Ike Godsey renovates a hall with the intent on hiring it out to people for functions, John Boy suggests to Jason that he might raise some much needed cash by holding a dance for the local people. He begins to organise this, only to find that there is a prowler frightening the people of Waltons Mountain. The prowler appears not to be harming anybody, but as everyone in the community knows everyone else, and nobody knows who this prowler could be, people are afraid that he might harm somebody. The prowler ends up to be the mute son of a new neighbour who finds his place, as well as acceptance, on Waltons Mountain. Once the people know who the prowler is, Jason ends up holding a very successful, and profitable, dance.