Richard, fresh off of a Twitter-inspired combing of Ellis' journals, found some research she had started that could be built into a diabetes clinical trial. He goes to Meredith and asks her to be on it, since he thinks she's the only one with the right to carry on her mother's work. Meredith seems happy enough to finally be on the Alzheimer's trial but the Chief lays it on thick and she seems to waiver for a moment. But after continuing work with her own patients she realizes that she wants to try and cure her mother's disease rather than continue her research, and she "gives" the study to Richard with her blessing.
As if that wasn't enough to heap on her in one day, Thatcher shows up in the hospital with abdominal pains and a super-young, super-tattooed girlfriend. Lexie is completely appalled and turns into the nightmare daughter from hell, insulting them both repeatedly and cruelly dismissing any worries the girlfriend is having. She tries to rope Meredith into participating in the abuse, but Meredith has enough on her mind already. When Lexie tries to say that Thatcher is now doing to Lexie what he did to Meredith, Mere has to remind her that this is in fact a totally different situation, and that Lex should be happy that he found someone that makes him happy. In the meantime, Mark has turned Jackson into his spy to try and figure out how Lexie is doing after the whole baby announcement. Using Mark's suggestion of peanut butter cups to get her talking, Jackson finally gets her to open up, and as she talks, she realizes that she's being totally unfair to her father and his lady friend, and that she's doing it because she feels totally betrayed by Mark not ever even asking her opinion about his having a baby. What Mark doesn't realize is that he might have accidentally started pushing Lexie and Jackson together, and Jackson seems quite pleased about the possibility.
Mark and Arizona seem to be teaming up, albeit a bit uncomfortably, to get Callie to try and be super-healthy now that she's carrying their baby. They decide Callie needs to quit coffee, and when Callie tries to argue that the studies she's read say one cup a day is fine, they still outvote her. Callie tries to comply but she's not happy about it, and combining the irritation with caffeine withdrawal turns her into a monster, with April bearing the brunt of her foul mood. Owen finally orders April to get her a cup of coffee so that Callie can actually perform the surgery they are doing, and the coffee thankfully calms Callie down enough that she's able to lay down the law with the other two when she gets home, and they start learning how to compromise.
It appears that Lucy is going to be around at least for a little while; she meets Alex when he walks into the NICU and, in a very Alex way, asks where he can find the "turnip" -- a.k.a. the brain-dead newborn whose heart they want to use in a transplant. Lucy takes extreme exception to his apparent callousness, especially as it turns out that she delivered the turnip, and she manages to get him kicked off the case. He appeals to Arizona for help, but she sticks with Lucy's decision and makes sure he's kept off the case each step of the way. Since he can't be in on the surgery, he winds up watching the entire thing from the gallery, where he's joined by Lucy. She sees that he does actually care, and the two seem to eventually reach a delicate truce. But when Alex finally ventures to ask her out for a drink at the end of the day, she shuts him down before he can even get the question out. Neither seems ready to admit an attraction, but given all of their body language in the elevator, with each trying valiantly to not look at the other one, it looks like this could be one of those situations where the hate turns to luuuuuuurve (or at least a romp in an on-call room) sometime in the future.
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Is the hardest lesson for a doctor learning to prioritize? Meredith thinks it is, and VOs that a doctor will try to avoid amputation but that if they have to cut off a limb to fix someone, they'll do it without hesitation. That's... reassuring. I think. She tells us the decision depends on the stakes, and doctors are basically gamblers trying not to lose everything. That's somehow less reassuring. Meredith is seeing a number of patients, asking them to remember three words she taught them a few months previously: truck, cabin, and spoon. I'm a little confused now about how much time has elapsed since I didn't think she and Derek had been working on this study for a few months already, but in life and in recapping I'm learning to go with the flow so, a few months it is. The patients beam when they remember all three words; it's actually incredibly wrenching to watch the ones that struggle.
