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I like it.

Thanks.

It's menswear.

I mean, they're nice clothes, but suits are for men.

Why? Looks better on her.

No offense, Jimmy.

That's rude, Rebecca.

You like it?

Well, I gotta get used to it, but yeah, it looks hot.

Where? Oh, no.

All right, tell him I can be there in about ten minutes.

Great. You've got to be kidding me. I wish I were.

Homicide scene. They think I need to see it.

Why?

You don't want to know.

Five minutes. I'll be right back.

No,

keep coming.

Keep coming.

All right, hold up there. All right, there you go. Come on.

The coroner said she's been dead about 24 hours.

Sorry for pulling you down here, Helen, but with the jurisdictional tug of

war... It's bad.

Found the poem.

Cloudy with a chance of membranes.

Scattered hands.

Right one's up there.

Left one's in the corner.

You called the FBI?

Yeah.

She was raped first?

Can't tell yet.

Okay, well, it looks like a poet.

We leave everything where it is. Nobody moves or removes anything.

This will be a federal investigation.

We leave everything for the FBI to see.

I've read about this guy before.

The poet.

Leaves a little limerick at the scene.

Cuts off heads.

And it's always great -looking women, too. This is the fourth one.

Knockout body, no head.

It's sick.

Telling me to take a plea.

I don't need to hire a lawyer just to tell me to give up. No, you don't.

Please wait in the conference room. I'll be in shortly with a list of new

attorneys. Don't be making smart, neither.

I'm not too old to take a swing at you. And I'm not too young to swing back.

Uncle Todd, please go into the conference room. Don't you be talking to

Please go in there and be quiet.

He is driving me crazy.

I got a job to six months off. He still won't take it.

Because I'm not going to say I'm guilty. You are guilty. You don't pay your

taxes. It's a crime.

What the hell is going on? His trial is going on. He won't take the plea, and I

got to go in and argue. He should be exempt from paying state taxes. And the

only possible good I see is that they may lock him up, and I won't have to

with him anymore. All right.

All right.

It's a shoddy ship you run.

I had to cancel my day. I've been to crime scenes before, but... Body with a

chance of membranes? It was the scattered hands that got me.

Oh, no.

Do I have to?

You think I like it?

Ordinarily, I wouldn't bring you in.

No.

This is Minor.

Shift.

District Attorney Helen Gamble.

Where's the head? Right here.

The fatality was caused by a massive skull fracture.

Indicated by this depression on the temporal lobe. She was bludgeoned.

Probably by a blunt instrument.

We found microscopic wood fragments in the scalp, so probably a wood handle,

maybe an axe or hammer.

Let's go to the neck. I thought

you had

it.

With previous victims.

The skin was mashed and the cutting was jagged.

Here, the incisions are made with straight vertical cuts.

The ligaments... Right here.

The ligaments of the cervical spine have been incised individually.

Oh, this means what?

It means the poet didn't do this.

This is a copycat.

What? Turning to the abdomen.

No semen.

No vaginal bruising. I don't think she was raped.

What are you telling me here?

I'm telling you that this was probably done by somebody who knew her.

It wasn't the poet.

And it's therefore not an FBI investigation any longer.

It's all yours.

And you were able to compute Mr. Emerson's income for the years 1995 and

I didn't have to compute it. He declared it. He declared it? In his federal

return. Based on those returns, he owed the state $11 ,000.

$612 for $95, $13 ,603 for $96, totaling $25

,215. And did you seek payment?

We did.

Did he respond?

He did.

How did he respond, sir?

He said he had a commemorative Jackie Robinson Louisville Slugger baseball

and if I'd come by his residence, he'd drive it up my buttocks sideways if I'd

prefer.

Objection. No, I said it.

You're damn right I said it.

The objection is withdrawn.

You brought her here? In case you wanted to question her. Why? I am looking for

the broadest possible warrant. This guy owns real estate in Maine, too.

Whatever you can think of.

You think this doctor's the guy?

Well, you listen.

Tell me.

First of all, I'm extremely sorry for your loss. And I know it doesn't make it

easier for you to deal with the police.

Why don't you just arrest him?

Well, the thing is, we need to be sure what you're saying.

Did you ever see your daughter with this Dr. Winslow?

No.

And she never told you she was having a relationship with him?

