Michael Chinyamurindi

Toby and Josh help Bartlet mediate between the leader of an AIDS-ravaged, poverty-stricken African nation and a drug company. After a successful deal is reached, the leader returns home and is immediately assassinated. On a political television talk show, Sam is trounced by Ainsley Hayes, an attractive and extremely intelligent Republican political analyst. Bartlet is impressed by Ainsley's passion and sense of civic duty, despite her caustic criticism of the Democrats. He orders a dubious Leo to offer her a job, to the outrage of the other staffers.

Mulder believes that metallic objects discovered in Africa are proof that life originated elsewhere in the universe.

Carter and Kovac find themselves in the line of fire between warring factions in Congo.

The squad tracks down a Russian mail-order bride's killer and investigates a drive-by shooting involving a city bus.

A man grieving over the violent death of his son offends Fancy with racial slurs; Kirkendall handles a boy who found his mother's dead body.