The Untouchables (1959–1963): Season 1, Episode 16 - The St. Louis Story - full transcript

Two mobsters - Joe Courtney and Tim Harrington - are fighting it out to get control of the syndicate in St. Louis. Dink Conway, owner of the prestigious Jockey Club, tries to make peace between them but the hot-headed Harrington will have nothing to do with it. Conway soon dispatches his henchman, Whitey, to dispose of him. Soon after, Courtney robs a Postal truck carrying $1 million in bonds but Conway decides he wants the proceeds. Eliot Ness and a rookie agent, Cam Allison, are dispatched from Chicago to investigate. Working with various brokerage houses, they try to locate the missing bonds.

What are we stopping for?

Get out.

Here?

Aren't you taking
me to the station?

I said get out!

Hey!

What are you
leaving me here for?!

(engine revving)

(screaming)

Tonight's episode...

Starring Robert
Stack as Eliot Ness.



Co-starring Leo Gordon.

With special guest
star David Brian.

WALTER WINCHELL: On a
peaceful evening in the spring of 1931,

gang warfare had
broken out again

with sudden violence in
the streets of St. Louis.

Tim Harrington, long entrenched

as the undisputed
boss of the city,

was fighting the
challenge to his leadership.

And the challenger was
an upstart hoodlum...

Joe Courtney.

The most outraged citizen of
St. Louis was Dink Conway...

The owner of the
swanky Jockey Club...

A fashionable clubhouse

attached to the old
Maxwell Racetrack,



converted into the finest
restaurant and nightclub

in the state of Missouri.

Punks! Punks!

Gutter rats, both of them.

Next they'll be rolling
drunks in alleys,

holding up candy stores.

Why don't they wear those
striped turtleneck sweaters

so everybody will
know they're punks?

One more shootout
like last night

and the cops will close
this town up for good.

Where are they?

Think you can get them
all in the same room

after what happened?

We're going to finish this
thing tonight once and for all.

I don't know, Dink.

I just can't see
the three of you

getting along together.

Who said anything
about the three of us?

Oh...

You and who, Dink?
Harrington? Courtney?

I don't know yet.

We got to find out
where the strength is...

the weakness.

You keep your eyes
open tonight, Whitey.

(door opening)

Joe Courtney's here.

Okay, Whitey.

Let's go.

(piano playing soft jazz)

Joe, baby.

It's good to see you.

I'm glad you came.

Boys, I want you to
have a good time tonight.

The place is yours.

Normally I don't
allow liquor in here,

but tonight's a special occasion

so drink it up.

You've still got
that jinx with you?

Jinx?

Joe, I'm surprised at you.

Man of your intelligence
with superstitions.

I don't like black cats,

I don't like spilled salt, and
I don't walk under ladders.

So what does that make me?

Superstitious.

So take it away.

All right, Joe.

Here, take him back to
my office and feed him.

Now, have a good
time tonight, fellas.

(door opening and closing)

Where's Harrington?

He'll be here.

Dink, you're a smart man.

And you've done
all right by yourself.

You come a long way
since the time you ran beer

for Jimmy Egan.

That was a long time ago.

(chuckles)

One day he disappears

and the next day you're on top.

Fast moving, I'd say.

We didn't come
here to talk about that.

It's your party.

(door opening)

(soft piano jazz playing)

Tim, boy!

Good to see you.

I'm glad you could come.

Come inside, boys.

Don't stand out in the cold.

Join the party.

Now let's make this a
nice, sociable evening.

Suppose we start off

by everybody taking their
hands out of their pockets.

I gave you my word
there'd be no shooting

and there isn't going to be any.

You wouldn't want to make a
liar out of me, would you, Tim?

Joe?

Go on, sit down, Tim.

Come on, boys, join the party.

All right, men, you can go.

You know, you're
a slick talker, Dink.

Only let's get right to it.

We didn't come here to drink.

You're putting on
weight, Harrington.

And you got a big mouth.

Now wait a minute, boys.

Let's not adjourn this meeting

before it's even
called to order.

Surely we can sit
down at the table

and discuss our problems like

intelligent people.
All right. All right, Dink.

But let's skip the
big words, huh?

All right.

I'll come to the point.

Organization.

No chance.

Count me out, too.

Organization means
bookkeepers, accountants, taxmen.

That means trouble.

I like cold cash.

