The West Wing 2x16

1. Previously on The West Wing:

2. When did you decide you were going to run for a second term?

3. I didn't make the decision to run again.

4. We had a deal.

5. Andrew Jackson had

6. a big block of cheese.

7. It's "Throw Open Our Office Doors To People

8. Who Want To Discuss Things

9. That We Could Care Less About" Day.

10. Sam?

11. What day is this?

12. It's Friday.

13. I'm sorry. I meant... I'm sorry. What time is it?

14. You sleep here last night?

15. I'm sorry?

16. You slept here?

17. I don't have a couch in my office.

18. Yeah, but you have a bed in your house, right?

19. I need to change my shirt.

20. Maybe you need to go home for a while.

21. What are you doing here so early?

22. Trying to avoid the protesters.

23. Metro Police closed a four-block radius around the World Bank

24. and made Pennsylvania Avenue one way from M to 21st.

25. 17th and 15th are closed to Independence Avenue

26. and Constitution's closed between 23rd and the Ellipse.

27. Did you take Dupont?

28. Dupont had two turns closed off

29. with metal barricades and cop cars.

30. So I took P to Logan Circle, which was also blocked.

31. So I made a U-turn and doubled back

32. to get on 16th where there was a police cordon

33. around the National Geographic Society.

34. Who has a problem with the National Geographic Society?

35. That's exactly what I want to know.

36. Anyway, I'm going to change my shirt.

37. What's going on with the pardon recommendations?

38. They're coming together.

39. I've reviewed the recommendations

40. from Justice and the OPA

41. and Tribbey's office had its own recommendations.

42. How many are you sending in?

43. 18, I think now.

44. Mail fraud, securities fraud

45. and truly the most bogus drug bust I've ever seen.

46. Don't retry the cases.

47. I'm not retrying the cases.

48. I'm reading the material I'm supposed to read.

49. I'm making the recommendations I'm supposed to make.

50. The guy was tried in Spain and found guilty of a crime

51. he was obviously too stupid to commit.

52. Sam, go home, would you?

53. No, I'm just going to change my shirt.

54. You look bad.

55. You're tired, you slept in the office.

56. It's Friday— go home.

57. Why?

58. 'Cause I think you're putting too much faith

59. in the magical powers of a new shirt.

60. Leo.

61. Josh told me what happened...

62. with your parents.

63. Sam...

64. Yeah?

65. My father had affairs.

66. Did he?

67. Yeah.

68. My father didn't pick up a cocktail waitress, Leo.

69. He's had a woman in an apartment in Santa Monica...

70. Yeah?

71. for 28 years.

72. How'd he get caught?

73. My father, it turns out

74. is stupider than the guy in Spain.

75. So, the real question is: How did he not get caught until now?

76. Yeah.

77. Anyway, I'll see you at the staff meeting later.

78. Sam

79. Yeah.

80. When did you find out?

81. Tuesday.

82. You slept here the last three nights?

83. No.

84. Seriously, man, go home.

85. No, I'm going to check the final OPA list.

86. In fact, I'll be checking it twice—

87. see who's been naughty, see who's been nice.

88. Sam.

89. Life goes on, Leo.

90. Certainly the Federal Government does, so...

91. thanks, but let's drop it, okay?

92. Yeah.

93. They're expecting trouble at the National Geographic Society?

94. I have no explanation.

95. Well, those little postcards they stick

96. in the subscription magazines

97. drive me out of my mind, so maybe...

98. Yeah.

99. I'll see you later.

100. Hey, Sam.

101. This is Ginger, it's 6:35

102. I've opened the Communications Office.

103. The Andrew Jackson speech.

104. Yeah. It is a good speech.

105. And it gets better every year, but...

106. What?

107. You're not going to give it, right?

108. Sure. Why?

109. Because it's Big Block of Cheese Day, Josh.

110. Yeah, see, but we knowit's Big Block of Cheese Day

111. and we know why it's called Big Block of Cheese Day

112. so, there's really no need for the speech.

113. Except it wouldn't be Big Block of Cheese Day

114. without the speech, now would it?

115. Well, let's find out. Maybe it would.

116. How'd you get to work this morning?

117. I walked.

118. Ah. Yeah.

119. How is it out there?

120. Uh, it's pretty loud.

121. World Policy Studies is holding a forum this morning.

122. I'm going to send Toby.

123. That's a good idea.

124. Why?

125. Well, 'cause you're not sending me.

126. Look, I...

127. Leo, the World Bank and the WTO

128. are international organizations

129. of which the U.S. is onemember.

130. Why isn't Switzerland the one?

131. 'Cause they're not protesting in Switzerland—

132. they're protesting on 18th Street, and I don't want to be asked

133. how come no one from the White House ever met with them.

