Location

Danny Concannon's Apartment (S01E18)

A private, domestic apartment where late-night routines and quiet vigilance meet: the living room hums with a dim lamp and the tinny, persistent whine of a police scanner. Coffee cups, a tossed coat, and a small stack of newspapers collect near a threadbare couch, staging a private journalism ritual that converts raw information into urgent action. The space reads as an intimate intelligence node — comfort shading into professional alertness — and functions as the origin of the midnight tip that propels C.J.'s office from celebration to crisis.

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Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S1E18 · Six Meetings Before Lunch

Dance, Scanner, and a Quiet Blow

Danny's home is the offstage locus where the police scanner was monitored; it supplies the raw information that propels the scene. Although the conversation occurs in C.J.'s office, the listener's private vigilance at home is what collapses the party's privacy into the West Wing's crisis timeline.

Atmosphere

Quiet, watchful, intimate (implied) — a lone reporter's vigilance in the small hours.

Functional Role

Information origin point / intelligence node.

Symbolic Significance

Represents the press as a persistent, extra-institutional monitor that can turn private events into public business.

Late-night silence punctuated by the scanner's crackle (implied). Personal clutter and habit (coat, newspapers) that mark domestic-late-night reporting rituals.

S1E18 · Six Meetings Before Lunch

Afterglow to Alarm — Scanner Reveals David's Arrest and Zoey's Presence

Danny's home is the origin of the tip: the intimate, private environment where he monitors a police scanner and first hears the arrest report, which he then carries into the public/political space of C.J.'s office.

Atmosphere

Quiet, domestic, and alert — a solitary listening post turned newsroom by midnight vigilance.

Functional Role

Intelligence node — the physical place where the scoop originates before being delivered to power.

Symbolic Significance

Contrasts private diligence with public consequence, showing how journalism intercepts and amplifies events.

Access Restrictions

Private residence; access limited to invited guests like reporters or friends.

Dim domestic lighting and the tinny crackle of a scanner A quiet, solitary mood that belies the explosive information it contains

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

S1E18 · Six Meetings Before Lunch

Dance, Scanner, and a Quiet Blow

After a late-night celebration for Mendoza's confirmation, C.J. surrenders to a rare private moment—dancing to 'The Jackal' and sipping champagne—when Danny arrives, having listened to his police scanner. Their easy, …

S1E18 · Six Meetings Before Lunch

Afterglow to Alarm — Scanner Reveals David's Arrest and Zoey's Presence

C.J. is savoring a hard-won win when Danny slips into her office with midnight news from his police scanner: David Arbor has been arrested for felony drug possession and — …