Paeonia Japonica Spot in the Arboretum

Not onscreen but conjured as quiet, secretive, nocturnal—the kind of place for furtive sentimental acts.

Emotional landscape and memory site; a destination for the proposed retrieval and reconciliation.

Represents personal rites and the private life that contrasts with public political duties.

Public garden space that would require discretion to excavate at night (socially restricted by decorum if not legally).

Not physically present in the scene, but imagined as serene and secluded—a quiet garden nook that contrasts with the office's public urgency.

Sentimental site and narrative MacGuffin whose existence catalyzes the conversation and later action.

Symbolizes private ritual, hope deferred, class intimacy, and the gap between intention and outcome.

Public garden but typically requiring nighttime stealth for private digs; generally accessible but socially inappropriate to excavate openly.

Intimate and memory-laden in the telling; contrasts sharply with the clinical street mood.

Concrete locator for investigators to verify statements and corroborate movements.

Represents a shared past now weaponized as evidence of innocence/chronology.

Not physically restricted in this event; a recollected site for investigators to check later.