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* [[Stopped Clock]]: Jack places a watch under the car of the person he's tailing. That way he can know at what time he left by the time the watch was run over.
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: What exactly happened during Jake's time in Chinatown.
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: The city of Los Angeles [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Water_Wars:California Water Wars#Los_Angeles_AqueductLos Angeles Aqueduct:_the_beginning_of_the_water_wars the beginning of the water wars|really did]] steal water from valley farmers. Interestingly, this was neither the first nor the last time the events in question were fictionalized, merely the most well-known.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Anjelica Huston, John's real life ''daughter'', as Evelyn Mulwray. [[Squick]].
** [[Harsher in Hindsight|It was pretty awkward as it was]], given that Jack Nicholson had just started dating Anjelica in real life, making the scenes where John's character asks "Mr. Gittes, do you sleep with my daughter?" just...uncomfortable.
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