Object
Laurie's Communications Law Textbook
A law textbook used as a study aid, carried and kept open in Laurie's lap while she studies for Communications Law. The book functions as a portable anchor in the cramped diner booth, its pages consulted amid hurried notes and interruptions. Characters touch and reference it indirectly: Laurie balances it while pressed for time; Sam's behavior and the small theft of her sandwich occur around it, marking the object as part of the scene's intimate, fraught geometry.
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Purpose
Serve as a study aid and reference for Laurie's Communications Law coursework.
Significance
The book locates Laurie as a student under time pressure and frames the personal/professional tension in the scene. It reinforces her vulnerability and ambition, grounding the micro-conflict (humiliation and power imbalance) that later escalates when Laurie appears publicly with Carl Everett.
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