潘多拉的果实～科学犯罪搜查档案～第二季

　　莉迪亚(Lisa Kudrow 饰)和保罗(Ray Romano 饰)决定告别空荡荡的家，开始新的生活。他们把自己20世纪20年代西班牙风格的别墅挂牌出售了，这座美丽的别墅位于洛杉矶最令人向往的街区之一，一场房地产狂潮也由此展开。多个家庭竞相购买他们认为的梦幻之家，坚信这座房子能够解决他们各自截然不同的问题。莉迪亚和保罗则深知，有时你的梦想之家可能会变成一场真正的噩梦。在保罗和莉迪亚竭力掩盖他们久居的这所房子里潜藏的黑暗和危险秘密的过程中，他们逐渐意识到，逃离过去的唯一办法就是勇敢面对它。

　　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.