What happens
Ralph Clark, an attorney, leaves home after a quarrel with his wife Mary and finds himself without money in a small town. Lacking even a nickel for a phone call, he is detained by the police and placed in a cell with a notorious bank robber named Phillips. Clark tries to bargain his way out with his wristwatch and is thrown into a cell where he faces a grim ordeal. Suspense originally aired on October 7, 1954, and this episode's transcript begins with the opening of the play.
A small town called Lansing, California, including a cafe next to the police station and the jail, on a Sunday.
Characters: Ralph Clark, Mary, Officer Brady, Phillips, Sergeant Ross, Jerry Nichols
Listen for: The importance of a single nickel as Clark tries to make a phone call and get out of jail.
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.