Chinatown
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:04:02
I'm afraid not.
These are my operatives. -

:04:05
- And at some point
they'll have to assist me.

:04:08
- I can't do everything myself.
- Of course not.

:04:17
What makes you certain that your
husband is involved with someone?

:04:23
A wife can tell.
:04:28
- Do you love your husband?
- Yes, of course.

:04:31
Then go home and forget everything.
:04:34
I'm sure he loves you too. Do you know
the expression: Let sleeping dogs lie?

:04:40
- You're better off not knowing.
- I have to know.

:04:49
Very well.
:04:52
- What is your husband's first name?
- Hollis. Hollis Mulwray.

:04:58
- Water and Power?
- He's chief engineer.

:05:03
Chief engineer?
:05:11
This type of investigation
can be hard on your pocketbook.

:05:17
- It takes time...
- Money doesn't matter to me.

:05:26
Okay, we'll see what we can do.
:05:32
Today you can hop a streetcar, and in
25 minutes, you end up in the Pacific.

:05:39
You can swim in it and fish in it,
but you can't drink it.

:05:42
You can't
irrigate an orange grove with it.

:05:46
We live next door to the ocean,
but we also live on the edge of a desert.

:05:51
Los Angeles is a desert community.
:05:54
Beneath this building is a desert.
:05:57
Without water, the dust will rise up
cover us as though we never existed.


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