This is, of course, the second half of the latest thrilling "crossover event" with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy's half of the story opened with a big action sequence, where she wound up cleaning a vampire's clock. Angel, not to be outdone, opens his show by winding a clock. , he watches a pencil roll across his desk. In the outer office, Doyle and Cordy watch him as they confer. Cordy declares that since Angel saw Buffy while he was in Sunnydale, he's bound to be more moody that usual. Angel opens his desk drawer and pulls out a stake. Cordy and Doyle race into the office, saying things like "Don't do it!" and "It's not worth it!" I brace myself as the Anvil of Wacky Misunderstandings begins its deadly path toward my head. Angel explains that he needs the stake because the floor is uneven, and jams it under one of the desk's legs. Cordy is wearing a shiny, flowery, midriff-baring halter top with a denim skirt. She looks like a gypsy cowgirl. Angel asks what made them think he was suicidal, Cordy explains that they were worried because Angel saw Buffy. Angel insists he just went to help, and that Buffy never knew he was in Sunnydale. Cordy says, "If my ex came to town and was all stalking me in the shadows, and then left, and then he didn't even say hello, I'd be --" "A little upset," Buffy concludes. Angel looks at the door, where Buffy stands giving him a look of death. During the commercials I use a mirror to practice imitating Buffy's glare, since it's bound to come in handy.
Cordy asks what Buffy's doing in town. Buffy claims she's visiting her father, and thought she'd stop by. Awkward pause. Buffy asks how Cordy is; Cordy says she's good. Cordy is far too tense in this scene; she ought to be making her usual tactless remarks to Buffy. Instead, she giggles nervously and asks how Buffy is, and Buffy responds, "I've been better," while giving Angel another nasty look. Angel looks down at his desk like a wuss. Cordy introduces Doyle and then quickly drags him out of the room. Buffy closes the door. Angel continues to avoid looking at Buffy, and finally asks, "Can I get you anything?" "How about an explanation?" Buffy responds. Angel looks around the room blankly. Buffy continues, "Who do you think you are, coming to my town, following me around behind my back?" Angel sighs, "I'm sorry." I recently had a conversation similar in tone, if not in content, to this one, so maybe I'm projecting, but I think Gellar and Boreanaz do a good job of seeming, respectively, furious and weaselly. Buffy asks how come Angel can see her, but she can't see Angel, although I think she's getting the better end of that deal. Angel says, "I wrestled with this decision." Buffy points out that he made the decision without consulting her. Angel tells her, defensively, "It's complicated how this all happened, Buffy, y'know, it's kind of a long story." Buffy asks, for the purpose of clarification, "Your new sidekick had a vision, I was in it, you came to Sunnydale?" "Okay, maybe not that long," Angel concedes. It's a good thing we haven't seen that joke twenty times before on Buffy. Oh wait; we have. Buffy says, "I'm a big girl now, Angel. I'm not in high school any more." Barely. "A lot has happened in my life since you left." Angel says he respects that. Buffy concludes, "I don't need you skulking around, trying to protect me...unless, of course, I'm in some gigantic fight to the death, which I was last night." I think Buffy is losing her focus here; the point isn't that Angel helped her -- it's that he didn't do so openly.
Doyle asks Cordy, "So that's the Slayer?...She seemed a little --" "Bulgarian in that outfit?" Cordy suggests, in a clear example of the pot calling the kettle a fashion disaster. "I was going to say 'hurt,'" Doyle says, and Cordy claims that's typical when Buffy and Angel are together. Cordy gathers up her stuff and notes that "they'll be into this for a while. We still have time for a cappuccino and probably the director's cut of Titanic." Angel continues apologizing and Buffy, unfortunately, looks less irate. She says, "I just know that when you're around, whether I see you or not, I feel you. Inside." Ugh. Buffy suggests that they "stick to the plan" and avoid each other for a while. Buffy says, "Given enough time we should be able to --" "Forget?" asks Angel, stepping all over her line. Buffy starts to leave, and that's when an orc with a red jewel in his forehead crashes through the window. Fighting ensues. Cordy and Doyle hear the sounds of punches and smashing furniture, but Cordy insists that this is normal: "First they talk out their differences, and then they punch them out." No, they don't. And even if they did, Cordy wouldn't know. Angel stabs the orc with the orc's own sword, causing glowing green antifreeze to ooze out of him. The orc flips Buffy onto Angel and exits through the smashed window. Angel is completely unfazed by all that direct sunlight streaming into his office. Buffy pulls herself off of Angel and they get up. Buffy says, "That was rude. We should go kill it."