That's old-fashioned
thinking, Joe.

I can't help it.

I like old-fashioned cold cash.

Me, too.

Besides, why should
I organize with you?

What do you got to offer?

Something you both
need... protection...

connections, a
respectable front.

Now if we pool our resources,

we can double
our take in a year.

We can even triple
it. I guarantee it.

Right now we're
operating at half efficiency.

You know why?

Because we're always
watching each other.

Hiding, and then shooting it
out instead of talking about it.

If we would spend our time
and energy working together,

we could have this town
just where we want it.

I'll buy that.

Makes sense, Harrington.

I think Dink's got something.

Shut up!

Who told you two
monkeys you could think?

I do all the thinking around
here, do you understand?

How do you like that?

My own men telling
me what to do.

Well, I'm an old dog, Dink.

And I don't learn
new tricks too easy.

I pass.

Look, Tim, it was
just a suggestion.

Take your time, think about it.

HARRINGTON:
Nothing to think about.

I gotta go.

If you two guys
want to stay here

and have a good
time it's all right.

I'll show you out.

Don't bother. I'll
find my own way.

(door closes)

CONWAY: Drink up, boys.

Tomorrow we're going to
be one big, happy family.

Harrington will change his mind.

He'll come around.

Get your car right
away, Mr. Harrington.

Get in, punk.

Fast.

Now, look, Whitey,

maybe you better talk
this over with your boss.

We're going to be joining up...

Me and Dink and Courtney.

Dink and Courtney... not you.

You got it all wrong. I mean it.

L-Let's talk to Dink, huh?

I already talked to him.

Out.

I'll give you ten
grand if you let me go.

Twenty.

Fifty!

Out.

Whitey, you and me
has always been friends.

Give me a chance, huh?

Give me a chance!

Sure, I'll give you a chance.

Show you I'm a real sport,

I'll give you a 50-
foot head start.

Ain't a bad handicap for
a fat guy like you, huh?

Get out.

All right, you're off.

(engine revving)

Whitey, Whitey,
please! Please, stop it!

That old son of a gun.

MAN: Okay, Steve, I didn't
think you were so bad either.

Let's go, let's
organize. It'll be great.

WINCHELL: For a month after
the unexplained disappearance

of Tim Harrington,
it looked like peace

had finally
descended on St. Louis

and Dink Conway had
things under control.

Hey, Eddie.

Hi, Joe.

I ain't seen you
around in months.

How's it going?

I'll let you know next week.

What's doing next week?

Something.

What?

Something big.

What do you call big?

B-I-G, big.

Take my word for it.

Look, I know you and
Conway are big operators now.

If it's a heist job, we
don't want no part of it.

You too big for
a million dollars?

What kind of job?

Look, I got to make
sure you're interested.

I've been working on
this one a long time.

I'm interested.
What kind of job?

Mail truck.

Cash and negotiable securities.

An inside job.

I promised the driver
of the truck 25 Gs.

When?

Monday morning.

I don't know nothing
about these securities.

How do we dump
'em? I got a guy...

He can get us 80%
of their face value.

Dink won't like it.

I like it.

Cold cash, that's what I like.

Eddie... you got
yourself a deal.

Rack 'em up, Steve.

We're going to
begin a new game...

a brand-new game.

WINCHELL: On the following
Monday morning... May 26, 1932...

Postmaster George Rollins
and his driver Louis Hoffner

climbed into their truck

to deliver a sack
of valuable mail.

Very valuable mail.

$150,000 in cash and more
than a million dollars worth

of negotiable securities.

(horn honking)

(tires squealing)

Wait a minute.

Here's your share.

WINCHELL: That same morning,

the St. Louis police
contacted Beecher Asbury,

the federal district
attorney in Chicago.

It's out of the question, Eliot.

You need a more experienced man

with you on a job like this.

He's a rookie. A raw rookie.

That may be, but we
have no alternative.

Every man I've got's on
this Arnold Rothstein thing.

Why are you so sold on this boy?

Read for yourself.

"Cameron Allison, 27 years
old, born St. Louis, Missouri.

"Masters degree,
Business Administration,

Harvard University."

Well, he's got a fine education.

I'm sure he'd be a
credit to our department.

But it takes a long time to
get a degree for experience.

He got his degree for
that, too, a long time ago.

There are a few things
that are not in that folder.

Does it say anything in there

about his father being
a judge in St. Louis?

