TRAIN RIDE

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Theme: Pranks; breaking up the daily routine.
Episode Number: 142
Writer: Phil Lollar
Scripture: Matthew 5:44
Album: Gold Audio: The Lost Episodes
Album: A Maze of Mysteries
Last Air Date: 01/26/2006
Original Air Date: 1/26/91
Summary:

While Eugene and Whit are taking a train ride back to Odyssey from Chicago, Eugene meets an old enemy named Lawrence Chalmers. For several years, Lawrence has been Eugene‘s nightmare. Lawrence stole a term paper from Eugene at their previous college. This caused Eugene to get a lower grade and kept him from attending the university of his choice. Not only that, but Lawrence also stole Eugene’s girlfriend, Margaret Hoffmeyer, and ended up marrying her! Seeing Lawrence again makes Eugene so upset, he can’t eat that night and retires to his room to sleep.

Meanwhile, as the train rounds a corner, Whit looks at the rear baggage cars and witnesses a struggle between two figures, one of whom falls off the train! Whit rushes back to the baggage car and finds Margaret unconscious. She awakens in near hysteria, crying that her husband, Lawrence, was pushed out of the train. And she claims that Eugene did it! Did Eugene actually murder Lawrence? If he didn’t, who did? Is Lawrence Chalmers really dead? For the answer to these questions, tune into ‘Train Ride’!

PARENTS: This is a mystery in which Whit solves a murder on a train. Although told tongue-in-cheek, it may be too intense for younger listeners.