THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN. BtVS Intertext/Allusion.
In
"Dead Man's Party," Joyce
Summers' friend Pat unnerves Buffy
with the following comment about her mother's emotional status while she has
been a runaway (see "Anne"): "Well,
between, uh, (exhales) your situation and reading Deep End of the Ocean,
she was, uh, she was just a wreck. You can imagine."
Deep End of the Ocean was a 1996 Jacquelyn Mitchard novel and 1999 Ulu Grosbard film about a mother's emotional search for a missing child.
