All language subtitles for The West Wing (1999) - S05E10 - The Stormy Present (1080p AMZN WEB-DL x265 ImE)_track3_[eng]

( phone ringing )

Yeah.

I'll call him back.

I'm late as it is.

I know he called before.

Yeah.

Excuse me, Mr. President.

Sir, you forgot Kevin Barkovsky.

I'm sure I did.

He's been waiting
in the Roosevelt Room.

Who is he?

One of the candidates

to paint your official
presidential portrait.

It's a put-up
job, Charlie,
a conspiracy.

Official presidential portraits
aren't official at all.

It's Abbey who wants it.

Send Mr. Barkovsky on his way.

Every president
has one, sir.

I'm not sitting

for any portrait,
unless, of course,

you dig up
Gilbert Stuart,

or who did Lincoln?

I have no idea.

Funny when you
think of Lincoln,

you think of the
photographs, how he aged,

particularly that
last one, where
the plate broke.

56, and he looked ancient.

It's Leo.

I'm late.

General Alexander is
waiting in the Oval.

I should have brought my tie.

We've got
a situation.

Of course we do.

General, you have a tie?

Mr. President,
several hours ago,

protesters began
gathering in Riyadh

calling for free
speech, press,

and popular elections.

ALEXANDER:
It's in the streets.

Already maybe a thousand.

Midnight over there,
and it's still growing.

Who's leading
the protest?

We don't know.

State's calling the Embassy,
waking everyone up.

One thing's clear,
Mr. President.

In Riyadh, this has never
happened before.

Leo?

Free speech
is good.

Free-for-all
for a quarter

of the world's
oil reserves

laced with rabid
anti-American sentiment...

Yeah.

MAN:
Ten-hut.

Gentlemen.

Sir.

Please.

Did you reach
Secretary Berryhill?

Sir, he's in Tokyo.

He'd like to fly to Jordan
to monitor the situation.

Good. General?

The number
in the streets

seems now to be
several thousand.

Primarily students and young
clerics, Mr. President.

And they seem to be using
anti-American rhetoric,

yet demanding
democratic reforms.

Are they armed?

CNN's reporting
they're not.

George, do we have any real
intelligence on these people?

Mr. President, our intel
in Riyadh

is only slightly better than
in the rest of the Middle East.

Which is to say lousy.

Sir, the good news is,
at the moment

the Saudis are very concerned
with their image in the West.

If the demonstrations
remain nonviolent...

We have some time
before they start
breaking legs?

I think public beheading's
are more their style.

It will give us
a chance to
establish contact

with the leaders
of the protest.

If they are democratic...

Sir, I don't need
to remind you

that any sort of chaos on
the Arabian peninsula

could destabilize
the entire Middle East,

throw the global economy
into crisis.

And if this is a Trojan horse
for a fundamentalist coup...

We better start
buying hybrids.

And gas masks.

Mr. President,
the devil you know...

Is one I'm pretty tired
of dancing with.

Get me better intelligence.

And, Leo,

let's get the Ambassador
in here first thing.

Thanks, everybody.

ALL:
Thank you, Mr. President.

C.J.:
You want the latest on Riyadh?

So do I.

We can watch CNN together.

C.J., any update on former
President Lassiter's condition?

President Lassiter is recovering
nicely from the operation,

and if I took as many trips
abroad as he does

I'd have to get my hip
replaced as well.

Now let me see if I can answer
the rest of your questions

before you ask them
so I can get dressed.

Yes, the President will be
attending the annual gala

at Ford's Theater tonight.

Yes, it's the theater where
Lincoln was shot,

yes, we're expecting
the President's Lincolnalia

to be in rare form and, yes,
the bad jokes can start now,

and that means
I can't call on...

See, I told you we were done.

REPORTERS:
Thank you, C.J.

C.J., a source
in the Pentagon

says the military is funding
mind control experiments.

Mind control?
Who are you?

Randal Fierstin,
Backslash Magazine.

Backslash Magazine?
Oh, come on.

Who let you in here?

I have a source;
two in fact.

Randal, I meant bad jokes
about Ford's Theater.

So the White House
has no comment?

The White House
in this dimension?

Backslash Magazine...?

You're dressed
and ready to go.

This is true.

