House in Idaho
Detailed Involvements
Events with rich location context
The House in Idaho is the proximate crisis driving Leo's request; the ongoing 11‑day siege and risk to hostages provide the concrete humanitarian and tactical reason to ask Israel to hold retaliation for a week.
Porous crisis: surrounded by law enforcement and negotiation teams, high tension and urgency back in Washington.
Causal catalyst — the domestic siege that must be resolved without a regional flare‑up.
Represents how domestic security incidents can rapidly cascade into international crises.
Heavily restricted on the ground (law enforcement perimeter); discussed remotely by White House staff.
The house in Idaho is the physical site of the standoff and the location where the boy lies unresponsive; it is the battleground that the tactical team proposes to enter using explosives and flashbangs.
Grim and besieged — already surrounded by law enforcement after an 11-day siege; the interior is life-threateningly quiet given the child's condition.
Rescue site and operational objective for the assault team.
Represents the human cost of isolation and radicalization at the margins of national life; a private space invaded by public force to save a life.
Encircled by law enforcement; entry restricted to authorized tactical teams pending presidential authorization.
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What opens as a jokey photo opportunity — Leo accepting a yarmulke from Israeli minister Ben Yosef — quickly sharpens into a terse hallway negotiation. Ben confronts Leo about rumors …
In the Situation Room a tactical team briefs President Bartlet and Leo on a life-or-death standoff: a boy with congestive heart failure has been without medication for days and is …