Not at first.

But eventually.

I already told all this to him. Do I have to? The problem is, we'd be getting

our warrants on circumstantial evidence, so legally we want to be covered.

Mrs. Marks, we'd hate to lose an arrest because we moved too fast.

I knew she was having an affair with a married man.

That much she admitted to me.

At once, while visiting her, I saw a picture of her with this Dr. Winslow.

It was on the beach in the Bahamas or something.

And you recognized him how?

I didn't, actually.

I'd never seen him before.

But about a week later, he was on the news.

The news.

He and some other doctor had invented this new heart file that he was getting

interviewed.

And that's when I got his name.

Dr. Jeffrey Winslow.

And when I asked her about him, she reluctantly admitted that this was the

Why would you think he played a part in your daughter's death?

Because two days ago, she was scared.

She said she was having problems with the man that she was seeing, and she was

afraid that he might hurt her.

We can't make an arrest on that.

Search is possible.

I haven't given you a punchline.

What? He had access as to how the poet killed his victims.

How? The last one, I'll toss it in his hospital.

You're thinking.

What are you thinking?

Extramarital affair.

Azar's wife didn't know about it.

So? So she might be helpful before she finds out we're zeroing in on her

husband.

Post some medical journals.

This guy's a hot shot heart surgeon. I'm sure he's been snapped at a benefit or

two. See if you can get a picture of his wife.

Think of the making year of his car.

What are you up to?

Her picture, his car. Should be easy to get.

Did my client ever try to hide what he was doing from you? No, no, he was

refreshingly straightforward.

And like you said, he filed his federal return, didn't he? Yes, he did.

He paid his federal taxes?

Yes, he did. And did my client give you a reason as to why he wouldn't pay his

state taxes?

Well, he said when his house caught on fire, the fire department didn't come.

And since he'd paid taxes for fire protection and didn't get it, he wasn't

to pay any more.

And you rejected that reason?

I did, though I sympathized. I was even inclined to maybe let it slide.

You were?

Yeah. Until he dropped off that pig.

The pig?

He greased up a pig, more like a big fat hog, and he wrote on it, pay to the

order of the state franchise tax board, and he set it loose in my office.

And he said if the hog lays a big steamy bovine log, enjoy.

Can

I

help you?

Yes, I'm looking for Bobby Donald.

Can I tell him who's calling?

Jacob Hurwitz.

Jacob Hurwitz of Hurwitz, Lichtman and Gill.

Right.

Wow.

This, of course, is extremely confidential. Of course.

It's possible that Jeffrey might become a suspect in a rather high -profile

murder.

There was a woman found dead.

And she was thought at first to be the victim of a serial killer, but evidently

now... Let me stop you right there. In the spirit of small worlds, I think I'm

involved with the DA heading that case.

You think you're involved, or you think she's the DA?

Both. So we should probably terminate this discussion.

Yes, well, we could do that, but if there is conflict of interest, the onus

would be on the district attorney to withdraw, don't you think?

Well, it could be, but I really don't want to put her in that position.

I see.

Or does she feel strongly about staying in it?

I don't know.

Well, I should think that you would ask her before declining our offer.

What offer?

Mr. Donald, my law firm could defend and probably do so successfully.

But with homicide, well, my client has asked me to refer him to the most

prolific attorney for this particular category.

And right now, in this town, it is this firm.

I had nothing to do with her death, Mr. Donald.

But I was having an affair with her.

I'm willing to pay a premium to snuff out even the suspicion.

I have a wife, family, not to mention I'm chief cardiothoracic surgeon and

general. I cannot have this affair come to light.

I'm prepared to hire this entire firm to see that doesn't happen.

Well, this...

The entire firm would be expensive.

I know that.

I'm ready to give you a retainer for one million dollars.

You didn't tell me about any pig.

Oh, grow up. Grow up? You assault them with a greased pig that just pops up in

trial? You don't think we should have known about that? I didn't know.

What else do I need to know? Some law. You know any law?

Okay, that's it. Can I take him for a second? Keep him.

I don't care how mad you are.

You want to avoid jail, you better care.

Now, right now, that jury isn't laughing. They don't like you.

You have one chance to make them like you and just screw that up. It's prison.

Uncle Ty, are you listening to me?

Prison.

I hear you.

