At first it looks like it is going to be a Gangster Vs Gangster episode. Kansas City gangster Rafe Torrez is selling the dangerous alcoholic beverage "Ginger Jake", a high alcohol content alternative to other alcoholic beverages during Prohibition. Another gangster, Jerry LaCava, is trying to muscle in on Torrez' business, so Torrez hires a pair of out of town hitmen - Jim Martinson (Brian Keith) and Dennis Garrity (James Coburn) - to kill LaCava and his gang.
From there the episode takes an unexpected turn. Martinson comes to Kansas City and rents a room in a private house. Martinson starts to take up with the niece of the owner, shy and rather plain schoolteacher Louise Rainey. At first I wondered if Martinson was using this woman as some kind of cover for his intended hit. But no, he really does love her. He plans to do this last hit, retire, marry Louise and go straight! But his two lives - hitman and soft spoken fiance of a schoolteacher - tragically intersect.
You have some good scenes here - a crazy horse as an instrument of revenge, a police lab technician solving a mystery for Ness, a semi pro bowler who has an interesting way of dealing with deadbeats, and a waitress who recognizes a particular kind of scar by knowing about a similar one on a rather private part of her boyfriend. There is a murder in this episode that is so violent that it is not shown only discussed, which is saying lots for The Untouchables.
From there the episode takes an unexpected turn. Martinson comes to Kansas City and rents a room in a private house. Martinson starts to take up with the niece of the owner, shy and rather plain schoolteacher Louise Rainey. At first I wondered if Martinson was using this woman as some kind of cover for his intended hit. But no, he really does love her. He plans to do this last hit, retire, marry Louise and go straight! But his two lives - hitman and soft spoken fiance of a schoolteacher - tragically intersect.
You have some good scenes here - a crazy horse as an instrument of revenge, a police lab technician solving a mystery for Ness, a semi pro bowler who has an interesting way of dealing with deadbeats, and a waitress who recognizes a particular kind of scar by knowing about a similar one on a rather private part of her boyfriend. There is a murder in this episode that is so violent that it is not shown only discussed, which is saying lots for The Untouchables.