What happens
Henry Reichmann, a mild, unmarried clerk at the Dover Bookshop on High Street, is sent out on a rainy evening to fill a prescription for his employer's customer, Eugene Parker. Henry is seized at gunpoint by two men, Max and Floyd, who mistake him for another man. Facing death, Henry offers to kill the man they intended to target in exchange for his own life. The Whistler series, broadcast on August 27, 1945, presents the story with the lead actors not named in the transcript.
A rainy evening in a town's bookshop on High Street, then a cheap hotel room, and later the outskirts house of Eugene Parker.
Characters: Henry Reichmann, Eugene Parker, Mr. Dover, Max, Floyd
Listen for: Henry's bargain with the gunmen, and his nervous visit to Eugene Parker's house.
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.