What happens
Jonathan Peters, a young plant worker, carries a lunch kit that holds a thermos rigged as a bomb, prepared at the urging of his disabled father. The transcript covers his night shift, where his nerves are visibly fraying. Mike, a co-worker, keeps checking on him, and Jonathan is taken to the plant dispensary after falling ill. The episode is part of the Suspense series, a CBS radio anthology, and this version was first broadcast on April 12, 1955. The cast includes Harry Bartell, who stars in the title role of Jonathan.
A chemical plant and its nearby parking lot, where a night shift and the following morning take place.
Characters: Jonathan Peters, Jonathan's father, Mike, Mr. Davis, Janie, the doctor
Listen for: The ticking of Jonathan's watch and his anxious questions about the time as the morning deadline approaches.
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.