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| Title: | Downfall |
| Episode Number: | 82 |
| Season: | 3 |
| Season Episode #.: | 22 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday May 03rd, 1962 |
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Joseph December, Jr., president of a nearly bankrupt railroad line, makes a deal with the Mob to transport whiskey down from Canada to Chicago over his railroad tracks. As Ness moves to get to the bottom of things, December finds himself sinking deeper and deeper into a quagmire of corruption.
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Eliot Ness's living quarters are seen in this episode only it's a bachelor apartment not a house. Since the episode takes place in late 1929 and early 1930 we're probably supposed to assume that he hasn't gotten married yet.
| Location: Chicago
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Grunther: You're not in the jungle anymore, Mr. Ness. You're in the clearing.
| Kalmisky: (to Joey) When we deal with our own kind we know where we stand. They stay in line. They got to. Get my meaning?
| Kalmiski: I like you, Joey. You talk my language.
Joey: Money talks everybody's language.
| Hobson: (about Joey) He's a nice guy.
Ness: Yeah but he drinks strong coffee.
| Sitkin: (about the letter) He'd kill me if he found out I didn't have it. And you'd tell him.
| Sitkin: (to Joey)Thanks for the ride on the Ferris wheel. The view was great.
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Downfall features a bit of a change of pace for the Untouchables. This time they're not battling a gangster wearing a fedora and a pin-striped suit. Their main foe in this episode is a respected corporate executive who's made a deal with the Mob in order to keep his company afloat. Though he saves his company, he finds himself drowning in a cesspool of moral corruption. Well worth watching especially for Steven Hill's performance.
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