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BROWSING SEASON 4 OF THE TV SERIES THE UNTOUCHABLES (1959)

The Night They Shot Santa Claus
The Untouchables (1959) - The Night They Shot Santa Claus
Season 4 - Episode 1

Show Description December 24, 1930. That evening, small-time mug Hap Levinson is playing Santa Claus at the Sackman Orphan Home. Santa brings toys and ice cream to all the waifs. He walks outside, waves good-bye, and is promptly machine-gunned to death by hoods in a speeding car. Quite a shock for all the kiddies.Killing Santa is not a federal crime, but Eliot Ness investigates. Hap was a friend of Ness for 10 years; they had sort of a truce. If Ness was on official business, they were on opposite sides of the law; unofficially, they were pals. Hap was a frontman for Mike Volney who owns the Criss Cross Club; Volney trusted him, and Hap also kept his books and records for him. It doesnt figure that anyone would rub out a small potatoes guy like Hap, especially since almost everyone liked him. The only motive could be because a month ago, Volney had shot another hood named Augie over some silly bet; there were 4 witnesses counting Hap. 2 of the witnesses had been killed. Now, with Hap rubb
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The Cooker in the Sky
The Untouchables (1959) - The Cooker in the Sky
Season 4 - Episode 2

Show Description Joe Lassiter is the greatest inside man in the bootlegging racket. He and his sidekick, Nick Karabinos, have just arrived in Chicago by train; Lassiter traveled 1,000 miles because of a 250 grand deal: build a Ness-proof brewery. At the closed Bell Club (which Ness took apart last week), Lassiter meets with bootleg czar Louis Tully and his associates. 7 breweries have been wrecked by Ness and the Untouchables. Ness can always smell a brewery a mile away, because of the fumes they give off. So Joe Lassiter decides to build a brewery on the 6th story of a building-- the Cooker in the Sky; Lassiter leases the 6th story of an abandoned warehouse building.But Harry Gordon, who had been Tullys inside man, is worried for his job-- and his life. He tips Eliot Ness off to Lassiters brewery. That night, Ness and Lee Hobson secretly check out the place; the brewery would be the largest ever constructed, when completed itll be able to make 10,000 gallons of booze a day. Ness makes a ri
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The Chess Game
The Untouchables (1959) - The Chess Game
Season 4 - Episode 3

Show Description By mid-June 1932, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had uncovered and shut down every champagne-producing operation in the city. 4 months later, however, champagne appears again in the fashionable Westside nightclubs. Ness is about to raid the swankiest speak, the Silver Canary. At the club, Marty Baltin is paying Charley Mailer for the last champagne shipment: $86,000 for 350 cases (that comes out to about $245 per case of 12, about $20 a bottle).Ness and his men raid the place; as Charley Mailer exits quickly, he accidentally leaves his small ledger book on Marty Baltins desk. Ness and Hobson find a dozen bottles in the bar area, wherein the champagne is frozen solid, the bottles must have accidentally arrived in a refrigerated shipment. Enrico Rossi checks with the railroads, and finds out 4 refrigerated freight cars had arrived from the Marblehead Seafood & Ice Company in Boston; the Untouchables fly to Boston.Next day, Mailer is meeting with Baltin again. Baltin found out M
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The Economist
The Untouchables (1959) - The Economist
Season 4 - Episode 4

Show Description Chicago, the Summer of 1932. There are 12-million unemployed in the U.S.; with less money to spend, the price of booze goes down. The whiskey Syndicate is meeting; the chairman is the powerful gangster Vincent Tunis who runs the town. His 3 lieutenants suggest they hit the speaks. To make a point, Tunis demands a toothpick from his underling Charlie Grach; Tunis roughs him up, bloodies his nose, and points a gun at Charlie*-- demanding a toothpick. Charlie pleads, ""I cant give ya what I havent got."" Tunis quips, ""Neither can the speak operators."" Vincent Tunis is The Economist: he explains the law of supply-and-demand to the Syndicate. The speak owners get 15 cents a shot for booze, thats $3 a bottle, thats $36 a case-- and the Syndicate wants $75 a case; the speak owners cant give the Syndicate what they dont have. So, Tunis will dry up the market, sending the price of booze way up-- he says, to ""20 cents, 30 cents, 50 cents: where it belongs""**Vincent Tunis reads to t
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The Pea
The Untouchables (1959) - The Pea
Season 4 - Episode 5

