" Meanwhile, Gray and Zach had just boarded the Gyrosphere ride that traveled further into the valley - they were the last ones allowed to take the ride before park visitors were ordered to retreat to the monorail and exit.While writing his newspaper story in hisDaily Planetoffice ("the prettiest girl in the school is still the prettiest girl in the school"), Clark received a frantic phone call from Lana, about how Ricky had promised his friends that Superman would appear at his next Wednesday""s birthday party.Everybody runs away...his kid says it""s a false alarm...Meanwhile, I gotta get back in the game.Bing, bing, bing! I lose $400 dollars.Meanwhile, Frankie Bones is over there.Frankie Bones.I owe him $1,300 for like seven, eight months already.He""s after me.I can""t even walk on Hester Street without duckin"" that guy...So I gave him $200.Meanwhile, I lost the deal.I go outside, a little depressed")shopping ("So anyway, I went out shoppin"".Got a, got a new tie, and got this shirt, you like this shirt? They""re nice.This tie -")Charlie was incredulous: "Why are ya goin"" shoppin"" when ya owe money? It ain""t right." Johnny Boy only had $40 o his name.Back at the bar, Johnny Boy falsely assured Mikey that he would soon be paid the debt he was owed, even hough he was ordering drinks:I know what you""re gonna say, but don""t say it because, number one, I""m not payin"" for these drinks.Only one of the three survives physically intact, but all of them emerge irrevocably changed.This ambitious drama displays the reasons for the protagonists, all believers in the American dream, to leave home for the conflict overseas: to test and prove their manhood, to show their friendship-solidarity, and to demonstrate their patriotism, etc.They found the stilted house on their ninth try, where Riggs saw the criminals counting large sums of cash inside.