Danny Concannon

Hangs back strategically by C.J.'s office door amid dispersing reporters, delivers a cold, pointed revelation about Sam's call girl involvement with smug assurance, then compels her inside with a deliberate …

Sitting opposite C.J. at her desk, Danny courteously flags his intent to probe Sam's relationship further, concedes and drops pursuit after her rebuke, issues a prescient warning about political operatives …

Asks the President a pointed question about protestors, provoking a policy/visibility seam; his inquiry helps shift the moment from ceremonial to political, then steps back as the room disperses.

Interrupts the niceties to ask aloud about protestors across the street and names the chant 'Vermeil,' redirecting the room's attention and converting a staged moment into a news hook.

Danny intercepts C.J. in the hallway after the briefing, parries her accusations with humor and flirtation, deflects the substantive charge about the protest, and turns the exchange to a personal …

Listens from the briefing room with an amused, expectant smile; confronts C.J. in the hallway and trades barbs that quickly turn flirtatious, steering an accountability moment into personal banter.

Danny stands by the door, alternates between light flirtation about C.J.'s dress and delivering the urgent bulletin from KDHN; he presses for detail but uses intimacy as a conversational wedge …

Danny enters with conversational ease, drops a sourcing line about Hoynes being 'roughed up,' alternates between professional questioning and flirtatious banter, presses for on‑the‑record confirmation, and uses charm to try …

Danny presses for a substantive answer about the cabinet meeting; he attempts professional, measured questions but is repeatedly shut down, left visibly rebuffed by Hoynes' joke and denials.

Danny presses for information about the cabinet meeting, attempts polite professional questioning, is visibly taken aback by Hoynes's flippant violent joke, and concedes the exchange after Hoynes's flat denials—still implying …

Referenced offstage as the reporter who has heard about friction between the President and the Vice President and is asking C.J. about it; functions as the narrative trigger for the …

Not physically present but referenced as the press actor whose questioning triggers the entire containment exchange; his reported query about a rift catalyzes the leadership's response.

Danny follows C.J. out of the briefing room, alternates between teasing flirtation and pointed journalistic interrogation, presses for the source of the land‑use rider story, and challenges C.J.'s offhand explanations …

Danny sits in the briefing, then shadows C.J. into the hallway, pressing and taunting her about the land‑use rider and whether the Vice President leaked the story; he alternates playful …

Danny Concannon is offstage but functionally present as the target of the proposed trade; C.J. worries about him 'sniffing around' the cabinet meeting story and seeks to placate him with …

Danny is not physically present but is described as 'sniffing around' the cabinet meeting story; he functions as the intended recipient of the proposed trade (an interview) and as a …

Danny is at his press table, stops typing to engage; he listens, bargains, accepts the joking demand for a song, but ultimately reasserts journalistic principle by warning he'll expose any …

Danny stands among the press and deliberately deploys charm and misdirection—asking about Harrison and pivoting to flirtation—attempting to convert offhand banter into a confirmation or a date while keeping the …

Danny circles C.J. with a blend of flirtation and journalistic prodding — offering his gloves, posing leading questions about Crouch's feelings toward the President, and then conceding with rueful amusement …

Danny flirts and probes — offering gloves as a joking courtesy, then leaning into rumor and challenge — but concedes conversationally that C.J. has outmaneuvered him and steps back toward …

Danny tails C.J. after the briefing, teases and flatters her with a Knicks pretext to create a plausible private cover, flags the 'subpoena' line as the story's hook, and attempts …

Follows C.J. from the briefing, immediately diagnoses the rhetorical danger of the word 'subpoena,' attempts to manufacture an off‑the‑record, flirtatious private moment using a Knicks game as cover, and is …

Danny resists off‑the‑record disclosure, repeatedly asserting his obligation to print and protect sources; he provides the key assessment that Lillienfield's allegation is a small but intentional charge meant to trigger …

Danny enters carrying a fishbowl, earnestly offers the goldfish as a gift, struggles to understand C.J.'s reference to crackers, defends his competence, names the fish (citing the store clerk), and …