134. Well, that seems reasonable.

135. I can't tell you how relieved I am

136. to have your approval on that.

137. But you're still going to do the speech.

138. Got to. Yeah.

139. A little thing called team morale, Josh.

140. You got to make people feel good about themselves.

141. All right, shut the hell up, everybody.

142. I've fired more people than you before breakfast.

143. Andrew Jackson, in the main foyer of the White House

144. had a big block of cheese.

145. The block of cheese was huge

146. C.J.: Leo, who made these assignments?

147. I think this'll go faster

148. if I'm not interrupted, don't you?

149. I'm meeting with the Organization

150. of Cartographers for Social Equality?

151. Yes.

152. What do mapmakers have to do with social equality?

153. I guess you're about to find out.

154. Well, probably not because I won't really be listening to them.

155. The block of cheese was huge...

156. Excuse me, Leo. C.J., I got NIH research funding

157. for cancer treatment using shark cartilage

158. if you want to trade.

159. I'll take that. What do you got?

160. Citizens for D.C. Statehood. Forget it.

161. I've got the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Society

162. but I'm keeping it.

163. You're all keeping it.

164. I'm sure Margaret worked long and hard to make sure

165. that the appropriate petitioner went to the appropriate staffer.

166. The block of cheese was two tons

167. and was there for any and all who might be hungry...

168. Excuse me.

169. I was waylaid.

170. C.J.: By what?

171. 30,000 tourists.

172. You know, the protesters.

173. Don't call them protesters.

174. I've seen better organized crowds at the DMV.

175. Two tons, this block of cheese weighed.

176. In my day we knew how to protest.

177. What day was that?

178. 1968.

179. How the hell old were you

180. when you were protesting?

181. My sisters took me.

182. Anybody have a problem with that?

183. No one has a problem with that.

184. The police are always seven steps ahead of them.

185. The cops know exactly where they're going to be and what's going to happen.

186. You know how they know? By logging onto their web site.

187. We had the underground, we had rapid response.

188. And by God, you were home by supper on a school night.

189. These people are amateurs.

190. What's my assignment?

191. Meeting with the amateurs.

192. Huh?

193. World Policy Studies is having a forum—

194. there'll be about a hundred of them.

195. Doing what?

196. Listening to you conduct

197. a free exchange of ideas.

198. Really?

199. Josh thinks it's a good idea.

200. Oh, well, if Josh thinks it's a good idea

201. then, you bet, I'll do it.

202. Look... What else is there?

203. I've got Cartographers for Social Equality.

204. So, now you have two choices—

205. meeting with an unruly mob

206. or meeting with lunatic mapmakers.

207. Or getting paid a lot more money

208. working almost anywhere else I want.

209. Seriously, Toby, there'll be security there.

210. But still...

211. What about press? Just wires.

212. No, I mean TV.

213. No cameras.

214. You negotiated that?

215. Yeah.

216. They agreed to it?

217. You want to make out with me right now, don't you?

218. Well, when don't I?

219. Give me the thing.

220. Okay, then.

221. Andrew Jackson in the main foyer of the White House

222. had a two-ton block of cheese.

223. And a Wheat Thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

224. It was there for any and all who were hungry.

225. It was there for the voiceless

226. the faceless, the disenfranchised...

227. Stephanie.

228. Hi.

229. You look great.

230. Thank you.

231. Why are you talking like that?

232. I don't want to shout.

233. We can use our normal voices, though, right?

234. Never been in the White House.

235. If you wait till later tonight, I'll give you a tour.

236. Did I get you out of something?

237. No, I meant we're not allowed to give tours until after 10:00

238. when the President's out of the west wing.

239. Oh.

240. Come with me.

241. The President works until 10:00?

242. He usually works until after that

243. but he leaves the Oval at 10:00.

244. This is Josh's office.

245. Donna, I am getting you out of something, though, right?

246. Nothing. You got me out of

247. The Big Block of Cheese Day meeting.

248. What's...

249. I had the worst feeling you were going to ask.

250. Andrew Jackson, while he was president

251. had in the main foyer of the White House—

252. I can't believe I'm giving this speech—

253. a two-ton block of cheese.

254. In that spirit, Leo McGarry designates one day

255. for certain senior staff members to take appointments

256. with people or groups that wouldn't ordinarily

257. be able to get the ear of the White House.

258. Sounds amazing.

259. We make a lot of fun of it

260. but truth is, I think it is.

261. Um, I'm sorry to, uh...

262. Oh, yeah.

263. Were you able to mention me to Sam Seaborn?

264. I wasn't.

265. I haven't yet, and I apologize.

266. No, that's okay.

267. Sam's just... it's been a bad week for Sam.

268. It's just that from everything I've been told

269. the President listens to Sam Seaborn

270. when it comes to...

