What happens
Robert Lockman, a cashier at a company office, steals fifty thousand dollars from the office safe on a Friday afternoon and flees by plane with the money in his briefcase. On the flight he meets a talkative older woman, Mrs. Lee, and is unnerved when a colleague, Mr. Kraft, boards the same aircraft in Chicago. Lockman has to decide how to keep the money and his identity hidden while Kraft is nearby. The episode of Suspense, broadcast on August 8, 1956, stars Victor Perrin in the lead role.
A company office in an unnamed city, then a series of flights from New York to Chicago and back, and a hotel in New York.
Characters: Robert Lockman, Mr. Kraft, Baker, Mrs. Lee, George Lachman
Listen for: Pay attention to the briefcase with the initials R.G. and to how the switch between the two identical cases is handled at the luggage counter.
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.