Toby's Filled-Out Marriage License

Toby thrusts a stack of papers at pregnant ex-wife Andy outside Saybrook Institute, burying the pre-filled marriage license among campaign prep sheets—defense policy answers, procurement examples, IRC picks, a 60-second Rwanda response. The official form carries Toby's handwriting in key fields, his personal gambit hidden in professional urgency. Andy grabs the tasks, signs off on work, but shoves back the license with flat refusal, her boundary firm amid Sam and Josh's distant glances.

2 appearances

Purpose

Legal form to record and authorize Toby and Andy's remarriage once signed

Significance

Toby slips it into work papers to pressure remarriage; Andy's rejection underscores her emotional limits despite campaign loyalty, fueling staff mockery and exposing Toby's blurred personal-professional lines

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S4E5 · Debate Camp

Paperwork and a Boundary

The filled‑out marriage license is explicitly presented as part of the stack—a personal, legal document awkwardly bundled with campaign materials—serving as Toby's covert personal request embedded in professional urgency.

Before: In Toby's possession, included among campaign papers.

After: Carried away with the papers by Andy, though she verbally refuses to remarry (the document remains a personal item not acted upon in this scene).

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S4E5 · Debate Camp

Courtyard: Debate Prep, Domestic Lines, and the Rooker Tiff

Toby explicitly asks Andy to fill out a filled-out marriage license that he presses into the same packet as campaign materials; narratively it functions as a personal gambit hidden inside professional urgency and as a test of Andy's boundaries.

Before: In Toby's possession or freshly prepared as part of a stack of documents to hand to Andy.

After: Taken by Andy along with the other papers but effectively refused as a personal commitment; remains unsigned and unused in the bundle she walks off with.

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