After some time has passed [ten years later], Paula Alquist (Ingrid Bergman as adult) is a voice student taking singing lessons from Maestro Guardi.[The location was eventually revealed to be the basement area of Smith""s Grove Warren County Sanitarium.And believe me, Mrs.Mulwray, whoever set your husband up set me up.LA""s a small town, people talk.I""m just trying to make a living.I don""t want to become a local joke.Mrs.Mulwray: Mr.Gittes.You talked me into it.I""ll drop the lawsuit.Jake: What?Mrs.Mulwray: I said I""ll drop the lawsuit.So let""s just drop the whole thing.Gittes senses something mysterious underlying the quick offer to drop the suit and is interested in delving deeper into the case to uncover the larger plot issue.After speaking to Hunt, he cousin tipped off Sidorov by phone, and offered (for a price) o retrieve both the stolen Kremlin launch codes and the American - Hunt.You talk too much.If I""d known how much you talked, I""d have never come out of my coma!"According to Miss Plimsoll, he had been "expelled for conduct unbecoming a cardiac patient.