What happens
Britt Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel, asks reporter Ed Lowery to look into the suicide of Hazel Ball, a friend. Meanwhile, James Cyril Fraser and his partner Johnny Dunn, who run the scandal sheet Typical Topics, plan a scheme involving a young actress from Colby, Texas. Reid and Lenore Case begin investigating the blackmail operation, while Dunn and Fraser confront the young actress Audrey Johnson with a claim about her parentage. The Green Hornet, with his valet Kato, works to expose the blackmailers and protect Audrey. The Green Hornet series, original air date May 4, 1948.
Early post-war city, the offices of the Daily Sentinel and the scandal sheet Typical Topics, and an apartment house in the city.
Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Ed Lowery, Lenore Case, Michael Axford, James Cyril Fraser, Johnny Dunn, Audrey Johnson
Listen for: Listen for Johnny Dunn's exchange with Fraser about Hazel Ball's payments and the little black book of figures.
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.