What happens
Police officer Dave Mahoney is sent on a cross-country train trip from New York to Los Angeles to watch a young woman in car 32, Genevieve Josephine Johnson, who is suspected of connections to a jewel thief named Fritsey Hollister. Mahoney, played by Victor Mature, is ordered to work his way into her confidence and check her luggage, but he finds himself drawn to her. He comes to suspect that her life is not what he was told. The episode is part of the Suspense series, broadcast on March 15, 1954.
A cross-country streamliner train travelling from Los Angeles toward the east, passing orange groves and towns
Characters: Dave Mahoney, Jenny Johnson, Fritsey Hollister
Listen for: Mahoney's growing doubts about his assignment and his feelings for the woman in car 32
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.