1 00:00:01,868 --> 00:00:03,980 Now, then, I'd like you to look 2 00:00:04,004 --> 00:00:06,004 at this money, gentlemen. 3 00:00:06,073 --> 00:00:07,439 I defy you to tell me 4 00:00:07,507 --> 00:00:09,741 after the closest possible examination 5 00:00:09,809 --> 00:00:12,878 whether it's real or counterfeit. 6 00:00:13,948 --> 00:00:15,380 Feel the paper. 7 00:00:17,484 --> 00:00:20,552 Feels as good as the real stuff. 8 00:00:22,422 --> 00:00:24,356 Looks as good, too. 9 00:00:24,425 --> 00:00:25,890 It ought to. 10 00:00:25,959 --> 00:00:28,927 It's the same paper they use at the Bureau of Engraving. 11 00:00:28,995 --> 00:00:30,755 Indeed it is. 12 00:00:45,645 --> 00:00:48,247 Tonight's episode... 13 00:00:48,315 --> 00:00:51,583 Starring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness. 14 00:00:51,651 --> 00:00:57,355 Co-starring Victor Buono, Bruce Gordon, 15 00:00:57,424 --> 00:00:59,257 and Karl Swenson. 16 00:00:59,326 --> 00:01:01,426 And narrated by Walter Winchell. 17 00:01:09,203 --> 00:01:11,647 On a dark night in the fall of 1934, 18 00:01:11,671 --> 00:01:13,483 an armored truck, carrying the special paper 19 00:01:13,507 --> 00:01:15,685 used in the printing of United States currency, 20 00:01:15,709 --> 00:01:17,789 was speeding toward Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 21 00:01:17,845 --> 00:01:19,177 Its ultimate destination 22 00:01:19,246 --> 00:01:21,946 was the Bureau of Engraving in Washington, D.C. 23 00:01:22,016 --> 00:01:25,017 Waiting at a crossroads a mile ahead was a group of men 24 00:01:25,085 --> 00:01:26,897 about to make the first overt move 25 00:01:26,921 --> 00:01:28,398 in the greatest counterfeiting swindle 26 00:01:28,422 --> 00:01:29,687 in the history of the world. 27 00:01:29,756 --> 00:01:31,823 The execution of this ingenious plan 28 00:01:31,891 --> 00:01:34,826 had been in preparation for over two years. 29 00:03:02,449 --> 00:03:05,384 ♪ ♪ 30 00:03:05,452 --> 00:03:07,919 In less than two minutes, the first step in a plan 31 00:03:07,988 --> 00:03:09,766 to defraud the people of the United States 32 00:03:09,790 --> 00:03:14,292 of $100 million was completed, and three men lay dead. 33 00:03:14,361 --> 00:03:16,428 Within 48 hours, Eliot Ness 34 00:03:16,497 --> 00:03:18,274 and five other top crime experts 35 00:03:18,298 --> 00:03:20,932 of the federal government had been flown to Washington 36 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,246 and were in conference with the men whose job it was 37 00:03:23,270 --> 00:03:24,569 to protect the nation 38 00:03:24,638 --> 00:03:27,505 against the economic cancer of counterfeiting. 39 00:03:30,277 --> 00:03:32,677 Switch on the lights. 40 00:03:35,449 --> 00:03:37,427 The notes you have just seen, gentlemen, 41 00:03:37,451 --> 00:03:40,151 are relatively crude counterfeits. 42 00:03:40,220 --> 00:03:43,822 Now, any competent engraver can make a passable copy of a $10, 43 00:03:43,891 --> 00:03:46,136 $20, $50, even a $100 bill, 44 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:47,726 but the one thing 45 00:03:47,794 --> 00:03:50,328 no counterfeiter has ever been able to duplicate 46 00:03:50,397 --> 00:03:53,998 is the unique texture of the paper used in legal currency. 47 00:03:54,067 --> 00:03:55,433 Now, up to the theft, 48 00:03:55,502 --> 00:03:57,347 this paper has been our most formidable weapon 49 00:03:57,371 --> 00:03:59,070 against counterfeiters, 50 00:03:59,139 --> 00:04:01,350 and that, gentlemen, is why we must locate 51 00:04:01,374 --> 00:04:02,585 that lost shipment. 52 00:04:02,609 --> 00:04:03,887 Aren't your men much more competent 53 00:04:03,911 --> 00:04:05,610 in this field than we are, sir? 54 00:04:05,679 --> 00:04:07,044 Well, in a sense, yes. 55 00:04:07,113 --> 00:04:09,914 But that brings us back to the element of time. 56 00:04:09,983 --> 00:04:11,628 Our procedure in the past has always been 57 00:04:11,652 --> 00:04:13,496 to pick up the phony money when it appears 58 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:15,064 and then backtrack it to its source. 59 00:04:15,088 --> 00:04:16,166 However, in this case, 60 00:04:16,190 --> 00:04:19,858 with the counterfeits issued on our own paper, 61 00:04:19,926 --> 00:04:21,526 it may take weeks, even months 62 00:04:21,595 --> 00:04:23,662 before we can lay our hands on one note. 63 00:04:23,730 --> 00:04:26,876 By that time, it might be too late. 64 00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:28,044 How can we help? 65 00:04:28,068 --> 00:04:30,012 This job had to be carefully planned 66 00:04:30,036 --> 00:04:31,881 and above all very well financed. 67 00:04:31,905 --> 00:04:33,115 Top engravers don't come cheap, 68 00:04:33,139 --> 00:04:34,584 and it's going to take a big organization 69 00:04:34,608 --> 00:04:36,674 to get this money into circulation. 70 00:04:36,743 --> 00:04:38,943 An established mob with plenty of connections. 71 00:04:39,013 --> 00:04:40,378 Precisely. 72 00:04:40,447 --> 00:04:42,258 Now, each of you is familiar with the criminal organization 73 00:04:42,282 --> 00:04:43,548 in your respective territory. 74 00:04:43,617 --> 00:04:45,228 We hope that one of you can discover 75 00:04:45,252 --> 00:04:47,286 who's behind this. 76 00:04:47,354 --> 00:04:49,866 Do we stay in our own territory if we get anything? 77 00:04:49,890 --> 00:04:52,791 No. No, if any of you get a lead, you have full authority 78 00:04:52,859 --> 00:04:54,537 to pursue it anywhere in the country. 79 00:04:54,561 --> 00:04:55,972 We hope you'll all give each other 80 00:04:55,996 --> 00:04:58,062 the fullest possible cooperation. 81 00:04:58,131 --> 00:04:59,211 That's all, gentlemen. 82 00:05:03,170 --> 00:05:05,414 Within three days of his return to Chicago, 83 00:05:05,438 --> 00:05:08,073 Eliot Ness and the Untouchables had compiled a list 84 00:05:08,142 --> 00:05:11,343 of engravers sufficiently skilled to be entrusted 85 00:05:11,411 --> 00:05:14,179 with a job of the magnitude the paper theft suggested. 86 00:05:14,247 --> 00:05:18,150 48 hours later, that list had been reduced to five names. 87 00:05:20,187 --> 00:05:22,120 You can scratch Gibson. 88 00:05:22,189 --> 00:05:23,121 Dead? 89 00:05:23,190 --> 00:05:25,590 No, he had a stroke last year. 90 00:05:25,658 --> 00:05:28,326 Gibson had a stroke, Morrison is dead, 91 00:05:28,395 --> 00:05:30,406 LeClerc and Vogler are deported. 92 00:05:30,430 --> 00:05:33,231 That leaves us with Hans Dreiser. 93 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:35,934 According to our information, he's the best of the lot. 94 00:05:36,003 --> 00:05:37,202 A man with perfect paper, 95 00:05:37,270 --> 00:05:39,237 and a man who can make perfect plates. 96 00:05:39,306 --> 00:05:41,439 Object: perfect money. 97 00:05:41,508 --> 00:05:42,818 If it ever gets into circulation, 98 00:05:42,842 --> 00:05:44,642 we can stop looking. 99 00:05:46,213 --> 00:05:47,745 Well, I found Dreiser. 