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Papa, no, please! It's-It's dangerous!

Go back in the house! I'm not a baby.

I can carry my own bags.

Nobody frightens me into a hole.

Not Madikoff, not nobody.

I got one daughter who's going away.

I got a right to see who with.

I get the other bag.

Papa! Papa!

Tonight's episode...

Starring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness.

Co-starring Harold J. Stone

and Collin Wilcox.

With special guest star Darryl Hickman.

And narrated by Walter Winchell.

December, 1933... Prohibition was dead.

It was buried with the wildest funeral in history.

But the mobs it spawned were not buried with it.

They were already fattening on other fare.

Richer, dirtier, more profitable than booze...

Narcotics.

A powerful New York syndicate, the Big Six,

had long ago staked out the drug trade for itself.

April 16, 1934...

The Big Six had business in Chicago.

Its representative was calling on Louie Madikoff, the Bear,

top dealer in the Middle West;

retailer, wholesaler, importer from Canada

and chief supplier for the New York syndicate.

Wally, come on in!

It's good to see you.

Made good time from the airport, huh?

Well, come on in.

You know the fellas.

My boy, Danny.

First time he's home in a week

all on account of your coming.

Up here only girls.

Every night, girls.

I buy you a drink?

You ain't gonna like what I say.

You say or the boss?

The boss.

He said that you made a deal

to get some stuff in from Canada.

He says, where is it?

He needs merchandise.

I got merchandise.

Pure stuff.

A kilo and a half.

I got merchandise.

The boss ain't got it.

He knows I make two shipments this month!

I told him how Ness picks up my runners!

He said maybe you ought to get somebody new.

New?!

I should trust a stranger, huh?

I ain't a stranger.

Well, the Feds have a hundred eyes.

If you take the train, they pick you off.

If you take a bus or a plane, they...

Suppose I take the lake?

Suppose a flying boat picks me up

right at the foot of Varney Street...

puts me down 100 miles away from Ness.

Where?

Suppose you don't know.

That way, you won't let it slip.

A kilo and a half.

That's 200 grand.

Delivered in New York.

Oh, Louie...

the boss said he'd call you.

Pavanos!

The whole trouble is on account of Pavanos!

I know!

Pavanos? Why?

Who wants to move me out?

Who wants the territory?

Who wants to see me dead?

How would Pavanos know about them two runners?

They were partners.

He knows how I operate.

I tell you, he's talking to Ness.

Wouldn't want to give any odds.

There's a pay phone back there.

Right.

Listen, this is Eliot Ness.

Can you hear me?

You understand?

Look, I'll level with you.

Looks pretty bad, but you still got time.

You can still square a few things.

Don't you wonder how we picked you off?

Somebody talked.

They sold you out.

Don't owe them a thing.

Come on, get smart.

Tell me where you got this junk.

Ness?

Yes?

You're blocking the view.

The wire services played the story big.

It brought a long-distance call to Louie Madikoff

from New York, from the boss,

from Charles "Lucky" Luciano.

Maybe this deal is too big for you, Louie.

Maybe we bring in Mike Pavanos.

I lost a half million in this deal already.

Pavanos tries to take my territory,

I run him right into the lake.

Pavanos don't take.

I take.

And you like it.

I don't like it, the way he's singing to Ness.

Pavanos?

Who else? He knows he puts me away,

you got a deal with him.

You got a dirty house.

You better clean it out.

I give you one week.

You!

Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt.

You got a lucky star, Pavanos.

Anybody else, he's dead already.

Don't do me no favors.

Just one.

I'm gonna give you advice.

Stop tipping off my runners to Ness.

Maybe you're forgetting.

I'm Mike Pavanos.

I don't even say your name without spitting.

All I know is somebody wants to see me in jail.

Not me.

I want to see you dead.

I don't make no jokes.

You been singing to Ness.

Sure.

