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Each other.

Never ever forget that...

We played musical statues, and I won.

Did you? You have a good time?

And you've got me, so...

Reach up for the stars.

Excuse me.

I didn't say any singing was allowed, OK?

Heart's desire.

Reach up for the stars.

Stop messing.

I thought you were in Sheffield.

Just getting off the train when I was beeped.

Oh, well, there's nothing like being thrown into the deep end.

How are you doing, mate?

It's fine.

Well, we're going to have to hold on, OK?

Yeah, it's fine.

Just hold on.

I can think of cheaper places to live than here.

Well, Sheffield for one.

But you'd have been mad to turn the job down.

Oh, no, you're right.

You all right?

How's your daughter... Is it Tessie?

Cassie.

Oh, she's fine about it.

- How old is she? - 11.

Who do you reckon's in charge here?

Look out for a traffic sergeant.

They normally take control.

Do you want a fag?

Sergeant Terry Harding.

Are you Traffic Investigation Unit?

That's us.

Dr. Leo Dalton.

I'm Professor Sam Ryan.

We Had 5 million hogs, 6 million dogs,

7 million barrels of porter.

We had eight...

How long ago did this happen?

An hour or so.

Floor it, Rich.

Watch out!

Bit of a mess.

Bloody great mess.

I have indeed, sir?

Yeah, I'll go and get it.

She's over here.

She looks like she's the one from the Merc.

That's mine. No one touch it, please.

Sean.

Someone get a statement from him now!

Once that one's out of the way,

we've got to move onto the next one.

Get him to make a statement now.

You OK, mate?

You OK?

Come on, let's get you back in the ambulance.

Hurry up here.

Please.

Hurry!

You two, help me now.

Think the van was hit by the Arctic,

lost control, and went into the lamppost.

That's where the petrol tank is on this.

How many were in this?

Just the one, as far as we can tell.

Italian plates.

Have you got pictures of this?

Some. SOCO will get those.

How many fatalities?

10 and counting.

The one you want is on the passenger side.

Right.

Well, where are they?

I asked more than a half an hour ago.

Come here, baby.

Well, I'm holding him.

All right?

Keeps everything nice and fresh.

I swear by the stuff.

DCI Carol Deacon.

Sam Ryan, pathologist.

Good to meet you.

Mr. Brent.

Professor Ryan?

Yeah?

You're wanted.

We should be able to get some vital stuff from that.

I'll take a closer look when we get back to the hangar.

Um, have a word with the professor.

I thought you ought to see this.

Is that your governor?

Yeah.

So who's she?

I don't know.

Check her out.

So you feel nothing for me now.

You know I could never say that.

Nick!

I'm in here.

Look at me.

You've met someone else.

That's what it is.

Nick?

I hear this is a new place for you.

Very new, yes.

You got chosen?

One.

You?

No.

If you need anything at all... Information, what have you...

Just let me know.

Thanks.

Did you find out who she is?

That's a DCI from the Met.

She's got an interest in one of the victims involved in the accident.

Nick.

Been in an accident, pile-up.

I've been drinking.

Shit, Nick!

Wasn't my fault.

Nick, you're going to need stitches!

This is a mess!

This is is the BM's tire mark.

It's striated.

It would appear the driver was trying to steer it one way,

but it just wasn't having it.

Any idea what might have caused that to happen?

It's hard to say at the moment.

Hold it!

Can you get it to stop?

Oi!

What is it?

Look, sir.

What the hell is that?

It's an arm.

It's somebody's arm.

Tell him not to move.

Turn it off!

I'm going to need something to put it in.

But see if you can find out who it belongs to.

All right, you're clear.

Thanks.

That's undergoing postmortem change.

The tissues are discolored.

That's weird.

What is?

This limb's been severed

from the rest of the body for some time.

Some time?

What, an hour, two hours?

No.

Much longer than that.

It hasn't happened in this accident.

It could have been in one of the vehicles.

I don't think we should jump to any conclusions just yet.

Well, that arm's had to come from somewhere.

Will you ring Harry, let him know there's

a little extra arriving?

It's impossible for us to get any closer to the scene.

The police are keeping people well back.

All I can see...

Looks nasty.

Is the tangled wreckage...

Yeah.

Of cars and lorries.

I bet it's coming this way.

