A policy/values clash around a hate-crime: C.J.’s moral urgency and rhetorical push to treat the violent attack as a motivating‑motive crime versus senior staff (Leo, the President’s team) urging tactical caution — the tension between moral clarity and...
A policy/values clash around a hate-crime: C.J.’s moral urgency and rhetorical push to treat the violent attack as a motivating‑motive crime versus senior staff (Leo, the President’s team) urging tactical caution — the tension between moral clarity and political prudence.
Events in This Arc
What opens as a routine holiday travel briefing—C.J. outlining the President's Christmas schedule—snaps into something darker when reporter Bobbi breaks in with news of a vicious attack on a teenager. …
During a bright, public moment—C.J. shepherding schoolchildren and President Bartlet trading playful banter—the mood is shattered when Charlie quietly tells Bartlet that Lowell Lydell has died. Bartlet swallows the news, …
Toby rushes into the Oval with a raw, personal mission: a homeless Korean War veteran was found dead wearing a coat Toby had donated, and Toby has used whatever pull …