What happens
Madeline Murray, newly married to lighthouse keeper Richard, lives on a rocky island off the coast of northern Maine and grows restless and unhappy with the isolation. Madeline confesses to Richard that she has killed a man and is hiding from the police, and she asks him to radio for the authorities. Later, a wounded stranger named Blake Adams washes ashore, and Madeline recognizes him as someone connected to her past. The Whistler series aired this episode on January 22, 1945.
A lighthouse on a rocky island off the coast of Northern Maine, with flashbacks to a town inn and an apartment in the city.
Characters: Madeline Murray, Richard, Blake Adams, Maxie
Listen for: Madeline's confession to Richard and the arrival of the wounded Blake Adams on the rocks below the lighthouse.
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.