I run downtown, and I say to him,

"I just had a message from the Bear,

"from Louie Madikoff, my best friend,

"who lights a candle every night I should break both legs.

Wants to tell me about his runners."

You got problems with Ness, go settle with him!

I don't know nothing about no runners!

You'd better not... for her sake.

Hey!

Your move.

Hello. Ness.

Maybe.

What time?

Horton, between 5th and 6th.

I'll be there.

Louie Madikoff.

The Bear.

He wants to talk to me.

He's going to pick me up in his car tonight.

He's going to pick us up.

Me. He wants to talk alone.

You can't, Eliot. He could be setting you up.

He'll be alone, too.

He'll plant two of his boys in another car.

They'll be right behind you.

I don't think so.

You and Rico will.

You don't need your boys, Mr. Ness.

I ain't a fool.

I don't hit a Fed.

I got respect for you.

Not like Wally Corbin.

He's dumb.

No wonder you knocked him off.

You could be next.

You waiting for a tip, huh?

Okay, I'll save you some trouble.

You know Parky Devore?

You're falling off in class.

He's a small-time punk.

Oh, not any longer, Mr. Ness.

He's big-time now.

He's taking a plane for New York, first thing Thursday.

He'll be carrying three kilos of H.

You see, I got no secrets from you.

I'll give you the whole operation.

He calls me when he gets to New York.

If he gets to New York.

He'll get there.

Now don't say I never give you nothing.

You finished?

Oh, pretty soon.

First, I want you to see something.

You see up there?

That's a school.

There's no kids in there now,

and that's a good thing.

Them lousy boilers they put in the schools.

The rotten graft in this town.

What a terrible thing.

It could... It could happen again.

Maybe in some other school.

In the daytime, maybe, when there are kids around.

Say, like, uh, Thursday morning, Ness,

if Parky don't call me from New York.

He won't call you, Madikoff.

You gonna pick him up?

That's right, we're going to pick him up.

You don't have any feelings for kids.

We got a lot of feelings for kids.

In fact, we're going to give them

a special holiday on Thursday.

And Friday? Monday?

A week from Wednesday?

How long you gonna keep the schools closed?

Now we're finished, Ness.

Wednesday morning, April 21.

Ness arrived at his office at 9:45.

He had been with the school superintendent since 7:00.

Eliot.

They're waiting for you.

Three men were waiting in his private office.

Police Captain Johnson, Federal Attorney Beecher Asbury,

and Lawton Hollis,

the head of the Chicago Board of Education.

What did Kavanaugh say?

Kavanaugh's an educator.

His only concern is for the kids.

I agree completely.

I say, don't touch that runner.

Let him go through.

You make it pretty simple, Mr. Hollis.

Mr. Ness, would you risk the life of one child?

You know me better than that.

If we let that runner go through,

we give the mobs a frightening weapon.

Any time they want to tie our hands.

We knuckle under, or we close the schools.

And keep 'em closed,

because we never know when they're gonna hit, or where.

I could pick up Madikoff and book him.

No witnesses, no proof.

He'd make bail before the booking slip was dry.

Well, it's not all black.

You don't have to throw the sponge in yet.

Someone's been tipping us on the Madikoff shipments.

Who?

We don't know who. He phones in.

And you think he'll phone you about this?

I think there's a chance.

I think he might even tell us which school.

We've only got 24 hours, Eliot.

We can't just sit around and wait.

We won't.

Wednesday, 5:30 p.m.

The Untouchables were not waiting.

Supported by a large force of police,

they were rounding up all known bombing experts.

Quiet precautions were also taken

at each of Chicago's 200 schools.

Danny!

You going out?

Yeah. Got a date.

Same girl?

The one that keeps you out so late every night?

Well, Louie, you know... Hey...

you ain't getti" serious?

Now don't go pulling any surprises.

I gotta go to a church a wedding.

I-I gotta have a little time, you know.

Uh, I need a new tuxedo.

