电影Season 3: 2001–2002 Cas t: Rob Lo we, Sto ckard C hanning, D ulé Hill, A llison Janney, Janel Moloney, Richard Schif f, John Sp encer, Brad ley Whitford a nd Martin Sh een The third sea son, which c overs the adm inistrat ion& ;#39;s third and f ourth year s in off ice, s tarts off wit h Bartlet announcing h is inten tion to ru n for reelectio n and is heavi ly devoted to the upcoming presidentia l election . Other promine nt plotlines include Congressional investiga tions i nto whether Bartlet c ommitted elec toral fraud by concealing his MS, a deat h threat agai nst C.J. and the ensuing re lationsh ip she deve lops wit h a Secret Se rvice agent a ssigned to h er, the Qumar i defense mi nister Abdu l Shareef plot ting terr orist attac ks against t he US, and a troubling m eeting between Toby and the President th at leaves Bart let with a bout of insomnia in &am p;quot;Night F ive.&qu ot; The se ason fi nale, &q uot;Posse Comit atus& ;quot; clos es several of these st orylines a s Bartlet meets his op ponent in th e elections a nd reaffirm s his com mitment to beat him. The episode ends wi th the presi dent finall y deciding to order Shareef& ;#39;s assa ssination (a legally questio nable act) and C.J.&# 39;s agent& #39;s mur der, just aft er the m an threatening C.J. wa s caught. From a cr itical pe rspectiv e, series c reator Aaron Sorkin acknowl edged in October 2002 t hat the te rrorism-relat ed plots desi gned to keep the se ries relevant a fter the real-life 9 /11 attacks were aw kward at t imes, saying &q uot;from wee k to wee k, you f elt like y ou were writing the show handcuffe d, a little bit. I didn&a mp;#39;t know how to w rite it anymo re. It was a constant search for w hat I was n't doing that us ed to mak e the show wor k. [...] Mayb e there was a way to mak e it wo rk; the re prob ably was. I was n't able t o find it in tw enty-two episo des.&qu ot; [1] None theless, the show went on to win its third & ;quot;Outstan ding Drama&a mp;quot; Emmy in a ro w.！