I'm not.
Also true.

Is there a reason
you're following me?

Do I need a reason?

You're avoiding
the President?
Yeah.

I don't have
to go, do I?

Into the Valley of Death
rode the 600...

That's helpful.

What do you know about

mind control experiments
at the Pentagon?

MK-ULTRA.

Excuse me?

In the '50s it was the CIA's
mind control research program

started in response
to the Chinese attempts
on U.S. prisoners.

Like The Manchurian
Candidate.
LikeThe Manchurian Candidate.

Like what's going
to happen to us tonight.

You're ready, too.

It's a far, far better
thing I do...

Maybe things will be
different this year.

JOSH AND TOBY:
No.

But it's long gone, yes?
Mind control?

It worked on Freddie Briggs
when I was 16,

but look what
happened to him.

Freddie Briggs?

He was my first--
was he my first?

Sixteen?

Is there a reason
I'm the only one
who's not dressed?

Was your
dress stolen?
No.

Well, a copy of the
Bill of Rights was stolen.

There are copies of
the Bill of Rights
lying around?

George Washington
sent copies

to each of the 13
original colonies.

North Carolina's got snatched

at the end of the Civil War
by one of Sherman's men.

Scintillating.

The soldier was
from Connecticut.

Josh is
from Connecticut.

Oh, that's right.

Go Whalers.

Not a ton to get
excited about

in the Nutmeg State.

The FBI seized
the document--

both states are
claiming ownership,

and the case has landed
in federal court.

Didn't North Carolina
steal the Whalers?

Guys, people
are going crazy.

The President's appearing
in Raleigh next week.

They're already
handing out fliers.

Okay, who's on it
at the AG's office?

That would be
Freddie Briggs.

No.

No, but I had you.

Sixteen?

MAN:
...gets oil imports
from the Persian Gulf.

India, Southeast Asia
and Japan

are also major consumers
of Saudi oil.

In a single world market,
the price of oil

would be the same for all--
poor and rich, weak and strong.

It's the epicenter
of the world economy.

A civil war,
a fanatical new regime,

these could imperil
our very way of life.

Yeah, no kidding.

Oh! Toby.

Yeah?

Was there something you wanted?

World peace?

Toby, I'm not protecting you.

Go hide from the President
somewhere else.

Waiting for your date?

She's late. Go figure.

Well, you start
dating younger women...

I hear you're old enough
to be her father.

Al Jazeera's reporting
10,000 in the streets

and protests now in Jiddah,
Burydah, Rafha.

Was State able
to find out anything?

They're still digging.
Berryhill's en route to Jordan

and the King's brother's on
his way down from New York.

Bitar?

I guess we're not
the only ones

who think
this is a thing.

Yeah.

I'll see you
at the theater.

Josh.

Josh.

Hey.

You might not
want to be...

Have you been
to Ford's Theater?

It's my first time,
actually.

Oh, well, you got to
talk to the President

about Lincoln,
about the Civil War.

Sit with him.
It's educational.

What are you doing?

You're sitting ducks out there.
He's on his way.

Maybe if we don't ask,
we don't mention it...

Yeah, if you don't miss
the easy ones.

I missed a question?
I didn't miss a question.

TOBY:
It wasn't me.

We have to go downstairs
into the basement with him

into the basement
and open the damn museum.

What are you
talking about?
Nothing. It's nothing.

You got to sit
with him.

I'm not sitting with him.

I drew the short straw
last time.

He's going to start in

with Lincoln's first
Inaugural address

and carry on straight through
to the letter Lincoln wrote

to the woman who lost
all her sons

who didn't really
lose all her sons.

You have
Carl Sandburg's number?

TOBY:
Carl Sandburg is dead.

Oh, sure, Carl took
the easy way out.
Don't listen to them.

I'm not going to ask
this year, don't worry.

ALL:
Good evening, Mr. President.

I'm not going to ask what was
the line of dialogue

that made the audience laugh

that John Wilkes Booth
used as cover to enter

the Presidential Box.

I'm not going to ask about
the broken lock to the box,

the snapping shin bone,
"Sic Semper Tyrannis",

Major Rathbone and Clara Harris,

or the exact time Lincoln
drew his final breath.

I know that one.
7:21:55.

And the final
heartbeat?

