The violent coup in Equatorial Kuhndu strands American personnel and results in President Nimbala's execution, confronting the administration with the harsh limits of intervention and geopolitical impotence.

In the Oval Office the room pivots from policy theater to private tragedy as advisors deliver grim intelligence about a sudden coup in Kuhndu. Bartlet assembles his senior team, military …

While telling a parable about Norman Borlaug and problem‑solving, Bartlet is handed a slip of paper that collapses the room's intellectual energy into raw consequence. Toby bluntly confirms, "It happened," …