Several suspicious pieces of intelligence suggest a possible terrorist attack in the Pacific Northwest, and the President orders the country to Threat Con Bravo, a piece of information that Leo and CJ have to share with Danny to keep him from publishing a story linking the United States government to Abdul Shareef's death. The President and Leo brief the senior staff on the truth about Shareef's death, and none of them are really very shocked. Toby's too nervous about the house he bought for Andy and Josh is struggling to find a confirmable nominee for Vice President (and considers an unusual possibility -- Leo). Donna works with Amy to get some on-again/off-again human rights supporters into a decent meeting at a summit, CJ argues with Danny over the Shareef situation, and Will tries to help the President write a commencement address for Zoey's graduation at the last minute. Later that night, a confused Zoey meets Charlie at the Arboretum to dig up a bottle of champagne they buried three and a half years ago. After a brief conversation, Zoey meets up with Jean-Paul at a techno club. Jean-Paul slips ecstasy into Zoey's drink, and when she excuses herself to splash water on her face and doesn't return, her new Secret Service Agent Wesley rushes into the club -- and finds another agent shot to death in the alley near Zoey's abandoned panic button.

Starring:

STOCKARD CHANNING as First Lady Abigail Bartlet
DULÉ HILL as Charlie Young
ALLISON JANNEY as C.J. Cregg
JOSHUA MALINA as Will Bailey
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

Josh:  You buried the champagne at the Arboretum?

Charlie:  Between the Paeonia Japonica and the Bamboo.

Josh:  How do you get away with digging up the National Arboretum?

Charlie:  Oh, well, you gotta do it at night.

Toby:  I'm choosing to be nervous about other things today.

Will:  Oh, hey, that's right.  Big day.

Toby:  Is he talking about the house?

Will:  It's romantic.

Toby:  They know about the house.

Josh:  Did you tell them?

Toby:  No.  Did you?

Josh:  It's a bold, romantic gesture.  I spread it around, got you some good will.  I think I turned some people around on you.

Bartlet:  Yeah, listen.  I don't think this is going to come as a galloping shock to anyone here, but last May, I ordered a Special Ops unit to kill Abdul Shareef, and that's what they did, and we made it look like what got reported.

Leo:  Anybody need him to stop?

Josh:  No, sir.

Leo:  Anybody need a minute?

Toby:  No, sir.

CJ:  No, sir.

Josh:  Can I ask:  How hard can it be to keep an eye on five Qumari religious fanatics in Schenectady?

Bartlet:  Tell 'em, sister.

Leo:  I think you'd both be surprised.  Anything else?

Will:  How'd you get Shareef's plane to land?

Leo:  Thank you.

Josh:  It's a bit of a powder-puff detail, there, isn't it, fella?

Wesley:  I go where I'm told.

Josh:  So in your training, what were you taught to do if, say, a stringer for Town & Country were to get in her face?

Wesley:  You know I could kill you and just make up the reason why I did, right?

Danny:  My paper's not gonna hold off on it unless there are lives in immediate danger.

CJ:  There are.

Danny:  Show me.

CJ:  Classified security information?  I don't think I'm allowed to do that.

Toby:  If we could get back to the original question...

Andy:  Can you get the down payment back?

Toby:  You're saying no.

Andy:  Yeah, Toby.  I said no many times.

Margaret:  I've gift-wrapped the pen.

Leo:  It's a good pen.

Margaret:  You're giving Zoey a pen.

Leo:  It's not just a pen.

Margaret:  Does it do other things?

Bartlet:  "You must be the change you want to see in the world."  Sounds too much like Eastern Philosophy.

Will:  Well, it was bound to, sir.

Bartlet:  Because Gandhi lived in India?

Will:  Yeah.

Josh:  I need you to tell me now that you have some sense of where we're going, and that we're not, you know, spending the night here, that we're not making camp.

Charlie:  You were the one who said dig up the champagne and give it to her tonight.

Josh:  Yeah, but didn't I almost immediately take it back?

Charlie:  No, I liked it.  It was a good idea.  Send her off knowing we're cool.

Josh:  Are you sure?

Charlie:  No.

Josh:  It's pretty dark -- Yeah, we're in a brook now.

Charlie:  Good, I think it was near a brook.

Josh:  It's like I'm in 'Nam, basically.  I'm in a rice paddy.

Charlie:  Yeah, you'd have done well there.

Amy:  You said you have to get Josh.

Donna:  Yeah, that was... I didn't mean to say that you don't... get him.

Amy:  Are you in love with Josh?

Ron:  We have a situation.  We're up at black, and procedurally, the Chief of Staff is told before--

Leo:  What happened?

Ron:  Zoey Bartlet is missing, and there's a dead agent at the scene.