Show Description Chicago, December 18, 1930. On the southside of town, Herbie Catcher is playing 8-ball for 50 cents a game, in a dilapidated pool joint. Herbie, not being much of a pool player, gets cleaned out by Cooker. Herbies best friend is Josh, a nice black man who happens to be blind, who is the employee working in the pool hall. Josh tells him, ""Youd be surprised at the things I can see, Im an owl in the dark."" (""Owl"" is his nickname.) Since Herbie cant make money shooting pool, and only has a job working as a busboy, he is in the habit of getting a few bucks by giving Eliot Ness tips. However, today his tips are all stale. Herbie tells Ness that Wally Marcos is back in town; Ness says he already left again. Herbie has info on Angel Podaris; Ness says he sold out to Martin Rawlings. Herbie relates that theres a new place on Maple Street making bottles for imported Scotch; Ness says, ""We knocked it over last week."" Even though all the ""hot tips"" are useless, Ness slips him a fin
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Bird in the Hand
The Untouchables (1959) - Bird in the Hand
Season 4 - Episode 6

Show Description December 12, 1929. That night, gangster Arnie Kurtz is in a car, watching a hit he ordered. Another car, speeding along and with a chopper blasting, guns down a pedestrian; but the victim pulls a gun and fires back, his bullet goes through the windshield. The car crashes; the driver is dead, but the hitman escapes. Arnie Kurtz goes to establish his alibi; at 10:35, his wife Stella drops in on her brother Benno Fisk, who owns a pawn shop. Stella has a job for him: deliver a payment of 100 Gs to a gangster in Washington, DC, for her hubby Arnie. Benno will be gone for 3-4 days, so Stella takes his 2 pet birds with her; Stella and Arnie are permanent guests at the swanky Lakeview Hotel. A newspaper headline reads: ""Parrot Fever Kills 2 More.""Ness and his men investigate the shooting of the pedestrian; Rico finds the drivers license of the dead driver of the getaway car: he was a New York hood named McHuey. It seems the New York Syndicate figures into Arnie Kurtzs trying to take
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The Eddie OGara Story
The Untouchables (1959) - The Eddie OGara Story
Season 4 - Episode 7

Show Description Chicago. Right after the St. Valentines Day Massacre. (February 14, 1929.) Ness and his men are scouring Chicago, looking for Bugs Moran. Ness says there used to be 2 gangs in town, now theres just one. Ness figures if they get to Moran first, maybe hell talk-- he might just be mad enough to give them the information they need. Someone else looking for Moran is Eddie OGara, a small-time hood who has been on the run for the past 3 years; hes decided to come home. Eddies brother Vince, a trolley driver, isnt happy to see him; but Eddies mom welcomes him back with open arms.Eddie finds Moran at his old hideout: a big storage room in the lakefront Midway. But Moran is ready to blast him; OGara was a punk until Moran made him a highly-paid gangster, and 3 years ago Eddie double-crossed him. Eddie fast-talks his way out of it. Moran has lots of money, but no gang; Eddie can get him a new gang, but hell need lots of money. So they decide to work together-- but Moran warns
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Elegy
The Untouchables (1959) - Elegy
Season 4 - Episode 8

