What happens
Sylvester Waters, a tough, plain-spoken job seeker from Brooklyn, is hired through a strange employment agency along with Helen, a refined photographer, and they are sent to a deserted house in Woodbridge. Waters is told to impersonate a man named John and receive a $200,000 bribe from a corrupt official. Suspense is presented on radio for Roma Wines, with William Bendix starring in this episode, first broadcast February 27, 1947. The broadcast begins with the pair waiting in the house with a contact named Tim, who explains the planned exchange and the stakes involved.
A deserted house in the woods near Woodbridge, and an employment office on Central Avenue.
Characters: Sylvester Waters, Helen, Tim, Governor Wyatt, John
Listen for: The instructions Waters is given to impersonate John, and the sudden arrival of the man who has come to pay the bribe.
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.