to Donovan's assignment, struggling to preserve her autonomy. Over time, she falls in love with Donovan and submits to his protection; Shawn Parry-Giles argued that this transformation shows that she is treated like a "prized and revered object of protection" with no need or capability for autonomy. Donovan refuses to return her affection while he is assigned to her, but the threat to C.J. abates, meaning that he was no longer tasked with her protection. Just as the two are about to begin a relationship, Donovan is shot and killed while stopping a robbery at a local store. In the final season premiere, "The Ticket", a scene showing the characters "three years later" forecast C.J. as married to Danny with one child. This is realized in the series finale, "Tomorrow"; in the episode, C.J. leaves the White House, choosing to pursue a relationship with Danny instead. Sexism from other characters Like many female characters on The West Wing, C.J. is frequently condescended to, and even objectified by, the show's men. In a scene from the first season episode "The Crackpots and These Women", the president and Leo look around a room full of women working in the White House, complimenting each one in a gendered manner. C.J. in particular is compared to "a fifties movie star, so capable, so loving and energetic". Essayist Laura K. Garrett writes that the president's comment makes C.J. seem like "a lovable pet, not a professional woman". In another first season episode, "Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics", the president's senior staff predicts the results of an upcoming poll. Most staffers predicted that the president's poll numbers would drop, or hold steady at best, but C.J. predicted a large bump. Leo, who relayed the staffers' guesses to the president, left out C.J.'s predictions; she suspected this was because she was a woman. In the end, C.J. was shown to have made the correct prediction. In the second season episode "Bartlet's Third State of the Union", C.J. appears on a television show to discuss the president's State of the Union address, where she is introduced by the host as the "very lovely, the very talented – Claudia Jean Cregg". The host then tells the entire room during a commercial break that C.J. is not wearing pants. In "Ways and Means", C.J. is sexualized by Bruno Gianelli, manager of the president's re-election campaign, who remarks "man, you have