Li'l Bit opens the play by telling the audience she has a secret, but must first teach a lesson.

Peck fondles Li'l Bit's breasts in his car, telling her not to 'make a grown man beg.'

The family explains Li'l Bit's nickname, and Peck notes he held her in his hand the day she was born.

Grandfather makes crude, sexualizing remarks about Li'l Bit's breasts during a family dinner.

Aunt Mary asks Peck to comfort Li'l Bit after she storms away from the dinner table.

After being kicked out of college, Li'l Bit takes long night drives and reflects that Peck 'taught me well.'

Peck encourages an underage Li'l Bit to drink cocktails at an Eastern Shore restaurant to celebrate her driver's license.

A drunk Li'l Bit tells Peck their relationship 'isn't right,' but kisses him in his car before falling asleep.

During a driving lesson, Peck tells Li'l Bit to drive with confidence and aggression, 'like a man.'

Peck photographs Li'l Bit in his basement and reveals his plan to submit the photos to Playboy.

Aunt Mary tells the audience that Li'l Bit is sly and has 'twisted Peck around her little finger.'

Li'l Bit proposes weekly secret meetings with Peck at Christmas on the condition he stays sober.

Peck sends Li'l Bit a steady stream of gifts and countdown letters during her first semester at college.

Li'l Bit rejects Peck's marriage proposal at their eighteenth birthday hotel meeting and tells him she will never see him again.

Li'l Bit drives away as Peck's spirit sits in the backseat; the two exchange a smile before the stage goes dark.

The play opens with Li'l Bit framing her story as a lesson, then plunges into a snapshot of her abusive relationship with Uncle Peck. Through family dinners, driving lessons, and secret dates, we see how Peck grooms and manipulates Li'l Bit from childhood into young adulthood. Aunt Mary's monologue and Li'l Bit's college packages reveal the dysfunction surrounding the relationship from multiple angles. The story culminates at an eighteenth birthday hotel meeting where Li'l Bit finally rejects Peck's marriage proposal and severs their connection. In the closing scene, she drives away with Peck's spirit watching from the backseat, having found a measure of peace and forgiveness.

Li'l Bit's central story of abuse, manipulation, and hard-won freedom.

Li'l Bit narrates that she was sixteen before she understood the actual meaning of the word 'pedophilia.'

Grandmother tries to remove her blouse at the dinner table to show her bra-damaged shoulders from the Depression years.

Li'l Bit asks Peck for his car keys after the family dinner so she can escape for a drive alone.

Mother delivers her 'Guide to Social Drinking' alongside Li'l Bit's restaurant date, advising women to guard against assault.

A waiter grows cold toward Peck after overhearing Li'l Bit accidentally call him 'Uncle Peck' at the restaurant.

Peck teaches his nephew Bobby to fish for pompano, stressing the need for patience and psychology to catch shy creatures.

Peck invites a tearful Bobby to a secret treehouse for beer and crab salad, promising to keep his crying private.

Li'l Bit sleeps with an underage boy on a bus trip and thinks of Peck, suddenly understanding 'the allure' of being the older teacher.

A fifteen-year-old Li'l Bit asks her mother and grandmother if sex hurts; the two women argue rather than give clear answers.

A stage voiceover warns drivers to check under their cars for children, who 'depend on you to watch them.'

A male classmate named Jerome grabs Li'l Bit's breasts in the school hallway, claiming he is allergic to 'foam rubber.'

Female classmates laugh at Li'l Bit's body in the gym shower after Jerome loses a bet about her chest.

Greg repeatedly asks Li'l Bit to dance at the Sock Hop, his gaze fixed on her chest rather than her face.

Li'l Bit and Aunt Mary's voice together recite the physical charms of 'a Southern Boy' as Li'l Bit lies on the hotel bed beside Peck.

Li'l Bit tells the audience that since Peck first molested her, she 'retreated above the neck' but now believes in forgiveness.

These events illuminate the world around Li'l Bit that enables and normalizes her abuse. Her family's crude objectification and her classmates' harassment reveal the larger culture of misogyny she grows up inside. Peck's manipulation of his nephew Bobby, framed as a fishing lesson, exposes that Li'l Bit is not his only victim. Mother's social drinking rules and a waiter's cold recognition capture how society simultaneously polices and ignores predatory behavior. The pool spans from Li'l Bit's early self-awareness to her final reckoning with Peck's legacy, showing all the forces that shaped the relationship from the outside.

The secondary characters, social forces, and hidden moments shaping Li'l Bit's world.

Peck feigns shock that Li'l Bit interprets his bathtub-shampoo comment as sexual, saying 'Lord, gal—your mind!'

Peck offers Li'l Bit his handkerchief after the family dinner and convinces her to stay rather than leave.

Li'l Bit tells Peck he can be alone with her later that night as she takes his keys and drives off solo.

Peck assures Li'l Bit that 'nothing is going to happen between us until you want it to,' framing the abuse as her choice.

Peck retrieves a blanket from the backseat and gently covers the sleeping Li'l Bit after she passes out in his car.

Peck tells Li'l Bit he calls the car a 'she' because she 'performs just for you and gives you what you ask for.'

Li'l Bit tells a female classmate her breasts send out radio signals 'to men who get mesmerized, like sirens.'

Li'l Bit notices Peck watching her from offstage at the Sock Hop and feels herself pulled toward his side.

Li'l Bit protests in horror when Peck reveals he plans to submit her photos to Playboy once she turns eighteen.

Li'l Bit unbuttons her blouse to continue the photo shoot after Peck declares he has loved her since the day she was born.

Li'l Bit tells Peck in the hotel room that she knows his intentions 'five steps ahead,' invoking 'Defensive Driving 101.'

Peck asks Li'l Bit to lie on the hotel bed with him because 'sometimes the body knows things the mind isn't listening to.'

Li'l Bit tells the audience Peck drank himself to death seven years after she left, and wishes she could ask 'who did it to you?'

Mother reluctantly allows Li'l Bit's road trip with Peck but warns 'if anything happens, I hold you responsible.'

Peck molests eleven-year-old Li'l Bit during their first driving lesson, with her lines spoken by Teenage Greek Chorus.

These events trace the pivotal moments that define the power dynamic between Li'l Bit and Peck. Beginning with Peck's early gaslighting and Li'l Bit's own complicated responses, the scenes show how manipulation and genuine connection become dangerously entangled. The photo shoot and the Sock Hop reveal the many forms Peck's control takes, while Li'l Bit's conflicted feelings become increasingly visible to her. In the hotel room, Li'l Bit finally uses the defensive confidence Peck himself taught her to confront and permanently leave him. The sequence ends with the revelation of the first molestation, recontextualizing every earlier scene in the play.

The key decisions, revelations, and emotional shifts that define Li'l Bit and Peck's relationship.