Object
C.J.'s Execution Briefing Folder (manila routing folder; S1E14 'Take This Sabbath Day')
A letter‑size routing folder—manila, slightly softened at the corners—holding a thin stack of stapled briefing pages, a clinical timetable of an execution, and a small inset photograph. The pages rustle when handled; margins carry penciled timing notes. C.J. fingers the top sheet mechanically, eyes tracing the sterile sequence as Mandy checks the packet. The folder sits between professional detachment and private unease, its printed timetable acting as a cold, tactile relay of state power.
2 appearances
Purpose
To contain and present concise briefing materials (timelines, memos, and identifying details) for staff review and for preparing the President and senior aides about the procedural timetable of an execution.
Significance
Functions as the emotional pivot that collapses bureaucratic distance—the sterile timetable inside personalizes state violence when C.J. reads the condemned's mother's name. The folder triggers C.J.'s moral unease and foreshadows later confession, converting administrative paperwork into a narrative fulcrum that raises stakes for the President and staff.
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