What happens
David Harding, a counterspy for the United States, is called to Loganberry Point on the Maine coast after an elderly widow, Eliza Gott, captures a stranger who came ashore from a torpedoed ship. Eliza keeps a lantern lit on her porch for a husband lost at sea decades earlier. The man claims to be a survivor, but Harding's investigation suggests he is a German agent. The episode is part of the Counterspy series, first aired on September 14, 1942, and its lead actors are not named in the transcript.
Loganberry Point, a remote village on the northern coast of Maine, during the Second World War
Characters: David Harding, Eliza Gott, Frank Berkman, Captain Stinson
Listen for: Eliza Gott's lantern and her unusual method of dealing with the stranger, and how the fishermen of Loganberry Point respond when Harding asks for volunteers
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.