Does it say anything about
how he was killed one night

right in front of the boy's eyes

by a cheap hoodlum because
they couldn't buy him off?

That boy was a man
when he was 12 years old.

All right, Eliot, you win.

You have my blessing, if
you think you can handle it.

I'll take my chances.

WINCHELL: Eliot Ness
and Cameron Allison,

a special agent on
his first assignment,

spent that entire day going
over every foot of the area

where the mail truck robbery
and murder had been committed.

There were no clues anywhere,

only chalk marks to show
that death had been there

a few hours earlier.

Their next stop
was the post office,

where inspectors prepared
a detailed inventory

of the mail truck's cargo.

Circulars would be printed,
and mailed to every banking

and brokerage
house in the nation,

listing the stolen securities.

How long do you
think it'll take, Eliot?

Oh, a couple of days at least.

That long?

Come on, eager beaver.

Take a tip from John Milton.

The first thing to learn is,

"They also serve who
only stand and wait."

WINCHELL: Ness was right.

There was nothing to do now

but wait for the
circulars to be drawn up.

Then the tedious job

of contacting every
brokerage house would begin.

Talk, Eddie. You're the only one

who could have
pulled that robbery.

I told you.

I don't know nothing about it.

This one's going to knock

your head clean off.
That's enough, Whitey.

Eddie's ready to talk.

Aren't you, Eddie?

(sobbing quietly)

Yeah. Okay.

Okay.

Now, who was it?

Joe and Steve.

The three of us.

Courtney and his torpedo?

Look, Dink...

If he finds out I
told you, he'll kill me.

Oh, he won't find out, Eddie.

Not if you do exactly
as we tell you to do.

I'll do anything you say, Dink.

Anything.

Well, that's fine,
Eddie. That's fine.

(sobbing)

(phone rings)

Let it ring.

(ringing continues)

I'll get it.

Hold that.

Yeah?

Who?

Eddie?

Eddie Runge?

EDDIE: Joe, we're in trouble.

What kind of trouble?

Better meet me in the pool room.

I can't talk now.

EDDIE: Joe. (whistles)

Over here, Joe.

What is it?
What's... what is it?

Hey, what happened
to your face, huh?

(groans)

So you're a millionaire
now, huh, Joe?

What are you going to do
with all that money, Joe?

You dirty,
double-crossing stoolie.

Oh, don't blame Eddie,
Joe. Blame yourself!

Listen. Listen, fellas.
I think we could...

we could talk a deal.

I got a lot of money
on me. Cash money.

Yeah?

JOE: Almost 50... 50 grand.

We know all about it.

It's all yours. You
can have it all.

That's nice, Joe.
We'll take it later.

Listen. That's not all I got.

I got securities.
Negotiable stuff.

Almost as good as cash.

In a week, I'll have
almost 200 grand.

Good. We like money.

Now, listen... you
take me to Dink.

I want to see Dink.
He'll square me.

You hear that, Flip?

He wants to see Dink. Well...

FLIP: What are we waiting for?

WHITEY: Oh, but he's messy.

Dink don't like people
around who ain't neat.

Yeah.

FLIP: And he smells bad, too.

Well, we'll stop
at the river first.

Give him a bath.

No... No!

No... Go ahead.

Mr. Neuhauser, they tell
me you're a stockbroker.

I want straight talk from you.

How much are those
securities worth?

Oh, I'd say a
little over a million.

Where are they?

They're safe.

I have them in my
locker at the golf club.

Well, I'll be frank with you.

I don't know much
about securities.

How does one go
about handling them?

Two ways, Mr. Conway.

Locally or abroad.

I can dispose of them
in Cuba or Canada,

but we'd lose 20% by
selling them out of the country.

What do you suggest?

Well, I suggest
we try locally first.

I'll unload, say, oh,
$50,000 worth each week.

On a deal like
this, I like to work

through the smaller
brokerage houses.

They're not as careful
as the large ones.

They... they don't
read those circulars

that the government puts out.

They're only interested
in making a profit,

the same as we are.

And your cut?

20%.

Ten.

Now, I'm taking a great risk.

Don't bargain with
me, Mr. Neuhauser.

I know what kind of
a risk you're taking.

Now that your client,
Mr. Courtney, is at the bottom

of the river, you're not
taking any risk at all.

In fact, if the feds catch
up with you, you're clean.

