What happens
Jerry Franklin, a former convict known as Gentleman Jerry, plots revenge against stockbroker Daniel Lewis and the Green Hornet. With his henchmen Spike and Gabby, he kidnaps Lewis's daughter Carol and demands a ransom, with the Green Hornet blamed for the crime. Publisher Britt Reid, the Hornet's alter ego, and his valet Cato set out to investigate. This episode of The Green Hornet, first broadcast on August 1, 1944, follows the scheme as the criminals prepare their trap at a tenant house on the West Highway.
A city in the 1940s, including a well-furnished room, the Lewis mansion, the Daily Sentinel newspaper office and a dilapidated tenant house on the West Highway
Characters: Britt Reid, Cato, Jerry Franklin, Spike, Gabby, Carol Lewis, Daniel Lewis, Lenore Case
Listen for: Jerry's scheme to lure the Green Hornet into a trap at the tenant house on the West Highway
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.