The viewer shares Gittes' own blind perceptions and circuitous search for the truth.]While sitting down to some iced tea, Gittes confronts Mrs.Mulwray (dressed in riding gear) who is sweaty and flushed after riding bareback.He is determined to convince her that he had nothing o do with the publication of the incriminating photos or stories ("I'm just trying to make a living").Again, they reprise their most familiar roles - Stanley, the thin, meek simpleton, and Ollie, he fat, pompous one.Although Hepburn had a brilliant performance in this film, she was an unconventional, independent-spirited performer, and this was her last film for RKO - since she had been infamously labeled 'box-office poison' through most of the 30s.In the Fitts home that evening, the passive and delusional Barbara and the Colonel watchedThis Is The Army (1943), an old Ronald Reagan military movie on television.