- [first lines]
- [as a montage starts, a voice can be heard narrating]
- Narrator: In the years following World War II, organized crime in the United States grew to such proportions that it's scope was greater than the law enforcement agencies that tried to fight it.
- [a shot of the U.S. Capitol Building can be seen]
- Narrator: Finally, in the nation's capitol, the Senate Investigating Committee presented a new threat to gangland, and panic began to grip the overlords of crime.
- [a montage of Miami can be seen playing]
- Narrator: They sought a new central headquarters for their operation. The city where they felt they could be safe. They chose the Miami area, a vacation wonderland, a Mecca for tourists, who swelled the normal population of 600,000, to more than 2 million in the winter season. A city where the tough, honest police force was inadequate in size to protect the tremendous overflow of people. Then, out of sheer necessity, a way was found to crush crime in Miami. As Senator George Smathers, of the State of Florida relates...
- [Senator Smithers can be seen sitting at a desk and speaking directly to a camera]
- Senator George A. Smithers: The organized crime in the Miami area at one time, I am proud to say, that no vestige of it remains. This picture, ably shows what a few courageous citizens, honest politicians, and tough, alert, police agencies can do, to rid their cities of gangland's influence. The instrument and the method may be different in each instance, but the end result can always be the same.
- [as the film begins, a sign that reads "MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT" can be seen]
- Narrator: The story of the world's most powerful crime operation begins at the Miami International Airport at one of the landing platforms for the Cuban American Airline.
- [last lines]
- [as the film draws to a close, a montage can be seen]
- Narrator: The clock turned back for Mick Flagg and his son. The boy was happy that his father was now a hero to the world. There was however, one difference. Holly Abbott had come to visit Mick and Gil. She never left. And it was here on the Indiana farm, that these three found peace together, as a family.
- [as a shot of an island is shown, the narrator can he heard speaking]
- Narrator: On Monterrey Island, which lies between Miami City and Miami Beach in Biscayne Bay, a regular monthly business meeting had taken place in the afternoon of the murders on the million dollar estate of a man named Tony Brill.
- [the camera then shows Brill relaxing by a pool]
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