Night Five

Night Five
"Night Five"
The West Wing episode
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 57
Directed by Christopher Misiano
Written by Aaron Sorkin
Production code 227214
Original air date February 6, 2002
Guest stars
Season 3 episodes
List of The West Wing episodes

"Night Five" is episode 57 of The West Wing.

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Plot

Bartlet covertly meets with a psychiatrist, Dr. Stanley Keyworth, for a troubling sleep disorder and receives a sobering personal assessment rooted in his relationship with his late father. C.J. lobbies vigorously to help secure the release of a White House reporter and adversary of hers who has been taken hostage while on assignment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Toby, who is already on non-speaking terms with the President, risks the wrath of his ex-wife, Congresswoman Andrea "Andy" Wyatt, by writing an inflammatory speech for the President's visit to the UN condemning Islamic extremism. Sam asks Republican lawyer Ainsley Hayes to review a proposed act that calls for payback of U.S. debt to the United Nations in exchange for special requests, but has problems when a White House intern accuses him of sexist behavior. Donna is stunned when she is offered a lucrative job outside the White House, working on a political website project, and Josh admits there isn't anything else they can do for her professionally.

Episode title

The episode falls on the fifth night since Toby's heated discussion with Bartlet in the previous episode - the fifth night of Bartlet's insomnia.

Mistakes

Keyworth mentions a room he saw on the way to the President's private study on the second floor of the Residence, "on the left." The President identifies it as the Lincoln Bedroom, but given the location of this room in the White House it would have been very hard for him to pass it. He is shown turning left into the study at the entrance to one of the sitting halls -- if it is the East Sitting Hall, the Lincoln Bedroom would be on his right. If it is the West Sitting Hall, he would have never passed it at all, given that he did not come up the Grand Staircase and the Lincoln Bedroom is one of the easternmost rooms on the second floor.

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