Eureka

Yippie! The idea of approaching my Act 2 from the standpoint of how to make my MC learn what he needs to learn worked! Now that I have the simple beats down, time to get busy on the details.

I must resist the urge to immediately start re-writing in Final Draft though. I'm hoping that the more I can get worked out in an outline before I open Final Draft, then the more focused my writing will be and the less chopping I'll have to do later.