One vehicle, I can tell you...

I can stay.

No, you get out of here.

You sure?

One of us has to have a social life.

Cutting apparatus has been used to free people

from the wreckage.

The emergency services...

Hello?

Hi, Leo.

An arm without a body?

Is this the crash?

I take it there's more than just an arm that...

Really?

Come on, then.

Oh, now I know what I'm aiming for.

This is nice.

Do you fancy a drink?

I'd go for a beer.

In the fridge, in the kitchen.

Would you get me one too?

Sure.

I just want to make a quick call,

see what I can find out about DCI Deacon.

Mrs. Stevens, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Deacon,

Metropolitan Police.

I'm really sorry.

DS Johnson, DCI Deacon.

When do you think Mr. Barrett will be able to talk to us?

You better speak to Dr. Peters.

A rough idea?

Not for a while...

Certainly not for a while.

He's very poorly.

Could you get Dr. Peters for me, please?

I can try, but he's the only neuro register on call tonight.

I want that officer to remain on the door.

The only person he speaks to is either you or me.

Learn anything?

She's a high flyer, future commissioner material.

Oh, I'd have curtsied if I'd known.

Any idea what her interest in the crash might be?

She's interested in one of the victims,

involved in some misdemeanor or other.

I wonder which one.

Harry.

Harry.

Harry.

You wanted me to wake you.

I'm just on my way out.

You know, you really shouldn't study so hard.

You're going to make yourself ill.

I wasn't studying last night.

I had to stay late and log crash fatalities.

All the same.

And I'm out tonight, Covent Garden.

Thanks for waking me.

OK.

This arm, what's that about?

I'm not sure.

Are we suspicious, though?

Well, I think an arm without a body is definitely suspicious.

Well, do you mind if I work on it?

It can go towards my exam.

Detective Sergeant Johnson, Metropolitan Police.

Does a Nicholas Connors live here?

He's at work.

Are you Mrs. Connors?

That's right.

You're no doubt aware that last night, your husband's car

was involved in a traffic accident.

No.

At about 9 o'clock?

Uh, it's nothing to do with Nick.

He was with me.

But the car is a Mercedes registered in your husband's name?

Oh, no, wait, he came home by taxi last night.

So I don't know.

Where does he work? We'd like to speak to him.

Tissues look discolored.

They are.

I don't get it.

That means it can't be a result of the crash.

Exactly.

- I - thought the body must still

be in the wreckage somewhere.

Nope, it's a rogue arm, doesn't belong to anybody.

So I'm going to radiograph it and keep it intact.

And hopefully, we'll find a match.

Can you ring round mortuaries, hospitals,

find out if they've had anyone in with a missing arm?

Mr. Brent.

Yes, ma'am.

Would you like to come through?

I'm just about to make a start on these bodies.

Give me five minutes and I'll be with you.

Who are we are kicking off with?

The two unidentified ones.

Two?

The girl driving the Merc, no ID.

Can't we put a trace on the car registration?

Wasn't her car.

Yeah.

OK, thanks, anyway.

I'll take her, and you take the fire victim.

The teeth should be intact, at least.

How about this arm?

I've tried the other mortuaries

and half a dozen hospitals.

So far, no join.

Probably something very obvious.

Wish I had your optimism.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

It was insane.

I felt the impact push me forward.

And my truck's a big vehicle.

Then there was this other impact,

so we moved forward again.

I didn't know till later it was a family.

Two kids, that right?

That's right.

I didn't know that, not at the time.

Anything else?

No.

Nothing else.

All right, thanks.

Don't I have to be called in, my statement?

No, we only do that when we're questioning people.

Have I got to sign anything?

Not just at the moment.

I'll get you to come back at a later date,

verify various points, then we'll draw up a statement.

But at least now you know what happened, whose fault it was.

We do.

But these investigations take some time.

And we need to back up your statement with facts.

So be a while before we'll be in touch.

We didn't get anything from the phone in the van.

Not surprised.

It had burnt to bits.

What do you think they're up to?

Who knows?

They should have put a call in, let

us know what was going down.

Maybe they tried.

We've got to find out what went on before traffic do.

Or Sam Ryan.

The moment Barrett comes round, I want to know.

If he does.

So what did you do when you realized

the vehicle was missing?

I called the local cop shop first thing,

reported it stolen.

