1. Previously on The West Wing:Copy !req
2. - What are you doing?
- Excuse me?Copy !req
3. We don't push agendas here.Copy !req
4. I don't believe I am.Copy !req
5. I was in a lockdown
for 77 hours once.Copy !req
6. - Where was that?
- Overseas.Copy !req
7. Okay. I get it. CIA.Copy !req
8. I could look you up.
I have code word clearance.Copy !req
9. Not this code, you don't.Copy !req
10. We have the ability to effect more
change in a day at the White House...Copy !req
11. than we have in a lifetime
once we walk out these doors.Copy !req
12. What do you wanna do with them?Copy !req
13. - Leo, you know what time it is?
- Good morning, Mr. President.Copy !req
14. I'll be the judge of that.
It's a little after 5 a. m.Copy !req
15. - 5:13, to be precise.
- It wasn't my favorite thing, calling you.Copy !req
16. - Yeah, I had to run the gauntlet upstairs.
- That can be special.Copy !req
17. "The world breaks everyone,
and afterwards many are strong...Copy !req
18. at the broken places.
But those that will not break, it kills.Copy !req
19. It kills the very good and the very gentle
and the very brave impartially. "Copy !req
20. When he was good, he was very, very
good, and when he was bad, he was...Copy !req
21. Hemingway was a monster.
He hated his mother...Copy !req
22. treated four wives miserably,
trashed his friends, grew paranoid...Copy !req
23. had breakdowns.
Like his father, killed himself.Copy !req
24. Well, aside from all that, why are you
harassing me at 5:13 a. m.?Copy !req
25. I've been on the phone.
There's a rumor about Castro.Copy !req
26. - There's always rumors about him.
- And at some point, they'll be true.Copy !req
27. We've been laying groundwork
and making progress. Slow, granted.Copy !req
28. - A year. Who's counting?
- If the talks we've cobbled together...Copy !req
29. with Cuba blow up, and this number
reaches zero, and we've got nothing...Copy !req
30. - ... to show for it...
- For this, you're reading Hemingway?Copy !req
31. - It's been 10 years.
- I remember.Copy !req
32. In 30 days,
you read the complete works of.Copy !req
33. It was hot. It was dry.
I had time on my hands.Copy !req
34. Changed my life. Well...Copy !req
35. - ... not Hemingway, exactly.
- Sierra Tucson can do that.Copy !req
36. Sir.Copy !req
37. I've got an idea.Copy !req
38. - Charlie, have you seen Leo?
- He's gone.Copy !req
39. - Gone?
- I saw him packing up a few hours ago.Copy !req
40. - That would be night.
- Yeah, it was still dark out.Copy !req
41. Señor McGarry,
you made it successfully.Copy !req
42. How was your trip?Copy !req
43. The boat ride wasn't a lot of fun.Copy !req
44. The weather, it's been bad.Copy !req
45. Seemed like a good idea at the time.Copy !req
46. Please, enter la finca de
Señor Ernesto Hemingway.Copy !req
47. Mr. President?Copy !req
48. - 7:53.
- It's 7:49.Copy !req
49. It's 7:53, and I had 7:53.Copy !req
50. It doesn't reflect kindly
to what looks nothing...Copy !req
51. - ... so much like trying to welsh on a bet.
- You requested...Copy !req
52. the EPA's ozone standard report.
Leo had it, but...Copy !req
53. We've been expecting you. I had 7:53,
and Debbie's watch stopped.Copy !req
54. A small wager about how long
it'd take before someone came...Copy !req
55. - ... to ask where Leo might be.
- I don't understand.Copy !req
56. Who knew he was such a Hemingway
fan that he'd go and visit his house?Copy !req
57. The one in Idaho or the one
with the six-toe cats in Key West?Copy !req
58. Good question, Charles Young.
You know, I forgot to ask.Copy !req
59. You admire Ernesto?Copy !req
60. Very much. His writing. The best of it.Copy !req
61. - The bug people are coming today.
- Where's, "Good morning," coffee, eggs?Copy !req
62. There may be termites
in the White House.Copy !req
63. - Hold the eggs.
- Two companies wanna do tests.Copy !req
64. There could be some kind
of ant also. Carpenter ant.Copy !req
65. There's fear it's related to the outbreak
of the woolly adelgid.Copy !req
66. The woolly what?Copy !req
67. They're attacking hemlocks
in the Smoky Mountains and Virginia.Copy !req
68. - They're closing in.
- You're making this up.Copy !req
69. You gave me the briefing book.
The Roosevelt or Mural Room?Copy !req
70. - Are they coming here to talk?
- They might munch around.Copy !req
71. Munch? Just keep them far away
from me, thank you.Copy !req
72. - They handle a large constituency.
- A small constituency.Copy !req
73. Well, size doesn't count.Copy !req
74. Changing the subject,
any word from Leo?Copy !req
75. - Still in Hemingway-ville, far as I know.
- You know he read Hemingway?Copy !req
76. History, books on fishing, thrillers,
Graham Greene, Charles McCarry.Copy !req
77. - You never saw him reading Hemingway?
- Can't say I did.Copy !req
78. He is 79 years old,
so it could be true.Copy !req
79. - Where'd the report come from?
- Miami.Copy !req
80. Well, that's reliable.Copy !req
81. C.J., a report's come in the last hour
that Fidel Castro's seriously ill.Copy !req
82. - Has it been verified?
- We have nothing firm yet.Copy !req
83. - It's from Miami.
