What happens
On a cross-country bus heading east, Charlie Rader is approached by a man and a woman who want a secret set of jet-motor plans he is supposed to be carrying. Charlie, who has been posing as their accomplice, realizes the pair mean him harm and begins to plan his next move. He confides in Julie Spalding, a fellow passenger, and the two travel on together, while the tension between them and the strangers steadily rises. The episode is from the Escape series, first broadcast on April 12, 1953, and is written and directed by Antony Ellis.
A cross-country bus journey eastward from Los Angeles through Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado
Characters: Charlie Rader, Julie Spalding, Hutchinson, Lisa
Listen for: Charlie's confession to Julie at the breakfast counter and the tense exchange on the ridge above the valley
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.