Summary: After Spade's Discovery

After Spade’s discovery of Mr. Gutman and his trailing gunman, Wilbert. He was given orders to see Gutman by his little pawn. As Wilbert took him upstairs inside the hotel and outside Gutman’s room, Spade disarmed the two guns from his trench coat. They head inside into the room and told Gutman, such a rookie gunman should be running around with these, he’ll end up hurting himself. Gutman laughed, then apologized for their last interaction and told him about the origins of the Maltese Falcon and how he hired a crew to steal it from Russian General, Kemidov. Gutman did not continue without pouring Spade a drink first. After Spade’s sip of the drink, he was dazed then tripped and kicked in the head by Wilbert, knocking him out. Both Wilbert, Gutman, and even Cairo, who seems to be working for Gutman, left him inside the room. Once Spade woke up, he searched the room and found one clue in a newspaper that shown it circled. It said La Paloma arriving at 5:35 pm from Hong Kong, so he had to the place to see it was on fire. Spade went back to his office to have the captain of La Paloma bring him
After he got off the phone he pressures her to spit out the whole truth before the police came. Spade saw through her lies and knew Archer was not clumsy enough to get spotted the first night. Miles did not have too many brains, but he had years of experience of being a detective to not be caught by a man he was shadowing. But if he’d was with her that night, he was dumb enough to fall to that. Then Brigid admitted to murdering Archer. Spade was not going to let her off the hook and knew not to play the sap. She had to be handed over for the death of Archer and there is no telling what she’ll pull the same move on him, especially having dirt on him on his crookedness. Although Spade has feelings for her, he knew what must be done, therefore handed Brigid