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This show begins with a newspaper reporter getting rubbed out. While this might, in the short term, seem like a good idea to some mobsters, the boss ain't happy. Dead reporters means more newspaper investigations and coverage of mob activities. But a young hot-head thinks he knows better than his boss.

In the meantime, a globetrotting and world famous reporter, Floyd Gibbons (Scott Brady) begins working on the case and ends up teaming up with Ness. Can this one-eyed reporter avoid being the second reporter to be rubbed out by the mob? Find out in this episode concerning mob control of the scrap metal business, of all things!

This is a rather interesting episode made all the better because of the ending. The ending is fitting and exciting and it's a very good installment of the series.

It's conceivable that the real Floyd Gibbons actually might have met the real Eliot Ness at some point or other. Gibbons lived a life of adventure that many would envy and his employer the Chicago Tribune, sent him to many faraway places on the globe for a story. Just as you see in this film he might very well have stopped in Chicago long enough to change planes.

But it was the bad guys misfortune to have him stop in Chicago when his colleague and friend Paul Langton is killed in a mob hit. Langton was investigating a mob takeover of the scrap metal dealer market and he stepped on some toes.

Langton also had a personal connection in this story that he didn't know. His wife Dorothy Malone had history with a kill crazy hoodlum played by Joe Campanella. Mob boss Alan Baxter has barely a handle on Campanella. That's what brings everything down.

Scott Brady played the adventurous Floyd Gibbons and Stu Erwin plays another reporter colleague who witnessed Langton's death. This particular Untouchables episode had a cast rich in big screen names as you can see. Dorothy Malone was often paired with Robert Stack as a co-star in such films as The Last Voyage, Written On The Wind, and The Tarnished Angels.

Ness wants a killer, Gibbons wants a story and in the end they both get what they want.