Ah, don't you worry, Louie...

you'll be the first to know.

I thought maybe you'd stay home tonight.

Uh, you know, maybe play a little poker?

Oh, I wish I could, but, uh,

there's no way to reach her.

I'm late right now.

Some other night, huh? You just let me know.

Couldn't have had no game, anyway.

Firecracker's getting in at 9:00.

He might've liked to play.

Want a game? I'll call Parky and Ogie.

Forget it.

Still plenty early, you want to play.

Forget it!

♪ Sowing in the noontide and the dewy eve ♪

♪ Waiting for the harvest and the time of reaping ♪

♪ We shall come rejoicing ♪

♪ Bringing in the sheaves ♪

♪ Bringing in the sheaves ♪

♪ Bringing in the sheaves ♪

♪ We shall come rejoicing ♪

♪ Bringing in the sheaves ♪

♪ Bringing in the sheaves ♪

♪ Bringing in the sheaves ♪

♪ We shall come rejoicing ♪

♪ Bringing in the sheaves. ♪

Thank you for coming again,

and I hope you will now join us inside.

Coffee and doughnuts against the cold,

and a hymn or two against the dark.

Please, come in.

Hello there. Hello.

You're early.

10:00 comes too late these days.

Danny... not here, it's dangerous.

I've promised you, haven't I?

We're gonna be out of this, Francey.

Believe me. Soon.

Soon could be too late.

You could be dead.

Tonight, tomorrow...

I'm not dead yet.

I can prove it.

Francey?

10:00.

I'll be ready.

Would you like some hot coffee?

Please, come on in.

Yeah?

Where?

Wait there; I'll be down in ten or 15 minutes.

Rossman.

Madikoff's son's got a girlfriend.

So what?

So she's Mike Pavano's daughter.

Wednesday, 9:35 p.m.

Killing time till 10:00,

Dan Madikoff dropped in at Harvey's bar,

the drink shop on Bellamy Street

was a favorite with the mobs.

Danny Boy.

Thought you had a date.

I have.

Thought you was late.

I am.

You got the old man guessin'.

Must be special.

Very special.

If, uh, she's got a friend,

I'm on the loose.

Well, I, uh, I don't think you'd like her, Jug.

She's not your type.

Hey, Mr. Alverson.

You want somethin'?

Yeah.

Francey, will you come into the office a moment, please?

Yes, of course.

What...

Miss Pavanos?

Yes.

We're Federal agents.

My name is Ness.

Yes, I know who you are.

And why we're here?

No... but if it's about my father...

I'm not living at home.

I can't tell you anything about him.

We don't want you to tell us about your father, Miss Pavanos,

we want Dan Madikoff to tell us about his.

Danny?

I'll lay it out for you, Miss Pavanos.

For a month, somebody's been tipping me on Madikoff.

Somebody.

I didn't know who or why till now.

You think that I had something to do with it?

Isn't that what Madikoff would think,

if he knew his son was seeing you?

No, that-that's not true.

I even tried to stop Dan from...

It was Dan who's been tipping me.

I didn't say that.

You didn't have to.

I need some information on Madikoff.

I want Dan to get it for me.

Please... leave him alone.

It's important.

He'll do it if you tell him to.

I won't!

I won't put him under a gun!

You put him under a gun every time you met him.

Now, if your father should find out...

You'd tell him?

Sorry.

Nobody wrote Cupid on my badge.

Is he coming back tonight?

What time?

Around 10:00.

Excuse me.

She's a fine girl.

I wouldn't like to see her hurt.

I don't exactly enjoy it myself.

Francey? Francey?

One thing more.

You were right.

She ain't my type.

Not Mike Pavanos' girl.

Couldn't hardly wait for you, huh?

Maybe she could dig up somethi" else to spill to Ness, hmm?

One lousy dame, Mike...

Thanks for your help, Brother Adam.

And now, back to...

10:35 p.m.

