On Halloween, Marlee goes out trick-or-treating and bumps into Liz and her younger brother. They’re both in costume, so no one can recognize them as Negroes. The two girls run across JT and his brother, Red, egging the house of an elderly woman. Liz shouts at them to stop. Recognizing her voice, JT realizes that Marlee is still friends with Liz. When Red threatens Liz, she runs away. Then, Red forces Marlee to egg the house so that she won’t be able to tattle on the two boys. Marlee runs home and calls Liz to make sure she’s alright. Liz says she really needs to learn how to keep her mouth shut.

After school the following day, Marlee comes home to find Betty Jean upset. Her son Curtis was accused of egging the house simply because the boy was a Negro in the wrong place at the wrong time. Marlee is too terrified of Red to point the finger at him and JT, but she calls her father, and he gets Curtis released from jail and pays the $50 fine for vandalism. Betty Jean agrees to repay the money from her salary.

Marlee asks her father why he would help Curtis for no reason.