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Shades of Romeo and Juliet creep into this Untouchables episode as competing gang families headed by Harold J. Stone and Booth Colman are both up for the dope concession from Robert Carricart playing the infamous and gangland legendary Lucky Luciano. Stone has it, but his shipments are being waylaid by The Untouchables because Robert Stack is receiving some very reliable tips.

While all this is going on Stone's son Darryl Hickman and Colman's daughter Collin Wilcox are seeing each other. Both would like to run away. But all I can say is Hickman has issues with Stone that Romeo never had with Lord Montague.

A couple of really fabulous character players have some memorable roles here if ever so briefly. Warren Oates plays a visiting hit-man from Detroit's Purple Gang and Jack Elam is one of Stone's best trigger men.

An interesting tale of romance amidst gang war in Chicago.

Louis Madikoff (Harold J. Stone) is a mobster who makes money selling drugs--a profitable business in the post-Prohibition era. However, recently Ness and his men captured a huge shipment of his drugs and it hurt him badly. He automatically assumes his arch- rival, Pavanos, is behind it. And, with Lucky Luciano breathing down his neck, Louie is getting rather reckless. Unfortunately for him, he has no idea that it isn't Pavanos that is responsible for the shipment being intercepted but his own son, Danny (Daryl Hickman)! It seems that Danny hates his father and is dating the hated Pavanos' daughter!

There is one odd thing about this one. Danny ends up struggling with a gun one of his fathers' men drew on him (Jack Elam)) and shooting him. Danny runs and eventually Ness catches up to him and doesn't even arrest him but automatically accepts Danny's word it was self- defense. Huh? Otherwise, a nice sort of story about a twisted father-son relationship that is well worth seeing.