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The Untouchables (1959)
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| Title: | The Contract |
| Episode Number: | 85 |
| Season: | 3 |
| Season Episode #.: | 25 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday May 31st, 1962 |
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Smiley Barris, a material witness against the New York syndicate, jumps bail and heads cross country to Los Angeles where he hopes his old pal Johnny Templar, the owner of a gambling ship, will provide him with shelter from both sides of the law. Johnny agrees but then gets a call from New York rackets boss Joe Kulak giving him the contract to kill Smiley.
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| Frank Sutton and John Larkin would appear together once more in Season Four's Butcher's Boy.
| The writer of this episode must have been a country music fan because the Federal agent in charge of the Los Angeles office is named Porter Wagner.
| Abel Fernandez is absent from this episodes as well as the following three of the show's third season. For some reason or another, Fernandez was absent from 12 Season Three episodes out of 28 total.
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| Quist: There's a couple of people in this town who wouldn't mind seeing me dead.
Ness: You know something, Quist, there's more than just a couple.
| Narrator: As for Johnny Templar, he had gotten his wish. He was out of the rackets.
| Ness: (about Smiley) Remember, we can't kill him.
| Captain: This proves one thing. Kulak means business.
Ness: When doesn't he?
| Kulak: What's the matter, Quist, don't you like a challenge?
| Quist: Marco blew the Smiley contract?
Kulak: Into a million pieces.
| Ness: (regarding Smiley's importance) Kulak told us when he tried to gun you down.
Smiley: Joe Kulak wouldn't do a thing like that.
Captain: You're right, Smiley. He got Marco Robles to do it for him.
| Hobson: (after pulling Smiley off Quist) Looks like we got here just in time.
Ness: Maybe we should have been a couple of minutes late.
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| In the ending fight scene between Smlley and Quist their stunt doubles bear almost no resemblance to them.
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| Some Untouchables fans seem to dislike this episode mainly because they find the ending grim and unsatisfying. Yes, it's true that the ending of The Contract is not exactly uplifting for any of the characters involved but we must remember that it was a grim and unsatisfying world in which the Untouchables themselves resided. Things did not always turn out for the better and even good people didn't always survive.
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