Baggage Claim Luggage Belt

The luggage belt rumbles steadily through the airport terminal's baggage claim area, its black rubber surface ferrying suitcases and cardboard boxes past waiting passengers. A staffer tugs boxes from the stream, their labels marking Senator Hardin's group, and Donna sidles close, seizing the moment to probe with casual questions about the contents and destination.

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Purpose

Transports arriving luggage from aircraft to passenger claim area

Significance

Draws Donna's attention to the staffer retrieving Hardin's boxes, sparking her ruse with a borrowed envelope to extract the senator's luncheon location and reroute the team's pursuit

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When this object appears and how it's used

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S4E12 · Guns Not Butter

Donna Locates Hardin — Luncheon Lead

The luggage belt's steady churn provides the circumstance for Donna's observation and approach; the moving stream allows staffers to be identified by the boxes they remove and creates the public, chaotic cover for her ruse.

Before: Operating normally, cycling luggage and boxes through the terminal carousel.

After: Continues cycling; boxes have been removed by staff and the belt returns to carrying other luggage.

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