Sniper

Covert marksman executes President Bartlet's unsanctioned assassination of Abdul Shareef on a remote Bermuda landing strip under night cover. Poised elite receives loaded rifle from handler amid swelling patriotic chorus, assumes night-vision overwatch, delivers precision fire dropping Shareef and bodyguards lifeless. One operator extracts the pen recorder—Bartlet's planted confirmation device—and transmits success signal to Admiral Fitzwallace, sealing the operation's moral and strategic die in taut silence.

4 appearances

Also known as: snipers

Sniper's Journey

A timeline through the narrative

4 moments

S3E21 · Posse Comitatus

Snipers Armed Under Swelling Patriotic Chorus

Steely focus veiling suppressed tension of impending kill

Elite snipers, poised in predatory stillness amid Bermuda's night hush, methodically receive loaded rifles from a handler, their forms taut with operational focus as the distant patriotic chorus swells, steeling …

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S3E21 · Posse Comitatus

Shareef Assassinated: Silent Confirmation Seals Bartlet's Fate

Clinical detachment in lethal execution

Watches plane land via night vision on Bermuda strip, takes aim with team and fires precise shots killing Shareef and bodyguards; one retrieves pen recorder from corpse and attaches to …

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S3E21 · Posse Comitatus

Pen Recorder Retrieved: Assassination Confirmed

Clinical detachment amid lethal finality

One sniper, post-precision kill shots via night vision, kneels amid corpses on the dark airstrip, methodically plucks the pen recorder from Shareef's chest pocket and inserts it into the compatible …

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S3E21 · Posse Comitatus

Shareef's Assassination Confirmed; Bartlet's Isolated Revelation

Cold operational focus devoid of hesitation

One sniper peers through night vision as plane lands, tracks Shareef and bodyguards exiting; team fires fatal shots dropping them dead; operative kneels to extract pen recorder from Shareef's pocket …

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