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Location

Baltimore

Flames ravage Baltimore's train tunnel, surging to 1,500°F as nuclear trucks melt past design thresholds, spewing acrid smoke through concrete veins and igniting national panic. Leo's briefing hurls the distant inferno into Oval Office tension—sirens wail unseen, steel buckles under unrelenting heat, radiation ghosts loom in the haze, thrusting presidents into crisis command amid charred rail relics and urban dread.
2 events
2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S4E9 · Swiss Diplomacy
A President's Promise: Mohebi Agrees to Operate

Baltimore is named as the definitive surgical destination Bartlet orders — the tertiary city that will host the complex heart-and-lung transplant and the protective infrastructure the President invokes. Its naming raises the scale of the operation from isolated act to national-level response.

Atmosphere

High-stakes and consequential by implication; a place where institutional resources and public credibility will be tested.

Functional Role

Treatment destination and staging ground for the specialized transplant operation.

Symbolic Significance

Embodies American medical capability and the administration's willingness to act; a stage for U.S. humanitarian power.

Access Restrictions

Medical facilities in Baltimore will be controlled and secured for the operation; access limited to medical teams and authorized personnel.

Urban hospital infrastructure capable of complex transplants. Implied security measures and coordinated logistics for an international, politically sensitive patient transfer.
S3E17 · Stirred
Leo Briefs Bartlet on Burning Nuclear Trucks and Stolen Rig Amid Pager Banter

Leo invokes its train tunnel fire hitting 1,500°F to explain trucks' design failure, paralleling Baltimore's meltdown to heighten peril of Idaho's beyond-specs blaze.

Atmosphere

Infernal with buckling steel and acrid haze

Functional Role

comparative hazard reference

Symbolic Significance

Precedent for uncontainable nuclear fire

1,500°F surging flames Smoke veiling concrete veins

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

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S4E9 · Swiss Diplomacy
A President's Promise: Mohebi Agrees to Operate

In the Outer Oval, President Bartlet confronts Dr. Essan Mohebi — the only surgeon capable of a life‑saving heart-and-lung transplant for the Ayatollah's teenage son. Mohebi refuses on moral grounds …

S3E17 · Stirred
Leo Briefs Bartlet on Burning Nuclear Trucks and Stolen Rig Amid Pager Banter

Leo enters the Oval Office fresh from his AA meeting, facing Bartlet's playful ribbing about his sobriety 'luxury' and missing pager, which Bartlet cheekily retrieves from his pocket. Leo delivers …