Two Cathedrals

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The West Wing episode
"Two Cathedrals"
Episode no.	44
Prod. code	226222
Orig. airdate	May 16, 2001
Writer(s)	Aaron Sorkin
Director	Thomas Schlamme
Guest star(s)	Stockard Channing Anna Deavere Smith Kirsten Nelson Jason Widener Don McManus NiCole Robinson Lawrence O'Donnell Gregalan Williams John Bennett Perry Kathryn Joosten Fred Ornstein Bill Gratton
Season 2 October 4 2000 – May 16 2001
In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part I In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part II The Midterms In This White House And It's Surely To Their Credit The Lame Duck Congress The Portland Trip Shibboleth Galileo Noël The Leadership Breakfast The Drop-In Bartlet's Third State of the Union The War at Home Ellie Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail The Stackhouse Filibuster 17 People Bad Moon Rising The Fall's Gonna Kill You 18th and Potomac Two Cathedrals
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"Two Cathedrals" is the 44th episode, and second season finale of The West Wing.

[edit] Random Facts

The song "Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits is used in the closing sequence.

In his "Inside the Actors Studio" episode, Martin Sheen is told by the host, James Lipton, that this episode was the best hour of television ever made.

To get from the White House to the State Department, the Presidential motorcade would come nowhere close to the National Cathedral. The State Department is approximate 6 blocks west of the White House while the National Cathedral is about 3.3 miles northwest.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Plot

As it happens, a tropical storm is bearing down on Washington on the day the President is to disclose that he has MS and has been lying about it for eight years. Bartlet himself is distracted as he attends Mrs. Landingham's funeral, beset with memories of how they met. But the staffers are, as usual, all business as they deal with Congressional Democrats, party officials and network execs. They also must fashion two responses to the question that is certain to be asked first at his prime-time press conference: Will Bartlet seek reelection?