What happens
Ken Thurston, the man called X, is sent after two Washington experts, James Everest and David McDonald, who have vanished while carrying plans for Operation Zero, a top secret Western defense project. Their trail leads from Paris to a farmhouse near the border of the Russian zone of Germany, where Thurston and his allies try to stop them. The episode is part of the NBC series The Man Called X, first broadcast on June 29, 1951, starring Herbert Marshall in the title role. Thurston's search draws him toward Marshal Petrov and a journalist named Anna Werner, as the stakes of the Operation Zero plans grow clear.
Paris, Washington, Shannon Ireland, the Russian zone of Germany, Neustadt in the American zone, and Berlin in 1951
Characters: Ken Thurston, Slade, David McDonald, James Everest, Anna Werner, Marshal Petrov, Pego, Grisha
Listen for: The phone call at the Hotel in Paris and the discovery that Petrov has flown toward southwest Germany
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.