Nitti realizes Ness and his Untouchables are getting too close for comfort in their single-minded desire to break his organization's hold on the city of Chicago. So he decides Ness' days are numbered, and on the recommendation of minor hoodlum Johnny (also Ness' informant) he hires a newcomer to the city - a psychopathic Cajun backwoodsman called 'Snake' Boureaux. Snake is a hunter, and decides to lure Ness into his own territory - the wilderness. To do this he begins to hunt Ness' wife Catherine and their small daughter. Meanwhile Al Capone is offered a deal by the ...