Jack Frost, Nipping At Your Nose
Updated 2005-10-20 17:00:00
This week, we get a hearty stew of politics, international intrigue, and Congressional hearings into the leak. Margaret spends the day testifying at the Congressional hearings, where we learn that she may have sometimes listened in on C.J.'s calls, but we don't actually learn what she might have heard. Santos, campaigning on education issues, gets pulled into a local school board debate about intelligent design. He ends up turning a difficult situation around and causes problems for Vinick, who is much less comfortable discussing religious issues than Santos is. However, things aren't all golden for the campaign, because Leo has also received a subpoena in the leak investigation, and nobody is looking forward to having the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate testifying in what could turn into a criminal matter. On top of all of this, the Palestinian Chairman is assassinated by a suicide bomber. Jed is concerned that the peace deal will fall apart, and he pushes hard to get a suitable contingent of world leaders to attend the funeral. Charles Frost, the Vinick campaign's former security briefer, keeps trying to contact C.J., and then he shows up at the White House to give a warning that the assassination is just the first step in some international plan to destabilize the Middle East, or throw the oil industry into turmoil, or something. Everyone thinks he's crazy until the second assassination he predicted occurs. At the end of a very long day, C.J. seems resigned to having her life turned upside down by accusations that she leaked top-secret information. And then Toby comes to her and tells her that he did it. Well, duh.