Life on Mars

"Life On Mars" is episode 86 of The West Wing. The episode begins and ends with the resignation of John Hoynes. A grim-faced president receives the news in the opening scene: the rest of the episode relates how this happened. C.J. Cregg is faced with a couple of press leaks that on the surface look relatively innocuous, one of them involving the alleged discovery of "fossilized water molecules in a meteorite from Mars." But Associate White House Counsel Joe Quincy (Matthew Perry), on his first day at work, draws a connection that will have critical implications for the administration. Recorded phone calls from the White House finally reveal that Hoynes has conducted a very indiscreet affair with an author who is now poised to publish...