What happens
Roger, a condemned man, is driven to the prison in handcuffs with a guard beside him, while his thoughts drift between dread and fantasy. Escape presents this psychological drama in present tense, written by James Poe and starring Vincent Price, as part of the Escape series, which first aired on January 31, 1950. The narrator recalls a crime that haunts him and imagines a bold plan to cheat the state of its punishment. His mind moves through vivid, disordered scenes of confusion, fear, and a desire for freedom. The story is told largely from inside his head, blurring what he remembers with what he imagines.
A prison transport car and a condemned man's thoughts in California, moving between the prison and scenes of his past.
Characters: Roger, Fred Snead, Mary, Padre
Listen for: The shifting first-person narration and the way the condemned man's inner monologue blurs memory and fantasy.
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.