You who have always lived so freely, have you any idea what life is like in a little garrison town? I was eighteen now and was expected to take my place in society.of Defense tasked with developing military echnology.Obviously unwelcome by the two secretive officials, Lois was briefed about the Arctic site - there was an object about 300 meters deep in the frigid water and surrounded by ancient ice ("The ice surrounding the object, it's nearly twenty thousand years old").At the hotel during dinner, Hughson advises the blunt, feisty, red-haired Mrs.Stevens to safeguard her jewels in the hotel's safe, but she retorts unperturbed: "I didn't buy these things for my old age.She believes he had ordered a taxi back to New York.Thornhill, unable to convince anyone of the truth, is aghast by her fabricated story of the night's events and her deceptive acting: "What a performance!"Thornhill demands to see Lester Townsend and is told hat he is at the United Nations building where he is due to address he General Assembly that afternoon.Next, Gittes tails him in his car, watching him from his rear-view mirror for more clues.He watches Mulwray as he gazes for many hours at the ocean from a coastal beach.At nightfall, water mysteriously runs out of a run-off pipe near the ocean and channels itself into the Pacific.