What happens
Harry Lime travels by train from Switzerland into France, where he meets Duvall, a perfume maker whose wife Karen used to be connected to Lime. Lime learns that a black market scheme is selling watered-down perfume to American soldiers, and the business is tied to Duvall's household and his employee Andre. Karen is torn between her husband and her past with Lime. Lime is drawn into the operation, and tensions rise as the police and the criminals close in. The episode is part of The Mercury Theatre on the Air series, and the lives of Harry Lime is adapted from the film The Third Man. The transcript available to this guide ends before the final turns of the story.
Switzerland and Paris, early 1950s
Characters: Harry Lime, Edmond Duvall, Karen Duvall, Andre, Olga, Major Kha
Listen for: Harry Lime recruiting Andre and planning the black market perfume racket in Paris
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.