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Joshua Lyman's Personal Wallet (S1E05 — contains green evacuation card)

A worn, dark-brown leather bifold roughly pocket-sized, its edges softened by frequent handling and light scuffs. Inside sit credit-card–sized items: notably a thin green evacuation instruction card tucked into a card slot, a small video‑club token, and the occasional paper scrap or paperclip. Josh snaps it open and withdraws the green card, the wallet shifting from private container to dramatic reveal as colleagues register the gesture; a rounded crease along the spine and polished thumb-worn interior speak to daily carry and intimate use.
5 appearances

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

5 moments
S1E5 · The Crackpots and These Women
The Big Cheese and the Green Card

Josh's worn leather wallet is the intended private repository for the green card; it symbolizes the personal concealment of an institutional protection and the tension between private needs and public obligations.

Before: In Josh's possession; presumably on his person as he is summoned out of the Roosevelt Room.
After: Holds the green evacuation card placed by Josh next to his video club membership card.
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S1E5 · The Crackpots and These Women
The Green Card: Exclusion Delivered

Josh mentally and verbally references his wallet as the intended long-term resting place for the card ('stick this right here next to my...video club membership'), using the wallet as a private container that symbolizes concealment and the personal compartmentalization of institutional privilege.

Before: In Josh's pocket or normally carried on his person; not physically opened in the scene but referenced as intended storage.
After: Implied that the card will be placed near other personal items inside the wallet when Josh leaves the office.
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S1E5 · The Crackpots and These Women
The Green Card — Josh's Quiet Reckoning

Josh implies he will place the green card in his worn leather wallet next to his video club card; the wallet thus becomes the private container for privileged survival information and an emblem of his private burden.

Before: In Josh's possession, containing personal cards and small items.
After: Contains the green evacuation card tucked alongside existing items; wallet remains with Josh as he exits the office.
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S1E5 · The Crackpots and These Women
Choosing Family — The Card and the Toast

Josh's worn leather wallet is the container from which he withdraws the green evacuation card; the wallet's daily-worn quality underscores intimacy and the smallness of the gesture that becomes morally consequential in public.

Before: In Josh's pocket; worn, well-handled and privately carried as an ordinary personal item.
After: Held momentarily in Josh's hand during the reveal, then implicitly returned to his possession (no explicit handing off occurs).
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S1E5 · The Crackpots and These Women
Josh Refuses the Evacuation Card — Choosing Staff Over Protection

Josh's worn leather bifold wallet is produced and opened so he can remove and display the thin green evacuation/protection card tucked inside. The wallet functions as the private container that makes the card's reveal public, converting a hidden security measure into a deliberate ethical choice.

Before: In Josh's pocket, closed; well‑worn and personal, containing the green evacuation card.
After: Returned to Josh's possession, presumably closed after he publicly refuses the card; remains physically unchanged but symbolically denuded of its protective promise.
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