C.J. Cregg's Office Doorway (with narrow eye‑level windowpane)

C.J.'s office doorway is the literal and symbolic threshold where public questioning turns private: Danny positions himself there to intercept C.J., then converts the threshold into a negotiating point before they step inside and close the door.

A doorway is used as a physical and rhetorical threshold: Donna knocks, enters, and later Josh and Donna pass through doors into the bullpen, lobby, and hallway. The door punctuates shifts from private phone call to public administrative exchange.

C.J.'s office doorway (the corridor threshold) functions here as the microstage where Carol stops Leo, offers the last cue, and physically separates the private hallway from the public forum; it marks the transition from backstage counsel to front-stage accountability.

The corridor doorway functions as the physical beat that separates family lightness from adult secrecy: Mallory uses it to leave and close the door, signaling the transition to a private, urgent exchange. The door's closing also implies a deliberate sealing off of the conversation from prying ears.

The corridor doorway serves as the threshold that turns a semi‑public office into a private confessional: Mallory crosses the threshold, plants a kiss, exits, and deliberately closes the door, creating the necessary privacy for Abbey's revelation and symbolically isolating the adult world of secrets from the adolescent sphere.

C.J.'s office doorway object represents the act of entry and privacy control; Charlie closes the door when Leo enters and later opens it to interrupt, its opening and closing rhythm marks the boundary between private confession and public demands.

A corridor/bedroom doorway functions as a threshold: Charlie closes it to give the President privacy, then opens it to admit Leo and later to interrupt the confession by announcing Lord Marbury — controlling access and rhythm of the scene.

C.J.'s office doorway object stands in for the bedroom's threshold action: Charlie opens the door to announce Toby's arrival. The doorway facilitates the transition from private diplomatic discussion to the staff-level rhetorical confrontation.

The office doorway frames entry and exit: C.J. opens it to enter, negotiates private threshold space for the kiss, and later bumps into it while leaving. The doorway compresses public/private lines — it’s the physical threshold between work and the intimate moment.

The office doorway mediates the encounter: C.J. calls in, opens the door to enter, and later exits through the same threshold. On her exit she awkwardly bumps into the door, a small physical stumble that punctuates the emotional release and the return to public composure.

The office doorway functions as the physical threshold where intimate banter, greetings, and the initial handoffs occur — Abbey and Marbury go to the door; Bartlet and Leo enter; the doorway frames the transition from private exchange to public address.

The doorway functions as the physical threshold where characters greet, exchange quick farewells, and step from corridor into the Mural Room; it frames the transitional choreography of arrivals and departures in this moment.

The office doorway functions as the physical threshold where Cathy knocks and intrudes; it mediates the transition from private conversation to institutional summons and marks the limit of seclusion inside Sam's office.

The office doorway functions as the threshold between public bullpen and Sam's private office. Mallory crosses it to enact the appointment; Sam closes it afterward, physically withdrawing and reasserting a desire for private containment after public exposure.

C.J.'s office doorway functions as the threshold between public hallway and private interrogation; Carol closes the door to give the meeting privacy, marking the tonal shift from flirtation to formal questioning.

C.J.'s office doorway is used practically to create privacy: Carol knocks, announces Zoey, and then closes the door, insulating the conversation from the hallway and transforming a passing encounter into a contained interrogation.

The office doorway is used as the entry point for C.J.'s interruption — a knock and an opening that shifts the scene's focus. It functions dramatically to allow external crisis to penetrate the private debate, and to momentarily separate Sam (who exits) from Mallory (who remains).

The office doorway facilitates the interruption: a knock and C.J.'s entrance convert a closed policy exchange into an operational communication; the door's opening marks the pivot from private debate to workplace crisis.