Extradition Process (legal/procedural barrier)

Represents an abstract bureaucratic framework involving extradition processes and associated documentation.

2 appearances

Purpose

To prescribe and enforce the formal legal and administrative steps by which one state requests and secures the transfer of a detained individual to another jurisdiction (diplomatic requests, judicial hearings, custody-transfer paperwork).

Significance

Functions as the narrative obstacle and instrument of state authority: Bambang weaponizes the process to refuse Toby's plea, converting legal formality into a diplomatic rebuke. It crystallizes the episode's theme—the collision of moral urgency and institutional slowness—and turns an appeal for a friend into proof of American rhetorical overreach and bilateral rupture.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S1E7 · The State Dinner

Translation Farce and Diplomatic Rebuke

The extradition process functions as an invoked bureaucratic object when Bambang cites it as a procedural barrier; it operates rhetorically to deflect the personal entreaty and to legitimize refusal, converting a personal plea into a matter of legal formality.

Before: An existing, immaterial but potent procedural barrier recognized by diplomats as the lawful path for custody and transfer.

After: Remains the cited obstacle and rhetorical shield used by Bambang to deny the favor; its invocation ends the attempt at informal resolution.

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S1E7 · The State Dinner

Kitchen Confrontation — Bambang Rejects Toby's Plea

The Extradition Process is invoked by Bambang as a legal and procedural barrier to Toby's request; it functions rhetorically to rebut the informal favor‑ask and to shift the conversation back to sovereign process.

Before: An abstract, bureaucratic mechanism—relevant but not yet foregrounded in the conversation.

After: Used as a justificatory shield to refuse the request, gaining rhetorical prominence as Bambang cites process to deny extrajudicial assistance.

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