购物王路易

　　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.

　　故事发生在美国独立战争期间，波达克（艾丹·特纳 Aidan Turner 饰）在前线奋勇杀敌，并且最终幸运的成为了战争中的幸存者返回故里，去见朝思暮想的未婚妻伊莉莎白（Heida Reed 饰），然而，早在此前，伊莉莎白误会波达克已经战死沙场，悲伤的她随后嫁给了波达克的堂兄弗朗西斯（Kyle Soller 饰）。
　　情感上的变故让波达克深受打击，心灰意冷的他转而投向投身于事业之中，潜心开发家族产业。一晃眼数年过去，伊莉莎白的身影渐渐在波达克的脑海中模糊，一位名为德米尔扎（埃莉诺·汤姆林森 Eleanor Tomlinson 饰）的美丽女子成为了他的妻子。然而，就在生活趋于平静之时，已经成为寡妇的伊莉莎白选择改嫁，而她的新一任丈夫乔治（杰克·法辛 Jack Farthing 饰）恰恰就是波达克在生意场中的劲敌。

当人类龙卷风和美食评论家丽芙被诊断出患有“灾难性健康”时——她被困在澳大利亚，危及她在纽约的梦想工作——她把自己的身体放在了一个激进的健康之旅中，拼命地康复回家。