Things are looking up in the aftermath of the shooting: Josh is recovering nicely and the Administration is polling at 81 percent. But "those numbers are soft," Sam cautions, and probably won't hold up for the midterm elections in 12 weeks. Still, Toby wants to use this "honeymoon" as leverage for a domestic-terrorism initiative. Meanwhile, the President is obsessed with thwarting an old foe running for school board; and Sam enlists an old law-school classmate to run for an open House seat.