What happens
Stafford, a newspaper publisher, loses money in a card game aboard a train and suspects the game is rigged. Reporter Britt Reed and Stafford's associates look into Williams, a stockbroker who gave Stafford a card with his address. Meanwhile the Green Hornet, aided by his valet Kato, follows the train and watches for the card sharks at work. This episode of The Green Hornet, first broadcast on June 17, 1940, opens with the train's card game and the first suspicious dealings among the passengers.
A passenger train and the city where a newspaper office and a brokerage are located, 1940s America.
Characters: Stafford, Britt Reed, Cunningham, Williams, Henning, Kato, Green Hornet
Listen for: The card game on the train and how the suspicion about it grows.
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.