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== This film takes place in the same universe as [[The Maltese Falcon (Film)|The Maltese Falcon]]. ==

Joel Cairo? Casper Gutman? Do these sound like names a person would likely be born with, or more like meaninglful aliases that criminals might pick for themselves? Even Sam Spade sounds a bit too cool to be real; it may well have just been the detective's professional name (like a pen name or a stage name). At the end of [[The Maltese Falcon (Film)|The Maltese Falcon]], Cairo and Gutman were supposedly arrested, but we didn't see it. That's because they escaped, and a few years later wound up in Casablanca, pretending to be Italians with the new names of Ugarte and Ferarri. (They didn't bother disguising their Hungarian and British accents, since no one asks questions in Casablanca). Sam wound up having to leave America for his own reasons, and once in Europe, started to go by Rick Blaine (possibly his real name all along). Rick has dealt with Ferrari and Ugarte in the past. The events of [[The Maltese Falcon (Film)|The Maltese Falcon]] job are that backstory.