The Long Goodbye (The West Wing)

"The Long Goodbye"
The West Wing episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 78
Directed by	Alex Graves
Written by	Jon Robin Baitz
Production code	175313
Original air date	January 15, 2003
Guest actors
Donald Moffat Matthew Modine Verna Bloom
Season 4 episodes
September 25, 2002 – May 14, 2003 20 Hours in America, Part I 20 Hours in America, Part II College Kids The Red Mass Debate Camp Game On Election Night Process Stories Swiss Diplomacy Arctic Radar Holy Night Guns Not Butter The Long Goodbye Inauguration, Part I Inauguration Over There The California 47th Red Haven's on Fire Privateers Angel Maintenance Evidence of Things Not Seen Life on Mars Commencement Twenty Five
List of The West Wing episodes

"The Long Goodbye" is episode 78 of The West Wing. Due to its unconventional story located mostly outside of the White House, it is the first episode of the entire series not to feature Martin Sheen as President Josiah Bartlet or Janel Moloney as Donna Moss. John Spencer appears in the background of one scene in the role of Leo McGarry, but he does not talk.

Plot

C. J. Cregg goes home to Dayton—and finds herself in the middle of an achingly sad family crisis—in this poignant change-of-pace episode. She's making the trip to speak at her 20th high-school reunion, but when she arrives at her father's house, she discovers that his new wife (her old English teacher) has left him. That is troublesome enough, but the fact that her father has Alzheimer's makes it almost unbearably heartbreaking. C.J. does find a soulmate at Dayton's airport, though, a classmate named Marco, who was a punk rocker in high school and now repairs watches.

External links

• "The Long Goodbye" at the Internet Movie Database
• The West Wing Episode Guide