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Laurie's Communications Law Textbook

A law textbook used as a study aid, carried and kept open in Laurie's lap while she studies for Communications Law. The book functions as a portable anchor in the cramped diner booth, its pages consulted amid hurried notes and interruptions. Characters touch and reference it indirectly: Laurie balances it while pressed for time; Sam's behavior and the small theft of her sandwich occur around it, marking the object as part of the scene's intimate, fraught geometry.

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S1E7 · The State Dinner

Boundary Bite

Laurie's Communications Law book rests open in her lap throughout the exchange, signifying her immediate priority and grounding her identity as a law student. It punctuates Laurie’s pleas about needing to study and visually contrasts Sam’s casualness.

Before: Open in Laurie's lap, being referenced mentally and physically as she prepares for Com Law class.

After: Still in her lap, open and unconsulted while she reacts to Sam's provocation and the sandwich theft.

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