100 00:05:47,815 --> 00:05:48,946 Where? 101 00:05:49,016 --> 00:05:52,717 He's doing 20 years to life in Leavenworth. 102 00:05:52,785 --> 00:05:54,030 At the precise moment 103 00:05:54,054 --> 00:05:56,132 that Eliot Ness and his men were concluding 104 00:05:56,156 --> 00:05:58,101 that Hans Dreiser could be ruled out 105 00:05:58,125 --> 00:06:00,192 as a suspect in the counterfeit plan 106 00:06:00,260 --> 00:06:02,694 because he was safely behind bars in Leavenworth, 107 00:06:02,763 --> 00:06:05,863 two men in a black sedan were parked at the base 108 00:06:05,933 --> 00:06:07,933 of a high-voltage transformer tower 109 00:06:08,001 --> 00:06:11,103 less than 300 yards from the walls of the prison. 110 00:07:16,536 --> 00:07:18,514 The Treasury Department in Washington 111 00:07:18,538 --> 00:07:20,905 was immediately notified of the escape of Hans Dreiser, 112 00:07:20,974 --> 00:07:22,340 and the news was relayed 113 00:07:22,408 --> 00:07:24,120 to the two closest federal officers 114 00:07:24,144 --> 00:07:26,344 investigating the counterfeit plan. 115 00:07:26,413 --> 00:07:28,513 Eliot Ness and Agent Harold Brookson 116 00:07:28,582 --> 00:07:31,216 arrived at Leavenworth within minutes of one another. 117 00:07:31,284 --> 00:07:34,352 Their investigations during the next 48 hours led them 118 00:07:34,421 --> 00:07:37,255 to the offices of the Leavenworth Power Company. 119 00:07:37,324 --> 00:07:41,259 Arizona, Joliet, Folsom, Sing Sing. 120 00:07:41,328 --> 00:07:43,028 This is quite a record, Mr. Joplin. 121 00:07:43,096 --> 00:07:46,731 All right, so I done time, but I'm on the level now. 122 00:07:46,799 --> 00:07:48,011 Been working for the power company 123 00:07:48,035 --> 00:07:49,044 for seven and a half months. 124 00:07:49,068 --> 00:07:50,368 Ask Mr. Pearson. 125 00:07:50,437 --> 00:07:52,370 It's true, Mr. Ness. 126 00:07:52,439 --> 00:07:53,738 He came to us highly recommended 127 00:07:53,807 --> 00:07:56,875 by an electrical contracting firm in San Francisco. 128 00:07:56,943 --> 00:07:58,788 Of course, we knew nothing about his prison background. 129 00:07:58,812 --> 00:08:01,179 Eh, it's the same old story. 130 00:08:01,248 --> 00:08:03,448 A guy gets out of stir and wants to go straight. 131 00:08:03,516 --> 00:08:05,316 But will the cops let him? No. 132 00:08:05,385 --> 00:08:07,229 The fact remains that when the transformer blew up 133 00:08:07,253 --> 00:08:09,220 the entire prison electrical system went out. 134 00:08:09,289 --> 00:08:11,322 You had access to that transformer. 135 00:08:11,391 --> 00:08:13,091 Look, I made a routine check. 136 00:08:13,159 --> 00:08:15,827 The insulation on that transformer was worn out, 137 00:08:15,896 --> 00:08:17,395 and I made a report on it. 138 00:08:26,005 --> 00:08:27,983 How does it happen the transformer wasn't repaired 139 00:08:28,007 --> 00:08:30,019 when Joplin's report was made? 140 00:08:30,043 --> 00:08:32,711 Our men cover a very large area, Mr. Brookson. 141 00:08:32,779 --> 00:08:34,757 Unless there is an emergency or a power failure, 142 00:08:34,781 --> 00:08:36,292 it normally takes three or four days 143 00:08:36,316 --> 00:08:38,349 for a routine report to be processed. 144 00:08:38,418 --> 00:08:40,118 Look, I'm a three-time loser. 145 00:08:40,186 --> 00:08:43,087 If they pin another rap on me, they'll send me up for life. 146 00:08:43,156 --> 00:08:45,076 Would I do something that foolish? 147 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:49,894 All right, Joplin, you can go. 148 00:08:49,963 --> 00:08:51,663 Thanks. 149 00:08:59,272 --> 00:09:00,805 Mr. Ness, 150 00:09:00,874 --> 00:09:03,152 I'd stake my life on the fact that worn insulation 151 00:09:03,176 --> 00:09:05,121 couldn't have made that transformer blow up. 152 00:09:05,145 --> 00:09:07,044 We know that, Mr. Pearson. 153 00:09:07,114 --> 00:09:11,015 The transformer was destroyed by a bomb. 154 00:09:11,084 --> 00:09:13,317 Here's a fragment of the timing mechanism. 155 00:09:13,386 --> 00:09:15,120 You think Joplin did it? 156 00:09:15,188 --> 00:09:16,188 We're sure of it. 157 00:09:16,256 --> 00:09:17,634 Then why didn't you arrest him? 158 00:09:17,658 --> 00:09:21,525 What are we going to use for evidence, Mr. Pearson? 159 00:09:21,594 --> 00:09:24,029 Joplin checked the transformer in the line of duty. 160 00:09:24,097 --> 00:09:26,137 He made a report that it was defective. 161 00:09:26,199 --> 00:09:27,132 But the bomb. 162 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:28,900 Anybody could have planted the bomb. 163 00:09:28,969 --> 00:09:31,770 No jury in the world would convict Joplin. 164 00:09:31,838 --> 00:09:33,549 He's covered himself too carefully. 165 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:34,617 Well, I'll tell you one thing. 166 00:09:34,641 --> 00:09:35,952 He's through with this company. 167 00:09:35,976 --> 00:09:38,309 I know how you feel, Mr. Pearson, 168 00:09:38,378 --> 00:09:40,223 but I'd appreciate it if you'd keep him on. 169 00:09:40,247 --> 00:09:41,557 After what's happened? 170 00:09:41,581 --> 00:09:43,581 If you fire him, he'll know we think he's guilty. 171 00:09:43,649 --> 00:09:45,950 I'd like him to believe he got away with it. 172 00:09:46,019 --> 00:09:47,185 He's the only lead we've got 173 00:09:47,253 --> 00:09:49,454 to the man who planned Dreiser's escape. 174 00:09:58,698 --> 00:10:00,676 Arriving September 12 in San Francisco, 175 00:10:00,700 --> 00:10:03,634 Hans Dreiser was taken straight to Chow Lee's antique store. 176 00:10:03,704 --> 00:10:06,670 Here, the man who could make the perfect plates 177 00:10:06,739 --> 00:10:09,407 was to meet the man who had the perfect paper. 178 00:10:31,964 --> 00:10:35,633 Ah, Mr. Dreiser, welcome. 179 00:10:35,702 --> 00:10:36,935 Come in. 180 00:10:42,275 --> 00:10:44,587 Sit down, Mr. Dreiser, sit down. 181 00:10:44,611 --> 00:10:46,144 Take some tea. 182 00:10:46,213 --> 00:10:47,924 You'll find it unique. 183 00:10:47,948 --> 00:10:51,849 It's blended especially for me in a little shop in Kashmir. 184 00:10:57,123 --> 00:10:59,390 Ming Dynasty. 185 00:10:59,459 --> 00:11:01,993 We shall get along famously, Mr. Dreiser, 186 00:11:02,062 --> 00:11:03,861 famously. 187 00:11:03,930 --> 00:11:08,833 I shall be happy to show you some of my other pretty things 188 00:11:08,901 --> 00:11:10,901 while you are with us. 189 00:11:15,575 --> 00:11:19,444 Now, then... everything went well? 190 00:11:19,513 --> 00:11:21,124 Just like you said it would. Mm-hmm. 191 00:11:21,148 --> 00:11:22,858 Excellent. 192 00:11:22,882 --> 00:11:24,660 I can always rely on Paddy, Mr. Dreiser. 193 00:11:24,684 --> 00:11:27,685 I've had him with me for years. 194 00:11:27,754 --> 00:11:30,555 He, uh, has a peculiar weakness. 195 00:11:30,623 --> 00:11:32,468 He has no moral judgment. 