[1] The White House staff is being called into work early to deal with the press fallout after President Josiah Bartlet has crashed his bicycle into a tree.
While Lyman and Marsh are discussing a proposed public debate on one of several religious wedge issues, President Bartlet enters and corrects one of the attendees on a theological point (namely, he quotes the First Commandment, settling a dispute on which one it is).
He explains that he crashed his bicycle while distracted by anger after discovering that his granddaughter, after expressing herself as pro-choice during a magazine interview, was mailed a Raggedy Ann doll with a knife stuck in its throat.
In a retrospective, Brittany Frederick of CBR called it the best pilot in television history and giving it a 9/10 rating, citing the episode's character development and world-building.
"[3] Screen Rant's Amelia Brantley harbored ambivalent feelings, praising the writing, and Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford's acting, while opining that the episode "hasn't aged well" in multiple aspects.