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FADE IN: the hero – occupation, character etc.
Call to Adventure: Mrs Mulwray (Ida Sessions) thinks her husband is having an affair.
Refusal of the Call : "let sleeping dogs lie; you're better off not knowing." "…this type of investigation can be hard on your wallet."
Pushed to meet the Mentor: "I have to know." "Money is no object."
Reputation of the Mentor: Jake and his operatives have heard of Hollis.
Meeting the Mentor: Hollis makes a presentation; the Shepherd barges in with the sheep…"you steal the water…where am I supposed to take them…"
Mentor's previous Journey: "I won't make the same mistake again…"
Mentor guides the Hero: in the dry rock bed; the presentation; on the beach. Mentor's nature: Hollis' reaction to the Mexican boy and horse.
Hero's Capabilities: intelligent; the stopwatch.
Magical Gift: Applecore; the picture with the girl.
Hero's Inner Challenge: "..listen pal I make an honest living…;" he's not a real private detective.
Warning before entering the First Threshold: Faye Dunaway and her lawyer listen while Jake tells a joke.
Pushed to the First Threshold: Meeting the Romantic Challenge: Faye Dunaway as Mrs Mulwray…"I see you like publicity, well you're going to get it."
Threshold Guardian: Hollis' secretary.
First Threshold : in Hollis' office.
Foreshadow of the Physical Separation: the address in the book.
Meeting Allies: Yelburton (the Shape Shifter).
Meeting Enemies: Mulvihill
Threshold Guardian to the Inner Cave: the Chinese doorman at Mulwray's house.
Romantic Challenge's character: the white car.
Magic Gift: the ring in the water.
Inner Cave: meeting Faye Dunaway; insisting on the journey; doing something noble; becoming a real private investigator.
Journey to the World of the Transformation: driving to the reservoir.
Threshold Guardian: the policeman.
Wolves Clothing: getting in a Yelburton.
Obstacle to the Mentor: Lou's assistant.
Meeting the Mentor: Lou.
Hero and Mentor's back story: "you still arresting chinamen for spitting in the laundry."
Guided toward the Physical Separation: "you want to speak to Hollis, well, there he is."
Physical Separation: Hollis is dragged out of the reservoir.
Road of Trials:
Transformation 1: Lou questions an indecisive Faye Dunaway; Jake helps her out; she'll send him a cheque and make it official that she hired him.
Transformation 2: going to the morgue and then the river; speaking to the Mexican boy.
Warning against Transformation 3: Jake is shot at.
Pushed Away from Trial 3: the river almost takes Jake.
Transformation 3: Claude and Mulvihill cut Jake.
The New Self: Jake with the bandage on his face.
The Ideal: "I want the big boys that are making the pay offs… sue the shit out of them…"
Warning against the Ideal: "sue people like that! They're liable to be having dinner with the judge.."
Resisting the Oracle: Ida Sessions calls but Jake doesn't know who she is.
Meeting the Oracle: Ida Sessions on the phone. Oracle guides Hero toward the Sword: "just look in the obituary column."
Hero and Romantic Challenge development / Pushed Away from the Sword: Jake meets Faye Dunaway in the restaurant; she doesn't tell him what she knows.
Pushing Toward the Sword: Jake tells Faye Dunaway that he knows someone is dumping water in the middle of a drought.
Pushing toward the Sword: [Yelburton's secretary] Cross and Mulwray were partners. Jake confronts Yelburton.
Pushing Toward the Sword: Faye Dunnaway is Noah Cross' daughter; in Jake's office.
Pushing Toward the Sword [new clothes]: meeting Noah Cross.
Seizing the Sword: in the library; most of the land has been sold in the last few months.
Near Death Experience : beaten and knocked unconscious in the orange groves.
Reward [Inner Challenge Conquered] : Jake knows that LA is being conned into building the dam. They're buying up land near the orange groves. He's a real Private Investigator.
Threshold Guardian: the old people's rest home.
Atonement with the Father : the owners of the land are the members of the rest home; beating up Mulvihill.
Reward [Romantic Challenge] : Jake and Mrs Mulwray go to bed.
Apotheosis : Mrs Mulwray has the girl hostage; s he's Mrs Mulwray's sister.
Ultimate Boon : Cleaning off the Old Self: the shower; new clothes.
Refusal : "if Ida Sessions wants to see me, she can call me in my office."
Rescue from Without : Ida Sessions at this address; Lou is waiting at Ida's house.
Crossing the Return Threshold : Jake goes back to Mrs Mulwray's house; he finds the salt water.
Master of Two Worlds : Jake finds and confronts Mrs Mulwray; she is her daughter and her sister.
Obstacle to the Final Confrontation: Lou tries to arrest Jake.
Magic Flight: Jake runs from Lou et al.
Antagonist reveals himself: Cross comes to his daughter's house; Jake shows him the glasses.
Final Confrontation: Mrs Mulwray dies; Cross owns the police; Jake taken out o Chinatown.
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