Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail

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While a contemptuous Toby (Richard Schiff) is assigned to meet with a noisy, unruly mob protesting the World Trade Organization, Donna (Janel Moloney) asks Sam (Rob Lowe) to consider fronting an executive pardon for her friend's (Jolie Jenkins) grandfather, who was imprisoned for espionage in the 1940s. Sam has only recently learned that his father has been having an affair with a woman for decades, and takes on the mission to prove the man's innocence with gusto. He learns, however, that the man really was a Soviet agent. Outraged at the man's duplicity, and tying it up with his father's in his mind, Sam initially wants to tell the woman the truth. He eventually settles on leaving her with a feeling of hope as Donna consoles him over the betrayal of his father.

Elsewhere, President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) fumes when there are complications in his plan to select the bucolic -- and historic -- site for his Presidential library; as part of Bartlet's tradition of setting aside one day for personal petitions to the White House (aka "Big Block of Cheese Day"), C.J. (Allison Janney) must grant an audience to an earnest group of cartographers who want to adopt a new global map that is more respectful of Third World nations.

Contents 1 Cast 1.1 Starring 1.2 Special Guest Star 1.3 Guest Starring 1.4 Co-Starring 2 Notes 3 Quotes

[edit] Cast

[edit] Starring

• Rob Lowe as Sam Seaborn
• 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 Jed Bartlet

[edit] Special Guest Star

• Roma Maffia as Officer Rhonda Sachs

[edit] Guest Starring

• Jolie Jenkins as Stephanie Gault
• Anna Deavere Smith as Dr. Nancy McNally
• Clark Gregg as Special Agent Michael Casper
• NiCole Robinson as Margaret Hooper
• John Billingsley as Dr. John Fallow
• Jordan Baker as Dr. Cynthia Sayles
• Brent Hinkley as Professor Donald Huke
• Christopher Neiman as OMB Staffer

[edit] Co-Starring

• Kim Webster as Ginger
• Devika Parikh as Bonnie
• William Duffy as Larry
• Peter James Smith as Ed
• Richard Stay as Terry Webber
• Shana O'Neil as Protestor #1
• Free Brooks as Protestor #2
• Michael Charles Vaccaro as Protestor #3
• Shirley Jordan as FBI Receptionist
• John Strand as Cop

[edit] Notes

This is a Big Block of Cheese Day episode.

[edit] Quotes

"This country is an idea. And one that's lit the whole world for two centuries. And treason against that idea is not just a crime against the living. This crime holds the graves of people who have died for it. Who gave what Lincoln called the last full measure of devotion." - Sam Seaborn

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