..she tried to make me give up tennis and play husband instead").While he was away on tour playing on grass courts in the national championships, his wife lost interest in him.(Meanwhile, in the basement garage, limo driver Argyle finally learned of the situation - that the building was under siege, but found he was locked in and trapped).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.Afterwards as they sat at one of the tables, they listened in disbelief to a TV broadcast, in which the worried President abdicated "all authority and control over this planet to General Zod.He had asked her for a sample of her blood, since he believed her genes uniquely held the key to changing appearance.