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I refuse to answer under provisions of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution

on the grounds that my testimony might tend to incriminate me. Mr. Rowland, did

you or Mr.

Ed Clemente at any time ever loan any money to the Gregory Construction

or Mr. Stuart Gregory personally?

I refuse to answer for the reason... Is it true that you charged excessive

interest rates so that when Mr. Gregory was unable to meet his payments...

You accepted a major interest in his firm as partial settlement of the debt.

refuse to testify. Do you have any knowledge of the method used to bleed

construction firm of its major capital assets?

I refuse to answer.

Are you aware of a fraudulent conspiracy to declare bankruptcy?

I refuse to answer.

Mr. Rowland, are you and Ed Clemente members of La Cosa Nostra?

I refuse to answer.

Witness is dismissed.

This hearing is recessed until tomorrow morning at 10 o 'clock.

Well?

Nothing to it, Counselor. Something's come up, Leo.

What's come up?

We've got a witness.

Barber.

Hotel room with Gregory.

Did you have to discuss business in front of Norris?

He didn't hear anything he could use. He'll tie you with a construction

and Gregory. That'll be enough to convince a federal judge he should

immunity. Pull the Fifth Amendment right out from under you.

He'll order you to talk.

I'm off then.

You volunteered the information.

You can't bribe a crusader.

Ed's still in Florida.

I suggested he keep the boys together.

You might be needing a quote.

Let's go.

No, I don't like it.

I don't like the risk, Leo. I don't like any part of it.

He'll be on that witness stand in the morning.

They can get me for perjury or for refusing to testify.

But to dump him, Leo, right now, I want a vote.

All right.

All right, hold on.

Okay, Leo, you got your vote.

I'll handle it here.

Hey, Gary, why don't you take me to the bus terminal?

What are you cutting out to now?

You spend more time taking bus trips than you do in the classroom and you

get A's.

What's your secret, genius?

Genius.

Mr. Alfred Norris?

The Ford Motor Company presents the FBI.

A Quinn Martin Warner Brothers production.

Starring Ephraim Zimbalist Jr.

Also starring Philip Abbott.

Stephen Brooks.

With guest stars Telly Savalas.

Susan Strasberg.

Robert Duvall.

Robert Tribus, special guest star, Walter Pigeon, and Celeste Holm as

Flo Clemente. Tonight's episode, The Executioner, part one.

Two bullets fired into his heart at close range had blasted the life from

Norris, key witness in the government's case against the Cosa Nostra.

The investigation began under the direction of Inspector Lewis Erskine,

in New York to present evidence to the grand jury.

The two spent cartridge casings ejected from the assassin's gun were found and

dispatched at once to the FBI laboratory in Washington, D .C., along with a

single tiny fiber.

found adhering to the ignition wires of Alfred Norris' car.

It had been hot -wired to attract the victim's attention.

I really don't have time to answer any more questions, Mr. Erskine.

Too bad about your witness.

Must be, uh...

heartbreaking, all the hard work you did building up a case against me.

And for what?

Oh, I wouldn't say it was over yet, Mr. Rowland.

Somebody ordered Norris's death.

Now, that's a very interesting theory. Any ideas?

A few.

We thought maybe you could help us.

Wish you could, but I've been putting off this vacation now for some time.

Mr. Rowland.

We know you had something to do with ordering Norris's death.

Mr. Erskine, it hurts me as a taxpayer to see public servants wasting their

like this.

For any move you make, I've got a better one.

You can't implicate me in this in any way.

If I'm called on again to testify, I'll just read him this.

Great thing, the Constitution.

There's evidence that Norris talked. There was no other leak.

I suppose you want to stay in New York now.

I want this case, yes.

The case or Leo Rowland?

Both.

Well, how does it look for us without the witness?

Mike Dale, Mr. Ward, assistant U .S. attorney.

I think the grand jury will indict Gregory on the evidence you've given us.

can't get Rowland or even Clemente to trial unless Gregory himself talks.

Any chance of that?

No, sir, not much. He's being counseled by Rowland's own attorney.

All right, Lewis, it's your case.

Get the killer and see where it leads.

Come on, Ed. So we let out a contract. Is that something new?

Yeah.

Leo? Who's this?

Uncle Ed.

Hey, Paul.

What's the matter? Something wrong?

I'm in New York.

Oh, I get it. A little touch, huh?

Yeah, I wonder if you could lend me a hundred till next week.

