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The Untouchables Season 2 Episode 10

Episode Title: The Otto Frick Story
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Countries: USA,
Airing Date: December 22, 1960
Runtime:60 mins
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The Untouchables (1959): The night of May 3rd, 1934. A traveling carnival is at the Midway, 35 miles outside of Cleveland. There are half a dozen bellydancers on stage, as the barker goes, "Hurry, hurry, hurry," and a sign reads: "One dime shows you the best hootchy koochy show in the world!" Hans Eberhardt, twice convicted for armed robbery and dope peddling, spots Ness and his Untouchables and the local police about to pull a raid; he runs to the office trailer of carny Otto Frick. Hans grabs 2 suitcases, then Otto takes a can of gasoline and torches the trailer; they escape in a speeding car before Ness can catch them. It is a minor setback for Ness, who had spent the last 7 months investigating and making raids, and was finally ready to move in on Otto Frick-- whose 37 traveling enterprises were just a cover for his nationwide dope ring. Ness continues with roundups and raids in the following weeks. Suspecting that Frick might be getting his drugs from legitimate manufacturers, Ness and his men go to New York; Ness visits Manning Loder, president of a large company there, but Ness gets nowhere. However later, Ness gets some information from a 3-time-loser junkie, a pretty madam called Sharon Dotie; she directs Ness to a book store owned by Felix Boll-- one of his hollowed-out books contains heroin. Ness arrests and grills Boll, but Boll's mouthpiece springs him; Ness has Rossman tail him. Later, at a beer garden (this is 1934, after Prohibition has been repealed) called the Rathskeller (German for "council cellar"), Agent Rossman catches a pretty junkie named Erika Schnell, a hairdresser on the S.S. Bremen, making a drug deal with Boll. Ness flies to Washington, DC, to meet with Nathaniel Emmons, special assistant to the Secretary of State for German affairs; Ness says they have been smuggling in heroin, cocaine, hashish, etc., on German ships and delivering the narcotics to Otto Frick. Nathaniel tells Ness that Frick's source is Walter Messlinger from Berlin, who even supplies Joseph Goebbels with drugs. Meantime, back in New York, Messlinger is meeting with Frick; Messlinger is organizing a big rally of 100,000 people of German background to be held in Madison Square Garden on January 30, 1935-- the 2nd anniversary of the Third Reich. Messlinger supplies drugs for free to Otto Frick, in exchange for his organization skills on the national level; they tour the country from coast to coast. Hans is being seduced by drop-dead gorgeous Hedda Messlinger (supposedly Walter's niece); also, Walter Messlinger puts Hans up to collecting "protection" money from the local merchants. Hans lobs a pineapple through the window of a delicatessen run by Mr. and Mrs. Levitan, and all the merchants sign up for protection at 50 bucks a week. All the while, for months, Ness keeps track of Messlinger's itinerary, dope smuggling, and the formation of each new German-American Bund (pronounced: boont) or "league." In January 1935, Messlinger goes to New York, and demands of Manning Loder (Hedda's real uncle) all the morphine and cocaine he has for manufacturing purposes; Messlinger threatens Loder's family back in Cologne, Germany. But Loder phones Ness. At 10 p.m. in the warehouse, Ness and his men are waiting as Messlinger's hood tries to make the pick-up; in the shootout, both the hood and Loder are killed. January 30-- it's the big night, and Messlinger is in the German consulate. Otto Frick, out of drugs, calls Messlinger and threatens to kill him at 10 p.m. Messlinger tells the lovesick Hans that he will only consent to have him marry his "niece" Hedda if he kills Frick. Hans goes to Otto's apartment complex; Otto tells Hans he is a sap-- he's not the first man Hedda came on to, Hedda came on to him, too. Hans shoots Otto in the stomach, seriously injuring him; then Otto drops the bomb on Hans-- he tells him Hedda is not Walter's niece, she's his wife! Later, as police Captain Reardon questions the residents about the shooting, he gives Ness and his men a hot tip about Messlinger's rally. Madison Square Garden-- towering over the stage is a 30-foot high painting of George Washington, and 30-foot high American flags, even as the huge crowd chants "sieg heil." Hans corners Walter Messlinger and his wife Hedda, but Ness and his men show up and arrest Hans. But a minute later, Otto Frick shows up; Otto guns down Messlinger, and starts firing at Hedda, but then Ness shoots Otto. Messlinger and Otto are dead; Hedda was subsequently deported to Germany; Hans, as a 3-time loser, was sentenced to life in prison. In the war, Eliot Ness had struck the first blow for democracy. (synopsis by: kdh)

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