Chapter 2 (pages 21-36) Summary

Special Agent Fred, who is also Bob Arctor, gets called to speak before the Anaheim Lions Club. Fred is an undercover narcotics agent in the Orange County Sheriff's Department. The Lions Club host, wearing a wide plastic yellow tie and fake leather shoes, introduces S. A. Fred. Fred wears a scramble suit, which is a recent invention that projects a different set of physical characteristics each nanosecond. The Lions Club host remarks that Fred looks like a vague blur in his scramble suit. The host explains that the scramble suit is necessary to protect police officers from the forces of dope.

Arctor addresses he crowd, performing an anti-drug speech that he learned in PR class at the academy. The audience enjoys the propaganda. He begins to depart from the prepared text and asks the audience whether they would steal...