In the suite, they stash the suitcase in the large vault in the room.A Russian exiled waiter, Count Alexis Rakonin (Gregory Gaye), who is preparing the room""s breakfast table, overhears Iranoff""s phone conversation with a Parisian jeweler named Mercier (Edwin Maxwell).But once I""d seen her, once I""d seen her, I was not in my right mind for quite some time...me, with plenty of time and nothing to do but get myself in trouble.Some people can smell danger, not me.The camera zooms in on the seductive, mysterious, and beautifulfemme fatale: short, blond-haired Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) wearing a polka-dotted white dress, "a beautiful girl all by herself...Flying at 1500 due east...Here I come, 1200...A thousand.Eight hundred, six hundred...[Second attempt] Here I come, six hundred...five hundred, four hundred...three hundred...I""m down to 100 now, Geoff...(He narrowly misses crashing) I saw the lights, I""ll get it next time...[Third attempt] Give me one more chance.I think I see a hole.Yeah, I do see one.I""m comin"" down, Geoff...It""s all right, Geoff, I see the lights.I""ll make it easy.Although Geoff orders Joe to circle the obscured field until it is clear, to "stick to business," and to "quit worrying about that blonde," Joe slices off one wing on a tree near the runway, and then fatally crashes.After seducing (and betraying) her loving husband, she begins to feel perilous menace fromboththe man she really loves - an icy, seemingly insensitive and cruel American intelligence agent (Cary Grant) on the assignment - and her husband (Claude Rains), a man who is fixated with and controlled by his overcritical, partly-jealous mother figure (Leopoldine Konstantin).