Randa Abdelfattah and Ramteen Arablui

And they bring him over and he becomes a commissioner of IRS.

Without consequences, what's a person's incentive to pay?

So then Roper decides he needs to set up a special division to specifically investigate tax evasion and root out corruption in the department.

And he asked one of his assistants, well, who do you recommend to run this division?

They answered, well, how about this Elmer guy?

He's well-respected.

He's a rising star.

And he seems to be a guy that everybody likes to work with.

And so they offered him the job.

It's 1919.

Elmer Irie recruits six of his old colleagues, other postal inspectors.

And together, they begin building this new unit of the IRS.

The Intelligence Unit.

And then... This tremendous loop is thrown on Elmer and Daniel Roper.

And that is, in 1920, the 18th Amendment.

Prohibition.

We sat face to face in Ropa's office in the Treasury Department.

I broke the glum silence with, Mr. Ropa, they can't do this to us.

Me, I'm resigning.

Overnight, the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol was illegal everywhere.