北京地铁

　　上水村村主任钱大宝去参加县里“致富红旗村”的评比，以一票之差落后于下水村，而没有当选。在庆祝会上，钱大宝和下水村村主任郑老狠酒后打赌，一年之内产值超过下水村，郑老狠输了就来上水村给钱大宝拎包，钱大宝输了，就把女儿钱多多许给郑家当儿媳妇。两人当众画押。
　　钱大宝深深陷入如何超过下水村的计划里，满一花非常支持钱大宝致富的想法，但是把村里能致富的产业都想到了，加一起产值也到不了一千万，这让钱大宝深深地陷在苦恼中。这时他接到正在省里某大学进修旅游管理的女儿钱多多的电话。钱多多告诉钱大宝，她争来了一个投资项目，把村外的花岛建成省级旅游景观，这样可以推动村里的观光农业上一个新台阶，这使钱大宝喜出望外。与此同时，有人向钱大宝举报钱二宝在偷偷往外运花岛上的石头，钱大宝料定石头可能是一个致富的机会，便去城中建材城里打听，果然，建筑市场的发达带动了建材产业的兴起，石材成了旺销的产品，而上水村花岛上的石头正是当下市场上最为抢手的石材原料。
　　钱大宝看到了致富的新希望，但这个致富的新希望却与女儿争来的花岛工程严重对立着。这让钱大宝很犹豫。但已经致富在前的下水村，通过团购轿车来上水村显摆和两个村举办的农民运动会上的夸富行为，深深刺激了钱大宝。这让钱大宝不惜牺牲女儿钱多多争来的投资项目，决心开发花岛石材，用两千万产值战胜下水村。虽然这个决定遭到了满一花和钱多多的反对，但却得到全村人的支持，这让钱大宝对战胜下水村的郑老狠信心百倍。
　　钱二宝自从污染环境的厂子被关了之后，一直在为自己咸鱼翻身寻找机会，石材这个项目让他看了一线生机。当他发现钱大宝的眼睛也盯在了石材上面之后，知道自己想要得到这个项目困难很大，便利用钱多多的花岛工程抵制钱大宝开发，同时又暗中寻找合伙人，悄悄运作开采石材的计划。钱多多和钱大宝在花岛是建设还是开采上，形成激烈的矛盾。上水村风声水起，动荡不安。但村民都站在了钱大宝一面，钱多多的花岛工程被迫下马了。乡企局为了能把花岛的专项投资留下，让钱多多再找一个自然风光好的山进行旅游项目的改造，钱多多此时却想着辞去工作去南方发展。钱大宝舍不得女儿走，便硬拉着女儿去看自然风光好于花岛的杏岭。没想到的是，杏岭已经被开发光了，只剩一个石头垃子。
　　杏岭下的村庄因为杏岭的消失而人去村空，学校关闭。这个现实让钱大宝目瞪口呆。他一下醒悟过来，如果上水村开发花岛就是第二个杏岭。钱大宝退却了，但同时也非常为难，因为村民们已经在他的煽动下对花岛的开采跃跃欲试了。钱大宝想一走了之，满一花和钱多多却希望钱大宝顶住压力，为了上水村的子孙后代，保住花岛。钱大宝把自己不开发花岛的想法公布之后，遭到全村人的反对，村主任因此停职。钱大宝发誓自己就是一个普通村民也要把花岛留下来。
　　钱二宝怕钱多多的花岛工程再恢复起来，伙同不法商人苏东升要炸花岛，钱大宝和钱多多满一花一起登上花岛阻止。在正与邪的较量中，钱多多被蛇咬伤，在生命垂危中她依然誓死保卫花岛的勇气教育了上水村的广大村民。在大家的努力下，花岛保住了。钱二宝愧悔自己再一次把路走偏，想轻生，被钱大宝用亲情化解。上水村人为了环境不惜放弃到手的钱财，这个行为感动了下水村的郑老狠，他登门向钱大宝表示认输，因为钱大宝没有开发花岛，保住了一处美丽的自然风光，这不光让上水村免于一场环境危机的侵害，同时也保住了下水村不被恶劣的环境污染。上水村在清水蓝天下，走向了共同致富的路。钱大宝和满一花终于结婚了，钱多多也在工作中收获了爱情……

　　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.

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