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The price of fish in New York City has gone up nearly fifty percent, and it's all because of mobster Frank Makouris (Ricardo Montalban), who wields control over Fulton's Fish Market with an iron hand, killing and maiming his enemies in broad daylight. With Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) collaborating with a Federal Grand Jury to bring Makouris down, Joe "The Teacher" Kulak (Oscar Beregi) orders Frank to lay off on the strongarm stuff. . .at least until the heat is off. But Makouris merely steps up his campaign of terror, forcing Kulak to throw a lesser hoodlum to the wolves to get the Feds off the trail--a plan that backfires disastrously. With this episode, Gene Roth becomes the first of several actors to play the role of infamous gangster Louie "Lepke" Buchalter, while Robert Wilke takes over from Lawrence Dobkin in the role of Dutch Schultz.