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| + | In the Situation Room, Kate is reviewing a military plan drawn up to extract the hunters "from foreign soil." She tells the General to not show it to anyone, including her. The Fish and Wildlife rep comes in and tells her the Canadians are making a statement. Later, Kate and the other military advisors are conferencing with Canadian officials. The Canadians tell Kate and the others the ranchers have declared war on the US. Kate tells the Canadians there is no plan to invade Canada - to which the General looks at Kate. They get off the phone and the general tells Kate, actually there is a plan to invade Canada. |
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Revision as of 20:57, 16 May 2014
"Previously on the West Wing" spoken by Toby
Santos masterminds a plot to pass the president's stem cell bill while the Republicans aren't looking. A group of middle school children who are part of the Future Leaders for Democracy visit the White House and seek out Toby to discuss the voting age. Kate has to deal with an impending invasion of Canada.
Summary
Opening
As an older Japanese gentlemen sits outside C.J.'s office, Annabeth and Cliff arrive to meet with C.J. They talk about the current status of what's going on. Cliff, the new Legislative Affairs liasion, tells C.J. that the Speaker has scheduled a vote on stem cell research and they are going to need every democratic vote they can to get the bill through. He heads off to corral the Democratic caucus back to DC. Toby and C.J. talk about their respective days and she gives him a meeting with middle school kids on a visit to the White House.
Cliff meets Congressman Santos in the halls of the Capitol - he's come back to vote on the stem cell bill. However, once Speaker Haffley saw how many Democrats returned for the vote - he pulled the vote.
Act I
C.J. comes to the Oval Office to find the President and First Lady talking about the Nobel Laureate's dinner that evening. She tells the President the Speaker killed the vote. She then proceeds to ask him about the economist that he shares the Nobel Prize in Economics with. Bartlet doesn't like him and points out that the Prize was "split" and not "shared." Abbey points out that he won't be coming to the dinner so there's no need to worry about it - but C.J. points out that he is coming and he's sitting in her outer office.
Toby manages to push the middle school kids off on Annabeth - because he really didn't want to do it. Back in Congress, Cliff is trying to keep several fingers in the dike, begging Democratic congressmen to stay close - they all tell him that Haffley will never hold the vote if they stay. Cliff runs into the Speaker and the two talk - Cliff plays raquetball with the Speaker and they have a congenial conversation. Cliff then meets a conservative Democratic Congressman, who has no plans to leave town, but also has concerns over stem cell research. Cliff comes to the Legislative Affairs Office in the Capitol, where Donna is on the phone with campaign staff. The two talk about things in the past and how the two of them should have dinner soon.
In teh Situataion Room, Kate is getting updates on events around the globe, when someone speaks up and offers an update on the "Canada Situation." The official (from Fish and Wildlife) tells the room that several American hunters have been surrounded on Canadian land, by Canadians and it's not clear if they've been taken hostage.
C.J. brings Dr. Takahashi into the Oval Office to pay his respects to the President. The two excahnge small talk and Abbey leads Dr. Takahashi out of the Oval Office and C.J. and the President talk about him after he leaves. Leaving the Captiol, Cliff runs into Santos, who pulls him aside and tells him he wants to meet with him privately - he has an idea.
Act II
Will finds Kate on her way to the Situation Room. He expresses to her the Vice President's desire to "take a hardline on the "Canada situation." Kate dismisses Will on her way into the Sit Room. Annabeth is leading the school group through the White House - while pausing in the Communications bullpen, Toby appears behind the group and quickly sneaks away. One of the students is upset at the "glorified field trip" they are being given rather than the chance to talk to an actual White House Senior Staff person.
Cliff comes to his office to find Josh (it is Josh's old office). Josh tells Cliff this is a waste of time - but Santos walks in and tells Cliff that he has a strategy to sneak the Democrats back into DC and then come to the floor to vote, before Haffley can know what's happened - but Santos needs Josh to work out the details with Cliff.
In the Situation Room, Kate is reviewing a military plan drawn up to extract the hunters "from foreign soil." She tells the General to not show it to anyone, including her. The Fish and Wildlife rep comes in and tells her the Canadians are making a statement. Later, Kate and the other military advisors are conferencing with Canadian officials. The Canadians tell Kate and the others the ranchers have declared war on the US. Kate tells the Canadians there is no plan to invade Canada - to which the General looks at Kate. They get off the phone and the general tells Kate, actually there is a plan to invade Canada.
