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An arrogant political boss, "Brian O'Malley" (David Brian) is already on the hot seat when the story begins. The Feds have him up on rap that will put him behind bars for a long time once the trial begins. The hard part - as crime fans can tell you because we've seen this in a thousand stories - is keeping witnesses alive. You just know one of the two witnesses, if not both, will get knocked off.

Sure enough, a crooked cop throws one of them out the high-rise window one night. The interesting part is how Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) interrogates both cops guarding the witnesses. He does some nice Sherlock Holmes detective work in uncovering the guilty party.

However, O'Mally is not off the hook. There is someone else who can convict him and it's up to Ness and his gang to get to her first before O'Malley's men do. It turns out to be a very suspenseful end.

Brian, Fay Spain and Jack Elam - all familiar actors to folks in the period this TV show ran - all do a good job as guest stars in the program.

Stack, as usual, is terrific. Watching these shows about 50 years after they were made makes me appreciate Stack's performance even more than I did as a kid.