I have a hard time asking people to feel sorry for me, Beck.

You know that.

And I got a particular hard time begging mercy on this.

They let my place burn.

Who else would know about this affair?

Presumably nobody. Cindy was discreet.

Oh, I suppose it's conceivable she told somebody.

There's an ex -husband with psychological problems.

If she had told him... Could he have killed her?

I don't know.

Have the police made any contact?

No, no.

I thought I should go and see them.

That's when I decided to see Jacob.

Yeah, and I'm not sure that's a good idea.

When's the last time you saw her? Cindy?

About a week ago.

Where? At her apartment. That was pretty much the usual venue for our

relationship. Look, I'm sure his fingerprints are there.

And since he's a hospital employee, the prints are definitely on record. The

question is, do we wait for the police to seek us out, or do we, in the spirit

of nothing to hide, come forward?

Nothing to hide spirit doesn't get you much, but... Look, I gotta discuss this

with the members of my firm. I gotta deal with the conflicts.

Okay. But we need a quick decision.

I understand.

When I called 911, it was just smoke.

Three quarters of a mile.

That's the distance between my apartment and that firehouse.

And the time you called?

Between 7 .20 and 7 .30.

You're sure of this?

I'm positive.

I first smelled the smoke during Final Jeopardy.

Final Jeopardy.

That's one of those celebrity shows they have during the sweeps.

Mr. Emerson, what time did the fire department arrive at your house?

Until almost 8 .15.

By then, the whole place was ablaze. They didn't come.

Objection. They didn't come.

They let my place burn because they didn't like my neighborhood.

Objection. Sustained.

Mr. Young, please control your client.

Mr. Emerson.

Control yourself.

I'll let you give the performance.

Oh, yeah, I'm good at that.

Mrs. Winslow?

Yes. My name's Helen Gamble. I'm from the district attorney's office. This is

Detective Michael McCrew. Ma 'am?

What's wrong?

Nothing, I think. We're terribly sorry for bothering you.

May we come in, please?

This will just take a second. We don't need to. It's embarrassing, really. But

there was a murder the other night in Boston. It's reported to be the work of

serial killer.

I read about it. Yes, well, you're not going to believe this, but somebody has

identified you as leaving the building of the victim.

What? We're just checking it out, that's all. She came in with this paper

pointing at you, saying she saw you that night.

That's ridiculous.

I didn't even leave my house Tuesday.

We didn't put much stock in it. It's just somebody else saw a custard blue

Mercedes driving in the vicinity, and it's a coincidence.

It's my husband.

He's a doctor. He works at Mass General. He was probably on his way to the

hospital. Right, which is just off Strohe Drive. Sure.

He went in that night.

Yes. Yes. Great. That explains it.

We're terribly sorry for bothering you.

You know, do you remember about the time your husband left and the time he came

back? If we can establish that it was his car, we can rule out this blue car

business. A call came in around 10.

He was home by 1.

Great, thanks.

And again, we're very sorry for disturbing you.

Lieutenant Columbo, you must still call it.

Okay, we got him in the area around the time. Oh, by the way, have we gone in

that house as police agents without warrants? I didn't think about that,

All right, she's probably calling him as we speak. We better move.

Let's go, boys.

Cellar to attic. Take all day if you need it.

Got it.

I think we got him, Mike.

We got to make him take the plea. He won't. Well, talk to him, Rebecca.

Why can't you just do this, Eugene?

He practically raised me.

He was always there for me. That man, more than anybody else, taught me

how not to sit back and take it. Not from anybody.

Right now, he needs me.

He needs you to help him not to have to sit back and take it. That way all that

scum we help every day. Why can't we just help him?

Come on, guys. We got some business to discuss.

We will.

Listen up.

An opportunity has presented itself. This Cindy Marks murder, a potential

suspect has come to us for representation, and it would mean a lot

we took it.

Against Helen?

Well, that's the conflict. My gut says turn it down, but when I say a lot of

money, this guy is prepared to plunk down a $1 million retainer.

Bobby, is this even a question?

Well, not everything's about money, Eleanor. This is such a big conflict.

Helen get off. It's not going to cost her a million dollars.

Bobby, we've had some big trials, but this is going to be a splash, aside from

the money. Which we need since Lindsay dumped the drug client. Hey.

