A recovering Josh chafes at the restrictions placed upon him by Donna's rules, but spends the months leading up to the midterm elections in exile at his apartment brushing up on superstring theory. CJ rejects press requests for "aftermath" stories on the White House staffers, despite evidence that they all bear some psychological scars. Toby starts a one-man crusade to criminalize extremist groups as a way to assuage his lingering guilt, the Bill of Rights be damned. Sam persuades an old college friend to run for Congress, and is appalled when the White House drops support for P.R. reasons. To Zoey's dismay, Charlie struggles alone with his guilt over being the target of the Rosslyn shooting, while the President obsesses over a school board race in New Hampshire. And in the end, after four hundred million dollars, everything stays essentially the same.

Starring:

ROB LOWE as Sam Seaborn
DULÉ HILL as Charlie Young
ALLISON JANNEY as C.J. Cregg
JANEL MOLONEY as Donna Moss
RICHARD SCHIFF as Toby Ziegler
JOHN SPENCER as Leo McGarry
BRADLEY WHITFORD as Josh Lyman
and MARTIN SHEEN as President Josiah Bartlet

CJ:   The Theory Of Everything?

Josh:   Yes.

CJ:   Is it comprehensive?

Toby:   The entire country was the victim of domestic terrorism.  Why not use the soft numbers before they disappear and go after the guns and go after the hate groups?

CJ:   It doesn't look good.

Toby:   Looks good to me.

CJ:   Well, you work for the White House, Toby.  I think we were counting on your support either way.

Toby:   I got it.

Sam:   Got what?

Toby:   How to avoid the appearance that we're randomly and generically going after extremist groups in violation of their civil liberties.

Sam:   We can avoid that appearance by not doing it.

Toby:   Yes, or with this.

Donna:   I'm perfectly serious, Toby.  He's recovering from an attempted murder.  He's supposed to be resting and I don't want people going over there getting him fuhtushed.

Toby:   Fartoost.  Don't bring the Yiddish unless you know what you're doing.

Donna:   You know what word should be Yiddish but isn't?

Toby:   Donna.

Donna:   Spatula.

Toby:   Thank you.

Donna:   Also far-fetched.

CJ:   I think you're Director of Communications and you've been ignoring operational responsibilities--

Toby:   That's crap.

CJ:   --So you can behave like the Director of the FBI.

Toby:   Well, I'm waiting for the Director of the FBI to behave that way.

CJ:   Toby.

Toby:    I'm waiting for the Justice Department to behave that way.  I'm waiting for Congress to behave that way.  I'm waiting for the White House to behave that way!

CJ:   You want to lock up everybody with a white sheet?

Toby:   Yes, I do.  Yes, I do.  Who has a problem with that?  Bring 'em to me right now.  Yes, I do!

Josh:  After four months and 400 million dollars, everything stayed the <b>Sam</b>: e.

Sam:   Yup.

Josh:   Tell me democracy doesn't have a sense of humor.  We sit here, we drink this beer out here on the stoop in violation of about 47 city ordinances.  I don't know, Toby.  It's election night.  What do you say about a government that goes out of its way to protect even citizens that try to destroy it?

Toby:   God bless America.