The Ticket (The West Wing)

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Ticket
Series = The West Wing


Caption =
Season = 7
Episode = 133
Airdate = September 252005
Production = 2T6201
Writer = Debora Cahn
Director = Christopher Misiano
Guests = Oliver Platt
Teri Polo
Timothy Busfield
Marlee Matlin
NiCole Robinson
Renee Estevez
Matthew Del Negro
Karis Campbell
Evan Arnold
Diana-Maria Riva
Ramón De Ocampo
Bill O'Brien
Episode list = List of "The West Wing" episodes
Season list = Infobox The West Wing season 7 episode list
Prev =
Next ="The Ticket" is episode 133 of "The West Wing", and the first episode of the seventh season.

The season opener starts with a scene from three years in the future; a reunion of several main characters at the opening of Bartlet's Presidential library. References are made to the lives of the characters since the end of the Bartlet administration:

*C.J. Cregg and Danny Concannon are married with a young child, and residing in Santa Monica, California
*Will Bailey has become a Congressman from Oregon and has been appointed to the Ways and Means Committee
*Kate Harper wrote a book that dealt heavily with the European Union
*Toby Ziegler is teaching at Columbia University
*President Bartlet himself was involved in peace negotiations in Jakarta, Indonesia
*Josh Lyman is working as the White House Chief of Staff
*Charlie Young is also present; he intended to attend the Georgetown University Law Center after Bartlet's term expired.

Lyman arrives and says "The President is here". The show then returns to the main timeline with the Santos/McGarry campaign getting off to a rough start with tensions between Santos and Leo and between the campaign and the White House, despite poll numbers which show the campaign doing better than expected. Donna wants to join the Santos campaign but Josh refuses to let her do so because she hammered Santos while working for Russell's campaign. Josh does hire Lou Thornton to be the campaign's Communications Director. C.J. is questioned by White House Counsel Oliver Babish as to her involvement with the leak about a secret military space shuttle. Josh is angry when C.J. and Toby want to accept an educational stimulus package from the Republicans in Congress that will undercut Santos' own education reform plans.

External links

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