It's the First Lady's birthday, and her husband is throwing her quite a bash. She's feeling blue, though, over the impending loss of her medical license as a result of the MS scandal, and so she retreats to a small room with CJ, Amy, and several bottles of wine. Trying to impress an old professor, Sam does his best to convince a stubborn Senator to fund a superconducting supercollidor. Toby and Lord John Marbury decamp to a nearby bar to discuss dead Irish writers and live Irish terrorists. After a newly Canadian Donna is barred from the bash because of a redrawn border, she joins the First Lady's pity party and accidentally blurts out the truth about Abbey's conduct.

Starring:

ROB LOWE as Sam Seaborn
STOCKARD CHANNING as First Lady Abigail Bartlet
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