Evelyn Mulwray visits private investigator Jake Gittes to hire him to investigate her husband's suspicious death. As they negotiate terms, Gittes probes into Evelyn's complicated family history and her father's past business dealings, uncovering a deep-seated tension and a mysterious falling out over a failed dam project.
EVELYN: What's your usual salary?
GITTES: Thirty-five bucks daily for me, twenty for each of my operators -- plus expenses, plus my fee if I show results.
EVELYN: Whoever's behind my husband's death, why have they gone to all this trouble?
GITTES: Money. How they plan to make it by emptying the rese
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