Darlene heads to a library branch to check out the book A Tale of Two Cities, which the movie she watched with one of her customers is based on. The library scene is shot in the Brooklyn Public Library Williamsburg branch, with its unique rotunda interior. The firm responsible for the 2002-2003 restoration describes this particular branch as an “historic, atypical Carnegie branch.”

Later Darlene reads the book in the Korean restaurant and is spotted by Sandra Washington, the reporter documenting the Times Square sex industry. Sandra attempts to start a conversation but Darlene’s pimp steps in.