Thanks.

Not odd, is it, eh?

Out of my own car park?

But no overnight security?

We keep cars there, not copper bullion.

So what time did you leave here?

8:30, 9:00.

I always have a few drinks when I work late.

How'd you get home?

Taxi.

Well, thanks for your time, Mr. Connors.

We'll let you know when we've finished with your car.

So your insurance people can take over.

Thanks.

You don't mind if I see you out, do you?

Got a client chomping at the bit.

No, sure.

Nick.

Yeah?

I've got a problem getting print-outs for the end

of the month.

Why?

Emma hasn't shown, and I don't know her password.

Call her at home.

Find it out.

Do you want a cigarette?

Sure.

We have a total of 11 fatalities... six male adults,

four female adults, and one child.

Do they know what happened yet?

Someone wasn't looking where they were going.

No, they don't.

So anything we can give the police, the better.

Be on the lookout for seat belt bruising or not,

as the case may be.

That wouldn't really be the cause of the crash, would it?

Well, if someone wasn't wearing a belt

and got distracted, you never know.

- Morning. - Morning, Ryan.

I suppose.

Yours is the wee girl. You OK about that?

Yeah, sure.

Let's turn it around.

I want to have a look underneath.

Body is of a young girl, a young girl aged approximately

six or seven years old.

There are some abrasions to both her legs.

The female is approximately between 25, 35 years of age.

Her injuries are extensive.

The chest looks distorted.

I presume it's one of the fatalities you're

interested in.

Maybe more than one.

She could have cracked her sternum.

But there's a marked deformity between the breast and evidence

of extensive bruising.

There are no visible injuries

to the head or the face.

There is a large wound, approximately 10 centimeters...

A large wound in the chest, which...

Which is the probable cause of death.

There is severe bruising all around the wound,

suggesting this was caused by some object impacting

on the chest area.

Slide down for me.

Set.

OK.

Set, keep going.

Ooh, that's it.

OK, great, perfect.

I hit my brakes, and they just...

What?

Just what?

Nothing.

You were going to say something about your brakes.

I just couldn't stop in time.

Did your brakes work properly?

Yes.

But you still couldn't stop?

Look, that's my partner in there,

and they don't know whether she's going to live or not.

So at the moment...

At the moment, I don't give a monkey's butt what happened.

I just want her to get better.

So if you wouldn't mind, just leave us alone, all right?

Please.

There are serious injuries to the internal organs.

Harry Cunningham is your junior?

Yes, that's right.

Is he up to doing a postmortem?

He's spent five years training as a doctor,

a year in extremely difficult circumstances in a hospital,

and a further three years in histopathology.

I think he'll handle it.

The right kidney and liver have been damaged on impact

and have suffered massive internal bleeding.

I would say she was approximately eight weeks pregnant.

Pregnant?

Which means there's a father somewhere.

There are still some remnants of clothing.

The fire must have moved rapidly through from the rear

of the vehicle, because the front of the body,

in parts, has not suffered as much.

Clothing to the upper arms and the gloves he was wearing

have both been burnt, but not destroyed.

And clothing on the lower half the body

has remained more-or-less intact.

Keep it coming, bit more, bit more, bit more,

towards the Arctic, yes.

I'll tell you when to stop.

Oh, oh, whoa, whoa!

Stop!

There's no bruising on either shoulder,

which could indicate she wasn't wearing a seat belt.

And if she wasn't wearing a seat belt,

then the facial damage becomes a natural progression.

Anything that might identify the burnt corpse?

Not as yet, no.

But we've always got the teeth.

So it's the burnt corpse you're interested in, is it?

Not exactly.

Any news on the arm?

We have a possible lead.

I think it will turn out to be something or nothing.

Professor Ryan...

What about her?

Nothing.

No, no, go on.

As I understand it, she has a bit

of a reputation for blowing things out of proportion.

That's my reason for working with you.

Sometimes, there's bruising on the ball of the foot

if they've tried to brake very hard.

But in this case, no sign.

There's grazing on the heels, but nowhere else,

bits of grit embedded in the skin.

The assumption is that she was thrown from the car.

Then this could have happened as she slid across the surface.

Thanks.

Only it's just the heels that are damaged.

It's as if she was dragged across the road

rather than thrown across it.

