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Previously on The West Wing:

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

I didn't make the decision
to run again.

We had a deal.

Andrew Jackson had

a big block of cheese.

It's "Throw Open Our Office
Doors To People

Who Want To Discuss Things

That We Could Care Less
About" Day.

( intro to "New York Minute"
playing on radio )

* Lying here in the darkness,
I hear the sirens wail *

* Somebody's
going to emergency *

* Somebody's going to jail

* If you find somebody
to love in this world *

* You better hang on
tooth and nail *

* The wolf is always
at the door *

* In a New York minute,
everything can change. *

Sam?

( song continues )

What day is this?

It's Friday.

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

You sleep here last night?

I'm sorry?

You slept here?

I don't have a couch
in my office.

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

I need to
change my shirt.

Maybe you need to go home
for a while.

What are you doing
here so early?

Trying to avoid
the protesters.

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

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

17th and 15th are closed
to Independence Avenue

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

Did you take Dupont?

Dupont had two
turns closed off

with metal barricades
and cop cars.

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

So I made a U-turn
and doubled back

to get on 16th
where there was a police cordon

around the National
Geographic Society.

Who has a problem
with the National
Geographic Society?

That's exactly what
I want to know.

Anyway, I'm going
to change my shirt.

What's going on
with the pardon
recommendations?

They're coming together.

I've reviewed the
recommendations

from Justice
and the OPA

and Tribbey's office had
its own recommendations.

How many are you sending in?

18, I think now.

Mail fraud,
securities fraud

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

Don't retry the cases.

I'm not retrying
the cases.

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

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

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

he was obviously
too stupid to commit.

Sam, go home, would you?

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

You look bad.

You're tired, you slept
in the office.

It's Friday-- go home.

Why?

'Cause I think you're
putting too much faith

in the magical powers
of a new shirt.

Leo.

Josh told me
what happened...

with your parents.

Sam...

Yeah?

My father had affairs.

Did he?

Yeah.

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

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

Yeah?

...for 28 years.

How'd he get caught?

My father, it turns out

is stupider than
the guy in Spain.

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

Yeah.

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

LEO:
Sam

Yeah.

When did you find out?

Tuesday.

You slept here
the last three nights?

No.

Seriously, man,
go home.

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

In fact, I'll be
checking it twice--

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

Sam.

Life goes on, Leo.

Certainly the Federal
Government does, so...

thanks, but let's
drop it, okay?

Yeah.

They're expecting
trouble at the National
Geographic Society?

I have no explanation.

Well, those little
postcards they stick

in the subscription
magazines

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

Yeah.

I'll see you later.

Hey, Sam.

This is Ginger, it's 6:35

I've opened
the Communications Office.

LEO:
The Andrew Jackson speech.

Yeah.
It is a good speech.

And it gets better
every year, but...

What?

You're not going
to give it, right?

Sure.
Why?

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

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

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

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

Except it wouldn't be
Big Block of Cheese Day

without the speech,
now would it?

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

How'd you get
to work this morning?

I walked.

Ah.
Yeah.

How is it out there?

Uh, it's pretty loud.

World Policy Studies
is holding a forum
this morning.

I'm going to send Toby.

That's a good idea.

Why?

Well, 'cause you're
not sending me.

Look, I...

Leo, the World Bank
and the WTO

are international
organizations

of which the U.S. is onemember.

Why isn't Switzerland
the one?

'Cause they're not
protesting in Switzerland--

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

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

Well, that seems
reasonable.

I can't tell you
how relieved I am

to have your
approval on that.

But you're still going
to do the speech.

Got to.
Yeah.

A little thing called
team morale, Josh.

You got to make people
feel good about themselves.

LEO:
All right, shut the hell up,
everybody.

I've fired more people than you
before breakfast.

Andrew Jackson, in the main
foyer of the White House

had a big block of cheese.

The block of cheese was huge

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

LEO:
I think this'll
go faster

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

I'm meeting
with the Organization

of Cartographers
for Social Equality?

Yes.

