Charlie Reveals Zoey's Perjurious Health Form to Leo
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Charlie reveals to Leo that Zoey's college health form required a complete family medical history, implying the President's MS diagnosis was concealed.
Leo realizes the implications of Charlie's discovery—Zoey's underage signature on the form means the President and Abbey concealed his MS diagnosis.
Leo reassures Charlie he did the right thing, then immediately tasks Margaret with obtaining Zoey's Georgetown admissions paperwork.
Leo insists Margaret contact the family lawyer to secure the documents, ignoring her question about justification.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Focused determination amid implied urgency
Margaret enters Leo's office at his call post-Charlie's exit, receives urgent instruction to contact family lawyer Pat Carr for all of Zoey Bartlet's Georgetown admissions paperwork despite release concerns, and promptly exits to execute the task.
- • Obtain Zoey's admissions paperwork as ordered
- • Clarify release logistics without derailing Leo's directive
- • Leo's commands in crisis override bureaucratic hurdles
- • Family lawyer Pat Carr holds key access to sensitive records
Guilt-ridden apprehension easing with absolution
Charlie enters Leo's office with him, hesitantly discloses details of Zoey and Ellie's college health forms requiring family medical history and parental signatures for under-18 freshmen, apologizes profusely for the revelation, and exits upon Leo's reassurance and directive to return to work.
- • Alert Leo to the perjury risk from the health forms
- • Seek forgiveness for uncovering the concealed family secret
- • Duty to the President demands revealing the truth despite personal cost
- • Leo's leadership will handle the crisis effectively
his concealed illness referenced as omitted from daughters' college health forms, implying perjury
her college health form and Georgetown admissions paperwork highlighted as key to perjury revelation
identified as the family lawyer to be contacted by Margaret for releasing Zoey's Georgetown admissions paperwork
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
Charlie explicitly references Zoey and Ellie's college health forms as the trigger, detailing their requirements for complete family medical history and parental signatures for under-18 freshmen, which Abbey left blank regarding Bartlet's MS, detonating the perjury realization and propelling Leo's containment response.
Leo demands 'all of Zoey Bartlet's Admissions paperwork for Georgetown' from Margaret via Pat Carr, recognizing it as the volatile sheaf containing underage health forms with family medical history blanks, making it prime evidence in the escalating MS conspiracy probe.
Organizations Involved
Institutional presence and influence
Georgetown University is pinpointed as the repository of Zoey Bartlet's admissions paperwork, including health forms requiring full family medical histories and parental signatures for underage students; Leo's directive to retrieve it underscores the institution's bureaucratic protocols now weaponized against the Bartlet cover-up.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Charlie's discovery of Zoey's form omission necessitates Bartlet's admission to Oliver about Abbey's perjury, moving the plot forward."
Key Dialogue
"CHARLIE: On the form, they ask for a number of things, including a complete family medical history."
"CHARLIE: If you're under 18 when you start as a freshman... if you're under 18, you need a parent's signature."
"LEO: You absolutely did the right thing."