Object

Broken Glass Bottles (Scene Evidence — Improvised Weapons)

A cluster of glass bottles, likely common beer or liquor bottles, battered and partially broken with jagged rims, scuffed labels and sticky residue. Small-to-medium in size (handheld), showing impact chips and possible blood or grime traces inferred from their use as thrown weapons. Characters reference the bottles as evidence of a brutal Minnesota hate crime; staffers treat them as concrete proof of violence, using their existence to shape a public messaging response.

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Purpose

Improvised weapons—thrown at a victim during a hate-motivated assault and presented as physical evidence of that violence.

Significance

They function as visceral, tangible proof of brutality that anchors the administration's decision to frame a political moment around hate-crimes legislation. The bottles convert a private act of violence into a public moral touchstone, forcing staff to choose between ethical clarity and political expediency.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S1E10 · In Excelsis Deo

Holiday Banter to Ethical Standoff

Broken glass bottles are named as the objects hurled at the victim; like the rocks and the tree, they translate remote brutality into a moral argument that Leo uses to justify a public, values-based response.

Before: At the Minnesota scene, battered and partly broken as evidence of the assault.

After: Remain at the crime scene; their mention in the office shifts the policy conversation and public messaging strategy.

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