donna...
No, but that day,
yesterday,

her boyfriend Jack Reese,
a Navy Lieutenant Commander,

was reassigned
from a White House position,

and she was very
angry about it.

Sometimes people say something
to a researcher

'cause they think
they're not on the record.

They're not on the record!

No.

C.J.?

Yeah?

It's Donna on the phone.

Yeah?

Well, this is
gonna, I think,
get interesting now.

Yes.

It's gonna get
interesting.

It will capture
our interest...

...and will be
written about...

...in English,
I would think, as well as...

Arabic?

You can say that
two times.

( heavy sigh )

I suppose you can't
blame Will completely.

Hi.

This is entirely
your fault.

He came in the office.

You like Europe,
he likes Europe.

You could've talked
about Europe.

That wasn't the subject.

Then make it
the subject.

He says, "Here's this
El Salvador speech

I gave a long time ago,"
and you say?

I like Europe?
Yes!

Listen, something's
happened.
What?

A White House aide is quoted
in tomorrow's Post.

You can go in.

All right.

We're for freedom of speech
everywhere.

We're for freedom
to worship everywhere.

We're for freedom to learn...
for everybody.

And because, in our time,
you can build a bomb

in your country
and bring it to my country

what goes on in your country
is very much my business.

And so we are

for freedom from tyranny
everywhere,

whether in the guise of
political oppression, Toby

or economic
slavery, Josh

or religious
fanaticism, C.J.

That most fundamental idea
cannot be met

with merely
our support.

It has to be met
with our strength.

Diplomatically,
economically, materially.

And if Pharaoh
still don't free the slaves

then he gets the plagues,
or my cavalry

whichever gets there first.

The USTR will go crazy

and say that we're not
considering global trade.

Committee members
will go crazy

and say I haven't
consulted enough.

And the Arab world will
just go indiscriminately crazy.

No country

has ever had a doctrine
of intervention

when only humanitarian interests
were at stake.

That streak's gonna end
Sunday at noon.

So if you're on board
with this, what I
need you to do...

TOBY:
What we're going to do
is comb

through the language again,
this time with counsel.

Carol, it's me.

I'm going to need
new talking points

for the full Cabinet,
no embargoed excepts.

We have to move from
a lone rogue, to a posse.

Do I just keep
standing here?
No.

Excuse me!

It is so ordered.

ALL:
Thank you, Mr. President.

TOBY:
All right, everything else
off the table.

What were you
going to say before?

WILL:
I'm going to be
on the phone.

Danny's got a piece
out tomorrow

on fault lines between the
White House and the Pentagon.

He writes that story
twice a year.

A researcher
gathering background
spoke to three people,

one of whom was Donna,

because your office
is one of the places
that keeps breakdowns

of how Pentagon staff are
detailed to the White House.

The researcher was given
an unprompted quote

which he gave to Danny's editor,
who put it in the piece.

What was the quote?

Everyone's very loyal to
everyone else around here,
unless you wear a uniform.

I know that sounds like
it was Donna

'cause of the situation
with Jack,

but there's no way she gives
that quote to a reporter.

She didn't think she
was on the record.

There's no way
Donna said that.

She did. She just called
me and told me she did,

which I give her credit for.

You do.

Heat of the moment.
And bad timing.

You think?

I don't have time for this now.
Neither do you.

"Set free the oppressed,
break every yoke,

"clothe the naked,
and your light shall break forth

"like the dawn, and
the glory of the Lord

shall be your
rear guard."

Ten minutes ago,
you promised me

you'd go easy
on the Moses references.

That was Isaiah.

Still.
They frighten people.

Who?
Me.

Well, then here's
to swimmin' with
bow-legged women.

Ah, that tastes like...

nothing at all.

It has no taste or properties
of any kind.

You can expect to
see pieces quoting
Pentagon sources

on how many lives
we'd lose in Kundu.

And a search
and rescue group,

diving for a lost
helicopter prop,

is going to find a
piece of a Gulfstream.

I think you're wrong.

But if you're
right, then okay.

We should all have a
little skin in this.

Well, then, that much
we've accomplished.

So we're doing
well so far.

Sunday noon?

Sunday noon.

Thank you,
Mr. President.

