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

Infobox Television episode
Title = Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail
Series = The West Wing


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Season = 2
Episode = 38
Airdate = February 282001
Production = 226216
Writer = Paul Redford and Aaron Sorkin
Director = Jessica Yu
Guests = Roma Maffia
Jolie Jenkins
Anna Deavere Smith
Clark Gregg
NiCole Robinson
John Billingsley
Jordan Baker
Brent Hinkley
Christopher Neiman
Episode list = List of "The West Wing" episodes
Season list = Infobox The West Wing season 2 episode list
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Next ="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.

Plot

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 grip 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.

Opposing the WTO

While "World Policies Studies" does not exist, there are many individuals and organizations which object to the World Trade Organization (WTO), such as Pat Buchanan, [ [http://immigration.about.com/library/blcandidates.htm Election 2000: All Original Candidates on Immigration ] ] Harry Browne, [ [http://www.issues2000.org/Celeb/Harry_Browne_Free_Trade.htm Harry Browne on Free Trade ] ] and the anti-globalization movement.

Daniel Galt, the Soviet spy mentioned in the episode, is a fictional parallel to Alger Hiss, a US State Department employee who was convicted of perjury in the late '40s. Hiss was a cause celebre among the left for years, but in the '90s, the release of the Venona Project archives by the NSA indicated that Hiss was almost certainly guilty. Sam's strong feelings towards Galt and his shock at the revelation of his guilt indicate represent the political left's reaction to the revelations about Hiss.

References

External links

* [http://epguides.com/WestWing/ The West Wing Episode Guide]