Danny approaches C.J. with playful confidence, uses a jokey 'list' as a pickup device, trades light banter (including an observation about the black suburban), and then withdraws when rebuffed, leaving …

Danny intercepts C.J. with playful, persistent flirtation: offers a 'list' as a gambit, accepts banter good-naturedly, and withdraws when rebuffed; his presence initiates the light tone that makes Sam's later …

Danny sits in the visitor chair, teases C.J., produces a small wrapped cylinder from his coat as a gag gift, and unexpectedly confesses a crush before quickly taking his leave …

Begins the scene seated and amused, offers a small, intimate gift and a confession, then collects his coat and leaves when Carol announces Leo's arrival—a private witness to the tonal …

Danny is intercepted as C.J. leaves the podium, follows her conversationally, answers the baited policy question bluntly, then finds himself verbally and emotionally outmaneuvered when C.J. reframes the exchange as …

Danny is present as a light, flirtatious presence — bantering about his beard and the fish — and is peripheral to the leak revelation. He mostly listens, exchanges goodnights, and …

Danny engages in light, self-deprecating flirtation about regrowing his beard, claims a casual reason for being there (to see 'his fish'), accepts C.J.'s directive to leave without argument, and exits …

Danny is not physically present in the mural room but is explicitly located in the press room by Carol and is the subject of C.J.'s request; he is thereby pulled …

Danny waits in the office playing with Gail, listens as C.J. frames her plan, responds with easy humor, accepts the kiss, initiates the physical grab and reciprocation, then offers a …

Danny waits, plays with the goldfish, presses for brevity by invoking his paper's needs, accepts C.J.'s plan, then responds physically by grabbing and kissing her decisively; afterward he checks that …

Interrupts the briefing with a light, humanizing question about the President's pens; probes for color and establishes press familiarity with C.J.; acts as the onstage foil who makes the room …

Danny enters casually, shifts from flirtation to reporter mode, and delivers the anonymous tip with precise, slightly smug phrasing; he presses that he has a pilot source and then leaves …

Danny enters playful and direct, presses C.J. for a date while needle‑pointing the story he wants, then gives her specific, sourced intelligence about an advance man's helicopter joyride before leaving …

Danny is not present but is named as the journalist who obtained the Magrudian story from an internal source; his presence functions as a catalyst and reference point in C.J. …

Not physically present in the office but invoked as the intermediary who obtained the golf story from a White House source and passed it to C.J.; functions here as the …

Danny remains at his desk typing, switches to a conversational stance, accepts 'off the record' status verbally while probing for both personal clarity (re: the kiss) and hard news (advance …

Danny is at his desk typing, flirts and resurrects an intimate memory to test boundaries, asks pointedly about the advance aide and helicopter, escalates by standing close to block C.J.'s …

Enters from the back room, reads C.J.'s expression, verbally refuses to accept a fed lead, reinstates a professional boundary while allowing flirtation to undercut the tension; follows C.J. into the …

Danny repeatedly presses the president for a yes-or-no answer, cutting off other reporters and refusing to accept Bartlet's pivot, signaling journalistic insistence on direct accountability.

Danny is the off-screen instigator of the exchange (Bartlet 'continues to answer Danny's question'), providing the opening that enables Bartlet's consequential judgment.

Danny intercepts Josh at the door, directly and bluntly warning him not to take the briefing; he remains a terse, professional check on impulsive behavior and closes the exchange with …

Danny presses insistently for clarity, framing the unemployment drop as a plausible trigger for renewed inflation and directly challenging Josh to explain whether the President has a plan.

Referenced by Josh as the originator of the probing exchange; though not physically present in the hall, Danny is cast as the reporter who 'threw a knuckle ball'—an instigator whose …

Referenced by Josh as the person to whom the joke was addressed; not physically active in the exchange but implicated rhetorically as Josh's conversational prop and supposed witness to the …

Danny Concannon reacts to the question with a small, triumphant smile, signaling personal and professional victory — he visibly enjoys the breach in the White House's control and the story …

Danny aggressively presses the briefing, then drops the wire story attribution into the room—weaponizing an anonymous dispatch to force a reaction and reveal who, if anyone, will own or deny …

Danny deliberately asks the provocative question, cites the wire story as evidence, and presses C.J., converting a personnel query into a leak-driven allegation that forces an immediate response.