Show Description 1929.* Notorious gangster boss Charlie Radick is dying of leukemia; therell be no mourning for him, the other overlords will be vying for his throne. All Radick wants to do is see his long-lost daughter before he dies. Ness visits Radick; Ness is afraid a gang war might break out, as rival gangs scramble to take over. Ness says, ""Turn over your books to me; names of the people in your organization, distribution points, contacts in City Hall."" Radick says while he was in prison, he left his daughter with a couple; 3 years ago she ran away. Radick tells Ness, ""Find Margaret, and Ill give you everything you ask for."" Ness never makes deals with hoods; but this time the gangster isnt asking for a break, or to plea bargain: he only wants Ness to find his daughter. Ness doesnt promise him anything, but he starts the search.Eliot Ness is getting help from Lt. Agatha Stewart and Frank-- they do some legwork, and find out Margaret Radick is now going by the name Margaret Wilson. T
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Come and Kill Me
The Untouchables (1959) - Come and Kill Me
Season 4 - Episode 9

Show Description July 4, 1930. 40,000 horse racing fans fill Arlington Park. Ness and his men have Arnold ""Spats"" Vincent under surveillance; they will close in on him as soon as he gets a piece of paper: a list with the names of officials in high places who are ready to do business with the crime cartel. 2 hoods (one tall, one short), apparently associates of Spats, approach him. The tall hood sits next to him and whispers something to him; then he stabs Spats. The hoods take off running; Ness and his men and some cops chase them. They arrest the tall hood, but the short one gets shot by a cop.Ness figures that top gangster Nate Stryker had put a contract on Spats; Ness and his men grill the tall hood, but hes not talking, he wont even give his name. Ness has Stryker hauled in, but the tall hood wont squeal on him. Later, Stryker meets with Dexter Lloyd Bayless-- he runs a school where he trains assassins; Bayless had provided the 2 hoods for this hit. Stryker is worried the hood might si
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A Fist of Five
The Untouchables (1959) - A Fist of Five
Season 4 - Episode 10

Show Description Chicago, 1929. Mike Brannons been a cop for 15 years, but now hes being suspended for hospitalizing ""one of Tony Lambertos dope-pushing punks."" Mike thinks Captain Bellows is corrupt for not going to bat for him. There is a tense moment when the Captain asks for Mikes gun-- Mike points it at him. But then, Mike turns the gun over and leaves.The dollar value of the citys wholesale industrial trade is $6-billion; the revenue of organized crime is $200-million. ""Tough Tony"" Lambertos Market Street Produce Co. is just a legit faade; it takes in a percentage off the top-- from every racket dollar in the Southside of Chicago. Tony Lamberto is often the target of rival gangsters, so he rides around in a steel-plated limo with bulletproof glass; it cost $30,000. (this is a time when most people make $600 to $1,000 a year, and cars cost $500.) Right now Tony has another problem: a visit from Eliot Ness and his men. One of Tonys boys, Max Templar, is eating a honeydew melon; bu
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The Floyd Gibbons Story
The Untouchables (1959) - The Floyd Gibbons Story
Season 4 - Episode 11

Show Description Chicago, October 1932. Within minutes of the time the Globes top reporter Carlton Edmunds was shot, Eliot Ness and his men are on the scene. Ostensibly it appears a stray bullet in a gunfight hit Edmunds; he was just a passerby in the wrong place at the wrong time. But Lee Hobson picks up 4-5 pieces of cotton batting-- the gunmen were firing blanks: except for the one bullet that hit Edmunds, who was 30 feet away. The ""gunfight"" was staged to fool the sole witness to the shooting: newsman Barney Rusch. Ness tells Barney that earlier, Edmunds had said he was working on a story about scrap metal-- a story that would tear this town wide open.Just then, a cross-country flight, from East coast to West, has a stopover in Chicago; reporter Floyd Gibbons gets out at the terminal to make some phone calls. Globe-trotting reporter Floyd Gibbons is a fast-talking, straight-shooting whirlwind of activity; not even losing his left eye in World War I slowed him down-- for more than the past do
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Doublecross
The Untouchables (1959) - Doublecross
Season 4 - Episode 12

