Gift Wrapped Package

A small package adorned with a big red bow, suggesting care and thoughtfulness in its presentation. Its dimensions indicate it holds a meaningful gift, likely to evoke emotional responses from the recipient. Characters handle the package with a mix of anticipation and nostalgia, indicating its significance.

6 appearances

Purpose

To serve as a gift, embodying personal sentiment and connection between characters.

Significance

The package signifies the warmth of friendship and loyalty, serving as a poignant reminder of shared experiences within moments of emotional vulnerability. It encapsulates themes of support amidst challenge and resonates deeply with the characters involved.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

6 moments

S3E9 · Bartlet for America (Restructured)

Bartlet Gifts Leo the Framed First-Meeting Napkin, Shattering His Stoicism

Bartlet stands from chair, picks up the small package with big red bow from adjacent table, walks to desk, and hands it to surprised but pleased Leo, who removes the bow to reveal the frame inside; serves as festive conduit to deeper symbolic gift.

Before: placed on table beside Bartlet's chair in office shadows

After: bow removed by Leo, package opened on or near desk

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S3E14 · Hartsfield's Landing

Bartlet Pivots from Chess Banter to China Crisis Imperative

Bartlet invokes the sandalwood and lacquered Stanton boxwood chess sets as clever trivia to parry press hounds at Andrews, later musing on gifting them to C.J.—narratively embodying strategic foresight amid Taiwan chessboard tensions, bridging India's diplomacy to U.S. brinkmanship.

Before: Recently arrived with Bartlet at Andrews, unpacked for admiration

After: Boxed for transport/gifting, en route in motorcade

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S3E14 · Hartsfield's Landing

Bartlet Decisively Orders Seventh Fleet into Taiwan Strait

Bartlet's sandalwood and boxwood chess sets from India's PM are referenced by the president during the call as 'beautiful chess sets,' serving as a wry strategic metaphor that humanizes the tension, pivots from grim naval calculus to personal alliance symbolism before the decisive order, underscoring geopolitical chessboard stakes.

Before: Gifted and recently received, likely in transit or Oval possession

After: Unchanged, symbolically elevated in conversation

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S3E14 · Hartsfield's Landing

Bartlet References Indian Chess Sets, Orders Seventh Fleet into Strait

Bartlet's sandalwood and boxwood chess sets, gifted by India's PM, invoked mid-call as metaphor for 'the play'—infusing Taiwan brinkmanship with strategic elegance, humanizing the colossus of naval orders.

Before: Gifted and admired earlier

After: Symbolically activated in decision rhetoric

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S3E14 · Hartsfield's Landing

C.J.'s Encyclopedic Music Trivia Quiz with Carol

Charlie bears a precarious pile of these exquisite sandalwood and boxwood chess sets from India's Prime Minister as he navigates the corridor, drawing C.J.'s immediate notice and query, symbolizing diplomatic gifts amid crisis diversion while underscoring his dutiful transport role in White House logistics.

Before: Stacked in Charlie's arms, en route for distribution

After: Still carried by Charlie post-interaction, undelivered

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S3E14 · Hartsfield's Landing

Charlie's Rigid Security Crackdown Tests C.J.'s Patience

Charlie carries a pile of boxes containing the exquisite sandalwood and boxwood chess sets—gifts from India's Prime Minister—as he navigates the corridor, prompting C.J.'s inquiry and underscoring Bartlet's strategic mindset motif amid Taiwan crisis diplomacy; they symbolize foresight and control in the narrative.

Before: Packed in stacked boxes, carried by Charlie through corridor

After: Still in boxes held by Charlie, en route for distribution

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