Here, Kirkman begins to discuss the situation with a team of other government officials. At the White House, he is quickly sworn into office and taken to an underground bunker. While en route, Ritter informs him that the president and his entire cabinet have been killed in the attack on the Capitol, leaving Kirkman as the President of the United States. As the scene ends, he asks what the Designated Survivor actually was.īack in present time, Kirkman is escorted out of the building by the D.C police force and an FBI caravan to the White House. Later, when he gets home, Kirkman is notified that he will be the designated survivor during the address. While attending a board meeting, he is confronted by the fact that Richmond does not intend to include Kirkman's topics in the State of the Union address. Kirkman walks over to the office window, and upon opening it, he, his wife, and Ritter are aghast by the sight - a fireball rising above the Capitol building.Ī flashback occurs, showing Kirkman waking up with his wife fifteen hours earlier. After others quickly affirm that signal to the address has been lost all around, his Secret Service agent, Mike Ritter, orders Kirkman to proceed to a safer location until more is known.
While chatting with his wife, and having just told his daughter goodnight on the phone, the signal for the state of the union is abruptly lost to the Capitol.
THE OFFICE SCRIPT PILOT TV
The episode opens with Tom Kirkman in an office building room near the Capitol building, watching the State of the Union address being delivered by President Richmond on a national TV broadcast. As he juggles adjusting to his new role and proving he is capable of leading the country, FBI agent Hannah Wells begins to suspect that the attack may be the first of many. When a sudden explosion decimates the United States Capitol Building during the State of the Union address, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Tom Kirkman is sworn in as President after learning that both his predecessor and fellow Cabinet members are dead.
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