The second episode again highlights how much racketeering and corruption affects the ordinary consumer with higher prices. Someone has to pay the price for crime.
In the shipyards of New York, there are sweetheart deals to keep everything moving.
If the port owners, the shipping companies do not pay up. There would be no labour to move the goods.
The unions and organised crime seem to be working hand in hand.
Paul Marino finds that no one in the docks area is willing to talk and he is not welcome.
Ambitious hoodlum Otto "Dutch" Kleburg (Jack Klugman) is running the show. The only person he is scared off is his ambitious, glamorous and social climbing wife.
When Otto tries to replace a veteran dock leader with one of his cronies fresh out of jail. It leads to murder. An eyewitness indicates that Otto and his wife could be eating dinner alone.
The early episode gives a slight hint of a dark side with Marino. Cajoling a witness who might be a drunk, suffering from mental illness to give evidence against a gangster.