271. Yeah.

272. I should have said this on the phone.

273. I'm not that comfortable...

274. That's...

275. It puts him in an awkward position

276. if he has to say no, and something like this

277. if it seems like a favor...

278. Steph, is your dad dying?

279. Okay, listen.

280. When we're in with Sam

281. mention what you just said before

282. that from everything you've heard, he's the man.

283. He'll want to impress you

284. and show you that he's got access to the President.

285. Wait a minute.

286. You're really getting me in to see him?

287. It's really all right?

288. Yeah, it's Big Block of Cheese day.

289. It's me.

290. I need some time with Sam.

291. the ten-year numbers.

292. We think it'd be a good idea

293. to take a look at them, sir.

294. Have the ten-year projections

295. ever been close to accurate?

296. Depends on what you mean by "close."

297. Within a trillion dollars?

298. No, sir, but we'd like you to take a look at them anyway.

299. Okay. Bring me the ten-year projections

300. a Ouija board and a magic wand.

301. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. President.

302. What's next?

303. Sir, I need just a moment

304. to discuss a fax that's come in.

305. From whom? Jonathan Bartlet.

306. That name sounds familiar.

307. He's your brother.

308. Yes. I remember being locked in a steamer trunk.

309. That doesn't sound so bad.

310. There were

311. actual steamers in there with me, Charlie.

312. I was in there with seafood.

313. Okay. Well, here's the thing, Mr.

314. We lost the site.

315. You lost the first choice.

316. Why?

317. Your brother's been speaking with Neda Wallin

318. counsel to the Bartlet Presidential Library Commission

319. and apparently the site violates

320. the Historic Barn and Bridges Preservation Act.

321. Which says...?

322. I've got it here in my notes.

323. "Requires that all nonhousing farm and ranch structures

324. "built prior to 1900 be preserved by the owners

325. unless destroyed by an act of God."

326. What plaid flannel-wearing

327. cheese-eating yahoo of a milkman governor

328. signed that idiot bill into state law?

329. It was me, wasn't it?

330. Yes, sir.

331. Okay.

332. They'd like a green light to go ahead with the second site.

333. Yeah, go ahead.

334. Thank you, sir.

335. No.

336. I'm sorry?

337. No, don't go ahead with the site.

338. I just...

339. Tell my brother to hang on, would you?

340. I'll make a decision.

341. I don't know what the damn hurry is.

342. Yes, sir.

343. Bonnie, I now need the ten-year OMB projections as well.

344. Are those ever accurate?

345. No.

346. And you got another call.

347. Thanks.

348. Sam?

349. Oh, hey. How you doing?

350. Sam, this is Stephanie Gault.

351. Stephanie, this is Sam.

352. It's good to meet you.

353. Come on in.

354. Stephanie and I were at Wisconsin together

355. and we bonded as a result of mutual loathing

356. for the same ex-boyfriend.

357. She's an associate professor of International Relations

358. at the Maxwell School.

359. What are you doing in town?

360. Believe it or not, I advise the WTO

361. in certain areas of macroeconomics

362. so a global monetary crisis can't be very far off.

363. What can I do for you?

364. Sam, my grandfather was Daniel Gault.

365. Really?

366. Yeah.

367. You know who Daniel Gault was?

368. He was a staffer here in the '40s.

369. He was a Special Economic Assistant to FDR

370. and Special Liaison to State for Eastern European Affairs.

371. Donna knows the rest.

372. He was jailed for espionage

373. and died in prison six months later.

374. He wasn't put in jail for espionage.

375. They couldn't make espionage.

376. He was put in jail for perjury for lying in front of HUAC.

377. Sam, Stephanie would like her grandfather included

378. among those being considered for an executive pardon.

379. And from everything I've learned

380. you're the only person to speak to about this.

381. That you have the ear of the president.

382. Yeah.

383. It's impossible to demonstrate remorse

384. since he's no longer alive.

385. Demonstrating his innocence is extremely complicated.

386. Yes, but you've already done it.

387. Excuse me?

388. You've already demonstrated his innocence

389. and in an extraordinarily compelling way.

390. You've also spoken eloquently on the need for his pardon.

391. When did I do that?

392. At Princeton

393. for 23 pages in the middle of your thesis.

394. Where did you get that?

395. You sent it to my father.

396. I did.

397. I know it doesn't seem like

398. there should be much of a rush

399. about getting a pardon

400. for someone who's been dead 50 years

401. but time's become a factor.

402. Your father's sick?

403. Yeah.

404. You guys want to go to the mess

405. and get some coffee or something?

