During a round-up of suspects by police gendarmes in he city, the precarious situation of a collection of refugees (those in European clothing in Casablanca) is set up by a few short scenes:The open-air city market, a scene of intrigue, is eeming with black marketeers, smugglers, thieves, spies, double agents and refugees who desperately seek to obtain tickets (exit visas) on the daily plane to neutral Lisbon...Whatever he humor or the joke, it's rather bad taste to put on it.I think we're agreed on that.Perhaps our humorist wouldn't mind returning he Blue Water the way he got it - in the darkness.Turn off the lights, Isobel...Whoever took the Blue Water has had his chance.I don't want a scandal at Brandon Abbas.I will leave the box on he table until morning.If the Blue Water is not back by then, of course I shall have to call the police.Good night.John: Have we a magician here?Digby: Or is Brandon Abbas haunted?The mystery of the stone's disappearance is further heightened when the stone is not returned to its case.With a simple "divide and conquer" strategy written by Alex in the sand, both Rick and Alex coordinated to use the two halves of the magical dagger - Rick plunged the broken dagger hilt into the Emperor's chest, while Alex stabbed him with the short tip of the blade from behind.On a radio, they learned of roadblocks, and their plan was to impersonate medics in order to escape, and to keep the children alive for a short while, to bolster their story.