She's then paged to the Chief's office and when she arrives, she finds him with her mother's journals still strewn all over the desk and Derek hanging out behind his chair. Richard announces grandly that he wants to start a clinical trial to help cure type 1 diabetes, and he wants Meredith to participate. She's rather confused since she's already attached to a different clinical trial but Derek tells her to hear Richard out. Because Richard discovered the basis for the study in Ellis' journal -- it was research she was doing when she contracted Alzheimer's herself -- he thinks Meredith should be the one to continue her work, and in fact says he wouldn't feel right doing it without her help. He goes so far as to actually call it her birthright, which is laying it on pretty thick, and Meredith's smile is strained as Derek advises her just to think about it, and assures her it's entirely her decision. Strangely, he seems to be playing the part of a legitimately supportive husband, and I don't recognize him like this, without some sort of thinly-veiled selfish agenda.
Back at the apartment, Arizona has blended up something green and chunky that looks like honest-to-goodness vomit, which she pours into a glass. My face at home mirrors Callie's revolted look and she's not reassured by Arizona chirping that it's an apple juice and kale smoothie. Doesn't smoothie in fact contain the word "smooth"? Those chunks do not a smoothie make, lady. Mark walks in while Arizona is lecturing that it's time for Callie to think about getting the baby nutrients, but Callie just wants coffee and contends that she can safely have one cup a day. Mark's ready to agree with her until Arizona mentions studies that have shown that it is in fact bad for pregnant mothers, and her glare makes him meekly change his tune to match hers. Arizona declares that it's just a matter of doing things differently now, like taking it easy at work and eating better. She claims that if it will help, she and Mark will give up caffeine too but Callie growls, "That helps no one." She's not wrong. Three surgeons with caffeine withdrawal sounds like a malpractice suit waiting to happen. They take a vote and of course, it's 2 to 1 in favor of the green goo. Callie tries it and gags. I, meanwhile, start to appreciate the mug of coffee I have in front of me that much more. I'm going to take another sip this moment just for good measure.
In the locker room Meredith is lamenting her situation but Cristina warns her that if she continues to whine about how she can't decide between groundbreaking clinical trials, she will punch her friend in the face. Fair enough, honestly. Lexie spouts facts about both diseases and obviously, both are totally worthy studies in which to participate. They are interrupted by Bailey, who comes in to ask the Greys how long their father has been having abdominal pain. She's met with confusion because neither daughter knew their father was having pain, much less that he had been admitted to the hospital that day, though Mere seems less surprised about the news than Lexie. They all assume his body is rejecting the liver and Mere allows herself one indulgent moment to comment that of course he's rejecting it because it's hers. All that comment does is remind me how much I like this new, more mature Meredith and don't miss the old dark and twisty one at all. Bailey tells Lexie to try and get more info and a blood sample out of him, since he hasn't given her much to work with, and they all head out. Cristina is left there alone and Owen comes in with a cup of joe for her. This is a very coffee-centric episode. She gripes about how Meredith has two potential trials while she has none. Owen tries to tell her she has a husband who loves her, but Cristina glumly says that Mere has that too. Owen declares that she's then just screwed, and they kiss and cuddle like the cute couple they are. Aw. Happy Valentine's Day, all. Also: That's all of the cute Owen/Cristina for this week as I think we don't see them in the same room again this episode.
Lucy is doing paperwork outside of the NICU when Alex saunters in, and, having never seen her before; he assumes she's new nurse prey for him to stalk. She picks right up on his game, though, and refuses to give him her name. He finally gives up and asks for a chart adding, "I hear there's a turnip in the cabbage patch." Oh Alex, really? He has a remarkable ability to always be so... ALEX just when we're in danger of mistaking him for a fully functional, feeling human being. She's disgusted and he explains unnecessarily that there's an infant who in brain dead, and that he and Arizona have a patient who needs a heart transplant. He somehow fails to see how angry she is as she finally introduces herself to him, tells him she'll be the one to talk to the transplant coordinator, and sends him away. When he tells her he thinks she's overreacting, she proceeds to bar him from the NICU. He laughs that she can't do that, but there's a tinge of uncertainty in his voice, and when she challenges him he pouts and leaves. So there's your meet-cute, right there.
Callie and her caffeine withdrawal are working with Owen and the always-chirpy April on a patient who brilliantly built a human slingshot with his buddy and then flung himself into a wall. They thought they were making a genius artistic statement to be shared as video on the internet, but the slingshot was supposed to propel the patient, Randy, over a house and into a pool rather than straight into the wall. Owen makes no secret of the fact that he thinks they're utter morons, especially as Randy's buddy Marcus is continuing to film him from the hallway. Callie informs him that he dislocated both of his hips and April runs out of the room to order his x-rays.