Show Description June 1930. Speak owner Louie Akers-- about to go dry and out of business because Guzik couldnt supply him with hooch for that last 3 weeks-- buys his booze from another supplier. Akers pays Johnny $1,142 for barrels of beer and crates of whiskey, that some deliverymen just dropped off. Just then, a couple of Guziks boys (Sully and Mac) drive up; they start blasting at the delivery truck (which still has plenty more booze in back), just as its pulling away. Once the delivery truck is at a safe distance, Johnny gets out and hands the dough over to the booze supplier-- Eliot Ness! (Johnny is an undercover cop.)A short time later, Akers gets a visit from Jake ""Greasy Thumb"" Guzik and a few of his boys.
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Search for a Dead Man
The Untouchables (1959) - Search for a Dead Man
Season 4 - Episode 13

Show Description June 1929.* A body is dumped into Lake Michigan; when its fished out 3-4 weeks later, on July 10, the Bureau of Missing Persons has a John Doe on its hands. And so, Lt. Agatha Stewart and her sidekick Frank Benson are on the case. At the City Morgue, all the coroner can tell about the decomposed body is the approximate age, 50, and that the deceased might have had a bad heart. Outside, Lt. Stewart runs into Eliot Ness, who came down to do an I.D. on a Joe Fuselli. (not the Joe Fuselli from ""The Scarface Mob."") The morgue will keep the body for 10 days.July 20, in Potters Field, the John Doe is buried in the rain; there are no mourners, only Lt. Stewart and reporter Walter Rimer attend. But then a clue-- a huge wreath is delivered by OBanion florists; the delivery man doesnt know who ordered it, so Lt. Stewart goes to the flower shop. It had been owned by the notorious gangster Dion OBanion (1892-1924), until he was rubbed out 5 years ago by Johnny Torrio. Now, the shop is
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The Speculator
The Untouchables (1959) - The Speculator
Season 4 - Episode 14

Show Description 1929. Eliot Ness gets another anonymous phone tip: a big meet at a warehouse on Grover Street, Nitti and all the boys will be there. At the warehouse, about 20 hoods are putting their record books into a huge trunk. Since Al Capone got nailed because of bookkeeping, from now on nobody is to keep any written records; there will only be one central file, and the bookkeeper will be Leo Stazak. Leo tells the boys that records, with notes on accounts receivable, would tip the Feds as to how the speak owners do business. Leo will run the central file, everybody else is just to use the phone and deal in cash. Then Nitti gives a little talk: they all know what happened to Artie Graff, he ran a good speak-- but he got busted because Ness got a hold of his records. Nitti adds laconically, ""The Organization has voted to give his widow a few bucks in memory of her departed husband."" (and the guys not even dead yet-- enough said.)Ness and his men use their cars to crash through the wareho
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The Snowball
The Untouchables (1959) - The Snowball
Season 4 - Episode 15

Show Description October 16, 1930. Jackson Parker is a small-time bootlegger, he has his henchman Benny deliver bottles of booze to places on a college campus: student unions, fraternity houses. Parker is arrogant, he tells Benny he could ""throw him out with the rest of the garbage."" Parker has big plans: he thinks hes meeting with Frank Nitti. At the Montmartre club, Nitti is telling his assembled lieutenants, ""And after we get that pipeline set up, the feds will have to dig up every street in Chicago to find it."" A round of laughter. Harry, who is guarding the door, tells Nitti that the punk is here; Nitti says to throw him out, but then decides to let him in for amusement. When they laugh at Parkers small-time bootlegging operation on a college campus, arrogant Parker says, "I thought Id be talking to a more intelligent group of men", " Nitti warns him" and "One more like that, and the ice is gonna crack right out from under you".
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Jake Dance
The Untouchables (1959) - Jake Dance
Season 4 - Episode 16

