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Better.

Better. Get up. Come on, my sleepyhead.

Come on.

We ain't got all night.

Caught up.

The courses mean I'll be quiet. Let's go.

What are you doing here?

Getting you. That's what I'm doing here.

Oh, no. No, no.

My man. He's supposed to be back in a moment.

Could you stop talking that foolishness? Let's go.

No. Calm down.

My man ain't like this.

No, no, I took the devil's poison.

And now I remember the past instead of it.

Remember me?

So you remember it all? Yeah.

Then what was it?

A test you didn't do?

Come on.

Why don't you just tell me?

What did you do at home? Recollect.

Don't you think I would if I could?

I can't, because this ain't my dream.

Who is

these?

Oh, we had to go a long way around to get it.

We went a long way around to come up on the backs, and nobody sees

what we had

was up there by Delia's.

Cross.

Show me.

Beauty is quite a beauty.

Shut up! Boomer!

We don't want nobody to hear us.

You remember where the pig headed? He.

Which way, Mr.

pig? Look!

Let's go.

This way. You.

You know, this is

still strong.

Draw well. Me.

You know Clive Miller?

Yeah.

I mean, old white me is kinfolk on slaves back in the day.

They're terrible. Thanks to them.

After the emancipation,

you run that sharecropping business.

Nigger work for him, being dead the rest of his natural born life.

No, man am I better once I

when I've seen my daddy again.

His family been squeezing the blood out of black folks for hundreds of years.

Since before the revolution.

They made all man equal.

Except if they had black skin.

They took all the freedom and love and hope out of every black soul they touched.

And they made it all

into a black hawk.

The Clive Miller keep to hisself.

He's really.

Well, that's what I calls

this treasure Biddy

treasure made of the suffering of black folks.

And Clive Miller gloated on it.

He gloated, because the only thing make him feel good is the pain he put on us.

When they last, Jim and he was drunk

on some moonshine, I saw it and he told me about his treasure.

So last night

I sold him some corn liquor.

And when he wasn't looking, I put some laudanum in it.

And when he passed out, I searched his house till I found that treasure.

That black heart.

He holding on to.

And I did all that you

for me.

Siglap gone.

No, I took his treasure so I got a run.

Hippity.

Is you who going to have to take what I stole

and use it to help our people

this time as well.

Were you hit.

At the bottom of this hill.

Well there's one British copper stone.

He had the black heart behind the stone.

Two rocks above the red one.

You understand?

Yeah, but

you can't go away from it right now.

Right after I go by my place.

Can I come with, you

know, a little brother

could be dangerous.

But you said Mr.

Miller was drunk. Asleep?

Yeah,

I gave him a full dram alone.

So, come.

Let's go.

Nobody.

Maybe not

while going skiing.

My mama's Bible down there.

That's all I got left of.

I could go get free.

He looked at me.

You know, you just a

I don't already put enough on your shoulders. No.

That's my Bible down there.

And I'm to go get.

Get it!

Well, look who it is.

Now we need to talk to him first.

Let's go. Come.

You don't down!

Get his arms.

Hey! Go home.

Tell them boy.

Go! Come on, get him over there!

Get this man.

Come and uncle!

Wait! Wake one foot.

Boy, I'm,

getting your bed. Wow.

How long?

I'm asleep.

Couple days. Come telling you.

Then you've been in and out.

Mostly out.

How do you feel now?

Like I was dead and

been drugged. Cross.

Hot. Cold. Back to like,

hear you screaming and yelling.

Are you dreams?

Oh, I didn't feel I no dream.

Felt real.

Good alcohol

always after me about what I ain't doing

I ain't understand

I'm starting to get it.

Is is about the black heart

was. It was a black car

to the treasure Cordell still.

You told me what I need to do with it.

Even told me where it was.

But now,

I don't know what I did with it or with,

It just takes more.

I call the doctor

just now

when you feel this fight, and then again when you start

screaming.

What do you have to say?

The nurse said to be down with alcohol.

Doctor said to to bring you in when you wake up,

which is some bullshit in there.

No. You know, you don't get to say that to me.

You scared the shit out of me.

I didn't know if he was going to wake up.

If I'd known

this was going to happen, I would have never let you do it.

The one said yes.

Not you.

I guess I'll make the call.

Get yourself dressed.

