- Rick: And remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart.
- Renault: That is my least vulnerable spot.
- Rick: There's something you should know before you leave.
- Victor: Mr. Blaine, I don't ask you to explain anything.
- Rick: I'm going to anyway because it may make a difference to you later on. You said you knew about Ilsa and me.
- Victor: Yes.
- Rick: What you didn't know was that she was at my place last night when you were. She came there for the letters of transit. Isn't that true, Ilsa?
- Ilsa: Yes.
- Rick: She tried everything to get them and nothing worked. She did her best to convince me she was still in love with me but that was over long ago. For your sake she pretended it wasn't and I let her pretend.
- Victor: I understand.
- Rick: Here it is. (He hands the letters to Lazlo)
- Victor: Thanks. I appreciate it. Welcome back to the fight. This time I know our side will win. (Plane engine starts, they all look at one another) Are you ready, Ilsa?
- Ilsa: Yes, I'm ready. Good-bye Rick. God bless you.
- Rick: You better hurry. You'll miss that plane.
- Rick: Because you're getting on that plane.
- Ilsa: I don't understand. What about you?
- Rick: I'm staying here with him [Renault] 'til the plane gets safely away.
- Ilsa: No, Richard. No. What has happened to you? Last night...
- Rick: Last night, we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then and it all adds up to one thing. You're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.
- Ilsa: But Richard, no, I've...
- Rick: Now, you've got to listen to me. Do you have any idea what you have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louis?
- Renault: I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist.
- Ilsa: You're saying this only to make me go.
- Rick: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
- Ilsa: But what about us?
- Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have it before...we'd...we'd lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
- Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you...
- Rick: And you never will. But I've got a job to do too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now. Here's looking at you, kid.
