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The Breaking Point

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A thought projection experiment takes a deadly turn as a scientist takes an extreme step and subjects his wife's subconscious to the process to persuade her to kill him!

A scientist's mind-reading experiment goes wrong when he uses it on his wife's sleeping thoughts to make her want to murder him!

Professor William Baker, attempting to prove to a skeptical young brain surgeon that he can make his wife react to mental energy messages, orders her through mental telepathy to pick up a loaded gun and shoot him. She obeys—to the horror of the brain surgeon. Nonetheless, he is not convinced that her action was entirely involuntary.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.

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