Ron Butterfield arrives. Hurray! Ron Butterfield! We love him. Ron ascertains that POTUS is all right. Leo tells Ron everyone in the room, including the translator, has code word clearance. Ron explains that three shots were fired from the street, and one of them hit the Briefing Room. A suspect (and his high-powered rifle) are in custody. That was freaking fast. Jed asks, "Was anyone in the room?" Ron tells him who was there. Jed asks where they are, as he and Leo both start to leave the room to look for them. Ron says they're fine and insists that Jed has to stay put.
Just then, C.J., Toby, and Will arrive. Jed asks each of them as they enter if they're fine. As Will enters, Jed asks how many fingers he's holding up. (And there's nothing to the fact that he holds up two fingers in a peace sign, right? Uh oh! Better watch out for Big Bad Boss GE. Hee.) Will asks, "Who's Will, sir?" Jed introduces Will to Ron. Leo says, "Lieutenant Bailey, we're glad to see you alive, but it's code clearance in here and I need you out of earshot, okay?" Will understands and takes off. Jed asks where Charlie is. Leo says he's somewhere in the building. Ron says that everybody's being held where they are. Jed says that if Charlie's heard what happened, he's going to be trying to get to Jed. The phone rings, and Leo goes to answer it. Jed keeps explaining that if Charlie's heard, he'll try to overpower anyone. Just then, Charlie busts in through one of the Oval Office's many doors. He stops, panting, when he sees the roomful of people and that Jed's all right. Jed motions for Charlie to come over. He quietly tells Charlie, "It's bulletproof glass in the windows, okay? You want to kill me, you're going to have to do it from inside the building." What a sense of yoomer. Charlie thanks him and leaves, asking Toby and C.J. as he goes if they're all right.
Jed announces that he's surprised that they managed to keep "Fiderer" in her chair. That's her cue to bust in from Leo's office. Jed tells her that no one was hurt. She tells Ron she hopes someone's going to report this. Well, yeah, I would think. Under her breath, she tells Jed that they need to take his blood pressure in a few minutes. Leo tells Ron about the earlier incidents of terrorist activity. Jed says that this was "just a crazy guy." Leo says that phone call was about a third incident in Guam: "The Head of Office of Insular Affairs was picked off." Jed: "Come on..." Leo has his Not Fucking Around Face on when he replies, "By a sniper, Mr. President." Ron declares, "Shut it down. Crash it!" An agent tells his wrist to crash the building. Ron goes to the door and tells Debbie, "We're crashed." Debbie calls someone and tells them to crash the West Wing. Ron grabs an anachronistic red phone off the floor under a side table and barks letters and numbers into it. The camera fades out on Jed looking anxious.













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