恋恋江湖

　　Season 3: 2001–2002
　　Cast: Rob Lowe, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford and Martin Sheen
　　The third season, which covers the administration's third and fourth years in office, starts off with Bartlet announcing his intention to run for reelection and is heavily devoted to the upcoming presidential election. Other prominent plotlines include Congressional investigations into whether Bartlet committed electoral fraud by concealing his MS, a death threat against C.J. and the ensuing relationship she develops with a Secret Service agent assigned to her, the Qumari defense minister Abdul Shareef plotting terrorist attacks against the US, and a troubling meeting between Toby and the President that leaves Bartlet with a bout of insomnia in "Night Five." The season finale, "Posse Comitatus" closes several of these storylines as Bartlet meets his opponent in the elections and reaffirms his commitment to beat him. The episode ends with the president finally deciding to order Shareef's assassination (a legally questionable act) and C.J.'s agent's murder, just after the man threatening C.J. was caught.
　　From a critical perspective, series creator Aaron Sorkin acknowledged in October 2002 that the terrorism-related plots designed to keep the series relevant after the real-life 9/11 attacks were awkward at times, saying "from week to week, you felt like you were writing the show handcuffed, a little bit. I didn't know how to write it anymore. It was a constant search for what I wasn't doing that used to make the show work. [...] Maybe there was a way to make it work; there probably was. I wasn't able to find it in twenty-two episodes." [1] Nonetheless, the show went on to win its third "Outstanding Drama" Emmy in a row.

　　在第15季，结束了警察学校研修的冠城亘（反町隆史饰）将正式回归警视厅。在大家都觉得他会重新回到特命科，与杉下右京（水谷丰饰）重新搭档时，没想到他却被分派到了总务部宣传科？！因为警视厅本就讨厌精英官僚出身的警官，所以故意不把冠城派到他想去的部门。另外，仲间由纪惠将出演总务部宣传课的课长，也是冠城的直属上司社美弥子。

　　女记者欧阳兰和未婚夫坂野正南结婚在即，突然接到任务，帮助归国华侨寻找六十年前在太行山参加八路的女战士思源。当年在太行山参加过战争的随军老记者穆易告诉欧阳兰，思源很像当年在太行山做随军记者时见过的一个叫培蕊的女兵。于是，一段围绕着培蕊和跟她有关的故事在欧阳兰的追踪下，一点点清晰起来：培蕊和李营长之间的爱情、铜家峡惨案、花儿、黑妹子……无数个感人至深的故事让欧阳兰的内心不断翻腾。然而，一只“绣袜”却让欧阳兰震惊的发现，坂野正男的父亲正是当年制造铜家峡惨案的“杀人挺进队”的成员。正当欧阳兰陷入痛苦的矛盾中时，坂野正男却带着父亲的嘱托来到太行山，以实际行动表达了他们对当年的愧疚和对中国的友谊。

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