What happens
Charles Ross Victor, a teacher on his way to a chess tournament at a small Midwestern college, is caught in a rainstorm on a country road at night and strikes a man who walks into his path. He finds the man's body in the road and a house with a lighted window nearby. The owner, Sheriff G. Van Allen, is a chess enthusiast who has not had a worthy opponent in nearly ten years, and he calmly takes charge of the situation. Victor is left to weigh his options under the sheriff's watchful eye.
A rural road and a remote house in the small town of Allenbury, during a heavy rainstorm at night.
Characters: Charles Ross Victor, Sheriff G. Van Allen, Dr. August Burger
Listen for: Pay attention to the chess games between Victor and Van Allen, and to what Van Allen proposes to Victor after the accident.
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.