- It could be accurate or wishful thinking.Copy !req
84. There's a lot of Chicken Little there,
or it could be a cover for something.Copy !req
85. There's a history of assassination
attempts, psyops forays, invasion plans.Copy !req
86. I thought that had stopped.Copy !req
87. - The CIA did. We're talking years ago.
- It wasn't that long ago.Copy !req
88. - How long to nail down the information?
- A rabid Cuban-American community...Copy !req
89. could be involved. Old zealots, young
hotheads and a ton of agencies.Copy !req
90. - FBI, DEA, NSA, NIA, INS...
- Which doesn't answer my question.Copy !req
91. We may never get a straight answer.
Miami, South Florida, it's Chinatown.Copy !req
92. I don't care. Pin it down.Copy !req
93. By the way, I haven't collected
my winnings yet.Copy !req
94. Excuse me,
I think that would be my winnings.Copy !req
95. Sir, there's a rumor about Castro.Copy !req
96. - Pull up the drawbridge for a minute.
- I'll sound the trumpets...Copy !req
97. alert the gatekeeper, get the federal
government to attach your wages.Copy !req
98. Believe me, they already do.Copy !req
99. Castro's always dying.Copy !req
100. He's dying from hypochondria,
or the exiles are trying to kill him...Copy !req
101. or the CIA's trying to kill him.Copy !req
102. He collapsed a few years ago.
Same thing...Copy !req
103. endless rumors. Then he reappears
in fresh fatigues, trimmed beard...Copy !req
104. and launches into a speech
of such length and intensity...Copy !req
105. it would've put away
William Jennings Bryan.Copy !req
106. NSA seems to think even if it is
a false alarm, it may be significant.Copy !req
107. That's kind of what Leo said.Copy !req
108. Why do I feel that there's something
going on with Leo...Copy !req
109. besides Ernest Hemingway?Copy !req
110. My apologies, C.J.,
but before you were chief of staff...Copy !req
111. we began secret exploratory meetings
in Canada with representatives...Copy !req
112. - ... of the Cuban government.
- Leo's gone to Canada?Copy !req
113. Actually, no. Cuba.Copy !req
114. With, perhaps,
a thermometer and a stethoscope.Copy !req
115. - And an offer, a new deal.
- And what does he say?Copy !req
116. - I'm waiting to find out.
- Is it your plan to tell the rest of us...Copy !req
117. who try and help you two
run this place?Copy !req
118. One night in 1961, shortly after
the Bay of Pigs fiasco...Copy !req
119. President John F. Kennedy sent
Pierre Salinger out on a mission.Copy !req
120. "Come back with 1000
Cuban cigars by morning. "Copy !req
121. Petit Upmanns is what the president
smoked, and before 8 a. m...Copy !req
122. the following morning, Salinger had
managed to corral 1200 of them.Copy !req
123. JFK smiled, thanked him, lit one up.Copy !req
124. Then he opened his desk drawer, pulled
out a long piece of paper and signed it.Copy !req
125. It was a decree banning all Cuban
products from the United States.Copy !req
126. And ever since then, we've had
an embargo against that mosquito...Copy !req
127. of an island 90 miles away,
which has never worked...Copy !req
128. while long before, we threw out
our anachronistic policies towards...Copy !req
129. Russia and China that are thousands
of miles away and far more complex.Copy !req
130. If it becomes public, the reaction
in the Cuban-American community...Copy !req
131. - ... and on the right will be harsh.
- If the Cubans make accommodations...Copy !req
132. - ... before that...
- The Florida primaries are coming.Copy !req
133. - If this comes out...
- If it does, we'll bring out shovels...Copy !req
134. and bury the Democratic candidates
in that little fiesta.Copy !req
135. You sure the country's ready for this?Copy !req
136. Who knows who's gonna be
sitting here next?Copy !req
137. Who knows what will happen
after Castro?Copy !req
138. All I know for sure is there's a moment
here. Before I'm gone and he's gone...Copy !req
139. I am not gonna let it pass.Copy !req
140. Oh, what a beautiful morning.
Oh, what a beautiful day.Copy !req
141. - You wanted to see me?
- That is highly improbable.Copy !req
142. Been here three weeks.
Bring me in, coach.Copy !req
143. - All right. Know Senator Rafe Framhagen?
- I don't like this already.Copy !req
144. He called the president, Leo,
and then me. Guess what that means.Copy !req
145. None of you wanted to talk to him,
which leaves me.Copy !req
146. - See? You do know the senator.
- What's not to know?Copy !req
147. Brilliant, bilious, impossible,
fires staffers for putting...Copy !req
148. - ... paper clips backwards on briefs.
- Which way is backwards?Copy !req
149. - And that one other thing.
- I heard. Practically day and night.Copy !req
150. A wooden leg.
Passes out in his car, they say.Copy !req
151. There you are, your assignment.
Godspeed and I'chaim.Copy !req
152. Oh, yeah, you got all the indications,
all right.Copy !req
153. - Indications of what?
- Subterranean termites.Copy !req
154. You know, these fellas outnumber us
a thousand to one.Copy !req
155. Pile all them up and all us up, 10 times
the weight of all the folks in the world.Copy !req
156. Probably swarmed in through a crack
I saw in the foundation.Copy !req
157. - There was damage under a window.
- Swarmed? What window?Copy !req
158. - The one near that weird round room.
- The Oval Office?Copy !req
159. People appeared from every which way.
Never seen such a thing.Copy !req
160. - May be some evidence here.
- Hey, that's a 200-year-old mural.Copy !req
161. Oh, yeah.Copy !req
162. - How many rooms you got here?
