"Previously on the West Wing" spoken by Leo A seemingly benign press leak begins a day and night long journey that ends with the discovery of a scandal that affects the uppermost levels of the administration, though what the staff doesn't yet know is that this is merely the match that lights the fuse and that things are about to get considerably worse. The first day at the White House for new White House Assistant Council Joe Quincy (played by Matthew Perry) opens with C.J. Cregg passing him an annoying question from a reporter--the White House suppressed evidence of life on Mars.