Lexie has gone in to see her dad and seems to think the best thing for her to do is to lecture him for not calling. He tries to calm her down as she babbles; she says she's calm but really her demeanor is more "psychotic mania" than anything else. He then starts talking about how you strike up conversations with people in AA, and anyone who's watched TV before can guess he's talking about having met an actual woman, but Lexie's too busy talking at him to get it. Well, that is until Babe from All My Children walks in, covered in tattoos, and kisses Thatcher because she also doesn't realize that he's sending her signals to hold off. Poor Thatcher is so bland that no one can pick up on anything he tries to convey, it seems. Lexie gives them both a confused glare as we go to commercial.
Lexie manages to handle the awkward meeting with as little grace as humanly possible. When Babe -- whose GA name is Dani -- apologizes that this isn't how she wanted to meet Lexie, Lex just brats that she didn't know she even had anyone to meet. Bailey walks in and is introduced to Dani; she realizes immediately that she just walked into a very uncomfortable situation and promises to let them get back to "all this" shortly. Dani, who seems to have more tattoos than she's had years on this earth, actually seems really on top of things and is able to answer Bailey's questions as best she can while Lexie continues to embarrass herself by acting like a brat. Because Dani is only human she's clearly totally uncomfortable as Lexie continues her attack but finally, when she starts to give some details about pain Thatcher had during sex the week before, Lexie shudders and runs out of the room.
Mark has Avery on his service for the first time, and he's fully aware and excited that they are going to wow all of their patients with a double-dose of Pretty. But when Avery finds out about this, he stops and tells Mark he's not comfortable being judged for his looks. You know, except for that one time he hoped maybe it would help him get ahead in his job. Mark thinks this is a crock of shit and tells him, "Oh! Poor Mr. Green Eyes! Let's not pretend being beautiful is a burden." He asks Mr. Green Eyes to show him some sparkle and so Avery puts on a dreamy smile, which he drops, miffed, as soon as Mark has walked into the patient's room. Excuse me a moment while I daydream about having two doctors that good-looking in my hospital room at the same time.
April and Callie are looking at Randy's x-rays -- showing two dislocated hips and a wealth of broken bones -- and poor April's chipper voice is too much for the caffeine-deprived Callie to handle. First she informs April that she needs to speak differently, which is both funny and kind of mean because April has no idea how she would go about talking differently or why Callie might feel it's appropriate to tell her so. Callie seems to realize that it might be better just to send her away, so she orders April to go get her a sugary muffin and a coffee from the cafeteria. However, she thinks about it, calls April back, and then has a fight out loud with herself which results in her denying herself the coffee, though she's not happy with herself about it.
Lexie is fighting with an uninterested lab tech to try and get her father's test results, but since she's not actually the doctor on the case, he won't give them up. Despite her best empty threats, he doesn't give a hoot, and Mark walks down the hall in time to witness Lexie's ensuing tantrum. He asks her sincerely if she wants to talk but she informs him that her day is too messed up to have him in it too. She turns on her heel and stomps off, leaving him visibly stung.
Also stung is Alex, when he sees Cristina, Teddy, Arizona and Lucy talking to a pregnant couple and he realizes he purposefully wasn't called in for the consultation. Not one to take a hint he doesn't like, he walks in the room as they are explaining to the couple that they have a heart available for their baby. The catch here is that the baby has yet to be born, and they would have to do a c-section that afternoon. The parents are understandably freaked out but Alex pipes up (he seems to know them already) and tells them that time is an issue so that they can insure they get the heart that's available. Arizona realizes that she's about to have a scene on her hands and tells the couple they'll give them some time to decide, and the doctors file out.
In the hall, Alex asks Arizona what's up but she can only ask him, "Turnip, Karev?" He's pissed that Lucy tattled but not that he said it, and when she informs him he's off the case he tries to point out that he's said way worse things than that in the past. Arizona tells him in a warning tone that this isn't helping and then the ladies march off, leaving him still off the case.
