History Recap / TheWestWingS02E02InTheShadowOfTwoGunmenPartTwo

->'''Leo:''' [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers We've got separation of powers, checks and balances, and Margaret, vetoing things and sending them back to the Hill]]!

...we go to one final {{Flashback}}, this time in a hotel suite in Chicago. Sam tells Leo the numbers look good, while Josh is on the phone, trying to call his father to check how his chemotherapy went, but he gets no answer. Abbey comes in, asking if there's any food other than fried, and Leo jokes they should get rid of it if it isn't. Bartlet comes in, angry because his acceptance speech calls Hoynes, "My opponent", and tells Leo to come with him. Josh, who has been watching this, looks at Abbey, who tells him Bartlet isn't ready yet, but he will be. Just then, Sam yells that they're ready to call the race. Everyone looks on as the TV anchor says Bartlet has won the primary. The place erupts; Josh hugs C.J. and Leo, and Sam mouths, "Thank you" to Josh. Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" comes on as Donna walks into the celebration. Josh tries to get her to dance with him, but she has bad news; "[[WhamLine Josh, your father died]]". As Josh takes this in...

At Triton-Day, a PR firm in Beverly Hills, C.J., still not entirely together, comes into the office of her boss, Isobel (Grace Zabriskie), who's waiting with an impatient and upset Roger Becker (Allen Garfield). He wants to know why his studio only received two Golden Globe nominations, and why he dropped six places on the list of ''Premiere'' magazine's "100 Most Powerful People in Hollywood" list. C.J. tries to butter him up at first, but then points out the movie that was nominated was bad, and the only reason he got one of them was because everyone liked the little kid who was nominated. Isobel asks if she and C.J. can be excused, and takes her into the lobby. Once there, C.J. apologizes, and says she'll find a way to make it up to Roger, but Isobel says Roger's an important client. C.J. realizes she's being fired, and yells for someone to call her a cab because she broke her glasses and can't drive home.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Bartlet's line about how they don't know the true injury count becomes very important during the next episode.

* IOweYouMyLife: C.J.'s line to Sam; "I think you have my necklace."

* HypocriticalHumor: In the flashback to when she started working for Josh, when asking for her reasons for being there Josh guesses that her boyfriend has just dumped her. Donna blusters that that's a private matter and none of his business. Josh in turn retorts that Donna was moments before caught answering potentially private and confidential calls she had no business answering all in the hope that Josh would not realise he never actually hired her: "Your boyfriend broke up with you?"

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The suspected signal man walks out of the diner and is confronted by several ''dozen'' federal, state and local law enforcement agents with assault rifles, shouting at him to get on the ground as a police helicopter circles the area with its spotlight trained on him.

* NoPeekingRequest: During a flashback C.J. tells Toby to "avert your eyes" when she has to climb out of her pool after falling in because he clothes are clinging too her. Toby scoffs but complies with her request. After several seconds of trying to adjust her clothes C.J. accepts they're too wet and tells him he can look again.

* OnlySaneMan: While everyone else is shaken, confused and blaming themselves for what happened, Ron Butterfield keeps a clear head and tells Toby that none of them are to blame.
-->'''Butterfield:''' It wasn't your fault. It wasn't Gina's fault, it wasn't Charlie's fault, it wasn't ''anybody's'' fault, Toby. It was an act of madmen.

* RealityIsUnrealistic: There really is a diner in Virginia called the Dixie Pig.

[[DescriptionCut As C.J. gets out of the cab carrying her things]], she notices a rental car parked outside her house. She enters through the back, and Toby is sitting by her pool. C.J. starts to walk towards him, but then slips and falls into the pool. Eventually, C.J. makes her way out, and Toby says Bartlet (or actually, Leo) wants to hire her because of her work with "the girls' group with the stupid name; C.J. clarifies he means [[FunWithAcronyms EMILY's List (Early Money Is Like Yeast - it helps raise the dough)]]. C.J. worries about the fact she's never run a national campaign, and that it pays considerably less than she was earning at the PR firm, but mostly, she wants to know if Bartlet is a good man, which Toby assures her he is. C.J. agrees to join.

Back in the meeting, both sides try to finalize the agreement again, but Sam brings up another more expensive ship to buy, and points out it's better, and cheaper, to pay now than later, and makes for better PR to boot. Again, both Kensington and Sam's colleagues and bosses are exasperated by this. Just then, Josh knocks on the door of the conference room. Sam looks up, and [[CallBack and Josh points to his own face]]. Sam eventually gets it, and gathers up his things before deciding he's not going to need them. When Gage asks where Sam is going, Sam, who's walking out, yells, "New Hampshire!", and Josh waves as they both take off.

* TheExitIsThatWay: In the flashback, after C.J. accepts Toby's offer, she says they should go into the house to discuss it further. Toby points out she's walking in the wrong direction.