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The War at Home

Episode Number: 36    Season Num: 2    First Aired: Wednesday February 14, 2001    Prod Code: 226214
Bartlet authorizes a special ops team to rescue the five DEA agents only to have them caught in an ambush; C.J. arranges for the host of "Capitol Beat" to have an exclusive interview with the wronged police officer; Toby must deal with Senator Gilette who threatens to make a third party run for president due to the tone of the changes on social security reform; Sam gives Ainsley another chance to meet the President, but she still fails to create a good impression; Josh finally gets the poll results from Joey; Abbey and Bartlet discuss his running for a second term.

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Writer: Aaron Sorkin
Director: Christopher Misiano
Star: Martin Sheen (President Jed Bartlet),  Dulé Hill (Charlie Young),  Allison Janney (Claudia Jean "C.J." Cregg),  Rob Lowe (Sam Seaborn (Episodes 1-84)),  Richard Schiff (Toby Ziegler),  John Spencer (Leo McGarry),  Bradley Whitford (Josh Lyman),  Janel Moloney (Donna Moss (Episodes 23-, recurring previously))
Recurring Role: Kathryn Joosten (Delores Landingham),  Marlee Matlin (Joey Lucas),  Kim Webster (Ginger),  Devika Parikh (Bonnie),  Bill O'Brien (Kenny Thurman),  Ralph Meyering Jr. (Tom),  Gregalan Williams (Robbie Mosley),  Melissa Fitzgerald (Carol Fitzpatrick),  Emily Procter (Ainsley Hayes),  Glenn Morshower (Mike Chrysler),  Thomas Spencer (Jeff),  Stockard Channing (Abbey Bartlet)
Guest Star: Ted McGinley (Mark Gottfried),  Ed Begley Jr. (Seth Gillette),  Patrick Falls (Billy),  Emiko Parise (Carrie),  Richard Riehle (Jack Sloan),  Tony Plana (Mickey Troop),  Adam Alexi-Malle (Translator),  J. Michael Flynn (Officer),  Lee Warren Jones (Aide),  Marvin Krueger (Officer #2),  Sean Patrick Murphy (Floor Manager)

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Awards and Nominations:
Stockard Channing was nominated for a 2001 Emmy in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for his performance in this episode and in "Bartlet's Third State of the Union"

This episode won the 2001 Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series along with several other episodes from the season

Nominated for a 2001 Imagen Award in the category of Best Primetime TV Series, Drama (edit)

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Josh: Numbers don't lie.
Joey (Kenny): They lie all the time. They lie when 72% of Americans say they're tired of a sex scandal while all the while newspaper circulation goes through the roof for anyone featuring the story. If you polled 100 Donnas and asked them if they think we should go out, you'd get a high positive response, but the poll wouldn't tell you it's because she likes you, she knows it's beginning to show and she needs to cover herself in misdirection.
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Josh: Last night at the phone bank Donna kept telling me I should ask Joey Lucas out.
Sam: You should.
Josh: Fine, but putting that aside, what do you think of Donna being the one pushing it?
Sam: I don't think anything.
Josh: You don't think she'd be jealous?
Sam: She goes out with guys, are you jealous?
Josh: No.
Sam: See?
Josh: I don't get jealous...
Sam: So…
Josh: I don't like it. I usually do everything in my considerable powerful capabilities to sabotage it, which is why it's curious that Donna would do nothing to discourage, and in fact do everything to encourage a date with Joey Lucas, who is quite frankly a very attractive woman. (edit)
Bartlet: Damn it! How the hell did it happen?
Leo: It was bad intelligence, sir.
Bartlet: YOU THINK?
Leo: Ferente left behind a radio and a soldier at the outpost. And they were deliberately sending us misinformation.
Bartlet: We never anticpated they somebody might try that? We weren't prepared for someone to try and outfox us with a stratagem so sophisticated it's an entire generation behind "Hey look, your shoelaces are untied!?" IS THAT HOW I JUST LOST NINE GUYS, TO A DAMN STREET GANG WITH A HAM RADIO!? (edit)
Leo: How you doing, Ainsley?
Ainsley: I'm concerned about peeing on your carpet.
Leo: Ok. Well, now I am, too.
Sam: Tell her it's going to be fine.
Leo: Your skirt's on backwards. (edit)

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The War at Home, the title of this episode, is also the name of a movie that starred Martin Sheen and was directed by his son Emilio Estevez. (edit)
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