Joelle's Too Much Fun at Molly Notkin's party — "This ultimate cartridge-as-ecstatic-death rumor’s been going…"
‘This ultimate cartridge-as-ecstatic-death rumor’s been going around like a lazy toilet since Dishmaster, for Christ’s sake. Simply make inquiries, mention some obscure foundation grant, obtain the thing through whatever shade of market the thing’s alleged to be out in. Have a look. See that it’s doubtless just high-concept erotica or an hour of rotating whorls. Or something like late Makavajev, something that’s only entertaining after it’s over, on reflection.’
Context
The skeptic's rebuttal to the aesthetic-pharmaceutical theory, and it's pure film-critical connoisseurship — the lethal cartridge dismissed as probably "an hour of rotating whorls" or late Makavajev. The proposed method (just obtain it and have a look) is of course exactly how the attaché died.