Dover

Dover surfaces in the Zoey Bartlet kidnapping investigation as the city housing the Kinko's from which kidnappers fax a ransom demand: a Polaroid showing Zoey drugged with GHB, plus calls for prisoner releases and U.S. withdrawal from Qumar. Late-night security footage catches a partial license plate on the attackers' getaway car, handing investigators their initial break. The city's everyday anonymity shields covert actions until federal scrutiny pierces it.

2 events

2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S4E23 · Twenty-Five

Ransom Fax — Zoey Held; Bartlet Orders the 5th Fleet

Dover is the geographic origin of the Kinko's self-serve from which the ransom fax was sent; its footage yields the partial license-plate lead linking the crime to a rented minivan.

Atmosphere

Implied mundane suburban normalcy made sinister by being repurposed as an instrument of terror.

Functional Role

Point of origin for the ransom transmission and a source of investigative evidence.

Symbolic Significance

Shows how ordinary commercial spaces can be co-opted into international crises.

Access Restrictions

Public-access business; footage obtained by law enforcement under warrant or request.

Security camera capturing a partial license plate A public fax machine used for anonymous transmission

S4E23 · Twenty-Five

Bartlet Sends the 5th Fleet — A Calibrated Escalation

Dover is the investigative locus where the Kinko's used to send the ransom fax is located; it provides the mundane, domestic origin of an internationally consequential act.

Atmosphere

Ordinary storefront surveillance turned consequential by federal scrutiny.

Functional Role

Investigative locale and origin point for the ransom transmission.

Symbolic Significance

Shows how global terror can be routed through everyday infrastructure.

Access Restrictions

Public business but its footage and records are now under law-enforcement control.

Self-serve fax machine and security camera Small-town normalcy contrasted with federal interest

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

S4E23 · Twenty-Five

Ransom Fax — Zoey Held; Bartlet Orders the 5th Fleet

A quick, brutal escalation: forensic results confirm Zoey was drugged with GHB, turning a disappearance into a deliberate abduction. Leo hands Bartlet a faxed Polaroid and a translated ransom that …

S4E23 · Twenty-Five

Bartlet Sends the 5th Fleet — A Calibrated Escalation

In the Oval Office, fresh forensic evidence and a ransom fax transform a private nightmare into a national crisis. Admiral Fitzwallace demands immediate strikes; Nancy McNally warns escalation will make …