Amman Teaching Hospital (academic hospital — S1E02, S1E17)

Referred to as purposeful and earnest — a site of humanitarian work, not spectacle.

Narrative signpost for Morris's professional commitment and the thin line between routine missions and crisis.

Embodies the humanitarian work whose loss will later personalize political choices.

Implied as busy, mission-focused and consequential; an offstage setting that raises stakes.

Explains Morris's role and the urgency of his two-hour departure.

Symbolizes real-world human stakes that contrast with Oval Office banter.

Clinical and now symbolically besieged — the hospital stands as the thwarted mission of aid and education.

Target/recipient of the humanitarian mission that was attacked.

Represents the humanitarian purpose violated by the attack, making the loss not just political but moral.

Offstage but freighted with tragedy — a clinical, humanitarian site now associated with loss and moral urgency.

Target/beneficiary of the humanitarian mission, the proximate reason for the transport's voyage.

Represents the humanitarian purpose that amplifies the moral outrage of the attack.

Referenced coldly and factually; the hospital functions as the site of mortality that precipitates institutional panic.

Referent for the cause and timing of the death; explains why the news arrives with the immediacy it does.

Represents the human fragility behind institutional continuity and the thin line between private tragedy and public crisis.

Normal hospital access implied; not a site visited during the event, only mentioned.

Absent from the scene physically but evoked as sterile and tragic — clinical urgency implied by 'on the way to the hospital.'

Offstage locus of the medical emergency that catalyzes the Oval Office crisis

Represents the external, uncontrollable event that forces political actors to respond immediately