Zoey Bartlet's personal safety vs. predatory harassment and the limits of adolescent freedom — the episode’s security arc: an intruder at the North Lawn, a bar harassment incident, and the presidential/staff response about protection and paternal fear.
Zoey Bartlet's personal safety vs. predatory harassment and the limits of adolescent freedom — the episode’s security arc: an intruder at the North Lawn, a bar harassment incident, and the presidential/staff response about protection and paternal fear.
Events in This Arc
In the Oval Office Ron Butterfield delivers a terse security briefing: a mentally unstable woman tripped an external alarm and, crucially, the intruder was not after the President but his …
At a crowded Georgetown bar a night out turns dangerous when three men aggressively corner Zoey, testing the fragile normalcy she tries to hold onto. Charlie, insecure about fitting in …
After the Georgetown bar incident, President Bartlet confronts his daughter Zoey in the Mural Room. His questions move from anger to raw fear as he delivers a harrowing kidnapping scenario …