It's early evening as our scene opens, and in the living room of the small house halfway up on the next block, we find Mr and Mrs Victor Gook, and their son Rush Gook. Vic lounges in his easy chair, Sade occupies a corner of the Davenport, and young Rush reads aloud at the library table. Vic discusses with Sade the $20 Hank Gutstop owes him, and the proposition he has up his sleeve...