Location

Qais

Jet engines scream as Leo thrusts Qais onto screens—tanker ghosts out from its salt-crusted piers, black-market oil sloshing in defiance of sanctions. Suspicion coils around hidden cranes and fog-shrouded bays where Cyprus flags slip moorings, birthing intercepts across heaving seas. Bartlet nods through noise, resolve hardening against this evasion nexus pulsing with geopolitical defiance.

2 events

2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S2E7 · The Portland Trip

Bartlet Mishears Tanker Brief as 'Michigan Sucks' Amid Engine Roar

Qais piers cited as tanker's evasion origin in Leo's intel dump, tracking its Cyprus-flagged flight to Gulf intercept; evokes shadowy smuggling hub, hardening narrative pivot to aggressive boarding amid tarmac frenzy.

Atmosphere

Fog-shrouded, illicit departure implied

Functional Role

Sanctions evasion launch point

Symbolic Significance

Nexus of geopolitical defiance

Access Restrictions

Foreign port beyond direct US reach

Salt-crusted piers Hidden cranes in fog

S2E7 · The Portland Trip

Bartlet’s Playful Tanker Update and 'Let’s Hit the Sky!' Departure Rally

Qais cited as tanker's evasion origin, tracking path fueling sanctions suspicion in Leo's update; distills contraband source into briefing soundbite, hardening Bartlet's interdiction nod amid engine din.

Atmosphere

Implied fog-shrouded piers of defiance

Functional Role

Sanctions evasion origin point in intel relay

Symbolic Significance

Nexus of black-market geopolitics

Salt-crusted piers Hidden cranes in fog

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

S2E7 · The Portland Trip

Bartlet Mishears Tanker Brief as 'Michigan Sucks' Amid Engine Roar

At Andrews Air Force Base, amid roaring jet engines, Leo briefs President Bartlet on stopping a Cyprus-flagged tanker from Qais suspected of carrying sanctioned oil, confirming plans to board it. …

S2E7 · The Portland Trip

Bartlet’s Playful Tanker Update and 'Let’s Hit the Sky!' Departure Rally

At Andrews Air Force Base, Bartlet playfully mishears Leo’s update on stopping a sanctions-evading Cyprus-flagged tanker from Qais—briefly injecting levity via a faux Michigan-Notre Dame sports jab—before confirming the boarding …