What happens
Colby Fletcher, a young chemist working on synthetic silk, is financed by his wife Cynthia's father, Ralph Adamson, and his associates. Colby secures a hundred thousand dollars in temporary accident insurance and plans to vanish under cover of a laboratory explosion. He is trying to hire an assistant in Port Rialto while the policy runs short. On a deserted highway he meets Jim Morgan, a stranger who has been hit by a car, and offers him a place to stay at the laboratory in East Riverton. The episode is part of the Whistler series, which was first broadcast on 1947-07-09.
Port Rialto and East Riverton, a coastal area of the West Coast, and a laboratory across the bridge in East Riverton
Characters: Colby Fletcher, Cynthia Fletcher, Ralph Adamson, Jim Morgan, Walter Maisley, Barney
Listen for: The planned explosion at the laboratory and the stranger Colby invites to stay there
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.