What happens
Isabelle Townes, a young actress in Hollywood, makes a living by posing as a schoolgirl to lure older men into lonely hills, then robbing them. One evening she picks up Alexander Rice, a polite insurance man, and discovers in his wallet a stack of newspaper clippings about the Strangler, a killer who has murdered five girls. Realizing she can identify him, Isabelle is caught between going to the police and exposing her own crimes. The episode is Suspense, broadcast on October 14, 1948, starring Lucille Ball.
Hollywood, California, in the late 1940s, including a boarding house, the hills above the city, and a shabby apartment on Fitzgilbert Place.
Characters: Isabelle Townes, Alexander Rice, Mrs. Tilford, Thompson, Mike, O'Shea
Listen for: Listen for the clippings Isabelle finds in Rice's wallet and her phone call to the police about the Strangler.
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.