"The West Wing" In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part 1 (2000)

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Director:

Thomas Schlamme

Writers:

Aaron Sorkin (creator)
Aaron Sorkin (written by)

TV Series:

"The West Wing" (1999)

Original Air Date:

4 October 2000 (Season 2, Episode 1)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

The President is rushed to hospital following a shooting; staffers field questions on protection measures and executive authority. Flashbacks show how key staff members joined the Bartlet campaign.

Plot Keywords:

Number In Title | President | Political | Secretary | White House

US TV Schedule:

Fri. Nov. 20

9:00 AM

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In the Shadow of Two Gunmen

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Cast

Rob Lowe	...	Sam Seaborn
Dulé Hill	...	Charlie Young
Allison Janney	...	Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg
Janel Moloney	...	Donna Moss
Richard Schiff	...	Toby Ziegler
John Spencer	...	Leo McGarry
Bradley Whitford	...	Josh Lyman
Martin Sheen	...	President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet
Stockard Channing	...	Abbey Bartlet
Timothy Busfield	...	Danny Concannon
Tim Matheson	...	Vice President John Hoynes
Elisabeth Moss	...	Zoey Bartlet
Michael O'Neill	...	Secret Service Agent Ron Butterfield
Jorja Fox	...	Agent Gina Toscano
Anna Deavere Smith	...	Nancy McNally

Runtime:

Germany:43 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:16

Company:

Warner Bros. Television

Trivia:

The law firm where Sam Seaborn works is the John Wells Production building.

Goofs:

Plot holes: After discovering that the President has been shot, the secret service rush to secure the Vice President, who is meeting with the USC women's softball team. But the President was shot after 10 p.m., and the visit with the Vice President would not be scheduled for that late in the day.

Quotes:

[at a Q&A in Nashua, NH; a dairy farmer complained that Bartlett voted against a bill that hurt the farmer's pocketbook "to the tune" of 10 cents a gallon]
President Josiah Bartlet: Yeah, I screwed you on that one.
Questioner #2: I'm sorry?
President Josiah Bartlet: I screwed you. You got hosed.
Questioner #2: Sir, I...
President Josiah Bartlet: And not just you. A lot of my constituents. I put the hammer to farms in Concord, Salem, Laconia, Pelham, Hampton, Hudson. You guys got rogered but good. Today for the first time in history, the largest group of Americans living in poverty are children...