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Kensington Indio's Anchor

Lieutenant Emily Lowenbrau grips the Outer Oval's tension as she briefs: Indio's captain drops this massive chain and fluke into roiling seas ten miles offshore, desperate to halt the steering-dead tanker's drift—yet the linkage snaps viciously, unleashing 18-knot momentum across six brutal miles to shore-smashing collision. Sam, Charlie, Ginger, and President Bartlet absorb the failure's grim mechanics amid stacked crises.

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S2E19 · Bad Moon Rising

Sam Receives Stark Briefing on Kensington Indio Oil Disaster

Kensington Indio's anchor central to Emily's briefing—dropped ten miles offshore post-steering loss but snaps viciously, failing to halt 18-knot drift over six miles to shore-smashing collision, embodying mechanical betrayal that escalates environmental apocalypse in White House intel relay.

Before: Deployed intact in roiling seas ten miles offshore

After: Severed and lost, propelling tanker uncontrollably shoreward

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