Don't Shoot

The narrator, a young physicist, admits he is responsible for an astonishing incident in which a famous movie magnate becomes identified with the Abominable Snowman after the scientist's accidental optical discovery is exploited. The story traces the collapse of studio confidence as television pressures film, the mogul's ruthless pursuit of sensationalism, and the inventor's uneasy romance with his secretary Mary. Tension arises from technological ambition, ethical uncertainty about a risky, poorly understood process, and the comic consequences when commercial greed meets experimental science.