What happens
Britt Reid, a young newspaper publisher who secretly fights crime as the Green Hornet, with his valet Kato, investigates a murdered diplomatic courier named David Lambert. A small-time crook known as Gentleman Harry has been hired to steal Lambert's briefcase of papers, and a green hornet seal is left at the scene to frame the Hornet. Reid and Kato track Harry and his accomplices as the police begin to suspect the Hornet of the killing. This is an episode of The Green Hornet, first broadcast on June 10, 1945.
A bar and a downtown hotel in an unnamed city, police headquarters, and a remote farmhouse in the countryside.
Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Gentleman Harry, Joe, Lambert, Hamlet, Gus, Sergeant Burke
Listen for: Listen for the moment Reid and Kato, following the crooks' car into the countryside, race to stop the plane the men are trying to escape in.
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.