Mark Davis

Mark Davis emerges as a Philadelphia high-school biology teacher slain by gunfire, his name hurled into the White House briefing room maelstrom by C.J. to shatter illusions of insulated violence. Amid 36 homicides and thousands of gun crimes, Davis anchors the human toll—ordinary educator molding young minds, now felled alongside nursing students and children—contrasting Secret Service arsenals that shielded the President yet mock civilian vulnerability. His invocation fuels the Bartlet administration's searing pivot from assassination attempt to national gun plague, personalizing statistics into unrelenting moral fury without thrusting him into operational chaos.