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| Title: | The Seventh Vote |
| Episode Number: | 57 |
| Season: | 2 |
| Season Episode #.: | 29 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday May 18th, 1961 |
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After Al Capone is imprisoned for income tax evasions, his organization deadlocks between the Nitti and Guzik factions. Seeking to break this deadlock, Capone decides to import Asian narcotics czar Kafka to serve as a tie-breaking vote in Mob council decisions. Ness learns of this situation and races to Canada to prevent Kafka from entering the country.
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This episode marks the second appearance by Nehemiah Persoff as Jake Guzik. Persoff would return as the character one final time in Season Four's Doublecross but that appearance would be sans Frank Nitti unlike this episode and The Empty Chair.
| The character of mob lawyer Archie Devlin had appeared previously in part 1 of The Big Train.
| Jake Guzik's idea about giving a free fix to every junkie who brings along a new customer would be repeated by Georgianna Drake in Season Three's Man Killer.
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Devlin: (to Nitti and Guzik) Looks like you two boys are gonna have to work together.
| Nitti: (to Stavro) If your price goes up one more time, you're dead. And so's your punk with the chopper.
| Guzik: (after the sniper fails to kill him) You missed, Frank. Now you're gonna have to start lookin' over your shoulder.
| Nitti: Where's the Organization? Everybody's askin'. And the answer is without Al sittin' in that chair there is no organization.
Guzik: We're the Organization. We decide what's gonna be done by a vote not by hysteria.
| NItti: (to Guzik) If you don't vote action, I'll take action.
| Nitti: How we gonna stop 'em if we don't kill 'em?
Guzik: We don't stop 'em.
| Nitti: Ah, Ness don't bother me.
Guzik: No, you're bigger than Al. He got Al so he bothers me.
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Nitti's man who gets killed is referred to as Brunner many times in the dialogue but is billed as Muller in the ending credits.
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Frank Nitti and Jake Guzik make a second and final appearance together in this episode. One wishes there had been another episode or two but here and The Empty Chair are all we get. It's a pity because Bruce Gordon and Nehemiah Persoff were the Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of TV gangsters.
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