Night Five

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The West Wing episode
"Night Five"
Episode no.	57
Prod. code	227214
Orig. airdate	February 6, 2002
Writer(s)	Aaron Sorkin
Director	Christopher Misiano
Guest star(s)	Adam Arkin Emily Procter Kathleen York NiCole Robinson Alanna Ubach Carmen Argenziano Nancy Cassaro Basil Wallace Paul Fitzgerald
Season 3 October 10 2001 – May 22 2002
Isaac and Ishmael Documentary Special Manchester Part I Manchester Part II Ways and Means On the Day Before War Crimes Gone Quiet The Indians in the Lobby The Women of Qumar Bartlet for America H. Con-172 100,000 Airplanes The Two Bartlets Night Five Hartsfield's Landing Dead Irish Writers The U.S. Poet Laureate Stirred Enemies Foreign and Domestic The Black Vera Wang We Killed Yamamoto Posse Comitatus
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"Night Five" is episode 57 of The West Wing.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Plot

Bartlet consults a psychiatrist, Dr. Stanley Keyworth, for a troubling sleep disorder and receives a sobering personal assessment. C.J. lobbies vigorously to help secure the release of a White House reporter who has been taken hostage while on assignment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Toby risks the wrath of his ex-wife, Congresswoman Andrea "Andy" Wyatt, by writing an inflammatory speech condemning Islamic fanaticism. Sam asks Republican lawyer Ainsley Hayes to review a proposed act that calls for payback of U.S. debt to the United Nations in exchange for special requests. Donna is stunned when she is offered a lucrative job outside the White House.