- One hundred and thirty-five.Copy !req
163. - I better start. This may take a while.
- What do you plan to do?Copy !req
164. Sentricon Termite Colony
Elimination System should do it.Copy !req
165. - What does it involve?
- Dig holes, install stations...Copy !req
166. drop in a few grams of Recruit II
and wait.Copy !req
167. Okay, hold on one second.
I'm coming with you.Copy !req
168. Mr. Senator, Cliff Calley's here.Copy !req
169. I've got a copy of his travel itinerary.Copy !req
170. The senator will see you now.Copy !req
171. - Thanks for taking care of that.
- You got it.Copy !req
172. Yeah, come on in, son.
What are you drinking?Copy !req
173. Diet Coke will be fine.Copy !req
174. Diet Coke. No, that's a Georgia drink.Copy !req
175. In Florida, we drink orange juice.Copy !req
176. Fresh. Shipped up every week.
Vitamin C.Copy !req
177. We can inject it with something
if you like.Copy !req
178. - So they sent you.
- I have that privilege, senator.Copy !req
179. I remember you. Yeah, we breed
lawyers around here like minks.Copy !req
180. Except we can't wear you
in the wintertime.Copy !req
181. Well, here's Linda Lee.
Do me a favor, darling.Copy !req
182. Would you freshen mine up too?Copy !req
183. That is a sashaying piece
of pulchritude, isn't it?Copy !req
184. Well, some people say that beauty
and brains don't go together.Copy !req
185. Well, I'm talking smart pulchritude
around here.Copy !req
186. - You know why you're here?
- There's the water table...Copy !req
187. in the Everglades,
the hurricane damage on the Gulf.Copy !req
188. They didn't tell you.Copy !req
189. - I'm sorry, sir?
- Of course not.Copy !req
190. Send ignorance to combat truth, huh?
All right.Copy !req
191. Now, you go back over there,
and you tell those people...Copy !req
192. those people the senator graciously
tried to call...Copy !req
193. They didn't bother to call
the senator back. You tell them...Copy !req
194. that I've heard it too, the rumor.Copy !req
195. - What rumor?
- It's that Castro thing.Copy !req
196. And somebody knowledgeable
better come see me right quick.Copy !req
197. Back when Leo was chief of staff,
I could heckle him a little.Copy !req
198. We used to bend our elbows together
right in this room.Copy !req
199. Down home, back when.Copy !req
200. And now he's gone.Copy !req
201. - Probably only that NSA gal, huh?
- Gal?Copy !req
202. - You like repeating things, son?
- I'm getting good at it.Copy !req
203. You go back a couple of years,
get her out of those power suits...Copy !req
204. back into the Sunshine State,
that would be some serious pulchritude.Copy !req
205. - But she's a buttoned-up babe now.
- Babe?Copy !req
206. - Bet she knows what's going on.
- You mean Kate Harper.Copy !req
207. Just a warning shot across the bow.Copy !req
208. If some heroic new Cuban agenda
is being contemplated...Copy !req
209. by the Bartlet administration,
it's gonna backfire.Copy !req
210. Now, the House may have that bill that
waters down the embargo, but my...Copy !req
211. Cuban-American constituents will
just raise bloody hell over that bill...Copy !req
212. with Democrat candidates.
No such bill will see the light of day...Copy !req
213. out of my commerce committee.
Did you get that...Copy !req
214. or do you wanna repeat some of it?Copy !req
215. C.J., Cliff's here.Copy !req
216. - What's next? That was fun.
- You saw the senator.Copy !req
217. - I'm full of vitamin C.
- Nothing stronger?Copy !req
218. - I think his juice was spiked.
- What did he want?Copy !req
219. - I'm not sure.
- You're not sure?Copy !req
220. This repeating thing must be contagious.
I assumed it was gonna be...Copy !req
221. a doddery senator who ran out
of paper clips...Copy !req
222. but it seemed to be
about Fidel Castro.Copy !req
223. - You got my attention.
- A rumor about his...Copy !req
224. Health. Whether he's alive or dead.Copy !req
225. He was wondering if the White House
was behind it or up to something.Copy !req
226. What is this city, just one big game
of telephone?Copy !req
227. - Anything I should know?
- There's a rumor about his health.Copy !req
228. Yeah. One other odd thing.Copy !req
229. He suggested I talk to Kate Harper.Copy !req
230. She's deputy national security advisor.Copy !req
231. - I don't think that's it.
- Why is that?Copy !req
232. I can't exactly put my finger on it.
He indicated something other than that.Copy !req
233. More.Copy !req
234. Margaret, get me Kate Harper.Copy !req
235. Let me guess, then.
Back to the bench for me?Copy !req
236. This is disgraceful.
I'm actually starting to like you.Copy !req
237. She's gone for the day.Copy !req
238. - Toby!
- Toby!Copy !req
239. Does the White House have knowledge
about Mr. Castro's health?Copy !req
240. The last time we had firsthand
knowledge of Castro's health was 1959.Copy !req
241. We heard he cancelled a rally to denounce
the U.S. on Malecón Boulevard...Copy !req
242. and several posters of him
have been removed from the capitol.Copy !req
243. Well, that could mean he's dead
or the communist government...Copy !req
244. took down posters, planning to replace
them with more flattering photos...Copy !req
245. - ... like six years ago.
- The vice president said he voted...Copy !req
246. for the embargo in 1996
and will continue to support it...Copy !req
247. until this horrific dictatorship
is brought to its knees.Copy !req
248. - Is he speaking for the White House?
