While Mac is enduring fund-raising events in Southern California, an unlikely terrorist hijacks Air Force One at the Orange County Airport. Back at the White House, the kids are bored, so Kate suggests that they have their friends over for a party.

Mac stands by her attorney-general nominee, longtime friend Carl Brantley, who's pummeled during his confirmation hearings for being soft on crime. Elsewhere, a military cargo plane carrying surface-to-air missiles goes missing over Pakistan, and Vice President Keaton takes command of the situation. And having resigned his job in the West Wing, Rod retreats to the East Wing, where there's also a crisis: Kate is missing.