196 00:11:32,492 --> 00:11:35,459 He goes entirely by what I tell him. 197 00:11:35,528 --> 00:11:37,540 If I were to tell him to kill you 198 00:11:37,564 --> 00:11:39,608 or one of those lovely creatures who just left us, 199 00:11:39,632 --> 00:11:44,135 he would do so without regret and without conscience. 200 00:11:44,204 --> 00:11:45,970 You just tell me, Mr. Moon. 201 00:11:46,039 --> 00:11:47,850 Oh, gently, Paddy, gently. 202 00:11:47,874 --> 00:11:49,585 Mr. Dreiser is our friend. 203 00:11:49,609 --> 00:11:51,186 We must always remember that. 204 00:11:51,210 --> 00:11:54,244 No harm is to come to him while he is with us. 205 00:11:54,314 --> 00:11:55,246 You understand? 206 00:11:55,315 --> 00:11:57,381 Yeah. 207 00:11:57,450 --> 00:11:59,383 Now, then... 208 00:12:01,021 --> 00:12:02,887 Here is the paper. 209 00:12:19,639 --> 00:12:23,307 I know how you must feel, Mr. Dreiser. 210 00:12:23,376 --> 00:12:26,845 Like Raphael standing before a pristine canvas, 211 00:12:26,913 --> 00:12:30,915 ready to apply the first delicate stroke of the brush. 212 00:12:30,984 --> 00:12:33,351 Oh, the plates will be as... as good 213 00:12:33,419 --> 00:12:35,286 as those in the Bureau of Engraving. 214 00:12:35,355 --> 00:12:37,621 They will be better, Mr. Dreiser, 215 00:12:37,690 --> 00:12:40,024 for in you we have the finest craftsman 216 00:12:40,093 --> 00:12:41,592 in the nation. 217 00:12:41,661 --> 00:12:42,927 It was well worth the effort 218 00:12:42,996 --> 00:12:44,262 securing your release. 219 00:12:44,331 --> 00:12:46,197 Indeed it was. 220 00:12:46,266 --> 00:12:48,832 Come, I'll show you your studio. 221 00:12:48,901 --> 00:12:51,903 You'll find it a trifle primitive, perhaps. 222 00:12:51,972 --> 00:12:54,038 One hates to put a man of your sensibilities 223 00:12:54,107 --> 00:12:55,439 in a basement. 224 00:12:55,508 --> 00:12:58,376 However, I can offer you one bit of solace. 225 00:12:58,444 --> 00:13:00,778 The bed, Mr. Dreiser, it was slept in 226 00:13:00,846 --> 00:13:02,846 by the Emperor Franz Joseph himself. 227 00:13:02,915 --> 00:13:05,350 Come along. Oh! 228 00:13:05,418 --> 00:13:08,164 In the two weeks following Hans Dreiser's long trip 229 00:13:08,188 --> 00:13:10,488 to San Francisco and his meeting with Mr. Moon, 230 00:13:10,557 --> 00:13:12,890 Ness's men trailed Benny Joplin around the clock 231 00:13:12,959 --> 00:13:16,260 without results, but 17 days after Dreiser's escape 232 00:13:16,329 --> 00:13:18,963 from Leavenworth, Benny Joplin bought a ticket 233 00:13:19,032 --> 00:13:21,665 at a Kansas City bus station. 234 00:13:32,478 --> 00:13:34,023 The man who just bought the ticket, 235 00:13:34,047 --> 00:13:35,257 where's he going? 236 00:13:35,281 --> 00:13:36,847 Oakland, California... one way. 237 00:13:36,916 --> 00:13:38,260 What time does his bus leave? 238 00:13:38,284 --> 00:13:40,204 15 minutes, sir. Thank you. 239 00:13:55,968 --> 00:13:58,047 Long distance, this is Benny Joplin. 240 00:13:58,071 --> 00:13:59,881 I want Oakland, California. 241 00:13:59,905 --> 00:14:03,240 Humboldt, 6480... collect. 242 00:14:07,781 --> 00:14:09,280 Hello? 243 00:14:09,349 --> 00:14:11,015 Yeah, it's me. 244 00:14:11,084 --> 00:14:12,917 Perfect, I'll be there Tuesday. 245 00:14:12,986 --> 00:14:15,252 Later. 246 00:14:27,566 --> 00:14:30,501 Bus from Topeka now arriving. 247 00:14:39,045 --> 00:14:40,045 Ness. 248 00:14:40,113 --> 00:14:41,846 Eliot, Lee. 249 00:14:41,915 --> 00:14:43,647 I'm at the bus station. 250 00:14:43,717 --> 00:14:45,957 Joplin just called a number in Oakland, California. 251 00:14:46,018 --> 00:14:47,217 Is he pulling out? 252 00:14:47,287 --> 00:14:49,620 It looks that way... He bought a ticket for Oakland. 253 00:14:49,689 --> 00:14:50,955 I think we're in trouble. 254 00:14:51,023 --> 00:14:51,956 Why? 255 00:14:52,024 --> 00:14:53,335 Well, the bus leaves in ten minutes, 256 00:14:53,359 --> 00:14:54,837 and Joplin just got a good look at me 257 00:14:54,861 --> 00:14:56,172 as he came out of the phone booth. 258 00:14:56,196 --> 00:14:57,773 Did you get the phone number he called? 259 00:14:57,797 --> 00:14:59,274 Yes. Let him go. 260 00:14:59,298 --> 00:15:01,399 We'll see if we can't meet him in Oakland. 261 00:15:01,468 --> 00:15:03,534 Right. 262 00:15:03,603 --> 00:15:06,315 Westbound bus, leaving immediately. 263 00:15:06,339 --> 00:15:09,306 All aboard, please. 264 00:15:17,016 --> 00:15:20,195 While Eliot Ness and his men were en route to San Francisco 265 00:15:20,219 --> 00:15:22,453 in the hopes of intercepting Benny Joplin, 266 00:15:22,522 --> 00:15:24,389 Hans Dreiser was hard at work 267 00:15:24,457 --> 00:15:26,691 in Mr. Moon's basement apartment and storeroom 268 00:15:26,759 --> 00:15:28,693 beneath Chow Lee's Antique Shop. 269 00:15:35,869 --> 00:15:38,281 Flip the record, please. 270 00:15:38,305 --> 00:15:39,937 Oh, for crying out loud, you gotta listen 271 00:15:40,006 --> 00:15:41,606 to that junk all day every day? 272 00:15:41,675 --> 00:15:42,675 Monk... 273 00:15:43,843 --> 00:15:45,276 Do as he says. 274 00:15:45,345 --> 00:15:48,246 Yeah, sure. 275 00:16:04,930 --> 00:16:06,597 Well? 276 00:16:06,666 --> 00:16:10,734 Beethoven... Third Symphony, first movement. 277 00:16:10,803 --> 00:16:13,081 Oh, very good, very good. 278 00:16:13,105 --> 00:16:14,750 Well, someday I'll fool you. 279 00:16:14,774 --> 00:16:17,375 Of that I have no doubt, but not with Beethoven, 280 00:16:17,443 --> 00:16:19,477 Mr. Dreiser, he's far too definitive. 281 00:16:19,545 --> 00:16:21,479 Yeah. 282 00:16:25,485 --> 00:16:27,418 Thank you. 283 00:16:30,657 --> 00:16:33,624 It's exquisite. 284 00:16:33,693 --> 00:16:35,793 Exquisite. 285 00:16:35,862 --> 00:16:37,761 Thank you. 286 00:16:37,831 --> 00:16:40,298 When will you be finished? 287 00:16:40,367 --> 00:16:43,400 Oh, um, one more week, maybe two. 288 00:16:43,469 --> 00:16:46,370 It does not pay to hurry with such a thing. 289 00:16:46,439 --> 00:16:48,384 No, indeed it does not, Mr. Dreiser, 290 00:16:48,408 --> 00:16:50,052 but there are certain arrangements 291 00:16:50,076 --> 00:16:52,310 I must make, certain contacts, 292 00:16:52,379 --> 00:16:55,046 and then, too, you will want your money. 293 00:16:55,114 --> 00:16:58,048 One does not raise a quarter of a million dollars 294 00:16:58,117 --> 00:17:01,418 in a moment's notice. No, indeed. 295 00:17:01,488 --> 00:17:05,056 Now, I will leave you to your work. 296 00:17:05,124 --> 00:17:09,326 Uh, there is just one more thing. 297 00:17:09,395 --> 00:17:12,462 Would you mind accompanying me? 298 00:17:24,010 --> 00:17:26,810 Right this way. 299 00:17:26,879 --> 00:17:29,124 I don't anticipate any interruptions 300 00:17:29,148 --> 00:17:31,916 from the outside, but just in case, 301 00:17:31,985 --> 00:17:35,086 there is a means of egress at your disposal. 302 00:17:37,156 --> 00:17:38,667 I have a button upstairs 303 00:17:38,691 --> 00:17:40,235 which will sound at your work table 304 00:17:40,259 --> 00:17:43,260 should there be any unexpected intrusions. 