- He said that at a campaign rally.Copy !req
249. If Castro is not in control,
how will the White House react?Copy !req
250. - We don't react to hypotheticals.
- Post Castro...Copy !req
251. would we declassify Cuba
a terrorist state?Copy !req
252. Only if they reacted to hypotheticals,
which they and I both don't. Yeah, you.Copy !req
253. Steve. The CIA issued a report
that Cuba has replaced...Copy !req
254. East Asia as the destination
for pedophiles and sex tourists.Copy !req
255. No, I can't issue you a visa.
Next question.Copy !req
256. Hoynes' campaign may be collapsing,
but Russell says he wouldn't rule out...Copy !req
257. military intervention to secure
a democratic transition in Cuba.Copy !req
258. Yeah, they're campaigning in Florida.Copy !req
259. What about Santos? With his
surprising victory in California...?Copy !req
260. If you wanna cover the campaign,
take your questions to Florida.Copy !req
261. - Steve, please.
- Here in Washington...Copy !req
262. - Thank you.
- ... Senator Framhagen said the worst...Copy !req
263. thing a president can do
is send mixed messages to Cuba.Copy !req
264. - She's a blond now.
- I wasn't gonna come.Copy !req
265. And stand up a former CIA compatriot
after all these years?Copy !req
266. It's a time I'd like to forget.Copy !req
267. It was a time of "splendor in the grass,
glory in the flower...Copy !req
268. - ... but we will grieve not... "
- What do you want, Andy?Copy !req
269. We're not running off the reservation
ops anymore. We've changed.Copy !req
270. - Second time I've heard that today.
- No more dirty tricks...Copy !req
271. no more messing with elections,
even for Cabrera.Copy !req
272. - Still, our assignment's the same, Kate.
- You came here to tell me this?Copy !req
273. No. I just wanted to warn you guys
over there that it's a big mistake...Copy !req
274. to dig into the Cuban tar pit
once again.Copy !req
275. - What are you talking about?
- Leo McGarry.Copy !req
276. - What about him?
- Can't touch down in Cuba...Copy !req
277. at his level. Whatever the precautions,
word will leak out.Copy !req
278. Everyone's on the take or has an agenda
or is an agent or a wannabe.Copy !req
279. I don't know anything about it.Copy !req
280. - You played that beautifully.
- I played nothing.Copy !req
281. Whether you're lying or covering
because you can't or won't tell me...Copy !req
282. or you're telling the truth...Copy !req
283. the one thing we learned there,
you can't beat history.Copy !req
284. The Bartlet administration can't pull
this off. It's not gonna work.Copy !req
285. The president will be hung out to dry.Copy !req
286. C.J., why didn't anyone tell me?Copy !req
287. - Excuse me?
- I'm the deputy NSA...Copy !req
288. and I don't know
Leo McGarry's in Cuba?Copy !req
289. Yeah. How did you find out?Copy !req
290. It's 90 miles away.
It's like driving to Baltimore.Copy !req
291. - There's 3.5 million Cuban-Americans...
- Do you know Senator Framhagen?Copy !req
292. Florida. He is Florida. I knew him
when I was stationed there in '95.Copy !req
293. It was my first posting.Copy !req
294. Why would he say to ask you
about Castro's health?Copy !req
295. I don't know. Maybe because he
assumed I'd know about Leo's trip.Copy !req
296. - How close is your source?
- Very.Copy !req
297. Look, C.J., we don't wanna get stuck
in the muck down there again.Copy !req
298. Hey, look who's back.Copy !req
299. She caught on, Leo.
I had to spill the beans.Copy !req
300. You talked to him? How was he?Copy !req
301. He's alive, and I think he might
finally be ready to deal...Copy !req
302. and he can talk and talk. He agrees
on the need for further private...Copy !req
303. unpublicized discussions bilaterally.Copy !req
304. The man's indefatigable. No wonder
he's held sway for coming on 50 years.Copy !req
305. Still smoking cigars.Copy !req
306. I'm not sure he's ready to fight
for justice and the American way.Copy !req
307. I am optimistic, but we've been
down this road before.Copy !req
308. - I don't wanna fail again.
- It's a beginning, an opening.Copy !req
309. Just thank God he didn't ask
about baseball.Copy !req
310. What he and I both think about it
could've blown the whole thing.Copy !req
311. He saw you pitch at the Orioles game.
He had pointers.Copy !req
312. - I'm sure.
- My fear is there seem to be rumors...Copy !req
313. more rumors,
and rumors within rumors.Copy !req
314. With Cuba, everyone seems to have
secrets, and they never stay that way.Copy !req
315. Yeah, you're right. We don't need
to paint this guy as a hero.Copy !req
316. It's time to deal with him.
Let's put together a fail-safe response...Copy !req
317. on how and what to announce
about Castro's health...Copy !req
318. about Leo's trip, then sound out public
and congressional reaction...Copy !req
319. and the candidates, what to do
about its impact on the primaries...Copy !req
320. and the general election
and Cuba's response.Copy !req
321. - How soon?
- How about the end of the day?Copy !req
322. - Are they here yet?
- They're in your office.Copy !req
323. - Can you get me Kate Harper's file?
- I can't.Copy !req
324. - Why not?
- That's top-secret, above my level.Copy !req
325. - What do we have to do?
- Formal letter of request, signed by you.Copy !req
326. Write it. Forge my signature.
You can do the president's.Copy !req
327. But his is simple, just a sweeping
garland formation. Yours...Copy !req
328. - Mine is what?
- Angular...Copy !req
329. aggressive.
