Josh's Evidence-Dissolving Drink

Josh clutches his drink in the humming airport concourse, its liquid payload unleashing fury on the napkin scrawled with covert MS poll secrets—paper shreds curling, ink bleeding into oblivion as he grinds the pulp underfoot, Joey's flight vanishing down the jetway. Witnesses hover: Joey's sharp gaze, Donna's distant shadow, President's stakes looming unspoken; the vessel empties in ritual erasure, coaster-dry remnants tossed aside amid subpoena shadows.

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Purpose

Dissolve and destroy incriminating napkin notes to erase evidence of covert polling operation

Significance

Severs physical trace of conspiracy escalation, locking outsider Joey into deniable fold while shielding Bartlet MS disclosure strategy from grand jury peril—trust fractures into calculated oblivion

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S2E20 · The Fall's Gonna Kill You

Josh's Urgent Airport Recruitment of Joey for Covert MS Proxy Poll

Josh's drink serves as ritualistic destroyer: napkin bearing MS-proxy poll secrets is carefully crumpled and submerged, liquid assault bleeding ink into pulp underfoot grind, symbolizing ruthless evidence purge in public venue, ensuring Joey's outsider buy-in leaves no trace amid subpoena shadows.

Before: Intact beverage in glass on bar table, casually held during talk

After: Contaminated with dissolving napkin remnants, coaster-dry after disposal

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