A week later. Early morning. Leo is in his office with Josh and Toby.

Leo hands Josh a piece of paper. "You'll meet with Skinner?"

"Yeah."

"This is important, Josh."

"Yeah. I know. We're good."

"Okay. Toby, you need to get with C.J., let her know she's gonna get questions."

"Yeah."

Margaret walks in. "I'm sorry. Leo, I have Julia Schott on the phone."

"Julia? Annabeth's sister?"

"Yes."

"Okay. Well, tell her I'll call her back."

"Leo, I think you need to take this."

Leo looks at Margaret. "An Iraqi oil tanker carrying smuggled oil and the United Nations think otherwise. Tell her I'll call her back."

"Leo. Something has happened to Annabeth. I really need you to pick up the phone."

Leo lunges across his desk and grabs his phone. "Julia. This is Leo McGarry. What's going...Okay. Yes. Where? Okay. I'm headed there now. I will call you as soon as I can."

Josh and Toby stand up. "Leo, what's…"

"Annabeth's hurt. Something happened when she was going into work this morning. I've gotta…" He looks desperately around the room.

"Leo, go! We've got this."

Leo snaps back in, grabs his jacket from Josh and races out of the room.

At the hospital – Leo is on the phone with Julia.

"I don't have much. The doctors won't…they won't tell me." His voice breaks and he puts his hand over his eyes. He takes a deep breath. "I talked to Frank – he's the head of security at Annabeth's office building. He said…he said she was getting out of her car in the parking garage when a man…" He starts to cry. "When a man…approached her and shot her."

He puts his head against the wall and wills himself to pull it together. "You're headed to the airport? I need you to call my assistant, Margaret, and give her your flight information. I am going to have some guys meet your flight. They will get you out of the airport and here as quickly as they can, okay?"

Back at the White House

Josh, Toby, Sam and C.J. are huddled in Toby's office.

Josh is slumped in the chair in front of Toby's desk. "He just ran out. Maybe an hour ago?"

C.J. looks at Toby. "What happened? What do we know?"

"We don't know anything. Has anyone called him?"

Josh stands up and paces towards the door. "He's not picking up." He turns and looks at Toby. "Has anyone told the President?"

They all look at each other.

Josh is waiting outside the Oval Office.

"Josh! Come on in."

He walks in. The President is sitting behind his desk. "What do we know?"

"I'm sorry, sir?"

"What do we know, Josh! Is she okay?"

"You already know?"

"Leo called me on the way to the hospital."

Josh shakes his head. "Of course he did."

"Third time I'm asking, Josh. What do we know?"

"Nothing, sir. I was just coming to tell you. I didn't know Leo called you."

"I can't go to the hospital. It would cause a whole thing. And it would distract from…listen, you need to be here, too, because you're Chief of Staff today. Leo can't be trying to do his job from there, but he will try. You need to do this for him, Josh."

"Yes sir."

"Abbey will go to the hospital. A doctor is more useful to Leo right now than a President."

"Yes sir."

"Okay. You find something out, you pull me out of whatever you have to pull me out of to tell me, okay?"

"Yes sir."

Jed looks down at his desk. "Leo's a tough son of a bitch, Josh, but this…this will knock him out."

"Sam's trying to find some things out. I'll get you whenever we know something."

"Yeah."

"Thank you, Mr. President."