What happens
Ruth Ellinger is a patient of psychiatrist Werner, whose sessions with her have grown into an affair. As she tells him of her unhappy childhood and her failed marriage to George, she reveals that she has come to his office with a gun. Confronting him about his treatment of her and of other patients, Ruth argues that he has used his position to take advantage of her. The episode is part of the Suspense series, and the cast is Nina Foch and Helmut Dantine.
A psychiatrist's office in an American city, in the late 1950s.
Characters: Ruth Ellinger, Werner, George Ellinger
Listen for: Ruth's shifting moods as she moves between tenderness and anger toward Werner during her final session.
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.