They can't do anything to you.
Isn't that right, Mr. Neuhauser?

You're right, Mr. Conway.

It's a wonderful
position to be in, isn't it?

And now, back to:

WINCHELL: Ness reasoned
exactly as Neuhauser had.

They knew that no
attempt would be made

to get the bonds through any
of the large brokerage houses,

so they started contacting
the smaller ones.

All that day, and the next,

Ness and Allison trudged
into each small office

and requested
that they be allowed

to look over the sales
entries for the current month.

It was a time-consuming
job, but all to no avail.

None of the stock
sales matched the list

on the government circular.

By the end of two
weeks, it began to look

as though their grinding
door-to-door canvassing

was coming to a dead end.

Oh!

Oh!

My aching feet.

They must have the
securities in cold storage.

That's where I'd
like to put my feet.

In cold storage.

You know, they could be

unloading them
out of the country.

I don't think so. I think
they're right here in St. Louis.

What makes you say that?

One good reason.

They pay higher prices
for securities here.

Well, let's call it a day.

We'll start fresh again
tomorrow morning.

Why not keep going?

Now, look, I like
your determination...

All right. Fine.

I know I'm... I'm eager
and inexperienced

and I'll get over it. (chuckles)

(phone rings)

Hello.

MAN: May I speak
to Mr. Ness, please?

Who is it?

Oh, this is Mr. Meyer,
of Meyer & Son.

Mr. Ness was in my
office the other day

looking over my books.

May I speak to him, please?

It's for you. Mr. Meyer.

Hello.

Hello. Mr. Ness, before calling
you, I talked to my lawyer,

and I assure you, if I were
guilty of any wrongdoing,

I would not be calling you now.

What are you talking about?

Well, sir, three days ago,
Mr. J.J. Spencer walked

into my office, and brought
me $50,00 worth of securities

listed on the circular.

Before I realized those
securities were stolen,

I had already sold
$40,000 worth of them.

Have you paid him the money yet?

No, sir, but I... but I
have a check right here

made out to Mr. J.J. Spencer,

which he asked
me to mail to him.

Hold everything, Mr. Meyer.
And stay right where you are.

We'll be right down to see you.

Cam, I think we
got our first nibble.

Come on.

Hey, wait for me.

(murmurs): seven...

These are the
securities, all right.

We'll have to take
these with us, Mr. Meyer.

Mr. Ness, nothing like this has
ever happened to me before.

I've been a broker for 30 years,

and I never had any
trouble with the government.

No one's accusing you of
doing anything wrong, Mr. Meyer.

We just want your help in
locating this J.J. Spencer.

I know, but I've
already told you

I never saw the
man before in my life.

But you have a check for him.

Where are you gonna send it?

Oh, he left a post office
box number: 42-A-9,

main branch.

What-what do you want
me to do with this check?

Send it as planned.

I don't think Mr. Spencer's
gonna have a chance

to deposit this one.

Thanks, Mr. Meyer,
you've been very helpful.

This your first stakeout,
Cam? That's right.

Well, you can't say there
isn't a lot of variety in this job.

We've done a lot of walking;
now we'll do a lot of waiting.

You think Mr. Meyer could've
tipped off this Spencer?

We'll soon find out.

You know, it's funny, ironic.

They steal the securities
from the post office,

and now they're using the post
office to help them get away with it.

Let's go.

Excuse me.

You better come with us.

Well, what for?

Suspicion of robbery and murder.

Robbery and what?!

(chuckles): Well,
you can't be serious.

What do you think? You
better come along with us.

Well, now, just a minute.

Where... where
are you taking me?

To jail.

Now, I don't suppose

there's anything I
can do to stop you,

but if you gentlemen
think you're gonna hold me

on anything as
preposterous as murder,

well, I'll be out in 24 hours.

We'll take that check now.

What check?

That check for $38,000
you got in your pocket.

$40,000 less five-percent
commission to Mr. Meyer.

Well, now, this... this check,
it doesn't belong to me.

That's right, mister...
It's government property.

Come on.

"Spencer"... is that your name?

Well, let's just say it's
one of my business names.

My real name is Neuhauser,
William Neuhauser.

Where are the rest of the
securities, Mr. Neuhauser?

I don't know.

My client only gave
me $50,000 worth to sell.

Who's your client?

Joe Courtney.

That punk hood?

