 I rate this episode ★★★★☆ for GOOD. I give props to George Lowthar for his terrific writing. Not only did he write good Fantasy-Mysteries, but also Drama-Mysteries and this particular Drama-Mystery is one of his best! A twisted plot in ACT-1, dark pasts revealed in ACT-2, and realizations in ACT-3. Catastrophic fights + catastrophic storm = EPIC episode! The music was suspenseful in every scene. And so were the sound effects of the high winds blowing, radio click, door ponding, footsteps, coffee cups clinking, Scrabble pieces, handcuffs, candle stick hitting the head, the firing of the .38 caliber revolver, smashing glasses, the house shaking, and the hurricane getting louder. What was also epic, was the cast: Joe Julian (as Joe Carrington), Evie Juster (as Fran Halliday), Jack Grimes (as Ronnie Prentice), and Gordon Gould (as Martin Halliday). Each of them played their parts outstandingly, especially Jack Grimes who played innocent in the beginning and then insane throughout the story. I would’ve given this CBSRMT episode 5 stars for EXCELLENT if only they had the Epilogue. Everything that E.G. Marshall said in his narrations was spectacular, though. In his Prologue, his intro was “Welcome to the vivid world of your imagination. To the miracle of your own mind’s eye.â€ Different from his other intro: “The fear…you can hear,â€ but it’s a good opening. In ACT-1, he jumps right into the story where it takes place on a beach house on the eastern shore of Florida while we hear the sounds of the Hurricane and later found out that our heroes in this story are in a predicament. In ACT-2, he informs us that some say we cannot escape what the fates have ordained shall be our future. And some say we create our own destinies, masters of our fates, captains of our souls, but he believes in luck; good or bad…intriguing. Then, he informs us again about an ironic twist of fate for our main characters. In ACT-3, he says, “No matter how intimately our lives are bound up with another’s, we never really know what he’s like underneath…what he truly thinks…truly feels.â€ That, I agree with 100%. In the end, he concludes that all 4 characters survived. But then when we get to the Epilogue, there is nothing! The recording was cut off! We may never know what words of wisdom our Host had said in the end. Other than that, this story is truly epic and I recommend it to everyone. And I recommend that everyone should listen to the other episodes that George Lowthar wrote, especially his adaptations from the stories of Robert Louis Stevenson (#0107), Edgar Allan Poe (#0200), Guy de Maupassant (#0276), Bram Stoker (#0085), and Oscar Wilde (#0129). Until next time…pleasant dreams. =0>