Pat

Pat anchors as First Lady Abbey Bartlet's family lawyer, a steadfast guardian of the Bartlet clan's private legal battles amid White House tempests. Oliver Babish shatters this reliance in the basement conference room's stark tension, branding Pat unfit for the savage legal maelstrom of Abbey's unauthorized Interferon prescriptions shipped across state lines—violations ripping through New Hampshire, Arizona, and Missouri ethics boards. Deemed a mere family practitioner, Pat recedes as Babish thrusts a roster of elite counsel forward, exposing fractures where personal loyalty collides with federal peril, loyalty's quiet bulwark yielding to crisis's merciless forge.