Chairman of the Board William Speer (Ric Marlow), mastermind of a vast criminal network, would like to know exactly what this anonymous would-be "Partner" has in mind. Meanwhile, he has already duped, not unlike a veritable chess master, the not-anonymous-for-much-longer faux Arthur Jackson into leaving a set of his fingerprints. William Shatner has a field day as the soon-to-be-identified Sam Tolliver. From Hawaii 5-O episode 3, season 5: You Don’t Have To Kill To Get Rich...But It Helps (1972).
The great William Speer delivers an utterly nonpareil display of commanding authoritativeness, as he sets into action his fingerprint-oriented plan to gain the upper hand over the already outfoxed, and soon-to-be-identified, Sam Tolliver. In so doing, the Veritex kingpin must, and does, execute a truly paradigmatic, epoch-defining Ashtray-Touching Prevention Moment that will live forever in the Pantheon of such things.
