Episode 3: The Ban

FADE IN: Josh's Office, early morning or late at night.

We see the empty bullpen of administrative desks with lights randomly and accidentally left on. JOSH sits at his desk, staring blankly at a binder as the glow from a TV provides the only light save for his desk lamp at his computer. He looks at the binder as if it holds a great secret.

DONNA, off screen: Did you go home?

JOSH: No. I...(he's flustered, woken from a trance)...I was trying to figure out something.

DONNA: Josh, you need sleep. The courts blocked it, they'll fight it out in court.

JOSH: And we should help them.

DONNA: Okay, explain this, then. Ed and Larry are legislative aides. They've been holed up in a bunker since Inauguration Day just to avoid having to come to the thought that no legislation is actually getting written. The last time I checked, there aren't Executive Order aides so-

JOSH: Donna-

DONNA: My point? He's hanging himself here. Sean in the press room calling it a ban and then saying he never did. Giuliani is going on CNN and saying that Trump called him in December with the idea and the strategy of how to do it legally. Lawsuits from all over the world. It can't pass.

JOSH: Donna, we live in a world where the lot of us has been hired to be a facade for a bunch of parochial school dropouts who take "truthiness" to a whole new level. Anything is possible!

DONNA: Exactly. At some point I have to take my faith and put it in-

JOSH: The value of cheese.

DONNA: The system as it was founded. It's taken a couple of weeks, but maybe the checks and the balances will work.

JOSH looks at her and back down at his binder.

JOSH: Yeah...maybe.

FADE OUT