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Missouri

Missouri detonates in the Counsel's office crucible as Abbey Bartlet wields it like a blade—one of three states for her license's ritual disembowelment. Suspension dangles here amid Jed's terms, fines bite, practitioners' data bank swallows her record, boards shatter under resignation. The name crackles with sacrificial voltage, a Midwestern regulatory colossus where medical oaths hemorrhage into political absolution, opponents' 'win' purchased on ethics' altar.
2 events
2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S3E6 · Gone Quiet
Oliver Vehemently Rejects Abbey's License Suspension Ploy

Missouri emerges as a key jurisdiction in Abbey's triad of sacrificial states, invoked to detail her license suspension gambit—fines, data bank entry, board exits—positioning it as a regulatory battleground where medical ethics yield to political absolution.

Atmosphere

Remote yet oppressively looming in discussion

Functional Role

Referential site of proposed regulatory penalty

Symbolic Significance

Midwestern colossus of bureaucratic sacrifice

Named in tense dialogue Evokes practitioner oversight structures
S4E9 · Swiss Diplomacy
Post‑Victory Banter to Diplomatic Emergency

Missouri is named as an active domestic crisis (flooding) that competes for the administration's attention and resources, surfacing Leo's duty to balance internal emergencies with extraterritorial requests.

Atmosphere

Implied urgency and humanitarian need; a reminder of domestic responsibilities.

Functional Role

A competing pressure point that tempers the administration's bandwidth and political risk tolerance.

Symbolic Significance

Represents the domestic constituency and crises that limit Washington's capacity to prioritize foreign humanitarian requests.

Reference to flooding Mention of FEMA already on the ground

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

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S3E6 · Gone Quiet
Oliver Vehemently Rejects Abbey's License Suspension Ploy

In a tense showdown, First Lady Abbey Bartlet proposes a humiliating self-sacrifice: voluntarily suspending her medical license in three states for the duration of President Bartlet's terms, paying fines, entering …

S4E9 · Swiss Diplomacy
Post‑Victory Banter to Diplomatic Emergency

Fresh off a decisive re‑election, President Bartlet strolls into the Oval Office trading gleeful, self‑assured jabs with C.J. and Leo — a comic, domineering display that reasserts his mandate and …