Okay, kid. Here, sit a little here.

Hello, college boy. What do you say?

Why didn't you tell me he was there? I almost blew it.

Well, you know your Uncle Ed and me. Never far apart, working or playing.

Yeah, well, look, the job is done.

Ah, fine. I'm glad to hear that.

Keep cranking those books, Paul.

See you soon, huh?

Hey, Paul.

You see a man, Flo?

No, I haven't, Uncle Ed. Not yet.

Will you do me a favor, then, kid? You tell her to... Now, you ask her if

see me when I get back.

Okay?

Okay, Uncle Ed. I'll try.

All right, Paul. Thanks a lot.

You are really out of your mind.

You know that.

Haven't we enough trouble already?

She's my wife, Leo.

Ten years in separate apartments. That's a wife?

Ed, is this what's eating you?

Is Flo why you dragged your feet about the hit?

Hey, Leo.

You're my friend.

And I can't tell this to anybody else.

I was thinking of asking the boys to let me retire.

That is before this grand jury action started.

You mean you're going to try to get Flo back?

Yeah, I'm going to try.

And if you don't mind, I'd like to... I know the government won't mind dragging

out any one of a hundred things you've done in the past if they get Flo on the

stand. Flo's never taught that she never will.

She talked to my daughter.

Oh, come on, Leo.

Chris left home long before that.

And the only reason she went to Flo is because she had no place else to go.

Three years.

And who do you think saw to it she never came back? And why would she come back?

Why would either one of them come back to us, huh? La Cosa Nostra comes before

wife and family and country and religion.

No, they're not the ones who took the oath. We did.

And you better not forget it.

Tired of being a millionaire?

What good is it if we can't buy what we want?

I hope you know what you're doing, old friend.

Because if the government ever gets one of us, there's no way for the other one

to come out clean.

No way.

The term cashmere covers a variety of materials these days, but this is the

article.

Genuine cashmere goat hair, hmm?

We'll get it to the anti -racketeering desk. Maybe the M .O. files can turn up

hitman who has a weakness for expensive clothes.

And the senoritas, Milo. Yeah, yeah.

You know, it's been five, six years since I've been to Mexico City.

I didn't want to come back, but the money gets slow.

Got to find some action.

It's a very good contrast, sir.

What can I try this on?

Right over there.

It's about time.

What? Your competition is late.

Anybody I know?

No, Ernie, I'll talk to you later, okay?

Well.

Stick him up.

Looks like Cooper's been using something besides his bow and arrow, huh?

Oh, come on.

You know I don't fool around with the ladies when I'm working.

What kind of sense does it make?

To be walking around with the hottest gun in town.

Look, I checked into a hotel and I went to sleep. Does that suffice?

Rule number one, Cupid.

You pick up a gun from a drop.

You use it.

And you get it back fast to the drop.

The same night.

Now, if you don't know your business, fine.

Who do you think you're talking to?

Would you like me to show you how well I know my business?

You owe me money. Come on.

Here's the money.

Count it.

He wouldn't dare.

They were definitely fired by the same weapon, 9mm.

Same as the slugs that were recovered from the victim's heart.

But I don't think they were manufactured in this country.

Give me the anti -racketeering desk, please.

They sell a lot of these guns in this country?

No, sir, not many.

Oh, yeah, this is Ward. See if this rings a bell in M .O., will you?

The cartridges were manufactured in Spain to fit an automatic made there by

Berber Arms Company.

Mm -hmm.

Nine millimeter.

Three months past due on your paper later. You're moonlighting again.

Absolutely. Well, come on, then.

How are you? Just fine.

Now I suppose I should scold you for skipping classes, hey? Forget it. I'm so

far ahead of those idiots. Oh, good.

Chris? Sure.

Hi, Paul.

Why are you skinny?

Skinny? How do you like that? I spent three years growing up just so he'll

notice me, and he still calls me skinny.

What are you doing here?

I live here right down the hall.

I work in the same hospital as Flo, same floor, same shift, everything. Kind of

a family plan.

I like that uniform.

Yeah, hey.

Do you like it?

I love it.

Look, there's, uh...

Does your father know about all this?

I don't have a father anymore.

Hey, what's the matter?

Come on, Aunt Flo.

You know, this is some smart reporter trying to make a headline.

Uncle Ed would never get himself involved in anything like this.

He wouldn't?

Why wouldn't he?

He would never change.

Our

losses

are murderous.

