Pilot (1999)

Directors

Thomas Schlamme

Cast

Alex Baik, Allison Janney, Allison Smith, Annie Corley, Bill LeVasseur, Bradley Whitford, Dafidd McCracken, David Sage, Dean Biasucci, Devika Parikh, Diane Michelle, Elizabeth Greer, F. William Parker, Hamilton Mitchell, Jana Lee Hamblin, Janel Moloney, John Spencer, Kathryn Joosten, Lisa Edelstein, Marc Grapey, Markus Toure Boddie, Marlene Warfield, Martin Sheen, Melissa Fitzgerald, Michael Haboush, Mindy Seeger, Moira Kelly, Molly Schaffer, NiCole Robinson, Ossi Taylor, Peter James Smith, Richard Schiff, Rob Lowe, Sergio Kato, Shawn Fornari, Suzy Nakamura, Tressa DiFiglia, Wendell Wright, Wendy Blair, William Duffy

The story

The White House staff is being called into work early to deal with the press fallout after President Josiah Bartlet has crashed his bicycle into a tree. As the staff try to perform damage control, it is revealed that Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman made a gaffe when, after provocation by Christian activist Mary Marsh on a recent televised debate, quipped "Lady, the God you pray to is too busy being indicted for tax fraud." Also, Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn spends an evening with Laurie (Lisa Edelstein), unaware that she's a call girl, and then tells Chief of Staff Leo McGarry's daughter, Mallory O'Brien, about it before he…

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