( sets glass on table )

( crowd cheering )

ABBEY:
Because of Laurel and Hardy?

Not because, no.

Not because of
Laurel and Hardy.

That was simply the confluence
of the final, you know, and...

also, by the way, from
the mouths of babes--
like yourself.

Seriously, from the mouths
of babes and clowns come--

Listen, there's no reason why

anyone needs to know
about Laurel and Hardy.

Sounds like that's going to
depend a lot on my general mood.

Too cold for a parade.
Bunch of tanned-ass Southerners.

That decision

was made
by your Inauguration Chairman,

who's from Massachusetts.

Which is to the south
of New Hampshire.

Don't tell me geographic
stereotypes.

You would've
been happy

walking up Pennsylvania Avenue
in this cold?

I walked to school every morning
in weather colder than this.

From the headmaster's house
to your classroom.

That's right, baby.

Just a camel hair
coat, leather gloves

a varsity scarf
and these wits.

( laughing )

Sir?
It's here?

No, sir.

What is the problem?
It was in New York.

It could've gotten here
on a fast horse.

They took the Metroliner
this morning.
And?

The train's stuck
in Philadelphia.

Because?
Frozen tracks.

And it didn't come
in last night...

...because the Inaugural
Committee wouldn't pay
for four hotel rooms.

Three for the Freemasons
and one for the Bible.

I guess the Bible
doesn't get a room.
Three hotel rooms.

Three hotel rooms and
four train tickets.

Yeah.
Okay. You know what?

Washington didn't
bring his own Bible,

he just assumed one
would be provided,

which, frankly,
isn't unreasonable.

Guy wants you to swear
an oath on a Bible,

he ought to be
packing a Bible.

Washington had someone get
one from across the street.

Excuse me,
what are the chances

there's a Bible
in the House Library?

They should have one.
Yeah, they got one.

Excuse me, sir.

Just common courtesy,
I think.

"Place your hand
on this Bible."

And, "Oh, can I use
your Bible?"

That's not right.

Good morning, Mr. President.

Why are they talking
to me about the
order of the balls?

Political Affairs thinks
it's important.

They'd like you to start
with the Plains States,

followed by the
Rust Belt ball,

then the one from the
Pacific Northwest.

C.J.:
It says you'reAren't we about to
of the whole cdemonstrate that
pretty clearly?

( kisses )

( heavy sigh )

Did you throw up?

Yeah.

About time.

It was my third time.

Still.

They're yuckling him about
the order of the balls.

( music playing in distance )

That's the U.S. Marine
Corps Band right there.

The Commandant's Own.

These guys practice
four hours a day.

So you think the Chief
Justice has lost his mind.

I didn't say
he'd "lost his mind,"

I said...

I said he lost his mind and
Leo thinks he's lost his mind.

Leo's lost his mind.

He's speaking in verse.

A literary curse.

Five minutes.

He doesn't
have a Bible.

Charlie's out
looking for one.

Should I be...?
Charlie'll get it.

I've got it.

So there it is.

Let's see what
happens now.

( footsteps echoing )

( up-tempo jazz plays )

Listen. Will did
a great job,

and I like him
personally too.

But he had a bad meeting
with that Public Affairs guy,

and people at State
are focusing a lot
of displeasure on him.

I told him to have
a bad meeting

with that Public Affairs guy.

I know, and I want
to use him again,

but I need friends
at State right now

so I want him
to work under the radar.

He should work
out of his house

and deal with us by phone.

That's exactly what
I was going to say.

Yeah?

Except the part about him
working under the radar

in house
on the phone.

Leo, I want the President
to appoint him Deputy.

Are you sure?

I can talk to the people
at State and--

I don't care about State.

I'm asking...
are you sure?

Yeah.

You don't mean
on an interim basis?

No.

What about Sam?

A promotion--
it's well past time.

Make him
a Senior Counselor,

take the knucklehead stuff
off his desk

the way he did for me
for four years.

Let him concentrate
on the President
and the country.

I'll advise the President.

( up-tempo jazz continuing )

( song ends )

( applause )

Hey!

JOSH:
Hey.

Congratulations.
This is something.

Sorry about the story
yesterday.

It wasn't your fault.

Where is she?

Donna?

Yeah.