Yeah. And.

Oh. So.

We go.

Now. Oh,

really? Oh.

You're. I'm.

Do you smile to tempt a lover,

Mona Lisa?

Is this your way

to hide a broken heart?

Many dreams have been brought

to your doorstep.

They just lie there

and they die there.

Are you, Are you real

Mona Lisa?

Stone cold and lonely.

Lovely work of,

Duke.

Do do do do do do,

soup.

Are you like.

Yeah,

please, I even do.

Not too bad.

Yeah. Don't be like it used to.

Haven't I?

Was shrunk a little bit, but.

Ma'am.

Smell good in him.

The gas was just turned off.

I'm still about that down and turned it on again.

You better than having a hand, man.

Feel like I ate in the Mother Sundays?

My daddy used to say, you know,

where's your daddy?

There.

Your mama.

How do.

You told me that before they.

I seen my first dead body when I was six years old.

My little girlfriend, Molly, it burnt up in a top.

People shat.

My mama had to hold me back.

Keeping running and saving.

You remember that now?

Yeah. But, I don't remember.

Like I remember remembering and not every thing,

it's like the things I can recollect is behind this closed door

and I can hear my memories, but I can't see them like,

touch, you know, like, like Cordell treasure and,

and, and, and Reggie.

I know he told me some things, but I can't quite him.

Right.

So I think when I do, I'll be able to figure some stuff out.

Like what?

Like, know why you got killed

and maybe even who killed them?

Right.

Be in 20 minutes.

Be ready.

What the hell just happened?

There ain't no fish in here.

Mr. Gray?

You look very sharp.

Are you feeling never better?

That's fact. Good, good. Mr. Burnett.

How's, how's your memory?

I'm still a little foggy, but I know what time it is, and I'm stronger.

A lot more stable on my feet.

Oh, that's. That's very good news.

Less than 10% of our patients experience a physical improvement.

Would that make me one?

The lucky ones, don't it? Yes.

Yes, please. This way.

Come on.

What's the matter?

So you just gonna sit there now?

You're smiling like he wasn't burning with fever, sweating like a pig.

Cry for help.

Look, his intense response to the first shot did.

It took us by surprise, but that that is just the nature of this beast.

It was still messed up. He could have died. I assure you that Mr.

Gray's life was never in danger.

Yeah. Why should we believe that?

These are really side effects?

Night terrors, delirium. They're not uncommon.

And they will abate in a few days.

So what about his fevers?

His fever will return from time to time, mostly at night.

It'll need to be monitored and managed to stem the fever I can handle.

What gets me is what's going on in my mind.

It's a whole lifetime just spinning round in there.

But not everything.

Especially not the time when I was afflicted

and you said I would remember it all.

Well, we're only halfway there, Mr. Gray.

Now, you'll need the last injection before all blockages are cleared.

And that's when all of you come back.

Yes, more than you can ever imagine.

So then he'll be, like, safe and sound for the duration of the trial?

Yes, absolutely.

Back up for the duration. I thought you said this was a cure.

Thanks to people like Mr.

Gray, we will ultimately move the human race, the entire species forward.

Millions of people that suffer from his disease will have a cure.

What about him?

What's going to happen to him after your duration?

On average, peak effect lasts around four weeks.

Four weeks, sometimes six, maybe seven.

And that's when the part is over and I'll go back to normal.

Actually, we have found depending

on the intensity of treatment, in some cases it can

it can accelerate the cognitive deterioration

that was already taking place.

Meaning my man going to be worse than it was before.

Out of 157 trials that we have logged, not one patient has reacted the same.

And no one as strong as you has ever been tested.

I ain't exactly a ringing endorsement.

What if we woke up this bitch right now?

I wouldn't advise it.

Oh, that's a pretty valid question. No.

What if I was to leave out here right now?

If you did that, you would experience some mental and physical reckoning,

not unlike withdrawal.

And at your age, that would not be a pretty road.

Well, I say it when my mama to withdraw twice so I could get him to.

Come on. If you do that, his mind will still fade.

Yeah, he won't be back to normal.

Come on. If you can call it that bird.

Fuck that. You need some.

You'll need it is bird. Bird. Listen,

I know your heart is in the right place.

But I got to finish this.

She means well.

But you.

Have lied.

