The problem with getting actors of this caliber is that if the show doesn't work, Tommy and I can be pretty sure it was our fault.

I send them a lot of 'West Wing' hats, and they send me a lot of White House T-shirts and that kind of thing,

If I were running a television network, I would do a terrible job. That said, it would have been nice in sweeps month to have that as our lead-in.

I have to allow for the possibility that I'm not just writing the season finale, that I'm writing the series finale,

A Few Good Men

The play was written before a lot of things that have informed how we feel about the military, but I think it is going to resonate.