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The Untouchables Season 3 Episode 19

Episode Title: Element of Danger
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Countries: USA,
Airing Date: March 22, 1962
Runtime:60 mins
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The Untouchables (1959): Chicago, August 29, 1934. That night, in the Haymarket district, special agent Daniel Gosden, a policeman on loan to the Untouchables, goes through a skylight and finds an opium laboratory in the top floor of a rundown tenement hotel. Just then, drug lord Victor Rait and 4 hoods (Gus, Sully, Max, and Trapp) show up, carrying crates of supplies into the place. Rait spots Gosden and gives chase; just as Gosden phones Ness for back-up, Rait blows him away with a shotgun. Then Rait blasts 6 bullets from his gun to disperse the crowd of tenants investigating the noise. Somebody phones the cops, because within minutes Eliot Ness and his men and some policemen are on the scene. Outside, Victor Rait and his boys are calmly loading the crates of narcotics onto their truck. When a policeman asks them what they're doing, Rait shoots the cop. Ness and his men come running; Rait tells his boys to drive off in the truck, fast. Then, Rait puts on a show for Ness: Rait stays behind, and fires his gun at the speeding truck. Rait acts like he was a good citizen, shooting at the hoods who shot the cop. Rico takes Victor Rait to the Federal building so he can give his statement. (how ironic is that?) Police chemist Smitty explains to Ness and Lee Hobson that 10 ounces of opium, processed, yields one ounce of heroin. It's processed using acetic chloride, a flammable liquid. Top gangster Arnold Stegler decides that while he needed Victor Rait in the beginning, he has now become a liability. Stegler sends Gus Kroelig and Trapp to kill Rait, but Rait winds up shooting them instead. Later, Rait drops in on Stegler, who is meeting with his partners Greer and Wiesbaden; Rait tells them he is still alive and to be reckoned with. Next morning Rait, using the alias Howard Carson (honest citizen), goes to Ness' office to sign the transcript of the statement he gave the other night. He overhears Rico telling Ness he's learned of a shipment of 65 gallons of acetic chloride being shipped to tanning factory. That night, Rait hangs around a beer joint named Joe's Place, with Gina, waiting for Ness and his men to raid the tanning factory across the street. When Ness and his men pull up, Rait gives Gina a sawbuck; then Rait goes inside the factory and smashes several gallon-jugs of volatile acetic chloride. When Ness and his men are inside, Rait fires his gun-- not at the men, but at the flammable liquid on the floor. A big fire almost burns the Untouchables, but Ness gets a fire extinguisher and puts out the flames. Ness finds a taunting note. Rait might have gotten away, but ironically the bartender confronts Rait on the sidewalk demanding the $4 he owes. Rait says he gave Gina $10; the bartender says that may be so, but she left without paying. When Rait and the bartender get into a fight, Ness arrests Rait. And so "Howard Carson" is in the Federal Building again, only this time Ness runs a fingerprint check on him: his real name is Victor Rait, and he's done time in Sing Sing, Joliet, Folsom and Leavenworth; Rait was up on manslaughter, and he'd been held on suspicion of murder. Arnold Stegler wants to get Ness off the case; he sets up a meeting with him at a sidewalk cafe. Stegler tries to bribe Ness, offering him 250 grand a year for 5 years; Ness says all he wants is the name of the man who killed Daniel Gosden and the policeman. Arnold Stegler tells him it was Victor Rait; Stegler wrongly assumes he now has a "deal" with Ness, and that Ness will lay off. In the Federal Building, Victor Rait gets a shock: Ness had his conversation with Stegler filmed. Even though there is no sound on the film, lip-reader Miss MacLean speaks the words Stegler said; (apparently this confession would hold up in court). A desperate Rait grabs Miss MacLean; he smashes a coffee cup and holds the jagged edges to her neck, saying he will "tear her throat out" if they try to stop him from escaping. Ness has no choice but to let him escape, for now. That night, Rait phones Stegler and demands $1.5-million cash; he's to meet him at the Marsac Gas Co. in 45 minutes. Stegler, Wiesbaden and Greer go there, and take along 2 hitmen. But Rait disguises himself as the night security guard and gets the drop on them; Rait's got a chopper. Ness and his men speed to the company; inside the plant, they find Miss MacLean, gagged and tied up, in a car. Rait blasts Stegler, Wiesbaden and Greer; stray bullets hit barrels of chemicals-- the volatile chemicals in the company start to explode, starting a huge fire. When Ness and his men burst in, Rait blasts Lee Hobson, winging him. Ness blasts Rait, mortally injuring him; still, Ness drags the dying Rait outside. Ness demands, "Where's the opium?" Rait says, "It's burning." And so, at 11:55 p.m. on the night of September 6, 1934, the Marsac Gas Co. was totally destroyed by explosions and fire. The top 3 men dealing in narcotics lay dead, as did Victor Rait-- a man who had always lived dangerously, and was addicted to his own particular narcotic: the Element of Danger. (synopsis by: kdh)

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