But you're saying that no one could have done that?

That's what it looks like at the moment.

Well, we'll see.

Sam, take a close look at these teeth,

the ones you cling filmed.

OK.

They've got some rather unusual bridge work.

Hm, my guess is it hasn't been done in this country.

The van had Italian plates.

No, I'd say it was from some third-world country.

It's pretty primitive dentistry.

Hm.

That could help me.

I need charts of those.

I'll get overseas inquiries onto it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

What happened in there?

Nothing.

Because if you have a problem, we need to sort it out.

I don't have a problem.

It's just, most people do the first time they do an autopsy on a child.

You can ask Leo.

Yes?

Professor Ryan, sorry, a DCI Deacon...

Thought you'd like to know, we think

we've identified the pregnant woman, Emma Charlston.

It would appear she took her boss's car without telling him.

She hasn't been positively identified.

No.

Well, we're getting one of her work colleagues in,

but it looks like it's her.

When she didn't show up for work this morning,

the firm did a bit of ringing around.

Her boss put two and two together.

The boss whose car it was?

That's right.

Young girl, powerful car, obviously couldn't handle it.

You think she might have been carrying a spare arm as well?

We're working on that.

I'm sure when Traffic have put all the pieces together,

it'll make sense.

I don't quite follow your reasoning.

Your colleague does.

Dr. Dalton seems to think it makes perfect sense.

Oh, really?

Oh.

Covent Garden good?

Yes, thank you, lovely.

Had a bad day?

Not really.

It Was the same with your father.

I'm nothing like my father, Mum, not really.

For a start, I'm not going to wait till I'm 60 to have kids.

It's too old.

Kid... one child, just you.

How would you have felt if I'd have died before Dad?

It's not right, is it?

A child going before his parents?

No.

No, it's not.

I hear five students died in that pile-up.

Yeah.

Were you involved with the autopsy?

No.

I was doing the autopsy on a seven-year-old girl.

That must have been difficult.

No, it's just a job.

Good night, Mum.

Any action?

Just the usual comings and goings, Sarge.

Doesn't looking like they know anything's amiss.

At the moment, we're only assuming this is the order they

were traveling in, when in theory,

the van could have been following the BM about.

I don't think so.

Has the driver of the BM been questioned yet?

He's still in intensive care.

Both the drivers of the other two vehicles are dead.

Something must have happened to trigger off

the chain of events.

And there's always this, of course.

We're waiting to hear if she was over the limit or not.

Is that the Merc?

Yeah.

Well, that wasn't there, that bottle.

Sorry?

The night of the crash, there was no bottle.

I swear, it wasn't there.

Huh, must have been.

She was driving too close, booze impaired her judgement.

She slammed on her brakes, couldn't stop,

and careered straight into the side of the Arctic.

No, whatever happened, that wasn't it.

You don't know that.

I do, because she wasn't driving.

Deacon thinks the next drop-off will be soon,

maybe within the next four or five days.

Hope so.

I'm sick of this gaffe.

Hm.

Sarge.

There was no bruising on the ball of her right foot

where she'd have hit the brake.

The car did brake, didn't it?

Yeah.

Tire marks are burnt into the tarmac.

And I'd say the brake light bulbs were illuminated.

Was the driver wearing a seat belt?

I'll have a look.

I think her face hit the dashboard, which

wouldn't have happened if she'd been wearing a belt.

Find out.

Right, car's in pretty good nick.

So these belts haven't come from a scrap yard.

And assuming this vehicle has never been in a bad crash

before, then I'd say the driver was wearing a belt. See here?

Friction burn marks from where it rubbed against the body.

Would those friction marks be different depending

on the size of the driver?

Yeah.

For a big man, the position of the belt

would be different to a small woman.

The victim is quite small, 5' 2".

Would those friction marks tally with that?

Yeah.

It's a, um... it was a much bigger person, certainly.

There were no bruise marks from the belt on the victim.

Then I suspect you're right.

She might not have been driving.

Could you put that in your report?

Sure.

That blood there, the tests been taken?

Yeah, they have.

There was no extensive bleeding from Emma Charlston.

Her injuries weren't of that sort.

Could it have come from a severed arm?

I doubt it.

What's that all about?

It's got to belong to someone.

Oh, it does, just nobody who was in this crash.

