Object

Bartlet's Colonnade Ashtray

Frost bites the White House colonnade as Bartlet grinds his cigarette's dying ember into the ashtray's unyielding basin, ash flakes scattering like fleeting defiance. Leo hovers urgently nearby, Secret Service shadows loom vigilant, the receptacle swallowing the butt's final glow amid swirling night air—harbinger of crisis as Bartlet checks his watch and pivots toward chaos.

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Purpose

Receptacle for extinguishing and discarding cigarette butts

Significance

Anchors Bartlet's rebellious smoke break's abrupt close, his stub-out ritual steeling resolve against health pleas and propelling the trio inside for raid greenlight—raw human interlude before moral inferno erupts.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S2E14 · The War At Home

Bartlet’s Defiant Smoke Break on the Frozen Colonnade

Bartlet deposits his cigarette into the colonnade ashtray after a final drag, extinguishing his fleeting rebellion against health edicts and indoor bans; it serves as a narrative pivot, swallowing the ember's glow to symbolize resolve hardening for the raid's moral crucible ahead.

Before: Positioned on the colonnade, likely containing prior ash remnants from past indulgences

After: Holding Bartlet's freshly extinguished cigarette butt amid scattered flakes in the frigid air

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