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| Title = Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail |
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| Series = [[The West Wing (TV series)|The West Wing]] |
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| Season = 2 |
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| Episode = 38 |
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| Airdate = February 28, 2001 |
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| Production = 226216 |
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| Writer = [[Paul Redford]] and [[Aaron Sorkin]] |
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| Director = [[Jessica Yu]] |
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| Guests = [[Roma Maffia]]<br>[[Jolie Jenkins]]<br>[[Anna Deavere Smith]]<br>[[Clark Gregg]]<br>[[NiCole Robinson (actor)|NiCole Robinson]]<br>[[John Billingsley]]<br>Jordan Baker |
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| Episode list = [[List of The West Wing episodes|List of ''The West Wing'' episodes]] |
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| Season list = {{Infobox The West Wing season 2 episode list}} |
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"'''Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail'''" is the 38th episode of ''[[The West Wing (TV series)|The West Wing]]''. |
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The title is a lyric from the [[Don Henley]] song "[[New York Minute (song)|New York Minute]]," from the album ''[[The End of the Innocence (album)|The End of the Innocence]]''. The song is featured in the episode. |
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==Plot== |
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The staff again participates in "[[The Crackpots and These Women|Big Block of Cheese Day]]." Sam is reeling because he learned that his father kept a mistress in a Southern California apartment for 28 years before being busted for it. Leo and he discuss this in the context of Presidential pardons--it's mentioned that an American living in Spain received a pardon because he was too stupid to have committed the financial crime he'd been wrongly convicted of, and Sam angrily says that his father is stupider than the guy in Spain. In a classic case of terrible timing, a friend of [[Donna Moss|Donna]]'s asks [[Sam Seaborn|Sam]] to consider a pardon request for her grandfather, an alleged [[Cold War]] spy, who was accused of leaking the names of U.S. intelligence assets in Eastern Bloc countries and causing deaths. He died a broken man, and Donna's friend's father wants to clear his name because he's in poor health and unlikely to live much longer. Sam initially believes the story that the alleged spy was wrongly accused, but National Security Advisor Nancy McNally lets Sam see information he's not cleared for that proves several Hungarians had their covers blown by his actions and were executed. Sam is angry at Donna, and mixes his fury with his own father when he yells he's going to tell her friend "what her father did", but he gathers himself just in time to make a vague promise to keep looking into the story. Donna's friend accepts this, Sam bursts into tears while Donna gives him a hug, and Josh and Toby plan to take Sam out so he can get completely wasted and begin recovering from his own dad's betrayal. |
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[[Toby Ziegler]] meets with the group "World Policies Studies," which objects to the [[World Trade Organization]], and [[C.J. Cregg]] meets with "The Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality," which would like legislation to support a specific [[map projection]], namely the "[[Gall–Peters projection|Peters projection]]" which corrects the exaggerated representation of [[North America]] and [[Western Europe]] found in the standard [[Mercator projection]] and brings [[Africa]] into scale as the huge land mass it really is. Toby is unimpressed with the tactics and media strategy of the WPS group, and while befriending a sharp-tongued female D.C. police officer, he outlines why the WPS doesn't know what they're talking about and proceeds to deliver a stirring off-camera defense of capitalism and trade. C.J. and Josh listen with increasing disbelief as the cartographers state that placing the Northern Hemisphere on top suggests dominance by the countries there, so they advocate rotating the projection by 180 degrees to place the Southern Hemisphere on top in a [[reversed map]]. |
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In the end, Sam passes on the invitation from Josh and, once alone in his office, sits down at his desk and calls his father. |
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==Trivia== |
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===Lincoln Pardon=== |
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The story that Josh relates to Sam about Abraham Lincoln signing a pardon on the day he was assassinated was at the time this episode aired thought to be true. A document, dated April 14, 1865, was discovered among a collection of cases at the National Archives in 1998 by researcher Thomas Lowry. Lincoln signed the pardon of Patrick Murphy, a California soldier who deserted in 1862 and had been sentenced to death. Lincoln pardoned Murphy because he was "not perfectly sound". In 2011 it was discovered that Lowry altered the original date of 1864 to make it appear more significant. <ref>{{cite news|publisher=[[NBC Washington]]|url=http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Lincoln-Researcher-Faked-Find-of-Historical-Sgnificance-114508324.html|title=Lincoln Researcher Faked Find of Historical Significance|accessdate=24 January 2011|date=24 January 2011|language=English}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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{{reflist|2}} |
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==External links== |
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* [http://epguides.com/WestWing/ The West Wing Episode Guide] |
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