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Jill Sobule's 'Heroes'

Jill Sobule performs 'Heroes' on stage at Club Iota, her pop rendition drifting through the night air as C.J., Toby, Josh, and Waiter Cynthia share drinks nearby. The song's melody frames their raw exchange—C.J. presses the moral urgency of intervention by invoking soldiers as 'someone's kids,' while Toby demands hard human-cost calculus. Music softens the club's edge yet amplifies the debate's personal stakes.

2 appearances

Purpose

Delivers live background music in the club during senior staff conversation

Significance

Underscores the ideological clash on military intervention, personalizes abstract policy with human imagery, and signals rising emotional and political costs ahead of the President's choice

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S4E15 · Inauguration Part II: Over There

Club Iota: 'Somebody's Kids' — Moral Clash in Plain Sight

Jill Sobule's song 'Heroes' plays on stage throughout the exchange, its lyrics ('Why are all our heroes so imperfect?') threading the debate with melancholy and framing the moral complexity of sending soldiers into harm's way.

Before: Song is being performed on stage as the scene opens, setting tone.

After: The performance continues to provide atmospheric underscore; lyrics remain a subtextual counterpoint to the table's argument.

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S4E15 · Inauguration Part II: Over There

Someone's Kids: The Moral Argument for Intervention

Jill Sobule's live performance of 'Heroes' functions as an audible and thematic backdrop: its lyrics about imperfect heroes and lost crowns punctuate the staff's argument, heightening irony and giving the debate an elegiac cadence that frames the moral stakes.

Before: Playing on stage in Club Iota, setting the night's mood.

After: Continues performing; the song's refrains linger as the argument resolves into rhetorical stances.

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