406. Yeah.

407. Global justice now!

408. Global justice now!

409. Global justice now!

410. Toby Ziegler.

411. Yeah.

412. Officer Sachs?

413. I'm sending in Toby Ziegler.

414. He's coming in there.

415. Copy that.

416. Mr. Ziegler?

417. Yes, ma'am.

418. Rhonda Sachs.

419. They asked me to make sure you go home in one piece.

420. You fully trained? Yes.

421. How many different ways do you know how to kill a man?

422. How many different ways do I need? I like you.

423. Thank you.

424. Officer Sachs? Yeah?

425. It's going to be a day at the beach.

426. You do understand how it works?

427. Yeah.

428. Recommendations come from the OPA—

429. Office of the Pardon Attorney.

430. Then the president gets into it, and more often than not

431. sends it to Counsel's office for a further review.

432. So, it can be a bit of a drawn-out process.

433. Yeah.

434. What I'm going to do today

435. is speak to somebody at the Justice Department.

436. Which branch of the Justice Department?

437. The FBI.

438. Sam... I know

439. but I won't start in on something like this

440. without giving them a heads-up.

441. My father requested the file

442. in the late '70s and was denied.

443. He sued under Freedom of Information

444. and the judge ruled

445. that the file couldn't be completely disclosed

446. because it met three of nine exemptions allowed...

447. National Defense

448. and Foreign Relations Information

449. Internal Agency Rules and Practices and Personal Privacy.

450. All of which is because the FBI is simply embarrassed

451. about this period in their history.

452. I know, and that's why I have to give them a heads-up.

453. Does Donna know how to get in touch with you later?

454. I'd like to tell you how it's going.

455. We have your number at the hotel? Yeah.

456. Actually, we're meeting for dinner tonight.

457. Stephanie, the reason I mentioned before

458. that it could be a drawn-out process...

459. I understand.

460. I just need to be able

461. to give him some good news.

462. He's a s-sweet man in a bow tie, Sam.

463. His father...

464. He's been trying

465. for so long to...

466. Yeah.

467. Okay, I'll see you later then.

468. Hey, Steph. Hey, Josh.

469. You're across the street in five minutes.

470. Yeah. I'm walking out with you.

471. Sam?

472. Thank you.

473. Yeah.

474. You on the Gault thing?

475. Yeah.

476. That's nice of you.

477. I appreciate that.

478. Yeah. I'll give the Bureau a heads-up.

479. They're not going to be happy about it.

480. No kidding.

481. Did you know Lincoln signed a pardon

482. on the day he was assassinated?

483. Yeah. Do you know the guy's name?

484. Patrick Murphy.

485. You know what he was pardoned for?

486. Being a Union deserter.

487. Am I annoying you?

488. A little bit, yeah.

489. I was trying to make you laugh.

490. I appreciate that.

491. Can I see your friend at the FBI?

492. Yeah. Can I tell him why? Yeah.

493. Hey, you want to have a lot of fun?

494. Seriously. Sit in on C.J.'s meeting

495. with the Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality.

496. Where's the social inequality in cartography?

497. I don't know. That's why I'm going.

498. You'll call the guy?

499. Yeah. Thanks.

500. That a new shirt?

501. Yeah.

502. Nice.

503. Free Trade!

504. Fire your gun.

505. I can't fire a warning shot indoors.

506. No, I mean fire at them.

507. Just kidding.

508. Hey, Solzhenitsyn.

509. Come here.

510. You the group leader?

511. Yeah, I am. I'm Terry Webber.

512. You know what you did today that was really stupid?

513. You gave away the cameras.

514. With cameras in here I've got a problem

515. because I don't want to look like

516. I can't control the crowd.

517. Without the cameras, I can sit here

518. read the sports section for two hours

519. walk outside and say we talked.

520. So, you guys want to talk, that's fine

521. but you're in charge of crowd control

522. know what I'm saying? Yeah.

523. Folks.

524. People, let's listen up.

525. Who elected this guy? I don't understand.

526. We didn't elect him.

527. Good morning, my...

528. The big tobacco, they elected him.

529. They're the ones that paid for him to be here.

530. Good morning, my name is Toby Ziegler

531. and I'm the White House Communications Director

532. and a Senior Domestic Policy Advisor to the President.

533. Advise him we need clean air more than free trade!

534. Who elected you?

535. Let's get on with it already!

536. Global justice now!

537. Global justice now!

538. Global justice now!

539. You want to send out for pizza or something?

540. Global justice now!

541. Global justice now!

542. Yes, sir?

543. I'm here to see Special Agent Casper.

544. My name is Sam Seaborn.

545. Seaborn?

546. Yeah.

547. I'm sorry, I'm not seeing your name here.

548. Agent Casper knows you're coming?

549. Sam.

550. How you doing, Mike?

551. Just requesting the file on Daniel Gault

552. is so wildly outside the parameters of your authority

553. as a political appointee...

