Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail

"Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail" is the 38th episode of The West Wing. The title is a lyric from the Don Henley song "New York Minute," from the album The End of the Innocence. The song is featured in the episode. The staff again participates in "Big Block of Cheese Day." A friend of Donna's asks Sam to consider a pardon request for an alleged Cold War spy. Sam, meanwhile, comes to grips with the revelation of his father'... more

"Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail" is the 38th episode of The West Wing. The title is a lyric from the Don Henley song "New York Minute," from the album The End of the Innocence. The song is featured in the episode. The staff again participates in "Big Block of Cheese Day." A friend of Donna's asks Sam to consider a pardon request for an alleged Cold War spy. Sam, meanwhile, comes to grips with the revelation of his father's infidelity. Toby Ziegler meets with the group "World Policies Studies," which objects to the World Trade Organization, and C.J. Cregg meets with "The Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality," which would like legislation to support a specific map projection, namely the "Peters projection" which corrects the exaggerated representation of North America and Western Europe found in the standard Mercator projection. Believing that placing the Northern Hemisphere on top suggests dominance by the countries there, the cartographers... less