![]() The train is stopped, for crying out loud - just go to the steps in between the cars! What are you, mentally cha. The escaped mental patient is clawing at the window, but so what? It’s not like he’s a man on the wing of a plane. There is a great suspenseful set-piece to be had with the scenario we are given, but this just makes no sense. Well, I am utterly baffled by what the story is supposed to be here. ![]() Scatman puts his foot on the dollar and bogarts it after the Templetons leave. After being warned by Kilmer to keep the dollar in a safe place, Johnny stows it in between his belt and his pants where it falls down almost immediately. Johnny is mighty tempted as he sees fingers clawing at the glass behind his mother.ĭespite some lapses, Johnny’s indulgent father gives him the dollar. Larry bribes his son with a shiny silver dollar that he can’t keep his yap shut for ten minutes while Kilmer tells a story. Could Kilmer be the mental patient? When he asks the bartender to put a head on his scotch, it makes me wonder. The conductor tells Mary that the generator is on the fritz, this being one of them generator trains what replaced diesel and steam. Kilmer claims to have been a cowboy for 20 years. He just boarded the train back where that mental patient escaped. Like any family with a small child, they welcome the booze-hound to join them. He doesn’t like drinking alone and asks if he can join the Templetons. ![]() Also, running his yap.ĭad sends him back to their room, but before he leaves, another man named Kilmer ( Chill Wills) enters the club car. He is yapping, mixing up drinking glasses, yapping, stealing Mary’s goofy dead-fox wrap, yapping and pouring milk into an ashtray. He just continues with one antic after another (can antic be singular?). One thing he definitely has is a cool toy pistol that shoots peanuts that I would have loved as a kid, and maybe even now. Turns out that Johnny has been suspended from school so maybe he has issues. I think even after 30 seconds, everyone watching this is hoping he goes after the kid. Johnny and his parents Mary (hey, it’s TV’s Cloris Leachman!) and Larry (hey, it’s that guy who played Larry once on AHP!) make their way to the club car which is staffed by Scatman Crothers - with hair! They are just in time to hear on the radio that a patient has escaped from the state mental hospital. And just how bloody wide is this train that not only has a hallway, but turns in it? Uber-obnoxious kid Johnny Templeton is stalking the hallways of the train, opening doors where hot college girls could be having naked pillow fights, and just generally being a nuisance. The opening shot is of a speeding train and it isn’t going into a tunnel, so we know Alfred Hitchcock did not direct this episode. ![]()
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