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C-141 Cargo Bay
Dover Air Force Base's night engulfs the C-141's cargo bay as its vast doors grind open, disgorging flag-draped coffins into the Honor Guard's iron grip. Floodlights slash across taut netting and dew-slick metal ribs, diesel tang sharpening the air while relentless procession—second, third, ninth—hammers exhaustion into President Bartlet's fracturing gaze, transmuting aircraft gut into chamber of raw command reckoning and soldierly grief.
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S2E14
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The War At Home
Bartlet Shattered by the Parade of Fallen Soldiers' Coffins
The C-141 cargo bay yawns open as the grim origin point, disgorging flag-draped coffins into the Honor Guard's grip for their procession past Bartlet and Mickey, its cavernous interior—taut netting, dew-slick metal—evoking the raid's mechanical harvest of death now laid bare for reckoning.
Atmosphere
Oppressively silent and echoing with ritual gravity
Functional Role
Origin and staging area for the coffins' ceremonial emergence
Symbolic Significance
Represents the war machine's belly yielding its human toll
Access Restrictions
Secured military aircraft interior, limited to Honor Guard handlers
Grinding doors and diesel tang in the air
Floodlit ribs and netting framing the coffins
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