Okay, even the eye candy of Mark and Jackson working together can't make up for the fact that they are forcibly sawing into a woman's nose, and I had to take a moment to swallow the rising bile in my throat as I watched. I think it's the loud sawing sounds accompanying the visuals that really turned my stomach. Mark tries to act casual as he asks how Lexie is doing, and Jackson is concentrating so hard on his work that he really thinks this is just small talk. Mark's surprised when Jackson says that Lexie seems fine, and appalled when he hears that she's been crying and that Jackson thinks that's fine. Jackson shrugs, "She's a girl. Girls cry." While I don't speak for all girls I have to say at least in my case... yes. When Jackson tells him he doesn't know why and that it's none of his business, Mark decides to take him off the surgery for the far more important task of finding out what's wrong with his ex-girlfriend. As if this isn't galling enough for Jackson, Mark orders him to use his "sparkle" to help get the info. Mark bribes him with the promise of taking lead on a nose job that afternoon, and so Jackson reluctantly agrees to try.
While Teddy reads a magazine in the lounge, Callie decides to give in and pour herself a cup of coffee. She's incredibly self-satisfied until Arizona walks in just as she's finishing her pour, but she's armed this time and immediately says that the studies she read showed birth defects in rats, and she's not a rat. She tries to get Teddy involved, but Teddy wisely keeps flipping through her magazine, though she's obviously watching the entire exchange. Arizona reminds her that they took a vote but Callie points out that she has to fix multiple fractures, which is a whole different ball of wax, and so she needs her caffeine. Realizing she won't win a straight-up argument, Arizona just sits down and calmly tells Callie fine, it's her choice, she's an adult who can make her own decisions. Callie is at first satisfied but then can't actually bring herself to take a sip, and she finally thumps the cup down in front of Arizona, gripes about how unfair this all is, and storms out. Arizona's incredibly smug and Teddy points out that for someone who was on the record for years about not wanting to be a mother, she's got the guilt trip down perfectly. Arizona just claims she's entitled to her opinion, and that after being left out of so much at the beginning, she's going to make sure she has a say in things from here on out. She then takes a sip of the coffee and closes her eyes in bliss as she notes how tasty it is. So she took Callie at her word and isn't giving up the caffeine in solidarity, it seems.
Cristina and Mere are looking over all of Ellis' research and marveling over her smarts as Jackson and Alex mock Mere's other study by playing the truck-cabin-spoon memory game. The girls just ignore them and Meredith admits she doesn't know yet if she's going to join this study. Cristina admits to being jealous even though she's about to do a heart transplant on a baby that hasn't even been born yet. Alex thinks Cristina is just rubbing his nose in it but she points out that he only has himself to blame for the fact that he's no longer on the case. He seems to make a decision from this and declares that he's been on this case for a month, so he's not just going to take the boot now. He storms out as Lexie walks in and demands that Meredith come see Thatcher. Mere brushes her off until mentions the tattooed girlfriend, which finally gets Meredith's attention. Jackson tries to act sly as he asks Lexie if this is bothering her and if she wants to talk about it, but she's too busy wallowing in righteous indignation to notice how obvious his question was and just shoots him down, so he leaves to go work on his own surgery. Meredith claims she's too busy to visit their dad but Cristina finally convinces her, curious to see his young fiancée. Lexie spits that they aren't engaged but Cristina asks, "Are you sure?" It seems incredibly pointed and I was sure this meant she'd find out that they are, in fact, engaged, but then that never went anywhere. It still feels like it has the potential to do so, but if it does it won't be in this episode. Meredith finally agrees to go.
Alex is pacing like a hungry tiger outside of labor and delivery when Arizona and Teddy walk out wheeling an incubator holding the new baby. He's worried to hear that she deteriorated fast upon her arrival into the world and suggests all sorts of steps, but Arizona has already taken care of everything. She finally tells him firmly that they've got this one and when he claims this is his patient, she tells him that it's not anymore. He's left behind as they head down the hall, staring at the door like a man gazing over a fence at the forbidden cabbage patch.
Jackson finds Mark scrubbing in and as he starts to wash his hands he relays the info about Thatcher being there with his new young lovah. Mark agrees that that would be upsetting, especially since Meredith is no help when it comes to Thatcher. That's kind of true, but also feels like a bit of an undeserved knock as Meredith's relationship is super different with him. Regardless, he just wants the best for Lexie and stares at Jackson, who realizes he's not going to be operating on anyone just yet. He protests but Mark is adamant that Lexie needs someone to talk to and advises Jackson to give her some peanut butter cups, which will get her talking. Jackson thinks this is ridiculous but Mark just revises his bribe to be pro-bono cleft palate surgeries the day, which might be great for Jackson in the race for Chief Resident. Jackson picks up on his use of "might" and Mark tells him that if he gets results, they will talk.
