Character

Terrorists

retaliatory lethal destructive

Terrorists launched a retaliatory suicide bombing at a makeshift U.S. training camp in Ghana, killing 17 American staff and administrators immediately after a Delta Force extraction rescued three Marines. Leo McGarry relays the attack to families in the Mural Room, shifting room relief to shock. News interrupts Toby and Sam in a bar, reframing personal setbacks within national crisis. Their strike underscores vulnerability of U.S. operations abroad.

3 appearances

Also known as: TERRORISTS

Terrorists's Journey

A timeline through the narrative

3 moments

S4E17 · Red Haven's On Fire

Relief, Then Retaliation

Not an emotional actor in the room; characterized by calculated hostility and vindictiveness.

The terrorists are invoked as the perpetrators of the retaliatory suicide bombing at the Ghana training camp; they are not present but their action drives the tonal reversal.

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S4E17 · Red Haven's On Fire

Quiet Loyalty at the Orange County Bar

Not applicable; their violent action creates shock and urgency that reframes the scene.

Terrorists are referenced via the bartender's news item about a bombing in Africa; they catalyze the immediate shift from private politics back to national crisis.

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S4E17 · Red Haven's On Fire

A Quiet Toast, A Bombing, Back to Duty

Not applicable; described as agents of violence whose action forces the protagonists into duty.

Referenced by the bartender as the perpetrators of the suicide bombing in Africa; not physically present but causally central to the scene's tonal pivot and the characters' immediate recalibration.

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