­Season One, Episode 3

Int. hospital emergency room — day

Dr. Jill Biden has just finished curing an adorable child of a dangerous disease. She smiles and hands the child a book.

Dr. Biden: Have you read any poetry by Amanda Gorman?

Grateful Child: Amanda Gorman! She’s so dope! Thanks, Doc B!

Dr. Biden chuckles as the Grateful Child and Tearful Parent head off.

Dr. Biden: (calling after) And no more rare infectious diseases, okay?

The Grateful Child turns.

Grateful Child: Deal, Doc B!

Dr. Biden is chuckling when a nurse approaches.

Nurse: Ma’am?

Dr. Biden: Please, call me “Dr. Jill Biden.”

Nurse: Dr. Jill Biden, the White House called. Apparently your husband took a spill on Air Force One.

Dr. Biden looks concerned.

Dr. Biden: He’s in perfect physical and mental shape. I need to look into this.

Cut to: Ext. Air Force One stairway — Day

Montage over music:

Dr. Biden examines the railing. Dr. Biden examines the stairs. Dr. Biden collects microscopic samples from the rolling staircase.

Cut to: Int. Oval Office — day

Dr. Biden and President Joe Biden are arguing. President Biden has a small bandage on his face and has his arm in a sling.

President Biden: Jill, that’s crazy!

Dr. Biden: Joe, look at the findings!

She tosses some papers on the Resolute Desk.

Dr. Biden: (pointing to papers) Waxy residue on the railing. Silicone traces along the stairs and tread. Oil slick along the side and the steps. Joe, you didn’t just slip! Someone wanted you to slip! Someone wants you dead!

President Biden: Jill, I appreciate this, I really do, but I’m president of the United States! Who would want such a thing?

Dr. Biden: Don’t be naïve, Joe! Don’t you see that there are forces out there who want you out of the way? You’re a firm and resolute leader with enormous empathy and a mind like a steel trap —

President Biden: I know! I read that in today’s New York Times! Maybe a little overboard if you ask me . . .

Dr. Biden: Joe, there is no way you slipped on those stairs! I’m a doctor! I know when a patient is in perfect health!

President Biden: Wait. I thought you were the kind of doctor that —

Dr. Biden: Let’s not get into this now! We need to figure out who is trying to kill you. And we need to do it before they can strike again.

President Biden: Babe, I appreciate it. I really do. But I have to be more careful on those steps is all.

Dr. Biden: I’ve asked the Secret Service to give me the security footage for the Air Force One hangar and —

Female Voice (O.S.): Sadly, Dr. Jill, I just heard from them. Computer glitch. All of the footage for the past week has been erased.

Dr. Biden turns to see: Vice President Kamala Harris, standing in the Oval Office.

Vice President Kamala Harris: It’s highly irregular, I admit. But then, I couldn’t quite explain to them why the First Lady had made such a, well, unusual request. Curious.

President Biden: Kamala, my wife seems to think that someone deliberately made those Air Force One steps slippery! She’s a brilliant doctor, my wife, but she has an overactive imagination!

Dr. Biden: We can talk about this later, Joe, during our couples massage.

Vice President Kamala Harris: But just to satisfy my curiosity, Jill —

Dr. Biden: “Dr. Jill Biden.”

Vice President Kamala Harris: Dr. Jill Biden, of course, and yet, you’re not a real doctor, are you?

President Biden: Hey, there! My wife is as much a doctor as anyone!

Dr. Biden: (fiercely) Madam Vice President, I earned my degree. And like many people who wrote a ten-page paper, I practice a kind of medicine —

Vice President Kamala Harris: I apologize. I seem to have touched a nerve.

Dr. Biden: As did I, I guess, when I investigated my husband’s fall.

Vice President Kamala Harris: So tell me, Doctor Biden, what’s your explanation for the president’s spill? Mine is quite simple: He’s an elderly gentleman in the early stages of physical and mental decline. No offense, Joe.

President Biden: (cheerfully) None taken, pretty lady.

Dr. Biden: I don’t have an explanation, Madam Vice President. I am a doctor. A scientist. What I have are questions. And you can bet I’m going to get some answers.

They stare at each other intensely.

President Biden: Ladies? What are we talking about again? Lost here.

Fade out.