Object
Shareef's Pen Recorder
Sniper's gloved fingers plunge into Abdul Shareef's lifeless chest pocket at the remote Bermuda airstrip, ripping free the pen recorder—Bartlet's authorizing voice sealed within its sleek shell, disguised as innocuous ink. He jams it into a waiting phone under night-vision glare, transmission igniting as confirmation signal races to Fitzwallace's ringing line in the Situation Room, bodyguards' corpses sprawl silent witnesses to the die cast.
3 appearances
Purpose
Records presidential voice authorization for assassination and transmits pre-recorded confirmation signal upon target's elimination
Significance
Crystallizes Bartlet's covert order into irreversible execution proof, binding commanders in shared complicity while his theater shadow stretches alone, moral chasm widening with each relayed beep.
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