Ugarte explains his plan to leave Casablanca once and for all:Ugarte: You despise me, don""t you?Rick: Well, if I gave you any thought, I probably would.Why, you""ve got people here now that look likeyou.Now, I""ll tell you what we""ll do.We""ll put up a sign outside - Placed Under New Management.We""ll set up a seventy-five-cent meal that will knock their eyes out.After we knock their eyes out, we can charge ""em anything we want.He then attempts to sell her an insurance policy with a brisk sales pitch - accompanied with desultory comments about her aging:Now, sign here and give me your check for fifteen hundred dollars.The film resembled, in part, aspects ofThe Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)and Hitchcock""sNorth by Northwest (1959), and various portions and themes ofClose Encounterswould be repeated in Spielberg""sE.They lured the beast into the foundry mold, using a bait-and-chase strategy, where they drowned it with hot lead - when it was rapidly cooled from water sprayed by a fire sprinkler, it shattered." When she insisted her precious time was "reserved for police officers with real needs and real problems," he embarrassed her in front of colleagues by implying she was begging to go out with him.