Mr. gray,

I would do anything to achieve a cure.

But I think that you already knew that.

Oh. You got something

I need to sign?

Can I get you anything?

No thank you, ma'am.

Hey, baby,

let me let me get that for you.

Okay, okay.

This year.

How much?

I'll.

Don't worry about that.

Okay.

How would you like me to read it to you?

I read Satan.

Says here you want ownership of my body.

That's the basic agreement, yes, but not my soul.

I have no use for soul, Mr. Gray. Good.

Because I'm going to need my.

How come they don't bother you when I call you Satan?

There's a lot of money behind this research.

Individual trusts big pharma.

Plenty of wealth and privilege.

I assume that you're just calling it

like you see it.

Also says here I get $5,000 just to sign it.

Yes, I could probably bump that up.

No no no no, I'm still your money.

But plenty of black souls and bodies.

But I ain't selling

me. And you.

We just trading favors.

And I need this contract. Say that

if it makes you feel better.

And that ain't all that you say.

When I get this in the next shot.

That's going to bring all my memories back. Yes,

but that's when I say,

Mr. Gray, I'm sorry, but it doesn't work like that.

I need a sign release before I give you the last two.

Listen in.

I got a lot of things

to do, and I need my memory to do it.

All of it.

Give me that.

This body is yours.

I won't make it.

Today I woke up feeling pretty torn down.

So I'll catch you ladies next time.

Miss Burnett, Mr.

Gray needs you.

To go.

Oh, No, no.

Stop it!

Please allow me. Oh!

Thank you, thank you.

I hope it's okay.

You beat the fuck out of me.

Yeah.

What is.

Stay with me through this.

It's great.

I'm going to bring you back now. Okay?

You can become.

Okay.

Right.

Tell me something.

Oh, is that.

You enjoy your work.

Brace yourself, Mr.

Green.

I am going to sit out here for a while.

So, Oh.

Welcome to join me. If you want.

You. That's all right.

Those.

What you doing about the text, Billy?

For what?

I got to go to get the rest of my stuff.

You're still man.

You think I made a mistake?

Would you care about what I think?

What you think is very important to me.

And people don't give a shit about you.

Yeah, I know

now, why don't you listen to me?

I could have got you out of there.

Why you let them people fuck with you like that?

You remember when you,

first met me at the repast?

What?

I smell like.

What have you had told me?

To go in this room, look in the top drawer,

her bureau, and bring you to rear side. You.

You think I will remember any of day?

No, but somebody could give you a bath and I could get them socks for myself. So,

That's right.

Yeah.

Reggie took care of me.

Now, you doing?

So let's flip this.

Work.

What if it's you

who smelled like body waste?

You who came, remembered one word to the next.

You got the mind of a child and a grown woman's body.

What would you do then? Don't say you.

You jump out a window.

You can't remember how to open the damn thing up.

And that's how this thing is.

You don't know whether to hate your condition

or HSA.

You feel all that?

Yeah,

all the time.

Oh, here come that woman again,

Oh, that's all right.

Angie.

She can't leave this.

The second time you don't come over. You're trying to give me this money.

Well, the first time I came, you sleep, so I had to go back.

Well, you know, the sun go down my eyes.

You hear me? I was in bed, and I'm.

I used to go to bed when the sun goes down.

Sunrise.

I get up, get my Barbies and early to bed early.

Do as you can. Get what, under the bed? That's right.

I don't know what it is.

And you honest, because I.

Let me tell you truth, I don't even remember.

Loan you just money.

Well, I gave you see this money him.

I didn't even

know I had loan to this money but surely went out of her way to come over him.

Pay me back.

Ain't that some real nice miss Ray?

Just trying to return Mr.

Gray's kindness.

And and you had this pretty ring at the bank.

I remember that it was a treasure.

My father gave it to my mother 60 years ago.

You got a wish?

I know I should carry it around, but.

Ever since I remembered that, Ray,

I said, I hope I run into her again because I found this

some pockets. Oh.

Robert.

Come in.

All right. Okay. Look at it.

Come on.

See this here?

This is craftsmanship.

This is work. I.

Wow, it was really beautiful.

Beautiful. Ray.

Oh. Beautiful one.

Well, I got to go shopping.

Oh, yeah. Take this.

Okay.

Yeah.

