What happens
Charles Grayson, a businessman, is caught between his wife Ellen and his secretary Martha Stone, who is blackmailing Ellen over a past killing. Charles begins an affair with Martha and is pressured by both women to act, while Ellen reveals she has her own plans involving another man, Ralph Jones. Charles must decide whose interests to serve as the tensions between the three escalate. The story is part of the Whistler series, and this episode aired on January 22, 1950.
Los Angeles and nearby Malibu, in the late 1940s, including a city townhouse, a studio, and a cottage in Malibu.
Characters: Charles Grayson, Ellen Grayson, Martha Stone, Ralph Jones, Ned, Lieutenant Barlow, Sergeant Hill
Listen for: Charles's phone-free conversations with Ellen and Martha, and the moment Ellen reveals her plans to him in the house entry hall.
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.