Character

Various Other Directors

professional informative dutiful precise

Various Other Directors join President Bartlet in the Roosevelt Room for a briefing on international developments. They cover routine items like a message from Bhutan's child-king and a detained ship before detailing systematic atrocities in the Republic of Equatorial Khundu. Their reports prompt Bartlet to demand deeper intelligence, shifting the discussion from protocol to urgent moral concerns. They interact with staff including Charlie and figures like Clark, Man 1st, and Man 3rd while maintaining focus amid rising tension over foreign policy response.

3 appearances

Also known as: Other Directors

Various Other …'s Journey

A timeline through the narrative

3 moments

S4E14 · Inauguration Part I

From Routine Briefing to Khundu's Moral Reckoning

Grave and formal — trying to convey horrible facts without editorializing.

Represents the collective briefers: delivers operational notes (Black Sea/Caspian clearance) and, via an intelligence voice (Clark), supplies the arresting phrase about Khundu atrocities that forces everyone to look up and …

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S4E14 · Inauguration Part I

When Words Become Images: The Khundu Atrocity Revealed

Grave, professional restraint — delivering shocking information while containing emotional reaction.

An intelligence officer (voiced in the briefing) delivers the disturbing line 'Neighbors are... swapping family members,' employing a clinical euphemism instead of graphic detail to the assembled directors and the …

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S4E14 · Inauguration Part I

Interagency Blowback — Reese Reassigned

Professional and neutral—focused on data points being reported.

As 'Man 3rd' provides supplemental operational details (cleared joint exercise) during the briefing, helping to frame the Roosevelt Room's information flow prior to the Khundu revelation.

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Affiliation

CIA