Marianthall

Marianthall lives next door to Tal Cregg in Dayton. Tal brings him up while greeting C.J. at his cluttered house, correcting his slip from 'Moyers' to 'Marianthall' during talk of curfews, Manhattans, and cigarettes. The error marks Tal's Alzheimer's through routine neighbor recall. Marianthall grounds Tal's fading local life, heightening C.J.'s confrontation with her father's decline and the pull of family duty against her White House role.

2 appearances

Marianthall's Journey

A timeline through the narrative

2 moments

S4E13 · The Long Goodbye

Rituals of Denial

Not applicable—name invoked as evidence rather than a person with interiority in scene.

Marianthall appears only as the corrected name Tal uses instead of 'Moyers', demonstrating a small cognitive slip that signals memory erosion.

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S4E13 · The Long Goodbye

Zabaglione and the Long Goodbye

Functions as a corrective fact; no direct emotion in scene.

Mentioned as the correct neighbor name when Tal misnames him as Moyers; the slip underscores Tal's memory lapses.

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