Adeste Fideles:
Teaser


Kasey

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FADE IN

TEASER

INT. The West Wing Lobby - Very Early Morning

Everything is done up for the holidays, very festive. JOSH enters, shaking snow from his coat, and heads toward his office. He hangs up his coat and walks out to Donna's desk. She's already there, writing on cards and envelopes. She continues to write throughout the scene.

JOSH:
Good morning, Donna!

DONNA:
Good morning.

JOSH:
Whatcha workin' on?

DONNA:
Christmas cards.

JOSH:
You're at work.

DONNA:
Yes, I know that.

JOSH:
So why are you doing your Christmas cards?

DONNA:
Because it's easier to just get them done here when I have a break than to try to do them at 3 in the morning at home?

JOSH:
Good enough reason, I s'pose.

DONNA:
Why, thank you.

JOSH:
Who ya sendin' 'em to?

DONNA:
I'm sorry?

JOSH:
Who're you sending cards to?

DONNA:
My friends and family, Josh, as is customary with-

JOSH:
What about me?

DONNA:
You want me to send you a Christmas card.

JOSH:
Yeah.

DONNA:
I see you twenty hours a day.

JOSH:
So?

DONNA:
I can't just, y'know, say "Merry Christmas, Josh" when I see you on Christmas Eve Day?

JOSH:
Well, I suppose you could, but that wouldn't give me, y'know, something to hang in my office.

DONNA:
Josh, you have a stack of Christmas cards on your desk, all of which you can hang up.

JOSH:
I do?

DONNA:
Remember when yesterday you were complaining because you couldn't find the OMB stats?

JOSH:
Yeah.

DONNA:
And they were under that pile of envelopes?

JOSH:
Those envelopes held Christmas cards?

DONNA:
Yes.

JOSH:
Hm.

DONNA:
Yeah.

JOSH:
Imagine that.

DONNA:
Yeah.

JOSH:
Ah-kay. So I'm gonna go look at 'em.

DONNA:
Yeah.

He doesn't leave.

DONNA:
Is there a reason you're still standing here?

JOSH:
No.

DONNA:
Do you need to still be standing and looking over my shoulder?

JOSH:
(Pauses a second)
No.

SAM passes by, just arriving for the day.

JOSH:
(Catches up to Sam)
Hey, Sam.

SAM:
Yeah.

JOSH:
G'morning.

SAM:
Good morning.

JOSH:
So there's gonna be a thing.

SAM:
What sort of thing?

JOSH:
A couple of women's groups are not happy.

SAM:
They're often not happy.

JOSH:
Yeah.

SAM:
And usually CJ makes no secret of the fact that they're not happy.

JOSH:
Yeah.

SAM:
So what's the problem?

JOSH:
They're unhappy.

SAM:
I meant why are they unhappy?

JOSH:
Because the 108th Congress doesn't have enough women.

SAM:
They 107th Congress didn't have enough women, either, but I don't think that's our fault.

JOSH:
They do.

SAM:
Are you telling me they think somehow we're to blame for voters not electing women to Congress?

JOSH:
They think we didn't support the women enough.

SAM:
That's not our job.

JOSH:
They think otherwise.

SAM:
Bring it up at Staff.

JOSH:
I'll bring it up at Staff, CJ'll bite my head off, Toby'll be condescending, Leo'll say not to worry about it 'cause it's not our fault, and by the end of the day Mrs. Bartlet'll be in my office forcing me to go talk to Amy Gardner. You think I'm gonna put my head in the lion's mouth like that?

SAM:
You're gonna leave it sit?

JOSH:
No, I'm gonna make you do it.

SAM:
(Dryly)
Thanks.

JOSH:
No problem.

SAM:
So since when is this a thing?

JOSH:
An online resource started the mention shortly after the election, since then four other groups have picked up on it and NOW's starting to take notice. They've had enough.

FLASHBACK:

A WOMAN, standing in an apartment, wearing a heavy coat with a bag slung over her arm.

WOMAN:
(To the camera, as though the camera is who she's yelling at)
I've had enough!

END FLASHBACK

Sam is standing there, looking a little out of it.

SAM:
I'm sorry?

JOSH:
I said they've had enough and they're gonna make it known publicly.

SAM:
(Still a little out of it)
Yeah.

JOSH:
So we'll bring it up at the meeting.

JOSH starts off down the hall.

SAM:
(Quietly, to self)
Yeah. (Double Beat) Yeah. Okay. Let's go.

SMASH CUT TO:

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