What do mapmakers have to do
with social equality?

I guess you're about
to find out.

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

The block of
cheese was huge...

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

for cancer treatment
using shark cartilage

if you want
to trade.

I'll take that.
What do you got?

Citizens for
D.C. Statehood.
Forget it.

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

but I'm keeping it.

You're all keeping it.

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

that the appropriate
petitioner went to
the appropriate staffer.

LEO:
The block of cheese
was two tons

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

Excuse me.

I was waylaid.

C.J.:
By what?

30,000 tourists.

You know,
the protesters.

Don't call them
protesters.

I've seen better organized
crowds at the DMV.

Two tons, this block
of cheese weighed.

In my day
we knew how to protest.

What day was that?

1968.

JOSH:
How the hell old were you

when you were protesting?

My sisters took me.

Anybody have a problem
with that?

No one has a problem
with that.

The police are
always seven steps
ahead of them.

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

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

We had the underground,
we had rapid response.

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

These people are amateurs.

What's my assignment?

Meeting with the amateurs.

Huh?

World Policy Studies is
having a forum--

there'll be about a hundred
of them.

Doing what?

Listening to you conduct

a free exchange of ideas.

TOBY:
Really?

Josh thinks
it's a good idea.

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

then, you bet, I'll do it.

LEO:
Look...
What else is there?

I've got Cartographers
for Social Equality.

So, now you have
two choices--

meeting with
an unruly mob

or meeting with
lunatic mapmakers.

Or getting paid a lot more money

working almost anywhere
else I want.

Seriously, Toby,
there'll be
security there.

But still...

What about press?
Just wires.

No, I mean TV.

No cameras.

You negotiated that?

Yeah.

They agreed to it?

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

Well, when don't I?

Give me
the thing.

Okay, then.

Andrew Jackson in the main foyer
of the White House

had a two-ton block of cheese.

And a Wheat Thin
the size of Lake Tahoe.

LEO:
It was there for any and all
who were hungry.

It was there for the voiceless

the faceless,
the disenfranchised...

Stephanie.

Hi.

( whispering ):
You look great.

Thank you.

Why are you talking
like that?

I don't want
to shout.

We can use our
normal voices,
though, right?

Never been
in the White House.

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

Did I get you
out of something?

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

when the President's
out of the west wing.

Oh.

Come with me.

The President works
until 10:00?

He usually works
until after that

but he leaves
the Oval at 10:00.

This is Josh's office.

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

Nothing.
You got me out of

The Big Block
of Cheese Day meeting.

What's...

I had the worst feeling
you were going to ask.

Andrew Jackson,
while he was president

had in the main foyer
of the White House--

I can't believe
I'm giving this speech--

a two-ton block
of cheese.

In that spirit, Leo McGarry
designates one day

for certain senior staff members
to take appointments

with people or groups
that wouldn't ordinarily

be able to get the ear
of the White House.

Sounds amazing.

We make a lot of fun of it

but truth is,
I think it is.

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

Oh, yeah.

Were you able
to mention me
to Sam Seaborn?

I wasn't.

I haven't yet,
and I apologize.

No, that's okay.

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

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

the President listens
to Sam Seaborn

when it comes
to...

Yeah.

I should have said
this on the phone.

I'm not
that comfortable...

That's...

It puts him
in an awkward position

if he has to say no,
and something like this

if it seems
like a favor...

Steph, is your dad dying?

Okay, listen.

When we're in with Sam

mention what you
just said before

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

He'll want to impress you

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

Wait a minute.

You're really getting
me in to see him?

It's really all right?

Yeah, it's Big Block
of Cheese day.

It's me.

I need some time with Sam.

the ten-year numbers.

MAN:
We think it'd be
a good idea

to take a look
at them, sir.

Have the ten-year
projections

ever been close
to accurate?

Depends on what you mean
by "close."

Within a
trillion dollars?

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

Okay. Bring me
the ten-year projections

a Ouija board
and a magic wand.

Yes, sir.
Thank you, Mr. President.

