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Cast
| Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jeff Daniels | ... | Will McAvoy | |
| Emily Mortimer | ... | MacKenzie McHale | |
| John Gallagher Jr. | ... | Jim Harper | |
| Alison Pill | ... | Maggie Jordan | |
| Thomas Sadoski | ... | Don Keefer | |
| Dev Patel | ... | Neal Sampat | |
| Olivia Munn | ... | Sloan Sabbith | |
| Sam Waterston | ... | Charlie Skinner | |
| David Harbour | ... | Elliot Hirsch | |
| Terry Crews | ... | Lonny Church | |
| Kelen Coleman | ... | Lisa Lambert | |
| Stephen McKinley Henderson | ... | Solomon Hancock (voice) | |
| Christina Kirk | ... | Flight Attendant | |
| Natalie Morales | ... | Kaylee | |
| Salli Richardson-Whitfield | ... | Jane Barrow | |
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Sunday evening, May 1, 2011. The ACN news team is at Will's for a party to mark a year of good reporting. Charlie gets a call alerting him to a major news announcement at 10. By 9:00, everyone's on their way to the studio (with Will under the influence of a Vicodin and two pot-laced cookies). Don, Sloan, and Elliot are stuck on the tarmac at LaGuardia waiting for a gate. As the team uses brains and sources to narrow the possibilities - and get confirmation of what's going on - Charlie has to make the call as to when they go on the air: get it right without collateral damage. By evening's end, he gets a second tip suggesting that another story is brewing. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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reference to nicole kidman | reference to joe biden | party | blackberry cell phone | united airlines |Genres:
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Flight Attendant: I'm not letting you unbuckle your seatbelt, you think I'm letting you off the plane?
Don Keefer: If you knew what we know -
[turns to the other passengers]
Don Keefer: which is nothing- you'd be behind us and they'd be behind us, and I think later on tonight, you're gonna be saying, 'I wish I had been more cooperative with that passenger.'
Flight Attendant: I think later on tonight you're gonna be saying, 'These handcuffs hurt my wrists.'
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The Rock's ...Land of the free home of the brave." Tweet discussed by Neal, Kaylee and Charlie really happened. The Rock sent it out about an hour before President Obama's news conference. In addition The Rock really does have a cousin who was a SEAL, a fact The Rock mentioned in a 2008 interview. See more »Goofs
In the final scene Will states that 2977 American lives were lost on 9/11. Although there were 2977 victims that day, 372 of them were foreign nationals from 90 different countries. See more »Quotes
Don Keefer: You have to let us off this plane.Flight Attendant: I'm not letting you unbuckle your seatbelt, you think I'm letting you off the plane?
Don Keefer: If you knew what we know -
[turns to the other passengers]
Don Keefer: which is nothing- you'd be behind us and they'd be behind us, and I think later on tonight, you're gonna be saying, 'I wish I had been more cooperative with that passenger.'
Flight Attendant: I think later on tonight you're gonna be saying, 'These handcuffs hurt my wrists.'
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The speech made by President Barack Obama to announce the death of Osama Bin Laden, which was the focus of this episode, is played over the closing credits. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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5 August 2012 (USA) See more »Company Credits
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I believe this is the most patronizing, idiotically patriotic and totally bs of american television ever. Good job Newsroom, you've set a new barrier to our vomit