What happens
Three convicts on a Florida road gang, Joe Maguire, Harry Breyer and Fats Carver, are taken into the Everglades by a sheriff and deputy to help clear a crash site after a plane goes down. Their plan to take the money aboard the wreck begins to take shape. Joe, who has no part in the killings, finds an injured boy among the wreckage and must decide what to do with him, while Harry pushes the others toward a plan to escape across the swamp toward Cuba. The episode is Suspense's "Quiet Night", first broadcast on March 6, 1956, starring Stacey Harris.
The Florida Everglades and a nearby mangrove and cypress swamp, after a plane crash, in the 1950s.
Characters: Joe Maguire, Harry Breyer, Fats Carver, Jeffers, Sheriff George, Deputy Bert
Listen for: The moment Joe discovers the injured boy in the wreckage and Harry's attempt to use the boy as leverage against him.
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.