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Casey's Starting Salary Note

Casey’s pen slashes across a bar napkin in the clinking gloom, carving a six-figure starting salary that skids across the scarred table to Donna. Fingers falter as she scans it—mistaking the figure for operating budget before realization strikes, temptation exploding in her chest, White House loyalty fraying under the numeric siren call.

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Purpose

Revealing the lucrative starting salary for the Issues Director position at CapitolScoop.com to entice Donna with a full-time job offer

Significance

Ignites Donna's profound temptation, fracturing her allegiance to Josh Lyman and the administration as personal ambitions clash against the relentless grind of political service, seeding potential defection.

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When this object appears and how it's used

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S3E13 · Night Five

Casey Tempts Donna with CapitolScoop's Lucrative Offer

Casey scribbles a six-figure starting salary on a bar napkin and slides it across to Donna, who misreads it as operating budget before shock sets in; this tangible incentive crystallizes the offer's allure, weaponizing financial temptation against her White House devotion.

Before: Plain bar napkin, blank

After: Inked with salary figure, slid to and scrutinized by Donna

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