[This isn't the first mention of albacore.] Jake's door is labeled with bold letters: "J.J.Gittes & Associates, Discreet Investigations."In another room are Jake's well-dressed partners, "operatives" Walsh (Joe Mantell) and Duffy (Bruce Glover), associates who assist Gittes in gathering evidence, taking photographs, and snooping on the extra-marital indiscretions of rich, wayward spouses.Connie did a double-take upon noticinganotherapartment roommate Sgt.Joe Carter - who was already living in half of Dingle's sub-let space for a few days before deployment.He explains his past crime and his early parole from prison after being convicted of self-defense manslaughter in a drunken, bar-room brawl:I've been in the penitentiary for four years.But first and foremost, I remember Mama.(looking up and reminiscing) I remember every Saturday night, I would sit at my desk by the attic window and write down in my diary all my innermost thoughts.