And we're some kind of Lawrence Nightingale's trying to put them back

again.

It's wild.

Yeah.

Wild.

Each pair was recovered at the scene of a gangland killing. The Spanish had made

the fifth a verbal automatic.

Always two bullets?

And always in the heart.

That's why they call him Cupid.

Cupid?

Now, this boy's proud of his work and doesn't want anybody else taking credit

for it. Has he got another name?

Not that anybody knows.

He's anonymous, efficient, and relatively new.

Now, it seems he's been operating only a couple of years.

Now, his file's pretty thin.

Yeah.

Well, I'll get these down to firearms.

See how they compare with the new ones.

Cupid.

It's no use, Uncle Ed.

Now, when she read that stuff about Norris in the newspaper being killed,

really tore it.

Hey, Paul, you tell her it wasn't my idea.

I did.

But she and Chris, they just cut out for the hospital.

Chris?

Yeah, she's back now.

Yeah, she was in nurse's training school.

She's really quite lovely.

I think I'll stick around a couple of days.

You do that, maybe Flo will change her mind.

about Chris?

Flo made a nurse out of her.

Hey, Elio.

Let's go to New York.

We can see both of them.

Now, we don't leave Florida till this grand jury thing is resolved.

If they indict Gregory, if he cracks, he can still involve us.

You're not thinking of wasting him, too, are you?

If we have to.

Oh, Leo.

As I said, anybody gets in our way, we waste them.

Gregory, anybody.

Did you or Mr.

Ed Clemente at any time ever... I refuse to answer under provisions of the Fifth

Amendment to the Constitution on the grounds that my testimony might tend to

incriminate me.

Is it your intention, Mr. Gregory, to deny ever having had any business

with Leo Roland or Ed Clemente?

I refuse to answer for the... All right, all right. There's no point in wasting

the panel's time any further. You're dismissed.

Mr. Dale, I'll excuse you, too, while I hold the jury.

on the fifth isn't gonna work, I can tell. Not here, sir.

Listen, you tell my friends they gotta get me out of this. Well, talk outside.

Listen.

Same tune, same lyrics, and they still don't include Roland or Clementi.

So it's on your back for sure now, Lou.

Prove they ordered Norris killed or we lose him.

Lou?

We've got a line on the car the killer used. It was stolen from a parking zone

at 51st and Madison.

Mr. Dale, we've indicted Gregory on the bankruptcy fraud. We're recommending

that a warrant be issued for his arrest.

Well, there it is, Lou.

Of course, a fraud case against Gregory doesn't help you too much, does it?

Unless he talks.

Randolph.

For you, Inspector.

Mr. Ward.

Yes, Art.

There's a cashmere garment involved, probably a sport coat.

Check. Get a list of stores that handle them.

Your hitman is known as Cupid.

Just Cupid. There's no other ID on him.

But he uses a Spanish -made Berber automatic exclusively.

Same one?

I don't know. I'm getting a conclusion on that right now. Hold on just a

What did you find out?

The ejector marks are different, and so are the firing pin indentations.

Lewis, he uses a different gun for every job.

But it's always a Spanish -made Berger automatic.

Gun drop, huh?

Sadly.

The M .O. on Cupid lists the names of all the distributors of the weapon in

country.

We also found out that some of the shipments from Spain were short.

Waterfront theft.

Case is still pending.

I'll get a list of longshoremen who were working that day, Jim.

You better get right on it, or it may be unproductive.

It's a lead, Arthur.

What else do we have?

We'll take care of it.

They've indicted Gregory.

Got him downtown already.

Carl says it does not look good.

We've got to stop him. Leo, there must be another way.

He's beginning to come apart.

I'm calling for a sit -down.

No.

Not another hit. We spent years building a respectable image, and then it all...

Gregory's scared.

He's cornered, and he'll talk.

But we could always ship him out of the country, couldn't we? Sure, if he wanted

to go, and if he didn't change his mind.

Ed, we're wasting time. We can put up the bail, 50 ,000, get him out in the

open. Leo, listen.

I want a vote.

I'd like to talk with Ed alone.

If I told them what's really wrong with you, you'd be in as much trouble as

Gregory. Leo?

What I told you was in confidence.

You've got me worried, old friend.

You're getting soft.

And that makes you dangerous.

You make this contract.

Me?

Yes, you.

I see, Leo.

One little insurance, huh?

Well, I don't know Cupid.

