Bartlet Demands Zoey Contact as His Wound Worsens
Plot Beats
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Bartlet demands confirmation of Zoey's safety and immediate radio contact, revealing his paternal panic and urgent need to verify her security.
Ron discloses Zoey's violent shock reaction when pressed, confirming physical safety but psychological trauma in the aftermath of the attack.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Calm professionalism amid high-threat transit
Reported by Ron as one of two agents actively escorting shocked, vomiting Zoey in her separate car racing toward White House security amid assassination fallout.
- • Deliver Zoey intact to White House
- • Contain her shock without compromising speed
- • Convoy integrity shields against follow-on attacks
- • White House is ultimate secure haven
Steadfast resolve in familial peril
Reported by Ron as shotgun escort alongside Mike in Zoey's car, providing taut protection during her shock-vomiting rush back to White House sanctuary.
- • Bolster Zoey's convoy security
- • Execute flawless White House return
- • Paired agents ensure redundancy in crisis
- • President's family demands unyielding veil
Unyielding focus amid bloodied command crisis
At limousine wheel, directly addressed by wounded Bartlet to 'turn around' for hospital; responds by wrenching vehicle into sharp 180-degree U-turn on Ron's radioed GW command, navigating chaos with iron grip.
- • Execute presidential detour order precisely
- • Maintain convoy stability in emergency pivot
- • Driver's wheel bends to leader's will in extremis
- • Speed carves survival from peril's edge
Stoic resolve cracking under concern for president's deteriorating state
Gripping radio with crimson bandaged hand amid speeding limo, Ron reassures Bartlet on Zoey's security with Mike, Fred, and Gina's actions, admits hand injury, insists on White House protocol first, palpates president's stomach upon seeing mouth blood, then urgently radios 'G.W.! Blue! Blue! Blue!' to redirect convoy.
- • Maintain presidential security via White House return
- • Address president's critical gut wound with emergency medical reroute
- • White House perimeter is safest containment for threats
- • President's survival demands swift medical override when evident
Focused operational intensity post-extraction
Reported via Ron as having secured Zoey in her car during initial chaos then stayed behind to coordinate with ID agent, absent from ongoing limo crisis but invoked in Bartlet's protective interrogation.
- • Ensure Zoey's rapid vehicle securement
- • Link with ID agent for shooter pursuit
- • Split duties maximize protectee and investigation coverage
- • Principal safety enables secondary threat neutralization
Overwhelmed shock manifesting as physical nausea
Absent but centrally focalized via Ron's radio reports and Bartlet's demands: secured in separate car post-chaos, vomiting from shock, escorted by Mike and Fred back toward White House while Gina handles ID agent behind.
- • Reach safety in White House convoy
- • Process traumatic escape without harm
- • Trust in Secret Service escorts for protection
- • Immediate flight averts further sniper peril
Pained urgency laced with paternal terror and mounting frailty
Pained and gasping for breath on the limo seat, Bartlet repeatedly demands radio contact with Zoey, probes her protection details including Gina, Mike, and Fred, recoils at Ron's bloody bandaged hand, overrides protocol with defiant commands to driver Coop for hospital detour, blood trickling from his mouth signaling worsening condition.
- • Confirm Zoey's immediate safety and condition
- • Force detour to hospital despite security protocols
- • Family safety supersedes institutional protocol in crisis
- • Visible agent injuries demand immediate medical priority
shocked, nauseous
secure in separate car with agents but vomiting from shock
Objects Involved
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Ron's makeshift white bandage, now fully saturated crimson from shattered glass and bullet chaos, becomes starkly visible to Bartlet mid-interrogation, symbolizing the human toll on protectors; its seep underscores urgency, fueling president's protocol override and hospital demand amid his own bleeding escalation.
Ron's compact handheld Secret Service radio crackles alive in his bandaged grasp; after palpating Bartlet's stomach wound upon mouth blood, he jams the key with coded urgency 'G.W.! Blue! Blue! Blue!', ripping through static to commandeer the convoy's trajectory, transforming dialogue standoff into kinetic medical pivot.
Location Details
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George Washington Hospital invoked as lifeline via Ron's frantic radio code 'G.W.! Blue! Blue! Blue!', overriding White House protocol; its trauma bays loom as narrative pivot, pulling limo from security reflex into medical imperative amid Bartlet's visible decline.
The armored presidential limousine serves as claustrophobic crucible for raw confrontation—tires howling through Washington night, interior blood-smeared and jolting as Bartlet badgers Ron, wound checked, radio blares, and Coop executes screeching U-turn; embodies hurtling fragility where power bleeds personal.
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Key Dialogue
"RON: "Zoey's secure." BARTLET: "Get her on the radio, please!""
"RON: "She's vomiting in the car." BARTLET: "Why is she vomiting?" RON: "It happens. It could be shock.""
"BARTLET: "What happened to your hand?!" RON: "I got hit." BARTLET: "Coop, turn around, we gotta go to the hospital.""