***SPOILERS*** A pre Godfather mob Consiglierer, Mafia Corleone Family mouth piece Tom Hagen, Robert Duvall is about as sleazy as they come in this "Untochable" episode as clarinet player Eddie Moon who ends up having the one who loved him murdered in order to save his own rotten neck. Eddie's been the the star attraction at the "Golden Egg" night club run by his friend the one armed , he lost it in the First World War on the Weastern Front, owner Ray "Goose" Gander. It's the Lou Cagan Mob that's been hounding "Goose" to buy his hooch or moonshine booze or else be put out of business. It's Cagan real boss New York Murder Inc. CEO Louis "Lepke" Buchalter who's been putting pressure on him to get "Goose" to peddle his illegal booze or else. And that or else is a one way ticket to a local Chicago cemetery. Still refusing to peddle booze in his non alcoholic night club "Goose" gets his goose cooked when he's knocked off by Cagan's #1 hit-man Lucky during a jam session at his club that both Cagan and his moll Bunny attended.
It's after Lucky is apprehended by Eliot Ness and his government agents after being wounded in a shootout he's placed under police guard with the news going out that he was killed instead. It's when Cagan finds out that Lucky is in fact alive and can be made to testify against him in "Goose's" murder he has one of his boys throw a hand grenade into Lucky's intensive care hospital room killing lucky, who turned out not to be lucky, and three other patients. while all this is going on Eddie decides to go under cover for Eliot Ness and his "Untoucables" and get the goods on Cagan by romancing his wife or gun moll Bunny behind his boss Cagan's, who now runs the "Golden Egg", back.
***SPOILERS*** A plague on both your houses, Ness & the Cagan Gang, "Untouchable" episode with everyone in it as sleazy and as rotten as the paid off by the mob politicians running Chicago. Eddie comes across as a real low down in the mud low life by setting up Bunny, who's genuinely in love with him, for the kill by her by now crazed husband Lou Cagan whom he convinced that she was ratting him out to Ness and his boys. Eddie himself is anything but heroic in him using an innocent women, Bunny, as a human shield to save his own neck. As for Eliot Ness his obsession of getting Cagan by hook or by crook, as well as informer, took away that boy scout image that he or the writers of the "Untouchable" series cultivated over the last four years, 1959-1963, that it was on the air.
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