What happens
Assistant district attorney Ralph Fenton has killed Jim Gunther aboard the yacht Oriana and believes he left unseen. When the district attorney's office learns that a witness, Paula Robbins, saw a man leave the yacht, Ralph must decide how to handle her. He begins a tense friendship with Paula, a woman with a record for blackmail, while the district attorney, Mr. Ainsley, grows suspicious. The Whistler series aired on March 19, 1950, and this episode is part of the program's regular mystery format.
Newport Bay and Los Angeles, California, in 1950, including the yacht Oriana, the district attorney's office, a cafe, a nightclub and the docks.
Characters: Ralph Fenton, Jim Gunther, Edna Sloane, Paula Robbins, Mr. Ainsley, Lieutenant Reese, Tony Farrachi, Bruce Ingalls
Listen for: Paula Robbins' silence in the district attorney's office and her remark at the docks that she knows Ralph saw Gunther's yacht.
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.