I mean, your signature...Copy !req
330. See the baseline,
the unevenly distributed pressure...Copy !req
331. some countermovement
to the natural flow...?Copy !req
332. - Which means?
- You're concealing something.Copy !req
333. What, are you a counterfeiter,
a handwriting analyst?Copy !req
334. My great uncle was,
after the Civil War.Copy !req
335. He was a dashing man
with a mustache and one arm...Copy !req
336. By now, we could have written it, and
I could have signed it. Just go, do it.Copy !req
337. How's it going? Give me
a progress report. Cliff?Copy !req
338. There's an opportunity to use the rumors
of Castro's health as deflection.Copy !req
339. Keep them coming. It's been
a Marx Brothers comedy anyway...Copy !req
340. his illnesses and his 29 doctors
who claim he'll live forever.Copy !req
341. Yeah, I'm not sure how long
that will fly.Copy !req
342. There's support in the House to curb
the embargo from blue and red states...Copy !req
343. Midwestern Republicans ready
to jettison the trade part.Copy !req
344. Cuba's an economic disaster area.Copy !req
345. - It needs American grain, meat...
- Can you believe this guy Cabrera?Copy !req
346. Introducing the vice president.
Congressman. Seventh, eighth term.Copy !req
347. Once ran an ad standing next to
a picture of himself with the caption:Copy !req
348. - "Convicted Felon. "
- Thanks for the lesson in local color.Copy !req
349. Keeps winning every two years,
saying the same thing.Copy !req
350. Then he gets here, doesn't do
or say a damn thing.Copy !req
351. Did you call Josh and Donna? I wanna
take the temperature in the campaigns.Copy !req
352. Somebody should make this
son of a bitch obsolete.Copy !req
353. Vice President Bob Russell, front-runner
of the Democratic presidential...Copy !req
354. - Has the exterminator been here?
- There was a man yesterday.Copy !req
355. The Sentricon Termite Colony
Elimination System?Copy !req
356. - Matter of fact, yes.
- We don't wanna quarrel...Copy !req
357. - ... with another company's product...
- It's not why we're here.Copy !req
358. We can talk about the individual
species like RIFA.Copy !req
359. - R-I-F-A?
- Red imported fire ant.Copy !req
360. We're members of IFAHI to thwart
the spread of RIFA. We have charts...Copy !req
361. to show you of the spread
of the cinch bug...Copy !req
362. the black-legged tick,
the viral-spreading mosquito...Copy !req
363. and this very year's infestation
by the Mormon cricket. Here.Copy !req
364. We're entomologists. While some control
is necessary, these others...Copy !req
365. lost sight of how insects help
preserve diversity of life...Copy !req
366. and are essential
to the ecological web.Copy !req
367. Insects can spread disease, but they help
the study of how diseases are spread.Copy !req
368. The newest discovery is they
can play a crucial part in learning...Copy !req
369. - ... about our own history.
- Like this great White House.Copy !req
370. Think Abigail Adams and the War
of 1812, the burning of this building.Copy !req
371. Now, I'll wager we go into these walls,
and we will uncover...Copy !req
372. all kinds of information
as yet unknown.Copy !req
373. That will help in solving crimes.
Forensic entomology, my special field...Copy !req
374. is invaluable in measuring exposure
of the victim...Copy !req
375. whether Homo sapiens, Felis catus,
Canis familiaris...Copy !req
376. to determine the time of death
and even the method of murder.Copy !req
377. You've gotta make a decision.Copy !req
378. Do you simply want to wipe out the
infestation or use these little pioneers...Copy !req
379. to journey into our past
and unveil secrets for the first time?Copy !req
380. - You got it?
- They checked my clothes...Copy !req
381. patted me down, searched my shoes,
my best shoes, practically x-rayed me.Copy !req
382. But they didn't do any
personality profile?Copy !req
383. - That didn't even occur to me.
- What were they thinking?Copy !req
384. Here it is.Copy !req
385. Kate Harper.Copy !req
386. - Close the door?
- Yes.Copy !req
387. - C.J.
- Charlie, tell me you have good news.Copy !req
388. - I'm not sure.
- Entertain me, enlighten me...Copy !req
389. raise me up to the rooftops, please.Copy !req
390. I think this has more to do
with the lower depths.Copy !req
391. - It's coming back to me now. Bugs.
- Rhinotermitidae.Copy !req
392. - Is that the guy I saw with the gizmo?
- It could be.Copy !req
393. - And he found...
- Rhinotermitidae.Copy !req
394. - We're not tenting the White House.
- No, we're drilling walls.Copy !req
395. There's a group suggesting we
observe them before killing them.Copy !req
396. - The ones with the animatronic...?
- "Insectilatronic. "Copy !req
397. They say we can find out things
from termites about lumber conditions...Copy !req
398. when the White House was built,
burned, rebuilt...Copy !req
399. what presidents smoked,
ate, smelled like.Copy !req
400. This, Charlie, is not a tough choice.Copy !req
401. For once, our policy can be clean
and simple. Just kill the damn bugs.Copy !req
402. - Who is this?
- Toby. I wanted to ask you...Copy !req
403. - ... about this Castro thing.
- I can't hear you.Copy !req
404. Donna, it's Toby. Toby Ziegler.Copy !req
405. - It's so crazy in here. Wait a minute.
- Hello?Copy !req
406. Toby?Copy !req
407. - Josh.
- Toby?Copy !req
408. - We're not talking to each other.
- Then what's making my phone ring?Copy !req
409. The thing's got a mind of its own.Copy !req
410. What's with Castro?
What's going on with that?Copy !req
411. - That's what I wanted to ask you.
