What happens
Psychologist Herbert Lodge, played by Boris Karloff, studies murderers and argues that anyone can kill. He visits Sam Edwards, who is condemned to the chair after strangling his wife during a quarrel over money, and questions him about the act. Lodge's obsession deepens as he works on a book about murder. Later he drifts into the underworld, where he plans to take over a gang's racket. The episode is an Inner Sanctum Mysteries drama, first broadcast on May 3, 1942, written by Frank Miller.
A prison and a city underworld in the United States, with scenes at a psychologist's home and in a gangster's hideout.
Characters: Herbert Lodge, Sam Edwards, Margaret, Whitey, Cannonball Jerry
Listen for: Lodge's cold, probing questions to Sam Edwards in the condemned cell.
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.