What happens
Lucille Ball plays a secretary who, after her fiancé Frank breaks their engagement, plans to steal a payroll from her employer, Mr. Jensen, and flee west. Desi Arnaz appears as Jose, a dark-haired stranger she meets on a Texas road after hearing news of a bank robbery in Abilene. Suspense, broadcast by CBS, aired this production on November 17, 1949, and the story stars Ball and Arnaz. Alone in a roadside motel cabin, she witnesses troubling events next door and must decide how to protect herself while dealing with a dangerous man holding a gun.
Kansas City and rural Texas, including Abilene, Big Spring, Pecos and El Paso, in the late 1940s
Characters: Linda, Frank, Mr. Jensen, Jose, Carmen, Harlow
Listen for: Linda's decision to steal the payroll and the news report about the Abilene bank robbery on the car radio
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.