He had to open
his mouth.

Every year, Josh.
Always the first one.

Angela, why don't you
ride with me.

Hi, Dad. Sorry.

It's not nice to keep
the gentleman waiting.

Wow, I hardly
recognize you.

Why is that do you suppose?

Yeah, well, that's
why we're here.

So you can tell me
everything that's going on.

Okay. Did I mention
I'm taking that job
in Tanzania?

Yeah, let's go.

The President's dead.

What's going on?

What's happening, Dad?

Sir?

President Lassiter is dead.

JOSH:
Republican.

TOBY:
Right-wing Republican.

Conservative.
Attila the Hun conservative.

A lunatic wife.

Lunatic, Lady Macbeth
of a wife.

Didn't Lassiter vote against
the Emancipation Proclamation?

I'm not writing the eulogy.

You're riding shotgun
on Air Force One.

I am not.

I thought it was
a hip operation.

All good things must
come to pass.

Colonel?

I have the file here, sir.

JOSH:
The file?

The Dead President's File.

Oh, this is Lieutenant
Colonel Castorp

from the Military District
of Washington.

Upon a president's death
his unit coordinates

travel of dignitaries
and handles protocol

in concert with the wishes
of the family.

You keep a file on all
the presidents?

Yes, sir.

You got one on Walken?

LEO:
Thanks, Colonel.

President Lassiter's funeral

will be held at the Lassiter
Library in Costa Mesa.

The one with the fake Oval?

And the President's giving
one of the eulogies.

I'm staying to monitor
the situation in Riyadh.

I need C.J.
here to brief.

Toby, I don't want
to hear about it.

You're on Air Force One

writing the eulogy.

Josh, you'll help
the Lieutenant Colonel

coordinate with
Mrs. Lassiter.

Leo, I've got lawyers
from Connecticut and
North Carolina coming...

What?

A Union soldier stole a copy
of the Bill of Rights

at the end of the Civil War...

We've got a dead president
and a time bomb in Riyadh

and you're arbitrating
the Civil War?

I did hear they're
threatening to rally
in Raleigh.

Yeah. Introduce

Donna to
Lieutenant Colonel Castorp.

Class dismissed.

Leo, I got a question yesterday.

Tell me we're not
conducting mind
control research

at the Pentagon.

We're not conducting mind
control research

at the Pentagon.

You're not doing it
on me right now?

Well, there might be
something at DARPA.

DARPA?

The guys at D.O.D.

who research flying cars
and X-ray vision?

Also the guys
who invented GPS,

stealth technology
and the Internet.

Well, that's
money well spent,

but if the public finds out

we're spending taxpayer dollars
on mind control...

Give the D.O.D. a call.

I have to baby-sit
the first widow?

Beehive hair, dewlaps,

hysterical phone
calls all hours of
the day and night,

and Lieutenant
Colonel Castorp.

You're going to love it.

Why can't you do...?

I'm going to be watching
a reenactment of Gettysburg

in the Roosevelt room.

Since when do you
care about

the Bill of Rights,
the Civil War...

Whaler pride.

You sold me
down the river.

"Mine eyes have seen the glory
of the coming of the Lord."

MAN:
I love New York.

At dawn the light
on the water towers

on the tops of the buildings.

A funny thing
these water wells

hundreds of feet
above the ground.

Hell of a long way
to toss a canteen.

Prince Bitar.

Please.

The Prince was giving me
a virtual tour of New York.

Mr. President, I come

with greetings
from the Royal family,

who again wish to convey
their pleasure

at the way our countries have
weathered recent storms,

in keeping with
our long-term friendship.

And Leo here thought
you were coming

to talk about the protest.

Protest?

Hardly.

A few errant schoolboys.

LEO:
A few thousand
schoolboys

and a couple thousand clerics.

It's of no concern.

Your country's crying out
for reform.

These things must be done
at the proper pace.

Well, you got more than 10,000
people who seem to think

you're not moving fast enough.

We've announced plans
for municipal elections.

I recall you
passed a law

to elect municipal
councils in 1975.

LEO:
It hasn't happened yet.

You'll forgive us
if we don't hold our breath.

Mr. President,
do you really

wish to see the results

of popular elections
in my country?

The Royal family
is very large.

