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J. Carrol Naish guest stars as Mafia Don Giuseppe "Joe" Bucco, who is being pressured to step down from leadership by his associates. Stubbornly refusing to retire, Bucco suffers the consequences but still remains loyal to the Organization, balking at an invitation to cooperate with Federal agent Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) no matter what happens. The mayhem gets under way at the very beginning, in which a poor wretch is found hanging from a meat hook, and doesn't let up until the now-famous finale, in which Bucco literally has the last laugh from beyond the grave. Henry Silva makes his first series appearance as drug pusher Little Charlie Sebastino in this episode, which features an unbilled cameo by Harry Dean Stanton (and incidentally, this is the only Untouchables episode in which the Mafia is mentioned by name).