He may be a punk hood to
you, but he's a client to me.

It was strictly a business deal.

Where does he live?

At the Concord Hotel.

When'd you see him last?

Mm, about two weeks ago
when he came into my office

with the securities to sell.

If there's anything
wrong in this deal,

I suggest you two gentlemen
contact Mr. Joe Courtney.

He knows all the answers.

WINCHELL: William Neuhauser
was booked and questioned

while Ness and Allison paid
a visit to the Concord Hotel.

Uh, nothing unusual about
Mr. Courtney leaving for two weeks.

He's done it before, and
he'll probably do it again.

Last year he went
to Miami for a month.

I know he'll be back.

A man doesn't usually
pay a year's rent

unless he plans to come back.

Not usually.

What are you looking for?

A million dollars.

He's joking, of course.

Of course.

Now, wouldn't you
say that was unusual?

When a man goes
away, he generally takes

his suitcases with him.

Maybe he bought new luggage.

This luggage looks new to me.

The closets are full of suits,
and the dressers are full of shirts.

Wherever Joe Courtney went,
he went in an awful big hurry.

Eliot, look at this.

Probably the cleaning woman's.

I-I'll return it to her.

No cleaning woman ever
owned a handkerchief this good.

Did Courtney ever bring
any women up here?

No.

You like Courtney, don't you?

One of the best
tenants I ever had.

Excuse me, I... I must
get back to the desk.

If I can be of any help to
you, please let me know.

Cam, you know where
I think Joe Courtney is?

At the bottom of
the Mississippi River.

You're probably right.

What about this Neuhauser?
Well, he's fronting for somebody,

but I don't think
it's Joe Courtney.

Mr. Somebody finds
out the heat is on,

I don't think there's
gonna be any

securities sold around
here for a long time.

You think Neuhauser knows
where the securities are?

Maybe. Anyway, let's run a
laundry check on this right away.

(exhales): Whew! Some perfume.

Some cleaning woman.

(laughs)

WINCHELL: Even before
the jail doors are closed

on William Neuhauser, one of
Conway's tipsters phoned him

to let him know that the
broker had been picked up.

Although Conway had
no real reason to worry,

he was a cautious man.

Too many things could
conceivably go wrong.

Too many things connected him

to the mail robbery
and the murders:

the securities,
William Neuhauser,

and even Rita Rocco.

He was taking no chances.

All three would have to
be disposed of, and fast.

In less than 24 hours,

William Neuhauser
was out on $10,000 bail.

And Conway's first
obstacle was removed.

William Neuhauser
was never seen again.

Later that same afternoon,

Whitey Dearing and Flip Anderson

played a round of golf at
the Brookmere Country Club,

the club, coincidentally,

to which William
Neuhauser belonged.

It was also the place where

more than a million dollars
in securities were hidden.

Now the second
obstacle, the securities,

were taken care off.

That left only Rita Rocco.

(doorbell buzzes)

If you come through
that door, I'll kill you both!

What's all this talk
about killing, Rita?

You must have us mixed
up with somebody else.

RITA: No, I don't.

Rita... we just come
by to see you a minute.

Courtney told us to contact you,

tell you he's going out
of town for a few days.

RITA: You're a
liar! You killed him!

We're coming in, Rita.

Now, don't you
do anything foolish.

Come on in!

(door opens)

What are you men doing here?

I told that girl I wouldn't
stand for it anymore,

and I won't!

Now, you get out.

You get out, both of you.

What kind of a house
do you think this is?

Now, hold it, ma'am.
Don't you "ma'am" me!

Go on, get out!

You ought to be
ashamed of yourselves.

One lousy dame all by herself,
and you two goons blow the job.

She'll talk her head off

the first chance she gets.

We'll get her tomorrow, Dink.

Tomorrow's too late.

Tonight.

We can't, Dink.

That old landlady'll
blow her stack.

I said now, and I mean now.

Wait a minute.

(piano playing slow tune,
chatter from other room)

Hey, Jack, come on,
play something gay!

JACK: How about
this? (plays bluesy tune)

MAN: That's
better, that's better.

(music fades)

Tell Lieutenant O'Farrell
I want to see him.

Then leave me alone with him.

Right, Dink.

(lively piano tune plays)

(music stops)

Long distance, please.

Operator, I've had a call in to
Miami for the past two hours.

Call me as soon as
you can put it through.

