Deposition Room (West Wing — legal deposition chamber)

Serves as nerve center for Operation Swift Fury briefing, where officers cram around scarred table under fluorescent glare; Nancy commands from head, Bartlet enters to galvanize focus, authorization sparks applause—fusing tactical precision with presidential resolve in White House crisis core.

The Situation Room pulses as command nexus, its screens and radios channeling Dragon's liftoff triumph into applause, then Cobra firefight chaos, forging collective emotional surges that test leadership under the fluorescent glare of tactical dread.

The Situation Room serves as the immediate prelude site from which Leo and Nancy exit together, its crisis residue—Haiti negotiations—fueling the hallway pivot to press strategy, underscoring seamless transition from geopolitics to internal power maneuvers.

The Situation Room is referenced by Margaret as Leo's origin point, 'on his way up from the Sit Room,' anchoring the exchange in the gravity of recent high-stakes Haiti briefings and underscoring the transition from crisis nerve-center to staff coordination hub amid re-election pressures.

The Situation Room emerges as the imminent war room for dissecting C-4 traces and averting escalation; Leo's alert to Margaret signals its activation, drawing him from domestic fray into tactical fusion of intel, diplomacy, and brinkmanship over the Jerusalem dead.

The Situation Room serves as crisis nerve center where Nancy briefs on phone, Bartlet enters to interrogate details, and advisors unpack targeting and C-4 intel, its tactical screens and fluorescent glare amplifying urgent brinkmanship on Erev Yom Kippur.

The Situation Room serves as the nerve center for the urgent briefing, where flickering screens and terse exchanges build rhythmic tension from threat assessment to hopeful pivot, embodying White House crisis command under fluorescent glare.

The Situation Room serves as crisis nerve center where Leo's interrogation unfolds under fluorescent glare and tactical screens, channeling raw intel on distant threats into White House command decisions that teeter on war's edge.

This deposition room frames the pivotal oath affirmation and legal intimidation beat, its walls packed with hunched observers creating a pressure cooker where Donna's terse compliance meets Cliff's onslaught, excavating White House fault lines over leaks and diaries amid reelection shadows.

The deposition room is the formal, recorded arena for the confrontation: a small, clinical legal chamber where questions are videotaped and every word can become evidence. Its contained space compresses hostility and forces procedural theater, turning a conversational defensive gambit into an official record.

The Deposition Room is the contained legal chamber where the confrontation unfolds: cameras, table, and formal seating concentrate antagonism into a claustrophobic exchange that converts legal maneuvering into a physical altercation.

The Deposition Room functions as the tight, formal arena for the exchange: an enclosed legal chamber where Claypool reads and displays a paper, objections are raised, and a sudden shove escalates a procedural hearing into a personal confrontation. The room's recorded, clinical nature concentrates tension and ensures every action becomes evidence and theater.