Object

Raqim Ali's Older Telephone Wire

Backpack zipper rasps open in shadowed office gloom, disgorging a coiled older telephone wire under Leo McGarry's suspicion-laced glare; Raqim Ali snatches narrative control, branding it innocuous relic for resurrecting M-waves on his creaky computer motherboard, apartment antiquity demanding the fix as tension surges through defiant explanation.

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Purpose

Upgrading M-waves on computer motherboard using compatible older telephone wire

Significance

Catalyzes Leo's aggressive profiling probe, shattering Ali's restraint into fury and exposing post-9/11 suspicion's corrosive human toll; seeds Leo's path to apology amid crisis gravity.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S3E0 · Isaac and Ishmael

Leo's Prejudice-Laden Grill of Raqim Ali

Leo initiates interrogation by demanding explanation of the coiled older telephone wire from Ali's backpack, which Ali defensively clarifies as essential for upgrading M-waves on his outdated apartment computer's motherboard, a mundane relic transformed into a symbol of suspected sabotage amid lockdown paranoia.

Before: Coiled inside Raqim Ali's backpack under suspicion

After: Explained as innocuous computer repair part, tension around it diffused but interrogation continues

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