It was a pleasure meeting you, miss Ray.

Nice girl.

Your niece.

Oh, no.

No, no, that's my great is best friend's child.

Her folks is dead, and she come to stay with me till she get herself together.

Ptolemy Gray to the rescue again.

Oh, no. No, no.

If anything, she saving me on what I do.

That that girl.

You seem different than you were that day at the bank.

Oh, yeah.

New medication I'm buying on all cylinders now.

I hope I didn't embarrass myself when I met you at the back.

Oh, you. I'm the one should apologize.

Asking a stranger for money.

Lucky I met someone.

Is kind. Is you?

Oh, no no, no, no, I ain't as nice as you think.

Oh, you need to stop. Oh, yeah.

I ain't saying I'm bad.

It's just that, you know, I never stood up to be counted.

I always kind of blended in with the crowd and went along with the program.

You stood up for me.

Hey, nigger.

What's your name? Your name is Robin Wright.

If you knew my name was Robin, why you call me girl?

I'm Roger.

Roger does I work for Reggie? Sometimes we does carpentry.

Where comfortable does I need to get to canvas?

Yeah, okay.

Hey, you used to live down and make it for

when you see right?

Yeah. I ever see my marriage.

She said job.

What's he up to these days? Did.

I was that.

Where'd you die?

I shot him. But.

What just told you you got shot?

Yeah. Did.

I gotta go.

Well, how's his uncle doing

when his name starts with the salary? Why?

I never married. He was close, lady.

I was looking at him. Why I do that now?

I met him a few times.

So some really good stories about bad and Mississippi.

That's all my people's fun,

I'd like to drop by after my sympathies.

Mr. gray ain't really in a place for folks to be coming back without him.

No. First, I understand.

I can give you a ride, of course.

Right.

They.

Just a couple blocks and walk with me.

You get your bags.

You go with you at all.

How are you doing?

Fine.

I mean, if I had to choose a song to sing the space

in the Golden Record, it would be Stevie Wonder.

To be clear, 70s Stevie Wonder.

Not what I just got to say.

I love you. Step.

But, you know, like Stevie Wonder. No.

It's just.

Did you just mention the Golden Record?

Yeah, I'm just not something

that typically comes up in conversation with the people I talk to.

Anyway, I'm.

Well, I sort of spaceman on you, but.

Oh, well, it's a martian, actually.

All right.

Thank you. Yeah.

Don't forget to call me.

Well, good time. I come by, see Mr. Gray.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Yeah.

Gone.

I'll call you.

Okay. Mr.

gray, it's Mr.

Gray, all right. Go.

Oh, I better be going.

Oh, really?

You just got. Yeah.

My friend alt is home from the hospital.

I just want to check in on her.

Oh, that did it.

Shelly ran to the rescue.

Will call you in a couple days.

I hope so.

Oh. Gone already, Miss Ring?

She running out on me?

No. I'm not.

I just want to check in on a friend.

Well, I'll see you again soon.

I hope so,

if your uncle wants me to take with

him, I.

Hey, hey, hey,

Billy.

Don't help me get the rest of my stuff from uneasy House.

I won't be too long.

You know anything further?

Go ahead.

I'll take care of this.

Him and more heat up my coffee.

Think about Shelly. Ray.

Well, don't strain yourself.

Get on out of here, dirty girl.

Let's get down.

This way and way.

Hey, now.

Clean off.

The blood heat alone and come.

Hey, what you got here?

This is the just stuff I was able to grab for them with me, for my mama.

Got behind on your rent, Yeah.

Couldn't even pay for it.

You know, that's the one that fucked me up because city had to do it.

And I don't want live in the city, so. All right,

here we go.

What are y'all doing?

Look, I knocked on the door, but you ain't answer, so I use my key

to get the rest of my stuff.

Hey, but step back, man.

This is my house. You taking it out?

Yeah, but I still enough from you. Is this mine?

Yeah. Well, I'm gonna go check in if anything come up missing.

Don't think I ain't gonna come find you.

You ain't gonna find me.

I'm staying at Uncle Gray House. What you gonna do about.

Oh, you just keeping up?

Yeah.

Bitch, that ain't even your real uncle.

Hey, what you saying, miss Malone?

Hey, man, worth

arguing about this big

Lucy.

Ain't even said no question.