Meanwhile, Lexie tries not to barf as she and the girls watch Thatcher and Dani make out from the hall, and whines to Meredith to make it stop. Cristina guesses that Dani is probably not as young as first thought but is probably around 27; unfortunately, this is the same age as Lexie so not really a consolation at all. Cristina gets a page and heads off to her tiny heart transplant and Meredith steels herself to go inside, but when Lexie claims she's not going Mere tells her she won't either, then. Their bickering is broken up when he yells out in pain, and both rush in to help. Dani is freaked out and flutters around the bed trying to calm him and to tell the girls that this is what happened before. Lexie is having none of it and keeps yelling at her to get out of the way as she tries to get Thatcher to tell her himself what is wrong. Her spitefulness is really reaching new heights since it's obvious Thatcher can't speak, and Dani tries to point this out to her. Finally, Lexie turns and roars at Dani to, "Back the hell up RIGHT NOW." Mere is on the phone paging Bailey and the look on her face says that even she thinks Lexie has gone way past unreasonable and is now being offensively rude.
Fortunately for Meredith and her much-diminished but still present martyr complex, tests show that nothing is wrong with Thatcher's liver. Bailey asks Dani to try and think of any other info that might help them, and finally the girl realizes that the pain happens when he urinates, but she was so freaked out before that she never put it together. Meredith tells her this could be kidney stones or something with his prostate, but upon hearing the word "prostate" Dani is freaked out that he could have cancer. Lexie, just entirely insufferable at this point, brats that when you date an old man, that's what happens -- old men get cancer. Thatcher weakly tries to stop her but Lexie goes on, contradicting herself by then saying that the word "prostate" could mean a million things other than cancer. She's so intent on being a haughty bitch that she'll say anything that springs to mind. Bailey and Meredith both try to cut in but Lexie goes on and spits at Dani that freaking out like a child doesn't do any good. It's seriously nasty stuff, and Lexie's going through a hard time is no excuse for this level of venom. Dani stands up for herself, saying she's scared and has questions, but then the girls yell at one another about who is really is family. Lexie declares that she's just his midlife crisis, and Thatcher finally finds enough energy to tell her she's out of line. Lexie actually gets offended at this and storms out, so Meredith has a chance to calmly explain that it could be one of many things, and they'll run tests to rule out cancer. Dani asks if she's the daughter who gave Thatcher her liver and when Mere says yes, Dani thanks her sincerely. Meredith smiles and leaves. I know she's been this way for a while now, but it's still just so refreshing to see Meredith act like a reasonable, functional adult.
Marcus is still documenting every step of Randy's hospital stay, and when Owen refuses to talk to the camera April takes over to narrate so that Marcus will leave them and they can get to the OR. She tells them that the first order of business is to fix is dislocated hips, which Marcus inexplicably finds hilarious, and he jumps up on a chair to get the best shot of this happening. Callie delivers the tragic news that they are going to do it in the OR, but Randy -- who must be on some good drugs by now -- thinks that it might make a great video, and that he could give the thumbs up to the camera afterward to show he's okay. Callie tries to talk him out of it by mentioning just how much it's going to hurt but Owen sees an opportunity and tells her it might not be a bad idea. She's so distracted by her coffee withdrawal that it takes her a moment to really catch on; when she does, though, she goes for it with gusto and makes sure Marcus has the best camera angle for the job. She then grabs Randy's leg but before she can really do any meaningful pulling, Randy starts to scream like a toddler and begs Marcus to turn off the camera. April is horrified by the whole situation but Callie and Owen are both tickled by the situation, and Callie's mood is improved tenfold.
Richard is getting impatient for his answer and he calls Mere out of a patient meeting to find out if she's made a decision yet, though he doesn't really ask her what she wants to do so much as tell her what the steps are to get the trial started. Meredith didn't realize that he was waiting on her, and she starts to thank him for the offer but he cuts her off and says it's not an offer. He claims that he can't offer something that doesn't belong to him, but he believes instead that it's only right she continues her mother's work. Meredith bristles and asks if he thinks she owes this to Ellis but Richard says he thinks it is the other way around. Though he's going about it totally clumsily he does seem to be genuine in what he's saying. He acknowledges that Ellis didn't give Meredith much actual love, but that she did pass on her name and her skill and that this study could change the course of Mere's career. Meredith's totally over it by now and politely excuses herself to get back to her patient. Richard, realizing he might be losing her interest, says that it might change the way Meredith feels about her mother but Mere just heads back to the clinical trial to which she's actually attached.
