Location

Hassan Airport Parking Lot

A bleak expanse of asphalt sprawls at the periphery of Hassan Airport’s terminals: rows of parked cars ghost under stray luggage, distant engines drone low as wind whips loose paper across concrete scarred by sunlight. Exposed and vulnerable, the lot lies mundane until gunfire erupts—President Nimbala's execution there shatters West Wing illusions, the slip's blunt words ('airport parking lot') forcing Bartlet's glasses off, room emptying into grief's raw vacuum. This unglamorous public ground brutally anchors policy's human toll, pivoting intellectual debate into irrevocable moral reckoning.

2 events

2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S2E4 · In This White House

Borlaug Parable, Then Nimbala Executed

The Hassan Airport Parking Lot materializes via the slip's report, voiced by Bartlet as Nimbala's execution site—its banal asphalt expanse invoked to brutalize abstract diplomacy into visceral murder, shattering the office's intellectual fervor with policy's lethal endpoint.

Atmosphere

Grimly mundane vulnerability laced with fatal exposure

Functional Role

Reported crime scene anchoring off-screen tragedy

Symbolic Significance

Embodies unglamorous banality of geopolitical violence

Access Restrictions

Public yet perilously unprotected airport fringe

Exposed asphalt rows under terminal shadows Wind-whipped debris amid parked car isolation

S2E4 · In This White House

Execution at the Airport — Bartlet's Quiet Collapse

Invoked via the slip's report as the unglamorous asphalt expanse where President Nimbala was executed by gunfire amid parked cars and wind-whipped debris; this off-screen site brutally materializes policy's failure, transforming White House optimism into grief-stricken silence through its stark, referenced banality.

Atmosphere

bleakly mundane masking sudden violence and exposure

Functional Role

origin site of referenced crisis and execution

Symbolic Significance

embodies the prosaic horror of political violence, undercutting heroic narratives

Access Restrictions

public airport periphery, vulnerably open

scarred concrete under harsh sunlight stray luggage and whipping wind

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

S2E4 · In This White House

Borlaug Parable, Then Nimbala Executed

President Bartlet finishes a compact parable about Norman Borlaug's dwarf-wheat revolution — a portrait of concentrated, high-stakes problem solving meant to reframe the staff's approach to the AIDS-drug crisis. The …

S2E4 · In This White House

Execution at the Airport — Bartlet's Quiet Collapse

While telling a parable about Norman Borlaug and problem‑solving, Bartlet is handed a slip of paper that collapses the room's intellectual energy into raw consequence. Toby bluntly confirms, "It happened," …