Object
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.
1 appearances
Purpose
Receiving and answering incoming calls during high-stakes campaign strategy sessions
Significance
Explodes the tense rift between Toby's idealism and consultants' optics, hauling Bruno outward and amplifying fractures in the Bartlet campaign's war-room unity
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