S2.E1

In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part I

Name: In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part I
Genre: Drama
Released: 2000-10-04
Duration: 43 min
Rating: 9.4
Cast: Rob Lowe, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney

Episode aired Oct 4, 2000
TV-14
43m

IMDb RATING

9.4/10

3.8K

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Allison Janney and Shawn D. Woodyard in The West Wing (1999)

Drama

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 ca... Read allThe 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.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.

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IMDb RATING

9.4/10

3.8K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Did you know

Trivia
Between the previous episode and this one, Moira Kelly's character Mandy disappears from the show and no mention of her character is ever made again.

Goofs
The controversy regarding the 25th Amendment and who was "in charge" while the President was in surgery surrounds the failure of the President to sign a letter transferring power to the Vice President. The 25th Amendment also provides that the Cabinet may determine that the President is unable to discharge the duties of his office and transfer power to the VP without this letter. Before being anesthetized, the President instructs Leo to assemble the Cabinet. The entire premise that nobody was "in charge" is false.

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. 1 in 5 children live in the most abject, dangerous, hopeless, back-breaking, gut-wrenching poverty any of us could imagine. 1 in 5, and they're children. If fidelity to freedom of democracy is the code of our civic religion then surely the code of our humanity is faithful service to that unwritten commandment that says we shall give our children better than we ourselves received. Let me put it this way: I voted against the bill because I didn't want to make it harder for people to buy milk. I stopped some money from flowing into your pocket. If that angers you, if you resent me, I completely respect that. But if you expect anything different from the President of the United States, you should vote for someone else.