Charles?...She usually is trying one way or the other to get money out of Wynant...I wanted to find out if you were, uh, (laughs), sleuthing for her?Nick explained that he had quit being a gumshoe detective four years earlier and preferred to be retired, in order to manage he private affairs of his newly-wed heiress wife - and presumably spend his inherited fortune.The program began with Stephen Fisher""s unanticipated announcement that the luncheon""s guest of honor, Dutch diplomat Van Meer, couldn""t attend and had sent a telegram to notify the gathering of his absence.Distressed by the confusion of a melee that develops among spectators, Mr.Memory and the Master of Ceremonies try to calm the audience [they function as a talking puppet and ventriloquist].They need to find time for another face-changing operation ("this time, I want the face of an absolute non-entity"), and to dispose of the "hot stiff" body of ""Mr.Grot enters and reports: "Two more of those damned plans, Mr.Fredersen...in the pockets of two men involved in today""s accident at the M-Machine..." and presents the boss with two crumpled sheets of paper containing scrawled, mysterious hand-drawn diagrams or maps of the underground catacombs, circulated among workers.