What's next?

Sir, I need
just a moment

to discuss a fax
that's come in.

From whom?
Jonathan Bartlet.

That name sounds familiar.

He's your brother.

Yes. I remember being locked
in a steamer trunk.

That doesn't sound so bad.

There were

actual steamers in there
with me, Charlie.

I was in there with seafood.

Okay. Well, here's the
thing, Mr. President:

We lost the site.

You lost the first choice.

Why?

Your brother's
been speaking
with Neda Wallin

counsel to the Bartlet
Presidential Library
Commission

and apparently
the site violates

the Historic Barn and
Bridges Preservation Act.

Which says...?

I've got it here
in my notes.

"Requires that all nonhousing
farm and ranch structures

"built prior to 1900
be preserved by the owners

unless destroyed
by an act of God."

What plaid flannel-wearing

cheese-eating yahoo
of a milkman governor

signed that idiot bill
into state law?

It was me, wasn't it?

Yes, sir.

Okay.

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

Yeah, go ahead.

Thank you, sir.

No.

I'm sorry?

No, don't go ahead
with the site.

I just...

( sighs )

Tell my brother
to hang on, would you?

I'll make a decision.

I don't know
what the damn hurry is.

Yes, sir.

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

Are those ever accurate?

No.

And you got another call.

Thanks.

Sam?

Oh, hey.
How you doing?

Sam,
this is Stephanie Gault.

Stephanie,
this is Sam.

It's good to meet you.

Come on in.

Stephanie and I were
at Wisconsin together

and we bonded as a result
of mutual loathing

for the same
ex-boyfriend.

She's an associate professor
of International Relations

at the Maxwell School.

What are you doing
in town?

Believe it or not,
I advise the WTO

in certain areas
of macroeconomics

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

What can I do for you?

( sighs )

Sam, my grandfather was
Daniel Gault.

Really?

Yeah.

You know who Daniel Gault was?

He was a staffer
here in the '40s.

He was a Special Economic
Assistant to FDR

and Special Liaison to State
for Eastern European Affairs.

Donna knows the rest.

He was jailed for espionage

and died in prison
six months later.

He wasn't put in jail
for espionage.

They couldn't make espionage.

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

Sam, Stephanie would like
her grandfather included

among those being considered
for an executive pardon.

And from everything I've learned

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

That you have the ear
of the president.

Yeah.

( sighs )

It's impossible
to demonstrate remorse

since he's no longer alive.

Demonstrating his innocence
is extremely complicated.

Yes, but you've already done it.

Excuse me?

You've already demonstrated
his innocence

and in an extraordinarily
compelling way.

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

When did I do that?

At Princeton

for 23 pages in the
middle of your thesis.

Where did you get that?

You sent it to my father.

I did.

I know it
doesn't seem like

there should be
much of a rush

about getting a pardon

for someone who's
been dead 50 years

but time's become a factor.

Your father's sick?

Yeah.

You guys want to go to the mess

and get some coffee
or something?

Yeah.

( chanting ):
Global justice now!

Global justice now!

Global justice now!

( whistling )

Toby Ziegler.

Yeah.

( chanting continues )

( whistles )

MAN ( over radio ):
Officer Sachs?

I'm sending in Toby Ziegler.

He's coming in there.

Copy that.

Mr. Ziegler?

Yes, ma'am.

Rhonda Sachs.

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

You fully trained?
Yes.

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

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

Thank you.

Officer Sachs?
Yeah?

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

SAM:
You do understand
how it works?

Yeah.

Recommendations
come from the OPA--

Office of the Pardon Attorney.

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

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

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

Yeah.

What I'm going to do today

is speak to somebody
at the Justice Department.

Which branch of
the Justice Department?

The FBI.

Sam...
I know

but I won't start in
on something like this

without giving them
a heads-up.

My father
requested the file

in the late '70s
and was denied.

He sued
under Freedom of Information

and the judge ruled

that the file couldn't
be completely disclosed

because it met three of
nine exemptions allowed...

