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Early in the episode, Ness is in a shootout and he appears to have shot some small-time hood. As a result, the hood's son, Nicky, comes gunning for Ness and is caught. But Ness is in a charitable mood and wants to help the kid so he asks the judge for leniency. However, in a twist, later in the show you learn that Gus, the man who hired the dead man, had the guy killed...and Ness shot an already dead man!! How can Ness use this information to bring down the mob?

This episode benefits from having good guest stars--Luther Adler, Michael Ansara and Joe De Santis. All were excellent actors and excellent heavies. The story also is unusual enough that it made this an excellent viewing experience.

By the way, in a funny mistake, Ness and one of his guys are trying to get into a room in which some thug is waiting. The thug fires ONE shot at the door...and if you look closely, there are TWO holes!

More familiar faces from 50 years ago highlight this episode: actors like Michael Ansara and Luther Adler.

The latter began his film career with some interesting film noirs, and then spent most of the next three decades doing a lot of good TV work. In this show, he plays bootlegger "Gus Marco," a guy with a real temper.

Ansara is a guy who effectively play a hood because he had the face for it - a scary dude. He became a known after starring in a western series called "Broken Arrow," in which he played "Cochise." Phillip Pine is another actor with a long resume of guest appearances on famous TV shows.

This story begins with Marco and a raid on one of his crime operations, but shortly also becomes a story about a bitter 17-year-old kid, "Nicky Bousso" (Mario Roccuzzo) who says his father was killed in that raid by the police, led by Ness. He vows to kill Ness. He plays a really intense character and Elliott (Robert Stack) takes a gamble on him, hoping he can lead the Untouchables to big boys.

Overall, this a good episode with a pretty fair amount shootout scenes

A stellar cast of guest stars brightens this Untouchables episode which centers around young Mario Rocuozzo who is killed in an Untouchables raid. The kid starts nursing a burning revenge against Robert Stack.

Turns out the father worked for Luther Adler who runs a cab company, but the cab company was a front for illegal alcohol. When The Untouchables kill Adler's cousin Philip Pine and start turning up the pressure on Adler he's in danger of losing a really big deal as there is a big shipment of illegal booze sitting in warehouse he can't get to.

Enter Michael Ansara who with three other torpedoes borrowed from Detroit's Purple Gang is looking to get the shipment paid and delivered to dealers. But Ansara has some big ambitions.

I always enjoy Luther Adler on the big screen and small. His hoodlum with the squeeze on is the best thing in this Untouchables story.

... and the more modern attitudes that were evolving toward it at the time.

The story is ostensibly about a garage that fronts for its owner's interests in bootleg liquor. Said owner is Gus Marco (Luther Adler) who is much too nervous to be involved in such a risky enterprise. One night when his crew is stealing a load of liquor from a federal warehouse, the untouchables burst in and stop the heist, but not before a shootout with Marco's gang leaves all of the gangsters dead, and thus there is nobody to tell the feds who the man behind the heist was.

A few days later there is an attempt on Ness' life. The would be killer is Nicky Bouso, whose father was killed in the previously mentioned raid, and who therefore blames Ness for his father's death. This is an opening to indicate that the hardened Nicky is just angry over his father's sudden death and that he can be redeemed. Emphasis is put on Nicky's home life and his younger sister who now has to spend her extra time sewing to help out, the poverty and sudden loss of the situation, and Nicky's work ethic. As an Untouchables episode it is not one of the more interesting ones, but it is indicative of the more liberal attitude of the times in which the episode was made.

Also, one goofy aspect of the plot is that you can be a victim of a violent crime and choose not to lodge a complaint and that somehow law enforcement has to let the whole thing go. That is not now nor has it ever been the law anywhere in the United States.