What happens
Fred Blake, a wealthy man with a shadowy past, is visited in his apartment by Mary Alberty, who demands fifty thousand dollars that her husband Joe, his former chauffeur, is convicted of stealing. Joe is later found dead in prison, and Blake is shot shortly after Mary leaves. Years later, Blake marries a young illustrator named Anitra and falls mysteriously ill, and the story follows his strange decline. The Whistler series aired this episode on August 13, 1943, and the transcript provided does not name its lead actors. The episode is told in the present tense as a tale of greed, deception and revenge.
A city apartment, a county district attorney's office, and a southern beach resort, in the 1940s.
Characters: Fred Blake, Mary Alberty, Joe Alberty, Carl Winston, Frank Winston, Anitra
Listen for: The gradual shift from Blake's threats and guilt to the mystery of his sudden illness.
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.