Tuesday, June 18, 2024

"Staggered"

YOUNG WOMAN
Do you know me?
 

GITTES
-- well -- I think I -- I would've
remembered.
 

YOUNG WOMAN
Have we ever met?
 

GITTES
Well, no.
 

YOUNG WOMAN
Never?
 

GITTES
Never.
 

YOUNG WOMAN
That's what I thought. You see, I'm
Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray -- you know, Mr.
Mulwray's wife.


Gittes is staggered. He glances down at the newspaper.

Gittes is NOT "staggered".

...

INT. GITTES' INNER OFFICE - GITTES, DUFFY & WALSH

...

GITTES
-- when I find out who that phony
bitch was --

NEVER happened. That scene does not appear in the movie.