Dan Madikoff had not returned to the mission.

Ness headed for the girl's apartment

with Hobson and Rossman.

About 12 hours remained to showdown.

Miss Pavanos?

It's Eliot Ness.

Open up, please.

It's him.

Make a habit of hiding behind ladies' drapes?

Well, uh... Why were you running?

Mr. Ness, when your name is Madikoff...

I got a better reason.

That killing tonight.

Killing?

The mission on Haley Street.

Somebody hit Jug Alverson.

You were coming back to the mission at 10:00.

Alverson found out about you and the Pavanos girl,

he was gonna tip it to your father, so you killed him.

Not like that.

He drew on me.

We were wrestling for the gun. That's the truth.

Maybe.

I might even buy it.

Now, let's start talking about tomorrow.

Tomorrow?

What school is your father gonna hit?

What bunch of kids is he gonna blast?

Kids?

Why, you lousy...

A stinking lie like that!

To hit a bunch of kids?

He's hitting me, the kids are just handy.

Ness, you say that again and I'll...

That's quite an act.

Now, build it up to the payoff.

Now, tell us how much he means to you.

What would you know about it?

I know you've been tipping us for a month.

What made you sell him out, the girl?

Shut up.

Is that why you went over to Pavanos? Shut up.

Charge me or let me go but shut up.

Tell me we got a deal. And if I don't?

If you don't, I'll throw the book at you,

with a special chapter on the girl.

Should make interesting reading for your father.

Now you listen to me, Ness...

I'm not making him out a saint,

but he wouldn't hit a bunch of kids

and you're not gonna pin that kind of rap on him.

Call me tomorrow.

It's gotta be before 10:00.

Don't hold your breath.

And Ness... don't tail me.

If you ever want another tip,

don't tail me.

Don't tail him.

I took a chance you'd be here.

Danny... Danny, you killed him.

You killed Jug.

No... Now, y-you stop thinking that.

Francey, he was trying to kill me.

You have to believe that.

Danny... why, why was he there?

He knew about us?

Oh, Danny, he knew and Mr. Ness knew

and soon, they'll all know.

Danny, look, we could still go away tonight, now!

No, no, no.

Not till I finish him.

I-I, I've told you, Francey...

A thousand times... but Danny, why does that make it

all right for you to want to kill your own father?

No, not to kill him.

Just to squeeze him.

To make him hurt.

Why?

Why do you have to hate him so much?!

Danny, he didn't kill her.

Just because he didn't hold the gun?

She begged him to run.

The night he got that phone call,

she begged him to run.

But no, no, not him.

Not the Big Man.

No, nobody ever told him what to do.

So, he, he just talks her into going for a drive.

Danny, that's all your mother wanted...

To be with him.

That's what made her happy.

One minute happy, the next minute dead!

She never even saw that other car pull up.

A dozen slugs ripping her across and...

Danny... and him not even scratched!

The big man.

All right...

All right, Danny.

Hate him.

I can't tell you not to hate him.

But it's too much.

It's too much.

It doesn't leave anything for us.

You win.

We leave...

we go away first thing in the morning.

Oh...

Oh, oh, uh, uh, I'll be at my father's place.

Most of my clothes are there anyway.

He'll, uh... he'll ask questions.

Well, you don't have to answer.

No... I'll be there by 10:00.

By 10:00.

By 10:00.

10:00.

10:00.

11:05 p.m... Louie Madikoff was briefing a torch man

he had summoned from Detroit.

Artie Grebbs, known to both police

and the mobs as "The Firecracker."

You've seen one school, you've seen them all.

Jug?

Danny!

Home so early?

Yeah, I'm tired, Louie.

Come here, I want you to say hello to my boy.

Your boy?

Calls you Louie?

Kids nowadays.

Say hello to Artie Grebbs.

Hiya.

Grebbs? Grebbs from Detroit?

Oh, the Purple Gang, eh?

