After hearing the imaginary encouraging cheers of an audience in the stands, the scene of his past glories, he hears the starting gun and leaps forward in an attempt to relive the glory days of his athletic youth.Then Elsa Mae bops him over the head with a large megaphone.When his wife comments, "the child""s only playin"" with ya, you fool," he mutters that he doesn""t "understand her funning.They use steam irons now.And I""m out of Chinatown.Gittes: Since when?Escobar: Since I made Lieutenant.Gittes: Congratulations.Escobar has been transferred "out of Chinatown" - but the locale from Gittes"" past still haunts him.Before Gittes can speak to Hollis Mulwray, he is sarcastically old that he is "welcome to try." The commissioner has unexpectedly and mysteriously drowned in the middle of LA""s summer drought.His body is dragged up, in their view, from the remote, empty, fresh-water reservoir outside Los Angeles.This film also shares similarities with the Oscar-winning short western filmLa Rivière du hibou (1962, Fr.