Leo's Office Television (National Crisis Broadcast)

Television murmurs with male and female news anchors plus Keith Nant detailing the national crisis during White House night hours. Leo turns down its volume to speak plainly with Toby about Huck's name, Toby's refused proposal, and his fear of fatherly love. Toby cranks the volume back up, submerging vulnerability in emergency noise. Staff treat it as constant crisis backdrop and retreat tool.

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Purpose

Broadcasts live news updates on the national crisis

Significance

Frames personal confessions against public duty; Leo uses it for reassurance space, Toby for emotional escape, heightening tension between private fears and crisis demands

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S4E23 · Twenty-Five

Midnight Doubts: Toby's Fear of Fatherhood

The White House television supplies live news commentary and home-movie footage that frames the public crisis; Leo manipulates its volume to create intimacy and Toby later raises it to smother private exposure, turning public noise back on.

Before: On and audible in the background, broadcasting anchors and field reports.

After: Still on but with volume increased after Toby picks up the remote; it reasserts the public emergency over the private exchange.

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