Read the excerpt from Act 2 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. 59. MED. LONG SHOT – STEVE'S HOUSE 59. His wife steps down from the porch, bites her lip, calls out. MRS. BRAND Steve! Steve, please.(then looking around frightened, she walks toward the group)It's just a ham radio set, that's all. I bought him a book on it myself. It's just a ham radio set. A lot of people have them. I can show it to you. It's right down in the basement.