" When Duffy phones that he has located Mulwray with a young woman ("a cute little twist") in a rowboat on a lake in Echo Park, Gittes exclaims: "Water again.Rey was drawn to the water's edge of the cliff and was pulled into the water.She found herself in a cave, where she saw numerous mirror reflections of herself (an infinity mirror) on a shiny wall of polished stone.Exasperated by the time they arrived at the Savoy Hotel, Jones forgot his derby hat in the cab.But he was able to directly ask for Van Meer's opinion about "the possibility of a general war." Van Meer responded with only one despondent comment: 'My boy, I feel very old and sad - and helpless.Cold-blooded"), and to mount a vengeful attack to kill all of Gotham's first-born male infants (recalling the story of Moses and the Pharaoh in the Bible, and also his own experience as a child) by drowning them in the toxic underground sewage water.