More post ironing analysis...

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And so on to "Lord John Marbury", with the fabulous Roger Rees hamming it up just a little bit as a British aristocrat. Love the way it's set up with him and Leo - it's not that they don't get on or that they dislike each other, it's just that they're so very different, but there's a sense of ... exasperated friendship and admiration there nonetheless.
Lots of funny - especially this:



BARTLET
There's an India expert I want to bring in.

LEO
Who?

Bartlet looks at him pointedly.

LEO
No.

BARTLET
You guys are gonna love him.

LEO
He's a lunatic!

BARTLET
He's colorful.

LEO
He's certifiable!

SAM
Who?

BARTLET
Lord John Marbury, former ambassador to New Delhi from the Court of Saint
James.

SAM
Where do we find him?

LEO
A psychiatric institution.

BARTLET
He's colorful, Leo.

LEO
You're really gonna let him loose in the White House, where there's liquor
and women?

BARTLET
We can hide the women. But the man deserves a drink.


And this - which is really all in Toby's facial expression at the end:



TOBY
How could the CIA miss 300,000 armed people walking all over-

BARTLET
They didn't exactly miss them. In fact, they've got a very good photo now.

TOBY
Yeah, but the idea is to spot them before they cross the border, right?

BARTLET
Yeah.

TOBY
Oops.


We discover that Josh isn't a "real" lawyer and it's also the episode where Zoey asks Charlie out (awwww!). CJ is left out of the loop because Toby and the others weren't sure she'd be able to lie to the press about the troop movements in Kashmir, and Josh's deposition doesn't go well. It's just a little thing, but during the conversation in Leo's office when they talk about the fact that the story about Leo is about to break - Josh asks if Leo's family know everything... and as Leo says that they do, you can see Margaret nodding in the background. I like that, for some reason...

And speaking of the deposition



... OK, Josh pinning that little shit Claypool to the wall... hm (*fans self*) ...


and I have to say - pinata-busting Sam is pretty hot! (And you know I don't have lustful thoughts about Sam!)

And the Josh and Donna moment of the episode - at the beginning, when Josh is served with the subpoena.



She automatically turns round so that he can rest the paper on her back to sign it! He doesn't say anything, or use a signal... - she just does it. And then they just carry on with their conversation about golf as if nothing had interrupted them.



So we're left with at 2 week ceasefire in Kashmir...


MARBURY
Do you mean do I think we can stop a war in the next two weeks?

BARTLET
Yes.

MARBURY
Yes.

BARTLET
Good.

MARBURY
But --

Bartlet turns to him expectantly. Marbury takes a cigarette from his pocket.

MARBURY [cont.]
-- I shall require a light.

Marbury catches the lighter Bartlet has tossed him, smiles, and lights his cigarette.

Love the ending - typical British understatement!

Sadly, I have no more ironing to do at the moment, so I'll have to find another excuse for breakng out the DVDs. Although, by the start of IED hubby was watching, too and we'd have gotten through the next episode if it hadn't been so late, so maybe it won't take too much arm twisting to watch more later! And I have let him watch all the football without complaint! *g*