- I can't hear you. It's crazy down here.Copy !req
412. - It's Guatemala.
- Hello?Copy !req
413. - I lost you. How are you?
- What's going on down there, Donna?Copy !req
414. You won't believe it.
This state, it's unreal. It's like...Copy !req
415. - Guatemala?
- Hey, that's good. You a speechwriter?Copy !req
416. - What's the impact of this Castro thing?
- It's unbelievable.Copy !req
417. Castro's become Che. Is he alive
or dead? He's wallpapering the primary.Copy !req
418. - Wait, what? Donna, hold on a second.
- Toby, I've got...Copy !req
419. Josh?Copy !req
420. Josh? Josh.Copy !req
421. C.J., I should apologize for you
not knowing about the Cuba trip.Copy !req
422. - Yes, you should.
- I thought it was worth the risk.Copy !req
423. - I still do.
- While you were gone, we all got calls...Copy !req
424. from Rafe Framhagen. I sent Cliff over,
who said the senator...Copy !req
425. - ... may have been three sheets.
- Yeah?Copy !req
426. And he had questions about Kate Harper
and Cuba, as if she knew something.Copy !req
427. - Concerned? Why don't you pull her file.
- I did.Copy !req
428. This has been the long way
around to what?Copy !req
429. - A lot of blackout.
- Are we getting sidetracked?Copy !req
430. Kate Harper, Navy. Father, Navy.
Formerly CIA, wasn't it?Copy !req
431. Africa, blackout. Kosovo, blackout.
Iran, blackout. She got around.Copy !req
432. You're in it.Copy !req
433. - That's impossible.
- Turn the page.Copy !req
434. 1995, Florida.Copy !req
435. But why is it in her file?Copy !req
436. - CIA must have been monitoring us.
- The rest was blacked out. What is it?Copy !req
437. We had a gathering of the Bay of Pigs
veterans from both sides...Copy !req
438. for the first time,
and it was remarkable.Copy !req
439. These aging warriors, enemies, fellow
countrymen. And I had high hopes...Copy !req
440. we were pulling together,
strand by strand, a dialogue with...Copy !req
441. - ... the Cuban-Americans and Cubans.
- I never heard this.Copy !req
442. There was also an election recount
underway. Congressman Cabrera.Copy !req
443. - Yeah, I know the one.
- I was secretary of labor...Copy !req
444. and Rafe Framhagen showed up,
and we started drinking.Copy !req
445. And I made a fool of myself.
Talk about three sheets to the wind.Copy !req
446. And when I got back, it was over.Copy !req
447. It had all fallen apart.
I should have never left.Copy !req
448. So I vowed then...Copy !req
449. if there was ever a chance,
I'd put it back together.Copy !req
450. If we had a cigarette, a lighter
and a password, we'd be back 10 years.Copy !req
451. But it's so loud in here now,
I'd never hear the password.Copy !req
452. Don't you miss it...Copy !req
453. - ... when you were undercover?
- I miss the excitement...Copy !req
454. dressing up and down,
disappearing into character.Copy !req
455. And now look at you.Copy !req
456. Wearing suits and sitting
in meetings with amazing people.Copy !req
457. You've changed.Copy !req
458. I saw your ex-husband not long ago.
He's still down there.Copy !req
459. Why'd you call me again?Copy !req
460. I wanted to apologize.Copy !req
461. For what?Copy !req
462. I knew back then what was going on.Copy !req
463. What it was doing to you.Copy !req
464. - I should've protected you better.
- Would've, should've.Copy !req
465. But it's... There's more to it than that.Copy !req
466. It's too late now, Andy.
It was too late then.Copy !req
467. I know. I know.Copy !req
468. Part of my 12 steps,
to make a fool of myself.Copy !req
469. Especially to those people who, maybe,
I made fools of.Copy !req
470. Thank you.Copy !req
471. They have all of it down there now,
Kate.Copy !req
472. Leo McGarry's trip, the deal
he's trying to make with Fidel.Copy !req
473. They're gonna break the story.Copy !req
474. - You're sure?
- Yeah.Copy !req
475. Don't get caught in this again
when it goes to hell.Copy !req
476. Cuba. It scums everybody it touches.Copy !req
477. I'm walking back here thinking, "This is
a building I never thought I'd be in. "Copy !req
478. Maybe it's a place you never quite
get used to.Copy !req
479. Once, my dad was gone with the
Pacific Fleet. My mom and I were left...Copy !req
480. at the Key West Naval Base.Copy !req
481. There was no housing,
so for a while...Copy !req
482. we lived in this boiling trailer
with no air conditioning.Copy !req
483. The wind shook it at night
and rocked me to sleep.Copy !req
484. It's a long way from here.Copy !req
485. Kate, what's going on?Copy !req
486. Tomorrow, Cuban-American factions
are going public with Leo's visit to Cuba.Copy !req
487. Mr. President, it's clear that the news
of Leo's trip is going to break.Copy !req
488. Don't know if it'll be audio, eyewitness,
photos, but we know it's coming.Copy !req
489. - CNN will get it, then the networks.
- A delightful prognosis.Copy !req
490. We can spin it. It was Cuban
representatives who initiated...Copy !req
491. the conversations. We listened,
agreed to and accepted nothing.Copy !req
492. - I hate that.
- We must look at the consequences.Copy !req
493. The South Carolina and Florida primaries
are two weeks away.Copy !req
494. There will be no mercy
in the Cuban-American community.Copy !req
495. It won't go away
by the general election.Copy !req
496. - Russell will find a way.