There are
thousands of members.

At times some have been...
less than progressive.

But we do want change.

Manageable change.

You'll keep us in the loop on
the situation in the capital?

Of course. And yet if things
suddenly become unruly...

I trust you'll consult with us.

As friends do.

As you would consult with us.

Thank you.

Mr. President, when these
schoolboys protest,

when they truly wish
to denounce us,

you know what they say?

They call us Americans.

TOBY:
Josh, you gotta see this.

I'm telling you,
I'm gonna crank up

"The Battle Hymn
of the Republic..."

TOBY ( on phone ):
Josh, shut up.

You want a history lesson?

I'm in Madame Tousseau's.

All of Lassiter's men.

There's Robert Rosiello,

who I think tried
to sell back Alaska

when he was Secretary
of the Interior;

Max Pearlman, who
served three to five;

Earl Rankowsky,
he's on oxygen;

Dwight Mothman, they
must've exhumed him

and Bobby Bodine, Josh.

The one who said, "We have
enemies without and within

and we must purge"--

he actually used that word--

purge them all
until we are purified."

Purified.

Who needs Dante?

I'm on my way to hell
at 30,000 feet.

Hi. Uh, Josh Lyman.

Hi. Ralph Fairfax,
from Fairfield.

You must be Marylou...

Meriwether,
and a pleasure Mr. Lyman.

Mr. Lyman,
wouldn't you agree

that in the chaos and
disarray of war to make off

with one of our state's
most prized possessions,

a precious piece
of our heritage,

doesn't that sound more
like raping and pillaging

than liberation?

We bought it legitimately.

You stole it.

Well,

I think we're off
to a promising start.

It is a copy of
the Bill of Rights.

It belongs to...

To the Union.
You seceded.

This is why we needed
General Order 100.

General Order 100?
The declaration

that all confiscated
Rebel property

belonged to the Union.

Which was trumped
by Special Order 88.

Special Order 88?

Mm-hmm. Issued
by a Union General.

"All archives
and other property

entrusted to Carolina
must be returned."

Besides,

the Bill of Rights made
100 unconstitutional.

It violated due process.

You know, one of my law school
classmates published an article

on the constitutionality
of Lincoln's General Order.

Akhil Amar.

You went to law school
at Yale?

Well, Yale's close
to home so...

You're from Connecticut?

You're from Connecticut?

Go Whalers.

NEWSMAN ( on TV ):
As of today,

the demonstrations remain
peaceful, but tensions are high

as Riyadh entered its third day
of protests.

The President on his way?

Yeah... of course, we had
to get the forklift
out for Toby.

CNN's reporting
larger crowds in
the smaller cities.

Where are you going?

I'm meeting Mallory
at Oberdorfers.

I was supposed to take her
to Ford's theater

the other night.

With all that was going on
I kind of had to...

I'll be back in an hour.

The DARPA budget.

I thought it was classified.

Apparently not.
It's on the Internet.

Hoisted on their
own petard.

Any word back
from the D.O.D.?

Not yet.

But there's a man
in your office.

Okay.

I didn't see him come.

I turned around,
and he was there.

A man in my office?

Is he dashing?

Not how I'd describe him.

Can I help you?

There are no firewalls on here.

Excuse me?

I could certainly
do something with this.

Or I could call security
to do something with you.

Oh, sorry.

( typing )

I'm Dr. Max Milkman,

from the Defense Advanced

Research Projects Agency.

Dr. Milkman?

Yes.
The man from DARPA.

Yes.

I've been reading
about you.

Operation
Midnight Climax?

Setting up brothels,
creating and testing
LSD on the patrons,

without their knowledge
of course.

Talk about a mind-blowing
experience.

Please, Ms. Cregg...
that was ARPA.

ARPA?

ARPA, not DARPA.

Well, I can't tell you
how comforting that is.

PILOT:
Ladies and gentlemen,
the tower's informed us

we have clear weather
for the rest of our trip.

It should be
some smooth sailing.

You okay?

Do I look okay?

Not so much.

I think Bobby Bodine
was looking for you.

"Enemies without and within."

MAN 1:
Thank you, Mr. President.

MAN 2:
Thank you, Mr. President.

MAN 1:
Thank you, sir.

PRESIDENT:
Thank you.

