Alexandria Clinic Incubator

The incubator at the Alexandria fertility clinic endures a 45-minute power blackout that destroys Toby and Andy's stored sperm samples. Andy corners Toby outside the interim office with the urgent news, prompting his visceral recoil at returning to the clinic for a replacement amid grotesque logistics. Toby refuses, prioritizing the inauguration five days away; the Welsh nurse had been present during the failure.

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S4E5 · Debate Camp

Incubator Blackout — Delay for Inauguration

The Alexandria Clinic incubator is named as the device that lost power for 45 minutes, directly causing the sample's compromise and serving narratively as the technical trigger that forces the personal crisis into the political timeline.

Before: Functioning as the storage device for frozen samples; holding Toby and Andy's sample.

After: Experienced a 45-minute power loss that destroyed samples stored within, including Toby's, necessitating new collection.

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S4E5 · Debate Camp

Toby Chooses the Swearing‑In — Rooker Named AG

The incubator at Alexandria is described as having lost power for 45 minutes, thereby destroying stored samples. It functions narratively as the external mechanical failure that forces the private crisis into the political timeline.

Before: Operational, storing clients' biological samples as expected.

After: Suffered a 45-minute power outage which destroyed the samples (including Toby's), precipitating the urgent request.

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