Written by Aaron Sorkin
Directed by Christopher Misiano

Starring

Rob Lowe
Stockard Channing
Dulé Hill
Allison Janney
Janel Moloney
Richard Schiff
John Spencer
Bradley Whitford
Martin Sheen

Special guest stars

Ron Silver as Bruno Gianelli
John Amos as Admiral Percy Fitzwallace
Lily Tomlin as Deborah Fiderer

Guest starring

Anna Deavere Smith as Nat'l Security Advisor Nancy McNally
Allison Smith as Mallory O'Brien
Amy Adams as Cathy
NiCole Robinson as Margaret
Renée Estevez as Nancy
Joan MacIntosh as Meredith Walker
Valorie Armstrong as Mrs. Harrison
Art Chudabala as Congressman Peter Lien
Alan Dale as Mitch Bryce
Victor McCay as Peter
Danielle Harris as Kiki
John Gallagher, Jr. as Tyler
Ernestine Jackson as Fiona, diner owner
Joel Marsh Garland as Cap
John P. Connolly as Matt Kelley
Don Perry as Muriel Keith
Allan Wasserman as Donald McKittridge
Andrew McFarlane as Anthony Marcus

Co-starring

Marina Gonzalez Palmier as civilian
Dan Gerrity as civilian
Jack Tate as civilian
Kim Webster as Ginger
Peter James Smith as Ed
William Duffy as Larry
Kris Murphy as Katie
Timothy Davis-Reed as Mark
Tori Reid as aide
S.E. Perry as officer
Larry Cox as staffer
Melissa Fitzgerald as Carol
Constance Pfeiffer as elderly woman
Ron Newell as store manager
Rohn Thomas as Sy
Tommy Lafitte as Earl
Danielle Jones as friend
Jennifer Armour as friend
Amy Harmon as volunteer
Harry O'Toole as man at counter
David Early as bartender
Aaron Marcus as deskman
Jeff Gage as train conductor
Susan Allenbach as driver
Robert Noble as butler

Featured music

"I Don't Like Mondays" by Tori Amos

Kenneth Hardy, Production Designer, and Ellen Totleben, Set Decorator, were nominated for an Emmy for this episode for Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series.