Commencement

"Commencement" is episode 87 of The West Wing. Danny Concannon has finally pieced together the puzzle about the killing of Abdul ibn Shareef after learning his pilot was a U.S. operative working under an alias, but C.J. and Leo persuade him to hold off on the story for three days, because five Qumari nationals who were under FBI surveillance in upstate New York have gone missing. The trail of a potential terrorist threat involves cryptic language about "torrential rains in the Pacific Northwest" and a missing crate on a Syrian-flagged ship that leads to a shutdown at the Port of Portland, OR. The President also officially tells his senior staff that the U.S. did in fact assassinate Shareef the previous year. In parallel storylines, Toby...