You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishi Kei Shureway.

And I'm Joshua Molina.

Today we're talking about the finale of season one.

Woo! It's episode 22 and it's called What Kind of Day Has It Been?

It was written by Aaron Sorkin. It was directed by Tommy Schlame and it originally aired on May 17th

in the year 2000. Here's a synopsis. A synopsis?

Sure. It's on Make Sure because they're this, you know, it's an important distinction.

An American fighter jet goes down in Iraq and a rescue mission ensues to find the pilot.

But it's a covert operation. So CJ has to mislead the press.

Toby's brother is on board the space shuttle Columbia but it's having mechanical difficulties

and can't land. Plus Josh has to meet with the vice president to bring him around to the Bartlett

administration's plans for campaign finance. President Bartlett travels to Rosalind, Virginia

to speak at the museum and give a live town hall meeting. But as their exiting,

sh** goes down and shots ring out.

Well done. Before we even get into the episode though, Josh, I want to ask you about the title.

What kind of day has it been? Is a very Sorkin title? It's been the finale for lots of things

that he's done before. Season one finale of Sports Night, right? Yep.

Season one slash series finale of Studio 60.

Season three slash series finale of The Newsroom. Right.

So spread across 15 years. It's become a little calling card for him.

The story seems to be that the lead producer of the Broadway production of A Few Good Men,

a man named Robert Whitehead used to begin every meeting in previews of A Few Good Men,

...