- I can hear his sound bites already.Copy !req
497. Santos is a mystery. I don't know
what he'll do. Bet he doesn't either.Copy !req
498. Republican candidates?
Walken and Vinick?Copy !req
499. Vinick probably agrees with you,
but publicly, he'll step back...Copy !req
500. and let Framhagen and Walken
put on war paint...Copy !req
501. - ... and gather around Little Bighorn.
- Wasn't the image I was hoping for.Copy !req
502. So Republicans and Democrats alike
will distance themselves...Copy !req
503. from this act of madness
of the Bartlet administration.Copy !req
504. I think it's time we looked beyond
regrets and elections, sir.Copy !req
505. It's here, isn't it?Copy !req
506. Another cliff. Yes, sir.Copy !req
507. Toby?Copy !req
508. - Jump.
- C.J.Copy !req
509. Get me some airtime. I'll have
a few words with the nation.Copy !req
510. - When?
- As soon as possible.Copy !req
511. - We won't wait for the story to break.
- It's fair to let the candidates know.Copy !req
512. - I agree.
- Sir, the vice president is still waiting.Copy !req
513. Get Senator Vinick on the phone,
and then Congressman Santos.Copy !req
514. Then I'll see the vice president.Copy !req
515. Leo.Copy !req
516. Thanks for coming all the way
over here.Copy !req
517. Been a long time.Copy !req
518. Care to join me?Copy !req
519. No, I'm only fooling.
I know you don't any longer.Copy !req
520. Kind of wish more people
around here did.Copy !req
521. - What's Hemingway's word?
- "Utilize. " How'd you find out?Copy !req
522. Boat captain, deckhand, limo driver,
the gas attendant. Does it matter?Copy !req
523. It seems to me we got a lot more done
around here when we were utilizing.Copy !req
524. Got along better too.
Left and right, elephant and mule.Copy !req
525. These days, that's one place where
my point of view is the minority.Copy !req
526. Not the only place, senator.
Demographics are changing in your state.Copy !req
527. You were Scotch, as I recall.
The good stuff. Just the way it poured.Copy !req
528. Younger Cuban-Americans don't care.Copy !req
529. The Cuba effect on Florida is going
the way of too much utilizing.Copy !req
530. So for the younger Cuban-Americans,
your solution is to have...Copy !req
531. an old man with MS send another
old man who's had a heart attack...Copy !req
532. to check on the health
of a third old man.Copy !req
533. A man who could be, should be,
and, God willing, soon will be dead.Copy !req
534. It's too late for the Bartlet administration
to go legacy shopping in Cuba, Leo.Copy !req
535. If I had come to you first,
what would you have said?Copy !req
536. No.Copy !req
537. We had to change the calculus,
or you'd bury us.Copy !req
538. - I am gonna bury you, Leo.
- After 45 years, it's time to admit...Copy !req
539. the embargo isn't a reason for
or a solution to Cuba's tragic reality.Copy !req
540. The reason for Cuba's tragic reality
is Fidel Castro...Copy !req
541. a vicious dictator who refuses
to allow free press, free elections...Copy !req
542. who jails even the slightest opposition.
You wanna legitimize his government.Copy !req
543. The good ship Legitimacy
sailed decades ago.Copy !req
544. He's there,
has been for a very long time.Copy !req
545. The State Department lists Cuba
as a terrorist state.Copy !req
546. The State Department, Leo.Copy !req
547. The FBI just busted a Cuban
espionage operation, arrested 10 spies.Copy !req
548. When we've tried reforming
a communist regime...Copy !req
549. through embargo and severing
relations, we've always failed.Copy !req
550. When we sought change through
engagement and trade, we succeeded.Copy !req
551. What about the law, Leo?
Congress has codified the embargo.Copy !req
552. U.S. sanctions cannot be lifted
against Cuba until all political prisoners...Copy !req
553. have been freed, until political parties
and labor unions have been legalized...Copy !req
554. and free elections
have been scheduled.Copy !req
555. No American president can overturn
the will of the people.Copy !req
556. It's not the will of the people.
It's a few loud and shrinking number...Copy !req
557. - ... of Cuban-Americans.
- Who came here stripped of everything.Copy !req
558. Who floated over here in little,
leaky boats, their kids in one hand...Copy !req
559. and their dreams in another. And how
many of whom did we turn away...?Copy !req
560. No one... No one's disputing that.Copy !req
561. And who have become
monumentally successful...Copy !req
562. and too many of whom have become
Republicans, right, Leo?Copy !req
563. But who we've also pandered to
for far too long.Copy !req
564. - I'm bringing a possible breakthrough.
- There's no such thing.Copy !req
565. We're starting with an executive order
to provide food, dollars through the U.N.Copy !req
566. The Department of Treasury liberalizing
business travel to Cuba...Copy !req
567. working to involve Cuba in curbing
narco-trafficking and terrorism...Copy !req
568. rather than treat them
as the problem.Copy !req
569. Now, there's the toothless,
gutless foreign policy...Copy !req
570. we've all come to expect
from the Bartlet administration.Copy !req
571. Just give away the store, probably
billions of dollars, without getting...Copy !req
572. - ... a single concession in return.
- Extradition treaty.Copy !req
573. - He'll resign the extradition treaty?
- We're talking.Copy !req
574. You're talking?
Sure, he'll romance you...Copy !req
575. he'll waltz you around
until he gets what he needs...Copy !req
576. - Maybe he's legacy shopping too.
