I do love The West Wing series not because of its plot and quotes but because of show’s relevance with real life. The West Wing is kinda series which always tried to set an example for the citizens and it also guides us how and by whom the country should be run. Two episodes (special episodes) were aired by the series and both are really special as initially, these episodes were not planned but they achieve a good ranking. When I finished watching ‘Isaac and Ishmael’, I really felt that series is awesome and I had never watched such kind of series. The episode was aired to pay tribute to the victims of September 11 terrorist attacks.
In this episode, the White House is locked as an employee is suspected of being a terrorist. John Spencer and his team, is settled down to investigate the case. On the very same day, a group of high school Poli Sci overachievers is visiting the White House The scenes when the group lectures on what are terrorists and why they hate America were a little bit painful. Martin Sheen, I think this character is mature and principled. Well, on this episode it was good to see White House staffers such as President and First Lady participating in discussion which was held to find out the reasons behind terrorism.

Some issues such as fear, race and vengeance were very well tackled by the episode. The most notable moral issue of this episode is an analogy written on the board by Josh: “Islamic extremism is to Islam as KKK is to Christianity”. Some special picks from special episode for you guys-

Toby: Bad people can’t be recognized on sight. There’s no point in trying.

A student: What do you call a society that has to just live every day with the idea that the pizza place you are eating in could just blow up without any warning?
Sam: Israel.

Bartlet: We don’t need martyrs right now. We need heroes. A hero would die for his country but he’d much rather live for it… It was good meeting you all.
Well, it was a special episode, out of West Wing continuity and is available to download now.