Requiem

PREVIOUSLY ON THE WEST WING

spoken by C.J.

Season	Episode
7	18

Info

Original Airdate

16 April 2006

Written By
Eli Attie & Debora Cahn & John Wells

Directed by

Steve Shill

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FAMILIAR FACES SAY GOOD-BYE TO AN OLD FRIEND -- Bartlet (Martin Sheen) and his current staff as well as those from the past, come together for Leo's funeral. Santos (Jimmy Smits) is faced with the loss of his running mate.

Summary

The opening scene is Leo's funeral. Members of the congreation are shown to be in tears. A military honor guard leads the casket out of the cathedral. His pallbearers include President Jed Bartlet, Charlie Young, President-Elect Matthew Santos, Barry Goodwin, Mallory O'Brien's husband, and Josh Lyman. Leo receives a military funeral and is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Toby attends the funeral. Abigail Bartlet states that Leo would not have liked all the fuss being made over him. President-Elect Matthew Santos tells Josh that he has asked Barry Goodwin to head up his transition team.

Starring

Alan Alda as Arnold Vinick^[1]

Stockard Channing as Abigail Bartlet

Kristin Chenoweth as Annabeth Schott

Dulé Hill as Charlie Young

Allison Janney as C.J. Cregg

Joshua Malina as Will Bailey

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 Bartlet

Special Guest Stars

Mary-Louise Parker as Amy Gardner

Timothy Busfield as Danny Concannon

Gary Cole as Bob Russell

Emily Procter as Ainsley Hayes

and Lily Tomlin as Deborah Fiderer

Guest Starring

Chris Ellis as Congressman Tim Fields

John Aylward as Barry Goodwin

John Getz as Congressman Mark Sellner

NiCole Robinson as Margaret Hooper

Renée Estevez as Nancy

Ken Lerner as Congressman Jim Marino

Ramón De Ocampo as Otto

Karis Campbell as Ronna Beckman

Special Guest Appearances

Co-Starring

Melissa Fitzgerald as Carol Fitzpatrick
Mitchell Edmonds as Bishop Campbell
Pete Postiglione as Secret Service Agent

Quotes

〉President Bartlet – ...And I go flying out the door ass backwards in front of 50 news cameras!

C.J. – Maybe five〈

Trivia

In the seasons 5 & early in Season 6 the Democratic House Minority Leader is called "Fields", but is a woman named Sheila

ERRORS

In the opening scene at the funeral the casket is carried backwards. The stars/head of the casket should be in the back.
The liturgy used by the bishop at the beginning are not Catholic, as Leo was, but rather are from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Additionally, the Bishop wore a white cassock, but the funeral was in November and the correct liturgical color would be green or more appropriately violet or black for a funeral mass.

Photos

Links

Requiem @ IMDb

Notes and references

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NOTES
- The only three members of the main cast, both past and present, missing from Leo's funeral service are Sam Seaborn, Kate Harper and Mandy Hampton
- This is the only episode of the 7th season where all thirteen of the main cast appear in the opening credits. Despite this, Mary McCormack does not appear in the episode.

EPISODES
I	Pilot 〉Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc 〉A Proportional Response 〉Five Votes Down The Crackpots and These Women 〉Mr. Willis of Ohio 〉The State Dinner 〉Enemies 〉The Short List In Excelsis Deo 〉Lord John Marbury 〉He Shall, from Time to Time... 〉Take Out the Trash Day Take This Sabbath Day 〉Celestial Navigation 〉20 Hours in L.A. 〉The White House Pro-Am Six Meetings Before Lunch 〉Let Bartlet Be Bartlet 〉Mandatory Minimums Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics 〉What Kind of Day Has It Been?
II	In the Shadow of Two Gunmen (Part I) 〉In the Shadow of Two Gunmen (Part II) 〉The Midterms In This White House 〉And It's Surely to Their Credit 〉The Lame Duck Congress 〉The Portland Trip Shibboleth 〉Galileo 〉Noël 〉The Leadership Breakfast 〉The Drop-In Bartlet's Third State of the Union 〉The War at Home 〉Ellie Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail 〉The Stackhouse Filibuster 17 People 〉Bad Moon Rising 〉The Fall's Gonna Kill You 〉18th and Potomac 〉Two Cathedrals
III	Manchester (Part I) 〉Manchester (Part II) 〉Ways and Means 〉On the Day Before 〉War Crimes 〉Gone Quiet 〉The Indians in the Lobby 〉The Women of Qumar 〉Bartlet for America 〉H.Con - 172 〉100,000 Airplanes 〉The Two Bartlets 〉Night Five 〉Hartsfield's Landing 〉Dead Irish Writers The U.S. Poet Laureate 〉Stirred 〉Enemies Foreign and Domestic 〉The Black Vera Wang We Killed Yamamoto 〉Posse Comitatus
IV	20 Hours in America (Part I) 〉20 Hours in America (Part II) 〉College Kids 〉The Red Mass Debate Camp 〉Game On 〉Election Night 〉Process Stories 〉Swiss Diplomacy 〉Arctic Radar Holy Night 〉Guns Not Butter 〉The Long Goodbye 〉Inauguration (Part I) Inauguration: Over There (Part II) 〉The California 47th 〉Red Haven's on Fire 〉Privateers Angel Maintenance 〉Evidence of Things Not Seen 〉Life On Mars 〉Commencement 〉Twenty-Five
V	7A WF 83429 〉The Dogs of War 〉Jefferson Lives 〉Han 〉A Constituency of One 〉Disaster Relief 〉Separation of Powers 〉Shutdown 〉Abu el Banat 〉The Stormy Present 〉The Benign Prerogative 〉Slow News Day 〉The Warfare of Genghis Khan 〉An Khe 〉Full Disclosure 〉Eppur Si Muove The Supremes 〉Access 〉Talking Points 〉No Exit 〉Gaza 〉Memorial Day
VI	NSF Thurmont 〉The Birnam Wood 〉Third-Day Story 〉Liftoff 〉The Hubbert Peak 〉The Dover Test 〉A Change Is Gonna Come 〉In The Room 〉Impact Winter 〉Faith Based Initiative Opposition Research 〉365 Days 〉King Corn 〉The Wake Up Call 〉Freedonia 〉Drought Conditions 〉A Good Day 〉La Palabra 〉Ninety Miles Away 〉In God We Trust 〉Things Fall Apart 〉2162 Votes
VII	The Ticket 〉The Mommy Problem 〉Message of the Week 〉Mr. Frost 〉Here Today The Al Smith Dinner 〉The Debate 〉Undecideds 〉The Wedding 〉Running Mates Internal Displacement 〉Duck and Cover 〉The Cold 〉Two Weeks Out 〉Welcome to Wherever You Are Election Day (Part I) 〉Election Day (Part II) 〉Requiem 〉Transition 〉The Last Hurrah Institutional Memory 〉Tomorrow

[1] NOTES
The only three members of the main cast, both past and present, missing from Leo's funeral service are Sam Seaborn, Kate Harper and Mandy Hampton

This is the only episode of the 7th season where all thirteen of the main cast appear in the opening credits. Despite this, Mary McCormack does not appear in the episode.

[2] The only three members of the main cast, both past and present, missing from Leo's funeral service are Sam Seaborn, Kate Harper and Mandy Hampton

[3] This is the only episode of the 7th season where all thirteen of the main cast appear in the opening credits. Despite this, Mary McCormack does not appear in the episode.

[1]