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The Nitti organization is hurting thanks to all the raids by Ness and the Untouchables. They've been particularly hurt lately...thanks, in part, to a mole within the mob who's helping the Untouchables. Nitti and his council are at wits end and decide to bring in a legendary troubleshooter...Walter Trager (James Gregory). Trager has been out of circulation lately...but now he's back and with attitude. He also seems to have ESP as he quickly ferrets out two possible leaks and has them plugged....literally! But there's a problem...he orders a hit on his own brother-in-law and his sister (Cloris Leachman) could turn out to be a problem. The other problem is that Trager might just be getting too big for his britches...and Nitti isn't the sort of guy to take this lightly. As for Ness, he's also having his troubles as Nitti now seems to be second-guessing him at every turn.

This episode is filled with betrayals and nastiness--the sorts of things that make for a good episode. Not among the very best....but still very good.

James Gregory as "Walter Trager" is really, really good in this episode. He is a man the gangsters go to when they have a leak in their organization and they can't find it. They hire Trager and he finds the leaks....every time. The call him "The Leaker." Now boss "Frank Nitti" needs Trager. The latter figures it out or at least narrows it down to two possibilities....and has both men killed!

Problem over?

No. Now Trager wants to take over from Nitti! Boy, being a top gangster is not it's cracked up to be. Everyone wants your job....or see you go to jail.

Not only does Nitti have to put up with Trager but also his ambitious sister, played by a young-and-pretty Cloris Leachman.

This is an excellent, suspenseful episode.

Eliot Ness has been knocking over Frank Nitti's stills with increasing regularity so Bruce Gordon has become as concerned with leaks as Richard Nixon. So his version of the White House plumbers is James Gregory who used to be close to Al Capone and had a genius for spotting these things.

So Gregory is brought back and he starts his gumshoeing. Among others he suggests bumping off is his own brother-in-law Alan Baxter. Becoming a widow is not pleasing to Gregory's sister Cloris Leachman so she starts cutting her own deal.

Naturally Gregory is working his own agenda in this thing and in this instance Robert Stack and his squad just have to sit back and see it all implode around them.

This episode shows Bruce Gordon to best advantage, he may be rough around the edges, but Gordon's Frank Nitti is never a fool.