What happens
Ben Kane is driving his wife Elsa and young son Stevie along a winding mountain road for a holiday fishing trip when a speeding car strikes and kills the boy. Shaken and grieving, Ben becomes consumed by a desire for revenge and vows to find the driver. Suspense on CBS, first broadcast on September 1, 1949, stars Gregory Peck in this dramatic play, which follows Ben's search through a roadhouse and the nightmarish confusion that follows his thirst for vengeance.
A winding mountain road near Kingston and Falls Town, including a roadhouse called the Royal Coachman, in the trout country, over the Fourth of July holiday
Characters: Ben Kane, Elsa Kane, Stevie Kane, Sammy Crawford, Harlow Wilcox
Listen for: The sudden crash on the mountain road and the grief-stricken dialogue that follows as Ben tries to comfort Elsa
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.