What happens
Ken Thurston, an investigator, looks into the disappearance of three freighters in the Bay of Bengal, each carrying valuable cargo. After a fisherman reports seeing a submarine flying an American flag, Thurston boards the freighter Bangalore, where he meets Carla Riva, a passenger, and a steward who has been acting strangely. Harbor inspector Ram Singh is also aboard, and the two men begin to work together. The Man Called X is a series on NBC, and this episode aired on February 3, 1951, with Herbert Marshall in the title role. The story follows Thurston as he tracks the suspicious crew and passengers on the ship.
The Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean, aboard the freighter Bangalore, bound southward from Calcutta.
Characters: Ken Thurston, Mohammed Lal, Inspector Ram Singh, Captain Mekong, Carla Riva, Mr. Humphrey, Miss Reaver, Zegon
Listen for: Thurston's first conversations with Captain Mekong and Inspector Singh, and the crew's nervous talk about the missing freighters.
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.