305 00:17:43,329 --> 00:17:45,262 Thank you. 306 00:17:47,934 --> 00:17:50,045 The phone number Lee Hobson had obtained 307 00:17:50,069 --> 00:17:51,702 in the Kansas City phone booth 308 00:17:51,771 --> 00:17:53,648 led Eliot Ness and the Untouchables 309 00:17:53,672 --> 00:17:56,807 to a small frame house in Oakland, California. 310 00:18:10,289 --> 00:18:11,433 Yeah? 311 00:18:11,457 --> 00:18:13,690 I'm a federal officer, Mrs. Joplin. 312 00:18:13,759 --> 00:18:15,359 My name is Ness. 313 00:18:15,428 --> 00:18:18,428 May I come in? 314 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:22,500 If you're looking for my husband, 315 00:18:22,568 --> 00:18:23,668 he's not here. 316 00:18:23,736 --> 00:18:26,296 I came to see you, Mrs. Joplin. 317 00:18:26,339 --> 00:18:28,272 So, you see me. 318 00:18:28,341 --> 00:18:29,674 What's on your mind? 319 00:18:29,742 --> 00:18:31,387 When your husband was released from San Quentin, 320 00:18:31,411 --> 00:18:33,656 he went to work for a power company in Kansas City. 321 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:34,745 That's right. 322 00:18:34,814 --> 00:18:36,625 Do you know who helped him get that job? 323 00:18:36,649 --> 00:18:37,748 No. 324 00:18:37,817 --> 00:18:39,416 Have you heard from him? 325 00:18:39,486 --> 00:18:41,318 Not for weeks. 326 00:18:41,387 --> 00:18:43,653 Why? Is he in some kind of trouble? 327 00:18:43,723 --> 00:18:45,222 I'm afraid he is. 328 00:18:45,291 --> 00:18:47,535 The man who got him that job was using your husband 329 00:18:47,559 --> 00:18:48,771 to help a notorious counterfeiter 330 00:18:48,795 --> 00:18:49,727 escape from prison. 331 00:18:49,796 --> 00:18:51,528 Don't make me laugh. 332 00:18:51,597 --> 00:18:54,298 It's hardly a laughing matter, Mrs. Joplin. 333 00:18:54,367 --> 00:18:56,633 The man Benny helped free is part of a ring 334 00:18:56,702 --> 00:18:58,613 that plans to flood the country with $100 million 335 00:18:58,637 --> 00:18:59,648 in counterfeit money. 336 00:18:59,672 --> 00:19:01,605 Well, look around you. 337 00:19:01,674 --> 00:19:03,652 Would you say my husband's in a racket 338 00:19:03,676 --> 00:19:06,277 worth a... $100 million? 339 00:19:06,345 --> 00:19:08,757 I've been married to Benny Joplin for ten years. 340 00:19:08,781 --> 00:19:10,259 He's been in prison eight of them. 341 00:19:10,283 --> 00:19:12,461 I'm tired of being a rock pile widow. 342 00:19:12,485 --> 00:19:16,053 I'd like my husband around for a change. 343 00:19:16,122 --> 00:19:19,023 Your chances of that are pretty slim, Mrs. Joplin, 344 00:19:19,092 --> 00:19:20,202 unless you can persuade Benny 345 00:19:20,226 --> 00:19:21,603 to tell us who hired him. 346 00:19:21,627 --> 00:19:24,494 How can I do that if I don't know where he is? 347 00:19:27,367 --> 00:19:29,667 Wherever he is, I can tell you this. 348 00:19:29,736 --> 00:19:31,034 He has been poorly paid 349 00:19:31,103 --> 00:19:32,748 for his part in springing Hans Dreiser. 350 00:19:32,772 --> 00:19:34,817 Benny probably did the job 351 00:19:34,841 --> 00:19:36,285 for a few thousand dollars. 352 00:19:36,309 --> 00:19:39,543 The counterfeit ring stands to net nearly $50 million. 353 00:19:43,249 --> 00:19:45,849 If you hear from your husband, you can help him and us 354 00:19:45,918 --> 00:19:47,878 by having him call me at that number. 355 00:19:48,621 --> 00:19:51,181 Thanks for your help, Mrs. Joplin. 356 00:20:05,037 --> 00:20:07,170 You heard? 357 00:20:07,239 --> 00:20:09,807 Yeah, I heard. 358 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,046 How did they ever find me? 359 00:20:16,115 --> 00:20:18,482 I waited almost three weeks before I made a move. 360 00:20:18,551 --> 00:20:21,685 Benny, I told you it was too risky. 361 00:20:21,754 --> 00:20:23,632 I told you... Shut up, shut up. 362 00:20:23,656 --> 00:20:25,623 They ain't ever gonna let me go now. 363 00:20:25,691 --> 00:20:27,691 I'm a three-time loser... I gotta get away. 364 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:29,192 We gotta get away! 365 00:20:29,261 --> 00:20:30,595 Yeah, yeah, we. 366 00:20:30,663 --> 00:20:32,963 It's gotta be far away: South America, Europe, 367 00:20:33,032 --> 00:20:33,964 someplace where they... 368 00:20:34,033 --> 00:20:35,399 they can't get their hands on us. 369 00:20:35,468 --> 00:20:36,878 We don't have that kind of money. 370 00:20:36,902 --> 00:20:38,603 Then we gotta get it. 371 00:20:38,671 --> 00:20:41,082 What are you gonna do? 372 00:20:41,106 --> 00:20:43,507 I got to see Mr. Moon. 373 00:20:48,848 --> 00:20:51,893 Knowing that Mrs. Joplin had lied when she insisted 374 00:20:51,917 --> 00:20:54,029 she had not talked to her husband for weeks, 375 00:20:54,053 --> 00:20:56,787 Ness ordered a 24-hour stakeout on the Joplin home, 376 00:20:56,856 --> 00:20:58,922 but he had not expected it to pay off 377 00:20:58,991 --> 00:21:01,925 within minutes of his departure. 378 00:21:13,906 --> 00:21:14,972 Hello. Ness. 379 00:21:15,041 --> 00:21:16,641 Hello, Eliot. Rico. 380 00:21:16,709 --> 00:21:18,253 Joplin just went into an oriental shop 381 00:21:18,277 --> 00:21:20,611 on Grant Avenue, a place called Chow Lee's. 382 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,713 We'll be there in 20 minutes. 383 00:21:22,782 --> 00:21:24,848 Benny's on the move. Let's go. 384 00:21:29,622 --> 00:21:30,787 I gotta get out, Mr. Moon. 385 00:21:30,857 --> 00:21:32,434 I gotta get clean out of the country. 386 00:21:32,458 --> 00:21:34,325 And for that, you'll need money. 387 00:21:34,394 --> 00:21:36,894 Listen, Mr. Moon, I... I ain't trying 388 00:21:36,962 --> 00:21:38,607 to squeeze you, you gotta believe that. 389 00:21:38,631 --> 00:21:40,342 You paid me good for that Leavenworth job, 390 00:21:40,366 --> 00:21:41,765 and I may have to be on the lam 391 00:21:41,834 --> 00:21:43,278 for a long time, and I got a wife. 392 00:22:05,658 --> 00:22:06,890 Ten grand? 393 00:22:06,959 --> 00:22:09,860 Send me a postcard from Baghdad. 394 00:22:10,963 --> 00:22:12,763 Thanks, Mr. Moon. 395 00:22:12,832 --> 00:22:14,098 Thanks a million. 396 00:22:14,166 --> 00:22:16,578 Anything for a friend, Benny. 397 00:22:16,602 --> 00:22:18,513 Yeah, well, I guess I'd better be going. 398 00:22:18,537 --> 00:22:22,639 Lisa will show you out the back way... Lisa. 399 00:22:26,378 --> 00:22:28,938 Thanks again, Mr. Moon. 400 00:22:32,818 --> 00:22:35,285 Kill him. 401 00:22:35,354 --> 00:22:36,987 Bring back the money. 402 00:22:37,056 --> 00:22:38,522 Yeah. 403 00:22:54,607 --> 00:22:55,851 Is he still in there? 404 00:22:55,875 --> 00:22:57,408 As far as I know. 405 00:22:57,477 --> 00:22:58,776 Only one person has come out. 406 00:22:58,844 --> 00:23:00,722 A real fat man... I got his license number. 