Alease Toomey is getting ready to take her six-year-old son Stephen to see the electric chair for the first time. While she is blotting her lipstick on Kleenex, she has an idea: she should also take little Terry Daniels, Stephen’s friend who lives just down the road. When Alease and Stephen arrive at her door, Terry’s mother Inez instructs Terry to behave and put on his clothes, most of which aren’t ironed or even clean. Stephen catches a glimpse of Terry’s room through the window while waiting outside, and the messiness of the space—especially the unmade bed, which is something he has never seen during the day—seems to shock him. The two boys sit in the back of the car and play with toys together during their drive to the prison to see the electric chair. Alease tells them that the reason why she is taking them to go see the electric chair is because she wants to show them what will happen if the Devil ever leads them into a bad sin. When they arrive at the building, she explains that it’s so big because there are just that many prisoners. If they try to escape, prison guards will shoot them. Stephen has admiration and respect for prison guards. After showing them the electric chair, Alease takes the boys to a Dairy DeeLight and buys them banana splits for being well behaved during the day. Stephen asks some thought-provoking questions about prison, Christianity, and war, to which Alease gives short and simple answers.