Angel (carrying a battle axe) and Buffy (carrying a stake) track the orc through the sewers. Buffy has changed into what I guess she considers a sewer-friendly outfit. Angel tells Buffy that he can handle this himself. Buffy says, "You bailed me out last night. I'd like us to be even." "We're keeping score now?" Angel sniffs. Angel wipes his fingers through some antifreeze he finds on a wall, and they move on into a tunnel. Angel stops short, and Buffy asks if he's okay. "I feel weird," he says. Buffy says she does, too. "I only came to see you to tell you face to face not to see me face to face anymore," she babbles, finally concluding that "it's just really confusing being around you." Angel explains that touching the orc blood is what is making him feel weird. Buffy tries to retract her outburst, but Angel agrees that their situation is confusing, that it hurts to be apart, and so on and so forth. They draw closer as they discuss, for the five thousandth time, why they can't be together. Buffy finally interrupts Angel's pontifications to ask, "Could we just find this thing, and get this finished?" Then she asks if the orc could have gone up a nearby ladder and left the sewers. "Into the day. Where he knows I can't follow," sighs Angel. "But I can," says Buffy, and starts climbing up the ladder. Angel reluctantly allows her to go on alone, and suggests that she check out a nearby bar, explaining that "demons go there sometimes when they need to get patched up." Exit Buffy. Angel keeps on skulking through the sewers, and eventually we see some green eyes glowing behind him. The orc dives out, and manages to slash across Angel's palm with his sword. Angel's plastic eyebrows appear, and he swings his axe at the orc. The orc cuts the axe in two. I say, "Haw haw!" (tm Nelson Muntz). The battle continues, and Angel finally grabs the orc's sword and plunges it through his chest. Antifreeze oozes down the sword onto Angel's hand, and the orc collapses. Angel stares at his hand as the antifreeze is absorbed into the cut on his hand. The cut heals itself, Angel groans, falls to his knees, and emits a radiant light like Patrick Swayze did at the end of Ghost. Angel leans back suddenly, gasping, while a heartbeat thuds loudly on the soundtrack. "I'm alive!" he gasps.
Cordy and Doyle wander back into the office and discover the evidence of the fight in Angel's office. Cordy rushes in and examines a pile of dust on the floor, declaring, "She killed him!" After a moment, she says, "Oops, my bad. It's just dust [that] I forgot to sweep under the rug." The front door opens, and a dazed Angel enters. Cordy demands to know what's wrong, and then asks, "Did you do it with Buffy?" Doyle stares at Angel as Cordy notices, "Hey! You walked in the front door from the street! You've got an umbrella!" Angel walks over to the window and stares at the sunlight streaming through it while Doyle explains to Cordy that Angel is alive. Angel tells them about the orc. Then he says, "I have a mortal body, and...I am so hungry!" He dashes to the mini-fridge and begins devouring Pop-Tarts and everything else he can find. "I forgot how good it all tastes when you're alive," he says through a mouthful of apple. Cordy comments, "And they didn't even have cookie dough fudge mint chip in your day." Angel points at Cordy and says, "I want some. Can you get that?" He starts gulping down chocolate and giggling insanely, while Doyle tries to calm him down. I hope Angel's got some Pepto-Bismol handy for the aftermath of this meal. Angel sends Cordy out to find Buffy, and adds, "Don't tell her what's happened to me. Not until I know what it means."
