Object

Jed's Stalled Car

Jed's stalled car hulks motionless on sun-baked school grounds, hood propped wide like a desperate shield as Jed dives beneath, fingers fumbling at invisible engine guts to dodge Young Mrs. Landingham's advance. She corners the ruse, her voice slicing through his pretense while the silent machine betrays zero mechanical distress—pure prop in his frantic bid for escape.

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Purpose

Personal transportation

Significance

Ignites Jed's evasion ploy in a charged flashback standoff, hood-lifting charade collapsing under Young Mrs. Landingham's wage-gap onslaught, etching his first raw collision with systemic injustice into his justice-hungry core.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

1 moments

S2E22 · Two Cathedrals

Young Landingham Traps Jed with Wage Disparity Stats

Serves as a contrived prop in young Jed's desperate evasion ploy—motionless and betraying no real fault—as he exits, lifts the hood, and tinkers beneath it to feign disinterest; Mrs. Landingham calls out the ruse, using its immobility to justify her persistent lecture on pay disparities, heightening the comedic tension and trapping him in place.

Before: Parked motionless on school grounds, hood down, non-functional as a genuine breakdown but ruse for escape.

After: Hood propped open, still stationary with Jed tinkering futilely, symbolizing stalled evasion.

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