National Defense

and Foreign Relations
Information

Internal Agency Rules and
Practices and Personal Privacy.

All of which is because
the FBI is simply embarrassed

about this period
in their history.

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

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

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

We have your number
at the hotel?
Yeah.

Actually,
we're meeting
for dinner tonight.

Stephanie, the reason
I mentioned before

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

( sighs )

I understand.

I just need to be able

to give him
some good news.

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

His father...

He's been trying

for so long to...

Yeah.

Okay, I'll see you later then.

Hey, Steph.
Hey, Josh.

You're across the
street in five minutes.

Yeah.
I'm walking out
with you.

STEPHANIE:
Sam?

Thank you.

Yeah.

You on the Gault thing?

Yeah.

That's nice of you.

I appreciate that.

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

They're not going
to be happy about it.

No kidding.

Did you know Lincoln
signed a pardon

on the day he was assassinated?

Yeah.
Do you know
the guy's name?

Patrick Murphy.

You know what
he was pardoned for?

Being a Union deserter.

Am I annoying you?

A little bit, yeah.

I was trying
to make you laugh.

I appreciate that.

Can I see your
friend at the FBI?

Yeah. Can I tell him why?
Yeah.

Hey, you want to have
a lot of fun?

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

with the Organization
of Cartographers
for Social Equality.

Where's the social
inequality in cartography?

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

You'll call the guy?

Yeah.
Thanks.

That a new shirt?

Yeah.

Nice.

( yelling )

Free Trade!

Fire your gun.

I can't fire
a warning shot
indoors.

No, I mean fire at them.

Just kidding.

Hey, Solzhenitsyn.

Come here.

You the group leader?

Yeah, I am.
I'm Terry Webber.

You know what you did today
that was really stupid?

You gave away the cameras.

With cameras in here
I've got a problem

because I don't
want to look like

I can't control the crowd.

Without the cameras,
I can sit here

read the sports
section for two hours

walk outside
and say we talked.

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

but you're in charge
of crowd control

know what I'm saying?
Yeah.

Folks.

People, let's listen up.

( yelling )

( yelling subsides )

Who elected this guy?
I don't understand.

We didn't elect him.

Good morning, my...

The big tobacco,
they elected him.

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

Good morning,
my name is Toby Ziegler

and I'm the White House
Communications Director

and a Senior Domestic Policy
Advisor to the President.

Advise him we need clean
air more than free trade!

( yelling )

Who elected you?

( crowd yelling )

Let's get on
with it already!

Global justice now!

Global justice now!

Global justice now!

You want to send out
for pizza or something?

Global justice now!

Global justice now!

Yes, sir?

I'm here to see
Special Agent Casper.

My name is Sam Seaborn.

Seaborn?

Yeah.

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

Agent Casper knows
you're coming?

Sam.

How you doing, Mike?

Just requesting the file
on Daniel Gault

is so wildly outside
the parameters of your
authority

as a political appointee...

I came here to...
Listen...

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

Yes.
What else do I know?

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

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

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

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

Now you want to get him
a Presidential pardon?

He did six months for perjury

before vexingly dying
of a heart attack.

You know why?

'Cause the prosecutor
couldn't make espionage.

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

I don't suppose, I know.

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

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

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

The "20 Years of Treason."

Yes. Which was
called at the time

a "conspiracy on a scale
so immense as to dwarf

any previous venture
in the history of man."

Somebody wake me up from this
'cause I think

you just deputized Joe McCarthy
into your argument.

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

General George Marshall,
author of the Marshall plan

and mentor to Eisenhower.

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

We made more than we missed.

Owen Lattimore,
I.F. Stone.

Not everybody at State
was wrongly accused.

some pretty dangerous
TV comedy writers, too.

Sam...
Ring Lardner just died.

How many years
does he get back?

Listen to me.

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

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

we might be able to find

one or two occupants
of the Oval Office

who could say
the same thing.

But the difference is
our failures are public

and our successes are private.

