What happens
Newspaper publisher Britt Reid and his valet Kato investigate a suspicious light flashing from a yacht in a bay near Bayside Terrace. Reporter Mike Axford, who has been returning a pair of polarized glasses to the widow Mrs. Davidson Forrest, becomes entangled in a suspected plot centred on her apartment and a guest calling himself Baron de Soroca. The Green Hornet series is an old-time radio drama, and this episode aired on May 25, 1946. Britt and Kato piece together the flashes as a code, while Axford attends the widow's reception. The lead actors are not named in this transcript.
Mid-1940s city, including a newspaper office, the Bayside Terrace apartments on the bay, and a moored yacht.
Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Mike Axford, Lenore Kay, Mrs. Davidson Forrest, Baron de Soroca, Sergeant Burke
Listen for: The use of polarized glasses to send hidden light signals, which Britt Reid decodes with a telephone-dial code.
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.