But stay away from the crib.

You going to get the braids knocked out? They said you better watch.

This game for more money.

What's up, Mr. Gray?

Hey, hey, what's he doing?

Oh, I I'm in the fall guy.

Remember when I was a boy down in Mississippi?

I'm up to 227.

You know, a lot of people on most of them, my campus.

I figure I can probably fill out about six.

Morty.

So what I feel like, remember, I laughed so long,

like I'm standing on the tallest mountain in the world

and laying down in my grave at the same time.

Well, would you like to come on back down to earth and go with us?

Where to?

To the down.

And I think Billy,

you buy him lunch?

Oh. Look at me. Oh.

I remember Uncle Thong told

a joke, grabbed his chest, keeled over, dead as a doornail.

I remember my mama wore white dress.

You dyed black to the tune with this medicine.

Come.

I mean, I can't remember his face, but I ain't got no name and nothing yet.

But I tell you, it is the devil's brew.

And you got to be willing to sell your soul if you take it.

The devil come knocking that ass.

You burn your house down.

You devil.

Where's your finest devil, doc?

You know that note you found stuck to the TV when you made up on that rat?

Oh. He died. Don't let me disturb you.

Oh, sorry, ma'am, I didn't order more.

Name is Sonya, and I can look at you and tell you got a good appetite.

That's on the house. No.

Oh, look at you.

Blushing. Blushing black.

Oh, man, I mean, I was I wasn't going to say it at home.

Oh, I know, you bet it was always on Reggie's mind.

But it's on Ridge man.

Wife and kids, you really love them.

But worry about nobody trying to kill him.

Well, I'm not going on uncle.

Hey, die by accident.

Robbins.

Right, sir. I mean, Reggie was a good man.

The best is just one of those bad things that happen for no good reason.

It's messed up, but that's just how it is.

Sometimes when you.

When you use that word,

Billy Freeway has come with her and loaded everything in his car. She.

She probably moved anyone over a grave so she can get her hands on with time.

It checks.

I have a hard time believing that a good girl

like her would do something like that.

A good girl to sleep with a knife under her pillow.

Come on.

How much you say?

A gift from the city?

Three checks, almost $300.

And he's so crazy, he just throw it away.

And people in his neighborhood tell about.

He got a whole box full of money somewhere.

And I'll let miss you.

Really think you that far gone.

You saying

when you talk, you call?

I understand.

And you see people that ain't there.

And Robin say she was going to stay with

not just help him out. Like I said,

she was going to live right there with them in that file apartment.

No. She say.

Tell me, mama, she had this money

you need to get the city, is what I'm saying.

I maybe it's time to put them in a facility or some, you know, for his own good.

All they gotta do is see how he live

and they going to pull him out of there in a minute.

Trust me.

I drove by his truck,

worked as a janitor down at the post office,

got a bunch of other jobs.

I come to Georgia because my sister June said

her children need family near

on June Saturday street.

That with the Joneses to pay these

George and Mary and white

and Bunny Rogers.

Bunny. That's the woman.

No, no, no love.

Buddy Rogers was the man.

Bunny Rogers cute.

Tommy Bottoms did not do a minute.

Did not stand trial. Wow.

I can see it.

Oh, so clear now.

I can see everything except that one thing

where I put corn dogs trays.

Yeah. Don't worry, Erica.

And until that, you could think

sweet thoughts about your new girlfriend.

Shirley's nice,

but she ain't the kind of girl you dream

since you.

Ain't never been happier in a place than I was.

Was since you.

She let know.

Since you the most beautiful woman.

I am a male. That's it.

Nice.

That's,

Since worth giving up my life for.

You take.

Ain't no woman like the one I've got.

Ain't no woman like the one I've got.

Ain't got no woman like the one I got.

Every day the sun comes up from her.

She can make the birds sing.

Harmony.

Every drop of rain is glad for home.

For heaven must have made her just for me.

And she smiles so.

A sight for sore eyes to see me. Is.

Made.

For that.

Action!

She's taking.

Something like that.

I'll be right back.

Hey, was that you I saw running?

By, my Uncle Dough.

What kind of name is Coy Dog?

He's not really my uncle.

That's just what I call.

But Coy Dog was his name.

Because, you know, that's the only name I ever heard anybody.

Oh, come.

