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N in　　seriesN in　　seasonTitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateUS viewers　　(millions)111First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the LawyersAlan PoulStory by:Ian Reichbach andAaron Sorkin　　Teleplay by:Aaron SorkinJuly14,22Will describes the events of the past year while in a deposition with lawyer, Rebecca Halliday (Marcia Gay Harden) Reese Lansing is denied entry to aHousecommittee hearing on copyright Jim Harper assigns himself as ACN's correspondent for theMitt Romney presidential campaignto get away from Maggie because of his feelings for To replace him, Mac calls Jerry Dantana (Hamish Linklater), a producer for ACN's DC Maggie is living with Don, but the two break up after Don discovers a video of Maggie declaring her love for Jim (in the Season 1 finale) posted Will is in trouble with the public after calling theTea Partythe American Taliban, which is why Reese was ejected from the committee Cyrus West, one of the panelists forNews Night, gives Jerry Dantana a tip about a black ops mission calledOperation G Takes place between August 23 and September 12, 122The Genoa TipJeremy PodeswaStory by:Dana Ledoux Miller & Adam R Perlman and Aaron Sorkin　　Teleplay by:Aaron SorkinJuly21,88Jim meets Hallie Shea (Grace Gummer), an embedded reporter with the Romney Charlie Skinner takes Will off the 9/11 tenth anniversary story because of his American Taliban comment, and Will is condemned on the House floor as a Maggie and Sloan track down the person who posted the youtube video of Maggie's confession about Jim in front of theSex and the Citybus and make a deal with her to take it However, Maggie's best friend Lisa, (Kelen Coleman) soon discovers the video and decides to end their Maggie wants to do a story in Africa and pitches it to M Don tries to convince Will to strengthen coverage of theTroy D Jerry Dantana tells Mac about Operation Genoa, a mission conducted by Marine Special Operations (MARSOC) to rescue two captured Marines by usingsaringas against the Neal is arrested while filming anOccupy Wall Streetprotest leading to Will going to the police station to bail him Takes place between August 25 and September 21, 133Willie PeteLesli Linka GlatterStory by:Michael Gunn & Elizabeth Peterson and Aaron Sorkin　　Teleplay by:Aaron SorkinJuly28,80Will meets with Nina Howard, a gossip columnist, to convince her not to publish a story about him being taken off the 9/11 anniversary Jerry and Mac meet with Gunnery Sergeant Eric Sweeney who confirms the Genoa They take the story to Charlie S Maggie prepares to leave for A Neal struggles to convince Mac to do a story on Occupy Wall Street (OWS), but Mac is eventually convinced and allows Neal to find an OWS member for an on-air interview with W On the Romney press bus, Jim voices his disgust at the limited answers he receives from the Romney campaign spokespeople, and the lack of questions being asked by the other Hallie musters the courage to start asking hard questions after Jim's Jim and Hallie, along with a third reporter, Stillman, are kicked off the press bus after Jim fails to convince the rest of the reporters to take a stand with Jerry assembles a team to continue researching Genoa and their search eventually leads to a source who seems to have described the entire event onT Takes place between September 23 and September 30, 144Unintended ConsequencesCarl FranklinAaron SorkinAugust4,62Rebecca Halliday interviews Maggie about the events of the past Maggie and another producer, Gary (Chris Chalk) leave for A They go to an orphanage in Uganda to do a PR story about the work of US While there, Maggie befriends a little boy named D After the soldiers leave and the reporters are left at the orphanage overnight, gunmen arrive and Daniel is shot and killed while Maggie is carrying him on her back as they Will interviews Shelly (Aya Cash), one of the Occupy Wall Street protesters and embarrasses her on Jerry and Neal learn that she knows a person who may have knowledge of Genoa, but she won't lead them to the person until Will Jerry and Neal find the person they were looking for and he gives them a report he wrote for an NGO, where he documents the use of chemical Jim is insulted by the Romney Campaign's spokesperson, Taylor Warren (Constance Zimmer), and is offered a 30 minute one on one with Mitt Romney, but gives it to H Takes place between September 30 and October 3, The last scene skips several months into the future where Maggie cuts her hair due to the events that occurred in A155News Night with Will McAvoyAlan PoulAaron SorkinAugust11,82Will learns that his father has Bombs explode in Syriaand a couple pretending to be victims of the blast prank call the Nude photos of Sloan are leaked online by a disgruntled former She confronts him, punches him in the face, and takes a ARutgersstudent, about to be interviewed by Will, posts on Twitter that he will announce he is gay while on the show and Mac stops him from going Don tries to correct a statement he made to a reporter atWorldNetD A confidential source gives Charlie a cargo manifest from Operation Genoa that contains a classified item, which Charlie believes is sarin Jim suspects Maggie (who is still shaken from her ordeal in Africa) is drunk at Takes place on March 16, 166One Step Too ManyJulian FarinoAaron SorkinAugust18,89The