Paris
Detailed Involvements
Events with rich location context
Paris beckons as sanctuary endpoint, Dragon and battered Cobras vectoring toward its runways per urgent radio confirms, its promise of safety tempering the firefight's blood-cost and underscoring op's fragile path to reprieve.
Distant haven of secure reprieve
Safe extraction destination for assets
Alliance-backed relief from Haitian inferno
Secured allied airbase
Paris is referenced as the waypoint where Swissair will land en route to Tehran, a logistical hub tying the European leg to the long Tehran flight.
Functional waypoint — quiet in-scene but crucial to the transport chain.
Transit hub in the organ and personnel corridor to Tehran.
Represents international routing that complicates jurisdiction and timing.
Airport and airspace subject to international clearance.
Events at This Location
Everything that happens here
In the tense Situation Room, Leo anxiously monitors Operation Swift Fury as Cobras secure positions and Dragon lifts off with 53 Americans and Dessaline, sparking collective relief and applause. Abrupt …
In a brisk, tensioned scene that pivots the episode, Bartlet and Leo move from hallway banter into a fraught Situation Room briefing and Bartlet makes the moral call to proceed. …