What happens
Nancy Kelly plays a Hollywood waitress who works a late shift at a drive-in restaurant on a rainy night. A customer offers her a ride home after she misses her bus, and she soon realizes that the man is not who he claims to be. As the car climbs into the hills above Los Angeles, she must find a way to escape him. The episode is an installment of the radio series Suspense, broadcast in 1945 and sponsored by Roma wines, with Nancy Kelly as the star of the story.
Hollywood and the hills above Los Angeles, on a rainy night
Characters: Nancy Kelly, Ruth, Dr. Morgan
Listen for: The waitress's growing fear as she realizes the man in the car has a dangerous past
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.