Percy Fitzwallace

Admiral Fitzwallace opens with light banter about the coffee, presents the three strike scenarios including Pericles One, answers Bartlet's probing questions with measured professional detail, and is visibly challenged when …

Admiral Fitzwallace sits attentively, calmly briefs the three proportional scenarios including Pericles One details, defends the doctrine factually when pressed, interjects politely to Leo, and absorbs Bartlet's tirade without visible …

Delivers unflinching proportionality warning on Hassan strike—citing casualties, aid disruption, and backlash—then briefs Pericles One details, awaits and relays the go order via phone to initiate the clock, praises 'Well …

Admiral Fitzwallace arrives, moves into the intimate counsel role: he briefly summarizes the stakes, advises Leo on how to 'set the President down' for the public address, and rebuts Leo's …

Admiral Fitzwallace enters, hears the concern, and disarms it with lived authority: he reframes the issue as dignity and pay, not optics, invoking his own example to puncture Josh's worry …

Admiral Fitzwallace stands, delivers the core operational fact pattern, answers Bartlet's pointed questions with measured laconic replies, and provides the troop and naval counts that harden the threat picture.

Admiral Fitzwallace delivers the initial operational briefing, frames the invasion as recent and large-scale, answers Bartlet’s tactical jabs with sober fact, and supplies time-to-station estimates for surveillance assets.

Stationed at the projected tactical map, delivers a concise operational readout: breaches along the cease‑fire line, five divisions north of Kargil, and a two‑corps thrust into Azhad — converting fragmentary …

At the projected map, Fitzwallace translates sensor and field reports into a concise operational summary: breach points, five divisions north of Kargil, and a two‑corps thrust into Azhad, moving the …

Leads the briefing with clipped, factual language: presents photo-recon evidence of Indian movements, reports Pakistani delegation of nuclear control to field commanders, and proposes immediate military readiness actions (B-1 scramble, …

Leads the briefing, translates recon and field reports into action items, recommends immediate posture changes (B-1 scramble, 49th ready alert), and provides candid appraisal of Pakistani actions and intent.

Referenced by the President as the military contact who must deliver reconnaissance photos in 24 hours; he is assigned an urgent, concrete task though he does not appear in the …

Admiral Fitzwallace is invoked as the operational conduit for verification: Bartlet directs that Fitzwallace 'have photos in 24 hours,' making him the off‑stage executor of the reconnaissance requirement though he …

Admiral Fitzwallace exits Leo's office after a meeting, engages in a brief, wry exchange about Manila and redundancy, responds to Toby's security note with a dry aside that 'White House …

Having just left Leo's office, Fitzwallace exchanges a brief, blunt line about computer security, signaling military bluntness and realist perspective before departing the scene.

Exits Leo's office with a compact, factual manner; offers blunt operational assessments about Manila redundancy and the (in)security of White House computers, punctuating staff anxieties with military realism.

Admiral Percy Fitzwallace enters the Roosevelt Room, dominates the exchange with blunt questions, then leaves; in the hallway he receives Sam's thanks and delivers a curt, dismissive strategic assessment, then …

Admiral Fitzwallace enters briskly, commands attention, refuses euphemisms, reframes the officers' objections by pointing to past naval resistance to integration and the eventual moral correctness and operational adaptability of change, …

Admiral Fitzwallace enters the Roosevelt Room, takes command of the conversational floor, asks pointed questions, names the issue plainly, invokes racial integration as a corrective, then walks out — later …

Admiral Fitzwallace relays fragmentary field reporting into the room — audible, clipped exchanges over the phone — and names an SA-6 and Jabar as sources. He concedes uncertainty but promises …

Admiral Fitzwallace provides measured operational facts (ACES seat, rescue assets), answers Bartlet's direct questions about the pilot, and accepts the President's order to recover the pilot, translating political urgency back …

Admiral Fitzwallace provides crisp operational detail: sensor tracks, rescue assets, and the pilots' identity and hometown; he receives Bartlet's command and pledges to execute the retrieval.

