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Bruno's Cell Phone

Bruno's cell phone shrills through the Manchester Hotel room's thickening silence, slicing Toby's parting sarcasm as ideological knives retract. Bruno lunges for it, thumb jabbing answer amid crumpled speech drafts and Doug's stunned hover—screen pulses urgent blue in night shadows, receiver clamped to jaw, yanking the strategist from values-war wreckage into fresh unseen summons.

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S3E2 · Manchester Part II

Toby's Sarcastic Dismantling of the 'Values' Speech

Bruno's cell phone rings piercingly at the climax of Toby's outburst, shattering the argument's tension and pulling Bruno away from the values debate into an unseen urgent call; it symbolizes external pressures intruding on internal staff fractures, shifting focus from rhetoric wars to broader campaign demands.

Before: Silent and present in the room, likely on the table or nearby

After: Actively in use, clamped to Bruno's ear as he responds tersely

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