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　　1898年，晚清中国，戊戌变法失败“六君子”被捕。霍元甲得到消息后如晴天霹雳。深受“六君子”爱国热忱感染的霍元甲，欲拼尽全力和江湖传奇“大刀王五”一起营救谭嗣同，却不想遭到谭嗣同拒绝。与谭嗣同在狱中的最后一别，让霍元甲深受谭嗣同大同思想的影响，开始萌生家国情怀，想要投身到历史洪流之中。
　　理解了谭嗣同欲以鲜血警醒世人的凛然，霍元甲虽心痛不已，却也只能眼睁睁看着英雄殉国，并因谭嗣同之死而被义兄大刀王五误会，遭遇割袍断义。
　　随后不久，大刀王五被奸人所害身首异处。霍元甲得知消息连夜去为义兄收尸，虽然让王五留存全尸，却给霍家引来大祸，致使霍氏男丁尽死。一年后，隐居沧州的霍元甲出山走镖，却不想又陷入仇家圈套之中，费尽千辛万苦，虽然洗脱干系，却让他心灰意冷，他由此决定南下上海。霍元甲的精武门很快就在上海立住了脚跟，霍元甲的名气也越来越大。这让已经将侵华列为国策的日本人十分不满，面对日本人的挑衅，霍元甲带病上阵，在与日本人的最后较量中斗智斗勇，最终凭借过人的胆识挫败了日本人的阴谋。

　　一切都由一本科幻小说引起。小说家杨匡（刘兆铭 饰）的科幻小说里描述了一种改造新人类的方法，那就是抽取人类的脑细胞，加以改造，以此甚至能控制被改造者的思想。这一切看似荒诞的想法，竟被一个阴谋控制全世界的富商看中。他出资建立了实验室，招募了一批手下，将杨匡捉了去做实验。后来，杨匡逃了出来，被人送到医院。医生原振侠（黎明 饰）武功高强，为人正义，他发现杨匡十分沉默寡言，目光呆滞，经常用水清洗双手。杨匡的反常的表现引起了原振侠的注意，他和护士彩云（朱茵 饰）决心找出杨匡背后隐藏的秘密。

　　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.