Admiral Fitzwallace enters, settles on the couch, makes light small talk (the carpet/eagle joke), listens for the incoming call, then delivers the operational good news: Captain Hutchins is on the …

Enters, sits beside the President, lightens the mood with an earthy aside about the presidential carpet seal, answers his blinking secure line, and conveys the operational news that Captain Hutchins …

Enters, sits beside the President, monitors incoming lines, relays the secure operational update, places the pilot on the line, and exits with restrained professional warmth after delivering the good news.

referenced as one of the 14 people in the world who know about President Bartlet's MS diagnosis

Mentioned as returning from Manila in four hours, accessible by phone; referenced for potential orders on tactical alert.

referenced as agreeing with Leo on not upgrading DEFCON

referenced as agreeing with Leo on DefCon posture

agrees with Leo against DEFCON upgrade

Fitzwallace is invoked by name by Bartlet as a desired presence for the impending Situation Room briefing.

Fitzwallace is requested by Bartlet for the Situation Room briefing but remains absent from this Oval moment.

Referenced by Mark as next briefing target post-update on tanker's document destruction.

Not physically present but directly invoked by Bartlet's order to brief him on evacuations and Marine deployment, pulling the Joint Chiefs Chairman into the Haitian response chain.

ordered to be briefed on the situation

Fitzwallace receives Nancy's phone directive to mobilize the 8-80th from Parris Island, positioned as key operational recipient off-screen.

Proposed by Nancy to be sent to negotiate with Haitian general Francis St. Jacques.

Proposed by Nancy for immediate dispatch to Haiti, leveraging Annapolis brotherhood with besieging General St. Jacques to negotiate embassy relief.

Referenced by Nancy as the ideal envoy to Haiti due to Annapolis training with St. Jacques, positioned as key to de-escalating the siege.

Positioned for deployment as Admiral, directly authorized by Bartlet to intervene in Haiti crisis following strategy approval—not physically present but thrust into action via presidential directive.

Fitzwallace invoked in Leo's briefing as aligning with Seventh Fleet push, his Joint Chiefs command lending ironclad military weight to the pivotal decision.

Admiral Fitzwallace cited by Leo in consensus on armada deployment, his military calculus invoked to greenlight Bartlet's order relayed to him directly.

Named explicitly by Josh as Bruno's pitched VP alternative to conquer Northeast, Pacific, and Northwest sans Texas/Florida.

Fitzwallace emerges as Josh's pitched replacement per Bruno, endorsed by Toby, positioned to bolster Northeast, Pacific, and Northwest sweeps against Hoynes' deficits.

Fitzwallace looms as spectral centerpiece via his folder's photo and bio, dissected for Vietnam decorations, hawk credentials, and Northeast/Southern appeal, but loyalty doubts undermine his viability.

Named by Josh as prime VP replacement candidate alongside others in hallway disclosure to Sam.

Admiral Fitzwallace is named by Josh as a serious VP replacement contender, his credentials floated amid the desperate calculus.

enters Oval Office with uniformed personnel, shakes President's hand, presents SR-71 photo of Bushehr construction site, explains light vs. heavy water reactors and Russian involvement with Iran despite contrary intelligence …

Fitzwallace strides in with uniformed aides, greets formally, banters lightly with Bartlet's slang ('You trying to be one of the fellows?'), presents and meticulously explains the SR-71 photo of Bushehr—self-correcting …

Affirms the logic early, expresses astonished skepticism at Sam's backchannel role, questions absent phone call; rises to endorse Helsinki meeting, validating Chigorin's limb-outstretched risk.

delivers briefing on credible terror threat to US military installations from Bahji cell, confirms intelligence sources

Greets entering President, launches briefing on credible 48-hour Bahji attack threat, details NSA intercepts of Syrian websites and cellular calls, affirms Helsinki context, stands in deference as Bartlet departs.

Stands commandingly before the CG U.S. map, indicates Dover and Fort Myer as new targets, details smuggled weaponry from intercepts, and underscores their unnerving proximity to the White House, driving …

Waits in office with advisors, elaborates on raid drawings' details including vents and guard notations, advises against Marine One favoring grounding amid doubled security, exchanges thanks with Bartlet before exiting …

Entering with Leo, Fitzwallace delivers precise briefing on Coast Guard seizure, cargo specifics, Fort Point's strategic value under the Golden Gate, Russian Chechen intel linking to Shareef via Bahji, cautiously …

Admiral Fitzwallace delivers the clinching evidence punch—matching bomb signatures of ammonium nitrate, fuel oil, and dynamite triggers from Tunisia and Port Al Alzoud—then summarizes the case with Chechen witness, Shareef's …

Chairman Fitzwallace interjects strategically, questioning the precise conditions for forfeiting diplomatic status, aligning with Bartlet's push while grounding the debate in military pragmatism amid the room's escalating tension.

