A psychiatrist picks up a hitchhiking man who escaped from prison and hides him. He says he wants to “study him.” Well, he really has another idea. He wants to exert his psychological influence on the man so he will kill the doctor’s wife and free him of his unhappy marriage. But the convict makes a mistake and murders someone else… uh oh. The plan just isn’t working. Nothing good will happen next. You know the doctor will only dig himself deeper into trouble.
This is the second and last Martin Ryerson script on the series.
George Brent was the originally announced star of this episode, and Paul Henreid substitutes for him. Very few newspapers had the new casting, indicating it decided just a few days before broadcast. Brent never appeared on Suspense.
The surviving network recording has a two second delay to network ID; it is not known if it is east or west. There is an Armed Forces Radio Service recording (#146) that is derived from the missing network broadcast. A marker of difference is in the first line of the drama:
AFRS “In the car, I had the radio on.”
Network “Driving along there, I had the radio on.”
The surviving network broadcast is the recording in the best sound.
This story was included in Suspense Magazine #1; a PDF can be downloaded from the same page as the recordings.
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THE CAST
PAUL HENREID (Dr. Warren Reiss), Cathy Lewis (Alice Reiss), Elliott Lewis (Police radio voice / D. A.), Wally Maher (Frank Tattam), Peggy Webber (Eliza Waters), Joe Kearns (Signature Voice / Policeman / Fight commentator)
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