白宫风云 第三季

　　Season]? 3: ;]2001*#–2002　　Cast: Rob Low#,=e, Stockard Cha?_
nning,(@! Dulé Hi%@ll,) Allison!/; J!$,anney\ , J?:anel Molo%?ne ]%%y, Ric_+hard Sc$^hiff, @ ! John =/Spencer]\,] Bradle?y Whitfor)^#d and`* Ma.;,rtin Sheen　　`*The th*+-ird sea `
son, @-%which covers the ad=mini^\stration& #39s )!third an ^d
$^ fourth ]years in+ office,=; starts off w=[[#it- #h Bar!#tlet announc *
:in%
%g his$[ int! entio=%n to %run for 
ree,lection a[nd i^:s @$_h@;eavily :;
devoted to =*the upcom( ing pres?_=identi$al/ elec.tion. Othe;]!r ];p-[/ r] om-@inent *=plotlines incl(ud /e Congressional inv!estigations into whether Bartlet c)ommitted `

electo ral `!f$# r\,aud by co%ncealing his MS, a death threat against C.J. a/nd the^. ensuing relat__)ionship she dev`.]elop,s with a:+! Se+ *c=ret S[erv(:ice age.n^]t-\ ! assigned to her,,! the Qumari defens.!-e m,ini`ster- A$bdul Shar?eef plott)%i]/+ng terr
!o;-rist attacks against the US, and a troubli
@+ng meeting b!#etween Toby and +the P%.$=r]esi [+\dent th! %at$
l]e(a?(ves Bartl+;)`et wit)=h a b^out of insomni!#a /]!in &q/_@uotNight^
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@#(finale, -^&q
\$uotP\osse Comi^tatus" closes severa[ l [`#%o#f these st@]%or?@y
-lines as Ba]/rtlet;#] meets his oppone,nt? in, $ the elections and reaf(\f%irms his commitment to be/-at him.! The episo? !d=!e ends with the ;p:?resident +*/finally%@ de(?ci^ding to o)^ rder S[%hareef's$-? assassination (:,a legally que(sti #$onable -]ac t) and C[/*.J.'s agent/#'s murder, just af(@ter% the m@ an t?]hreatening\ ;!C.J. #`was caught.　@@　Fr\(om a cr`it^ical\#; )\p erspective$?, s.)eries c;^reato.r^!$[ Aa=:]ron Sorkin a+$#cknowl ? edged in (+Octo,ber 20 02 tha$t the t]
\error%ism-related p .?lots designe d _$.\to keep the series rel= ]evant aft_[er the real -l`ife 9*/11 at^@tacks were aw#.kward at t `,i(mes,
 sayi?(ng &quotfrom wee]\@k to\ week==, yo`u felt^ like you w @]ere writing the show handcu- ffed@$, a littl e ]_^bit. I )?didn't?: k.now how to write it any,_more\:. It %\ wa./-s a cons:.tant search for what I _;w asn':t doing (that used to; make the /%show work. [...] Maybe there was a way t*o m;/!a ke i t work there probab@%!l\y was. I *]wasn't able )to find it [#;i
:!n twenty-two epis+odes." -[1] Nonetheless, the s
= ho^=\)w 
we:nt on to wi,(=n its third &qu#otO
[ utstanding Drama&qu$]+ot Emmy in a row.