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The Untouchables Season 3 Episode 22

Episode Title: Downfall
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Countries: USA,
Airing Date: May 03, 1962
Runtime:60 mins
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The Untouchables (1959): Chicago. Pete "The Persuader" Kalmisky, former bodyguard of Al Capone, accompanied by Syndicate business manager Alan Sitkin, have a meeting with Joey December, president of the debt-ridden Great Lakes Pacific Railroad. They form a crooked alliance; Joey agrees to transport their illegal liquor on his trains, in exchange for "20% off the top." After Kalmisky leaves, Sitkin talks privately with Joey. Sitkin gives Joey $100,000 for 10,000 shares of Canada Central stock, now worth $10 a share; Joey says they will be worth $50 a share in 3 weeks. Sitkin says he has incriminating evidence against Kalmisky, to "keep him in line"; Sitkin carries a key to a safety deposit box with him wherever he goes. And so, within 2 weeks, Canadian whiskey (the good stuff) is loaded into boxcars in Manitoba, where it's later shunted onto the main routes by Lake Superior, to be distributed throughout 5 states; the boxcars are labeled Retail Milk Co. February 16, 1930. An elderly railroad man stumbles across a smashed case of booze that fell by the railroad tracks; when he phones the Prohibition people to report it, he is gunned down. Eliot Ness and his Untouchables investigate the shooting at the GLP railroad spur on the outskirts of Chicago; Ness identifies the booze as Kalmisky's brand. Curiously, when Enrico Rossi contacts the district manager that night, he tells them that no train has used the Iver Street siding in 12 years. The investigation results in a meeting between Ness and Joey December. A little over 2 months later, a nervous Sitkin has a private meet with Joey in a downtown bookstore. The 10,000 shares of Canada Central stock, which Sitkin had thought he'd make a huge profit on, are now only worth $3-1/8 a share, that is $31,250. The problem is Sitkin had embezzled the $100,000 from the Organization. If he doesn't have $100,000 at their meeting tomorrow night, he's dead. Joey says he'll lend him the money-- in exchange for the key to the safety deposit box, as collateral. Sitkin knows he's dead either way (if Kalmisky learns he no longer has the letter, or if he shows up almost 70 grand short at the Organization meet), and prefers a quick death by jumping in front of a subway train on the el platform. Joey goes through the dead man's pockets, and finds the key. When Joey December opens the safety deposit box at the bank, he finds 2 items: a note "To be mailed in the event of my death-- Alan Sitkin" paper-clipped to an envelope addressed to "Mr. Alphonse Capone / Palm Island / Miami Beach, Florida." So Joey has a meet with Kalmisky. He blackmails him with the letter, which tells how Kalmisky wanted to rub out Johnny Torrio, Capone's former boss-- Johnny Torrio had been best friend, mentor, almost like a father to Capone; Johnny Torrio had passed the Organization over to Al Capone in 1925. Joey says Capone would pay a lot for the letter, but figures Kalmisky will cough up more; Joey demands 51% of the booze profits, and he keeps the letter. Joey December tells Henry Grunther, Controller at GLP who had been a close friend of Joey's father, about everything. Grunther is against making deals with gangsters, and tries to save Joey from himself; Grunther sees Joey put the letter in his safe, which they both know the combination to. Grunther talks to Ness. When Joey goes into Grunther's office, he finds a phone number, ST-1096, written on his pad; Joey calls the number, it's the Federal Building. Later, unbeknownst to Joey, Grunther takes the letter from the safe in Joey's office on the 20th floor. Joey bumps Grunther off, by putting him in a defective elevator that drops from the 20th floor to the basement. When Lee Hobson inspects the body, he finds the letter on Grunther and hands it to Ness. Later, at Kalmisky's club, Ness tells Kalmisky that Joey double-crossed him and mailed the letter to Capone. Kalmisky goes via taxi to Joey December's building; the taxi driver is Enrico Rossi who immediately goes to a telephone booth and phones Ness. Kalmisky demands the letter at gunpoint. Joey goes to the safe, but the letter's not there! So he grabs a gun from the safe instead, turns, and shoots Kalmisky. But Ness and Lee Hobson close in on him. Rather than die in a shootout, Joey December surrenders-- but he died anyway, he got the electric chair on May 30, 1930. (synopsis by: kdh)

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