"The West Wing" The Birnam Wood (2004)

Director:

Alex Graves

Writers:

Aaron Sorkin (creator) and
Lauren Schmidt (staff writer)

TV Series:

"The West Wing" (1999)

Original Air Date:

27 October 2004 (Season 6, Episode 2)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Josh returns from Germany in time to voice concerns about Leo; the Israelis and Palenstinians meet at Camp David with little chance of an agreement; the President and Leo's differences over the Middle East crisis reach a breaking point.

Plot Keywords:

President | Political | Secretary | White House | First Lady

Cast

Stockard Channing	...	Abbey Bartlet
Dulé Hill	...	Charlie Young
Allison Janney	...	Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg
Joshua Malina	...	Will Bailey
Mary McCormack	...	Kate Harper
Janel Moloney	...	Donna Moss
Richard Schiff	...	Toby Ziegler
John Spencer	...	Leo McGarry
Bradley Whitford	...	Josh Lyman
Martin Sheen	...	President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Steven Culp	...	Speaker of the House Jeff Haffley
Eli Danker	...	Israeli Defense Minister Doran Mazar
Kahil Dotay	...	Palistinian Prayer #2
Ann Ducati	...	Maya Zahavy
Melissa Fitzgerald	...	Carol Fitzpatrick
Nanci Hernandez-Hall	...	White House Aide
Michael Wingate Jones	...	Navy Steward
Makram Khoury	...	Palestinian Chairman Nizar Farad
Armin Mueller-Stahl	...	Israeli Prime Minister Efraim 'Eli' Zahavy
Kris Murphy	...	Katie Witt
Natalia Nogulich	...	Israeli Ambassador Shira Galit
Terry O'Quinn	...	General Nicholas Alexander
NiCole Robinson	...	Margaret Hooper
Wadi Sadellah	...	Prayer Leader
Lawrence Cameron Steele	...	Garner
Lily Tomlin	...	Deborah Fiderer
Marcelo Tubert	...	Palestinian Prime Minister Saeb Mukarat

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): General Alexander says that the U.S. has bombed a terrorist training camp "in the Kingdom of Syria". Syria is not a kingdom; it is a republic (nominally a democratic one).

Movie Connections:

References "Crossfire" (1982)