What happens
Lloyd McCray and his partner Matt Banyan run a small air cargo business that hides a profitable smuggling sideline across the Mexican border. When Lloyd decides to eliminate Matt and take their hidden $25,000, he sets a meeting with a customer as a trap, but he shoots the wrong man in an alley. The incident draws the attention of police and puts Lloyd in a race against the clock to get to his office safe. Fran Engel, a nightclub singer and Matt's girlfriend, is caught between the two partners as Lloyd tries to read what Matt knows. The story is a half-hour episode of The Whistler, the West Coast radio drama, which aired on May 7, 1950.
A small airport air cargo business and the surrounding city, including an alley, a nightclub, and a residential neighborhood, in 1950s California.
Characters: Lloyd McCray, Matt Banyan, Fran Engel, Joel Ramos, Lee, Dave
Listen for: Pay attention to Lloyd's lies to Matt and Fran, and to the moment when the police arrive at Lloyd's office.
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.