Don't they call you the Firecracker?

That's right, kid.

You, uh, you in town on business?

Well, you never know when you pick up a job, kid.

Boy's gonna be bigger than you, Louie.

But he's still got a lot

to learn about how to handle dames.

He fluffs them off and comes home early

and tomorrow, right away, they're back again for more.

Wish I'd have that kind of trouble.

Go on up to bed.

You need the sleep.

Mr. Louie Madikoff?

That's right.

Matter of identification.

You know anybody named Alverson?

He works for me.

I'll have him out in 10 minutes.

Where you got him booked?

Down at the morgue.

Somebody put a slug in him.

Get him out anytime you want.

You know who hit him, Louie?

Who puts Ness on my back?

Who makes all my troubles?

Maybe you'll pick up an extra job.

You ain't said who.

Mike Pavanos.

I should've known.

When you went down there

starting to work for all them bums...

A lot of broken-down junkies.

Papa... who made them junkies, Papa?

But to run away?

Not even to tell me where!

With who?!

Francey, darling, ain't I always give you everything?

Sure.

Everything.

Kids!

They grow up, they kiss you off.

They ain't got no feeling for you.

That's right, Papa.

No feeling.

Because I won't stay and see you dead.

Papa, that's why I moved out in the first place.

I couldn't stay and see 'em kill you.

And they will, Papa.

They'll, They'll kill you!

They'll kill you,

just like they've killed all the others!

Hello?

Yeah, she's here.

Who's calling her?

Fine kind of friends.

They don't say who they are.

Papa...

G'night.

Danny?

Honey, I'll have to make it fast.

He's right downstairs. Now, listen to me.

You leave the hotel around 10:00

and you cruise around for awhile,

to make sure you ain't got a tail on you.

Then you call me at a quarter after 11:00

and I'll give you the last word.

A quarter after?

You ain't cutting it too thin?

Well, gives Parky 25 minutes to call from New York.

His plane gets in at ten to.

You sure?

Well, if you're worried,

I'll check with the airport again.

Francey, I tell you, watch him.

He could be dead.

The old man is screaming.

But why? Why, Danny?

He's sure your father hit Jug tonight.

He's sure he's been tipping Ness, too.

Francey, he won't take any more.

Pavanos.

How much for a contract to knock him over?

Five grand.

You got it.

Deal.

Thursday morning, 5:10 a.m.

Parky Devore took off from the Chicago Airport

en route to New York.

He was carrying three kilos of pure heroin.

He had been under surveillance since he left Madikoff.

Parky's plane would be in New York

in exactly five and one-half hours.

Ness had that much time, plus 25 minutes.

You can read a watch, Eliot.

You don't need us to tell you time is running out.

When does that plane arrive in New York?

11:50 their time, 10:50 here.

Your men got orders to grab that runner?

They'll grab him.

Then there's no question.

We have to close the schools.

Not yet.

How much longer, Mr. Ness?

What do you want?

I want Madikoff to make a move.

I want to nail him cold, once and for all.

Papa, no, please!

It's dangerous! Go back in the house!

I'm not a baby; I can carry my own bags.

Nobody frightens me into a hole.

Not Madikoff, not nobody.

I got one daughter who's going away.

I got a right to see who with.

I get the other bag.

Papa! Papa!

Francey?

Almost 10:00.

I'm sorry, Eliot.

I can't play it your way any longer.

I can't, either.

Call Kavanaugh and tell him to evacuate the schools.

Hello. Ness.

When?

Right. We'll be over.

Madikoff just moved on Mike Pavanos.

Did he get him?

Not him.

His daughter.

That's going to hit Dan pretty hard.

Yeah.

Madikoff can't hit the schools before 11:00.

He's got to be sure we grabbed his runner.

If we just had one hour...

Okay.

Thanks.

Eliot...

one hour, then we clear out the schools.

She was going away.

She wouldn't even say who with.

