Posse Comitatus (The West Wing)

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“Posse Comitatus”
The West Wing episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 65
Guest stars	Adam Arkin Mary-Louise Parker Mark Harmon Lily Tomlin James Brolin John Amos Kurt Fuller Michael O'Neill David Huddleston Armin Shimerman NiCole Robinson Renee Estevez Andrew McFarlane William Thomas Jr. Fred Sanders Glenn Morshower Thomas Kopache Wren T. Brown Ken Thorley Basil Hoffman
Written by	Aaron Sorkin
Directed by	Alex Graves
Production no.	227222
Original airdate
Season 3 episodes
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
List of The West Wing episodes

"Posse Comitatus" is episode 65 of The West Wing.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Plot

In the season finale, Bartlet makes a life-or-death decision regarding a foreign diplomat who is a known terrorist. He ponders the situation during a charity benefit performance of a Shakespeare play about another conflicted leader, Henry VI. At the performance, Bartlet encounters Governor Robert Ritchie, his Republican rival in the upcoming presidential election. Meanwhile, Toby and Sam manipulate the press to discredit Ritchie. When Josh supports a key welfare reform bill that his lover, feminist activist Amy Gardner, opposes, their personal relationship is threatened. The flirtation between C.J. and her Secret Service bodyguard, Simon Donovan, is limited by their professional relationship. Later in the episode, Donovan accidentally walks into a convenience store robbery, arrests one thief and is then shot dead by a second who was hiding in the back. And as the search continues for a replacement for the deceased Mrs. Landingham, Charlie recommends Deborah Fiderer, a former White House secretary who was fired for hiring Charlie.