Two Men

Two Men claim the Oval Office doorway as their silent dominion, postures rigid against the geopolitical storm brewing between President Bartlet and Abdul Shareef. Flanking Leo McGarry and General Fitzwallace's tense corner vigil, they absorb the translator's murmurs and Bartlet's seething disdain without a flicker, their immobility forging an ironclad perimeter around moral outrage and assassination's gathering shadow. Unspoken enforcers of protocol, they channel White House security's unyielding discipline, steadying the room's fracture points where diplomacy splinters into lethal resolve.