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- Narrator: In the Naked City, a man can search ten thousand side streets all twenty-two thousand days of his life, and never come face to face with the stranger within himself. Or he can, all of a November night, confront his own, his inner, reality. This confrontation can be more shattering than any bullet. This is a story of Adam Flint, his thoughts and feelings, his secret confrontation, his coming face to face with the question of the value of life, as he attends as a witness, the execution by electricity of a man he helped to arrest.