(knocking at door)

Come in, Mike.

(piano playing, party chatter)

A wonderful party, Dink.

(chuckles): Come
on out and join us.

Mike, take that silly hat off.

Mike, I'm in trouble.

Trouble? Anything I can do?

Yes. (chuckles): Well...

you know, Dink, I'd
do anything for you.

If it wasn't for you,
I'd be a bum today.

And I haven't forgotten that you
squared that drunken manslaughter rap

with the police
commissioner for me.

It was nothing, Mike.
Nothing, he says.

Just my whole life.

All right, Dink,
what is it you want?

Just name it.

You know a girl
named Rita Rocco?

Rita Rocco, Rita Rocco.

Oh, sure.

I picked her up
a few years back.

I can't explain it now,

but I want you to pick her
up again tonight at her house.

But Dink...

All I'm asking for
is a favor, Mike.

If you don't want
to do it, okay.

Well... Dink, it isn't that.

You know you could have the
shirt off my back, my right arm.

Keep your arm
and your shirt, Mike!

All I'm asking you for
is one lousy little favor.

Look, Mike, it took one phone
call to make you a lieutenant.

All it'll take is one
more phone call

to bust you right
down to a lousy flatfoot.

Now, go on, get out of here!

I'll get somebody else.

All right, Dink.

What do you want me to do?

I'm sorry, Rita, but
I got to take you in.

We got a complaint.
Don't be so sorry. Let's go.

(sighs)

You don't know how
happy I am to see you.

I'll bet Mrs. Lindsey is the one
who put in that complaint about me.

Was it her?

(laughs): You don't
have to tell me.

I don't care.

Listen, Lieutenant, have
I got things to tell you.

Things that'll make those-those
brass buttons pop right off your coat.

(exhales): That Conway.

I want to see him fry.

He killed my
boyfriend, Joe Courtney.

And now he wants
to kill me, too.

Because I know all
about that mail robbery.

Conway's got it all now,
and he knows that I know it.

That's why he tried
to rub me out tonight.

You listening to
what I'm telling you,

Lieutenant? Yeah.

And I got plenty more to tell.

What are we stopping for?

Get out.

Here?

Aren't you taking
me to the station?

I said get out!

Hey!

What are you
leaving me here for?!

(tires squealing)

(screaming)

Well, guess that takes
care of everything.

WINCHELL: That took
care of everything, all right,

except the frilly
silk handkerchief

found in Joe
Courtney's hotel room.

MAN: It's coming
up pretty clear now.

S33.

I'll check the
mark in the files.

Right.

They got thousands
of laundry marks

catalogued in their files.

Let's hope ours is in there.

How do they catalogue them?

By cities, mostly.

They got a laundry mark

for every cleaning establishment

in the state of
Missouri right in there.

Here's the one you want.

Oh, yes. Now I remember.

She had six of
them exactly alike.

Very fussy about them.

She wanted me to
be especially careful

when I cleaned them.

What's her name?

Miss Rocco.

Um... I have it
here on a ticket.

Miss Rita Rocco.

(writing)

The address?

310 Eighth Avenue.

(writing)

Thank you.

(telephone ringing)

Hello, Commonwealth Laundry.

Well, you never know,
with a woman like that,

where she is from
one minute to the next.

She's more trouble than
any tenant I ever had.

You still haven't answered
my question, Mrs. Lindsey.

When was the last
time you saw her?

Last night, and I gave her
a piece of my mind, I did.

Her and those two
men she was with.

I knew they'd take her
away sooner or later.

Who took her away?

The police, of course.

Last night?

That's right. I was
looking out my window

and I saw the police car
drive up and take her away.

Good riddance, I say.

Yes, well, thank
you, Mrs. Lindsey.

If you see her,
you can tell her,

she'd better find another room.

WINCHELL: Ness and Allison
went to the police station,

but all their inquiries
availed them nothing.

Both the captain and
Lieutenant O'Farrell

were very helpful...

especially the lieutenant.

But there was no
record on the blotter

of anyone by the
name of Rita Rocco

who had been picked
up the night before.

Lieutenant O'Farrell even
called the other precincts

but none of them reported

booking anyone by
the name of Rita Rocco

or anyone who
fit her description.

Ness was frankly puzzled.

What do you make of it?

It smells.

Look, do you think, you think
that old lady, Mrs. Lindsey,

might have been mistaken?

