User Reviews

When the show begins, Mr. Yang has just brought in a shipment of over a hundred pounds of heroin for Frank Nitti. And, as usual, Yang finds a way to bring the drugs past US Customs. For much of the beginning of the episode Ness is tracking down the path the drugs took and what sort of shipping methods they used.

At the same time, one of the mob bigwigs, Larry Bass (Barry Morse) is putting into effect a completely insane scheme....to tunnel into the bank vault holding Nitti's heroin in order to steal it!! His partner Whitey Gross (Philip Pine) is instrumental in the deal...but everyone else seems quite expendable. Is there any way he can get away with this without Nitti having him killed or Ness throwing him into prison?

This is a pretty good episode...especially the ending where Nitti tries to figure out WHO is the leak. Well worth seeing and pretty exciting stuff.

Prohibition has ended, but the crime syndicate it created is looking for new things to profit from and Bruce Gordon as Frank Nitti has decided that narcotics is the wave of the future. He's bought himself a very large shipment of heroin in a world globe that looks about three feet in diameter. And where better to keep it than in a bank that the syndicate owns as it has a nice steel vault.

Of course the syndicate's new interest in heroin brings in The Untouchables. It also brings out the greed in Nitti's crime council and one of them decides to rip him off and organizes a heist of the bank.

This episode has a nice collection of familiar character players, but one really stands out for me. Japanese actor Jerry Fujikawa plays Nitti's oriental connection and this was one of the few times that I ever saw Bruce Gordon backed up in an Untouchables episode. Gordon tries to hold out a bit on him, but Fujikawa in a deadpan and deadly manner suggests this might not be a good idea. I won't go into the details, but the scene is priceless.

And he also gets arrested by Robert Stack and his group, but Fujikawa is the only one who gets away with it all. Just brilliant.