407 00:23:00,746 --> 00:23:02,026 Good. 408 00:23:06,685 --> 00:23:08,352 Maybe we've been had. 409 00:23:08,421 --> 00:23:09,787 It's the oldest dodge in the world 410 00:23:09,855 --> 00:23:10,855 for losing a tail: 411 00:23:10,923 --> 00:23:12,489 in the front door and out the back. 412 00:23:12,558 --> 00:23:13,835 If he knew he was being tailed, 413 00:23:13,859 --> 00:23:15,169 but I don't think he did. 414 00:23:15,193 --> 00:23:16,538 So how do we play it? 415 00:23:16,562 --> 00:23:17,606 Let's start by finding out 416 00:23:17,630 --> 00:23:20,190 who that license number belongs to. 417 00:23:37,950 --> 00:23:40,984 And now, back to... 418 00:23:41,053 --> 00:23:44,421 On the night of October 4, the body of Benny Joplin 419 00:23:44,490 --> 00:23:46,702 was dragged from the waters of San Francisco Bay 420 00:23:46,726 --> 00:23:48,492 and taken to the county morgue. 421 00:23:48,561 --> 00:23:51,328 It contained three bullet holes. 422 00:23:51,396 --> 00:23:53,041 Eliot, I just missed you at the office. 423 00:23:53,065 --> 00:23:55,305 We found out who those license plates belongs to: 424 00:23:55,367 --> 00:23:57,100 a man named Melanthos Moon. 425 00:23:57,169 --> 00:23:59,369 He owns the antique shop that Joplin went into. 426 00:23:59,438 --> 00:24:00,816 It's a good thing we didn't wait 427 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,150 for Joplin to come out. 428 00:24:02,174 --> 00:24:03,941 Why? 429 00:24:04,009 --> 00:24:05,542 There he is. 430 00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:07,944 Oh. 431 00:24:08,014 --> 00:24:09,513 Anything on Moon? 432 00:24:09,582 --> 00:24:11,426 We're running a make on him now. 433 00:24:11,450 --> 00:24:14,251 So far all we know is that he's got a finger 434 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:15,964 in almost every pie in Chinatown. 435 00:24:15,988 --> 00:24:17,188 What about the shop? 436 00:24:17,256 --> 00:24:18,400 Well, it seems legitimate. 437 00:24:18,424 --> 00:24:20,402 He's owned it for ten years. 438 00:24:20,426 --> 00:24:23,227 Just the same, I think I'm going to be on hand 439 00:24:23,295 --> 00:24:24,535 when it opens tomorrow morning. 440 00:24:24,596 --> 00:24:26,897 It ought to be interesting to hear Moon's explanation 441 00:24:26,966 --> 00:24:29,499 of why people who disappear in his shop end up 442 00:24:29,568 --> 00:24:31,501 in San Francisco Bay. 443 00:24:32,738 --> 00:24:34,671 Benny Joplin? 444 00:24:34,740 --> 00:24:38,275 I'm afraid the name is not a familiar one, Mr. Ness. 445 00:24:39,845 --> 00:24:42,379 He was seen coming into your shop night before last. 446 00:24:42,448 --> 00:24:43,891 Well, I can't deny that. 447 00:24:43,915 --> 00:24:47,017 A great many people come into my shop. 448 00:24:47,086 --> 00:24:48,419 This one didn't come out. 449 00:24:48,487 --> 00:24:50,854 Ah. Then he is still here. 450 00:24:50,923 --> 00:24:52,189 He's in the morgue. 451 00:24:52,258 --> 00:24:54,658 Then logic would dictate 452 00:24:54,726 --> 00:24:56,660 that he must have come out, 453 00:24:56,729 --> 00:24:58,573 wouldn't it, Mr. Ness? 454 00:24:58,597 --> 00:25:02,099 He could have been carried out, Mr. Moon, by the back door? 455 00:25:02,168 --> 00:25:04,401 Oh, dear, dear, dear! 456 00:25:04,469 --> 00:25:07,070 Am I being accused of murder? 457 00:25:07,139 --> 00:25:09,172 The thought has crossed my mind. 458 00:25:09,242 --> 00:25:11,375 How fascinating! 459 00:25:11,444 --> 00:25:13,377 You know it is said 460 00:25:13,446 --> 00:25:15,746 that if you live in Chinatown long enough, 461 00:25:15,814 --> 00:25:18,515 eventually, everything will happen to you. 462 00:25:18,584 --> 00:25:21,518 Apparently, there's some truth in the saying. 463 00:25:21,587 --> 00:25:23,920 Let's stop the polite conversation, shall we? 464 00:25:23,989 --> 00:25:26,223 Here's a search warrant. 465 00:25:26,292 --> 00:25:29,693 Well, that was quite unnecessary, Mr. Ness. 466 00:25:29,761 --> 00:25:32,140 My contacts with the legal authorities 467 00:25:32,164 --> 00:25:33,942 have been somewhat limited, 468 00:25:33,966 --> 00:25:35,777 but I shall do my humble best 469 00:25:35,801 --> 00:25:37,880 to assist you in whatever way I can. 470 00:25:37,904 --> 00:25:39,181 May I show you around? 471 00:25:39,205 --> 00:25:40,871 If you don't mind. 472 00:26:05,831 --> 00:26:07,631 Where does this go? 473 00:26:07,699 --> 00:26:09,244 The basement and the janitor's quarters. 474 00:26:09,268 --> 00:26:10,800 Permit me. 475 00:26:31,190 --> 00:26:32,856 Fireworks? 476 00:26:32,924 --> 00:26:35,325 For the Chinese holidays, Mr. Ness. 477 00:26:35,394 --> 00:26:36,726 I buy them every year. 478 00:26:36,795 --> 00:26:38,373 A small token of my appreciation 479 00:26:38,397 --> 00:26:41,098 for the courtesy my Chinese friends have extended me. 480 00:26:47,506 --> 00:26:49,639 Who's this? 481 00:26:49,709 --> 00:26:51,987 One of my employees. 482 00:26:52,011 --> 00:26:53,476 His name is Grover. 483 00:26:53,545 --> 00:26:55,356 Takes care of the place for me. 484 00:26:55,380 --> 00:26:56,713 These are his quarters. 485 00:26:56,781 --> 00:26:58,715 Not elaborate, mind you, 486 00:26:58,783 --> 00:27:01,018 but the fact that his bed once belonged 487 00:27:01,086 --> 00:27:04,321 to the Emperor Franz Joseph is partial compensation. 488 00:27:04,389 --> 00:27:05,956 Isn't it, Grover? 489 00:27:06,025 --> 00:27:07,190 Yeah. 490 00:27:07,259 --> 00:27:09,626 Printing another of your business sidelines? 491 00:27:09,695 --> 00:27:13,230 My business, Mr. Ness. 492 00:27:19,839 --> 00:27:22,939 But hardly your only business, Mr. Moon. 493 00:27:23,008 --> 00:27:25,976 We checked into your affairs very carefully. 494 00:27:26,044 --> 00:27:28,645 There's also the fan-tan parlors and the girls. 495 00:27:30,382 --> 00:27:32,349 What is one to do, Mr. Ness? 496 00:27:32,417 --> 00:27:33,984 When one has expensive tastes, 497 00:27:34,053 --> 00:27:36,353 one must find a way to cater to them. 498 00:27:36,422 --> 00:27:38,722 A man could satisfy even the most expensive tastes 499 00:27:38,791 --> 00:27:40,602 with $100 million, wouldn't you say? 500 00:27:40,626 --> 00:27:42,259 A hundred million? 501 00:27:42,327 --> 00:27:44,061 Ooh, I should say he could. 502 00:27:55,608 --> 00:27:57,652 Announcing the departure of Flight Two 503 00:27:57,676 --> 00:27:59,976 for Sacramento, Reno, Salt Lake City, 504 00:28:00,045 --> 00:28:02,946 Chicago, Cleveland and New York. 505 00:28:03,015 --> 00:28:04,948 All aboard, please. 506 00:28:14,726 --> 00:28:16,737 Come, come, my good man. 507 00:28:16,761 --> 00:28:18,173 It's your ticket to Chicago. 508 00:28:18,197 --> 00:28:19,908 Our seats are in the rear of the plane. 509 00:28:19,932 --> 00:28:21,209 I always prefer flying in the rear. 510 00:28:21,233 --> 00:28:22,777 It's so much safer, you know. 511 00:28:22,801 --> 00:28:25,361 I do hope you don't mind... now, come along. 512 00:28:36,882 --> 00:28:38,515 Now then, Mr. Nitti, 513 00:28:38,583 --> 00:28:40,683 I believe you have a registered letter 514 00:28:40,752 --> 00:28:42,752 which was addressed to me in your care. 515 00:28:53,498 --> 00:28:56,132 You sent that stuff through the mail? 516 00:28:56,201 --> 00:28:58,234 Can you think of a safer way? 517 00:28:58,303 --> 00:29:01,404 United States mail... The safest service in the world. 