SCENE 1

(JOSH, SAM, and TOBY are wearing tuxedos)

Sam: You're about to get a call.

Josh: Yeah.

Sam: Big call.

Josh: Yeah.

Sam: Powerful guy.

Josh: Yeah.

Sam: I'm just saying you're probably rocked back from your meeting last week.

Josh: A little.

Sam: They threatened you with a legislative agenda.

Josh: Yeah.

Sam: They made you feel powerless and you're a little off your game.

Josh: Yeah.

Sam: A little gun shy.

Toby: Leave him alone.

(In the background, a phone rings)

Sam: I'm bucking him up.

Toby: Leave him alone.

Sam: You asked me to buck him up.

Toby: Now, I'm telling you to leave him alone.

Josh: Guys, I'm trying to watch this speech.

Donna: Josh.

Josh: The call?

Donna: On the cell.

(She hands him the cell phone, and JOSH turns away to answer it)

Toby: Josh, you need us, we're standing right here.

Josh: Hi, Senator. Why don't you take your legislative agenda and shove it up your ass. (He closes the phone and tosses it to Donna) Turns out I was fine.

SCENE 2

(DONNA enters JOSH'S office)

Donna: Toby wants you.

Josh: On the phone?

(They leave the office together)

Donna: In his office.

Josh: Do you know why?

Donna: Polling.

Josh: He's bringing in Al Kiefer?

Donna: Let him tell you.

Josh: Why can't you tell me?

Donna: 'Cause you're going to his office right now. And I've got 37 different things....

Josh, huffy: Fine.

Donna: Josh.

Josh: Yeah.

Donna: Yes, he's bringing in Al Keifer.

Josh: It's a big polling week, Donna. I figured he was bringing in Kiefer.

Donna: Okay.

Josh: That's what you were afraid to tell me?

Donna: I wasn't afraid.

Josh: Okay.

Donna: The thing is, and it's going to be interesting to see how you react to this, but, Kiefer wants to bring in a California expert.

Josh: That's a good idea, cause.....wait..... (he pauses to look at Donna in realization)

Donna: Yeah.

Josh: Joey Lucas.

Donna: She's coming out with Kiefer, tomorrow.

Josh: Okay.....okay....

Donna: By the way, that's what I was afraid to tell you.

Josh: You...you shouldn't have been. You know why?

Donna: It's no big deal.

Josh: It's no big deal. And I'll tell you what else.

Donna: You're a pro.

Josh: I....I am a pro. But that's not what I was going to say.

Donna: What were you going to say?

Josh: That's what I was going to say.

Donna: Yeah.

Josh: But, both those things are true. I'm a pro and what was the other one?

Donna: It's no big deal.

Josh: That's right.

(They enter into Toby and Sam's bullpen)

Bonnie: Rambo!

(The crowd applause)

Josh: You talking to me?

Bonnie: Nice phone call.

Josh: That's how we do things in New England, my friends.

(He raises his arms in victory)

Bonnie: In Indiana, we're not allowed to talk like that.

Ginger: In New Jersey, we encourage it.

Josh: Where's Toby?

Bonnie: They're in Sam's office.

(JOSH enters SAM'S office)

SCENE 2

(Morning time, JOSH and DONNA enter the patio restaurant where LEO and MARGARET are already sitting)

Josh: Leo, we couldn't meet closer to the office?

Leo: I don't want people coming by the table.

Josh: We couldn't meet in the office.

Leo: I was hungry.

Josh: We couldn't have food ordered?

Leo: Oh, sit down, would ya?

Donna: You should notice that Josh has on a nice suit.

Margaret: That is a nice suit.

Josh: Donna.

Donna: We'll call it his Joey Lucas suit....

Josh: Donna.

Donna: ...you know from now on.

Margaret: Joey Lucas is coming?

Josh: We need a California expert and this is my regular Tuesday suit.

Margaret: You assign your clothes days of the week?

Josh: I'm saying there's no particular MO behind.....

(TOBY and SAM arrive)

Sam: Found it.

Leo: 'Bout time. Sit down.

Sam: Ah, Leo....

Leo: Hang on. (turns to TOBY) Talk to me about drugs.

Toby: We can make a case for treatment vs. enforcement and we're ready to go to the President.

(A cell phone rings.)

Sam: We're also ready to go to the President with Mandatory Minimums on crack vs. powder cocaine.

Leo: One step at a time.

Sam: It's what Toby just said.

Leo: Toby's right.

Sam: Yes, but does anyone remember that I was put in charge.

Leo: It was an honorary kind of thing, Sam.

Margaret: Leo.

(She hands LEO the cellphone)

Leo: Yeah.

Waitress : Are you ready to order?

Toby: What was that?

Leo: You know what that was.

Margaret: Leo, what do you want me to do with this thing?

Leo: Hold on to 'em until I say so.

Toby: It's exactly the right thing to do.

Leo: From anybody but me.

Josh: I'd like to clear up that I...I don't have suits for the days of the week. This is just a regular suit.

Sam: It's a nice suit.

Donna: Sure, it's a nice suit. It's his Joey Lucas....

Josh: Donna!

Donna: I'm beginning to regret not getting the waffles.

Leo: I'm beginning to regret having hired any of you! We have a 42% job approval and you're talking about waffles and....something with Josh, I don't understand.

Donna: He's wearing a special suit for Joey Lucas.

Leo: You got dressed up for a guy named, Joey?

Josh: Joey....Joey Lucas is a woman...and I'm not getting dressed up for her.

Donna: It's his regular Tuesday suit.

Leo: My point is...we have to make it through the week without making any mistakes.

Josh: We will.

Leo: I'm saying that this is....

Josh: I'm saying calm down.

Leo: I'm perfectly calm

Sam: You're not calm, Leo. You're acting like a nervous hoolelia.

Toby: A what?

Sam: May not be a word. May just be something my mother used to say.

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