Job versus marriage: Leo McGarry's internal and interpersonal crisis as the costs of political devotion fracture his marriage and force a choice between personal life and public duty.
Job versus marriage: Leo McGarry's internal and interpersonal crisis as the costs of political devotion fracture his marriage and force a choice between personal life and public duty.
Events in This Arc
Late at night Leo's car pulls up to his suburban house — a single, quiet image that converts the day's political emergency into an intimate moral reckoning. The arrival is …
Leo returns home to find Jenny's packed bags and an untouched anniversary dinner. Their conversation detonates long‑simmering resentments: Jenny refuses to live sidelined by the White House, Leo insists the …
In the Vice President's office at night Leo arrives raw and disoriented—five votes are lost and, worse, his marriage has just collapsed. Hoynes immediately both fixes the political emergency (promising …