Danny is on the phone, distracted by market news, accepts Leo's off-the-record overture with guarded curiosity, then is cut off by C.J.'s brisk entrance—left puzzled but willing to provide the …

Danny is on the phone in the press room, candidly reports market movement and admits he has significant personal exposure in tech stocks; he stops, listens to Leo's off‑the‑record request …

Sits waiting, moves fluidly between small talk and protective counsel: jokes with Mrs. Landingham, offers Charlie pragmatic dating advice, refuses the President's entreaties to name sources, and exits with professional …

Danny sits waiting, trades light banter with Mrs. Landingham, gives blunt protective advice to Charlie about being 'hassle free' around Zoey, and then endures a private Oval Office appeal from …

Danny sits waiting, deploys disarming small talk with Mrs. Landingham, then deliberately pulls Charlie aside to press and give brusque, experienced advice; he later follows Bartlet into the Oval for …

Danny arrives late, flirtatious and teasing, then delivers the urgent scoop gleaned from his police scanner: David Arbor's arrest and Zoey's presence at the party; he frames his arrival as …

Danny arrives late, teasing and intimate, then delivers the scanner report with journalistic glee: he names the arrest, confirms family connection, drops the worst fact about Zoey, boasts of his …

Danny relays Edgar Drumm's question and Zoey's reply in a teasing, offhand manner while typing at his desk; he uses levity and flirtation to deflect seriousness and implicitly minimize the …

Danny is at his computer, bluntly confirms he has the memo, refuses to be swayed by personal appeals, argues publicly relevant facts and his journalistic duty, and delivers an extended …

Danny is an off-stage but active force: named as the reporter who will publish Mandy's memo, his planned article functions as the external pressure that crystallizes the internal crisis.

Danny is named as the reporter who has the memo and will publish it; he functions offstage as the press actor whose actions convert internal staff friction into public narrative …

Danny approaches C.J., attempts to pry or negotiate for information, receives a private, tantalizing confirmation—'You're not going to want to miss this'—and is left to watch the theater unfold, balancing …

Danny reacts to the unexpected invitation with surprise, quickly tells Jack to accept, and through a terse line asserts both familiarity with C.J. and a willingness to yield the exclusive …

Danny, having been near reporters, approaches and confronts C.J. aggressively about the memo and lost access, repeatedly calling her actions 'bush league', invoking Time and Newsweek, and framing the incident …

Not present in the room but named and vindicated by the President; his professional reputation is publicly defended, signaling the President's willingness to shield staff from scapegoating.

Danny is invoked indirectly—Bartlet defends him by saying 'So was Danny'—positioning him as a reporter who did his job and therefore not to be scapegoated.

Danny pursues C.J. out of the briefing room, challenges her about snapping at him, pleads for forgiveness regarding the 'Mandy' incident, names the lingering blame, and forces C.J. into a …

Challenges C.J. on the podium, then follows her into the hallway and presses her about tone and blame; seeks reassurance that the controversy has passed after Mandy's incident.

Follows C.J. from the podium into the hallway, presses her about why she snapped, raises the moral dimension of blame and culpability, and tests her with blunt, personal questions about …

Danny is intercepted by C.J. in the press room and reacts with curiosity and skepticism; he functions as the reporter primed to chase the Shuttle tip to his science editor.

Is intercepted by C.J., shifts quickly from casual to alert journalist mode, pressing for verification and the angle while accepting the tip that it concerns the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Danny presses C.J. with a direct question about whether a rescue mission is underway, representing the press's demand for operational clarity and immediate accountability.

Danny directly challenges the spokesperson, cutting through protocol with a plain question about an ongoing rescue, representing press insistence for concrete, immediate answers.

Danny physically rises to go after C.J. as she exits — a deliberate, immediate approach signaling personal as well as professional drive to pursue answers and possibly press a point …

Danny rises from the press audience at the moment C.J. exits, indicating immediate intent to follow her out of the room; his motion transforms press curiosity into personal pursuit.