Come on, I'll show you around.

Looks like a new plane.

Reconditioned
and re-configured, I think.

Don't care much
for the color.

You should see what we've done
with the house.

The Mauve House?

What, shades of puce?

I wouldn't doubt it.

Listen, I got the NSC
brief this morning.

Yeah, I wish
they wouldn't do that.

These protesters
are talking about
democracy, Jed.

Well, we don't know what
they're talking about, D.W.

Not yet.

The Royal family...

They're a convenience
getting fat and rich

off the oil we gobble up,

spending their
extra billions

promoting radical
Wahhabists.

That was a bad bed
we made.

Had to live with it
in my day,

but it's time for a change.

Trust the people, Jed.

They'll make rational
decisions.

TOBY:
In the deserts of Arabia

are there
any rational decisions?

Excuse me.
Sorry, Mr. President.

Raiding the pantry,
Toby?

Just a prop, sir, to help me
with the eulogy.

You know
President Newman?
Yes, sir.

Voted for you a couple of times.

You seem to be voting against me
at the moment.

It's hard to get Toby
to speak his mind.

Mr. President,
it just seems to me

that most Muslims
on the Arabian Peninsula

believe they must choose
between the law of Allah

and the laws of man.

I see.

Arabs don't make
rational decisions,

only fundamentalist ones?

Without strong guidance,

the popular elections
could be a one-time event.

NEWMAN:
Strong guidance?

You think we should colonize?

No, I think we should run away,

and as fast
and as far away as we can.

I think our friends
in Britain would argue

it's the best way
to midwife modernity.

And didn't they do
a bang-up job

with the Arabian peninsula.

CHARLIE:
Mr. President,
President Bartlet.

It's Leo, sir.
Do you want to...?

BARTLET:
No, I'll take it here.

Would you excuse us?
TOBY:
Mr. President.

( door closes )

Yeah?

LEO:
Sir, there's been a development.

Protesters have surrounded
the Aramco facility
in Dhahran.

They're picketing
the Saudi Oil headquarters?

The compound includes 40 homes,
200 people,

including 50 Americans.

Are they at risk?

LEO:
The protesters are refusing

to let anyone in or out
until their demands are met.

Mr. President,
we've also managed to identify

a number of the leaders
of the protest.

They appear to be renegade
members of the Royal family.

DONNA ( over intercom ):
The honor guard
will escort the casket

from the library to the grounds
after the bugler's warm up

but before they seat
the Presidents.

The Reverend will open and close
the program

and Mrs. Lassiter requested

that the President
give the final eulogy.

Mrs. Lassiter also asked

if she could have
five minutes with the President.

I feel like I'm on
the Voyage of the Damned.

Village. It was village.

What's the difference?

( bell dings )

Why are we descending?

DONNA:
What?

This plane...
it's going down.

What?!

We're landing
to pick up President Walken.

Charlie, has he been drinking?

I don't think so.

You know what, Donna?

We are dealing
with a foreign policy dilemma

of unmatched perplexities

with unintended consequences
lurking at every turn...

Charlie,
what's he talking about?

Maybe not so unlike a woman.

DONNA:
Toby, focus.

Mrs. Lassiter wants five minutes
with the President.

* Suicide
is painless... *

Charlie, is he singing?

I don't think so.

* It brings on...
many changes. *

HUTCHINSON:
Dhahran's the nerve center.

It goes down, the world loses
five million barrels a day,

not to mention 50 Americans.

BARROW:
It's a non-violent protest.

Mr. President,
we've located
a political officer

at the Embassy,
a Dan Strasser,

who has a relationship
with one of the princes

leading the protest.

He's on leave.

We're tracking him down.

George, what's
your take?

This Prince, Arujunah,
he was educated here at Harvard,

but anything's possible.

He could be a real reformer
or not.

HUTCHINSON:
In the meantime,
we need to prepare to evacuate

the Americans
in the Dhahran compound.

BARROW:
Gentlemen, this looks and feels

like the beginning
of a real democratic movement.

Over the next few hours,
as we learn more...

Sir, this is Iran
in '79 not '97.

Even if this Arujunah
has noble motives,

the not-so-silent majority

is not going to vote
for a more perfect union.

We could be a few hours
away from civil war.