I'm just saying.

This is a huge profile thing.

You'll be like Johnny Cochran East.

Who wants to be that?

Did he do it? Says he didn't. Then we have to take it. We can't let an

man go to jail. We don't even let our guilty ones go there.

Take it.

Take it.

Take it.

Take it.

Donald and Associates.

Please hold.

Bobby.

Bobby Donald.

Okay.

Any arrest?

Okay, we better meet.

They're searching this house.

Prince. Hairs, fibers.

Preliminary DNA will be done tomorrow.

And some good news.

Tell me.

She scratched a guy.

We found skin under her nails.

DNA on that will tell us if it's Winslow or not.

What did you learn on the ex -husband?

He works at a restaurant. He got off at 11, so he is a possible.

We can't arrest yet. We need to wait for the lab.

Alan.

Hey, Mike.

Bobby.

Could I talk to you for a second?

Sure, we're done.

I'll be talking to you.

Bobby. Mike.

I know what that's about. We're getting close, I think. Could make an arrest.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, Helen.

Do not talk to me about the Marks murder.

Why? I can't tell you that.

I'm just saying... I could be involved and we don't need another Isaacoff

What do you mean you could be involved?

That's all I'm saying.

You represent the doctor?

I'm not saying anything except no talking on this.

Other than that, dinner tonight?

DNA all points to him.

In under her nails?

That takes longer. But I've got an eyewitness who ID'd his picture. Says

him there that night. Helen, I'm ready to move.

He won't come in for questioning?

Your boyfriend won't let him.

Then go. Make the arrest.

Right.

All right. Back door. We won't go through the front.

Okay.

They're coming to arrest.

They'll back door us at the precinct if we surrender.

This is crazy.

I wasn't there. All right, all right. Let's just stay as calm as we can.

This is a mistake, Jeffrey.

What? That's what we wear on our face, a mistake.

It'll get fixed.

I gotta go home.

I gotta tell my wife. I agreed to surrender you here.

I can't believe this is happening.

Jeffrey.

Jeffrey.

I need to know exactly the last time you were in that apartment.

That would be last Wednesday.

Call your wife.

Both calls came in around the same time.

Captain, your own records show that the call from my client's home came six

minutes sooner.

That's around the same time, Counsel. Your Honor, this is so irrelevant. Which

fire the trucks went to has nothing to do with tax evasion.

Common law of civil disobedience, that's a defense.

The cause of my client's outrage is relevant.

Speed it up.

Why'd you go to the other fire first, Captain?

It was a judgment call.

Judgment call?

Did it have anything to do with the other fire being in a more affluent

neighborhood than my client's? That is ridiculous.

So it was just a coincidence that you chose to respond to the fire in the

neighborhood, right?

Yes.

Who made the call as to which fire to respond to?

Me. You.

You ever been in my client's neighborhood?

Specifically, have you ever walked down his street?

Once. Anything unusual happen?

I was mugged.

Oh, another coincidence.

By the way, when you got to the other fire, was there a fire?

No, it was a false alarm.

Gee, what do you know? I object.

So do I.

So do I. Move to strike.

You ready?

Just give us a minute.

Why? He'll be out in a second, Mike. Bobby, that was the rental car place.

white Bronco should be out back.

Gotcha, didn't I?

You guys always making a game out of it.

I'm going with you. The arraignment is less than an hour. Hopefully we can get

it done before the press gets wind of it.

Assuming no leaks.

Scott's on.

We're going to have to put him in custody.

Okay.

Jeffrey Winslow, you are being arrested on the charge of first -degree murder.

You have the right to remain silent.

Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

You have the right to an attorney.

If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to represent you.

You can decide at any time to exercise these rights by not answering any

questions or making any statements.

Yeah.

Judge wants closing arguments today.

Okay.

Okay.

They arrested him.

Arraignment will be soon.

Wow.

I didn't think I could have been on that case.

Still, I got you.

You want to see wow?

I'll show you how. All right, all right, all right.

You gotta go with it, Eugene.

Go with what?

United States of America.

The last thing I'm gonna be able to do is stand up in front of a jury and

convince them that this man is a patriot.

He took a pig down to the state's revenue office, greased it up, and...

Well, finish the thought, wide man.

Go ahead.

What?

What?

