I thought my reflexes before, in the Press Room, were catlike.
“Evidence of Things Not Seen” · Season 4
In this episode: Toby Ziegler (5), C.J. Cregg (5), Will Bailey (3), Josh Lyman (2), Josiah Bartlet (1), Leo McGarry (1), Charlie Young (1), Donna Moss (1)
The substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen.
I think what he's asking is why, on most other nights, do you think the world's going to hell in a hula hoop, but tonight...
We dip twice and eat gefilte fish?
Suzy Creamcheese, do not attempt the Haggadah.
I know how to bless the soup, too.
And they're sending in a team of lawyers to look into it?
Yeah, but we're scrappy.
Your sense of humor's a bit of a high wire act isn't it? You're really trying to thread the needle.
And half of it you don't even get.
There's no website supporting it?
And you gotta ask yourself, if no one on the Internet wants a piece of this, just how far from the pack have you strayed?
[after shots were fired at the White House] Where's Charlie?
He's somewhere in the building.
We're holding people where they are right now.
But if he's heard what happened, he's going to be trying to get here...
We've got to hold everybody for a moment so that we can secure...
No, I'm telling you that if Charlie heard there were bullets, he's going to overpower whoever's trying to...
[Charlie bursts through the door]
[pause] Sorry, Mr. President.
Come here.
[Charlie moves to stand beside him]
It's bulletproof glass in the windows, okay. You want to kill me, you're going to have to do it from inside the building.
[sighs] Thank you, Mr. President.
I got a letter today that said, uh... "You're a lying liar. You lie almost as well as Bartlet." You know, black-white, rich-poor, north-south, odd-even. There may not be anything anymore that outpaces the hatred the right feels for the left or the tonnage of disrespect the left feels for the right. Donna got a letter yesterday that said, "I'm collecting all the guns you've banned, and there's a bullet with your name on it in each one." Donna. The guy's decided to focus his wrath on Donna. He's never met Donna or spoken to her, and he's never met anyone who's met Donna or spoken to her. How's it possible? How's it possible that he hates her so much? How can you not like Donna? She's from Wisconsin! Anyway, 20,000 specific threats made against U.S. targets every year, and with all that, it's still the ones who don't give you advance notice that you're worried about.
Two guys in the silo. The launch sequence went on for two minutes before they had confirmation it was a meteor. But the two guys were debating with Airborne Launch Control and the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center and that gets sticky. This is missile defense. This stuff has to work.
And they're sending in a team of lawyers to look into it.
Yeah, but we're scrappy.
[laughs] A meteor fell from the sky the result being two guys are going to get court-martialed. The only two guys who apparently thought it was strange that North Korea would attack submarines in Connecticut instead of say, San Diego or Hawaii. And if it had been a real attack? Would they still have been doing point/counterpoint with NORAD?
[Will shrugs]
We failed both on a mechanical and human level. So tell me again what you have faith in.
Us.
Why?
Because with what little free time he has, Will is going to Wyoming to defend one of these guys and I don't think it is failing on a human level.
[from Leo's computer] Okay, I've searched "equinox" and "egg," and the news isn't good for the believers.
What sites did they send you to?
ThingsThatAreWrong.com.
There's no such site.
Read it!
"This has to be one of the silliest misconceptions around and it never seems to die."
They also send you to the Apocryphal Zone and Project Astro Utah.
There are no web sites supporting it?
And you gotta ask yourself, if no one on the Internet wants a piece of this, just how far from the pack have you strayed?
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