So when we apprehend
an enemy of the State

like say, a fugitive member
of West Virginia White Pride

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

When we learned that
it wasn't the Secret Service

who ordered the canopy
down in Rosslyn

we kept it to ourselves.

Please, God, Mike

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

I wasn't, Sam.

Good.

Yeah.

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

isn't a good enough reason.

I'm putting Daniel Gault
on the list.

I just wanted
to give you a heads-up.

Anything else?

Nope.

( door closes )

Hi, I'm sorry.

Hello.

I'm sorry to be late.

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

Of course you are.

I'm Dr. John Fallow.

This is Dr. Cynthia Sayles

and Professor Donald Huke.

Huke?
Huke.

Okay. And you are

the Organization
of Cartographers
for Social Equality.

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

How many?

4,300 dues paying members.

What are the dues?

$20 a year
for the newsletter.

Let's start.
Wait.

Wait, I want
to see this.

This is Josh Lyman.

Indeed you are.

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

Yes.
( laughing )

Should we begin?
Yes.

Plain and simple, we'd
like President Bartlet

to aggressively
support legislation

that would make it
mandatory

for every public
school in America

to teach geography

using the Peters Projection Map

instead of
the traditional Mercator.

Give me 200 bucks and it's
done.

Really?
No.

Why are we changing maps?

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

European imperialist attitudes
for centuries

and created an ethnic bias
against a Third World.

Really?

The German cartographer,
Mercator, originally
designed this map

in 1569 as a navigational
tool for European sailors.

The map enlarges areas
at the poles

to create straight lines
of constant bearing

or geographic direction.

So it makes it easier
to cross an ocean.

But...
Yes?

It distorts the relative size
of nations and continents.

Are you saying the map is
wrong?

Oh, dear, yes.

Look at Greenland.

Okay.

Now look at Africa.

Okay.

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

Yes.
Would it blow your mind

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

Yes.

SAYLES:
Here we have Europe

drawn considerable larger
than South America

when at 6.9 million
square miles

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

Alaska appears three
times as large as Mexico

when Mexico is larger
by .1 million square miles.

SAYLES:
Germany appears in
the middle of the map

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

Wait. Relative size
is one thing

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

Nothing's where
you think it is.

Where is it?

I'm glad you asked.

The Peters Projection.

It has fidelity of axis.

Fidelity of position.

East-west lines are
parallel and intersect

north-south axes
at right angles.

What the hell is that?

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

Should we continue?

Uh-huh.

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

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

Now if you do have
a question...

Yeah, my question is
who elected his boss

the people or
Kaiser-Permanente?

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

Who do you
really work for?

Who paid for you to be here?

( yelling )

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

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

You suck!

Well, actually...

( chuckles )

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

So, Toby...
Officer.

Since you're not really
doing anything right now

I was wondering,
what's this all about?

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

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

The World Trade
Organization's

a group of 140 countries

who have agreed to
specific trade policies.

So what's wrong
with that?

Nothing's wrong with that.

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

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

Does it?

Benefits both.

Look at them.

Philistines.

Take my nightstick
and go kick their ass.

Yeah, make all
the jokes you want

but let me tell you something:

They claim to speak
for the underprivileged

but here in the blackest city
in America

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

No Asians, no Hispanics.

Where the hell's

the Third World they claim
to represent?

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

You're starting to bother me.

That's 'cause I'm armed.

No, I like that.

I'm going outside.

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

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

What happened?

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

They'll find another site.

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

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

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

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

Sam, you just
got a call.

Ginger, do me a favor
and catch the calls.

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

Sam, it was the National
Security Advisor.

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

I'm sorry, Colonel, that was
me.

He's talking about
force protection?

Right, but the President's
going to ask me

about the readiness issue.

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

and force protection.

No, that was me again.

I'm the only woman
on a conference call

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

Do I have a bizarrely
androgynous voice?

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

How you doing?

Good.
Good.

Drop Daniel Gault.

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

Why?
'Cause I just told you to.

Nancy, I'm a lawyer.

Let's let reason and
logic have its moment.

