C.J.'s Pocket Briefing Notebook (recurring personal notebook)

C.J.'s compact pocket notebook is referenced as missing — a small, humanizing prop that signals distraction and exhaustion and offers Danny an opening to get closer. The notebook functions narratively as a reason for C.J. to pause, look around, and be accessible to Danny's approach, enabling the hallway follow and the private exchange.

C.J.'s pocket briefing notebook is referenced when C.J. instructs Danny to 'bring your notebook' to their 'business' dinner, functioning as a theatrical detail that re-frames the date as professional cover and underscores C.J.'s control over how the encounter will be perceived.

Zoey's pocket notebook serves as a casual prop that initiates playful banter when Charlie reads her notes aloud. It then becomes a pivot: the lightheartedness of recorded facts (historical injustices) refracts into present-day racial danger, underscoring thematic resonance between past and current threats.

Zoey's small notebook is seized by Charlie and read aloud; its historical facts become a rhetorical instrument that Charlie uses to frame the present threat in a longer racial history, turning a private list of facts into an accusatory provocation and emotional accelerant.

A small pocket briefing notebook appears in Sam's hands as he gives the President the remarks; when Sam realizes a critical omission he slams the notebook, using it as a physical punctuation for his panic and signaling a last-second preparation failure to the surrounding staff.

A pocket notebook (represented in the scene by Sam slamming his notebook) functions as the tactile evidence of preparation — slammed in frustration when Sam realizes he forgot something, underlining backstage disorder even as the President goes onstage.