塔山阻击战

　　该剧分为《九阴真经》《东邪西毒》《南帝北丐》《五绝争锋》四个单元。《九阴真经》单元讲述了海商之女梅若华，少时遭奸人灭门，自此背负血海深仇。她因缘际会拜师桃花岛，从此改名梅超风，并与师兄陈玄风暗生情愫。梅超风一心想修习绝世武功复仇，误以为黄药师私藏《九阴真经》不愿传授，梅陈二人情根深种，定情盟誓，决定携手盗取经书，叛逃出岛。二人练成九阴白骨爪，黑风双煞，一战成名，却注定无法长相厮守。《东邪西毒》单元讲述了黄药师、欧阳锋，两个初涉江湖之怪人，一个逍遥近似仙，一个天真如孩童，亦敌亦友，亦正亦邪，他们用自己的规则打破江湖秩序，掀起一场云谲波诡的乱世纷争。《南帝北丐》单元讲述了逃婚出宫的大理世子段智兴与丐帮弟子洪七一见如故，乌蛮女子依火误将洪七当作和亲对象，一场乌龙成就命定缘分。洪七因缘际会习得神功，成为丐帮帮主，昔日父辈深仇却引兄弟反目，“一阳指”对上“降龙十八掌”，石破天惊 ！《五绝争锋》单元讲述了绝世武功秘籍《九阴真经》重现，引江湖厮杀，少女葭兰意外成为寻经“活地图”，遭各路人马穷追不舍，更结识黄药师、欧阳锋、段智兴与洪七等当世高手。众人约定华山论剑，天下第一者得《九阴真经》，最终全真教王重阳力压群雄。此时幕后黑手现身，一场捍卫武林正义的决战就此引发。

　　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.