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Raqim Ali's Backpack

In the shadowed gloom of a White House office at night, Raqim Ali's backpack hunches under scrutiny, a coiled wire protruding like a serpent's tongue that unleashes Leo McGarry's post-9/11 fury. Ali clutches it defensively, insisting the wire mends computers, but Leo's glare transforms this mundane satchel into a vessel of suspected treason, backpack straps taut against rising accusations.

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S3E0 · Isaac and Ishmael

Leo's Prejudice-Laden Grill of Raqim Ali

The backpack serves as the inciting container for the suspicious wire, rasping open earlier but now focal as Leo questions its contents, embodying Ali's everyday life invaded by security scrutiny and heightening the scene's coiled tension in the shadowed office.

Before: Closed on or near the table, containing wire

After: Remains present as site of suspicion, contents partially exonerated

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