Todd Jensen writes...

I was recently re-watching the tape that I'd made of "The Silver Falcon" one evening, when I suddenly thought that it reminded me a bit of a story in Herodotus. Herodotus told a story about a queen in ancient Babylon named Nitocris, who left a message after her death that any future ruler of Babylon who needed money could help himself from her tomb, provided that he really needed it. When King Darius of Persia came to power in Babylon, he decided to enter the tomb and help himself to her wealth, but instead of treasure, found only an inscription stating, "If you were not so consumed with greed that you would stoop to anything to gain wealth, you would never have considered robbing the dead."

Was this story in Herodotus a partial inspiration for the denouement of "The Silver Falcon", or a matter of "parallel ideas"?