Psychiatric Institution
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The psychiatric institution is named as the likely location of Lord John Marbury, casting him as an effective but unstable resource and introducing moral and logistical complications about retrieving a troubled yet influential figure.
Offstage, suggested as sterile and restrictive—a place of exile for volatility.
Source location for the expert the President intends to extract—implies containment and stigma.
Symbolizes the fine line between madness and genius, and institutional attempts to sequester inconvenient brilliance.
Heavily controlled; not easily or casually accessed without institutional permissions.
A psychiatric institution is named as the likely location where Marbury can be found, used rhetorically to underline his instability and to heighten staff alarm at the President's choice.
Mentioned with a sense of concern and dismissal — implies isolation and removal from standard diplomatic circles.
Repository for the eccentric expert; a logistical hint for where to retrieve the wildcard.
Signals the administration is considering bringing in someone outside normal diplomatic credibility—blurring lines between expertise and unorthodoxy.
Implied to be restricted and not part of normal diplomatic channels.
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