A late afternoon rain storm breaks over the city. As people run for cover, in a strange coincidence two men collide as they dash into a small doorway. Steve Grant is bewildered to discover it's Lamont Cranston, the very man he was heading over to see, after remembering that he had studied occult sciences. After hearing his story, Lamont dismisses it as over work and hallucination - until he gets a phone call at 5am from Steve's distressed wife, who says he has been kidnapped!