What happens
Charlotte, a secretary, works for the wealthy Harvey Cole and has grown tired of her dull routine. Together with Stephen, Harvey's nephew, she plots to forge a suicide note so that Harvey's signature on his correspondence will appear to confirm that he took his own life. Stephen stands to inherit Harvey's fortune, and Charlotte is promised a share of it. As the scheme takes shape, Charlotte grows increasingly uneasy about her role and about Stephen's intentions. The Whistler series aired this episode, Bright Horizon, on May 6, 1946, and the transcript recounts the plot up to the early stages of the scheme's unraveling.
Harvey Cole's house and music room, and a town office, in a mid-twentieth-century American city
Characters: Charlotte, Harvey Cole, Stephen, Dr. Maxwell
Listen for: Harvey Cole's piano playing and the hushed exchanges between Charlotte and Stephen as their plan takes shape
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.