Eleanor Emily Bartlet

Absent but centrally focalized via Ron's radio reports and Bartlet's demands: secured in separate car post-chaos, vomiting from shock, escorted by Mike and Fred back toward White House while Gina …

reported by Sam as on the way back to the White House with President (mentioned)

secure in a car, heading to G.W. Hospital

significantly mentioned as the daughter President Bartlet demands to speak to immediately

Zoey lingers bedside, exchanging loving words and receiving paternal reassurance before Bartlet prompts her exit to await Abbey outside, her fearful presence cleared for urgent presidential business amid nurses' bustle.

Zoey enters the trauma room, face etched with fear at her father's pain, questions his condition tenderly, praises his bravery, shares love declarations and wry laughs about her car-sickness, then …

Solicits updates from staffer, receives and returns mother's tight hug, shares father's gallows humor to ease tension, affirms her own resilience before Abbey departs.

Present silently during briefing, Zoey absorbs details then requests exit, departing with Ron's shadow, her brief interruption underscoring quiet endurance amid family crisis.

referenced by Ron as having been secured in the car during the shooting response

Zoey enters seeking Charlie explicitly, banters with Margaret about acalculia, pulls him into the hallway to confront him sharply about ignoring her call from the night before, presses on their …

Zoey is referenced post-meeting by Bartlet via Charlie's note exchange, highlighting her hallway confrontation's ripple into presidential awareness.

Zoey knocks on Leo's door frame, enters casually, seeks her father, persistently questions the logic of his campaign call location from the Residence under Pendleton Act rules, then as they …

Zoey enters with Leo, responds hesitantly to Bartlet's query about talking, declines amid his mood, and later requests to discuss Charlie once staff exit.

Zoey sits reading intently on the balcony chair, offers a small smile at Charlie's playful approach, rises to kiss him passionately, voices deep empathy for his parental losses and recent …

Zoey sits engrossed in her book, smiles at Charlie's flirtation, rises for a kiss, voices deep empathy for his layered losses tying to recent violence, offers to join his vote, …

Zoey Bartlet noted by Josh as obviously present at Rosslyn, highlighting presidential family's vulnerability in the attendee roster.

Zoey Bartlet noted by Josh as obviously present at the Rosslyn Town Hall shooting.

significantly mentioned as a source of potential backlash

Eleanor Bartlet is revealed off-screen as the source of the public comment defending Millicent Griffith, her unnamed action detonating via Carol's disclosure and thrusting familial rebellion into the fray.

Eleanor Bartlet shockingly revealed via Carol as source of comment on Millicent Griffith situation, prompting Danny's call.

Zoey Bartlet is mistakenly invoked by Josh as the source of the quote, immediately corrected by CJ to Eleanor, amplifying Josh's surprise and underscoring the chaotic personal stakes rippling through …

Invoked off-screen by Leo's revelation of her six-hour-old on-record comment defending the Surgeon General, detonating the family crisis that redirects Bartlet from press and tariffs, amplifying political stakes into personal …

Invoked off-screen via Leo's revelation of her six-hour-old on-record comment defending Surgeon General against firing, detonating familial crisis that silences Bartlet's press charge.

Revealed as defiant initiator of call to Danny, stunning Bartlet; targeted for immediate summons from 'earliest convenience' to urgent demand, escalating family confrontation.

Ellie invoked as 'middle daughter' in Bartlet's post-briefing directive to Charlie, her public defiance against firing the Surgeon General amplifying the personal stakes trailing the political briefing.

Ellie is directly named as 'my middle daughter,' targeted for immediate summons due to her public defense of the Surgeon General via call to Danny, crystallizing the personal stakes.

Enters off-screen as 'WOMAN (OS)' interrupting with 'Excuse me,' then appears visibly as Eleanor 'Ellie' Bartlet, announces she was told her father wanted to see her, prompting Mrs. Landingham's greeting …

Enters tentatively from offscreen with a soft 'Excuse me,' drawing the duo's attention, identifies herself as summoned by her father, stands as Mrs. Landingham exits, now isolated and poised for …

Perched nervously across from Charlie, Ellie engages minimally in small talk—confirming oncology or neurology interests, insisting she's 'fine' and 'good' despite visible unease—then rises to warm greeting as father kisses …

Ellie enters the Oval Office walking beside her father, President Bartlet, maintaining a physically proximate but emotionally remote presence as she delivers a terse single-word reply to his concerned question …

Seated among the senior staff and her father, Ellie watches the film as the on-screen phone rings, present in the charged atmosphere but not directly engaging in the whispered observations …

Cited by Josh as the external pressure point—her public defiance quoted as the reason Bartlet's decision might appear as yielding—forcing the subtext of familial rebellion into the heart of this …

mentioned in family chit-chat; Bartlet expresses hating her boyfriend

Referenced in post-shout family chit-chat by President expressing hatred for her boyfriend, softening tension with paternal vulnerability before counsel directive.