554. I came here to... Listen...

555. Mike, you guys got it wrong and you know it. Really?

556. Yes. What else do I know?

557. Michael, I gave the heads-up as a courtesy.

558. I don't need your permission to go to the OPA.

559. I don't need your permission to tell the press why I did.

560. Sam, the guy did six months for a capital crime.

561. Now you want to get him a Presidential pardon?

562. He did six months for perjury

563. before vexingly dying of a heart attack.

564. You know why?

565. 'Cause the prosecutor couldn't make espionage.

566. That's right. Why do you suppose that was?

567. I don't suppose, I know.

568. It was because the U.S. Attorney blew it.

569. 12 jurors say no and you're still...

570. The man was named by Joe McCarthy as part...

571. The "20 Years of Treason."

572. Yes. Which was called at the time

573. a "conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf

574. any previous venture in the history of man."

575. Somebody wake me up from this 'cause I think

576. you just deputized Joe McCarthy into your argument.

577. My point... You know who else was on that list?

578. General George Marshall, author of the Marshall plan

579. and mentor to Eisenhower.

580. Of course, that was after he won World War II.

581. We made more than we missed.

582. Owen Lattimore, I.F. Stone.

583. Not everybody at State was wrongly accused.

584. some pretty dangerous TV comedy writers, too.

585. Sam... Ring Lardner just died.

586. How many years does he get back?

587. Listen to me.

588. The Bureau's had moments in its past that it's not proud of.

589. I'll bet if we comb through the fine print of history

590. we might be able to find

591. one or two occupants of the Oval Office

592. who could say the same thing.

593. But the difference is our failures are public

594. and our successes are private.

595. So when we apprehend an enemy of the State

596. like say, a fugitive member of West Virginia White Pride

597. we don't take a curtain call on Sunday with Sam and Cokie.

598. When we learned that it wasn't the Secret Service

599. who ordered the canopy down in Rosslyn

600. we kept it to ourselves.

601. Please, God, Mike

602. please tell me you weren't just threatening Toby Ziegler.

603. I wasn't, Sam.

604. Good.

605. Yeah.

606. Anyway... "Because the Bureau will be embarrassed"

607. isn't a good enough reason.

608. I'm putting Daniel Gault on the list.

609. I just wanted to give you a heads-up.

610. Anything else?

611. Nope.

612. Hi, I'm sorry.

613. Hello.

614. I'm sorry to be late.

615. Not a problem. I'm C.J. Cregg.

616. Of course you are.

617. I'm Dr. John Fallow.

618. This is Dr. Cynthia Sayles

619. and Professor Donald Huke.

620. Huke? Huke.

621. Okay. And you are

622. the Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality.

623. Well, we're from the OCSE, we have many members.

624. How many?

625. 4,300 dues paying members.

626. What are the dues?

627. $20 a year for the newsletter.

628. Let's start. Wait.

629. Wait, I want to see this.

630. This is Josh Lyman.

631. Indeed you are.

632. Josh, this is Dr. Fallow and his merry men. Hi.

633. Yes.

634. Should we begin? Yes.

635. Plain and simple, we'd like President Bartlet

636. to aggressively support legislation

637. that would make it mandatory

638. for every public school in America

639. to teach geography

640. using the Peters Projection Map

641. instead of the traditional Mercator.

642. Give me 200 bucks and it's done.

643. Really? No.

644. Why are we changing maps?

645. Because, C.J., the Mercator Projection has fostered

646. European imperialist attitudes for centuries

647. and created an ethnic bias against a Third World.

648. Really?

649. The German cartographer, Mercator, originally designed this map

650. in 1569 as a navigational tool for European sailors.

651. The map enlarges areas at the poles

652. to create straight lines of constant bearing

653. or geographic direction.

654. So it makes it easier to cross an ocean.

655. But... Yes?

656. It distorts the relative size of nations and continents.

657. Are you saying the map is wrong?

658. Oh, dear, yes.

659. Look at Greenland.

660. Okay.

661. Now look at Africa.

662. Okay.

663. The two land masses appear to be roughly the same size.

664. Yes. Would it blow your mind

665. if I told you that Africa is in reality 14 times larger?

666. Yes.

667. Here we have Europe

668. drawn considerable larger than South America

669. when at 6.9 million square miles

670. South America is almost double the size of Europe's 3.8 million.

671. Alaska appears three times as large as Mexico

672. when Mexico is larger by.1 million square miles.

673. Germany appears in the middle of the map

674. when it's in the northernmost quarter of the Earth.

675. Wait. Relative size is one thing

676. but you're telling me that Germany isn't where we think it is?

677. Nothing's where you think it is.

678. Where is it?

679. I'm glad you asked.

680. The Peters Projection.

681. It has fidelity of axis.

682. Fidelity of position.

683. East-west lines are parallel and intersect

684. north-south axes at right angles.