Sitting across from Leo, starts with banter about shampoo, then uses historical precedents (Agincourt chivalry, Yamamoto's killing after Pearl Harbor, failed Hitler plot by Dietrich Bonhoeffer) to argue that peacetime-wartime …

Firmly positioned amid the assembled brass, Fitzwallace parries Leo's accusations with unyielding precision, revealing the deliberate non-cancellation as anti-paranoia strategy, methodically defending the plot's necessities without flinching from human costs.

Fitzwallace positions beside computer display to detail Gulfstream sabotage—U.S. asset pilot faking failure for RAF Bermuda landing—rising with others on Bartlet's entry and exit, his measured delivery underscoring military precision …

Stands attentively with assembled brass as Bartlet rises, positioned near the computer display, silently observing the pen handoff, president's quip, drop, and exit without verbal contribution.

Admiral Fitzwallace stands rigidly in the corner with Leo, eyes fixed on the central standoff, absorbing Bartlet's visceral rejection of Shareef's gift as military calculus simmers unspoken.

Fitzwallace enters alongside Leo, sits formally, and delivers a precise rundown of the finding's review chain through National Security Advisor, cabinet secretaries, Attorney General, White House Counsel, and himself, submitting …

Alone in the dimly lit Situation Room, stands vigilant by the phone amid ongoing distant chorus, picks up receiver to absorb the terse confirmation signal of assassination success.

Alone in the Situation Room, Fitzwallace waits tensely by the phone, then picks it up to receive the sniper's confirmation signal of the assassination's success, his face registering the operation's …

Alone in the dimly lit Situation Room, Admiral Fitzwallace waits tensely by the phone amid distant chorus echoes, snatches the ringing line to receive the sniper's transmitted confirmation signal, his …

Fitzwallace hears the ELT detail and immediately proposes assembling all military search-and-rescue assets, routing them through State to be used in communications with Qumar's Ambassador and Sultan.

Delivers military/national-security input: warns a small North Korean force may probe the DMZ, confirms linkage to the President's Seoul trip, and commits to assembling military rescue efforts for Qumar's reopened …

Mentioned by Leo as the person he will see 'for a minute'—implied to be the military voice who will brief and contextualize the Qumar reopening; not present on-screen but central …

Admiral Fitzwallace is not on-screen but is the source of the grave intelligence Leo references; his briefing triggered Leo's urgency and the President's decision to abandon the campaign and return …

Enters, closes the door, and delivers a terse, operationally specific briefing: U.S. forces conducted a legitimate SAR with allies, then concealed a downed Qumari plane by dismantling its ELT and …

Admiral Fitzwallace enters, closes the door, delivers a blunt operational briefing detailing how U.S. forces concealed the Qumar crash, names units involved, and issues a grave legal warning about The …

Sits at the table and methodically rebuts Nancy's call to arms with grim, technical reality — explaining the phone was disabled, communications monitored, and a dummy battery used — and …

Admiral Fitzwallace delivers the technical refutation: he states that Shareef's phone was disabled, communications were monitored, and the battery swapped for a dummy—flatly negating the existence of any call or …

Provides military perspective, invokes 'Dr. Strangelove' as shorthand for secrecy, endorses insulating the President while admitting responsibility; engages collegially with Nancy and Leo.

Fitzwallace counsels keeping military secrecy, counsels an 'admit but insulate the President' option, invokes the Chiefs' loyalty and practical ways to work around a signed authorization, and appeals to institutional …

Chairman Fitzwallace tests the logic: he questions whether calling Qumar's bluff is possible, warns of counter-bluffs, and sketches escalation outcomes if Israel is defended—he pushes the group to recognize military …

Admiral Fitzwallace weighs credibility of the alleged Israeli parachute, cautions about calling bluffs, and pushes analytical, skeptical military reasoning into the room's debate prior to Bartlet's mood shift.

Admiral Fitzwallace interrogates the claim about parachute origin and warns about the danger of calling Qumar's bluff, arguing that manufactured proof will trap the U.S. and force awkward denials or …

Fitzwallace moves the conversation into foreign-intel territory after the vet: relays State's reading on Shareef and outlines a possible misinformation narrative involving Libya, exhibiting procedural military clarity in a civilian …

Admiral Fitzwallace offers State Department context about Shareef and suggests a leak tying Shareef to Libya; he speaks in the language of realpolitik and operational deception.

