What happens
District Attorney Robert Callan is offered a fortune by the crime boss McNeely in exchange for dropping a case against him. Callan's stability is tested when his trusted contact Bartel, a witness against McNeely, becomes a threat, and Callan must decide how to deal with him aboard a ship bound for Europe. Callan's wife Betty is drawn into his problems. The episode is part of the radio anthology Suspense, first broadcast on March 10, 1952, and stars Joseph Cotton in the leading role.
A large American city, and a passenger ship bound for Europe
Characters: Robert Callan, Betty, McNeely, Bartel
Listen for: Callan's private conversations with Bartel and Betty on the ship, as his plans begin to unravel
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.