George, if their troops,

if the National Guard
is mobilizing,

how long do we have?

SLINGER:
A couple hours, maybe less.

PRESIDENT:
Okay.

Ted, you and Berryhill
have an hour

to track down this Strasser guy.

Miles,

I want you to stay
in constant contact

with the security forces
at the compound.

And, General, fuel up
the Chinooks on the Peleliu.

We hear any noise
out of Dhahran...

Yes, sir.

You want to let Bitar know

we're holding him accountable
for the safety of our...

We send that message,

they're definitely gonna start
knocking heads.

Tell him we're confident

in the monarchy's ability
to broker a peaceful solution.

One hour, gentlemen,

and we're gonna have
to make a call.

There oughta be a warning sign

when you hitch up
to be leader of the free world.

What happened in here?

I'm not biased
just 'cause I'm
from Connecticut.

Uh-huh.

I can understand
how North Carolina thinks

it's entitled
to the Bill of Rights.

Uh-huh.

Okay, fine, I'm biased.

They denounced the Constitution.

They denounced
the Bill of Rights.

They seceded from the Union.

You want to go back
140 years?

Why not 200?

North Carolina's the reason
we have a Bill of Rights

in the first place.

Your midnight-riding
New England patriots

were ready to dump the Bill
into the Long Island Sound.

Where are you from?

Asheville.

North Carolina?

We said, "No rights
amendments, no ball game."

We refused to ratify
the Constitution without it.

For such champions
of the Bill,

you certainly placed
a lot of importance

on those rights
in the 1800s,

especially the parts
about life, liberty, property.

You're going to lecture me
on equal rights?

How does a state
that fought for slavery

have the gall to claim ownership
in a document...?

First, Josh,

the war wasn't just
about slavery;

it was about industry.

Second, that's exactly
why North Carolina needs

an original copy
on display in Raleigh--

to remind them.

And third, Connecticut has
the highest per capita income

in the country.

If they want the damn
piece of paper so badly,

why don't they just offer
to compensate North Carolina?

Oh, we'd be willing to pay.

WALKEN:
Come on, Bess.

General.

PRESIDENT:
Glenn, good to see you.

Mr. President,
it's good to see you.

Just like a fraternity reunion.

Where's the keg?

Or maybe you better break
out the bingo instead.

( Bess barking )

Shut up, Bess.
Come on.

PRESIDENT:
Come in.

You know
President Newman.

Mr. President,
we've met before.

Oh, yes.

So, what are you
up to these days, Glenn?

Vouchers?
School prayer?

Actually, it's more like
dog-walking.

And of course my spin class.

I'm surprised you're not looking
for another place to bomb.

I like to make in impression.

Well, you certainly
did that.

But why should I complain.

I'm sure it helped
precipitate

the current situation.

Maybe I should have taken
a longer vacation.

And let him wage war
with the rest of the Arab world?

To think I heard
you were one of my biggest fans.

The old formulas
don't work, D.W.

We need to make new choices.

Glenn, the protesters
are surrounding

the Aramco compound
in Dhahran.

What do you think, Glenn?

Should we invade?

We need wholesale change
in the region.

This is an opportunity.

We're the only superpower left.

Why wouldn't we go
into the Riyadh?

"The more of the world
we inhabit,

the better it is
for the human race."

The buck stops here.

Ah, yes, the almighty dollar.

In my four years, we spent
$200 billion on foreign oil,

and a $100 billion
protecting the leaders

of the countries
that supplied it.

How many lunches did I have
playing footsie

with some Saudi prince

promising to sell them
AWACS and Bradleys,

and all in the name
of stability?

But I paid a premium.

Those people hate us.

Of course
they hate us.

Because we support
their oppressors.

Because we are their oppressors.

Glenn, I'm not sure
we have the stomach for empire.

I'm not looking for empire.

I'm not looking to colonize.

If this protest
is a call for democracy,

I think we should create

a provisional, secular
government,

oversee the transition,
and get out as fast as we can.

Leaving them

with a weak state
and a hated Vichy government.

You really want
to make a difference, Jed?

Then support this Arujunah
from the sidelines.

You start saddling up camels

in every country
in the Middle East,

then you better be prepared
to spend the next 50 years

sifting through sand,

because this isn't a quick run
on the beach, Jed.