518 00:29:01,473 --> 00:29:04,541 If I had this money on my person and for some reason 519 00:29:04,610 --> 00:29:06,476 I were picked up by the police, 520 00:29:06,545 --> 00:29:08,625 no place of concealment would be adequate. 521 00:29:08,681 --> 00:29:10,280 Now then, I'd like you 522 00:29:10,348 --> 00:29:12,449 to look at this money, gentlemen. 523 00:29:12,518 --> 00:29:14,083 I defy you to tell me 524 00:29:14,152 --> 00:29:16,219 after the closest possible examination 525 00:29:16,287 --> 00:29:18,221 whether it's real or counterfeit. 526 00:29:20,058 --> 00:29:21,858 Feel the paper. 527 00:29:24,529 --> 00:29:26,462 Feels as good as the real stuff. 528 00:29:28,834 --> 00:29:30,767 Looks as good, too. 529 00:29:30,836 --> 00:29:32,269 It ought to. 530 00:29:32,337 --> 00:29:35,272 It's the same paper they use at the Bureau of Engraving. 531 00:29:35,341 --> 00:29:39,242 So it was you who hijacked that paper truck. 532 00:29:44,149 --> 00:29:46,316 This is great work. 533 00:29:46,384 --> 00:29:48,318 Who did it? 534 00:29:50,355 --> 00:29:52,356 Never mind. 535 00:29:52,424 --> 00:29:54,091 I can guess. 536 00:29:54,159 --> 00:29:56,459 Somebody sprung Dreiser from Leavenworth. 537 00:29:56,528 --> 00:30:00,296 I don't suppose you had anything to do with that, either, huh? 538 00:30:03,101 --> 00:30:07,571 Plates by Dreiser on paper by Uncle Sam. 539 00:30:07,639 --> 00:30:11,641 That's pretty hard to beat. 540 00:30:11,710 --> 00:30:14,110 It'll take 'em years to spot this stuff! 541 00:30:14,179 --> 00:30:17,247 Why don't some of you boys come up with ideas like this? 542 00:30:18,817 --> 00:30:21,184 All right, Mr. Moon, what's your proposition? 543 00:30:21,253 --> 00:30:24,121 I believe in simplicity, Mr. Nitti. 544 00:30:24,189 --> 00:30:26,089 I deliver the money, 545 00:30:26,158 --> 00:30:28,825 you and your friends put it into circulation. 546 00:30:28,894 --> 00:30:31,461 Oh, but the big risks are ours. 547 00:30:31,529 --> 00:30:33,496 The big risks are over. 548 00:30:33,566 --> 00:30:36,700 With this money, you can pay your taxes, 549 00:30:36,768 --> 00:30:38,802 the tracks, the houses, 550 00:30:38,871 --> 00:30:40,470 the gambling tables. 551 00:30:40,539 --> 00:30:42,305 Who's to know the money's counterfeit? 552 00:30:42,374 --> 00:30:44,741 Would you yourself if I hadn't told you? 553 00:30:46,711 --> 00:30:48,644 Okay, what's the split? 554 00:30:48,713 --> 00:30:50,547 I'm prepared to be generous. 555 00:30:50,615 --> 00:30:53,249 One third for you, two thirds for me. 556 00:30:53,318 --> 00:30:55,685 Oh, that's bad arithmetic. 557 00:30:55,754 --> 00:30:57,766 It's usually the other way around, huh, boys? 558 00:30:57,790 --> 00:30:58,800 Mm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. 559 00:30:58,824 --> 00:30:59,867 Dear, dear, dear, dear, dear. 560 00:30:59,891 --> 00:31:01,558 You disappoint me, Mr. Nitti. 561 00:31:01,627 --> 00:31:03,026 Prohibition is over. 562 00:31:03,095 --> 00:31:05,128 The days of the big money are over. 563 00:31:05,196 --> 00:31:06,874 Indeed they are. 564 00:31:06,898 --> 00:31:11,668 Can you afford to throw away $33 million? 565 00:31:11,737 --> 00:31:15,372 Nobody ever got a bigger cut than we did. 566 00:31:17,008 --> 00:31:19,476 Now you're being more reasonable, Mr. Nitti. 567 00:31:19,544 --> 00:31:22,079 Shall we stop bargaining and say 50-50? 568 00:31:22,147 --> 00:31:23,992 How does that suit you, Mr. Nitti? 569 00:31:24,016 --> 00:31:27,116 $50 million for you, and $50 million for me. 570 00:31:27,185 --> 00:31:29,686 Nice round figures, both of them. 571 00:31:29,755 --> 00:31:31,688 How does that strike you? 572 00:31:33,759 --> 00:31:35,691 Okay, it's a deal. 573 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,428 Uh, there is just one point. 574 00:31:38,497 --> 00:31:41,898 I had, of course, intended to take care of this myself, 575 00:31:41,966 --> 00:31:43,400 but since you have forced me 576 00:31:43,468 --> 00:31:45,968 to give up an extra 16 and two-thirds percent, 577 00:31:46,037 --> 00:31:48,438 I feel less hesitation in putting it to you. 578 00:31:48,507 --> 00:31:49,572 What is it? 579 00:31:49,641 --> 00:31:51,107 Front money. 580 00:31:51,176 --> 00:31:52,108 How much? 581 00:31:52,177 --> 00:31:53,309 Half a million. 582 00:31:53,378 --> 00:31:54,611 Half a million?! 583 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,446 In cash and today. 584 00:31:56,515 --> 00:31:57,781 That's out of the question! 585 00:31:57,850 --> 00:31:58,948 You sure? 586 00:31:59,017 --> 00:32:00,917 I'm sure. 587 00:32:02,487 --> 00:32:04,154 In that case, 588 00:32:04,223 --> 00:32:06,634 if you gentlemen will excuse me, 589 00:32:06,658 --> 00:32:08,236 I have an appointment in Detroit. 590 00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:09,826 Wait a minute! 591 00:32:09,894 --> 00:32:11,906 What do you want that money for? 592 00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:13,697 Half of it goes to my engraver, 593 00:32:13,765 --> 00:32:16,233 the other half, I will need for petty cash. 594 00:32:16,301 --> 00:32:18,668 Call Guzik. 595 00:32:18,737 --> 00:32:20,215 Tell him I want 500 Gs in cash. 596 00:32:20,239 --> 00:32:21,549 I want it now. All right. 597 00:32:21,573 --> 00:32:23,518 When do we get the stuff? 598 00:32:23,542 --> 00:32:25,342 As soon as I can print it. 599 00:32:25,410 --> 00:32:27,977 Unfortunately, due to the nature of the merchandise, 600 00:32:28,046 --> 00:32:29,979 I'm constrained to use a small handpress. 601 00:32:30,048 --> 00:32:32,048 Laborious, but safe. 602 00:32:32,117 --> 00:32:33,695 Don't take too long, huh? 603 00:32:33,719 --> 00:32:36,063 When I lay out that much dough up front, 604 00:32:36,087 --> 00:32:38,020 I worry. 605 00:32:46,798 --> 00:32:48,609 While Mr. Moon was flying back 606 00:32:48,633 --> 00:32:49,911 from Chicago to arrange delivery 607 00:32:49,935 --> 00:32:51,846 of the counterfeit money to Frank Nitti, 608 00:32:51,870 --> 00:32:53,982 Eliot Ness and his men were desperately trying 609 00:32:54,006 --> 00:32:56,539 to arrive at some method of preventing the fat man 610 00:32:56,608 --> 00:32:57,908 from getting the counterfeit 611 00:32:57,976 --> 00:32:59,788 they were sure he possessed into circulation. 612 00:32:59,812 --> 00:33:02,878 I think we've got to gamble that Mr. Moon is not going 613 00:33:02,947 --> 00:33:04,747 to waste government paper and Dreiser's plates 614 00:33:04,782 --> 00:33:06,183 on bills of small denominations. 615 00:33:06,251 --> 00:33:07,395 Twenties, you think? 616 00:33:07,419 --> 00:33:08,696 More likely fifties and hundreds. 617 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,086 Mr. Moon has expensive tastes. 