You... Case number

92034. Commonwealth versus Jeffrey Winslow on the charge of murder in the

degree.

Let's try not to have too much fun. Bobby Donald for the defendant, Your

Wave rating. The defendant enters a plea of not guilty.

The Commonwealth would oppose bail. Dr. Winslow is an established surgeon with

strong roots in the community. First -degree murder.

Built on very circumstantial evidence.

One million bond.

Five hundred thousand cash.

Trial date to be set.

Back into custody until he posts.

Adjourned.

Wow, ball. Go on to the wife. Oh, it already starts. Come on. saying she's

suspect? Oh, I'm sure during your closing you'll be the one saying she's

suspect. Really?

Bobby, this doesn't have to affect you and me.

It's a trial.

But the only way it's not going to affect us is to admit right now and be

about it.

In this room, we're enemies.

Eleanor will be focusing on forensics. I'm going to be working with the jury

consultants. I'll also be doing most of the pre -trial motioning.

Okay. Jimmy Berluti and Eugene Young will be supervising our private

investigators.

Toward that end, you've got to start racking your brain.

Think of anybody else who might have had bad feelings for Cindy Marks.

Did you check the ex?

We will be.

Police think they can rule him out, but we'll be checking.

Tomorrow I'm going to need to speak to your wife.

Why?

Because I need to be sure that she's completely on board.

Oh, she will be.

Dr. Winslow.

I need to talk to your wife.

My office wants me to stay on. I'm not asking you to withdraw.

I mean, if we weren't talking about this type of money, I'd stay clear.

But to the others... I understand.

Helen, nothing could be tougher than the case we tried against each other

before. That one was personal, and we survived it.

We can survive this.

This trial's made for the tabloids. The media will be all over us, all over it.

Okay, so we just file right here, right now. We leave it in the courtroom.

And when we're together at night, you know what? It doesn't exist.

Okay.

Okay.

Hello?

Yeah.

Um, Mike, I'm here with Bobby, so let's talk tomorrow, okay?

But that's great.

Okay.

Bye.

What?

Nothing. What, nothing? That wasn't the crew. Come on.

At night, the case doesn't exist. We just made that rule. Well, we'll make

rule after. What?

Well.

Sorry. Oh, no.

No, no, no, no, no.

That's not fair. You have to tell me.

Come on.

Come on.

All right.

All right.

Since I'm required by law to tell you in the morning, I might as well tell you

now, but you won't like it.

What?

DNA on the skin under her fingernail.

It's an exact genetic match with Winslow.

We don't know each other too well, but something you've got to know.

Lie to me, and I am off this case.

Now, you said you weren't there for a week, but they found your skin under her

fingernails. I can explain it. You can explain it. The time to explain that was

before they did the tests.

How in God's name did you not think they'd pin you to this? You're a doctor.

I didn't know she had skin under her nails. Let's get something straight. I

to know my hand, or I can't advise you how to play this. All right, all right,

all right.

Settle down.

I did go to her place the day of. We made love, but I left.

It was the afternoon. I left, and she certainly was alive.

Why did you tell me you were there? I was scared. I was afraid to admit that

been there, how it would look. How does it look now?

You're lying about it.

We made love.

I left. I didn't kill her.

If my skin was under her nails, it had to come from my back. Sometimes when we

made love, she... Let me see your back.

Now, you work for me, Mr. Donald.

Maybe not for much longer.

Let me see your back.

Expected to hear closing arguments, Counsel.

I'm sorry, Your Honor. I'd just like to call Robert Schmidt from the Tax Board.

It'll just take two minutes.

All right.

Mr. Schmidt, you're still under oath.

How do you do today?

Sitting in court, Counselor.

Yeah, our tax dollars at work.

I'd just like to ask you a couple questions about that pig.

Did my client write the amount of his tax debt on the pig?

Yes, paid to the order of us, the amount, and he signed it.

Put it next to his name, one of those little smiley faces.

And he put all of that on the pick?

Yeah, he even dated it.

Thank you. That's all. No further questions.

Your Honor, I now move for dismissal.

Excuse me? On what grounds?

On the grounds that my client tendered a legal check for the amount due.

What? Well, if a sign dated executed as a check, it doesn't matter that it's

written on a pig instead of a piece of paper. That hog was legal tender.

