Location
18th and Potomac
Headlights flare reckless as a drunk driver ignores the red glare at 18th and Potomac, accelerating into doom—metal crumples, glass explodes, Mrs. Landingham's new car absorbs the fatal impact. This unyielding urban crossroads claims lives in a heartbeat, tires screeching defiance against caution, leaving devastation that ripples through White House corridors, etching eternal loss into D.C.'s concrete veins.
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S2E21
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18th and Potomac
Charlie Delivers Crushing News of Mrs. Landingham's Death to Leo
Explicitly cited multiple times as the fatal intersection where the drunk driver ignored the red light and accelerated at high speed into Mrs. Landingham's car, causing her instantaneous death; this off-screen urban tragedy invades the Oval's sanctity, grounding the White House frenzy in visceral human cost amid Haitian coups and poll plummets.
Atmosphere
Reckless chaos of screeching tires and crumpling metal, now echoing as a site of irrevocable loss
Functional Role
Origin point of the referenced accident delivering death's news
Symbolic Significance
Harsh emblem of random mortality slicing through political invincibility
Red traffic light brazenly defied
High-speed vehicular impact zone
Urban D.C. crossroads at night
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