There was one witness.
Sam...

Earl Lydecker, a low-level
State Department staffer

who confessed to FBI
counterintelligence officers

that he and Gault had conspired

to send U.S. economic
analysis documents

to Soviet agents
at the Russian embassy.

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

Yes.
It was subsequently
demonstrated that Lydecker

was a clinically diagnosed
manic-depressive

with a history of--
wait for it--

institutionalization.

This was the chief witness
for the prosecution.

According to...
Sam...

Excuse me, please.

According to retired
KGB Colonel Oleg Prosorov

a search of the files
in Lubyanka

reveals only
one reference to Gault:

That he was approached in 1943

and labeled
"highly uncooperative"

and a "poor prospect
for recruitment."

Sam, Daniel Gault was a spy.

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

Based on what?
Diplomatic cables

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

If that was the case

why couldn't
the U.S. Attorney

make espionage
in the 1950s?

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

You're telling me we cracked
some obscure Russian code

and suddenly we learned
Gault was a spy?

Yes.
That's crap.

If the FBI had proof on Gault

they'd have told
the world about it.

No, they wouldn't have, Sam.

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

Neither would the
NSA, neither would
Central Intelligence.

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

unless you have to.

Gault was long dead.

But before he was

he was an agent called
"Black Water."

He was a delegate at Yalta.

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

where he was awarded
the Order of Lenin.

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

That's not an FBI file.

It's an NSA file.

Nancy, I'm classified

but I don't have
code word clearance.

I know.

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

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

I could go to jail
for showing it to you

which obviously
I'm not going to do.

I have blacked out
any lateral reference

that is code word
classified.

Those are the only things
I've blacked out

and they are in no way
relevant to your question.

Look at me.

Do you believe me?

Of course.

Go ahead.

( picks up receiver )

This is Dr.
Nancy McNally

the National
Security Advisor.

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

So, uh... you're
probably wondering

what all of this has to do
with social equality.

No. I'm wondering
where France really is.

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

Hang on.

We're going
to finish this.
Okay.

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

She asked.
Salvatore Natoli

of the National Council
for Social Studies argues

"In our society,
we unconsciously equate size

with importance,
and even power."

I'm going to check
in on Toby.

Go.

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

Probably not.
Okay.

When Third World countries
are misrepresented

they're likely
to be valued less.

When Mercator maps exaggerate
the importance

of Western civilization

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

and the bottom is given
to the southern...

then people will tend to adopt
top and bottom attitudes.

But... wait.

How...

Where else could you put
the northern hemisphere

but on the top?

On the bottom.

How?

Like this.

Yeah, but you
can't do that.

Why not?

'Cause it's freaking me out.

( clamoring and shouting )

It's activist vacation
is what it is.

Spring break
for anarchist wannabes.

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

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

All right, that's it, flatfoot.

I got great feet.

You want the benefits
of free trade?

Food is cheaper.
Yes.

Food is cheaper,
clothes are cheaper

steel is cheaper,
cars are cheaper

phone service is cheaper.

You feel me building
a rhythm here?

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

Toby...
It lowers prices
and raises income.

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

It's called the science
of listener attention.

We did repetition,
we did floating opposites

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

Ready?

Free trade stops wars.

And that's it.

Free trade stops wars.

And we figure out a way
to fix the rest.

One world, one peace.

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

God, Toby...

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

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

Shut up.

Toby...

What are you doing here?

Came down to see
how it was going.

How's it going?
Josh Lyman.

Rhonda Sachs.

Any trouble?

No.
Josh.

The WTO is undemocratic,
and accountable to no one

decisions are made
by Executive Directors

and the developing world
has little to say

about institutional
policy.

What was that?

I protested to you.

Why?

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

Let's go back.

Nah.

I hate these people
with the heat of a nova.

Yet here I go.

Attaboy.

Shut up.

I got your back,
man, you know?

Or not.

Charlie?

Yes, sir?

Let's do calls
in the residence, okay?

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

Good evening,
Mr. President.