Show Description Late Summer 1930. It started in Wichita, Kansas: a staggering gait called the Jake Dance. (we see a man staggering along using a cane in each hand.) There are many different kinds of alcohol, but the only kind that is safe to drink is ethyl alcohol; many people had been drinking Ginger Jake, which is contaminated with methyl alcohol, also called ""wood alcky."" And people who drank a lot of it often suffered permanent loss of muscle coordination, and developed a staggering gait called the Jake Dance. Many died. In Wichita, 1% of the adult population was stricken. So the U.S. Health Department calls for its top guns: Associate Surgeon General Dr. Victor Garr (about age 50, with a lot of experience and a deep care for patients), and his assistant, Dr. Daniel Gifford (about age 30, inexperienced and has a habit of always doing things by the book). Right now, they are swamped with hundreds of patients in the hospital.Dr. Garr sees his sidekick going over some notes. Dr. Garr snaps
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Blues for a Gone Goose
The Untouchables (1959) - Blues for a Gone Goose
Season 4 - Episode 17

Show Description Jazz was born in the Roaring Twenties. Its now 1930, and on Chicagos Gold Coast theres a nightspot called ""Goose Ganders Golden Egg"" jazz club. Blues player Eddie Moon is blowing his hot cornet with the jazz band. But then mobster Lucky talks to Ray ""Goose"" Gander; Lucky wants him to carry Lou Cagans hooch in his joint. Ray refuses, the strongest drink he serves in his place is coffee. Then Luckys hitman plays some music of his own-- with his tommy gun; he shoots up the joint. But tonight Lucky isnt so lucky; an hour later, Eliot Ness and Lee Hobson and Enrico Rossi grab him. This is the 3rd little, independent club hes shot up; the previous 2 were the Whoopee Club and the Lions Den. Ness runs him in.Meanwhile Lou Cagan (Mr. Big of the Chicago northside), who owns the lavish gambling resort the Parthenon Hotel, is getting some bad news from Louis ""Lepke"" Buchalter. Lepke, representing the New York syndicate, tells Cagan they sent him 700 cases of booze, but he hasnt
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Globe of Death
The Untouchables (1959) - Globe of Death
Season 4 - Episode 18

Show Description 1933. Prohibition ends. But that doesnt mean the war on crime is over for Eliot Ness and his Untouchables. The syndicate has already moved on to a more profitable-- and more deadly-- source of income: narcotics. By September, Ness and his men had found and destroyed every major source of narcotics. By early October, the price of a bindle of heroin jumps from $20 to $50. Nitti and his boys want to take advantage of this sellers market.Nitti has a dope smuggler named Yang brought in from Shanghai. At the Montmartre Club, 5 lieutenants put their money on the table: elderly Tony, 350 Gs; Mike, 275; ailing Sam Weidman, 600; Kurt Koenig, 350; and Larry Bass, 425. Nitti quips, ""Two million bucks-- there aint been that much dough on this table since we bought the Southside."" When Sam Weidman asks how can they be sure Yang will deliver, Nitti snaps, ""Whatta ya think were dealin with, some 2-bit punk?"" He walks over to a huge globe, a yard in diameter. ""Hes got poppy fields in
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An Eye for an Eye
The Untouchables (1959) - An Eye for an Eye
Season 4 - Episode 19

Show Description Chicago, Spring 1931. That night, Ness and his men are in their car; its an 80 mph chase to catch a guy running whiskey for Solly Girsch. The 19-year-old driver has a high-speed accident; his car overturns and explodes in flames. Solly Girsch is the king of bootleg whiskey; he has 500 ""mom & pop"" stores pushing his hooch-- all together, they form the biggest single outlet of whiskey in Chicago. Next night, top boss Harry Mastrogeorge-- along with Sollys crooked lawyer BillyBaron and about half a dozen of Mastrogeorges lieutenants-- are throwing a party for Solly, celebrating his getting his 500th outlet. They bring in a 2-foot-high cake. Solly quips he wishes a blonde would jump out of the cake. (shedbe pretty short.)But Solly has an announcement; hes buying 1,000 gallons of whiskey a day from them, and he wants to cut the price he pays from $8 a gallon to $4. They all balk, and Pete Topchinski is vocal about it. Big bucks are involved-- its a $2-million a year busine
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Junk Man
The Untouchables (1959) - Junk Man
Season 4 - Episode 20

