to my astonishment , the only people here , aside from the three of us who stand by the door , are a concerned-looking japanese man doing nothing but watching us from behind the sushi bar , nora , who sits stiffly at a small round table at the far corner , three tall , beefy men which i recognize as the same goonies i had the pleasure of bashing their skulls in back in the club , and , of course , the big mean scorpion who now strides toward us like he 's the goddamned host of the evening .