This is the new world order.

( knocking )

Mr. President,
we're ready
for takeoff.

Thank you.

( engines whining )

on micro/nano cameras,
gecko-fingertip adhesion,

something delightfully nicknamed
"Smell-O-Vision."

There's the Brain Machine
Interface Program.

It measures the processes
in the brain

in hopes of detecting
deceptive intent.

So not mind control,
mind reading.

It's all part of a new
counter-terrorism initiative,

and the heart of our strategy
is bio-surveillance.

We're mining existing
health databases to determine...

You're looking
at medical records?

It's totally anonymous.

You'll have social
security numbers,

addresses, personal data.

Just for the Human I.D. Program.

Human I.D.?

Human Identification
at a Distance--

where we use a variety
of biometric technologies

that focus on body parts,
face identification,

human kinematics.

Kinematics...

Oh, yeah.

It's amazing what we can tell
from the human stride:

personality, intention,

pathology, criminality.

All from scrutinizing
one's gait.

Yeah.

I got to go.

PRESIDENT:
Hey.

Thank you.

How you doing?

I've been walking up
and down these aisles,

looking at these old men,

these great
and terrible old men...

and thinking prosperous,

free, and democratic
Saudi Arabia--

something to wish for.

But the men on
this plane spent

the better part
of the late 20th century

trying to play God
in other countries.

And the regimes
they anointed

are the ones
that haunt us today.

Yeah, I'm not making
much progress

with the eulogy.

Did you ever meet
President Lassiter?

No.

He's was arrogant bastard--

pompous, high and mighty
know-it-all.

He used to call me
in the residence,

wake me up in the middle
of the night

to pontificate
on Teddy Roosevelt

or whatever president
had a birthday that week.

When we were elected,

I really thought
we were going to
own the place,

do it differently, better.

Now I realize
the men on this plane

are the only others
who have been there before,

who really know.

I wished I'd taken
more of his calls.

Sir, it's Leo.

Hey.

Did Walken make it on board?

They really broke the mold
on that one.

What do you got?

Dhahran's quiet,

but there's been an outbreak
of fighting in Riyadh.

How serious?

A bunch of imams
throwing stones.

A number of people
were injured.

And they found Strasser,
the guy at the embassy.

Says Arujunah
is a true reformer--

a believer in checks-
and-balances democracy.

Wouldn't lie about chopping
down cherry trees.

That's the gist.

Okay. Tell Alexander I want
the Truman battle group

moved into the Gulf.

And set up a call with Bitar.

Sir...

It's time to tell him, Leo.

Real change,

or he can start looking
for a new kingdom.

( phone ringing )

Hello.

DONNA:
Well, at least
you're not singing.

How is it?

( sighs )

Oh, don't ask.

Okay.

How is it?

Sad.

It's...

it's just sad.

Sir.
Mm?

It's Leo.

Thanks.

Yeah.

Mr. President, I'm with
Secretary Hutchinson

and General Alexander.

The National Guard have started
to fan out

around the protests
in Riyadh and Dhahran.

Where's Bitar?

We haven't been able
to reach him.

He's apparently on a plane
back to Riyadh.

General, I want you to ready
a peacekeeping mission,

and, Leo,

fax, Fed-Ex, carrier pigeon,
I don't give a damn how,

but get word
to the Crown Prince:

Any unprovoked use of force

and I'm going to freeze the sale
of all military arms.

We're going to stop training
his precious National Guard.

Hell, tell him if he can use
saving American lives

as a pretext for force,
so can I.

Did you see
all those books?

Mm-hmm.

Do you think
Lassiter actually
read Shakespeare?

I would have
thought he was more
a Melville fan.

He called me,
you know,

when we all found out
about your illness.

He must have been livid.

I was livid.

I wanted to call
the White House,
to call CNN.

And there was Lassiter
on the phone

telling me to can it.

There's a Wilson quote:

"Is the present war
a struggle for a just
and secure peace,

"or for a new balance
of power?

"There must be not a balance
of power,

"but a community of power.

"Not organized rivalries,
but an organized common peace."

Ah, what the hell.

Woodrow Wilson didn't
have all the answers.

No. Neither did Lassiter,
God knows.