Show Description Chicago, 1931. On the Southside, on a dead end street, there is a junkyard-- but its really a front for a narcotics empire, run by gangster Victor Salazar. Ness and his men are on the case; they keep intercepting his trucks, carrying shipments of narcotics. Barney Howe tells his boss Salazar that his problem is the operations too spread out; but one big shipment will give him the Northside, too-- Barney says he will ""put Chicago in his pocket."" Late at night, they get a call from a hood named Kierson who has info in his briefcase: the time and route of a $2-million commercial shipment of morphine crystals to a medical research center; hes to meet them at the corner of Mohawk and 23rd in 10 minutes. But rival hood Steve Ballard takes out his silencer, and pumps Kierson full of lead, and makes off with the briefcase.Around midnight, Salazar orders all his boys to find Kierson; ironically, one of Salazars ""Enforcers"" is Steve Ballard, the guy who bumped Kierson off! But it seem
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The Man in the Cooler
The Untouchables (1959) - The Man in the Cooler
Season 4 - Episode 21

Show Description January 1932. Smalltime bootlegger Al Remp is serving 3-5 years in prison; hes done 3 years and is up for parole next week, but it seems he wont get it. The guards put him in solitary, and Remp has a visitor: Eliot Ness. Remp tells him, ""I got nothing to say to you."" But Ness tells him that if he agrees to help him nail bigtime bootlegger ""Fat"" Augie Strom, his former boss, hell get that parole; or else 2 more years is a long time. Remp is married to a good woman; the whole time hes been in prison, she did ""stand by her man."" Remp agrees to help Ness.""Fat"" Augie Strom is a very heavyset man who perspires even in winter, his operation is at a meat packing plant by the Chicago stockyards; he likes the large refrigeration section where the meat is prepared, its nice and cool in there-- hes the Man in the Cooler. A big man with a big temper, he has ""Bitsy"" Whyller rub out Pete Laffey for bungling a job. Remp is reunited with his faithful wife Marcie; but he also has to meet
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The Butchers Boy
The Untouchables (1959) - The Butchers Boy
Season 4 - Episode 22

Show Description Racketeer Gus Ducek is fingered to be knocked off. But when the car with the hitmen drives towards him, Duceks boys fire back with machine guns, turning the tables; one hitman dies, Boley Davis escapes. Watching the botched rubout attempt are Lt. Philip Hedden and Sgt. Davey McCain. Eliot Ness and his men are out to pin the murder attempt on Hedden, since the hitmen were driving one of his cars. November 11, 1931; a group of about 2 dozen Army buddies, who were all in B-Company, 431st Infantry, in WWI, are celebrating the 13th anniversary of Armistice Day. It is their annual reunion, and their host as usual is Lt. Philip Hedden; and beside him, as always, is his sidekick Sgt. Davey McCain. Lt. Philip Hedden regales the men, again, with the story of how he won his medal, the Croix De Guerre; and then he proposes a toast to Sgt. Davey-- ""To the best topkick who ever did a shavetails job for him.""*Hedden and Davey are a team-- but whereas these former soldiers served their countr
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The Spoiler
The Untouchables (1959) - The Spoiler
Season 4 - Episode 23

Show Description New Jersey waterfront, 1933. Johnny Mizo had been marked for death by the American crime cartel; he had fled to Brazil. Now, he has returned to America to get the $200,000 he had hastily stashed in a hideout before fleeing. The Captain tells Mizo he has exactly 11 days, and then the ship sails back to Rio de Janeiro, with or without him. Its a foggy night; a Brazilian sailor gets off the ship before Mizo, and 4 Chicago hoods mistake him for Mizo. They shoot the sailor; a policeman shoots one of the hoods, Paul Santos.Back in Chicago, the 3 remaining hoods report to their boss, top gangster Vince Majesky-- who makes his dough off of protection, prostitution and narcotics. He owns a nightclub called the Silken Trap; his office is upstairs. Majesky is plenty sore about the botched job; he gives Denny Cole one more chance to get Johnny Mizo, or hell be dumped in the river! Meanwhile, in the nightclub, beautiful Claire Vale is doing a dance number for the customers. Eliot Ness a
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One Last Killing
The Untouchables (1959) - One Last Killing
Season 4 - Episode 24

