The West Wing (TV Series)

Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail (2001)

Rob Lowe: Sam Seaborn

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• Sam Seaborn : Secret Memorandum on the US negotiating stance at Yalta.

  Donna Moss : Please stop walking

  Sam Seaborn : Good 'cause Stalin needed an advantage, and we wanted a fair fight.

  Donna Moss : Sam, nothing good comes from telling her

  Sam Seaborn : The truth isn't good?

  Donna Moss : Not right now, no. The grandfather is not going to live another 3 months, let it go till then.

  Sam Seaborn : I'm not her fairy godmother, she asked me to look into this.

  Donna Moss : I'm saying you wait 3 months until...

  Sam Seaborn : Hey!

  Donna Moss : You're in a bad...

  Sam Seaborn : Donna!

  Donna Moss : Listen to me! Your in a bad place right now. And you shouldn't make this decision. If you don't tell her tonight, you can tell her tomorrow. If you tell her tonight, that's it.

  Sam Seaborn : Donna.

  Donna Moss : It was people pushing paper around 50 years ago. Why does it matter?

  Sam Seaborn : It was high treason, and it mattered a great deal! This country is an idea, and one that's lit the world for two centuries and treason against that idea is not just a crime against the living! This ground holds the graves of people who died for it, who gave what Lincoln called the last full measure of devotion, of fidelity.

  Sam Seaborn : You understand that last full measure devotion to, treason against them is.

  Donna Moss : Sam...

  Sam Seaborn : There was translator in the Hungarian Trade mission named Shabademschki, she was murdered in 1952. She was about to reveal the name of a soviet agent called Blackwater.