Betty then presses Rita to search her purse for identification, but when Rita unzips the bag she finds it is stuffed with $100 bills and an oddly shaped blue key. When Betty gently asks Rita who she is, Rita breaks into tears and admits that she does not know. After Aunt Ruth telephones, Betty learns that Rita is an uninvited guest. The janitor falls, hitting the switch on his vacuum cleaner, and when the machine springs to life, the blonde blasts it with his gun, starting a fire that sets off the alarm, sending the inept killer fleeing out a window. While the blonde wrestles with the woman, a janitor appears, forcing the blonde man to shoot both the woman and the janitor. One of his bullets goes astray, however, and hits a corpulent woman in the next office. Reaching for a black book on the desk, the blonde pulls out a gun and shoots his companion. ![]() In a seedy office, a scruffy blonde man and a man seated at the desk laugh about a car accident. Roque, who communicates only through a cellphone headset, then mumbles into the headset, causing Adam's production to be shut down. After Adam vehemently refuses, Vincenzo menacingly states "it's no longer your film." Defiantly storming out of the building, Adam goes to the Castiglianes' limousine and smashes it with a golf club. Roque, a wheelchair-bound dwarf, views the meeting over closed circuit television, Vincenzo extracts a publicity photo of actress Camilla Rhodes from his briefcase and demands that Adam cast her as the lead in his new film. At the Ryan Entertainment office in downtown Los Angeles, Adam Kesher, a self-important, petulant young film director, meets with his backers, the sinister Luigi and Vincenzo Castigliane. The woman, now suffering from amnesia, gazes vacantly at a poster of Rita Hayworth from the film Gilda, and says her name is Rita. Assuming that the woman is a friend of her aunt's, Betty asks her name. ![]() In the bathroom, Betty finds the naked raven-haired woman standing in the shower. As Betty peruses the apartment, she is startled to see a woman's cocktail dress and purse discarded on the bedroom floor. There Betty is greeted by the complex's eccentric manager, Coco Lanois, who speaks in aphorisms. Betty then takes a cab to the courtyard apartment owned by her Aunt Ruth, who has agreed to let her stay while she is away on business. An elderly couple whom Betty had befriended on the flight wish her "all the luck in the world," then climb into the back of a limousine and drive off, grinning from ear to ear. Soon after, fresh-faced, young Betty Elms from Deep River Ontario, lands at the Los Angeles airport, filled with dreams of becoming an actress. As the man and his companion go to investigate, a hideous tramp appears from the rear of the building, causing the man to faint. At Winkie's coffee shop nearby, a man recounts two nightmares he had about a horrific man who lurks in back. After loading her luggage into the trunk, Ruth returns to her apartment to fetch her keys and the woman sneaks in, hides under a table and falls asleep. The next morning, she is awakened when Ruth, one of the tenants, walks past to meet a waiting cab. Exhausted from her ordeal, she takes refuge in some bushes outside a stunning Spanish courtyard apartment building and falls asleep. The woman, dazed, crawls out of the wreckage and stumbles down to the city streets below. At that moment, a pair of drag racing cars screams around a curve, smashing head on into the limousine. ![]() Stopping suddenly, the driver turns around, trains a gun on the passenger, a sultry, raven-haired woman, and orders her to get out. As the city of Los Angeles shimmers below, a limousine snakes along Mulholland Dr.
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