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In the Shadow of Two Gunmen (Part I)

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In the Shadow of Two Gunmen (Part I)
Season: 2
Episode: 1
Written By: Aaron Sorkin
Directed By: Thomas Schlamme
Airdate: October 4, 2000
Guest Stars: Stockard Channing
Timothy Busfield
Tim Matheson
Elisabeth Moss
Michael O'Neill
Jorja Fox
Anna Deavere Smith

In the two-hour season premiere of the record Emmy Award-winning drama, all the President's men and women scramble in the chaotic wake of an assassination attempt that leaves some victims fighting for their lives. Meanwhile, as a manhunt continues, the wounded drift in and out of surgery recalling how Bartlet's team came together during the dark months of his longshot primary campaign. Elsewhere, the press department is hounded by the media for details of the shooting while a military crisis looms in Iraq.

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[edit] Special Guest Stars

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[edit] Trivia

Sam Seaborn works at Gage Whitney Pace law firm in the flashbacks. Rob Lowe's character in the "The Lyon's Den" also worked at the Gage Whitney Pace law firm.[1]


The law firm where Sam Seaborn works is the John Wells Production building.[2]


The hospital set seen in this episode and part 2 are the same sets used in "ER".[3]


In the DVD commentary it is mentioned that when shooting the scene in which Donna learns about Josh's serious injury, Richard Schiff, instead of using the line in the script, told her that "Brad Whitford died", prompting her absolutely devastated expression in the scene.[4]


When the vice-president and Leo discuss the assassination attempt, Nancy McNally mentions the whereabouts of various cell leaders, "including Bin Laden", is unknown. This is the only time that he is mentioned directly in the show. Of course the 2001 World Trade Centre attacks did not happen in the West Wing world, although Al-Qe'edah itself is mentioned a couple of times during the 2006 election.

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When the Secret Service busts in on the VP receiving the USC volleyball jersey, the press flashes reveal the blue backdrop only a couple feet beyond the patio doors. [5]

Josh uses a Verizon payphone in New York City during a flashback set in 1997, before such phones existed.

[edit] Quotes

Leo McGarry: Because I'm tired of it: year after year after year after year having to choose between the lesser of who cares. Of trying to get myself excited about a candidate who can speak in complete sentences. Of setting the bar so low, I can hardly bear to look at it. They say a good man can't get elected President. I don't believe that. Do you?

[edit] References

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

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What Kind of Day Has It Been? In the Shadow of Two Gunmen (Part II)
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