So, who gave (spoilers)?
So, who gave the money back? And why? Everyone thought that Marrlow's friend is dead, so it makes little sense that he sent it back? And how come it happened just as they were about to castrate Marrlow?
shareEileen Wade did.
shareAlright, but I'm not sure that makes sense. Did she give her own money or did she convince Marllow's friend to give it back via her or did the guy leave the money with her while he sets himself up in Mexico, which then makes me wonder how he was able to do that if ALL of the money was left with her? Also, why would she care about Marrlow in the first place?
shareShe probably got a lot of money from her husbands death and he had money that he owed the gangster dude. Wade eventually payed the quack Dr. back and he probably had the money to pay the gangster back as well.
She liked Marlowe and that he helped Terry Lennox and her husband.
Could be. I don't know. I still feel that this part of the plot was poorly though through. Anyway, I gotta ask - how does the book end? Marllow just leaves?
shareLennox comes back to LA in disguise posing as a mexican man to visit Marlowe. Marlowe figures it out that Lennox didn't die and that Eileen Wade murdered Roger Wade/Lennoxs Wife. Eileen Wade commits suicide as well writing a note confessing the killings.
Marlowe and Lennox talk a bit and Marlowe never sees him again
I see. Thanks. That does make more sense than what they did with Eileen's character in the movie, but I can't say I didn't like the movie's ending itself.
share"It's too early for a Gimlet, isn't it?"
And the great final line: "I never saw any of them again - except the cops. No way has yet been invented to say goodbye to them".
"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan