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| Title: | Element of Danger |
| Episode Number: | 79 |
| Season: | 3 |
| Season Episode #.: | 19 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday March 22nd, 1962 |
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Ness gets on the trail of a cartel of businessmen sho have decided to enter the narcotics trade after an undercover cop is murdered in a Chicago warehouse. Victor Rait, the man responsible for setting up the drug operation, is a loose cannon both sides of the law must deal with. He's also the man who killed the undercover cop.
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Victor Rait sets a series record in this episode by killing eight people. Runner-up was Frank Halloway in The Underground Railway who killed five.
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Rait: I'm the kind of guy who can't stand morbid curiousity.
| Rait: (to Ness) Don't make me laugh. It makes my stitches hurt.
| Krelig: (to Rait) Working with you is like bleeding in front of a shark.
| Rait: Where there's no risk, there's no fun.
| Cop: You boys are workin' kind of late.
Rait: You know how it is, officer. No rest for the wicked.
| Stegler: You never told me you killed two policemen.
Rait: You never asked.
| Rait: You talk about me takin' risks. You know how close you just came.
Stegler: Close only counts in horseshoes.
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The events in this episode would be mentioned again briefly in Season Four's Globe of Death. Both episodes had the same writer--John Mantley.
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Lee Marvin plays perhaps the ulitimate Untouchables villain in this episode. If you interviewed Eliot Ness himself (the TV Ness, of course) he would probably say the same thing. Lee Marvin gives a lights out performance in this episode. They didn't make 'em any rougher or tougher than "the Marv."
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