Bartlet and his national security team struggle against legal, evidentiary, and diplomatic barriers to hold Abdul Lebin Shareef accountable for financing terror attacks, culminating in a moral pivot to assassination.
Bartlet and his national security team struggle against legal, evidentiary, and diplomatic barriers to hold Abdul Lebin Shareef accountable for financing terror attacks, culminating in a moral pivot to assassination.
Events in This Arc
In the Situation Room, Admiral Fitzwallace, Colonel Lee, and intelligence officers present damning circumstantial evidence: a money trail from Shareef's bank to Bai terrorists timed with bombings, matching bomb signatures …
In the Situation Room, an urgent President Bartlet demands confirmation on bypassing Shareef's diplomatic immunity for indictment, but legal advisor David delivers a devastating blow: the entire evidence chain traces …
In the Oval Office at 1 AM, Leo confronts a weary Bartlet, reversing his prior caution by rejecting trip cancellation. Through blistering ethical sparring—excoriating Bartlet's 'liberal' moral absolutism as naive …