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Could we live on $150 a year?Arabella: Well, we wouldn't need any money.I've got a charge account at every shop on Fifth Avenue.John: Well, if I had any brains, I'd give up painting and get a regular job.To help her fiancee's dire financial situation, Arabella suggests that Chandler buy one of John's paintings, but John scoffs: "Chandler! Ha! What does he know about art?"In another section of the mansion, Spaulding charms, flirts with, and insults Mrs.He manufactures adulterous evidence for clients to collect payoff fees ("the big squeeze").[In Roman Polanski'sChinatown (1974), detective J.J.Gittes has a similar occupation as a divorce specialist].As a 'bedroom' detective, his devoted secretary Velda is used as date-bait to snare potentially adulterous husbands.Sister Amanda arrived at the scene of Freddy and Alice locked in combat, and urged Jacob to defeat Freddy: "Jacob! Alice will not triumph."Your mission Jim, should you choose to accept it, is to obtain photographic proof of the theft, shadow Golitsyn to his buyer, and apprehend them both.The slanted credits cryptically move from the top to the bottom of the screen, yet they must be read backwards from bottom to top.