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Plutonium-Armed Chinese Satellite

Donna's breath hitches in the Outer Oval's night hush, unleashing dread of this colossal Chinese behemoth: plutonium heart throbbing within its decaying shell, barreling Earthward at devastating velocity. Charlie pores over peril with her; Abbey's sigh twists cosmic crash into personal lament, panic rippling through staff veins amid deeper shadows.

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S2E20 · The Fall's Gonna Kill You

Donna's Plutonium Panic: Charlie's Deadpan Banter on Crashing Satellite

The plutonium-armed Chinese satellite dominates conversation as Donna's briefed threat—tracked seven years, type unknown (communications, weather, spy), potentially nuclear-powered—its 'devastating velocity' descent fuels banter turning to terror, symbolizing uncontrollable crises paralleling the MS scandal's fallout, compartmentalizing staff dread.

Before: Orbiting/decaying undetected by public media, tracked covertly by U.S.

After: Same trajectory, now verbally escalated in White House awareness via plutonium specter

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S2E20 · The Fall's Gonna Kill You

Donna's Satellite Panic Elicits Abbey's Weary 'Tell Me About It'

Donna invokes the plutonium-armed Chinese satellite as a 'giant object hurtling its way towards us at devastating velocity,' channeling fresh plutonium terror into her plea to Abbey; it functions as oblivious staff panic trigger, ironically dwarfed by Abbey's unspoken MS cataclysm for savage thematic contrast.

Before: Decaying orbit, contents speculated as plutonium-laden, unreported by media

After: Impending crash threat amplified in conversation, still hurtling unchecked

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