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How did Noah Cross kill Mulwray? They had argued earlier that evening, and Jake's associate had overheard only one word, I think it was (?) "applecore" -- what is the significance of that word? And, did Evelyn know what happened? Or was she not at home at the time?
Where were Cross and Mulwray when the argument took place, and was photographed?
Noah Cross killed Mulwray in Mulwray's backyard pool. Near the end, when the Asian gardener says, "salt water bad for glass," (he had mentioned "glass" before to Jake) he really meant "grass." The mention of salt water this time around grabs Gittes' attention because Mulwray had salt water in his lungs, despite allegedly being drowned in a freshwater reservoir, the same one from where his body was discovered. Gittes finds a pair of bifocals in the pool, thinking they're Mulwray's, but Evelyn later says they're not -- they actually belong to Cross.
Evelyn likely was home at the time of the murder, but was forced into silence by Cross because of her incestuous relationship with him, her father.
"Apple core" was what Gittes' associate thought he heard when Mulwray and Cross were arguing outside the Pig 'N' Whistle, a restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard. What he really heard was "Albacore," the club Cross owned that did charitable work for the Mar Vista Retirement Home, which was the residence of senior citizens whom Cross pretended were the buyers of the thousands of acres of dry land.
Cross used the senior citizens as "dummy owners," so to speak, because he wanted to secretly purchase all that land and divert L.A.'s water there, which would increase the value of the land (and Cross' profits) tenfold or more. Gittes finds it odd that a man named Jasper Lamar Crabb "bought" the land two weeks prior when Crabb had, in fact, died three weeks prior -- that's what tips him off to the Mar Vista Retirement Home.
Who hired Ida Sessions? Cross? How did Ida know about the Mar Vista retirement home, and that one of it's occupants had died and that his name was used in the land scam? And how did that land scam work? Since Cross/Albacore Club "took care" of the home, did Cross get access to the residents's info, and used that to buy land in their names? Did the residents somehow have their assets all signed over to the retirement home, so that when they died, the home got their land?
Cross hired Ida Sessions. Presumably, Cross told her about Mar Vista, and Ida's original purpose was to frame Mulwray having an affair, though the woman he was allegedly having the "affair" with was in fact Evelyn's sister/daughter. Cross wanted to blackmail Mulwray with this alleged evidence because Mulwray didn't want to go along with the land/water scam. I assume Mar Vista got the properties when the senior citizens died, but the home was basically a front for Cross' Albacore Club.
Evelyn didn't like Gittes' photos of Mulwray appearing in the paper and threatens to sue. At this point, she doesn't know her father's plan. Later on, she says she'll drop the lawsuit against Gittes -- this is after she knows Cross killed Mulwray, but before Jack discovers Mulwray's dead body. Unfortunately for Evelyn, Gittes doesn't let up on her.
Who killed Ida and why?
Cross (or an associate of his) killed Sessions, I think, after she told Gittes everything over the phone. Cross wanted to cover his tracks.
When Jake asked Evelyn whether it was rape, she denied it. Wha? She seduced her father? or?
Cross raped Evelyn, resulting in her sister/daughter, but Evelyn obviously didn't want that info to get out.
What was Mulwray's relationship to Kathryn? Like a father, or did they have something going on?
Presumably, just a simple (maybe not) father-daughter relationship. Kathryn was really the only person Cross had a connection to.
Hope all of this helps. :hi:
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