Danny catches up to C.J., confronts her bluntly about being singled out and misled, invoking his résumé to stake moral and professional injury; his anger is earnest and wounded, but …

Danny catches up, barges into C.J.'s office and vocally confronts her about being misled; he presses the ethical breach, invoking his credentials and staked professional reputation as proof the lie …

Danny is struck lightly, questions why, then follows C.J. obediently — curious and slightly put out, but willing to be guided away rather than make a scene during the President's …

Present in the press area; lightly struck by C.J. and told to follow her. He is the inquisitive reporter momentarily redirected from pursuing the line of questioning.

Interrupts aggressively, talking over reporters to hammer C.J. twice on 25th Amendment discussions, probing for succession instability amid presidential wounding.

Danny hurries up behind C.J. and Carol at the corner, apologetically insists on answers despite empathy, grills her on chain-of-command under 25th Amendment citing Bartlet's anesthesia, challenges her six-person list, …

Approaches rapidly from behind as they turn corner, apologetically insists on 25th Amendment chain-of-command answer amid President's anesthesia; presses after C.J.'s list and joke, then nods acceptance of her time …

referenced as asking C.J. questions on chain of command

pressing C.J. with questions on chain of command and 25th Amendment

referenced as pressing C.J. with questions on authority and chain of command

referenced by Toby and C.J. as a reporter to hold off on questions

persistent reporter referenced by Toby as needing to be stalled for hours

Intercepts C.J. in the hallway, apologetically but relentlessly presses for clarity on command authority during the President's 3.5-hour anesthesia, follows her back to her office, rejects her legal deflections demanding …

press reporter scrutinizing the three and a half unaccounted hours related to the letter, to be summoned by C.J.

reporter pressing C.J. on 3.5-hour presidential power gap, directed to meet Leo

Danny approaches Leo quietly in the rear during C.J.'s briefing, addresses him softly, praises her performance afterward, persists briefly, and follows Leo out toward the hospital.

Danny is pulled aside by Margaret from the briefing fray, approaches Leo quietly, interrupts softly then admires C.J.'s performance post-speech, and eagerly follows Leo's hospital invitation out of the room.

Rises amid press chaos to persistently question C.J. on presidential consideration of a lame duck session for treaty vote, presses for confirmation despite deflection, and requests follow-up check, undeterred by …

Danny pursues C.J. directly into her office, leverages overheard call to demand lame-duck confirmation, negotiates attribution phrasing persistently, accepts her liaisons-sourced quote after pushback, and departs with quotable material fueling …

Danny walks with C.J., deflects her editorial accusations with sarcasm and mockery of retaliation, greets Carol casually, follows her into the office pressing relentlessly for lame duck confirmation, accepts her …

referenced as seeking access for a three-part feature, denied by C.J. due to recent critical editorials

Washington Post reporter requesting access for a three-part feature, whose paper's editorial staff recently criticized Leo and the President (significantly discussed)

Absent but centrally invoked as Leo reveals his request for exclusive three-part feature access, triggering C.J.'s explosive veto tied to Post's editorial savagery, positioning him as the persistent press antagonist …

Danny Concannon is actively discussed by C.J., Sam, and Ainsley regarding whether to grant him special access for a feature story, with Sam supporting, C.J. rejecting, and Ainsley endorsing playfully.

Invoked in C.J.'s query and ensuing debate as Post reporter seeking feature access; Sam endorses, Ainsley flirts in support, C.J. resists—positioning him as pivotal media wildcard amid treaty leaks.

Danny persistently questions C.J.'s sudden trip inclusion, suggests punishment, proposes off-record reveal, teases her Notre Dame faux pas post-Michigan reminder, driving the banter forward.

Danny Concannon is invoked by name as the sole holder of an unretrieved old education speech draft, his possession detonating tension without physical presence.

Sits holding the draft, pauses thoughtfully before handing it to Toby after Sam's fabricated excuse, reassures Toby that Sam will relax and confirms he didn't read it, then banters playfully …

Danny Concannon noted on phone seeking President's reaction to Eleanor Bartlet's public comment defending Millicent Griffith.