Doyle and Angel look the orc up in their Encyclopedia Demonica. We see the page, which, as far as I can tell, reads:
Mohra DemonI'm not sure that makes sense, but that's what it said. Doyle adds that "they take out warriors for our side, like you and Buffy." Doyle also points out the bit about the "blood of eternity," and guesses that the green antifreeze has regenerative properties. Angel stares at his reflection in a window, and is, no doubt, horrified by what he sees. Doyle says, "The demon's dead, you're alive. It's happy fun time!" Angel demands to know what's going on. Doyle admits that he isn't sure, and says, "I thought the only way you could be made mortal is if the Powers That Be stepped in." Wow, there are some? I thought that was just an expression. And shouldn't it be "The Powers That Are?" Just asking. Angel is surprised to hear this, and asks, "How come I keep getting the feeling that you're not telling me everything?" "Because I'm not," answers Doyle. Oh, okay then. Doyle says they're both operating on a "need to know" basis, but Angel says he needs to know. He asks, "Is this permanent? Am I normal Joe now? Can I have a normal life? I want to speak to the Powers That Be." Doyle says, "That's easier said than done, bud." Bud? Doyle continues by saying that dangerous channels must be used to contact the powers, but Angel is insistent. Doyle suggests they try the oracles.
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We see yet another new variety of blipvert; this one starts with the shot going negative for a second. Doyle and Angel are in a cavern of some kind. Angel eyes a bricked-up archway which bears an inscription in Latin. He translates this to read, "The gateway for lost souls," which is, apparently, under a post office. Doyle claims that this "makes sense if you think about it," but I'm pretty sure that it doesn't. While Doyle prepares an incantation, he tells Angel that the oracles are finicky, so Angel should quickly ask his questions and leave. The bricks vanish, and Angel passes through the door and onto the set of Xena. The oracles turn out to be a dark-haired woman and a blonde man, dressed in black togas, and wearing random splashes of silvery paint. The man says, "Come before us, lower being," which is how I'm going to start answering my door. The woman asks what Angel has brought, and when Angel stammers, the man says, "You call us forth and bring no offering?" Angel removes his watch and the woman lifts her hand, causing the watch to fly across the room to her. Ooo, such magic. She examines it and coos, "I like time. There is so little and so much of it." Angel asks what has happened to him, and the woman comments, "It's true then, brother." The man says, "He's no longer a warrior." Angel asks if it was the demon's blood, and not the Powers That Be, that caused his change. The man sniffs, "Did you save humanity? Avert the apocalypse?" The woman adds, "You faced a Mohra demon. Life goes on." Angel asks, "I'm not poisoned, or under some spell?" The woman pauses as if listening, and responds, "The auguries say no." What about the magic eight-ball? There's a bit more chit-chat, and the man finally says, "That which we serve is no longer that which you serve. You are released from your fealty." They turn to walk down the fake hallway, and Angel asks, "That's it -- I'm free?" I guess he didn't know you only get three questions, because the man waves a hand and Angel flies out through the door, back into the cavern. Doyle asks what happened, and Angel says, "The gist is, it's real. I'm free." Doyle comments that now Angel can do anything he wants, "so the question is, what do you want?"
Buffy strolls along, looking at the beach in the distance. She stops and slowly turns to see Angel walking out toward her in the sunlight. Music swells. They kiss. Cut to the clock on Angel's desk. Gee, do you think time will be important to the story later?
Doyle and Angel loll about the office. Cordy complains that a plant which was fine this morning is now dried-up and dead. I speculate that the orc's blood got on the plant, and its lifespan was for some reason shortened as a result, and that this will mean that Angel will die soon if he remains mortal, so he'll have to return to his vampiric ways. It turns out later that I'm wrong, and that this bit with the plant will never be explained. I hate the writers. Anyway, Cordy blames Buffy for the dead plant, causing Doyle to wonder if Cordy is jealous of Buffy. Cordy denies any jealousy, and then says, "Our lives are about to kaleidoscope." Is that some new hip expression? Or is Cordy's dialogue created on a random generator of some sort? Cordy mentions that Angel and Buffy have been down in his batcave for the past two and a half hours. She explains to Doyle, "They suffer, they fight, that's business as usual. They get groiny with each other, the world as we know it falls apart." Doyle points out that Angel isn't cursed any more, and besides Cordy doesn't know what Buffy and Angel are doing down there. Cordy responds, "They've got the forbidden love of all time. They've been apart for months. Now he's suddenly human. I'm sure they're down there just having tea and crackers."