They're on your desk, sir.

Thanks.

I'm going to head home.

At 7:30?

I'll make calls
from the residence.

Are you feeling
all right?
Yeah.

I heard you lost the site.

What's the backup?

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

but the Abenaki Indians
are claiming

it's an ancient burial ground.

Ah.

There's a magnificent bluff

overlooking an orchard
in Orford

and the owner
is willing,
if not eager

to donate the land.
What's the problem?

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

You'll find the site.

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

Two years?
And the first six months

was figuring out
how to work the phones?

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

Yeah.

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

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

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

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

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

Not yet, okay?

Okay.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Thank you, Mr. President.

( clanging )

( loud clang )

( clanging )

Sam?

( clanging )

What are you doing?

I don't know.

Where have you been
all afternoon?

I've been around.

( clangs )

Then I came down here to
practice my sugar tossing

'cause if you don't practice

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

( clanging )

Stephanie's upstairs.

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

When she said
that from what she's heard

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

you told her to say that,
right?

It was...

This was so important to her.

( chuckles nervously )

I wanted to give...

Yes.

I did. I'm sorry.

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

I mean, for fun, but...

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

( clanging )

It was wrong.

Yeah.

Were you able to...

He was a spy.

You're sure?

Yes.

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

His code name
was "Black Water."

He copied by hand
State Department and
White House documents

and delivered them
to the Soviets.

They included...
Sam...

Roosevelt's plans
to enter the war...

You can't tell her.

You have to tell her
something else.

Possible recruitment targets.

Sam. It was...

Lists of Communists
and Communist
sympathisizers

in the State Department
and the National Recovery
Administration.

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

I'm telling her
right now.
No.

No, Sam.

Please, you really
can't do this.

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

Please stop walking.

Good, 'cause Stalin
needed an advantage

and we wanted a fair fight.

Sam, nothing good comes
from telling her.

The truth isn't good?

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

another three months--
let it go till then.

I'm not her
fairy godmother.

She asked me
to look into this.

I say you wait
three months until...

Donna...
Listen to me.

You're in a bad
place right now

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

If you tell her
tonight, that's it.

It was people pushing paper
around 50 years ago.

Why does it matter?

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

This country is an idea

and one that's lit the world
for two centuries

and treason
against that idea

is not just a crime
against the living.

This ground holds the graves
of people who died for it

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

Of fidelity.

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

Treason against them

is...

Sam...

There was a translator
in the Hungarian trade mission

named Shaba Demsky.

She was murdered in 1952.

She was about to reveal

the name of a Soviet agent
called Black Water.

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

Sam...

You meant grandfather.

Tell me there's
good news.

Have you ever heard
of a woman named Shaba Demsky?

No.

Sam?

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

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

Why don't you tell your father

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

So, you're open to it?

Absolutely.

( relieved sigh )

That's all he needed.

That's all I needed.

Did you hear?

You should call him
right now.

Can I use the phone
on your desk?

Yeah, dial 9.

Everyone was right
about you, Sam.

Sam's the man.

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

like longitude and latitude.

Sam, I don't know

if this is the best time
to tell you

but according to C.J.

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

JOSH:
Hey...

You should've
seen Toby.

He was good?

He blew the doors off the
place.

Then I almost got killed.

I got hit
with a piece of a banana.

TOBY:
Let's go.

JOSH:
You know what
you are?

You are old school,
my friend.

Stop talking
like that.
Let's go.

Let me tell you something,
though.

That was the second
time this year I
almost got killed

and both times
I was with you

so you're going to
need a new wingman.

You were my
old wingman?

Yeah.
Let's go.

DONNA:
Where are you going?

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

I'll come.

Let's go.

I'm going to meet you there.

Yeah?

All right.

* Lying here in the darkness,
I hear the sirens wail *

* Somebody's going to
emergency,
somebody's going to jail *

* If you find somebody
to love in this world *

* You better hang on
tooth and nail *

* The wolf is always
at the door *

Dad... it's me.

* In a New York minute,
everything can change *