Buoyed by the windfall, Luther announces his retirement and advises Hooker to seek out an old friend, Henry Gondorff, in Chicago, to teach him “ the big con .” Unfortunately, their victim was a numbers racket courier for vicious crime boss Doyle Lonnegan.

Meanwhile, Snyder has tracked Hooker to Chicago, but his pursuit is thwarted when he is summoned by undercover FBI agents led by Agent Polk, who orders him to assist in their scheme to arrest Gondorff using Hooker.

Polk forces Hooker to betray Gondorff by threatening to incarcerate Luther Coleman's widow.

The black-gloved man had been hired by Gondorff to protect Hooker.

Polk confronts Gondorff, then tells Hooker he is free to go.

With Lonnegan and Snyder safely away, Hooker and Gondorff rise amid cheers and laughter.

Hooker and Gondorff depart as the other con men strip the room of its contents.

Gondorff, a once-great con-man now hiding out from the FBI, is initially reluctant to take on the dangerous Lonnegan.

Aboard the opulent 20th Century Limited, Gondorff, posing as boorish Chicago bookie " Shaw ", buys his way into Lonnegan's private high-stakes poker game and out-cheats Lonnegan, winning $ 15, 000 from him and making Lonnegan furious.

Created by screenwriter David S. Ward, the story was inspired by real-life con games perpetrated by the brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff and documented by David Maurer in his book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man.

However, Gondorff relents and decides to resurrect an elaborate and supposedly obsolete scam known as " the wire ", using a large number of con artists to create a phony off-track betting parlor.

By bringing attention back to the present ( e. g. by focusing on their breath ), clients gradually begin to observe their thought processes rather than reacting to them, thus, facilitating occupational engagement.

Cicero, reacting to the chronologies of such authors as Berossos ( who composed a Greek-language history of Babylonia, known as the Babyloniaca, during the 3rd century BC ) strongly criticised the claim that the Babylonians had kings going back hundreds of thousands of years:

The Socratics, reacting to the first Greek philosophers, brought philosophy back to earth, and hence back to the marketplace, making it more political.

After the step involving the hydride is complete, the acetal is removed ( by reacting it with an aqueous acid ), giving back the original carbonyl.

In a uranium graphite chain reacting pile, the critical size may be considerably reduced by surrounding the pile with a layer of graphite, since such an envelope reflects many neutrons back into the pile.

Simple statements from the small-unit leader to the Service member that he is reacting normally to combat stress and is expected back soon have positive impact.

Austrian policy based upon pre-existing plans to destroy Serbia involved not waiting to complete judicial inquiries or striking back immediately and not to strain its credibility in the coming weeks as it would become more and more clear that Austria was not reacting to the assassination.

Though Hibiki is suited for the job, Ibuki took to fighting the monster, using his Shippuu Issen to reacting to the Onishi he shot into the stomach before it retracted back into the monster, causing Oonamazu to blow up from the inside-out.

By contemplating on the twelve links, one gains greater insight into the workings of karma ; this insight enables us to begin to unravel our habitual way of thinking and reacting.

Barn owls also have white plumage that may reflect enough light from sources such as the moon to appear as a will-o '- the-wisp ; hence the possibility of the lights moving, reacting to other lights, etc.

To account for this the preparedness theory was put forward ; it stated that reacting to an object with sexual arousal could be the result of an evolutionary process, because such a reaction could prove to be useful for survival.

This process of influencing is never deterministic ; an occasion of experience consists of a process of comprehending other experiences, and then reacting to it.

Some of these guffaws were provided by the actual cast and crew members reacting to the playbacks and dailies of the episodes they were taping ; Eventually, The Muppet Show began recycling these same chuckles for later shows, establishing its own one-of-a-kind laugh track.

In a Times video debate, she said of the North Korean government: "... you could look at a movie like Mean Girls and figure out the way these North Koreans are reacting ; you know it's like high school girls with nuclear weapons — they just want some attention from us, you know?

A visit with Henry's widow did not go as expected ; instead of reacting angrily, Alix Buchanan understood the circumstances in which Guido had acted, and forgave him.

The Raft of the Medusa contains the gestures and grand scale of traditional history painting ; however, it presents ordinary people, rather than heroes, reacting to the unfolding drama.

His fluent memoir of this period " Ambassador on Special Mission " is an excellent insight into the day to day life of a demanding diplomatic position ; his primary challenge was to dissuade Franco from his preferred drift to the Axis powers, while preventing the Allies from reacting with undue haste to repeated Spanish provocations.

Soon after this, Sturdza and Ionescu engaged in a publicized argument, with Sturdza accusing him of having provoked the revolt through excessive taxation ; reacting to this allegation, Ionescu rested the blame with antisemites inciting public sentiment against Jewish leaseholders, and with a wider network of agitators.

In particular, Alexios I was often reduced to reacting to events rather than controlling them ; the changes he made to the Byzantine army were largely done out of immediate necessity and were pragmatic in nature.

While many composers were reacting to the strictures of the Council of Trent against excessive polyphonic practice, Porta evidently felt unobliged to follow them ; perhaps he had sufficient confidence in his skill in conveying the text.

He grows stronger and more skillful throughout the series, eventually becoming a worthy student of Kambei ; and he also comes to terms with killing enemies, after reacting in shock the first time.

In the present, Kazuki Yotsuga is a high school student who is shunned by other students as an otaku ; his web site describes battles between giant robots that only he can see, but mostly because he is occasionally seen by the other students reacting to their " presence ".

Because of the methanol cross-over, a phenomenon by which methanol diffuses through the membrane without reacting, methanol is fed as a weak solution: this decreases efficiency significantly, since crossed-over methanol, after reaching the air side ( the cathode ), immediately reacts with air ; though the exact kinetics are debated, the end result is a reduction of the cell voltage.

Free radicals are known to be capable of reacting with proteins, lipids and nucleic acids, causing cellular damage ; because of the potential of hydrogen peroxide to interact with DNA, concerns with carcinogenicity of hydrogen peroxide have been raised, although these concerns so far have not been substantiated through research.

Just like he stated in the original release ; " I have no idea, that how I should be reacting to Fenris's techniques.

Though important to the overall effect of the medication, the aspirin ( acetylsalicylic acid ) is not required to produce the effervescent action of Alka-Seltzer ; the effervescence is produced by the baking soda ( sodium bicarbonate ) and citric acid reacting to form sodium citrate and carbon dioxide gas.

There was always a creative tension between a growing general climate of liberalisation-culminating in legal liberalisation in the late 1960s and early 1970s, for example on abortion, gay rights and equal pay in the UK ; what was termed a ' second wave ' of liberalising feminism, perhaps best characterised by the formation of the National Organization of Women ( NOW ) and the Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) in the USA ; and a more ' liberation ' inspired movement with strong roots in the US Civil Rights Movement-and, it must be said, as much reacting against as working with the more radical political groups of the late 1960s.

Although it seems, to the player, that the cook is reacting to events ; the cook is actually a puppet of the cupboard which stays in full control.

The opposition criticized the appointment ; it argued that the government was merely reacting to criticism that it effectively sponsored Ramotar's candidacy by including him on official trips, and therefore was giving him an official job in order to legitimize the situation.

Classical qualitative organic analysis usually involves reacting an unknown sample with various reagents ; a positive test usually involves a change in appearance — color, precipitation, etc.

* Flash ( Wally West ), working in the Elite after recent events caused him to question the League's policy of only reacting to threats ; he was a member of both teams simultaneously, but used a new, dark costume for his time with the Elite.