And then again,
neither did I.

But at least
at the end...

we were all asking
the right questions.

Hey, Glenn.

Mr. President.

Please.

Miss Libby's
looking for you.

Is this gonna
bother you?

Not at all.

World's certainly
turned upside down

since Owen
Lassiter's time.

True enough.

Went on a trip to China
with him one time.

We had dinner
in Beijing.

We couldn't
find a bathroom.

Talk about yellow peril.

The two of us are out
in the bushes

and Owen
Lassiter's reciting

Lincoln's second
State of the Union.

"The dogmas of
the quiet past

are inadequate to
the stormy present"?

Something like that.

I lost touch
with him toward the end,

He started making all
those strange trips

to nonsense places,
old battlefields...

but I can't help wonder
how he'd react

to the situation
in Riyadh.

Me, too.

I'll catch up
with you, Glenn.

How's it going
with Grant and Lee?

We're gonna hold
a signing ceremony.

Maybe even a 21-musket salute.

You reached an agreement?

The Union will stand.

Freedom and the right to
assemble for one and all.

Yeah, well, not if
the man from DARPA

has anything to do with it.

Ah, DARPA.

They're sifting through
medical records.

They're just trying
to protect you.

Haven't you had
enough trouble

haggling over the Bill
of Rights for one day?

Does the press
have the story?

Huh?
The mind-control story.

Didn't you say it
was gonna break?
Yeah.

So, the story breaks,
the public has roughly

the same reaction
you're having.

No more mind control,
no more sifting.

No more gait scrutiny.

Democracy in action.
You gotta love it.

...need to send
in 30,000 troops?

Initially.

And if this were
to move beyond

peacekeeping?

Yeah. Okay.

I'll be down in a minute.

Is it important?

No.

Not really, no.

Hi, Dad.

Mal. What are you doing here?

I have something
to tell you.

That's why I've been late.

I-I just didn't want to...

You all right?

Yeah.

No, not really.

It's hard for me

because of who
you are... we are.

Oh, I hate this.

Can I just go now?

I don't think so.

Mom's getting re-married.

I know that.

You know that?

She called me.

She called you?

She said she didn't.

Mal, I appreciate
the concern.

I'm fine.

See, I knew it.

Knew what?

I just didn't
want you to hear it.

I didn't want you to be
alone when you heard.

It's okay.

I'm just sorry we haven't
had more time together.

I thought we'd have
a nice night

at the theater
the other night,

but we got this little
problem in the Middle East.

( playing "Taps" )

*

Ready!

Aim!

Fire!

( gunshot )

Ready!

Aim!

Fire!

Ready!

Aim!

Fire!

Mr. President,

I want to thank
you for coming.

Of course I came, Libby.

Owen would've
loved the eulogy.

Who wrote it?

The humor, so dry
and... and sad.

I always thought
you detested him.

That's a long time ago.

I know he called you
just the other day,

but you didn't
call him back.

Several times.

But... you never
called him back.

When we left
the White House

I thought we'd have
some time together.

His job was done,

but he took to traveling.

To Korea, to
the Philippines,

to Vietnam and to Europe.

Any spot where American
boys had shed blood.

Even the Civil War.

He'd fill a jar,

come back to this room,
this oval room he'd had built

He'd come
here to think.

He took to eating here
and sleeping here,

even after the operation.

And when they came
they found him here.

Battlefields.

Yes.

I wanted you to come...

because he left
this for you.

Thank you.

( phone ringing )

"We owe it to ourselves
to stand in this dirt

"as survivors and witnesses.

"We have to cure ourselves
of the itch

"for the absolute knowledge
or power or right.

"We have to close the distance
between the push-button order

"and the human act.

We have to touch people."

Sir.

Did you talk to
the crown prince?

We're too late, sir.

A protester in Riyadh
fired on the National Guard.

There was tear gas,
more gunfire...

A protester fired?

They think it was a member
of the National Guard

dressed as a protester.

Are there casualties?

20, 30. Probably hundreds
more in the aftermath.

Our people are safe?

The crowds in Dhahran
have dispersed.

Riyadh, Jidda,
it's all breaking up.

And the leaders of the protest?

Arujunah?

No.

Okay.

I guess this changes things.

I'm not sure it
changes anything.