Randy is thankfully anesthetized as Callie is up on the table, trying to wrench his leg back into position. The high she felt from causing him some pain earlier has worn totally off, and when Owen starts to rant again about what an idiot he is, Callie rants back that it's his body and no one else can say what he can and can't do with it, that he gets to make his own choices. Owen's stunned by her outburst but she finally yells the real problem, that she's going through caffeine withdrawal because someone else thinks she is no longer of sound mind because she's pregnant. That might be stretching it but as someone who has had a (lack of) caffeine headache, I can forgive her the exaggeration. As neither Owen nor April was previously aware of her delicate condition they both express surprise, but Callie wails for just one cup of coffee as she yanks Randy's leg around Owen immediately sends April out to get a cup of coffee. He then tries to offer congratulations but Callie growls at him to just help, and together they jam Randy's hip back into place.
Dani is sitting forlornly in the waiting area while Lexie works on a chart and glares at her, but Jackson walks up and admits she doesn't seem so bad. He then casually offers her peanut butter cup, which Lexie unwraps and stuffs in her face even as she replies, "Screw you." Mark may have an unfortunate habit of having children unexpectedly pop up, but he knows her well, and she starts systematically eating cups while she rants to Jackson about how everyone is making huge life decisions without thinking about how she will feel. Oy. I'm glad I know this self-pity is about to subside because while yes, that's sort of what happened with Mark, her dad is allowed to get a girlfriend even if she is Lexie's age and covered in body art. When she tells Jackson that Mark is having a baby he suddenly understands and a light goes on over his head, which fortunately happens for Lexie too though it's a different light. She begins to cry as she says that she and Mark have to be over after what happened (for a second time) but she misses him, and she realizes that she's the one who's a giant bitch, not Dani. She then thanks Jackson for listening and he smiles and tells her he's there anytime, while the Guitar of Future Love starts up over them.
Randy wakes to see some sort of pin sticking out of a bandage on his wrist, and Marcus facing him with the ever-present camera. Owen comes in and does his best to ignore Marcus as he runs down the laundry list of everything they did to patch Randy back together. Imbecile Randy seems almost proud and Marcus gleefully asks if that many injuries on one guy is a record. Owen conversationally tells them no, that he had one patient with a lot of the same injuries but even worse, and who also had a hole ripped through his back that tore his stomach apart and resulted in 11 surgeries. Randy is in awe and asks if he survived, but clearly didn't expect Owen's answer to be no. Owen continues that actually, Randy's injuries were worse because that guy was a soldier who threw himself in front of a grenade to save six others, as opposed to Randy's launching himself into a wall so that people could laugh at him on the internet. This did a much better job than any of his earlier insults or condemnations, and Randy finally looks ashamed and orders Marcus to turn off the recorder.
Meredith is in street clothes ready to leave when she pops into Richard's office and finds him again deep in her mother's journals. He'll always be in awe of Ellis and that awe and admiration is in his voice as he remembers how she wrote down every single thought she had. Meredith calls this lucky, and then hands the folder of information back over to him. She explains that she was happy to read the journals and understand her mother better but that the Ellis she knew was different than the one Richard knew, and that fear over her condition probably was what led her to write everything down. She then gives Richard her blessing to continue her mom's work on his own because that seems right, while she just wants to try and cure her disease. She then wishes him goodnight and he wishes it back while he mulls over everything she just said, having not thought about it quite that way before.
Jackson and Lexie are both changing in the locker room and when he asks her plans she tells him quietly that she just wants to go sleep; her day of assholery was obviously draining. He invites her to Joe's but that's after he takes his shirt off, smart boy. He may claim to not want to be judged on his looks but he's not afraid to use them when it counts, and I, and the rest of the male-loving audience are thankful for that. She declines but after a moment tells him maybe they'll go tomorrow, and he nonchalantly agrees. After she leaves, though, he grins to himself before finally pulling on his shirt.