Danny Concannon waits on the phone line, prompting Carol's relay as he presses for President Bartlet's reaction to Eleanor Bartlet's public defense of Millicent Griffith, his inquiry fueling the interruption.

Danny Concannon is invoked by CJ as the reporter actively quoting Eleanor Bartlet's defiant statement on the Surgeon General, thrusting the family rift into public scrutiny and fueling the bullpen's …

Danny is indirectly invoked through the context of Ellie's defiant call to him, fueling Bartlet's rage that erupts in the summons, though not named in this beat.

Invoked in Bartlet's opening rage as protocol breacher for allegedly calling Ellie, swiftly clarified by C.J. as recipient of her call, fueling presidential shock.

Danny Concannon referenced indirectly through the lingering heat of Bartlet's prior fury, now contextualized as the recipient of Ellie's defiant call fueling the broader scandal.

Referred to in C.J.'s practiced roll call; part of the press roster imagined as questioners.

Danny Concannon is referenced as the journalist who ran the Rooker piece after a one-on-one with C.J.; he functions as the catalyst for the political interruption but is not present …

Danny is not physically present in the scene but is invoked as the investigative reporter who, after receiving a one-on-one from C.J., dug into Cornell Rooker's past and uncovered a …

Danny Concannon is invoked by C.J. as a rhetorical example — his Pulitzer from the fourth row is used to deflate the importance of seating as performance rather than substance.

Poses as Santa, delivers the 'Ho, ho, ho' gag, produces a gift box, kisses C.J., then rips off the fake beard to reveal himself and speaks immediately after the reveal.

Disguised as Santa, he works the gag—delivering lines, presenting a gift box with a goldfish pin—then abruptly seizes C.J., kisses her, and rips off the fake beard to reveal himself, …

Danny delivers a light, visual opening (scooters, cricket) then abruptly converts the anecdote into an investigative accusation, presses for credibility, warns C.J. and purposefully departs to change clothes.

Delivers a charming, scene‑setting Bermuda/cricket anecdote that escalates into an investigative tip; flirts with C.J., asserts a personal claim on her attention, warns her not to 'mess' him on the …

Danny is offstage but active: his e-mail has alerted Josh and C.J. to a probing allegation about a Bermuda airstrip and Shareef's plane; his investigatory momentum catalyzes the scene's media …

Danny is off-screen but central: his investigative email triggered Josh's awareness and C.J.'s warning; he is portrayed as the active journalist chasing a provocative national-security lead.

Danny Concannon is referenced in a throwaway line by Leo as having a connection to someone who couldn't get to his locker; the reference functions as color and as a …

Danny Concannon is referred to in Leo's offhand remark about a source who couldn't get to his locker; his role is that of external information network, mentioned but not present …

Mentioned by Leo in passing ('Danny Concannon knows a guy who couldn't get to his locker') as part of a string of offhand crisis leads — invoked to show the …

Danny is seated at a press terminal, intently typing. He is physically present and focused, shaping copy for an urgent investigative story while the carol plays over the action, showing …

Is off-screen at the end of the brief but is summoned by C.J. for a private aside—positioned to receive privileged information and to influence public and senatorial opinion off the …

Danny is publicly present in the briefing room and is then quietly summoned off‑mic by C.J.; his status shifts from reporter receiving a gaggle of answers to a private interlocutor …

Danny walks the hallway with C.J., pressing her for an off‑the‑record read on the President and for facts about the Gulfstream pilot; he supplies Maisy's lead and insists he will …

Danny walks the hallway with C.J., deliberately presses an off‑the‑record question about the Shareef Gulfstream pilot, cites Maisy's discovery of a 1994 Gulfstream qualification, insists he'll keep investigating, and stays …

Sitting across from C.J., Danny pushes a blunt, forensic critique of the White House's messaging—predicts a 60-40 rout, lists policy consequences, taunts C.J. about sentimentality and failures, and watches the …

Quietly follows C.J. from the briefing, interjects in the hallway, is ushered into her office, and delivers an urgent report: his Bermudian signal agent ('the cricket player') is missing, unreachable …

Follows C.J. discreetly, breaks the flirtation with urgency to report his source is missing, delivers investigative details (disconnected phone, uncooperative airstrip, new lease), flirts while pressing for help and reassurance …

Danny pushes through formalities to relay Archbishop Kintaka's eyewitness account: radio-directed mobs, machetes, and a church massacre of roughly 800. He presses for a military response, forcing the briefing from …

Relays Archbishop Kintaka's eyewitness account bluntly and urgently, describing the church massacre and the radio‑directed mobs, then presses the administration on whether U.S. troops will intervene.