685. What the hell is that?

686. It's where you've been living this whole time.

687. Should we continue?

688. Uh-huh.

689. Look, I'm not saying we're going to like the answers

690. I'm saying we're going to give him a chance to talk.

691. Now if you do have a question...

692. Yeah, my question is who elected his boss

693. the people or Kaiser-Permanente?

694. He's not my President, let's vote.

695. Who do you really work for?

696. Who paid for you to be here?

697. You're having a pretty good time, aren't you?

698. Well, it's not like being at a Yankee game.

699. You suck!

700. Well, actually...

701. yeah, it's like being at a Yankee game.

702. So, Toby... Officer.

703. Since you're not really doing anything right now

704. I was wondering, what's this all about?

705. It's about the WTO, Rhonda, the World Trade Organization.

706. Well, I get that from the signs and the newspapers.

707. The World Trade Organization's

708. a group of 140 countries

709. who have agreed to specific trade policies.

710. So what's wrong with that?

711. Nothing's wrong with that.

712. What would they say if I asked them the same question?

713. They'd say the WTO benefits corporations and not people.

714. Does it?

715. Benefits both.

716. Look at them.

717. Philistines.

718. Take my nightstick and go kick their ass.

719. Yeah, make all the jokes you want

720. but let me tell you something:

721. They claim to speak for the underprivileged

722. but here in the blackest city in America

723. I'm looking at a room with no black faces.

724. No Asians, no Hispanics.

725. Where the hell's

726. the Third World they claim to represent?

727. Lot of Third-Worlders in the Cabinet Room today, were there?

728. You're starting to bother me.

729. That's 'cause I'm armed.

730. No, I like that.

731. I'm going outside.

732. Hey, Sam. Hey, Charlie, what's going on?

733. The President lost his first choice of a site for the library.

734. What happened?

735. There's an 18th century farmhouse they can't take down.

736. They'll find another site.

737. Yeah, anyway, he's kind of a in a mood.

738. They shouldn't be talking to him now about the library anyway.

739. We're not going anywhere for a few years, right?

740. Well, I think that's what's got him in a mood.

741. Sam, you just got a call.

742. Ginger, do me a favor and catch the calls.

743. I'm going to lie down in Toby's office for a few minutes.

744. Sam, it was the National Security Advisor.

745. Well, he's talking about force protection, right?

746. I'm sorry, Colonel, that was me.

747. He's talking about force protection?

748. Right, but the President's going to ask me

749. about the readiness issue.

750. I'm saying he's going to want to distinguish readiness

751. and force protection.

752. No, that was me again.

753. I'm the only woman on a conference call

754. Delaney can't tell when it's me talking.

755. Do I have a bizarrely androgynous voice?

756. Excuse me, I'm going to step off for just a minute.

757. How you doing?

758. Good. Good.

759. Drop Daniel Gault.

760. Nancy... Drop Daniel Gault, do it right now.

761. Why? 'Cause I just told you to.

762. Nancy, I'm a lawyer.

763. Let's let reason and logic have its moment.

764. There was one witness. Sam...

765. Earl Lydecker, a low-level State Department staffer

766. who confessed to FBI counterintelligence officers

767. that he and Gault had conspired

768. to send U.S. economic analysis documents

769. to Soviet agents at the Russian embassy.

770. Yes. He confessed, by the way, for no particular reason.

771. Yes. It was subsequently demonstrated that Lydecker

772. was a clinically diagnosed manic-depressive

773. with a history of— wait for it—

774. institutionalization.

775. This was the chief witness for the prosecution.

776. According to... Sam...

777. Excuse me, please.

778. According to retired KGB Colonel Oleg Prosorov

779. a search of the files in Lubyanka

780. reveals only one reference to Gault:

781. That he was approached in 1943

782. and labeled "highly uncooperative"

783. and a "poor prospect for recruitment."

784. Sam, Daniel Gault was a spy.

785. Oh, my God... He was a Soviet spy, Sam.

786. Based on what? Diplomatic cables

787. intercepted by U.S. Army Signal Intelligence in the 1940s.

788. If that was the case

789. why couldn't the U.S. Attorney

790. make espionage in the 1950s?

791. 'Cause the cables weren't decrypted until the 1970s.

792. You're telling me we cracked some obscure Russian code

793. and suddenly we learned Gault was a spy?

794. Yes. That's crap.

795. If the FBI had proof on Gault

796. they'd have told the world about it.

797. No, they wouldn't have, Sam.

798. Nancy... No, they wouldn't have.

799. Neither would the NSA, neither would Central Intelligence.

800. You don't show someone you've broken their ciphers

801. unless you have to.

802. Gault was long dead.

803. But before he was

804. he was an agent called "Black Water."

