03x02 Power Play
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Robert Stack | As: Eliot Ness | |
Paul Picerni | As: Lee Hobson | |
Steve London | As: Jack Rossman | |
Walter Winchell | As: Narrator | |
Abel Fernandez | As: William Youngfellow |
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By the Summer of 1933, a new wave of crime has engulfed Chicago. Due to a public outcry for action, Willard Thornton is appointed as a new commissioner to clean up the town. At a press conference, Thornton arrogantly says his office does not publicly constitute criticism of any law enforcement agency-- while his tone of voice implies he privately does criticize them. Eliot Ness is standing right next to him, looking more dour than usual. Ness and his men go on a raid, they find a shipment of heroin in a hideout. Then small-time dope-pusher (and junkie himself) Joey Loomis shows up, sees the Feds, and runs. Loomis gets captured. After interrogating him, and getting nowhere, Ness releases him. Rico asks, ""I know he's a small fish, but you just gonna throw him back?"" Ness reveals his strategy: he's going to let the big fish find him. Willard Thornton is really a crook, in cohoots with lawyer Barney Lubin (czar of the enormous Chicago bail bond racket), Felix Varsack (representi
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Robert Stack |
Eliot Ness |
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Paul Picerni |
Lee Hobson |
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Steve London |
Jack Rossman |
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Walter Winchell |
Narrator |
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Abel Fernandez |
William Youngfellow |
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Nicholas Georgiade |
Enrico Rossi |
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