Well, I managed to get Duncan out of the chair, at least. I'm not sure that it comes across, in the scene I've written, just how smart Duncan is being here, but he is -- I find Duncan's intelligence fascinating, because it's not manipulative at all, but he does see other people very clearly and -- despite that? -- sympathetically. Which is an enormous advantage here.

I'm not sure what happens after that, of course, but I'm picking away at it.