CAFE de ZONK

Carol:

"You can't trust the police these days."

Sarah:

"Says who?"

Carol:

"The wire!"

'The Cafe'

 

I'm fairly certain that in the script, Sarah's mother's line "The wire!" probably was printed as "'The Wire'!".  It was supposed to be a reference to the TV series from HBO.

 

But 'The Wire' and 'The Cafe' exist in the same TV dimension, so Carol shouldn't be referring to a TV show.

 

There are several options to choose from to de-Zonk this situation.  One would be that Carol was using the slang term for the newspaper wire services.  But how she was privy to such information is unclear.  I don't think we've seen any habitues of Cyril's Cafe in the seaside village of Weston who were journalists.

 

The better option would be that Carol ("Speak of the devil!") had read a non-fiction book entitled "The Wire", which covered the drug trade in Baltimore and its judicial, political, and journalistic ramifications.

And then, as often happens in Toobworld, it was adapted into a movie.  (A TV show if must be.....)

 

Works for me!

 

BCnU!