Sam: ‘Cause Alger Hiss just walked in with my secret pumpkin. Alger Hiss was imprisoned in the 1950s after being convicted of spying on Americans for the Soviet Union. The documents he allegedly recorded during his "spying" were kept in a hallowed out pumpkin. The use of this allusion is just a spy joke to reference the fact that he thinks that Laurie is spying on him in the bar. Submitted to The West Wing today. I have 787 points up from 784 earlier today when I made the submission. Yeah for me!