Toby Ziegler's relentless power struggle to compel an evasive President Bartlet to aggressively counter Governor Ritchie's surging challenge and affirmative action provocations, escalating through frustration to personal trauma excavation.

Striding through the White House with coffee in hand, Sam lightens the campaign's tension via phone with Toby by playfully deducing his exact mid-flight position over Cumberland, West Virginia, using …

After Charlie's persuasion, Toby enters the Oval Office, pressing Bartlet to abandon his disarming 'absent-minded professor' facade and unleash his lethal intellect against Ritchie amid Iowa caucus tensions. Toby excavates …