What happens
Ted Cordray, having just taken a large sum of money after a job in Los Angeles, learns that his former partner Andy Clark plans to take it from him. Ted answers a newspaper ad for a shared car ride to Seattle, hoping to slip out of town unnoticed. The driver, Buell Beemus, takes on a couple, Bob and Betty Wilson, and Ted soon discovers that Betty is an old girlfriend. Their trip is interrupted at a hospital, and Ted finds his money gone. The Whistler series aired on the Signal Oil program, and this episode first aired on May 27, 1951.
Los Angeles and the highways north toward Seattle, California, 1951
Characters: Ted Cordray, Andy Clark, Betty Wilson, Bob Wilson, Buell Beemus, Charlie Sims
Listen for: Listen for how Ted's plan to escape town unravels when the ride-share passengers turn out to be people from his past.
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.