またどこかで会おう。え？終わり？

MALLORY

Hey, Dad.

LEO

Yeah. [into phone] Hold on, please.

MALLORY

[barrels on anyway] Dad, I'm sorry, but Sam's asked me to have lunch with him and I need your permission.

Leo tells his call to hang on and puts the phone down.

LEO

What do you need my permission to have lunch for?

MALLORY

Sam?

SAM

She says she always asks her father's permission before she has lunch with fascists.

LEO

Oh. Yeah, okay.

MALLORY

He's in favor of school vouchers, Dad.

LEO

No, Mallory. He's really not.

MALLORY

Yes, he is.

LEO

No, he's not.

MALLORY

I read the position paper.

LEO

It's opposition prep.

MALLORY

Opposition prep?

LEO

When we're gearing up for a debate, we have the smart guys take the other side.

MALLORY

[to Sam] You stood there and argued with me.

SAM

Yes.

MALLORY

Why?

SAM

You made an appointment.

MALLORY

Sam...

LEO

Would the two of you take it outside?

SAM

I thought you were trying to drive a wedge between us.

LEO

Yeah, but now you're just boring the crap out of me.

MALLORY

Hey...

SAM

Mallory, education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. School should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.

MALLORY

[softened] You stood there and argued with me.

SAM

And we can continue the argument. But it's lunchtime now. We're going to have lunch.

MALLORY

You're taking over?

SAM

I'm taking over.

MALLORY

Dad?

LEO

Yes, you may go have lunch with the fascist.

MALLORY

Come along, Sam.

LEO

You're doing fine.

SAM

Okay. [leaves]

aim1221

When Sam left, the show lost alot of its humor and wit. Rob Lowe should have stayed. Leaving the show was a mistake on his part and on Warner Bros.

meaganlskoritfw

THE WEST WING
"SIX MEETINGS BEFORE LUNCH"
WRITTEN BY: AARON SORKIN
DIRECTED BY: CLARK JOHNSON

SAM

You wanted to see me. And I think I know what it's about.

C.J.

Really? You sussed it out, huh? [Sam closes the door.] Let me tell you something Sam, you're a smart guy. But if you can figure it out, and I can figure it out, what makes you think that no one in my Press Room can figure it out?

SAM

There's nothing to figure out.

C.J.

You can't spend time with a call girl, you're gonna get caught.

SAM

Caught doing what?

C.J.

Don't get cute with me.

SAM

You are aware that I didn't know she was a call girl when I went home with her, right?

C.J.

But you called her again and went back to see her.

SAM

I went back to see her, I didn't go back to solicit her.

C.J.

It doesn't make a difference.

SAM

It does make a difference.

C.J.

You work in the White House, you work fifty feet from the Oval Office. And you're consorting with a...

SAM

Consorting? I'm friendly with a woman, I like this woman. This woman poses no threat to the President. And it's very likely that owing to my friendship, this woman may start living her life in bound, insuring for herself a greater future and isn't that exactly what we're supposed to be doing here?

C.J.

Oh.

SAM

C.J.

C.J.

You're there to make her see the error of her ways.

SAM

This is ridiculous. I'm there because I like her. I'm there because it's there that I'd be if this were alcohol or drugs. I'm not sleeping with her, this isn't tawdry.

C.J.

I don't care what it is, I care what it looks like.

SAM

And I care what it is! And I think it's high time we all spend a little less time looking good, and a little more time...

C.J.

Being good?

SAM

Yes.

C.J.

Yeah, I've heard that one before. And one other thing.

SAM

Are we done?

C.J.

No, Sam, when I say there's "one other thing" that means we're not done, that there's one other thing.

SAM

I'm resenting the hell out of this conversation.

C.J.

It was tough to tell from your tone of voice.

SAM

What do you want?

C.J.

I beg your pardon?

SAM

What's the one other thing?

C.J.

I'm your first phone call.

SAM

When?

C.J.

Before, now, in the future, anytime you're into something and you don't know what. And you can't tell me that you thought there was nothing to it, because you sat down with Josh and you sat down with Toby. Anytime you're into something and you don't know what, you don't keep it from me. I'm your first phone call. I'm your first line of defense. You have to let me protect you and you have to let me protect the President.

SAM

Is that what this is about?

C.J.

[stands] What this is about Sam is you're a high profile, very visible, much noticed member...

SAM

You just said three things that all mean the same thing.

C.J.

You're not going to let this out of your teeth.

SAM

Can I go now C.J.? Because what I think this is about is you. Once again letting the character cops win in a forfeit because you don't have the guts or the strength or the courage to say "we know what's right from wrong and this none of your damn business!"

C.J.

[taken aback] Really?

SAM

Yes!

C.J.

Strength, guts or courage?

SAM

Yes.

C.J.

You just said three things that all mean the same thing. [sits]

SAM

C.J.

C.J.

We're done talking now. You can go. [beat]

SAM

[opens the door and starts to leave. C.J. starts typing on her laptop] About the retaliatory strike, do you think we're going to target--?

C.J.

I really don't know what we're going to target Sam. The commandant of the 2nd division doesn't tend to include me in his thinking.

SAM

I'll see you later.

C.J.

Count on it.