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Casablanca

“Remember this gun is pointed right at your heart”   “That is my least vulnerable spot”.  Renault in Casablanca A few months ago I caught a two part re-run of Magnum P.I. (the old Tom Selleck version).   In the episode Magnum’s wife Michelle, who Magnum thought was killed during the Vietnam War turns up alive in Hawaii.   Michelle is with her first husband who had also been thought dead when she married Magnum.   Michelle had discovered her husband was alive, faked her death so Magnum would leave Vietnam, gone back to him and is working with her husband on a vital mission.   Michelle’s heart still belongs to Magnum but after a reunion and a dramatic showdown at the end of the episode she and Magnum say goodbye so Michelle can continue to help her husband.   There are repeated flashbacks to Michelle and Magnum’s short but passionate marriage.   Magnum is badly wounded at the end of the episode both physically (he is shot through the shoulder during the climax) and emotionally but