She's sitting in her
apartment in a ball gown.

Waiting for a ball
to come over?

She doesn't think
it's appropriate
for her to be here.

I couldn't talk her down.

How hard you try?
I tried hard.

She didn't think
she was on the record.

I'm not sure if my editor
knew that one.

It doesn't matter.

Yeah.

I thought the balance
of the piece was--

I haven't read it. Sorry.

I haven't.

I got a copy here
if you want to...

You're walking around
with a copy of it?

Well, I think parts of it
are pretty good.

Hey, when you won
a Fulbright Scholarship

you taped the letter
to your face.

Give me that.

Yeah, here it is.

"Said one White House aide,

'We've got a situation--'"

The point actually was
to read all the other parts.

"'...where the White House
won't give the D.O.D

"'an extra ten billion

"so they have to go
to the Hill and get it''

"Said the same aide,
'Everybody's very
loyal around here

unless you wear a uniform.'"

Said the same aide.

I hadn't read
the first part
of the quote.

Said the same aide?

I'm going to kill her.

Why don't you stick
around for a minute.

We're just going to
be a minute, right?

Quick review.

Wait just one minute.
It's good cop/bad cop.

I'm the good cop;
the four of you are
the bad cop.

Will, what are you?

The bad cop.

Danny, what are you?
The bad cop.

Toby, what are you?
Hurry up.

Charlie, who are you?

I love Zoey,
I must have her back.

The bad cop, that's right.

Here we go.

That's great news
about Zoey.

I didn't meet her,
but I bet she's nice.

Not really,
but my love for her
knows no bounds.

Charlie, aren't you cold
without a coat?

I took off my coat
to show my love for Zoey.

Wow.
I'd take off
my shirt too,

but it's inappropriate
with a tuxedo.

Not if we're at Chippendales.

I'm standing here!

The buzzer's not working.

TOBY:
Did you try it?

No, I divined it.

Maybe she's
just not answering.

There's a note that says
the buzzer's not working.

Call her.

No, I know women.

I know what they're like.
Donna!

I think before the night's over,
we might have ourselves

a whole new story.
( chuckling )

Huh.

Ho!

( laughter )

Yeah!

( laughter )

Here you go.

What the hell are you doing?

Get down here! Now!
Keep your voice down.

Don't even think about
telling me where to keep
my voice! Get down here!

I'm coming.

MAN 1:
Hey! Now I'm telling you--
keep your voice down.

MAN 2:
Me too!

Oh, no, I'm sorry. I didn't mean
to wake you guys.

Uh, this is a special situation.

It's okay, I'm the good cop!

Hi, National Enquirer?

You come down here
without a coat?

I need you to keep
your voice down.

( sighs )

Go ahead, you're entitled--
give it all to me again.

You don't know
the White House rejected

ten billion for the D.O.D.

You have absolutely no way
of knowing that.

Jack said it.

The researcher called Jack,
and Jack said it.

He was working
a lot of nights,

and it really
wore him out.

Yeah?

And then this
thing happened,

and he didn't think
he was on the record.

Donna--
He didn't, Josh.

That was legitimate.

He's letting you
take the credit for this?

Listen, this guy's got
an important career
ahead of him.

Your career isn't important?

What was the point
of anyone claiming...

You knew it was easy...
to figure out it was him.

Not as easy as you made it.

I didn't think about
the top of the quote--

The list of things
you didn't think about,

including your job,

what the President
thinks of you.

Does he know
about this?

He's about to?

You look amazing.

Hi, guys.

Hi, Donna.
Donna.

Sorry about all this.

Don't worry about it.

It was stupid,
but it was menschy.

Hey, hey, hey.
Good cop/bad cop.

Sorry.
It was just stupid.

Hey, Will.
You and Toby wrote

maybe the greatest speech
I've ever heard.

Thank you very much.

We're going to a ball.

Balls are fun.

We're actually going
to eight of them.

Eight times the fun.

I was actually the one
who hit the window;

the rest of them
went to school on my throw.

Let's go!

How you doing, Charlie?

Well, I'm going to win
Zoey's heart from Jean Paul.

Excellent.

'Cause he may be good-looking
and rich and well schooled

and French royalty, you know,
and live basically in a castle,

but... Oh, God.

