What happens
Bert Matthews, a frail, unsuccessful Shakespearean actor, takes a humiliating job as a floorwalker at a San Francisco department store to support his wife Elizabeth. Discovering Elizabeth with the younger Longstreet, he is pushed to the edge and plans a staged disappearance. The story follows his scheme to fake his own death at the Golden Gate Bridge and the unfolding consequences for Elizabeth and Longstreet. Hume Cronin plays the lead in this episode of the Suspense series, which aired on June 5, 1947.
San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, and a department store, with later scenes in Sacramento, Mexico, and a prison
Characters: Bert Matthews, Elizabeth Longstreet, Longstreet
Listen for: Bert Matthews announcing his own disappearance and the plan to collect the twenty-thousand-dollar insurance money
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.