What happens
Kelly Owen, an unemployed flyer, meets a talkative pilot named Sam Ledford in a hotel bar, who mentions a private flight paying $25,000. Later that night Kelly finds Sam asleep in his room and takes his identity when a woman, Miss Martin, arrives to hire him. Posing as Sam, Kelly rents a plane and flies with her to a rendezvous, where he must decide how to handle the job and the people around him. The Whistler series aired this episode on June 29, 1952, and its lead is the narrator, Bill Forman, with Lamont Johnson, Betty Lou Gerson and Bill Boucher also appearing.
A hotel and cocktail lounge in Los Angeles, a rented airplane flying south along the coast toward Rosarita Beach, and an airport.
Characters: Kelly Owen, Sam Ledford, Miss Martin, Sam Ledford, Nick, Lieutenant Dawson
Listen for: Listen for how Kelly comes to take Sam Ledford's place and what Miss Martin and the mechanic say about the flight.
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.