I don't know where he is or anything. You know Ernie Mildon?

He's back.

His number's in there.

Either you're in the club, Ed, or you're not.

Chet, you know that list of men's stores you compiled?

Yes. Have you got a Dexter on it?

Dexter? Identification says that a longshoreman named Sam Dexter was on the

the day the guns were stolen.

Now, he has a brother, Milo, who owns that men's store. Milo? Sure.

Milo's. Here it is.

Madison Avenue. That's only half a block from where the car was stolen.

Cashmere and guns.

Why not?

Immediate photographic surveillance, Chet. Front and rear. The works.

Maybe we'll put a face on Cupid.

It took a long time.

Did you know that I've been in love with you since I was six?

I thought you two were going out.

It's not that I don't approve.

What Aunt Flo's trying to say is she doesn't want you to get mixed up with

wrong crowd, right?

Well, you're not part of that.

Not now, he isn't.

Oh.

Now what kind of thing is that for an aunt to say?

Oh, come on.

We all know how they operate.

And now they need college graduates to run their legitimate businesses.

They'll offer you the sun and the moon and a piece of the action.

And if you're fool enough to take it, they'll own you. Chris will be right

where she started.

Aunt Flo, just because you hate Uncle Ed... Hate him?

Who? Take a look.

The guy looking in the window.

Ernie Mildon.

I wonder how long he's been back.

Maybe Cupid's just an old friend with a new M .O.

Even if he isn't Cupid, he might know who is.

Mike, do we still have a warrant on him?

Unlawful flight.

Let's take him.

Look after units one and two.

Excuse me, FBI.

I'll have to ask you people to leave.

Please, just walk out quietly.

You, show me some ties.

That's the guy now that you're under arrest.

ambulance. What?

Right away.

Yes, sir.

Take Mildon down to the office. I want to talk to him after I've talked to

A couple of you go over this place, see if you can find any more guns.

Now you can call the coroner.

Ernie must know something, whether he's Cupid or not.

He knows more than we do.

He wouldn't be here.

Yes, yes, Ed Clemente. Have you seen him?

Airport?

When?

Frankie, I think Ed's back in New York.

Try and get word to him about this, will you?

Right. Thanks.

Hello?

Paul Tometi there.

Who is this?

A friend of his. Is he there?

Leo, is that you?

Okay, Flo, now don't hang up, please.

What do you want with Paul?

I thought he might know where Ed is.

You mean you don't?

The Rover boys finally got separated?

Flo, just tell him I called, will you?

Leo, please, don't do anything to Paul.

I'll make a deal with you, Flo. You leave Chris alone and I'll leave Paul.

I'm not doing anything to Chris.

She came to me for help.

I gave it to her, that's all.

She didn't need help. She had everything.

Sure.

Including a father who never told her the truth about anything in her whole

life. Ever.

You're not very smart, Flo. You know that. Just because you've got your claws

into it, don't think you're something special. Don't count on it forever.

Sit right here, Melvin.

Would you read this and then sign it?

It just states that you've been told of your rights and that you understand

them.

Absolutely.

If there's anything I like to do, it's cooperate with the FBI.

You're sure you don't want a lawyer?

Now, what does an innocent man need with a lawyer?

Somebody killed a grand jury witness named Alfred Norris.

We thought maybe you knew something about it.

Go ahead.

Give it your best shot.

Show me how you're going to make a case out of this one.

Jackie. Mrs. Clemente, it's been a long time.

What are you doing?

Stay outside, Jackie.

What are you doing coming in here?

Who else can I talk to, Flo?

Why me?

Why does it always have to be me? Because you love me.

I loved the man I took care of in the hospital.

Who took me home and married me.

And I found out he was another guy.

Were you still married to me?

Why?

Because I'm a fool.

Because I... I always hoped that you'd try to get out of all this.

But I just don't think they'll let me.

You know, it's closing in on me more and more. I feel like... Did I ever tell

you about the time when I was a kid?

My mother... She dragged me down to the church to speak to Father Bonelli

about some... some signs I had stolen.

Oh, I went in all right.

But I came right back out.

The side door.

Flo, you know, I feel like I'm right back in that church again.

Only this time I can't find the side door.

And you want to know why?

Because I don't want to.

Hey, Flo.

I need your help, I know.

I need you, sweetheart.

You always get to me like this. Oh, honey.

I swear to you, I'm leveling.

Are you?

There.

There's your number.

Call it.