- ... which is cash. He needs cash.Copy !req
577. That's why he's talking to you
in the first place.Copy !req
578. We finally got him where we want him,
on the verge of economic collapse.Copy !req
579. - That's what we said in 1963.
- He'll take your money, our money...Copy !req
580. - ... and he'll renege.
- The rest of the world is already there.Copy !req
581. If we don't get our foot in, U.S.
business interests and your poor...Copy !req
582. Cuban-Americans
will be left out in the cold.Copy !req
583. Oh, that is really good.
The Bartlet administration...Copy !req
584. is gonna save Castro for the sake
of American business? That's rich.Copy !req
585. So you're gonna go to war so a few
geriatrics can get their cabanas back?Copy !req
586. That's the trouble with our policy.Copy !req
587. Your rigor mortis stance is holding
hostage a Cuban-American community...Copy !req
588. you say you so love, and by proxy
it's held hostage the whole country.Copy !req
589. The world, time, has passed them by.
Castro won.Copy !req
590. Rafe, it's time.Copy !req
591. - It's long past time.
- Whatever dumb thing you do...Copy !req
592. to prop up Castro will be reversed
next year, because if you do it...Copy !req
593. you lose Florida in the election
and the presidency with it.Copy !req
594. You care more about American politics
than relieving the plight...Copy !req
595. of the Cuban people,
just like in 1995.Copy !req
596. Which year was that?Copy !req
597. The one where Cabrera won
the election recount, and it turned out...Copy !req
598. his sister-in-law, who worked for you,
was the chief monitor.Copy !req
599. Cabrera did win that election.Copy !req
600. He was a convicted felon, and you knew
at the same time we were meeting...Copy !req
601. - ... talking with Castro's people.
- I came down there...Copy !req
602. - ... and I remember we had a drink.
- We could have had a deal...Copy !req
603. - ... ended all this insanity a decade ago.
- It was you who took me aside...Copy !req
604. invited me for a drink. Now you're
gonna climb up on your high horse, huh?Copy !req
605. That's what I gotta live with.Copy !req
606. We were close once, back then.Copy !req
607. No, senator, we just drank back then.Copy !req
608. We were never close.Copy !req
609. - Hey.
- I was looking for you.Copy !req
610. President goes on the air any minute.
Thought I'd watch it down here.Copy !req
611. - Alone?
- Yeah.Copy !req
612. Cuba. Florida.Copy !req
613. You know a lot about them. You were
there in the '90s? 1995, maybe?Copy !req
614. - Yeah.
- Yeah.Copy !req
615. I was there only a few days...Copy !req
616. and I can't remember much at all.Copy !req
617. Led me to lock myself away
for 30 days, dry out.Copy !req
618. But I believed then, and I believe now,
this fight is worth it.Copy !req
619. There's gonna be hell to pay tomorrow.Copy !req
620. If I'd only gotten it done 10 years ago,
Jed Bartlet could be spared it.Copy !req
621. The CIA would have never let
the embargo go away then.Copy !req
622. They're against ending it now.Copy !req
623. - What about you?
- I was in favor of it then.Copy !req
624. And now?Copy !req
625. I don't know.Copy !req
626. It's not about me. It's about
the president, what you want for him.Copy !req
627. And this is something.Copy !req
628. Yeah.Copy !req
629. Did we meet back then?Copy !req
630. Do you remember me?Copy !req
631. No.Copy !req
632. Do you remember me?Copy !req
633. - Where you going?
- My car, I think.Copy !req
634. - Okay, okay. Why don't I drive.
- No.Copy !req
635. Yeah, I think I'll drive.Copy !req
636. I'm fine.Copy !req
637. There you go.Copy !req
638. Okay, okay, that's good.Copy !req
639. - Where are you going?
- Why not drive off into the sunset?Copy !req
640. - Yeah, I think we missed it.
- Something happen to your eye?Copy !req
641. Well, you should see the other guy.Copy !req
642. - Where are you staying, at a hotel?
- On Calle Ocho. Got a suitcase.Copy !req
643. Pack it. Airport, if I can find it.Copy !req
644. - I'm gonna remember this.
- No, you won't.Copy !req
645. Yes, I will.Copy !req
646. No, but I will.Copy !req
647. I'm gonna put my head down.Copy !req
648. Just for a moment. Thank you.Copy !req
649. My fellow Americans, in 1961...Copy !req
650. President John F. Kennedy
bought some cigars.Copy !req
651. They happened to be
from a country called Cuba.Copy !req
652. And since that day,
nearly 45 years ago...Copy !req
653. no American has been able
to do it again.Copy !req
654. And it's time for that to change.Copy !req
655. This is not about cigars, of course, but
about our relationship with a country...Copy !req
656. that is only 90 miles away.Copy !req
657. Change is not going to come easy.Copy !req
658. It won't be a change without passionate
discussion and disagreement...Copy !req
659. but a change there can,
and will, and must be.Copy !req
660. The Cuban people and the
Cuban-American people have suffered...Copy !req
661. too long under intolerable
circumstances on both shores.Copy !req
662. My dream is that every one of
the hundreds of thousands of Cubans...Copy !req
663. who draw lottery cards every year
to win one of the 20,000 slots...Copy !req
664. allowing them to come to America
in search of a better life and freedom...Copy !req
665. will finally have the chance to find
that freedom in their own country...Copy !req
666. and that the 1.5 million
Cuban-Americans who have...Copy !req
667. for so many decades,
longed to return to their homes...Copy !req
668. will finally have the chance
to once again...Copy !req
669. see the land of their fathers
and forefathers.Copy !req