Which of course they are, because for some reason the writers love to telegraph their jokes ahead of time so we won't actually have to bother laughing or anything. Angel apologizes for kissing Buffy because he thinks "maybe [they'd] be asking for trouble, rushing back into things." Buffy wonders if the Oracles were telling the truth, and whether they really speak for the Powers, adding, "They could be pranksters." "Or there could be another loophole," offers Angel. They talk about how Buffy's in school, Angel doesn't know what he's doing with his life now, and renew their agreement to take things slowly. Angel gets up and moves to the chair to Buffy, and says it's not that he doesn't want her, "I'm just saying it's worth the wait to know that it's right. I need to be sure you won't get hurt again." Blah, blah, they agree to stay in touch, Buffy starts to leave. Buffy says, "We'll talk soon," and rests her hand on Angel's. Looks are exchanged. Oh god. They start kissing again. Do I have to describe this? They end up making out on top of the table, and I think they borrowed some microphones from Dawson's Creek to get those horribly loud lip-smacking noises. Just before I have to rip my own eyes out, we cut to the sun setting.
Then it gets worse. Angel is getting stuff from the fridge. We see FAR too much (i.e. any) of his naked body as he makes his way to the bedroom, carrying various containers of food. A conveniently placed bit of scenery is all that stands between me and madness as he crosses the living room. He hops into bed, where Buffy sits. At least she had the decency to put a shirt on. Buffy begins licking a piece of chocolate. Angel feeds her some ice cream. She feeds him some chocolate, they kiss, my eyes begin to bleed. Buffy says, "I'm over that whole needing-to-be-mature thing. That time you just spent in the kitchen? That was enough time apart." They simper and get all gooey-eyed, and I race to inject myself with insulin. While they kiss again, some ice cream drips onto Angel's utterly hairless chest. I begin to sob. You remember when Dawson and Andie got drunk and sang at the jazz club? When that happened, I was curled up in my chair in horror, peeking at the television through my fingers. This was much worse. Once the ice cream dripped onto Angel, I covered my eyes completely, because I knew what was going to happen and there's nothing on this earth that could make me watch it. All I know is, there are more lip-smacking sounds, and Buffy giggles.
I finally look at the screen again when I hear Cordy talking. Cordy and Doyle are at a bar. Cordy is complaining that now she's out of a job. Doyle points out that he is too, but Cordy says, "You know you're glad this happened." Doyle allows that he's happy for Angel, "but if that means I'm off the hook with the Powers That Be as well, all the better." Cordy says that she's good for only two things: "International superstardom, or helping a vampire with a soul to rid [sic] the world of evil." Doyle adds that he'll "be able to say goodbye to the bone-crushing, head-wrenching, mind-numbing visions." Because the writers have not yet been introduced to something called "subtlety," Doyle promptly keels over with a vision featuring that nasty orc. I feel Doyle's pain.
Literally, since we immediately cut back to Buffy and Angel, cuddled together in bed. Buffy says she's sleepy, "but I still want..." Angel says, "What? You couldn't possibly! I mean, not that I wouldn't..." Buffy says, no, that's not what she meant, adding, "I'm spent. Pleasantly numb, even." Donations for the therapy I'll need after witnessing this scene should be sent c/o Wing. ["I'm woozy just having to read about it." -- Wing Chun] Buffy explains that she just wants to stay awake "so this day can keep happening." Angel tells her to sleep, and that "we'll make another one like it tomorrow." Buffy says that this is the first time she's ever felt like a normal girl.
Later, Buffy is sleeping when Angel hears his door open. Mercifully, he puts on a robe as he wanders out to discover Doyle entering his apartment. Doyle tells Angel that the orc has regenerated itself. Angel thinks about this, and finally comes to the conclusion that he should probably kill it. Doyle points out that Angel is human now, and that they don't even know how to kill it. Angel starts pulling on clothes, but Doyle says, "I think maybe we ought to bring somebody a little supernatural." Angel looks stunned, and then realizes that Doyle can see Buffy sleeping in Angel's bed. "Don't you want to wake the girl?" asks Doyle. "Not for the world," says Angel.
Angel and Doyle roam the saline plant Doyle saw in his vision. Doyle flips through their Dungeon Master's Guide and says that the orc will be bigger and stronger now, and repeats that they should have brought Buffy along to help. "It almost licked you before, and now you're mortal," says Doyle, and I wish he hadn't used the word "licked." Angel insists that he has to be able to take care of himself, and then asks Doyle how to kill the orc. Doyle reads, "To slay the beast, one must bring darkness to a thousand eyes." Angel suddenly gags as they stumble upon a couple of dead bodies. Angel is horrified, and Doyle says, "It's never an easy sight, it's part of being human now." Angel declares he's going to kill the orc, and Doyle looks around for his Plus-One Sword. Doyle tells him, "Just remember, it's brutal, deadly and...here!" The demon dives down toward them from a catwalk. More fighting. Doyle is kicked away by the orc. Angel gets kicked and shoved and flung into a wall.