Show Description February 1, 1933. Late that night, John ""The Cropper"" Cropsie, the Enforcer for Jules Flack (boss of the Westside combine), stood in the back alley behind the Lido Burlesque house, by the stagedoor entrance-- and pumped some slugs into David Alpine, the key booze supplier for the combine (because he was also selling to the competition). On the night of February 2, Eliot Ness is having Cropsie reenact the crime in front of an eyewitness to the shooting: Belle Alpine, David Alpines widow. Ness asks her if she can identify him as the man who shot her husband. Belle walks up to Cropsie, slaps him across the face, and then blatantly lies to Ness that she never saw him before in her life.Meanwhile, with Repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Jules Flack is getting ready for the big switch, he is going to concentrate on narcotics. Flack wants to convert his assets into a couple of million bucks, so he can throw in with Luciano. Cropsie, who had been Flacks Enforcer for 13 years
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The Giant Killer
The Untouchables (1959) - The Giant Killer
Season 4 - Episode 25

Show Description April 28, 1932. Chicago. 3,500 fans are at the arena, watching the end of a 7-day bicycle race. But Ed ""Duke"" Monte is there to make a drop-off. Ness and Lee Hobson catch him, with a quarter of a million dollars in counterfeit bills in his leather bag. On May 25, Monte is sentenced to 10-15 years in the State Pen. That same day, at Montes old headquarters (the Odeon Theatre which specializes in Burlesque), his former lieutenant, Lou Sultan, is having the guy he accuses of being the stoolie, Parrot Krebs, worked over by his thugs. Lou tells Janos Dalker (Montes bodyguard) to rub the stoolie out. Next day, Ness and Lee Hobson pay Lou Sultan a visit at the theatre; they know he had Parrot knocked off, but cant prove it yet. When they leave, Barbara Sultan, dressed to the nines, talks to her hubby. Lou tells her, ""Dont give me that jealous wife routine,"" and she snaps back that he should stop fooling around with all the strippers.Ed Monte busts out of prison, and as Janos is
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The Charlie Argos Story
The Untouchables (1959) - The Charlie Argos Story
Season 4 - Episode 26

Show Description June 25, 1933. Ness and Lee Hobson are called to the Castle, a baronial estate just outside of Chicago, which is both the headquarters and home of the underworlds notorious ""King"" Frank Argos; he is one of Ness old foes. Argos attorney Eli Halstead explains that wealthy Frank Argos is about to die; he wants to leave his $5-million in bonds to his long-lost son. And he wants Eliot Ness to be the executor of the will, because he doesnt trust any of his crooked associates. When Halstead says that Argos wife left him many years ago, the feisty Frank Argos interjects he kicked his wife out! But she took their 7-year-old son with her; all Frank Argos wants to do is see his son once again before he dies. The King offers Ness 100 grand for his services, but Ness turns him down; he figures its dirty money, a pay-off for protecting his organization. As Ness is leaving, one of the Kings hoods, Arno Beale, tells Ness that the son, Charlie Argos, died in WWI anyway.The King dies. An
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The Jazz Man
The Untouchables (1959) - The Jazz Man
Season 4 - Episode 27

