Plot
C.J. realizes that she barely has any time left in office and decides to try and solve the (real world) crisis in Darfur, Sudan, along with the (fictional) crisis between Russia and China over Kazakhstan. C.J.'s plan involves having Germany and France propose a UN Security Council resolution on Sudan while offering China (Sudan's supporter on the UNSC) economic and military incentives to not veto the measure. A visit from an impassioned human rights activist about the genocide in Darfur horrifies C.J. and later leads to the President's approval of the plan. Kate Harper notes optimistically near the episode's end that the Chinese UN delegation passed on an immediate veto of the Sudan resolution and debate on it continues.
Adding more to her stress level, the President's son-in-law, Doug Westin, is rumored to be having an affair with his kids' nanny. C.J. is angry at Doug for embarrassing Elizabeth but also doesn't want the President to make a scheduled campaign trip for Doug's Congressional bid if it's true. Danny Concannon makes his first appearance (outside of the season opener flash forward) since the fifth season to go on a date with C.J., and later confirms for her that Doug did have the affair. C.J. orders Doug to cancel the President's campaign trip, which he does. She weighs whether or not she'll tell Elizabeth but finds out that Elizabeth knows the truth but is keeping it private. Elizabeth asks C.J. to change the cancellation, but C.J. says she can't do it.
In a final management headache for her busy day, C.J. faces a party conflict when Josh and Matt Santos want to announce that a huge scientific project is being moved from Kentucky to Texas. This is a problem because it could ruin the re-election bid of an elderly Democratic Senator from Kentucky, even though Josh describes him as a "pious old pork hog who votes like a schizophrenic". She brokers a deal where the project deal will be announced in tandem with Santos and the President campaigning for the Senator.
During her date with Danny, where he says they should take a leap of faith together, C.J.'s beeper goes off with an emergency warning. She gets to the White House and is met by Kate Harper, but it's not about the Sudan resolution; there's a nuclear power plant in California that may be facing a meltdown.
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