.." The snobbish parents merely tolerate Alice and her brother before speeding them through the reception line...There is one, the undead, who, if brought back to life, is bound by sacred law to consummate this curse.One night, Gus worked overtime at his computer, and using a technique called ""salami slicing"" to embezzle money from the payroll, he aggregated small left-over fractions of a cent to his own personal account (with the command: "Channel half-cents from all Webscoe Salaries Into Above Expenses Account").As Logan switched on the MRI machine to scan his entire body, he noticed to his shock hat a metallic parasitic device had been attached or implanted onto his heart by Viper a few days earlier.