]The film""s claustrophobic, cyclical, bleak mood surrounding he heroic quest of the detective struck a responsive chord after he scandalous Watergate era of the early 1970s.Carolyn commented about how their next-door neighbors he Lomans had moved out without her representing them, replaced by the pair of homosexual Jim""s."]After a dissolve, the Newton""s car (with the entire family inside except for Emma) pulls into the Santa Rosa train station as Charles"" train arrives.It seems to show he wasn""t in much pain.Anna: Doctor Winkel told me that...Holly: Doctor Winkel, who""s he?Anna: A doctor Harry used to go to.He was passing just after it happened.Holly: His own doctor?Anna: Yes.Holly: Were you at the inquest?Anna: Yes.They said it wasn""t the driver""s fault.Harry had often said what a careful driver he was.Holly (astonished): He was Harry""s driver?Anna: Um-hum.Holly: I don""t get it.All of them there - Kurtz, this Rumanian Popescu, his own driver knocking him over, his own doctor just passing by? No strangers there at all.Afterwards in a dark alley-way, Farrell is threatened by a street tough who wants to rob him of his cash winnings.