“Running Mates” · Season 7
In this episode: Josh Lyman (3), Matt Santos (2), Toby Ziegler (1), Leo McGarry (1), Donna Moss (1), Helen Santos (1)
Good evening. On December 16, we lost our good friend and colleague John Spencer. Through our shock and grief, we can think of no more fitting memorial to this wonderful man, this extraordinary actor, than to share with you, beginning tonight, the last few months of his work here on The West Wing. Johnny, it seems we hardly knew you; we love you and we miss you.
[Josh and Donna are on the phone with each other]
Tell Josh to chill.
Josh, chill.
Did you just tell me to chill?
It would appear so.
Is it somehow not clear that I'm your boss?
Congressman's recommendation.
Oh.
To which I heartily concur.
Yeah, I don't think you tell me to chill.
I wanted to scream it everyday for eight years.
Whatever inhibition prevented you, summon it.
Is there a problem?
It's just that when you said you were going to come home and spend time with the kids, I thought you were going to spend some time with the kids.
I played with them this morning.
I don't want to get in their faces. They're sick.
They have head colds. It's unlikely you'll start bleeding from the eyes.
I'm in the middle of a Presidential campaign.
That's where you've been nights.
I know it's been rough.
The kids being issued panic buttons and the house transformed into an armed camp?
A bit of an exaggeration.
Do the windows in here look any different?
No, not really.
It's amazing the natural look they can achieve now with bulletproof glass. Labor Day, the barbecue: I had to provide the Secret Service with everyone's names, Social Security numbers, birth dates. To come by and have a hot dog, everybody had to be issued ID pins. My mother walking around tagged like she was some threatening wacko. If you're considering this an opportunity to crack a mother-in-law joke, you are seriously misjudging the mood of your audience.
[pause] I had a real good one, too.
Yeah, what?
Too late. [pause] I'm sorry. Tomorrow will be better.
[Helen laughs.]
Hey, think about the neat place we get to live in once we win this thing.
I forget, in D.C. do they allow felons to vote? [pause] Too soon?
Yeah, a little bit.
Get some rest. I need you to look pretty for 20 million TV viewers.
If that's what we're counting on, the campaign is doomed.
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