United States Secret Service

Secret Service agents flank President Bartlet and Abbey with machined precision, threading them through Washington National Cathedral's mourning multitudes to front pews as Reverend Monohan's resurrection prayer pierces the vaulted hush. They loom sentinel at the sanctuary's shadowed rear, slamming heavy doors shut on Leo's terse command to shroud Bartlet in blistering solitude for his altar-born defiance against God and fate. This ironclad vanguard enforces protective cordons across grief-choked funerals and executive infernos, merging unblinking vigilance with crisis choreography to shield principals amid raw loss, MS deceptions, Haitian upheavals, and sniper-haunted vigils.