The Untouchables S04E03 · The Chess Game

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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).

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1. 1 1. The Night They Shot Santa Claus1962-09-25 · 1h 0mDecember 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 outsid
2. 2 2. The Cooker in the Sky1962-10-02 · 1h 0mJoe 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 becaus
3. 3 3. The Chess Game1962-10-09 · 1h 0mBy 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
4. 4 4. The Economist1962-10-16 · 1h 0mChicago, 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 i
5. 5 5. The Pea1962-10-23 · 1h 0mChicago, 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,
6. 6 6. Bird in the Hand1962-10-30 · 1h 0mDecember 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 t
7. 7 7. The Eddie O'Gara Story1962-11-13 · 1h 0mChicago. Right after the St. Valentine's 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
8. 8 8. Elegy1962-11-20 · 1h 0m1929.* Notorious gangster boss Charlie Radick is dying of leukemia; there'll be no mourning for him, the other overlords will be vying for his throne. All Radick wants to do is s
9. 9 9. Come and Kill Me1962-11-27 · 1h 0mJuly 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 piec
10. 10 10. A Fist of Five1962-12-04 · 1h 0mChicago, 1929. Mike Brannon's been a cop for 15 years, but now he's being suspended for hospitalizing ""one of Tony Lamberto's dope-pushing punks."" Mike thinks Captain Bellows i
11. 11 11. The Floyd Gibbons Story1962-12-11 · 1h 0mChicago, October 1932. Within minutes of the time the Globe's top reporter Carlton Edmunds was shot, Eliot Ness and his men are on the scene. Ostensibly it appears a stray bullet
12. 12 12. Double Cross1962-12-18 · 1h 0mJune 1930. Speak owner Louie Akers-- about to go dry and out of business because Guzik couldn't supply him with hooch for that last 3 weeks-- buys his booze from another supplier.
13. 13 13. Search for a Dead Man1963-01-01 · 1h 0mJune 1929.* A body is dumped into Lake Michigan; when it's 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 S
14. 14 14. The Speculator1963-01-08 · 1h 0m1929. 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
15. 15 15. Snowball1963-01-15 · 1h 0mOctober 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.
16. 16 16. Jake Dance1963-01-22 · 1h 0mLate 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 kin
17. 17 17. Blues for a Gone Goose1963-01-29 · 1h 0mJazz was born in the Roaring Twenties. It's now 1930, and on Chicago's Gold Coast there's a nightspot called ""Goose Gander's Golden Egg"" jazz club. Blues player Eddie Moon is b
18. 18 18. Globe of Death1963-02-05 · 1h 0m1933. Prohibition ends. But that doesn't 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 de
19. 19 19. An Eye for an Eye1963-02-19 · 1h 0mChicago, Spring 1931.  That night, Ness and his men are in their car; it's an 80 mph chase to catch a guy running whiskey for Solly Girsch.  The 19-year-old driver has a high-speed
20. 20 20. Junk Man1963-01-26 · 1h 0mChicago, 1931. On the Southside, on a dead end street, there is a junkyard-- but it's really a front for a narcotics empire, run by gangster Victor Salazar. Ness and his men are
21. 21 21. The Man in the Cooler1963-03-05 · 1h 0mJanuary 1932. Smalltime bootlegger Al Remp is serving 3-5 years in prison; he's done 3 years and is up for parole next week, but it seems he won't get it. The guards put him in s
22. 22 22. The Butcher's Boy1963-03-12 · 1h 0mRacketeer Gus Ducek is fingered to be knocked off. But when the car with the hitmen drives towards him, Ducek's boys fire back with machine guns, turning the tables; one hitman di
23. 23 23. The Spoiler1963-03-26 · 1h 0mNew 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
24. 24 24. One Last Killing1963-04-02 · 1h 0mFebruary 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 hou
25. 25 25. The Giant Killer1963-04-09 · 1h 0mApril 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
26. 26 26. The Charlie Argos Story1963-04-16 · 1h 0mJune 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 underworld's notorious ""Kin
27. 27 27. The Jazz Man1963-04-30 · 1h 0mDuring 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 despond
28. 28 28. The Torpedo1963-05-07 · 1h 0mApril 3, 1931. Vic's 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 eith
29. 29 29. Line of Fire1963-05-14 · 1h 0mChicago, 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
30. 30 30. A Taste for Pineapple1963-05-21 · 1h 0mMay 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 pu