Well, it's not that easy.

Who said it was easy?

I can't just... Please.

Please.

Can I get it for you?

No.

I need more time.

How much time is there?

I saw a car downstairs in Jackie.

Don't close the door. He's just leaving.

Wait outside.

No, no, no.

Come on, Ann. You might as well hear what's going on. After all, we're the

parents you've got.

Who gave you the contract to hit Norris?

You always use a Berber automatic?

Oh, you boys disappoint me.

The timing's off.

You should have been to the good guys' bad guys by now.

Oh?

Now, who's going to be the bad guy?

All right, you be the bad guy, you get mad at me, and then you stick up for me

like a good friend, and then I talk.

All right, take him out of here.

Get him arraigned.

Oh, Jim.

How's Milo?

Well, he's, uh... Uh,

look, can I talk to you for a second?

Milo's, uh... Uh, check.

Wait a minute.

May I have a cigarette, somebody?

Chet.

This isn't going to work either, you know.

All right, is Milo dead?

He's dead.

Well, if he happened to talk before he died, then you know I'm clean.

Do we?

Well, a man's not going to lie before he dies, right?

Right.

Unless he wanted you to burn.

Maybe you know too much, Ernie.

What are you, out of your mind?

Oh, that's right. I almost forgot. He was a friend of yours.

That's right. You're all real good friends, aren't you?

Clementi, Roland, Milo.

All loyal, faithful buddies.

All right.

What did he say?

Who's Cupid, Ernie?

I don't know.

Oh, come on, Lee. I don't want to rush into anything.

Paul, if Ernie talks, if he tells them there's a contract out, they'll put

Gregory where we can't get at him.

It'll cost you $10 ,000.

$10 ,000?

Now, look here.

All right.

Dillon Hotel, registered as John Raymond.

Carl convinced him to go there to hide from the reporters.

How am I going to get fixed with Milo out of business?

Dave's Fish Market on Amsterdam. Use Milo's name and ask for your order of

halibut.

It's a Berber automatic.

It's the one we took from you.

You know, of course, that it was a Berber that killed Norris.

Which one?

Ernie.

I want you to think very hard.

Did Milo say anything to indicate he, uh...

He might try to cross you.

Cross me how?

Is there any reason why he might not have destroyed the Norris gun?

Why he might have kept it?

A gift to you?

Milo, give me a hot one. You've got to be kidding.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Maybe he doesn't understand.

What's to understand?

We go along with him trying to believe he's telling the truth. I happen to

believe he is telling the truth.

Well, if he is, you know what that means.

You're no prize Ernie.

I don't want to see you get a bum rap Yeah

Who is it?

An urgent message from Mr. Monroe's office.

Monroe's office.

Yeah. What about the daytime?

Gee, I was asleep.

I admit it.

And I didn't go through with it.

Oh, come on, Mildred. Norris was dead days before we picked you up. Not

Well, who then?

Stuart Gregory.

Who gave you the contract? Roland?

No, Clemente. Ed Clemente. He called me himself.

Tell him again he needs police protection.

Yes, sir.

Hello.

Stuart Gregory has just been killed.

At the Dillon Hotel. Another guest found him. The door to his room was open.

Jim.

Call Mike Dale in the morning.

Get a subpoena for Clemente.

Clemente?

Yeah.

That day wasn't a total loss.

Can't get much closer to rolling than that, huh?

Good night, Chet.

Uh, Mr. Quinney? Yeah.

Last week, before you went away, we noticed a strange noise in your engine.

What kind of noise? Don't worry, we had it fixed.

Here, it tells you on a bill.

Yeah, but I didn't know it was right.

Subpoena? When was it served?

Just now.

In the office garage. I'm in the phone booth.

Don't go home and don't go back to the office again.

They got Ernie. He must have talked.

Ed, you can't answer that subpoena.

Now, listen to me.

Go to the Sedgwick Motel on the Hudson River Parkway and wait. I'll be up on

next plane and I'll arrange everything. Money, cover, everything.

They'll never find you.

Listen, Leo, I don't get it. If Gregory wasn't hit... He was last night.

As one Cosa Nostra attempt to thwart justice by murder leads to another and

another, Ed Clemente is driven to the limit of his endurance.

And mafia executioner Leo Rowland issues a contract for death that strikes at

the life of his own daughter.

Next week on the FBI.

You've just seen the first half of The Executioners.

Join us next week for its dramatic and exciting conclusion.

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