Danny intercepts C.J. in the hallway to exchange reporting leads, follows her into the copier room, responds to her flirtation with hesitation that becomes surrender, leans in for a kiss, …

Danny follows C.J. into the copier room, responds to her advances, leans in for a kiss, and is left stunned and standing as she withdraws and leaves; he participates as …

Danny presses C.J. with reporterly urgency: he asks about the genocide distinction, follows her into the hallway, and inside her office delivers reporting confirming the pilot's identity and a sourced …

Danny shifts from teasing to reporter-on-duty seriousness: he pushes C.J. for clarity, reveals that he has an intelligence-source story about Pentagon factionalism and a claim about rescinded Executive Orders, and …

Danny Concannon is invoked as the recipient and publisher of the targeted material; he is off-stage but functions as the conduit that turned the bureaucratic technicality into a public story.

Mentioned by C.J. as the reporter responsible for the damaging line; he is portrayed as the antagonist in the immediate crisis although he is not onstage or speaking here.

Referenced by C.J. as the reporter who 'screwed' her; not present, his reporting is implicated as the precipitant of the crisis and shapes the team's immediate response.

Danny stands in the lobby, defensively insists the disputed line was not his, explains that the editor and a researcher inserted it without his knowledge, refuses to name the researcher, …

Referenced as the byline author whose upcoming piece contains the quote; his reporting functions as the external catalyst that turns private frustration into public controversy.

Danny maneuvers through the dancers to find Josh, offers an apologetic greeting about yesterday's story, and produces a copy of the published article—delivering the career- and relationship-damaging quote into Josh's …

Danny weaves through the dancers, seeks out Josh, apologizes for the article, explains uncertainty about his editor knowing the off-the-record status, and produces a physical copy of the published piece …

Stands among the bad cops, tosses snowballs, makes self-aware comments about the story's potential, and expresses contrition ('It was stupid, but it was menschy'), signaling a reporter's mixture of professional …

Danny participates in the snowball assault, trades jokes about the potential story, acknowledges the stunt was 'stupid,' and contributes to the group's shift from anger to rueful camaraderie.

Danny joins the snowballing, attempts levity calling the stunt 'menschy,' offers an apology when the seriousness kicks in, and functions as a reminding presence of the press‑adjacent consequences of leaks.

Danny is referenced by C.J. as the reporter whose inquiries into Shareef have been aided by new Pentagon sources; he is not present but his investigative activity catalyzes the warning …

Wakes from sleep on C.J.'s couch, shakes off grogginess, asserts he has concrete proof linking the U.S. to Shareef's plane, names Jamil Bari as the link, and delivers a hard …

Danny wakes on C.J.'s couch, quickly shifts into reporter mode: he produces and insists upon a link tying Jamil Bari to Shareef's plane, presses C.J. for an on-the-record comment, threatens …

Seated at his laptop wearing sunglasses and initially appearing unresponsive, Danny calmly states that he heard everything, converting the room's suspicion into confidence in his field-readiness and accepting Leo's instruction …

Danny barges into the locked copier room, responds bluntly to C.J.'s declaration, and converts the White House's vulnerability into leverage: he demands a three-day delay and an exclusive while delivering …

Danny arrives with reporting leverage and calmly trades facts for time: he demands a three-day delay and an exclusive, then supplies the pilot lead tying Special Ops activity to Florida …

Danny is bent over his computer in the upper press room, trading barbed, half-teasing questions with C.J. He names the wire allegation and the Gulfstream lead, forcing the press office …

Sitting in the front row, Danny adopts a reporter's rapid-fire, forensic cadence: enumerating questions, pressing for a written record, and pushing the exchange from procedural detail to a moral challenge …