What happens
The Green Hornet, secretly newspaper manager Britt Reid, pursues Joe Desmond, a ward boss on the lower East Side who runs a racket selling bogus citizenship papers to immigrants and placing them on the city payroll. Desmond's associate Nelson and city official Andrew Melvin help him keep the scheme running. When a witness is killed and Melvin is found shot, the Hornet is blamed for the murder. The episode first aired on May 5, 1938, as part of The Green Hornet series.
Seton Hill and the lower East Side of a large American city, including a social club, a newspaper office, and a police headquarters.
Characters: Green Hornet, Britt Reid, Kato, Joe Desmond, Nelson, Tony Russo, Andrew Melvin, Casey
Listen for: Desmond's scheme selling fake citizenship papers to immigrants, and the Green Hornet being framed for Melvin's death.
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.