Fitzwallace supplies the tactical intelligence frame: suggests leaking that Shareef flew to Libya and planned a coup—he presents a concrete misinformation narrative and defers execution to staff.

Chairman Fitzwallace casually outlines a Langley-run disinformation campaign—fabricated documents, photos, audio, even body doubles—and describes using agents in Iraq, Syria and Iran to seed the story internationally as operational cover.

Chairman Fitzwallace calmly pitches an aggressive operational solution: Langley will manufacture documents, photos, audio, even a body double to shape regional narratives and blunt diplomatic blowback from the covert killing.

Referenced by Leo as the military channel who can influence the Qumari Defense Minister — an offstage lever in the de‑escalation plan rather than an on‑scene actor.

Chairman Fitzwallace joins by phone, answers Bartlet's sardonic banter, warns that Israel would launch a pre-emptive strike if it felt threatened, and accepts the President's order to set Qumar bases …

Chairman Fitzwallace provides sober military counsel over the phone, warns of the risk of Israeli pre-emption, confirms that Qumar would demand concessions to stand down, and receives the President's DEFCON/DEFCON …

Fitzwallace is not on screen but his arrival is the catalytic fact—his presence is invoked as the reason the President is tied up, bringing implied military gravity to the patio …

Chairman Fitzwallace delivers the critical intelligence: the Mastico's cargo, the MLRS specifics, and the GPS evidence; he specifies available forces and endorses Leo's moral assessment while remaining crisply professional about …

Fitzwallace delivers the military intelligence: identifies the Mastico, its 72 tons of weapons, the MLRS and its GPS as proof, and reports available naval/marine assets — then accepts and echoes …

Fitz is name-checked by Bartlet as part of a comic quip about military rebuilding; he is not present but invoked to illustrate the President's sweeping policy talk.

Admiral Fitzwallace reads the sports section, listens to Josh's plea, rejects any White House meddling, affirms Navy command jurisdiction, and bluntly predicts a dishonorable discharge for Hilton before encouraging Josh …

Sitting reading the sports section when Josh arrives, listens to the plea, rejects political intervention, insists Navy matters belong at the command level, bluntly forecasts a dishonorable discharge, stands and …

Percy Fitzwallace is invoked by C.J. as the counterpoint in the 'Jets vs. Sharks' Pentagon split; he is referenced but not present in the scene.

Percy Fitzwallace is named by C.J. as the opposing figure to Hutchinson in the Jets/Sharks split; he functions as the institutional foil in the described Pentagon rift but does not …

Percy Fitzwallace is named as the military official tasked with executing Bartlet's order (via UCOMM); he is not present but his staff and command will mobilize the units Bartlet orders.

Percy Fitzwallace is named by Bartlet as the officer Bartlet ordered to effect the deployments; he is not present, but the President's invocation makes Fitzwallace the operational executor of the …

Admiral Fitzwallace presses for information about the 82nd, receives Wendall's confirmation, immediately issues the clearance for the 101st and stands ready for the coded command while offering formal thanks to …

Admiral Fitzwallace leads the room's operational response: asks pointedly about the 82nd, confirms the source of the interruption, and issues the decisive order clearing the 101st while acknowledging the President.

Stands at the end of the Situation Room table and briefs Leo: reports a recent Superhornet flyover, displays and explains black-and-white reconnaissance photos showing 3,200 Induye marched toward a prepared …

Stands at the end of the Situation Room table, displays and explains black-and-white reconnaissance photos showing 3,200 Induye marched toward Mutsato, details presence of cranes, bulldozers, smokestacks, recent Superhornet flyover, …

Referenced by Leo as the senior military leader who must be contacted; not present but his name is invoked to mobilize military counsel and readiness.

Mentioned by Leo as the immediate military contact to be called; not present in the room but invoked as the person who will translate political direction into military posture.

