Twenty Five (The West Wing)
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| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 88 |
| Guest stars | Mary-Louise Parker John Amos Taye Diggs Michael O'Neill Anna Deavere Smith Clark Gregg Harry Groener NiCole Robinson Trent Ford Alan Dale Vernee Watson-Johnson J. Patrick McCormack John Goodman (uncredited) |
| Written by | Aaron Sorkin |
| Directed by | Christopher Misiano |
| Production no. | 175323 |
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| Season 4 episodes | |
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| List of The West Wing episodes | |
"Twenty Five" is episode 88 of The West Wing.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
The season four finale to The West Wing centers around the graduation of President Bartlet's youngest daughter, Zoey. In the post-graduation parties, and unwittingly under the influence of GHB, Zoey is kidnapped, resulting in a massive manhunt. Her father, under a huge amount of pressure feels he is unable to continue in his role as Commander-in-Chief and invokes the Twenty-fifth amendment. With the previous resignation of Vice-President John Hoynes from a sex scandal, this leaves the Speaker of the House, Glen Allen Walken, a prominent Republican politician in charge, and a White House in chaos....
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- The episode marks the departure of creator/writer/producer Aaron Sorkin and producer/director Thomas Schlamme who left after overruns with budgets, script deadlines and conflicts with the NBC president, Jeff Zucker.
- The episode's director, Christopher Misiano won an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series in 2003 for this episode. The episode was also nominated for, but did not win, Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series at the Emmys that year.
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