I begged her.

You give your whole life for a kid.

I'd say she did some of the giving.

You!

Who asked for you?

She did, Mike.

Him?

Would-Would somebody like to tell me...?

I'll tell you, Danny, but I won't like it.

You don't touch her!

You don't touch her no more!

Like a dog!

Like a cheap lousy dog in the night!

You're wrong.

Ever since we were kids, I...

You're wrong.

She loved you?

That doesn't mean she didn't love you.

I make your father pay for this...

with my own hands.

Not you.

Me.

Danny...

you can do it a better way.

What do you want?

Yeah?

Louie... it's me.

Ah, Danny, where are you?

I thought you were gonna sleep late.

I went upstairs, and you were gone.

You listen.

It's about Francey Pavanos.

You think you can fool the old man, huh?

Forget it.

We all make little mistakes.

We won't even talk about it.

We have to talk about it.

She's dead.

The girl?

She's dead, Louie.

And you killed her.

You tried to hit Pavanos, and you missed.

Now, Danny, listen...

You missed a lot of things, Louie.

You missed all around.

Pavanos didn't kill Jug.

I did.

You?!

And he never tipped Ness.

I did that, too.

Danny... I'm not done yet.

I talked to Ness.

I... I told him all about the school.

You don't know about it!

I didn't tell you nothing!

You didn't have to.

I was right outside the door.

Selling me out... my own kid!

The Feds are waiting for the Firecracker now.

They'll grab him, they'll sweat him,

and they'll make him talk.

And Louie...

you're gonna burn for a thousand years.

Why, you punk!

You rotten little punk!

Mama's boy!

Don't hang up!

Don't you hang up on me!

You think he bought it?

He bought it.

You sure he'll go out the back way?

Just like I said.

Across the alley, through a grocery store,

and he'll come out on the next street.

How long will it take?

A minute or so.

Yeah?

Got it.

He turned right on Halsted Street.

10:44 a.m.

Madikoff turned left on Barlow Street.

10:47... Another report.

He had just turned west on Lombard Avenue.

10:51... Madikoff was on Talbot Street now.

He was heading north.

10:57... There had been no further report.

Ness was past his allotted time now...

Three minutes before 11:00.

Three minutes to what could be a tragic disaster.

Yeah?

Good. Thanks.

Still running north on Talbot.

Just passed 16th Street.

What's that directory show?

There's only one school north of 16th Street.

The Emma Adams Elementary, corner of Walton Avenue.

That's got to be it.

Jim, the 23rd district should be the closest.

Right.

This is Captain Johnson.

Get me headquarters.

This is Johnson.

This is an emergency.

I want three cars and a dozen men

at the Emma Adams Elementary School.

Tell them to wait for the Federal boys.

Hey, who told you you could drive, huh?!

Where were you? I phoned.

We got to call it off.

Ness! He's got us set up!

What'll I do with my pineapple?

Get rid of it! Where is it?

In the backseat.

Madikoff?

What do you want, Ness?

Put that thing on the ground and leave it.

We'll take it from there.

You keep back.

You move out, and I throw it!

Ness... nitro makes a pretty big splash.

All right, Madikoff.

I'll give you the chance.

Go on, toss it.

You know what nitro can do, don't you?

You know you can't throw it far enough.

You know we'd all be riding the same cloud.

You won't throw it, Madikoff.

You haven't got the moxie.

All you can do is hit a bunch of kids.

Liar!

You're a liar, Ness!

Louie.

Only three people in this world ever meant anything.

Only three people.

He killed 'em all.

He must've really hated his old man.

You think so?

The threat to the schools was over.

The mobs never again tried

to use the kids of Chicago for blackmail.

On Eliot Ness' recommendation,

Dan Madikoff received a mere token sentence.

It is to be noted

that during his short stay at Joliet,

he had only one visitor... Francey's father,

Mike Pavanos.

The Untouchables.