Well,

What is your not Uncle coy dog?

I have to do. What you running?

Oh, quite.

Said there will come

a time in every black man's life when he's going to have to run.

So if you don't practice when that time comes,

you may not be able to reach the required speed of.

Sounds like a smart man.

He was.

What you reading

love story?

Well, it's it's about two men don't know each other.

Want to kill people with different people,

but they know if they did it they self, they would get in trouble.

So they swap, you know, victims.

Well, I don't like murder stories.

Too much blood and violence for me.

No matter what you read.

As long as recent quarter, it's like that.

Who always said the best thing a black man could do is know how

to read and think for the.

I think I would have liked your uncle.

He shown us what he let you.

Why you say that?

I'm sincere.

Sincere?

How'd,

Ptolemy Gray?

A lot of folk think that's an African name, but really, his Greek.

Oh, you got family from there?

I know my mama love history.

So when Alexander the Great conquered Egypt

300 years before Jesus, before

the governors became kings, pharaohs.

And three of them was named, one of them.

Cleopatra. Daddy.

So not only was he Greek, he was the king of Egypt.

Tell me something.

Tell me.

You ever read out loud at night

to your girlfriends, You?

Yeah.

Getting ready for that barbecue.

Oh, I'm not hungry. As this here is Mr.

Ptolemy Gray, named after a Greek king of Egypt.

King?

It's just a name.

We're. Look here.

We got to get going.

Why don't you come out with us, Mr.

Gray? He's not invited.

Well, then maybe I'll just sit here

and talk for a while and be off in a little bit.

I said, come on, Ezra, stop.

You ain't got to be grabbing on the lady like that, man.

You best of your motherfucking business, Ezra.

You don't want to be fighting on no Sunday.

Come on.

Come on.

All right.

What are you doing here again?

I already told you.

My Aunt Alberta taught me never to let a man mistreat me.

But then I couldn't be with no other man for at least three

days, lest I be called a trollop,

as were grabbed on me on Sunday.

And this here is where they might.

I know where I'm.

Have you,

a free day?

Rent pay

has some money in the bank.

What would you do?

This here?

If you were alone.

That.

Get up for the sun.

Take the bus down the lake out to him.

Take all my shoes and socks, walk down to the show

and watch the sun come up.

That all.

Then I go to the high museum

and surround myself with beauty.

So all you spend on your day off is bus fare.

I probably buy me a sandwich and a drink,

then lay down and treat myself to a book.

That's why I'm here.

I need to be with a man like you.

A man to make every day a surprise.

And that's about all I can offer.

The man I brought also taught me.

Gave everything you got.

Except that instead. Alone. What you need.

And what is it you need?

Since you. How

I used to think I wanted a man good.

Buy me fancy dresses,

nice clothes.

I got the clothes.

But they fit like ropes and chains.

Now I want a

man can read me from some book every night.

So I guess I gotta sit alone. You.

I got anything to say about the.

Of course you do.

Long as you say. Yes.

Then you better say your prayers.

Answer has no fucking way.

Look at me.

One more trouble, motherfucker.

I'm a true no,

no. I had fun.

Let's see if you still want.

I'm out now get to whatever I'm warning you.

Don't hit him again.

Well, what?

I want you never to lay a hand on me.

I am not running to him.

I left you.

Oh, you gonna pull the gun out on me?

You can shoot me,

but this piece of trash ass nigga here

is over. Ezra.

I'm done.

What you fucking did?

It's got the.

Physical, please. Now,

please make.

It look.

Why you stop me?

Hey! What's gonna kill you?

Look at him.

Oh, man.

Starting to see a thing with a little blood.

But I ain't about stepping over

no dead bodies to get that.

Yeah.

You keep it.

Come on.

Let's get you to bed.

I could use some sleep.

And when you wake up,

you need to dig up that treasure

and put it to work.

Burke!

Burke! Get up!

What the hell?

I remember his wrath is ragin.

What is the Black Hawk?

What?

I got down in

where I fixed it.

The apposition shot a hole.

So do it. Right?

Right there.

Right in his upper.

What you doing right there?

Come on. Let me out.

Oh man.

All right I'll swing that crossing way. Oh.

Look,

Okay.

And then don't get in the way. Now

we got to find a.

Oh, are we about to find

the future?

The future? Oh.