Show Description During the blistering summer of 1931, Ness and his men are working tirelessly against both the illicit whiskey and the narcotics that are flooding the city. One morning, a despondent Capt. Jim Johnson visits Ness in his office; Capt. Johnson had been on a raid that netted 50 dope addicts-- one of them was his son Buz. Ness talks to Buz behind bars. Buz cooperates, and says he got the powder from a pusher named Peepers (so-named because he always wears shades); Ness gets Buz released. Peepers, meanwhile, is awaiting a big shipment of narcotics from Sal Rudin, alias ""Mr. Big.""Later, Agent Lee Hobson traces Peepers to where hes staying, at the Viking Hotel. Ness and Lee see Peepers carrying a small case of dope-- Peepers fires his gun at them; Ness shoots back, killing him. Searching Peepers apartment, they find out that Artie Tresh, a bass violin player working at the Club 88, also lives there. They go to the Club 88, and meet the owner, Sal Rudin. When Ness says he wants to t
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The Torpedo
The Untouchables (1959) - The Torpedo
Season 4 - Episode 28

Show Description April 3, 1931. Vics Diner, near the Chicago railroad yards; on the surface, no different than a hundred other diners. The blue plate special is 35 cents; a nickel would buy either a hamburger, or a cup of Joe and a sinker. The backroom is the headquarters of Victor Kurtz, bootleg czar of the Chicago southside. Right now he, along with his enforcer Holly Kester, The Torpedo, are having a meet with the boss of the northside, Monk Lyselle and his lieutenant Carl Danzig. Victor Kurtz uses a knife to draw a line bisecting a map of Chicago, then he says, ""Cross that line and you get cut down,"" and then jams the knife through the map and into the table, making his point. No more knocking off each others speaks, warehouses and booze trucks.Everythings quiet until the night of September 3rd. A 3-truck convoy carrying Canadian whiskey to Chicago is hijacked. One of the masked bandits is Enrico Rossi; Eliot Ness and Lee Hobson and the rest of the Untouchables are there, too. Since th
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Line of Fire
The Untouchables (1959) - Line of Fire
Season 4 - Episode 29

Show Description Chicago, January 1933. Danceland has a big sign, ""30 girls, open until 2 a.m."" Inside, customers mingle with the dime-a-dance girls. Hoofer Ellie Haskell says goodnight to the owner, Marty Pulaski; outside, she is immediately shot by a sniper on the roof of a building across the street-- the sniper is Herbie Pulaski, Martys mentally disturbed brother. Lt. Roy Gunther is on the case, he questions Marty, who has 20% of the dancing racket. However, Marty is sure his main competitor, Vince Bogan who owns 80% of the dance racket, is responsible for the killing; Marty phones Bogan and threatens to rub him out.Back at Ness office, Lt. Roy Gunther discusses the case with Eliot. Ness has to go to New York to testify before a grand jury, hell be gone a week-- he puts Lee Hobson in charge. Marty has his brother Herbie drive him over to Bogans place; inside, Marty shoots Bogan. Outside, when Herbie hears the shots, he reaches for his rifle in the trunk of the car-- and has a flashback
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A Taste for Pineapple
The Untouchables (1959) - A Taste for Pineapple
Season 4 - Episode 30

Show Description May 14, 1931. Eliot Ness and his men notice that the top bosses are leaving Chicago: Frank Nitti has gone to Atlantic City; Bugs Moran and Jack Diamond have left, too. As Ness puts it, ""The rats are leaving the ship."" Obviously, they want to be out of town when someone important is hit. What Eliot doesnt know is that he is the target. The Syndicate has imported Elroy Dahlgren, a veteran of WWI-- he was an expert at lobbing hand grenades, as they put it, he had A Taste for Pineapple; in the 13 years since the war, he has practiced his craft a lot. Syndicate boss Danny Mundt is paying Dahlgren 10 grand to rub out Eliot Ness-- as soon as Mundt leaves town, too.Elroy Dahlgren gets in his car and drives up next to Ness car; Elroy lobs a pineapple into Ness car. Ness crashes his car and jumps out before the grenade explodes. In the hospital, Eliot Ness cant see anything-- even though Dr. Samuels says there is nothing physically wrong with his eyes; the stress of almost being blo
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