I mean, she
didn't like the girl.

Maybe she dreamed up this
whole thing about the police car.

Maybe, but what
about Rita Rocco?

I hate to say it,
but she's probably

with her boyfriend,
Joe Courtney.

That's what I'm afraid of.

All right.

All right, let's say
this Rocco girl was

picked up by the police
car, like Mrs. Lindsey says.

Where does that lead us?

That's what I'd like to know.

Maybe to a cop, a corrupt cop.

There's one thing I
know, we made a blunder.

We tipped our hand.

What do you mean?

I mean, whoever it is
is going to be in a hurry

to contact the big man.

Hey, look. There's
somebody in a hurry.

The lieutenant.

Yeah.

♪ ♪

Conway.

You know him, Cam?

Everybody in St.
Louis knows him.

He belongs to the new
school of hoodlum...

Conservative,
sociable, respectable.

They're the worst kind.

This one is scum!

Nobody's ever been able
to pin anything on him.

He's always hides
his tracks well.

But he wasn't always
so respectable.

I remember when he drove
a beer truck for Jimmy Egan.

Egan? When was that?

When my father was
killed, 15 years ago.

Egan and his boys murdered him,

because they
couldn't buy him off.

Too bad he was an honest judge.

I'm sorry.

I wonder how Conway
figures in all this.

I don't know,

but I'd sure like to find out.

You will.

WINCHELL: Ness knew
that their best chance

to find out more about Conway

was from the inside,
so that afternoon,

he arranged with the
St. Louis Fire Department

to supply Allison
with the credentials

of a fire inspector.

The real reason to get
him inside, of course,

was to tap Conway's telephone.

Hello.

Hello, Eliot?

MAN: unable to find it.

MAN 2: Murdoch's...
Eliot, do you hear me?

WOMAN: What are
you complaining about...?

MAN 3: Got her all
oiled and tuned up...

Hello.

Hello, Eliot.

Hello. Hello, Eliot. Hello.

Got you, Cam.

Everything's fine here, Chief.

No overloads I can see.

Wiring's fine.

Yes, sir. I'll be right over.

Oh, hello.

I hope you don't mind.

I took the liberty of
using your phone.

Who are you?

Why, I'm the fire inspector.

Fire inspector? What
are you inspecting in here?

Don't you know
your own fire laws?

Of course.

Well, for your information,

rooms of eight
people or more only

come under your jurisdiction.

There's never anybody
in here but the two of us...

Me and my cat.

Well, I guess I just
got a little overeager.

I figured since I was here, I
might as well check everything.

I'm sorry if I bothered you.

Well, there's no bother.

I suggest you
read your little book

of regulations more often.

Yes, sir.

Oh, everything's
fine, Mr. Conway.

There's no fire
hazards I can see.

Good. I don't like hazards.

Bye, sir.

Let me have long
distance, please.

Long distance? I want Miami.

The number is Bayside, 4352.

That's right.

Harris?

Harris, I want you here tonight.

Yes, tonight.

Everything is fixed.

I spoke to the broker in Havana.

He'll be expecting you tomorrow.

Now, listen, I want
you to land your plane

at the St. Louis
Airport at 10:00.

I'll have two of my men
there in a car to pick you up.

I'll expect you out at
the club about 10:30.

It's the far end of
the old race track.

You can pick up the stuff there.

Right.

WINCHELL: Ness immediately
called Beecher Asbury in Chicago.

Look, Beecher, they're gonna
make the big move tonight.

Anything I can do?

Yeah, send me a couple of men.

Right. Pick them up at
the airport in three hours.

Good.

We're expecting a few
other people there, too.

At 10:00.

Right.

Thanks.

Evening, Mr. Conway.

Good evening, Jack.

(plays upbeat jazz tune)

Good evening, gentlemen.
Everything all right?

Oh, fine. You've
got a nice place here.

As good as anything
they've got in New York.

The food was wonderful.

CONWAY: Thank you very much.

Excuse me.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

All right, it's all
yours. Take off.

Hold it!

Hold it!

Conway.

Stay here, Mike.

(tires squealing)

(gunfire continues)

It took a long time
to pay that debt back.

Yeah, it sometimes does.

WINCHELL: Dink Conway's
dream of organizing St. Louis

ended in the parking
lot of an old racetrack.

He was just another also ran.

The Untouchables.