End Titles

President Bartlet and Abbey lead C.J., Toby, and senior staff in a silent procession across the crowded ballroom dance floor, two Secret Service agents trailing. The image fades as end titles roll, listing cast and crew names over the dissolving inauguration tableau. This credits sequence caps the public display of unity after the Khundu deployment decision.

3 appearances

Purpose

Signals episode conclusion by displaying production credits

Significance

Delivers narrative closure on the staged gesture of cohesion, underscoring lingering tensions from the deployment choice amid inauguration revelry

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

3 moments

S4E7 · Election Night

After the Win: Abbey's Quiet Reassurance

Triggered immediately after Bartlet and Abbey return onstage; the end titles function as the formal narrative transition that converts the staged encore and private seam into the episode's closing sequence.

Before: Not playing; the scene is still in the ballroom with the characters onstage.

After: Active during the dissolve to credits and fade to black, carrying production attribution and signaling narrative closure.

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S4E11 · Holy Night

O Holy Night — A Momentary Truce

The end titles follow immediately after the carol, functioning as the formal narrative closure. They translate the lobby's emotional pause into the episode's administrative, branded ending, shifting viewers from character intimacy to production crediting.

Before: Not yet displayed; the episode is still in its final diegetic moment in the lobby.

After: Active on screen: credits roll over the fading sound of the carol and a dimmed lobby tableau.

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S4E15 · Inauguration Part II: Over There

Procession Across the Ballroom — A Public Gesture of Unity

End titles take over immediately after the procession dissolves; the credits function narratively as closure, turning the staged public image into a final tableau and transitioning the episode into its formal ending.

Before: Not yet visible; the procession fills the screen as the closing visual.

After: Rolls onscreen following the dissolve, signaling narrative and temporal closure for the episode.

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