Object

Besieging Troops' A-15s

A-15 rifles bristle in the fists of 1,200 troops hunkered outside the Haitian embassy gates, muzzles hungry and locked on the compound as four 105mm howitzers gape their maws at the front door. Nancy's voice cracks through the Situation Room frenzy, tallying their firepower against fading embassy power and a diabetic deputy chief's vanishing insulin, Leo's demands sharpening the peril while Bartlet's gaze drifts to church bells.

3 appearances

Purpose

Arming 1,200 besieging troops for assault on the Haitian embassy alongside 105mm howitzers

Significance

Overwhelming threat amplifies siege desperation, outgunning 37 Marines inside and propelling Nancy's push for Fitzwallace negotiations amid Bartlet's grief-fueled dissociation, duty clashing against personal fracture

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

3 moments

S2E22 · Two Cathedrals

Situation Room Briefing on Besieged Haitian Embassy

Nancy reports the 1,200 besieging troops armed with A-15s positioned outside the embassy gates, their rifles amplifying the immediate assault threat and ratcheting tension in the Situation Room briefing as symbolic of junta aggression.

Before: Positioned outside embassy gates, armed and ready

After: Still trained on embassy, threat unresolved

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S2E22 · Two Cathedrals

Church Bells Trigger Bartlet's Flashback to Smoking Reprimand and First Landingham Meeting

Nancy tallies 1200 troops armed with these rifles positioned outside embassy gates, underscoring the escalating military encirclement that heightens crisis urgency even as Bartlet dissociates into flashback.

Before: Deployed and positioned threateningly outside gates

After: Locked on embassy, amplifying siege tension

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S2E22 · Two Cathedrals

Leo Drives Tense Embassy Crisis Briefing

Nancy tallies them in hands of 1,200 besiegers at gates, pairing with howitzers to paint encirclement's lethal perimeter, ratcheting tension toward door-trained apocalypse.

Before: Positioned threateningly outside gates

After: Locked on embassy, threat quantified

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