What happens
Britt Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel, is visited by detective Oliver Perry, who has come to town hunting the Green Hornet over the theft of the Carter Emerald, a priceless gem stolen from the wife of a Far East delegate. Perry believes the Hornet took the stone and wants his help tracing it, while also threatening to turn him in. Perry sets a trap, using a tip about stones from the necklace turning up at a pawn shop and a hidden meeting to lure the Hornet. The episode is part of The Green Hornet radio series, aired on August 2, 1945.
Mid-1940s city, the Daily Sentinel offices and a downtown hotel, with a pawn shop and apartment hideout on Water Street
Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Oliver Perry, Miss Case, Sergeant Burke, Oxford, Abe, Fingers
Listen for: Perry's visit to Britt Reid and his trap for the Green Hornet
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.