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The Great West Wing Rewatch: 3.18 "Enemies Foreign and Domestic"

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Joel:  I love that Charlie has something to do in this episode. Not that I think Charlie sits around and does nothing all day. Clearly, Charlie is one of the busiest people in the White House, frequently having to be prepared for anything at a moment’s notice. We see Charlie busy all the time, delivering messages, finding information for the President, or any number of additional things. What I love about this episode, is that Charlie gets to make something right. We get a lot of these little mysteries, a woman crying at a painting on a White House tour, or a dead person found wearing Toby’s coat. We get one main character having to track down the information and solve the mystery, usually ending with a wrong being set right, or as right as the circumstances allow. This time the mystery comes in the form of a letter addressed to the President that should have been theoretically impossible. But Charlie, throughout the episode, tracks down the answer to his mystery and finally...