staff has its firstRed Teammeeting about Operation G Charlie Skinner says the story is not ready to The team finds another source for the Genoa story, former USMC G Stomtonovich (Stephen Root) Charlie and Mac go to Maryland to meet with him and he agrees to be Jerry conducts the interview alone after G Stomotonovich asks Maggie to leave the room due, as he was not told in advance she would be present and has not had her checked G Stomtonovich affirms the existence of sarin gas and his belief that its use may sometimes be justified, but does not say that it was used during Operation G On his return, Jerry edits the raw footage of the interview so that it appears the General said that sarin gas was used during the After the interview, the staff holds a second Red Team meeting, where Charlie Skinner says the story still isn't ready to Hallie arranges a double date for her and Jim with her friend and N To Jim's dismay Taylor Warren, the Romney campaign spokesperson, tags Warren later reveals that she was recently Will is concerned about his likability with the audience, has a focus group done, and at Nina Howard's urging, attempts to change his public Several months later, ACN gets a call from a Lance Corporal, thought to be dead, who was a member of the MARSOC team on Operation G Later, Charlie recounts his recollection of events to Rebecca Halliday and reveals that the story about Operation Genoa was not Takes place between March 21 and August 25, 177Red Team IIIAnthony HemingwayAaron SorkinAugust25,47The staff is being interviewed by Rebecca Halliday and recount how they all failed to discover the Genoa story was Flash back to a few months ago: the third Red Team meeting is being conducted and Will is presented the Will reveals that he heard the same story from a Charlie says that the story is ready to ACN airs the story on September 9, The next day, revelations from various sources cause the staff to start questioning the story's Mac is suspicious and reviews the tape of the interview with the G She discovers that Jerry edited it and fires It is revealed that in addition to the edited interview, Cyrus West (the first source) has political ambitions and exaggerated Operation Genoa, Eric Sweeney (the second source) is discovered to have a traumatic brain injury, Charlie's source provided him with a fake manifest in order to get back at him for firing his son, who is dead; the Lance Corporal, who was interviewed by Mac, was asked leading questions and merely repeated what he heard from Mac and other sources in the Meanwhile,riots are beginning in Cairo because of an American film insulting Islamand aterrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi Will, Charlie, and Mac are all prepared to hand in their resignations to AWM CEO, Leona Lansing, but she rejects Takes place between September 9 and September 11, 188Election Night, Part IJason EnslerAaron SorkinSeptember8,76Will, Charlie, and Mac are trying to convince Leona and her son Reese to accept their Taylor Warren, formerly with the Romney campaign, is on the ACN election night She gives Maggie a tip about a candidate in California who has condemnedTodd Akin, but made a similarlycontroversial statementseveral years ago about rape and The candidate's staff, in order to get ACN to not run the story, gives them a tip that CIA DirectorDavid Petraeuswill resign because of anaffairand that the Commander of US Forces in Afghanistan will be investigated for a relationship with aFlorida socialite, who was receiving harassing e-mails fromPetraeus' Sloan discovers a supposedly autographed copy of her book was sold at a charity auction, but she did not actually sign it and asks Neal to track down the Mac asks Neal to fix the information listed on her Wikipedia page which wrongly states that she was President of theOxford Unionwhen she actually went toCambridge, but he has trouble finding an outside source to confirm the Don is told by Rebecca Halliday that he will be named in a separate lawsuit by Jerry D Jim accidentally calls a race too early and spends the night watching it, hoping he will end up being Will tells Mac that she will be fired at the end of the election night Takes place onElection Night, November 6, 199Election Night, Part IIAlan PoulAaron SorkinSeptember15,67ACN decides to proceed with the story about the candidate in California instead of the Petraeus Leona decides to let Reese make the decision on whether to accept the resignations of Will, Charlie, and M Will learns that senior staff will also resign as a result of Genoa and tries to convince them not Hallie believes that Maggie cut her own hair and tells Jim of her Jim discovers that his ex-girlfriend (Maggie's roommate, Lisa) has a second job working for a caterer at the campaign watch He meets with Lisa and encourages her to return to speaking terms with M Sloan realizes that Don was the one who bought the book, gives him a signed copy, and kisses To fix Mac's Wikipedia page, Neal proposes a plan for Jim to give Hallie an article Neal has written under Hallie's name to confirm that Mac was President of theCambridge U Hallie writes the article herself as a gift from new Reese decides not to accept Will, Charlie, and Mac's resignations, but Will and Charlie have already decided not to Maggie and Lisa Will asks Mac to marry him and she says The ACN staff Takes place on Election Night, November 6,