This unusually grim episode finds Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigating the disappearance of Mrs. Barbara Gorman and her two-year-old daughter Nancy. Though Barbara's husband Philip (Joe Cranston) claims that he can't think of any reason why his wife has vanished, a helpful neighbor suggests that the woman ran off with her boyfriend Ralph Kane. If this is true, why would Barbara take her daughter--whom she has always regarded as a nuisance--along for the ride? To answer this question, the detectives follow the trail of clues to a gut-wrenching climax. It is not for nothing that the original radio version of this episode (which aired on July 5, 1951) was prefaced with a terse warning from announcer George Fenneman: "This program is for you: not your children."
by Hal Erickson
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