Seeing Mrs. Templeton makes me think of somebody blaming a dog for barking all the time. It's a dog, were you hoping the dog would be mute?
Anyway, our story involves a mother, father and son on a train. Tensions are high because the son had been kicked out of school. Here's the thing, I didn't look at the son and think he was a brat or a demon. Overall he seemed like a talkative kid. He might play an innocent trick here or there...he swapped out his mother's alcoholic drink for his glass of milk and his mother took a swig of milk instead of her own drink. It's stuff like that.
The father is somewhat better. He at least seems to care for his son but not so far as to stand up for him against a mother that clearly doesn't like her own kid.
Anyway, the family is on a train and are approached by Mr. Kilmer. Judging by the story he ends up telling the family, I'd say he also likes to talk. While our story is going on, there's talk of a mentally ill man escaping from a nearby facility and it's told the man isn't dangerous, he just needs help.
The son has been interrupting and the father says he'll give him a silver dollar if he can remain silent for a certain time period. Well, you can pretty much guess what happens. The train has stopped while Mr. Kilmer's telling his story but the son notices a man outside in the snow. He keeps trying to get attention but the son is caught between a rock and a hard place because everytime he tries to speak up to say there's a man outside in the freezing snow, he's shushed. Nobody wants to listen to the kid. The train starts up again and leaves the man behind to freeze in the snow. He tries to tell even after the train started moving that there was a man back there but he's still being disregarded. The son is given his silver dollar and he puts it on a loop on his pants? Of course the silver dollar falls out of the loop. It was such a strange move. The kid didn't strike me as being dumb so I wish they had him putting the silver dollar in his pocket and it falls out because he had a hole in his pocket and didn't notice. Some train employees are talking to the child before he goes off to bed and one of the employees sees the dollar fall and he picks it up for himself. The kid will get another dollar from his old man. What does a dollar mean to a kid anyway? Episode ends.
I thoroughly enjoyed the episode but I still say the real problem going on was the mother instead of the son.