No Exit

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After a black-tie dinner, the President and his staff are locked down inside the White House when a foreign substance is detected inside, forcing an odd coupling of people who are forced to occupy small rooms where they share personal reflections -- and some turn confrontational when Toby accuses Will of backstabbing Bartlet. As the inspection continues, the President, Fiderer and Charlie submit to intense inspection while in other corners, C.J. has strong career advice for Donna and Josh queries security adviser Kate on why his joke was deleted from the Chief's speech.

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

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[edit] Cast

[edit] Starring

• Stockard Channing as Abbey Bartlet
• Dulé Hill as Charlie Young
• Allison Janney as C.J. Cregg
• Joshua Malina as Will Bailey
• 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 Jed Bartlet

[edit] Special Guest Stars

• Mary McCormack as Kate Harper
• and Lily Tomlin as Deborah Fiderer

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• Michael O'Neill as Ron Butterfield
• Reed Diamond as Dr. Mike Gordon
• Wilson Cruz as Jack Sosa
• Brent Huff as Agent Broder

[edit] Co-Starring

• Beau Billingslea as Agent Velasquez
• Tracey Costello as Agent Moody
• Jamison Yang as Agent Lee
• Melette LeBlanc-Cabot as Nurse

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Unlike many other episodes of The West Wing this episode's title is not spoken outright by a character. "No Exit" is a play written by Jean-Paul Sartre. It was originally published in French under the title "Huis Clos." In the play, 3 people come to Hell and find it to be much like a hotel when they are all put in a room together. Sartre strays away from the conventional ideas that hell was all about fire and pitchforks. The theme of the play is that hell is other people. So in the play, as in the episode, the people who are stuck with one another torture each other. [1]

This episode uses the classic sitcom convention of locking two people with differences into a room and forcing them to work it out, however, it is used on a much larger scale.

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Toby Ziegler: You need to get the hell out of there. You're grooming this clown for a victory and then what? ...I don't care who you surround this guy with, he's going to wield a tremendous amount of power.... Go find someone you can honestly respect. Groom him....

[edit] References

"The West Wing" No Exit (2004)
The West Wing: No Exit

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