TOBY:
This is what
I've been telling you.

Get in the car.

Josh... I'm sorry.

Seriously, I've never lied
to you before, boss,

and it won't happen again.

You're going to
have to sit on
somebody's lap.

Okay.

( slow jazz music plays )

Thank you.

You should expect
increased voices
of dissent

after today--
in breadth and depth.

A ship in the harbor is safe,

but that's not what ships
were built for.

It's doubtful Danny's
inquiries about Shareef

would've gone further
if he didn't have new
sources at the Pentagon.

So what?

Really?

You know what
the decision directives say?

That diplomats and leaders
aren't immune from being targets

when they're connected
to terrorists' activities

that threaten the U.S.
or its citizens.

I don't think
it's an unusual directive.

That it was given hours before
Shareef's plane disappeared...

Just a reminder,

the more I know,
the more I can help you.

And don't be concerned
with my exposure.

I'm not your daughter.

I'm the White House
Press Secretary.

The President would like
you both.

( slow jazz continuing )

Good evening.

ALL:
Good evening, Mr. President.

Everything all right?

Yes, sir.

They're saying I'm rewriting
the Constitution

on the back of a napkin.

They're saying on Fox

that a guy who couldn't run
a local sheriff's department

wants to send troops
around the world.

They're saying it's liberalism
with a grenade launcher.

But they're not saying
it was badly written,

so that's something.

And they sure as hell know
I was serious,

so that's something else.

Congratulations, folks.
We've got ourselves a doctrine.

Will, I think some
of these people

don't know
who your dad is.

Will's the youngest son
of Tom Bailey,

who's the only guy in the world
with a better title than mine.

He was Supreme Commander,
NATO Allied Forces Europe.

We didn't know we
were going to do this.

I would've asked you
to invite him.

Well, you got quite a response
from him watching on TV, sir.

I think he's going to reenlist.

Actually, I meant I wish
he could be here now

when I tell you that

Toby's asked me to commission
you as his deputy.

I'm sorry, sir?

Toby wants to make you Deputy.

Pardon me?

I'm appointing you

Deputy Communications Director.

It covers a wide range of areas
of policy and execution

and counsel to me.

To you...

the President?

Yes.

I'm sorry, sir.
I'm not following--

Good God, boy.

JOSH:
I remember when
you named me Deputy,

there was a dull buzzing
in my ear, or a humming.

It was very disorienting.

The same thing
happened to me.

Hang in there, Will,
you're doing fine.

( sotto voce ):
That was a nice story
about the buzzing.

What did I say
about speaking to me

without addressing me
as Wild Thing?

Excuse me.

Hi.

Sam's going
to be promoted

to Senior Counselor
if he loses the 47th.

I don't know what to say.

That's what you want to hear
from your new Communications--

WILL:
I-I accept.

PRESIDENT:
There's a promise

that I ask everyone
who works here to make.

Never doubt that a small group

of thoughtful and committed
citizens can change the world.

Do you know why?

It's the only thing
that ever has.

William Bailey,

reposing special trust
and confidence

in your integrity,
prudence and ability,

I designate you to the post

of Deputy White House Director
of Communications

and Special Assistant
to the President.

And I do authorize you

to execute and fulfill
the duties of that office

with all the powers
and privileges and subject

to the conditions prescribed.

It is affirmed
by my signature...

...and affixed with the Seal
of the United States.

And it is done so on this day
and in this place.

Congratulations.

PRESIDENT:
You know, it's easy
to watch the news

and think of Kundunese as either
hapless victims

or crazed butchers,

and it turns out
that's not true.

I got this intelligence summary
this afternoon.

"Mothers are standing
in front of tanks."

And we're going to go get
their backs.

An hour ago, I ordered
Fitzwallace to have UCOMM

deploy a brigade
of the 82nd Airborne,

the 101st Air Assault,

and a Marine Expeditionary Unit
to Kundu to stop the violence.

The 101st are
the Screaming Eagles.

The Marines are
with the 22nd M.E.U.,

trained at Camp Lejeune,

some of them very recently.

I'm sorry, everyone,

but this is a work night.

( up-tempo jazz playing )

That's you too.

I know.

( up-tempo jazz continuing )