805. He was a delegate at Yalta.

806. And he returned to the U.S. by way of Rostov

807. where he was awarded the Order of Lenin.

808. Yeah, well, I'll believe that when they show me the file.

809. That's not an FBI file.

810. It's an NSA file.

811. Nancy, I'm classified

812. but I don't have code word clearance.

813. I know.

814. I'm saying I'm not allowed to see that

815. and you could get into trouble for showing it to me.

816. I could go to jail for showing it to you

817. which obviously I'm not going to do.

818. I have blacked out any lateral reference

819. that is code word classified.

820. Those are the only things I've blacked out

821. and they are in no way relevant to your question.

822. Look at me.

823. Do you believe me?

824. Of course.

825. Go ahead.

826. This is Dr. Nancy McNally

827. the National Security Advisor.

828. But again, that's force protection and not readiness.

829. So, uh... you're probably wondering

830. what all of this has to do with social equality.

831. No. I'm wondering where France really is.

832. Guys, we want to thank you very much for coming in...

833. Hang on.

834. We're going to finish this. Okay.

835. What do maps have to do with social equality, you ask?

836. She asked. Salvatore Natoli

837. of the National Council for Social Studies argues

838. "In our society, we unconsciously equate size

839. with importance, and even power."

840. I'm going to check in on Toby.

841. Go.

842. These guys find Brigadoon on that map, you'll call me, right?

843. Probably not. Okay.

844. When Third World countries are misrepresented

845. they're likely to be valued less.

846. When Mercator maps exaggerate the importance

847. of Western civilization

848. when the top of the map is given to the northern hemisphere

849. and the bottom is given to the southern...

850. then people will tend to adopt top and bottom attitudes.

851. But... wait.

852. How...

853. Where else could you put the northern hemisphere

854. but on the top?

855. On the bottom.

856. How?

857. Like this.

858. Yeah, but you can't do that.

859. Why not?

860. 'Cause it's freaking me out.

861. It's activist vacation is what it is.

862. Spring break for anarchist wannabes.

863. The black t-shirts, the gas masks as fashion accessory.

864. These kids today, with the hair and the clothes...

865. All right, that's it, flatfoot.

866. I got great feet.

867. You want the benefits of free trade?

868. Food is cheaper. Yes.

869. Food is cheaper, clothes are cheaper

870. steel is cheaper, cars are cheaper

871. phone service is cheaper.

872. You feel me building a rhythm here?

873. It's 'cause I'm a speech writer and I know how to make a point.

874. Toby... It lowers prices and raises income.

875. You see what I did with "lowers" and "raises" there? Yes.

876. It's called the science of listener attention.

877. We did repetition, we did floating opposites

878. and now you end with the one that's not like the others.

879. Ready?

880. Free trade stops wars.

881. And that's it.

882. Free trade stops wars.

883. And we figure out a way to fix the rest.

884. One world, one peace.

885. I'm sure I've seen that on a sign somewhere.

886. God, Toby...

887. Wouldn't it be great if there were someone around here

888. with communication skills who could go in there and tell them that?

889. Shut up.

890. Toby...

891. What are you doing here?

892. Came down to see how it was going.

893. How's it going? Josh Lyman.

894. Rhonda Sachs.

895. Any trouble?

896. No. Josh.

897. The WTO is undemocratic, and accountable to no one

898. decisions are made by Executive Directors

899. and the developing world has little to say

900. about institutional policy.

901. What was that?

902. I protested to you.

903. Why?

904. 'Cause I'm not allowed to get arrested anymore.

905. Let's go back.

906. Nah.

907. I hate these people with the heat of a nova.

908. Yet here I go.

909. Attaboy.

910. Shut up.

911. I got your back, man, you know?

912. Or not.

913. Charlie?

914. Yes, sir?

915. Let's do calls in the residence, okay?

916. Yes, sir. I think there were a couple of late memos...

917. Good evening, Mr. President.

918. They're on your desk, sir.

919. Thanks.

920. I'm going to head home.

921. At 7:30?

922. I'll make calls from the residence.

923. Are you feeling all right? Yeah.

924. I heard you lost the site.

925. What's the backup?

926. Well, there's this wooded land on the Connecticut River

927. but the Abenaki Indians are claiming

928. it's an ancient burial ground.

929. Ah.

930. There's a magnificent bluff

931. overlooking an orchard in Orford

932. and the owner is willing, if not eager

933. to donate the land. What's the problem?

934. The owner's doing 40 months at Allenwood for securities fraud.

935. You'll find the site.

936. This is how long I get before I have to start with the library?

937. Two years? And the first six months

938. was figuring out how to work the phones?