618 00:33:10,155 --> 00:33:11,688 Plus the fact he knows 619 00:33:11,757 --> 00:33:13,535 nobody can recognize the counterfeit. 620 00:33:13,559 --> 00:33:15,058 We have two things going for us. 621 00:33:15,127 --> 00:33:17,761 We know the bills will all have to be the same denominations. 622 00:33:17,829 --> 00:33:19,529 We know they'll all have the same year, 623 00:33:19,598 --> 00:33:21,097 date and serial numbers. 624 00:33:21,166 --> 00:33:23,933 Dreiser hasn't had time to make any more than one set of plates. 625 00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:26,480 Well, if we can find one of the bills, 626 00:33:26,504 --> 00:33:28,148 all the others will be identical. 627 00:33:28,172 --> 00:33:29,272 That's it. 628 00:33:29,341 --> 00:33:31,008 Trying to find that first one 629 00:33:31,076 --> 00:33:33,377 is like looking for a needle in a haystack. 630 00:33:33,445 --> 00:33:34,811 So, how do we start? 631 00:33:34,879 --> 00:33:36,379 The hard way. 632 00:33:36,448 --> 00:33:37,781 We'll have to make arrangements 633 00:33:37,849 --> 00:33:39,882 to contact every place of business that's liable 634 00:33:39,951 --> 00:33:41,851 to get 50 or 100 dollar bills. 635 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,720 Race tracks, night clubs, theatres. 636 00:33:45,791 --> 00:33:47,457 Hello? 637 00:33:47,526 --> 00:33:49,292 Yeah, just a minute. 638 00:33:49,361 --> 00:33:50,960 Chicago. 639 00:33:51,029 --> 00:33:53,530 Hello. Ness. 640 00:33:53,599 --> 00:33:55,631 Eliot, Bill. How are things going? 641 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:57,066 Not good. What have you got? 642 00:33:57,136 --> 00:33:59,602 Plenty. Moon arrived here yesterday at about 6:00 p.m. 643 00:33:59,671 --> 00:34:01,048 He went straight to Nitti's place, 644 00:34:01,072 --> 00:34:02,650 and he stayed there until after midnight. 645 00:34:02,674 --> 00:34:03,906 Where is he now? 646 00:34:03,976 --> 00:34:05,819 He's on his way back to San Francisco. 647 00:34:05,843 --> 00:34:07,421 He left this morning on Flight 17. 648 00:34:07,445 --> 00:34:08,511 Thanks, Bill. 649 00:34:10,315 --> 00:34:12,448 Mr. Moon's on his way back. 650 00:34:12,517 --> 00:34:14,117 He went to see Frank Nitti. 651 00:34:14,186 --> 00:34:15,719 Distribution? 652 00:34:15,788 --> 00:34:17,186 Looks like it. 653 00:34:17,255 --> 00:34:18,933 If Moon's going to fence the stuff through Nitti, 654 00:34:18,957 --> 00:34:21,235 he'd be a fool to put it in circulation around here 655 00:34:21,259 --> 00:34:22,837 when he knows we suspect him. 656 00:34:22,861 --> 00:34:24,928 That's true, but let's not take any chances. 657 00:34:24,997 --> 00:34:26,362 The money's in San Francisco. 658 00:34:26,431 --> 00:34:29,065 Until we're sure it's gone, let's cover everything. 659 00:34:29,134 --> 00:34:33,770 Impatiently awaiting Mr. Moon's return, Hans Dreiser, 660 00:34:33,839 --> 00:34:36,906 who could no longer be kept on the premises of Chow Lee's, 661 00:34:36,975 --> 00:34:38,987 was closeted in a small midtown apartment 662 00:34:39,011 --> 00:34:42,145 above one of Mr. Moon's fan-tan parlors. 663 00:34:42,214 --> 00:34:45,015 He had been a virtual prisoner for more than a week. 664 00:35:14,245 --> 00:35:15,879 Stop! Stop! 665 00:35:15,947 --> 00:35:17,847 What you are doing that for? 666 00:35:17,916 --> 00:35:19,294 Because I've had it! I've had it right up to here! 667 00:35:19,318 --> 00:35:20,961 That same... Mr. Moon says I can do this! 668 00:35:20,985 --> 00:35:22,162 When you're working, that's why! 669 00:35:22,186 --> 00:35:23,364 But you're not working now, 670 00:35:23,388 --> 00:35:25,467 and I don't have to put up with this! 671 00:35:25,491 --> 00:35:26,967 Stop! You leave me... Why you... 672 00:35:26,991 --> 00:35:29,659 I don't... I'm not here because I want to be here. 673 00:35:29,728 --> 00:35:31,038 I'm here because Mr. Moon doesn't want 674 00:35:31,062 --> 00:35:32,907 you should be lonesome, but I've had all of you 675 00:35:32,931 --> 00:35:34,142 I can take, do you understand? 676 00:35:34,166 --> 00:35:35,810 Yes, and why don't say when he's coming back? 677 00:35:35,834 --> 00:35:37,111 You'll see him when he gets back! 678 00:35:37,135 --> 00:35:38,746 I am sick and tired... Will you shut up?!! 679 00:35:38,770 --> 00:35:40,281 Can't you get it through that thick skull of yours? 680 00:35:40,305 --> 00:35:42,865 You're hot! Huh? Hot! 681 00:35:42,908 --> 00:35:44,451 We're keeping you under wraps here 682 00:35:44,475 --> 00:35:45,853 because your puss is plastered 683 00:35:45,877 --> 00:35:48,055 in every post office across this whole country! 684 00:35:48,079 --> 00:35:49,891 Here! Here, read the paper! 685 00:35:49,915 --> 00:35:51,247 Go on, read it! 686 00:35:51,316 --> 00:35:54,283 Maybe that'll take your mind off that-that lousy music! 687 00:35:56,154 --> 00:35:58,287 Where you are going? 688 00:35:58,356 --> 00:36:00,356 I'm going down to get a drink. 689 00:36:00,425 --> 00:36:02,558 Believe me, I've earned it. 690 00:36:30,989 --> 00:36:32,922 ♪ ♪ 691 00:36:43,435 --> 00:36:46,681 By 8:25 p.m... Eliot Ness 692 00:36:46,705 --> 00:36:48,783 and the Untouchables were already engaged 693 00:36:48,807 --> 00:36:52,208 in the laborious process of checking the $50 and $100 notes 694 00:36:52,276 --> 00:36:54,316 which had been picked up by messengers 695 00:36:54,345 --> 00:36:58,514 from various businesses in the San Francisco area. 696 00:36:58,583 --> 00:36:59,982 Please, I've got to see this opera. 697 00:37:00,051 --> 00:37:01,283 This is my favorite. 698 00:37:01,352 --> 00:37:04,387 You must have something way back in the balcony, anywhere. 699 00:37:04,456 --> 00:37:07,857 I told you before, we have only one seat left... a box. 700 00:37:07,926 --> 00:37:10,104 We wouldn't have that if it weren't for a cancellation. 701 00:37:10,128 --> 00:37:12,262 But how much cost such a thing? 702 00:37:12,330 --> 00:37:14,531 Six dollars. 703 00:37:17,869 --> 00:37:21,671 Do you want the ticket or don't you, sir? 704 00:37:21,740 --> 00:37:25,074 I, uh, I'm sorry. 705 00:37:45,297 --> 00:37:47,364 Yeah, I take it. 706 00:37:49,834 --> 00:37:51,812 Is this the smallest bill you have? 707 00:37:51,836 --> 00:37:53,903 I got only three ones. 708 00:37:56,307 --> 00:37:58,240 Please, please. 709 00:37:58,309 --> 00:38:00,543 I'm missing the overture. 710 00:38:07,218 --> 00:38:09,264 If I get my hands on Monk, I'll kill him. 711 00:38:09,288 --> 00:38:11,098 I told him not to leave Dreiser alone for a second. 712 00:38:11,122 --> 00:38:13,623 Monk is the least of our worries at this point. 713 00:38:13,692 --> 00:38:15,336 But why would Dreiser take off? 714 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,061 Why?! Why indeed? 715 00:38:18,129 --> 00:38:21,598 A most provocative question. 716 00:38:31,877 --> 00:38:34,811 ♪ ♪ 717 00:38:59,738 --> 00:39:00,970 This way, Mr. Dreiser, 718 00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:03,039 and don't make a fuss or I'll hit you. 719 00:39:03,108 --> 00:39:04,507 Gently, Paddy, gently. 