Annabeth is wrapping up the tour when Toby comes by to be introduced to the school group. When Toby tries to make his exit, Cody, one of the students questions Toby as to why they are getting the brush off instead of actually listening to their issue(s). Toby relents, brings them into the Roosevelt Room and tells him and the other students, "It's your meeting." At the reception for the Nobel Laureates, the President is holding forth, while his "adversary," Dr. Takahashi qustions the President over economic issues.
Santos comes out of Cliff's office and tells Cliff to work things out with Josh. Cliff and Josh talk and Josh tells him the Congressman is going to Hartford and then will come immediately back to DC - they just need a place to stash him until Haffley calls the vote and all the Democrats can come in.
Act III
Act IV
Quotes
- C.J. Cregg: Future Leaders for Democracy.
- Toby Ziegler: Near future? Distant future?
- C.J. Cregg: Middle schoolers, in fact.
- Toby Ziegler: Not that. I'm wall-to-wall today.
- C.J. Cregg: They won a commendation for some Internet voting thing. Give them 10 minutes.
- Toby Ziegler: My whole day's been divvied up. I never get to anything
- C.J. Cregg: They were bumped off the president's schedule, bumped from mine. They're on yours for 6.
- Toby Ziegler: Why?
- C.J. Cregg: It's their last day in town.
- Toby Ziegler: I meant, why me?
- C.J. Cregg: Because you're so good with kids.
- C.J. Cregg: He is a bit conservative.
- President Bartlet: He makes Milton Friedman look middle-of-the-road.
- President Bartlet: Smug son of a bitch. "Rational expectation."
- C.J. Cregg: What?
- President Bartlet: Territory he claims to have pioneered. Footnote, my ass.
- C.J. Cregg: I don't think he was
- President Bartlet: As if his work would still be read if he hadn't been assigning it to undergrads.
- C.J. Cregg: All due respect, sir, you sit in this office. You're pretty much not allowed to harbor professional jealousies.
- President Bartlet: He started it.
- Will Bailey: The Vice President advocates a hard line.
- Kate Harper: Permanent lockout in the NHL? Maple syrup embargo? Turn off Niagara Falls?
- Cliff Calley: Take your time. My office is your office.
- Josh Lyman: It was, in fact.
Trivia / Goofs
- The US military's most recent contingency plan for invading Canada is actually from 1924, not 1815. "War Plan Red" was developed as an academic exercise by the Army War College. Its premise was the US going to war with the United Kingdom, and invading Canada since it was part of the British Empire. [1]
- The plan used in this episode by Matt Santos was later copied by the British Conservative Party in real life in 2006.
Cast
Starring
- Stockard Channing as Abbey Bartlet
- Allison Janney as C.J. Cregg
- Joshua Malina as Will Bailey
- Mary McCormack as Kate Harper
- Janel Moloney as Donna Moss
- Richard Schiff as Toby Ziegler
- John Spencer as Leo McGarry
- Bradley Whitford as Josh Lyman
- with Jimmy Smits as Matthew Santos
- and Martin Sheen as President Jed Bartlet
Special Guest Stars
Guest Starring
- Steven Culp as Jeff Haffley
- Mako as Dr. Yosh Takahashi
- Jack Conley as Major
- NiCole Robinson as Margaret Hooper
- Nathan Brooks Burgess as Junior Arkansas
- Seth Adkins as Cody Zucker
- Landry Allbright as Elisha
- William O'Leary as Deputy Fish and Wildlife
- James Lashly as Canadian Ambassadory
Co-Starring
- Mindy Seeger as Chris
- Fred Ornstein as Harry Wade
- Jonathan Goldstein as Knocking Congressman
- Ken Strunk as Republican Congressman
- Cheryl Carter as Congresswoman Haas
- Monica Garcia as Santos Aide
- Carol Avery as Congresswoman Gleeson
- Robert Martin Robinson as Fecteau
- Darren Robertson as Congressional Staffer
- Mary-Pat Green as Congresswoman Choate
- Ernie Lively as Georgia Congressman Greg
References
"The West Wing" A Good Day (2005)
The West Wing: A Good Day