Typical Elspeth Eric, this one. That\'s not necessarily a good thing. However, I have to say that I actually think this episode is one of my favorites. It\'s creepy and weirdly compelling. You can\'t help but keep listening to find out what\'s going to happen next. And I think that the format of eavesdropping on the intimate, hour-long confessional of a psychiatrist\'s session works really well in an hour-long audio drama. The two people trapped in the dark in the cave--just voices--works very well, for the same reason. I think all the actors are excellent, too, in such a difficult piece.

If there\'s a moral to the story, I\'d have to say that it\'s, \"Retain your humanity, no matter what tragedy befalls you.\" The young man in the cave abandons his humanity in the end and winds up the same as the madman who trapped him in the cave to begin with, whereas the young woman, physically injured but humanity intact, is released from the hospital healthy and well (as far as we know.)

Although this story is quite a downer, and probably not to everyone\'s taste, I still have always found it to be interesting and compulsively listenable.<br>