Breach of professional trust and tactical dispute within the White House staff: Sam Seaborn's urgent, improvisatory advocacy for last‑minute relief (including divulging sensitive information) collides with Toby Ziegler's sense of privacy and protocol a...
Breach of professional trust and tactical dispute within the White House staff: Sam Seaborn's urgent, improvisatory advocacy for last‑minute relief (including divulging sensitive information) collides with Toby Ziegler's sense of privacy and protocol and Leo McGarry's insistence on institutional limits.
Events in This Arc
In the Communications office Toby realizes a sermon was tailored to him and, piecing it together, accuses Sam of telling a public defender where he worships. The terse confrontation—Sam admitting …
In the Communications office a cold, legal crisis becomes urgent and personal. Josh barges in bleary-eyed to announce the condemned man's execution is set for a minute past midnight — …
Outside the Oval, Sam makes the moral case while Charlie rattles off countries that still execute juveniles. Leo abruptly cuts Sam off, bars him from seeing the President and repeats …