Isaac and Ishmael

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A special episode dealing with some of the questions and issues currently facing the world in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks on the United States. "The West Wing" creator and executive producer Aaron Sorkin wrote the script.

Contents 1 Summary 2 Cast 2.1 Starring 2.2 Guest Starring 2.3 Co-Starring 2.4 Uncredited 3 Notes 4 Goofs 5 Quotes 6 References

[edit] Summary

[edit] Cast

[edit] Starring

• Rob Lowe as Sam Seaborn
• Stockard Channing as Abbey Bartlet
• Dulé Hill as Charlie Young
• Allison Janney as C.J. Cregg
• Janel Moloney as Donna Moss
• Richard Schiff as Toby Ziegler
• John Spencer as Leo McGarry
• Bradley Whitford as Josh Lyman
• and Martin Sheen as President Josiah Bartlet

[edit] Guest Starring

• Ajay Naidu as Rakim Ali
• Michael O'Neill as Secret Service Agent Ron Butterfield
• Jonathan Nichols as Agent Cleary
• Jeanette Brox as Student

[edit] Co-Starring

• Cyd Strittmatter as Joan
• Frantz Turner as Agent Greg
• Susie Geiser as Marjorie Mann
• Mongo Brownlee as Secret Service Agent
• Josh Zuckerman as Billy 'Fred' Fernandez
• Ben Donovan as Boy #2
• Marcus Toji as Boy #3
• Arjay Smith as Boy #4
• Kristine Woo as Girl #1
• Chastity Dotson as Girl #4
• Dan Horton as Agent #1
• Willie Gault as Agent #2
• William James Jones as FBI Agent

[edit] Uncredited

• Kristin Bryant as High School Student
• Katherine Evagelou as High School Girl
• Paul Moncrief as Core Staffer
• Mark Oxman as Benji

[edit] Notes

• This episode was written and filmed in less than two weeks as the show's reaction to the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001. The episode was not written to be part of the show's continuity.
• Stockard Channing joins the main cast with this episode.

[edit] Goofs

[edit] Quotes

Toby Ziegler: ...there's nothing wrong with a religion whose laws say a man's got to wear a beard or cover his head or wear a collar. It's when violation of these laws become a crime against the state and not your parents that we're talking about lack of choice.

Toby Ziegler: Maybe this would be a good time for a course on our maligned little brother 'civil liberties'.

C.J. Cregg: Liberties schmiberties!

Toby Ziegler: C.J. Cregg ladies and gentlemen.

C.J.: You know of a way to do this without tapping some phones?

Toby Ziegler: What about illegal searches? What about profiling? You know what Benjamin Franklin said?

C.J. Cregg: He said, "Hey look, I've invented the stove!"

Student: He said, "They, that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Josh Lyman: In the mean time, remember pluralism. You want to get these people? I mean, you really want to reach in and kill them where they live? Keep accepting more than one idea. Makes them absolutely crazy.

[edit] References

"The West Wing" Isaac and Ishmael (2001)

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