Buffy comes upstairs to find Cordy going through the offices. Buffy is wearing the same clothes she wore yesterday, which makes sense. However, so is Cordy, which doesn't. Buffy asks where Angel is, and Cordy shrugs. Then Cordy declares, "I've decided not to feel sorry for myself. I'm taking matters into my own hands, organizing a little 'going out of business' sale to subsidize the severance package Angel never bothered setting up for me." Buffy asks if Angel left a message for her. Cordy asks, "Has it even occurred to you how this whole turning-human thing might affect me?" There's the Cordy we knew and loved. Buffy says that actually, it hasn't, and again asks Cordy if she knows where Angel is. Cordy sighs and admits, "He told me not to tell you." Buffy asks if Angel is in trouble. Cordy finally snaps, "Maybe it's time you grew up and realized that you can't have everything. You can't have Angel and save the world. And anyway, it's your fault that he went to fight that thing by himself without..." "What thing?" asks Buffy. Why, not to mention when, did Angel and Doyle tell Cordy what was going on?
The battle continues. Well, it's more of a pummeling than a battle: Angel struggles a few feet away, the orc smashes him, lather, rinse, repeat. I can't help thinking that this orc is a pretty ineffective assassin, given how long he's taking to kill Angel. Angel struggles onto a raised bit in the floor, the orc climbs up after him and tries to smash him with a mace. Angel dodges, and the mace breaks through the wooden flooring, causing it to break so that they both plunge down into some kind of chamber containing piles of salt. Before Angel can drag himself away, the orc stands with his foot on Angel's neck and declares, "The end of days has begun and cannot be stopped. For any one of us that falls, ten shall rise." He raises his sword, but before he can deliver the killing blow, Buffy drops through the hole and lands on him. Angel crawls out of the way. Buffy picks up the orc's sword and says, "You hurt my boyfriend," which fails to move me at all. "A great darkness is coming," responds the orc. Buffy says, "You got that right," and makes with the sword-fu. She gets in a few good shots before the orc starts slamming her skull into the wall. The orc grabs her head and says, "Together you were powerful, alone you are dead." Angel grabs up a handful of salt and throws it at the orc, causing him to scream and back away inexplicably. The orc needs salt to live. They've said that repeatedly. I don't know why throwing salt at it caused a problem, unless maybe some of the salt got in his eyes. I hate the writers. Anyway, it comes back after a second, pushes Angel away, and returns to beating up Buffy. Angel suddenly looks at the jewel set in the orc's forehead and says, "A thousand eyes." He shouts to Buffy that she needs to smash the jewel. Buffy manages to dodge the orc, grabs his mace, and uses it to smash the stone. The demon screams, falls back, and emits a blazing red light before vanishing. Buffy goes to check on Angel and tells him, "You're all right, and it's over, and we're together." Cue the blipvert.
In the oracles' marble hall, the man asks, "You again?" "What have you brought me?" adds the woman. Angel offers them a Ching dynasty vase. Which he just happened to have. Even though he's supposedly got these money problems. He tosses it to the woman, who admires it lovingly. The male asks why Angel is there. Angel tells them that the orc said that the end of days had begun, and that other soldiers of darkness would be coming. "I need to know if he was telling the truth," Angel says. So earlier, when the oracle mentioned that Angel hadn't averted the apocalypse, I guess that didn't sound any alarms in his mind? The man says, "As far as such things can be told." Angel asks what will happen to the Slayer when the soldiers come, and the woman answers, "What happens to all mortal beings. Albeit, sooner in her case." "She'll die," comments Angel, in case anyone in the audience is unclear on what "mortal" means.
