The Newsroom:
Season: 2 / Episode: 2
The Genoa Tip
Date: July 21, 2013
This Television Episode plays Hold the Line
This song plays while Jim is working on his laptop by the pool.
Jim meets Hallie Shea (Grace Gummer), an embedded reporter with the Romney campaign. Charlie Skinner takes Will off the 9/11 tenth anniversary story because of his American Taliban comment, and Will is condemned on the House floor as a result. Maggie and Sloan track down the person who posted the youtube video of Maggie's confession about Jim in front of the Sex and the City bus and make a deal with her to take it down. However, Maggie's best friend Lisa, (Kelen Coleman) soon discovers the video and decides to end their friendship. Maggie wants to do a story in Africa and pitches it to Mac. Don tries to convince Will to strengthen coverage of the Troy Davis execution. Jerry Dantana tells Mac about Operation Genoa, a mission conducted by Marine Special Operations (MARSOC) to rescue two captured Marines by using sarin gas against the enemy. Neal is arrested while filming an Occupy Wall Street protest leading to Will going to the police station to bail him out. Takes place between August 25 and September 21, 2011.