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Evidentiary Bottle of Vicodin (prescription tablets)

A small amber prescription pill bottle used as a tangible piece of evidence in the 'Mandatory Minimums' press confrontation. The bottle bears a pharmacy label with patient/dosage blocks smudged or redacted, shows scuffs and recent fingerprints, and contains white oblong opioid tablets. The bottle is set on the lectern by Leo McGarry and invoked to turn an abstract policy critique into a concrete accusation. Source materials disagree on the precise branded drug name (Percocet vs. Vicodin); both labels appear in cataloging notes, so this canonical description intentionally remains drug‑agnostic while preserving physical and narrative details.

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2 moments

S1E20 · Mandatory Minimums

Public Trap, Private Spark

Percocet is invoked alongside Vicodin to emphasize that the theft concerned schedule‑two narcotics. The mention raises legal stakes and underpins Leo's point that lenient outcomes for privileged defendants contradict the administration's policy stance.

Before: Part of the hospital incident records and legal classification; not presented physically during the encounter.

After: Serves as rhetorical ammunition for the White House; its mention contributes to press headlines but it is not physically altered.

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S1E20 · Mandatory Minimums

Leo's Press Trap: Exposing Congressional Hypocrisy

The Percocet bottle is named alongside Vicodin to underline the legal penalties for theft of schedule‑two medications and to provide factual weight to Leo and Toby's public shaming strategy.

Before: Referenced in the context of a hospital theft; not present in the press room.

After: Remains an evidentiary reference; used as rhetorical ammunition in the White House's pressure campaign.

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