720 00:39:04,576 --> 00:39:07,944 That's no way to handle an artist. 721 00:39:08,012 --> 00:39:10,458 Did you enjoy the performance, Mr. Dreiser? 722 00:39:10,482 --> 00:39:11,948 It was wonderful. 723 00:39:12,016 --> 00:39:14,984 I'm delighted, but it was very reckless of you, Mr. Dreiser, 724 00:39:15,053 --> 00:39:16,953 very reckless indeed. 725 00:39:17,021 --> 00:39:18,655 Why did you do it? 726 00:39:18,724 --> 00:39:22,091 That Monk, he broke my phonograph. 727 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:23,459 I noticed. 728 00:39:23,528 --> 00:39:26,088 It was unpardonable of him and he shall be punished for it. 729 00:39:26,130 --> 00:39:27,296 Good. 730 00:39:29,167 --> 00:39:33,802 Come, come, Paddy, let's take our wandering friend home. 731 00:39:35,006 --> 00:39:36,372 Hello. 732 00:39:36,441 --> 00:39:38,574 The manager? Just a minute, please. 733 00:39:38,643 --> 00:39:43,079 It's for you. 734 00:39:43,148 --> 00:39:45,948 This is Mr. Lovell speaking. 735 00:39:46,017 --> 00:39:48,418 Yes, sir. 736 00:39:48,486 --> 00:39:51,754 Yes, sir, we're just going over our receipts now. 737 00:39:51,823 --> 00:39:53,389 We'll let you know. 738 00:39:53,458 --> 00:39:56,326 That's quite all right. 739 00:39:56,394 --> 00:39:58,673 Federal agents... they're looking for counterfeit bills. 740 00:39:58,697 --> 00:40:01,631 Did we get any new 50s or 100s tonight? 741 00:40:01,699 --> 00:40:06,035 Well, yes. 742 00:40:06,103 --> 00:40:07,170 The last sale. 743 00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:08,705 Funny little man. 744 00:40:08,773 --> 00:40:12,007 He wanted a cheap seat. 745 00:40:12,076 --> 00:40:14,109 Mm-hmm. 746 00:40:19,317 --> 00:40:21,918 How did you escape from Monk? 747 00:40:21,986 --> 00:40:24,320 Well, after he broke my phonograph, 748 00:40:24,389 --> 00:40:25,922 he went downstairs for a drink. 749 00:40:25,991 --> 00:40:29,959 I see, and you took the opportunity to slip away. 750 00:40:31,763 --> 00:40:33,874 It's really clever of you, Mr. Dreiser, 751 00:40:33,898 --> 00:40:35,810 but as I said terribly risky. 752 00:40:35,834 --> 00:40:37,578 You might have been apprehended. 753 00:40:37,602 --> 00:40:38,801 Yeah, but I wasn't. 754 00:40:41,139 --> 00:40:44,306 Quite fortunate for all of us, yes, indeed. 755 00:40:44,375 --> 00:40:46,654 I'm surprised you were able to get a ticket 756 00:40:46,678 --> 00:40:48,044 on such short notice. 757 00:40:48,112 --> 00:40:51,347 They were all sold out, but there was a cancellation 758 00:40:51,416 --> 00:40:54,116 and I got a box seat, the best in the house. 759 00:40:54,185 --> 00:40:55,418 I'll show you. 760 00:40:55,487 --> 00:40:57,754 I-I got the stub right here. 761 00:41:10,768 --> 00:41:13,102 You had no money. 762 00:41:15,005 --> 00:41:17,873 You had no money. 763 00:41:20,378 --> 00:41:23,112 Where did you get this? 764 00:41:25,884 --> 00:41:28,384 Answer me. 765 00:41:31,590 --> 00:41:34,023 Answer me! 766 00:41:34,092 --> 00:41:36,503 This is the change from a $100 bill! 767 00:41:36,527 --> 00:41:38,594 But I-I-I took one, only one! 768 00:41:38,662 --> 00:41:41,497 I want for souvenir! 769 00:41:59,517 --> 00:42:03,118 He's dead, Mr. Moon. 770 00:42:03,187 --> 00:42:04,854 Get him out of here. 771 00:42:04,923 --> 00:42:06,622 Here? 772 00:42:06,691 --> 00:42:08,223 Get him out! 773 00:42:08,292 --> 00:42:11,126 Yeah, sure. 774 00:42:33,184 --> 00:42:35,662 What do we do now, Mr. Moon? 775 00:42:35,686 --> 00:42:37,019 Back to the opera house. 776 00:42:37,087 --> 00:42:40,122 Hurry. Yes, sir. 777 00:42:57,375 --> 00:42:59,308 I hope I'm not intruding. 778 00:42:59,377 --> 00:43:01,177 I am looking for a $100 bill 779 00:43:01,245 --> 00:43:03,612 which I believe was tendered to you tonight by mistake. 780 00:43:03,681 --> 00:43:04,725 I'm sorry. 781 00:43:04,749 --> 00:43:07,283 I know this is a trifle unusual. 782 00:43:07,351 --> 00:43:08,517 I'm a collector. 783 00:43:08,586 --> 00:43:09,819 The bill was a special issue. 784 00:43:09,888 --> 00:43:12,688 My wife used it to cash a friend's check. 785 00:43:12,757 --> 00:43:15,091 I'm most interested in having it back. 786 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:16,926 It's not here. 787 00:43:16,995 --> 00:43:19,361 I'm not sure I understand. 788 00:43:19,430 --> 00:43:21,990 It's been picked up. 789 00:43:30,041 --> 00:43:32,241 Chow Lee's, hurry. 790 00:43:32,309 --> 00:43:33,320 Did you get the bill? 791 00:43:33,344 --> 00:43:35,556 No, it's been picked up. 792 00:43:35,580 --> 00:43:36,890 Ness probably has it by now. 793 00:43:36,914 --> 00:43:38,959 We've got to get out while there's still time. 794 00:43:38,983 --> 00:43:41,650 Hurry! 795 00:43:44,788 --> 00:43:45,955 Hello. Ness. 796 00:43:46,024 --> 00:43:47,868 This is Mr. Lovell at the opera house. 797 00:43:47,892 --> 00:43:50,092 A man was just here asking for a new $100 bill 798 00:43:50,161 --> 00:43:51,560 that we took in this evening. 799 00:43:51,630 --> 00:43:54,096 However, it was not the same man who gave it to us. 800 00:43:54,165 --> 00:43:57,333 This man was very fat, wore a beard, 801 00:43:57,401 --> 00:43:59,568 and, oh, yes, he carried a cane. 802 00:43:59,637 --> 00:44:00,836 Is he still there? 803 00:44:00,905 --> 00:44:02,638 No, he left just a minute ago. 804 00:44:02,707 --> 00:44:04,407 Thanks. 805 00:44:04,475 --> 00:44:05,841 Grab your hat. 806 00:44:05,910 --> 00:44:07,988 Somebody passed a bill, and Mr. Moon tried to get it back. 807 00:44:08,012 --> 00:44:09,052 He may be on the run. 808 00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,280 Jack, watch the store. 809 00:44:25,462 --> 00:44:27,607 The feds... they just pulled up outside. 810 00:44:27,631 --> 00:44:29,632 Quick, out the back way. 811 00:44:32,737 --> 00:44:34,670 Go around back. 812 00:44:34,739 --> 00:44:35,671 I'll give you half a minute. 813 00:44:35,740 --> 00:44:36,906 Right. 814 00:44:46,117 --> 00:44:48,917 Run, Paddy, run. 815 00:44:48,986 --> 00:44:50,798 I don't want to leave you, Mr. Moon. 816 00:44:50,822 --> 00:44:52,466 You must. Don't worry about me, Paddy. 817 00:44:52,490 --> 00:44:53,422 Save yourself. 818 00:44:53,491 --> 00:44:54,491 Now run. 819 00:44:54,558 --> 00:44:57,459 Run. 820 00:45:11,342 --> 00:45:14,076 Halt! 821 00:45:19,217 --> 00:45:21,350 Halt! 822 00:46:46,204 --> 00:46:49,571 ♪ ♪ 823 00:47:39,190 --> 00:47:41,123 Eliot! 824 00:47:41,192 --> 00:47:42,391 I'm all right! 825 00:48:21,165 --> 00:48:22,343 Come on, let's get out of here 826 00:48:22,367 --> 00:48:25,333 before the whole place goes up. 827 00:48:27,405 --> 00:48:30,217 Mr. Moon, who had lived such an extraordinary life, 828 00:48:30,241 --> 00:48:33,208 died proving the truth of his own observation 829 00:48:33,277 --> 00:48:35,644 that if you live long enough in Chinatown, 830 00:48:35,713 --> 00:48:38,914 almost everything will happen to you sooner or later.