[Oval office, early evening, Mrs. Landingham enters.]

MRS. LANDINGHAM
Mr. President, there is a couple on the telephone who insist on
speaking to you.

JED
And who might the couple be?

MRS. LANDINGHAM
Mary and Keith Williams.

JED
They're on the phone?

MRS. LANDINGHAM
Yes, sir.

JED
Do you know what they want, Mrs. Landingham?

MRS. LANDINGHAM
They want to speak to you, sir.

JED
Okay. Thank you Mrs. Landingham.

[Jed picks up the phone, but we only hear his side of the
conversation.]

JED
Hello, this is President Bartlet....Sure. So what can I do for
you today?.....I'm sorry, but I can't do that, cause you
see.....because I am the girl's father.....Even if I were willing to
give her back to you, as if she were a piece of property, and I'm not
willing, it would be entirely up to her, it's her life, and
ultimately her decision.....You are?....Well that would be up to her,
if she wants to see you, but from what I've heard, I seriously doubt
that would be the case....Is that so?....Well, Mrs. Williams, I will
talk to her, see what I can do to arrange that, but I've made it a
point not to interfere too much in her life just yet, so if she says
no, I'm not going to push....good bye.

[Jed clearly upset and confused by this conversation goes to Abbey's
office, to talk to her about it.]

JED
You busy?

ABBEY
I've got a lot to do, but I suppose I can find a minute or two for
you. What's on your mind?

JED
I just got off the phone.

ABBEY
Who were you on the phone with? The Prime Minister of….

JED
The Williams.

ABBEY
As in the Williams that raised Roni?

JED
Those would be the ones.

ABBEY
What did they want?

JED
Well it seems they are in town, and would like the opportunity to
visit with Roni.

ABBEY
What did you tell them?

JED
I told them I would mention it to Roni.

ABBEY
Does Roni know yet?

JED
No.

[Later in the evening, Jed, Abbey, Zoey, and Roni are sitting around
the dinner table, eating, with little conversations going on between
them.]

JED
So Roni, how have you been doing?

RONI
Good, why?

JED
No reason. I was just wondering.

RONI
What is it?

JED
What is what?

RONI
You've got this look on your face that says you have something to
tell me, but you don't want to.

JED
What makes you say this?

RONI
Like I've said before, I'm an expert when it comes to reading faces.
So what is it?

JED
I got a phone call today.

RONI
Oh.

JED
Aren't you curious who it was?

RONI
I bet I could guess.

JED
And what would your guess be?

RONI
Mary and Keith Williams?

JED
How'd you know?

RONI
Well first, the look on your face, I knew it just had to be. Second,
this is just the kind of thing they would do. And third, they called
me today too.

ABBEY
Really?

RONI
Yeah, but I hung up on them.

ZOEY
Why?

RONI
Well, my….uh, Keith was yelling at me. He was asking me "how the
hell could I do such a thing to them? How could I just up and leave
without saying a word?"

ZOEY
Without saying a word?

RONI
Yes, well, it's possible I never mentioned to them that I was leaving
town.

JED
You ran away from your home?

RONI
Well now, it wasn't really my home, was it? So could you really say
I ran away from home?

ABBEY
When is the last time you saw them?

RONI
Let's see. Oh yeah, I had just gotten in a fight with Keith, and
that night, he kicked me out of the house. So I went to a friend's
place. And this friend, having known that the Williams' were not my
real parents, suggested that I go find my real parents. In time, he
managed to get me to tell him what city you guys lived in, and he
came here with me. About a week later, I got up enough courage to
reveal myself. That's when I showed up in Mr. McGarry's office.
Anyway, that is the last time I saw them.

ABBEY
So you really didn't run away, you were kicked out?

RONI
Yeah, I suppose. At any rate, on the phone earlier, Keith was
yelling at me for leaving town, and Mary was in the background saying
nothing, so I hung the phone up. They tried to call back, but I
wouldn't answer.

JED
You think that's when they asked for me.

RONI
Wouldn't surprise me, so what'd they want?

JED
They said they were in town, and wanted to see you.