French Doors

Savage winds violently hurl the veranda door wide open, unleashing torrential rain that floods the Oval Office and mirrors Bartlet's inner chaos, prompting his desperate call for Landingham; it swings open again to admit her apparition, serving as a chaotic atmospheric catalyst that blurs reality and hallucination while amplifying the scene's emotional tempest.

Abruptly wrenched wide open by howling winds amid thunderous roar, flooding the Oval Office with sheets of rain that amplify Bartlet's isolation and frustration—his shout for Mrs. Landingham directly triggered by the breach, symbolizing invading chaos that summons her hallucinatory presence and mirrors his soul's tempest.

Serves as the storm-battered threshold Bartlet traverses into pounding rain for symbolic purification, its prior breach by savage winds amplifying chaos invading the Oval's sanctum; functionally enables the cleansing ritual bridging hallucination to action, narratively marking transition from inward turmoil to outward duty.

Stands agape as the veranda threshold Bartlet traverses into the pouring rain for symbolic purification, its openness invaded by storm winds and sheets of water that mirror his inner turmoil; later facilitates his resolute return inside, framing the pivot from solitary grief to communal resolve amid the swelling anthem.

The French doors provide President Bartlet's exit route from the Outer Oval Office to the outside after pocketing his glasses, their glass panes and wooden frame framing his retreat as a poignant symbol of escape from the mediated savagery of the hearing into vulnerable solitude.

The French doors provide Bartlet's exit route from the Outer Oval after viewing the TV hearing; their glass panes frame his somber departure, symbolizing a barrier between public duty and private reckoning amid the intensifying scandal.