What happens
Steve Thompson, a guard on an armored payroll truck, is drawn back into a past romance with Anna, now married to gangster Slim Dundee. Steve learns Anna has been shut out of his life by friends and family, and their old feelings flare again. When Slim proposes a robbery, Steve agrees to act as the inside man, hoping for a way out with Anna. The story is adapted from the 1949 film Criss Cross, presented on the Screen Directors Playhouse series on NBC on October 10, 1949, with Burt Lancaster starring as Steve and Betty Lou Gerson as Anna.
Los Angeles and the coast highway north of the city, including a nightclub, Slim's apartment and the armored truck route.
Characters: Steve Thompson, Anna, Slim Dundee, Pete Ramirez, Pop Creen, Vincent, Finchley
Listen for: Steve's decision to join Slim's robbery plan, and the armored truck run to Santa Rafella.
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.