Humanitarian mission vs. diplomatic, logistical and political constraints: The White House must execute an urgent heart‑and‑lung transplant for the Ayatollah's son while managing diplomatic neutrality, logistics (organs in Zurich, transport windows), p...
Humanitarian mission vs. diplomatic, logistical and political constraints: The White House must execute an urgent heart‑and‑lung transplant for the Ayatollah's son while managing diplomatic neutrality, logistics (organs in Zurich, transport windows), press/leak risk, and domestic political optics.
Events in This Arc
Fresh off a decisive re‑election, President Bartlet strolls into the Oval Office trading gleeful, self‑assured jabs with C.J. and Leo — a comic, domineering display that reasserts his mandate and …
In the Outer Oval, President Bartlet confronts Dr. Essan Mohebi — the only surgeon capable of a life‑saving heart-and-lung transplant for the Ayatollah's teenage son. Mohebi refuses on moral grounds …
In the Oval late at night Bartlet gives Sam a terse, parent-to-protégé charge — acknowledges him as the de facto nominee, presses him to run toward his convictions, and delivers …