Angel says, "I'm here to beg for her life." The male says that they cannot grant life and death, but then Angel adds, "And ask you to take mine back." They pause, and Angel says "I can't protect her or anyone this way, not as a man." The woman questions, "You're asking to be what you were, a demon with a soul, because of the Slayer?" The man says, "This is a matter of love; it does not concern us." Angel says that it does, since the orc came to eliminate of one of their warriors, and now it has succeeded. The man says, "What is done cannot be undone," but the woman says, "What is not yet done can be avoided." "Temporal folds are not to indulge the whims of lower beings," whines the man. The woman says, "You are wrong," probably because she's watched a lot of Star Trek. She continues, "This one is willing to sacrifice every drop of human happiness and love he's ever known for another. He is not a lower being." Oh good, add to Angel's martyrdom complex; thank you, Lady Oracle. While someone puts a blue filter on the lighting, the Oracles finally agree that they will "swallow this day, as though it never happened. Twenty-four hours, from the moment the demon first attacked you. We take it back." Angel asks what will stop everything from happening the same way it did before, and the woman says, "You. You alone will carry the memory of this day. Can you carry that burden?"
It's a few minutes before nine, and Buffy paces in Angel's apartment. The clock ticks loudly, ensuring that this sledgehammer of a motif leaves no part of my skull uncrushed. Angel enters, and Buffy asks him what happened. Angel tells her that he saw the Oracles, and asked them to turn him back into a vampire. Buffy asks why, and Angel answers, "Because more than ever, I know how much I love you." Oh, not this conversation again. He continues, "And if I stay mortal, one of us will end up dead. Maybe both of us." He reminds Buffy that the orc said others would be coming, but Buffy says, "They always come, and they always will! But that's my problem now, not yours!" Angel says he can't stand by and watch her risk her life. Buffy says that they can fight together, but Angel reminds her how useless he was in last night's battle. Buffy, in tears, asks Angel if he "took a whole twenty-four hours to weigh the ups and downs of being a regular Joe, and decided it was more fun being a superhero." Angel responds, "How can we be together if the cost is your life?" He pauses, and then adds, "Or the lives of others?" Nice that he eventually remembered that there are other people in the world. Buffy cries. Angel suddenly looks at her with horrified rapture, or rapturous horror, and waggles his head a bit. I'm not sure what emotion he was trying to convey there. Maybe all the junk food he ate finally caught up with him. Angel walks over to Buffy and hugs her, and while she continues to sob, he says, "I couldn't tell you. I wasn't sure I could do it if I woke up with you one more morning." Buffy sniffs that she understands. So once again he gets to make a decision that impacts her, without even asking for her opinion, but now Buffy has learned that it's better to let Angel be in charge? Way to be a feminist role model, Blondie. She asks what will happen, and Angel tells her that the oracles are turning back time, essentially giving them a gigantic "do-over." Buffy asks when that will happen, Angel looks at the clock and tells her it'll be "another minute." Buffy says that isn't enough time, and asks how she can go on with her life knowing what they could have had. Angel says that she won't have to -- that only he will remember. Buffy doesn't care for that either. She's just never happy. More kissing. Clock ticking. Buffy looks at the clock and again insists that there isn't enough time. Angel says, "Shh please," and then sniffles. It really says he sniffles, right in the captioning. They hug, both crying, while Angel continues to whisper "please," and Buffy says, "I'll never forget." They both cry very well. Buffy makes odd faces and her voice gets squeaky, and Angel just keeps repeating "please," and I thought it all seemed very genuine. Of course, given how often they've had to do tearful parting scenes, they really should be good at them by now. Buffy continues to insist that she won't forget as the scene fades out, which of course means that she will forget immediately.
Whoosh, we're back in Angel's office. Buffy is giving her speech about how they should "stick to the plan" and stay away from each other. Once again, Buffy says, "Given enough time we should be able to --" "Forget," finishes Angel, looking disoriented. Buffy starts to leave, and on cue that darn orc crashes through the window. Angel turns, grabs the clock off of his desk, ducks under the orc's sword and smashes the jewel in its forehead with the clock. The orc screams and vanishes. Buffy stares in wonder and says, "That was unreal. How did you know how to kill it?" Angel says he's had a lot of time to catch up on his reading. Buffy says that she thinks they've covered everything, and "that's all there really is to say." She gets ready to exit again, and Angel looks down at the smashed clock on the floor. When he looks up, Buffy has left. "That's it," he says. Johanna writes a note that reads: "Dear Joss, How are you? I am fine. Love, Jo. P.S. About the clocks? WE GET IT. Thanks."