Did Aaron Sorkin really have the last episode of year 4 in his mind when he wrote this dialogue, all that while ago? Or did he just look at it in retrospect and think, “Yeah, that looks like a good way to play it, let’s go…”?<\/p>\n
\n\n BARTLET\nMy getting killed would be bad enough,\nbut that is not the nightmare scenario.\nThe nightmare scenario, sweetheart, is\nyou<\/u> getting kidnapped! You go out to a\nbar or a party in some club and you get\nup and you go to the restroom and\nsomebody comes from behind and puts\nhis hand across your mouth and drags\nyou out the back door. You're so\npetrified you don't even notice the\nbodies of a few Secret Service agents\nlying on the ground with bullet holes\nin their heads. Then you're driven away\nin the car. It's a big party with lots of\nnoise and lots of people coming and\ngoing, and it's a half hour before\nsomeone says, \"Hey, where's\nZoey?\" It's another fifteen minutes\nbefore the first phone call. It's another\nhour and a half before anyone even\nthinks<\/u> to shut down all the airports!\nNow we're off to the races! You're tied\nto a chair in a cargo shack somewhere\nin the middle of Uganda and I am told\nthat I have 72 hours to get Israel to\nfree 460 imprisoned terrorists. So I'm\non the phone pleading with Binyamin\nand he's saying: \"I'm sorry, Mr.\nPresident, but Israel simply does not\nnegotiate with terrorists, period, it's\nthe only way we can survive.\" So now\nwe got a new problem because this\ncountry no longer has a Commander-\nin-chief, but a father going out of his\nmind because his little girl is in a\nshack somewhere in the middle of\nUganda with a gun to her head! Do\nyou get it?!<\/u>\n\n ZOEY\nYes.\n
\n\n<\/pre>\n
(sigh) There are some images from that last episode that keep repeating
\non me like a bowl of one of Peter’s more aggressive chilies. Particularly those
\nwashed-out monochrome images of that single terrified eye…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did Aaron Sorkin really have the last episode of year 4 in his mind when he wrote this dialogue, all that while ago? Or did he just look at it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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