Jake's explanation of what happened to his nose. He's notably saying this to a police officer too.
Your wife got a little excited. She closed her legs too fast.
Evelyn's plan to get her daughter away from Noah Cross is actually quite brilliantly constructed, involving smuggling her out and multiple accomplices. It's just it utterly fails due to Jake Gittes's The Determinator status coming up at the worst time.
Evelyn shooting Cross in his arm.
The Two Jakes
Gittes's trauma over Loach's shooting of Evelyn (which led to Cross's gaining custody of Katherine) leads him to get catharsis—for himself and the audience, as the flashbacks to the end of Chinatown make clear. As Loach himself is presumably dead, he has to settle for his son (who gleefully taunted Jake with the memory). It's enough.
While we don't get to see it, the confirmation that Katherine managed to escape from Cross's grasp between the two movies is welcome news. Sadly, it was due to him dying of old age.
