The SEALs are sent in on a perilous mission to rescue a Navy plane shot down in North Korean waters; when the man who saved his life in Vietnam becomes the subject of a congressional investigation, Leo attempts to intercede on his behalf; C.J. rises to the bait, appears on the Taylor Reid Show, and gives him a verbal beat-down; Josh becomes more annoyed with Ryan than usual when the intern one-ups him during a presidential briefing on a tax cut for stay-at-home-moms that's being proposed by a congressional foe; Jed resists sitting for his official portrait; C.J. continues to avoid her former beau Ben, who's arrived in Washington to begin his new job at Interior; Abbey decides to get back into medicine by volunteering at a free clinic.