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The shop owner should have told him there were two robbers.

Such fine details: we like him even more when he starts, with a smile, "if i dont get a Milky Way bar soon..." and moments later there's the heartbreaking close-up of his shiny shoes, and then the flower petals scattered on the floor, as if the flowers themselves knew they needed to make tribute.

I haven't watched this scene since it originally aired, until this evening, and it's as devastating now as it was the first time I watched it.

I love that song

One of the most soul touching moments in TV history.

I didn't realize this song was also a requiem to the singer, Jeff Buckley, who had died a few years earlier from a freak drowning accident at age 30.

Silly question but didn’t the shopkeeper know there were two robbers & try to warn him.

So why does a Secret Service agent not have a bulletproof vest on?

British tv shows should at least have the courtesy to translate into english .

Their eloquence and mastery of the English language is something to behold.

To try to add some levity to the comments section, during an episode of The West Wing Weekly Aaron Sorkin mentioned that the two ballistics experts on set during Simon Donovan's shooting made it a point to tell him that they had consulted with a doctor and had put the bullet wounds in places where Mark Harmon could survive the shooting.

I'm watching from Season 1 right now. How I wish the White House was like this. West Wing the Best TV series ever!!

Crime, boy, I don't know...

I'm sure this has been brought up before but this has always bothered me. I'm willing to suspend disbelief and imagine that this is a world where the deputy Chief of Staff would be notified when a random Secret Service agent is killed. But they're at HER apartment.. did the White House switchboard try his place first and then figure "oh he must be with her"??

Love Catherine Tate😂

Lauren Cooper is actually the female version of Donald Trump

Go lick your momma . hallelujah

West Wing the beautiful 😢

As someone who knows dramatic tropes, I could feel a pit forming in my stomach the instant this scene began, but I kept hoping against my instincts that it was going to play out as an 'Aw shucks, good guy showed up in the right place at the right time' scene. Alas...

Mam this fuked me up :0(

Always the best choice of music.

It wasn't until one of my rewatches that I realised how brilliantly Sorkin set up the dramatic irony of the dialogue on stage "Nay! Stay" being delivered at the moment that CJ is asked to step out to receive the bad news.

And she ends up with the most annoying character in this show, Danny 🙄

To this day I can't watch it. He and CJ could have had a good thing, even tho I like that she ended up with Danny.

Not wearing a vest and didn’t check the rest of the store!! Wtf Gibbs!!

Amazing how Amy's 'tude can punch through the grief in this scene and still be fuckin' annoying.

Next to the scene where her dad shows his dementia (and of course Leo passing away) I would categorize this as the second/ third saddest scene for her.

I’d give anything to see mark harmon in a wheelchair…

What a heartbreaking development for C.J.

This is the way to honour a Veteran and the Flag; lunatics are burning the stars and stripes on the steps of congress in 2024, why?

And then he became Gibbs

Halleluya was composed by Leonard Cohen. Jeff did record the classic version.

It’s unfair to CJ to this to her. Damn you writers!

What’s that saying, “the true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.” With the exception of the President & Leo, no one will ever know what Josh gave up. True character.

This is not a sorkin dialogue and it shows...

All about Josh and his survivors guilt. Donna gets this about him

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making us believe Josh Lyman ever got laid. What a jerk!

Crime, boy, I don't know

would it have taken much for the clerk to say "there's two of them!"?

Why didn't the shop keeper tell him there was a 2nd guy...

Never bought Josh an Donna's romance, I think they have zero chemistry together.

Still funny!😊

I'm currently on my first watch through of The West Wing and this shocked me so much

there are so many parts to this. Like Josh and Amy in the middle of an a full on argument and doesn't stop for a phone call, but as soon as she says "honey" showing that the argument is normal in the house and they both enjoy that kind of debate. But that one word "honey" changes his tone in an instant. TWW had such good writing and so many good messages.

Watching in 2024. This series is the best ever made.

You can tell by the look on his face that he doesn't think he'll ever see her again.

A true disappointment in a show I luv. I always wonder why the gentleman behind the register didn’t give him a signal of 2✌️… I guess because it’s a tv show and they didn’t want his character getting serious with CJ

_are you calling me a Pikey?_ 😅

2 big plot holes I had a problem with when I saw this scene. Anybody who's ever worked in law enforcement would know that most armed robbers work in pairs (one to cover while the other does the robbing), and also why the hell didn't the shopkeeper alert him to the second robber. Bad writing is bad.

Why was the secret service operative not wearing even soft body amour