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| Title: | Power Play |
| Episode Number: | 62 |
| Season: | 3 |
| Season Episode #.: | 2 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday October 19th, 1961 |
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With an increase in crime the citizens of Chicago demand action. Prominent attorney Willard Thornton is appointed to the newly created post of Crime Commissioner. Eliot Ness is suspicious of Thornton and his suspicions happen to be correct. Thornton is secretly the head of a newly formed crime cartel. Cartel enforcer Steve "Country Boy" Parrish wants to quit the rackets and return to his rural roots but he knows too much about Thornton and the crime cartel to be allowed to go quietly into the night by either side of the law.
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Future Archie Bunker Carroll O'Connor would return in Season Four's Bird in the Hand.
| Mary Fickett is best known for her role as Ruth Martin on the long running ABC daytime drama All My Children.
| Locations: Chicago, Five Points IL
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Hobson: (about Loomis) I know he's a small fish but are you gonna just throw him back?
Ness: How else can the big fish find him?
| Lubin: You have to go clear through to Springfield?
Thornton: I'm afraid so. I'm having dinner with the governor.
| Ness: Well, Country Boy Parrish.
Parrish: You got a nerve bustin' in here. Can't a man read his paper?
Ness: If that's all he's doing.
| Parrish: You better get yourself a glass of water, Mr. Ness. You sound like you're losin' your voice.
Ness: Don't make book on it.
Parrish: All right, it's your throat.
Ness: It's your neck. I'm gonna put a rope around it.
| Ness: (to Parrish) You'd better sleep with a couple of blankets. Those cells get drafty.
| Ness: I didn't know raccoons made such good pets.
Emmy: They don't.
| Parrish: (to Emmy) You don't lock me up like some lousy raccoon!
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Here we get to see one of the more memorable female characters of the series. Mary Fickett gives a touching and multi-faceted performance as the tomboyish Emmy Sarver who's so desperate for love that she tries to force a fugitive mob hitman to stay with her forever.
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