Mick Stephens.

There's a laceration on the forehead

from the right temple to the bridge of the nose, about

6 centimeters in length.

The fracture was so severe that the brain was exposed.

From the forehead downwards, there's practically no damage.

The face is intact, as are the chest and arms.

But there is some damage to the right hand.

The muscles have been badly cut and bruised.

And the right knuckle joint on the little finger...

appears to have been fractured.

Something wrong?

He could have been in a fight, our boy.

So?

Don't know, just thinking, wasn't his day, was it?

Professor Ryan, there's a DCI Deacon here to see you.

Emma Charlston wasn't driving that car.

So who was?

Probably a man.

You couldn't give me his name, could you?

Is there any reason why you chose

not to tell me about the blood found in the car?

It's being analyzed.

So we don't yet know if there's a match?

You'll be told when we get the results.

Is there anything else useful I might be told in the future?

No.

And if I'd have known this was going to be such a big deal,

you'd have been informed sooner.

You were there at that girl's PM.

You knew about this.

That's right.

Why has it taken you so long to do anything about it?

It's not my shout.

It's traffic.

Laura Stevens, that must be his wife.

That's right.

Does she know his brother's already

been in to identify the body?

Yeah.

Yeah, she just wants to see him.

I don't know if I would.

Think I'd rather remember someone as they were.

And then there's the parents of Collette Wilson.

She's one of the students that died.

They want to come in tomorrow.

They've been away on holiday.

Not a nice thing to come back to.

Sam, this is the right hand of Mick Stevens,

the guy who died in the BMW.

Oh, his wife's here now.

I think he's been in a fight.

So do the police.

Deacon thinks it could have been road rage

prior to the accident happening,

possibly with the driver of the Merc.

The driver of the Merc's probably male.

Yeah, Deacon said.

Well, that kind of makes sense, doesn't it?

I mean, if there was some sort of punch-up,

it was probably between two guys.

What else did Deacon tell you?

Just that they're bringing in the owner of the Merc for questioning.

He could be the missing piece in the jigsaw.

I don't think so.

Well, why not?

The missing piece is the arm, unless the driver

of the Mercedes confesses to collecting

spare limbs as his hobby.

Who's Emma Charlston?

Sorry?

She was in the crash.

She was identified today.

It says here she works for Computer Travel Technologies,

which, coincidence upon coincidence, just

happens to be your company.

Did you seriously think that I'd never find out?

That nobody would ever mention it,

or it wouldn't come up at an inquest?

Just gave her a lift home.

And she happened to die, and you happened not to mention it?

I didn't know she died.

Oh, don't, Nick.

She was, um... she was just a girl at the office.

You're just a liar.

Admit it.

You were seeing her.

Come to join me?

Not just the moment, Carol.

I thought you should know, we might have a bit of a problem.

He knew these things were going to happen.

I suppose... I suppose you do things different.

Is she allowing you to talk about it?

Did you mention what your old man

does for a living when you're viewing his body?

There's a chance.

You should have stopped her going.

Difficult.

That night, he shouted at Justine.

Is that your daughter?

Yeah.

Then I shouted at him for making her cry.

I don't even remember what it was all about now.

We're going to have to cover our backs, then.

Get me Dr. Leo Dalton's number, will you?

I didn't even know he was working.

I thought he was just going to the pub.

He was working that night?

Yes, with Richard.

They were a team.

What did they do for a living?

You don't know?

Never came up what they did.

They were police officers, CID.

That's right, Leo.

I just found out myself.

Incredible, talk about incompetence.

I just thought you should know.

All right.

Bye.

She was pregnant.

Emma was pregnant.

Yours?

She told me that night, just before we crashed.

That's what we were arguing about.

It will come out at the inquest.

I thought you should know.

God, Nick...

Forty years, I wanted a baby...

Forty years.

- Sam. - Hi.

Nice to see you. Come in.

Thank you.

Welcome to my mansion.

Well, it's different.

Euphemism for cheap.

Do you want a drink?

No, thanks.

Is this business or pleasure?

Oh, it's strictly business.

So don't worry, you're safe.

I've just been with Laura Stevens, husband Nick Stephens.

And she says Mick and Richard Barrett,

the two guys in the BMW, they were police officers.

Yeah, I know.

