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Zoey Bartlet's abduction: an external criminal/political seizure that forces the White House into a rescue-and-attribution struggle (investigation, forensics, ransom demands, and calibrated military posturing).
Zoey Bartlet's abduction: an external criminal/political seizure that forces the White House into a rescue-and-attribution struggle (investigation, forensics, ransom demands, and calibrated military posturing).
2 events in this arc
Events in This Arc
S4E23 · Twenty-Five
Zoey Taken — Panic, Procedure, and a Personal Breach
On the Potomac at night Agent Wes shifts the scene from confusion to crisis: barking orders for Harbor Patrol and forensics, he delivers the gut-punch — Zoey has been taken …
S4E23 · Twenty-Five
Ransom Fax — Zoey Held; Bartlet Orders the 5th Fleet
A quick, brutal escalation: forensic results confirm Zoey was drugged with GHB, turning a disappearance into a deliberate abduction. Leo hands Bartlet a faxed Polaroid and a translated ransom that …