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The Untouchables
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EP 01
THE EMPTY CHAIR
EP 02
MA BARKER AND HER BOYS
EP 03
THE JAKE LINGLE KILLING
EP 04
THE GEORGE BUGS MORAN STORY
EP 05
AIN'T WE GOT FUN?
EP 06
THE VINCENT MAD DOG COLL STORY
EP 07
MEXICAN STAKE-OUT
EP 08
THE ARTICHOKE KING
EP 09
THE TRI-STATE GANG
EP 10
THE DUTCH SCHULTZ STORY
EP 11
YOU CAN'T PICK THE NUMBER
EP 12
THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY
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YOU CAN'T PICK THE NUMBERChicago, October 1932. The depths of the Great Depression, marked by unemployment and poverty. The only chance some people felt they had to rise out of poverty, if only for a short time, was to win the lottery or at the punch-boards. The mob saw this as an opportunity, by coming up with a numbers game. People picked a number from 0-999; their odds of winning were 1-in-a-1,000-- the payoff was 600-to-1. The thousands of losers, pouring money into the mob, were never mentioned.
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