Well, Carol Deacon rang and told me.

Oh, well, did she say why she hadn't mentioned it before?

They were from some different force, or division,

or something.

She only just found out herself.

Oh, I don't believe her.

I don't think that's right.

That's... that's not ethical.

I mean, that's like us withholding information from the police.

But they're not withholding information.

No, but they choose when to tell us.

I mean, there's a possibility that Laura Stevens might say something.

I think they're just covering themselves.

I think we're getting a bit carried away here, aren't we?

I mean, when I was in Sheffield,

I had a very good relationship with the police service.

Well, this isn't Sheffield, Leo.

Oh, and Sam Ryan's reputation goes before her.

What does that mean?

Look, Sam...

No, what do you mean?

You know exactly what I mean.

Everyone knows you love getting involved.

Do you mean meddling?

Is that what you're saying?

Well, that's what people say.

Look, Sam, please...

No, forget it, Leo.

It's really useful to know where we stand from the off.

Just makes me wonder why you were

so keen to join my department.

They were going to hide both of them.

They'd just been to this party.

Kids love parties.

One second, they were singing away.

And then...

From the tachograph, John Brent,

car transport driver, good guy; Ash Williams, Arctic driver, bad guy.

What, he was over his hours, was he?

Well over.

He'd had just under three hours rest in 36.

Sam.

Have you got a minute?

DCI Deacon has some information for us.

Oh, about the two police officers?

No, more interesting.

I thought the policemen were very interesting.

Do you know what the case was they were working on?

I didn't know they were on a case.

Laura Stevens thought they were.

I think they were just out for a drink.

In an unmarked police car?

We're still waiting for an update.

All right, this is to do with the tachographs and the HGVs.

The Arctic driver had done well over his hours.

Not really our area, I would have thought, or yours,

for that matter.

Just trying to keep you abreast of things.

They've also traced the burnt-out van.

Yes, apparently, it was hired in Milan

by an Afran Calikani, an Albanian.

Is that who the burned body is?

Possibly.

Excuse me.

I have to go.

Have they matched the teeth yet?

Terry Harding, Traffic Investigation, not my domain.

Seems to me your domain is whatever you want it to be at the time.

As for the Merc, no, Traffic are

going to need a bit more than your theory to prove

he was at the scene.

But what about the blood you told me was being analyzed

on the front of the car?

They're still working on it.

Well, thank goodness it's just urgent, not imperative.

Any more news on your wife?

Kelly?

Yeah.

No.

Have the doctors given any indication of...

No.

They're sometimes difficult. I worked as a doctor in hospital.

And sometimes, you just don't know what to tell relatives.

It was my fault.

Sorry?

The accident... it was my fault. My brakes...

What about them?

They didn't work.

But there were a lot of vehicles involved.

You can't possibly know that...

I couldn't stop.

I think it was a leak, a brake fluid leak.

I couldn't afford to get it fixed.

And they really wanted to go to this party.

So I patched it up.

I killed her.

Holly, I killed her.

If I'd have been able to stop, then everything would be OK.

She'd be alive now, and Kelly wouldn't be in hospital.

You don't know that.

I know it.

There's been plenty of activity these last few hours...

Three or four of them coming and going.

They're obviously very busy.

Well, they either know something's wrong,

or you were, right, Guv.

They're getting ready for a fresh delivery.

They're rattled.

Well, we haven't blown it.

No, I don't think so.

They'll just think they were picked up as illegals.

I made a statement the other day.

I want to know what happened about it.

Was anyone charged?

Then they should be.

They should be charged.

It was deliberate, I saw it.

The severed arm...

I had it radiographed.

And I think it belongs to a teenage girl.

It was trapped just above the elbow.

And I think that's what caused the amputation.

Do you know how it might have happened?

No, it could have been machinery.

You've had no luck tracing it?

No, come up with nothing.

Looks like the Traffic people have also drawn a blank.

Well, we know the van was hired by an Eastern European.

The teeth, we think, are Eastern European.

Maybe the arm belonged to one.

Can you just check it over, find out all you can?

Yeah, sure.

OK.

Here's the address.

Well, that's different.

And there's a car outside for you.

Thanks.

Sam, about last night...

You're entitled to your opinion, Leo.

Let's just leave it at that.

Morning, Professor Ryan.

Morning.