A review by Damian Cannon. However, Henry has turned into possibly the greatest drunk ever and doesn't feel particularly inclined to join the inexperienced Hooker in a dangerous 'sting'. The lure of the challenge wins out though and their plan swings into action, with Henry contacting the numerous friends of Luther for help. Buying themselves into a game on the New York - Chicago express, Hooker and Henry work to lay the foundations for their 'sting'.
Henry plays a gin-soaked, mouthy gambler who just happens to get very lucky.
To Lonnegan's amazement he ends up getting cleaned out by this nobody, despite his best efforts at rigging the deck. Hooker explains that he has a system for winning on the horses, simply by getting the race information before the bookmakers. Lonnegan is drawn deeper into the deception, purely by virtue of his own greed and thirst for revenge, and ends up offering his own money in the cause of destroying Henry. Evoking the classic Hollywood gangster movies, each character displays certain mannerisms and methods of speech which whisk us right into the middle of the Depression. Times are unimaginably tough, yet these disparate grifters have enough human spirit to come together in battle against the dastardly Lonnegan.