Spoiler alert Marion did not kill the German woman in Casablanca
Marianne Beauséjour
spared the German woman in Casablanca in the assassination of the German Governor. I knew then she was a spy. Why leave any loose ends.
William T. Morgan
I didn't think of it as "loose ends" at all. She had just murdered the woman's husband right in front of her, a woman who had been her friend.
She saw the devastated look on her face and just couldn't bring herself to murder her TOO. There was no need to anyway, by that point.
I see your point that she liked her friend and did not want to kill her. But as cruel as it sounds this is part of a spy's trade craft to not leave any loose ends.
What loose end.
They never intended to kill everyone in the room.
Exactly. You kill all witnesses because the last thing you need is the enemy coming back for revenge. Like you, I knew her letting the woman live was a sign that her allegiance was flawed. I bet the woman in Casablanca was the reason Marianne was targeted later in London.
You're everything to me, always have been... the sound of your voice will always bring me home.
"She had just murdered the woman's husband right in front of her"
She was carrying out a wartime assassination of an enemy, not murdering anyone. During this action, the husband pointed a gun at her with the intention of shooting her, but she got him first to defend herself. If he hadn't tried to kill her, she wouldn't have shot him.