What happens
Inspector Ralph of Scotland Yard investigates the bludgeoning of James Friskin, a retired gentleman living in a London suburb with his young wife Anne and his cousin Alma Goutpin. Friskin hires a young handyman, Dick Terry, to repair the garden wall, and Alma grows suspicious of the close friendship between Anne and the boy. When Friskin is found nearly dead, Terry is held on a charge of assault while the inspector weighs the evidence. The episode is part of The Black Museum, an anthology drawn from the files of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department and introduced by Orson Welles.
A suburban London home in summer, with a garden, a garage with a room above it, and the local police station house.
Characters: James Friskin, Anne Friskin, Alma Goutpin, Dick Terry, Inspector Ralph, Sergeant Hopkins, Dr. Kinder
Listen for: Pay attention to the brick Inspector Ralph is shown in the Black Museum, which opens the episode, and to what Alma says about the bricks and the garden wall.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.