My client paid his debt. We never cashed that pig.

That was your mistake, not his.

Your Honor.

The check was legal, and so was his argument.

Case dismissed.

We're adjourned.

Mr.

Fuller, I'm James Berluti.

Could we talk?

I already talked to the police.

I know. I just want to be sure I cover all the bases.

Again, my condolences. Even though you were divorced, I know sometimes feelings

that... My only pain.

is that I didn't get a chance to see her face as she was dying.

I would have liked that.

Oh.

Okay. So this wouldn't be one of those friendly splits, then?

No.

It wouldn't.

I don't know that he didn't do it, Miss Rutter.

It's not as if I can sit here and claim I totally know the man, can I?

For the last year, he'd been sleeping with somebody else. Karen, I understand

you're very upset. I do.

But you have to put your pain aside long enough to make a decision.

If you are going to support your husband, and by that I mean help keep

going to prison, then there are certain things that you have to start doing

today. I know that sounds like a big PR campaign, but there is a jury pool out

there that is watching and they are reading.

And it is certainly never too early to start trying to influence them.

I'll tell you what I told my husband. I'll see him through this trial.

After that... I don't know.

I don't know.

Contact premieres next Wednesday at 8, only on FX.

I'll be wanting to meet at the end of each and every trial day.

As soon as we impanel, we'll be doing background checks on every juror. I'll

want your analysis there as well.

We got the ex -husband. Seemed wacko.

We got the mother. The mother? Well, the daughter had some money. The mother

would get it if she dies in test days. She's also a member of the Prozac Club.

It's a red herring, nothing else.

And we still got the poet.

Nothing to be sure it ain't him.

The result's as expected. Tie these tissue samples to Dr. Jeffrey Winslow.

on television. His skin under her nail. The DNA evidence is pretty conclusive.

The good news is we have this guy.

The bad news is the poet is still out there.

Let's get down there and draft a protective order. We can write it on the

can't believe she did that.

It was a blatant attempt to contaminate the jury pool. There's no gag order. A

reporter asked me a question. That is crap, Helen. She's taking a

case and trying to choke on a preconception designed to improperly

potential matters. That'll do.

This case is going to be enough of an event without you two trying to thicken

the plot.

I'll make this simple.

Effective as of right now, no talking to the media.

That's that.

Anything else?

Yes, Your Honor, we'd like to view the scene.

It's still a crime scene. The investigation is still ongoing. Well,

investigation was complete enough for you to go on television pronouncing...

That's got nothing to do with whether or not you have a right to go in there,

and you know that. Quiet!

As defense counsel, we have a right to examine the scene.

Supervised, I'll grant it.

Now, let's go to chambers, just you and you.

Are you crazy?

It certainly is no secret you two are sleeping together.

Why in hell would you want to invite the media to pick you to pieces?

Your Honor, I would love to say that my firm is financially solvent enough to

decline this, but it's not.

What about you?

I don't want to get off.

Well, I'm not going to force either one of you off.

What I am going to do is leave you alone in this office in the hope that one of

you might be occasioned to see straight.

Don't eat all my candy.

She's right.

Of course she's right.

But I'm not getting off.

Why?

Why?

Because to do so, Bobby, would be to prioritize my personal life over my

professional one, which is okay.

But as soon as you made the decision to get on this case, you made it pretty

clear where you stand.

Why should I prioritize us when you don't?

Well, I had other people to think of when I made that decision.

Yes, I know who you were thinking of and who you weren't.

So you're angry.

Maybe I am.

You're not driving me off, Helen.

And you're not driving me off.

The only thing that's off, it seems, is dinner.

That the way you want it?

Yep.

Fine.

You okay?

Maybe you should recuse yourself.

I know you took on this case for the firm, but you and Helen... I knew the

risks.

Maybe Winslow would stay with the firm even if you weren't first chairing.

Just distance yourself a little.

Are you really ready to throw somebody you love away for a case?

Yes.

I got the case because somebody at a high -rise blue -chip law firm

me as the best.

I've been practicing law in that rat hole for ten years.

Looking out the window, seeing those lawyers look down on me.

And now...

One of them came into my office and said, I'm the best.

I like how I got this case, Lindsay.

I like that I'm going to try it in the media and that I'm going to get paid a

lot to do it.

And I'm going to win it.