Physically present, seated before the Situation Room telephone; listens to the briefing and stands ready as the senior military voice in the room, prepared to provide operational options when asked …

Delivers the military assessment from the Situation Room: identifies units (Delta Force, First Special Forces, 26 Special Ops), the RH-66 Comanche platform, rehearsals in Ghana, the narrow operational window, and …

Provides the operational brief: names the units (Delta Force, First Special Forces, 26 Special Ops), the platform (RH-66 Comanche), rehearsals in Ghana, and quantifies the chance of success (≈70%). Speaks …

From the Situation Room, delivers the operational briefing: names units, describes rehearsals in Ghana, specifies RH‑66 Comanches and a 70% success estimate, and frames when the President should give the …

Admiral Fitzwallace stands in the Situation Room and delivers a terse operational briefing: assets, force composition, timeline, and a blunt description of the CIA wet team's role. He answers tactical …

Manages Situation Room radio traffic, queries U-COM for cargo confirmation, receives an aide's note, reads and relays the Red Haven bombing details, and requests situation assessment while executing immediate procedural …

Monitoring and speaking into the room and radio: Fitzwallace confirms chopper cargo, receives and reads the aide's note, queries U-COM for a situation assessment, and relays the suicide-bombing details aloud …

Fitzwallace provides a blunt confirmation that all five suspects remain unaccounted for—his laconic reply supplies the factual backbone that triggers Bartlet's orders and supports the decision to escalate.

Admiral Fitzwallace confirms Nancy and Bartlet's reading — that the five suspects remain unaccounted for — answering Bartlet's questions succinctly and lending military-intelligence weight to the briefing.

Fitzwallace is named by Leo as one of the officials who saw evidence; his presence is invoked to lend military/intelligence credibility to the decision to strike Shareef.

Fitzwallace is invoked as part of the group who reviewed evidence against Shareef; his presence is referenced to lend military/strategic credence to the President's account.

Admiral Percy Fitzwallace accompanies Leo into the President's study and provides crisp maritime intelligence: the Agile's registry detail (Nigerian flag, Syrian ownership) and that the FBI is already hunting down …

Admiral Percy Fitzwallace briefly greets Wesley and participates in light, jocular exchange about the detail, then prepares to move into a separate intelligence briefing — a transitionary presence linking family …

Chairman Fitzwallace provides the earlier operational briefing about the Agile and remains present as the conversation shifts; his military-briefing presence gives weight to the decision-making context that makes Leo's personal …

Fitzwallace interjects with blunt candor when asked about the well‑light room's purpose, naming 'sleep deprivation' and thereby stripping away euphemism and forcing the room to confront the tactic's moral weight.

Fitzwallace answers Leo's direct question with a single, blunt word — 'Sleep deprivation' — converting a sterile policy phrase into an unvarnished operational reality.

Fitzwallace reacts with a laugh to the manifest/typo exchange, providing a moment of dark, understated humor that undercuts alarm — until the room is yanked into urgency by Ron's entrance.

Fitzwallace reacts to Nancy's report with an initial laugh that undercuts tension; he remains present in the room, offering a dry, stabilizing presence while the mood shifts sharply after Ron's …

Argues that the indicators point to an attack, supplies a timeline (45 minutes to assemble/evaluate threats, plus an hour to cross-check faces) and presses for rapid military recognition of the …

Admiral Fitzwallace frames the incident in military terms: he warns this 'looks like an attack,' gives concrete timelines for assembling and evaluating threats and pushes the possibility of a larger …

Urgently advocates military options—listing C-130s, Blackhawks and a carrier group's movement and target list—pushing for immediate, kinetic measures to degrade the adversary.

Argues for immediate kinetic action: lists targets, calls for moving C-130s, Blackhawks and a carrier group into the Gulf — forceful, militarily decisive presence in the room.

Admiral Fitzwallace pushes for immediate air response and preservation of strategic surprise for strikes on Tamar and Laddi, framing the Beech Baron intercept as proof of an imminent threat that …

Pressed for immediate aerial action, argued for surprise and preemption against Qumari bases, and framed the intercept as a time-sensitive military decision.

Admiral Fitzwallace is present, embodying the military's urgent posture in the room; though not central to the oath, his presence underscores the operational backdrop that makes the handoff urgent.

Present in the Oval, receives Walken's critique about military warnings and stands as the military voice in the room, embodying the security stakes underpinning Walken's urgency.

Admiral Fitzwallace stands in the room as a visible military presence; his readiness and concern underscore the stakes behind the constitutional formality.

Admiral Percy Fitzwallace is present and contributes a terse, stern presence in the room; he previously debated threat responses and remains a directional, hawkish voice as staff transfer authority.