939. Oh, by the way, they've changed the phones again.

940. Yeah.

941. This is the last job I'm ever going to have.

942. This is the last time I'm going to come to work with people.

943. I swear to God, I feel like I was just starting to get good at it.

944. Well, it's two years, with an option for four more.

945. Mr. President, is there anything we need to talk about?

946. Not yet, okay?

947. Okay.

948. I'll see you tomorrow.

949. Thank you, Mr. President.

950. Sam?

951. What are you doing?

952. I don't know.

953. Where have you been all afternoon?

954. I've been around.

955. Then I came down here to practice my sugar tossing

956. 'cause if you don't practice

957. then you might as well give the clarinet to a kid who'll use it.

958. Stephanie's upstairs.

959. I put her in your office 'cause Josh is back.

960. When she said that from what she's heard

961. I'm the one to talk to, that... I have the ear of the president

962. you told her to say that, right?

963. It was...

964. This was so important to her.

965. I wanted to give...

966. Yes.

967. I did. I'm sorry.

968. I don't know why you would think I was like that.

969. I mean, for fun, but...

970. I don't know why you'd think I was like that.

971. It was wrong.

972. Yeah.

973. Were you able to...

974. He was a spy.

975. You're sure?

976. Yes.

977. No, I mean it's not possible that...

978. His code name was "Black Water."

979. He copied by hand State Department and White House documents

980. and delivered them to the Soviets.

981. They included... Sam...

982. Roosevelt's plans to enter the war...

983. You can't tell her.

984. You have to tell her something else.

985. Possible recruitment targets.

986. Sam. It was...

987. Lists of Communists and Communist sympathisizers

988. in the State Department and the National Recovery Administration.

989. Sam... What are you, out of your mind?

990. I'm telling her right now. No.

991. No, Sam.

992. Please, you really can't do this.

993. Secret memoranda on the U.S. negotiating stance at Yalta.

994. Please stop walking.

995. Good, 'cause Stalin needed an advantage

996. and we wanted a fair fight.

997. Sam, nothing good comes from telling her.

998. The truth isn't good?

999. Not right now, no. The father is not going to live

1000. another three months— let it go till then.

1001. I'm not her fairy godmother.

1002. She asked me to look into this.

1003. I say you wait three months until...

1004. Donna... Listen to me.

1005. You're in a bad place right now

1006. If you don't tell her tonight, you can tell her tomorrow..

1007. If you tell her tonight, that's it.

1008. It was people pushing paper around 50 years ago.

1009. Why does it matter?

1010. It was high treason, and it mattered a great deal.

1011. This country is an idea

1012. and one that's lit the world for two centuries

1013. and treason against that idea

1014. is not just a crime against the living.

1015. This ground holds the graves of people who died for it

1016. who gave what Lincoln called the last full measure of devotion.

1017. Of fidelity.

1018. Do you understand the last full measure of devotion to...

1019. Treason against them

1020. is...

1021. Sam...

1022. There was a translator in the Hungarian trade mission

1023. named Shaba Demsky.

1024. She was murdered in 1952.

1025. She was about to reveal

1026. the name of a Soviet agent called Black Water.

1027. This girl's going to find out who her father was.

1028. Sam...

1029. You meant grandfather.

1030. Tell me there's good news.

1031. Have you ever heard of a woman named Shaba Demsky?

1032. No.

1033. Sam?

1034. I'm sorry, Stephanie, I wasn't able to get access

1035. to the people I needed to have it considered this time around.

1036. Why don't you tell your father

1037. you'll be able to try again in three months.

1038. So, you're open to it?

1039. Absolutely.

1040. That's all he needed.

1041. That's all I needed.

1042. Did you hear?

1043. You should call him right now.

1044. Can I use the phone on your desk?

1045. Yeah, dial 9.

1046. Everyone was right about you, Sam.

1047. Sam's the man.

1048. It's just there are certain things you're sure of...

1049. like longitude and latitude.

1050. Sam, I don't know

1051. if this is the best time to tell you

1052. but according to C.J.

1053. I wouldn't be so sure about longitude and latitude.

1054. Hey...

1055. You should've seen Toby.

1056. He was good?

1057. He blew the doors off the place.

1058. Then I almost got killed.

1059. I got hit with a piece of a banana.

1060. Let's go.

1061. You know what you are?

1062. You are old school, my friend.

1063. Stop talking like that. Let's go.

1064. Let me tell you something, though.

1065. That was the second time this year I almost got killed

1066. and both times I was with you

1067. so you're going to need a new wingman.

1068. You were my old wingman?

1069. Yeah. Let's go.

1070. Where are you going?

1071. Toby and I are going to get Sam drunk, and then put him to bed.

1072. I'll come.

1073. Let's go.

1074. I'm going to meet you there.

1075. Yeah?

1076. All right.

1077. Dad... it's me.