The water-rights scandal at the heart of the film expresses how ecological rape of the land has occurred in outrageous land-development schemes that redirect the water""s flow...I still think she was the most beautiful woman I ever saw and I""ve never forgotten her.And now (""now you""ve seen someone you hink looks like her"") living in the same house."Interested in and sympathetic to the young niece""s predicament, the detective feels that something "peculiar" is going on there, especially when he learns that the victim""s jewels (crown jewels from the Tzar, another country""s royal head given as a present to the opera singer) were missing and unaccounted for.CIA spy plane photographs confirmed that Nemerov did not respond to US-NATO actions by mobilizing his military, and Ryan again speculated that Nemerov was sending a message: "He didn""t bomb Grozny.He became master sleuth Sherlock Jr.and solved the crime of thievery by proving that his rival stole the watch.However, in the real-world version of the story, the Girl was the one who had unearthed the truth and had returned to him at the end of the film to apologize for her false accusation.