Personal Liability in Institutional Loyalty
Oliver's sardonic precision dismantles Abbey's defensive bravado, exposing her malpractice suits and witness lists like Arliss and Pendleton as primed ammunition against Bartlet, forcing wheelchair-bound realizations of plea risks and entrapment tactics, illuminating the First Lady's sacrificial entanglement in the administration's legal-cultural web where personal ethics fuel political peril.
Events Exemplifying This Theme
Oliver enters his office to find First Lady Abbey Bartlet in a wheelchair, her ankle in a cast from a hiking mishap. Their banter—sardonic jabs at her injury and his …
In the White House Counsel's office, Oliver Babish methodically confronts First Lady Abbey Bartlet with her past malpractice suit over a fatal post-CABG infection and her undocumented prescriptions of medication …
In the White House Counsel's office, Oliver Babish confronts First Lady Abbey Bartlet with subpoenaed details of her $58,000 confidential settlement in the Francis Pendleton malpractice case over an atreo-ventricular …