Isaac & Ishmael [3.0]
Backpack sighting in Teaser
It's 5 pm and Josh is getting ready to go home. He pulls his backpack off his visitor's chair, grabs a file off the desk under his blackboard and shoves it into his backpack, and is set to go. But Donna tells him he has to go talk to the presidential classroom kids, so after some whining he hands her the backpack and heads out to the northwest lobby. Donna comes with him and has the backpack on her right shoulder.
Ways & Means [3.3]
Backpack sighting in Act 1
First Josh heads off with his backpack (and Toby) to a meeting to discuss the estate tax - but the meeting gets cancelled…

Backpack sighting in Act 3

...then later, he and Toby are in Leo's office discussing the estate tax.
The Butterball Hotline [3.7]
Backpack sighting in Act 4
You too can go to the Atlanta airport carrying your backpack on your right shoulder and ride up the same escalator that Josh did. Then walk over to the bar to talk to the DeKalb county DA regarding death penalties.
Bartlet for America [3.9]
Backpack sighting in Teaser
What cab wouldn't stop for the guy in the black trenchcoat, with the backpack and the cel phone? Josh is on the phone to Leo just before the hearing, and he reminds Leo that "a guy falls down a hole, see..." Aww!
H. Con 172 [3.10]
Backpack sighting in Act 4
Amy isn't that interesting, so the backpack was a welcome distraction as Josh came home to find her on the steps outside his building.
The Two Bartlets [3.12]
Backpack sighting in Act 1
Josh passes by his office and drops the backpack in his chair before going off to see Leo.
The Black Vera Wang [3.20]
Non-Backpack sighting in Act 1
Donna greets Josh as he arrives wearing - gasp - a black messenger bag (slung across his chest from his left shoulder to his right hip). Where's the backpack???? Maybe he needed to use the messenger bag for diplomatic purposes on his recent trip to Finland?
Non-Backpack sighting in Act 2
The next day, Josh is still using the messenger bag. This time it's just kind of hanging off his right shoulder when he walks into the West Wing. It must be jet lag. Yeah, he was so tired from the trip that he didn't have time to switch back to the backpack!
We Killed Yamamoto [3.21]
Messenger Bag sighting in Act 1
Josh rushes into the West Wing with the messenger bag on his right shoulder, with dangly things hanging off of it (the bag, not his shoulder <g>).
Messenger Bag sighting in Act 4
Again with the messenger bag dangling off the right shoulder as he and Amy argue outside her building.
Backpack sighting in Act 2
Josh arrives at Amy's apartment. They discuss the stew that Amy's cooking. They discuss his meeting with Congressman Pintero. They discuss marriage incentives. Amy throws his cell phone in the stew. Amy cuts the cord of the other phone that he's trying to use. Josh grabs his backpack from the bed and leaves.
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