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El Diablo is out of jail, and he vows he's going to put the hurt on Patrick. Patrick and Stacy Keach are pretty psyched to be working together again even though the training Patrick goes through is brutal, but Patrick is less jazzed about living in some fleabag motel where the highlights of his life are ice baths and unwanted visits from Mikey Fumbles. He sees Theresa, who seems a lot happier to see him than you might have expected, although their meeting is still plenty awkward. However, Ava tells Patrick that she overheard Theresa asking a friend for a lawyer reference, and even though Patrick assures her everything's fine, he's shaken by the news, and also by a thumb he takes in the eye while sparring that distorts his vision.
Johnny tries to make amends with Patrick and Stacy Keach both, but while the latter is not having it AT ALL, Patrick goes out with him and reminisces about how great Johnny was before he got hurt, but Johnny tells him that Patrick was always the one with the discipline to be a real success. Two boxing sluts then pick them up, and when the one disappears with Johnny, Patrick and his bad eyes try to drive the other one home, and he ends up running them off the road. At the hospital, the doctor tells him there's blood behind the eye that will take a few days to work itself out, so he's got to protect it until it heals. Johnny, for his part, tries to cover the whole thing up, but Mikey Fumbles gets wind of the whole thing and says he's going to run an exposé, forcing Patrick to warn Theresa about the incident, and she is of course not thrilled. But then, the piece doesn't even run, but it's not because Mikey had a change of heart -- it's that Johnny's (or possibly someone else's?) cover-up efforts were more effective than it originally seemed, and the fact-checkers couldn't verify the story. Even though Mikey gets fired, however, he tells him to kick some ass, while Margaret goes to see Theresa and inform her Patrick needs his family, and even though she expresses sympathy for everything Theresa's been through, she points out that she fell in love with a fighter, and as such, she should let him fight. The episode ends with Patrick training harder than ever, and while it's a total placeholder, El Diablo is sufficiently scary for the anticipation to be worth it.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Apparently the El Diablo fight is quite real, as we open at a press conference at which an interpreter tells the room that ED would like to thank God, Barry K., and "the Borinquen quarter horse El Conquistador, whose ligament is holding together his left knee." Everyone laughs for some reason, and the interpreter then goes on, with prompting in Spanish from ED, that ED's plan for the fight is "to inflict damage, and to take blood from the old man." ED, who's smoking a cigarette just in case you didn't get the point from his criminal past and evil talk, turns to Patrick and says in much better English than I would have guessed from the interpreter's presence that he's going to punish and retire him for good. He then presents him with a walker, and I will give extra points for the big pink ribbon tied to it, and then after Barry K. grandly introduces Patrick, Patrick plays along, talking the walker and shuffling up to the mike before saying how happy he is to be coming back and to be training with his father again. After some more pleasantries, a reporter asks if he sees the fight as a stepping stone to a rematch with Reynolds, prompting Patrick, reasonably enough, to ask if ED really looks like a stepping stone to him. Everyone again laughs, but I wouldn't be so quick to mention anything in ED's presence that could give him ideas for weapons.
Mikey Fumbles then stands up and asks if Patrick wasn't in talks to fight Jojo, and Patrick plays the company man by saying they looked at several opponents, but Jojo had a "training accident." I'd agree, in that his hand looked like it got run over by a train. Mikey asks if that means Patrick was booked to fight him, and if Barry K. is as unclean as the show seems to want us to believe, I find it hard to buy that Mikey is the only reporter in the room that cares about this, but whatever, Barry K. smooth talks for a bit, and even though Mikey doesn't play and asks if he bought ED's parole, Barry K. is unfazed, making a joke out of the question before calling the contestants up for a photo op. Perhaps you can guess where this is going, as Patrick's suggestion that ED put his cigarette out quickly devolves into hands being thrown, with Patrick landing one on ED's face and Johnny then entering the fray and banging a member of ED's entourage on the back with a folding chair. Man, we keep hearing about how great a boxer Johnny was, and yet he fights like a slow-witted extra in Road House...
...but, as it turns out, all of this was a publicity stunt, which could have used some work, given that the ham battle on last season's premiere of Mad Men was more violent. Backstage, Patrick and ED shake hands and even shoulder-hug, but then ED, who speaks even better English than I thought (was the interpreter also for show? Weird), drops the act and tells Patrick he's not going to last two minutes. "Tell your daughters to pray for you." And isn't it just lovely that the statutory rapist referenced Patrick's girls there. After ED leaves, Johnny comes over and asks Patrick not to tell Barry about their split, and Patrick is basically like "I don't have time for your sorry ass," and bounces. And after that little run-in with ED, it'd be hard to blame him even if Johnny weren't such a loser. Credits.
Stacy Keach is wrapping Patrick's hands, and Patrick smiles at how long a time it's been. His smile fades, though, in the ensuing training montage; he does shirtless incline situps off the boxing ring, step-jumps and punches while holding not-insignificant weights, punches with resistance bands in place of weights, push-ups with a cinderblock balanced on his back, and switch-foot jump-roping. And even if those weights are fake, Holt McCallany must be in sick shape even to do several takes of what we just saw on screen. My legs feel sore just from watching it. Anyway, through all this Stacy Keach has been talking strategy to Patrick, but at the end, after checking his time on the rope, he tells him he's slow before ordering him to get on the heavy bag. Patrick good-naturedly says that some things never change...
...which I hope is hyperbole on his part, since the thing we see is him climbing into an ice bath OW OW OW. Okay, I lied: First we see him loading up a garbage bag full of ice from the machine at the fleabag motel at which he's staying, dumping it into his bathtub, and THEN settling into it. Again: OW OW OW. I could take this kind of training abuse for a day, but I know I'd be so sore I wouldn't be able to work out for at least a week afterward. I guess that's what the ice bath is for, but still. Anyway, before Patrick's junk can even shrivel up, there's a knock at the door, and he quite reasonably asks that whoever it is come back later, but Mikey Fumbles's voice calls out for him to open up. After a sigh, Patrick extricates himself from the tub, and we cut to him opening the door, whereupon Mikey compliments his new abode. Patrick explains that he always moves out when he's training, and given that we learn that to be historically true I'm not sure what all the angst last week was about, but then Mikey is like, oh, right, I moved out once when I was writing a book, and as much as I love Ben Shenkman, Mikey is really starting to grate with this cynical know-it-allism, so I thank Patrick for cutting to the chase and asking what the hell he wants. Mikey says he needs a denial, as he hears Patrick has been doing cage fights for cash, to which Patrick points out that he's got a million-dollar purse in six weeks, so why would he need to do that? Mikey asks if that's a "no comment" again, and seriously, I don't know why Patrick doesn't just lie and straight-up deny it. I mean, I get that there's some dancing involved in these relationships and you don't want to get caught lying to a reporter, but it doesn't seem to me like Mikey has done Patrick any favors or given him any consideration at all since he appeared on the show, and we've certainly seen Patrick lie with absolutely no problem to people he cares about a hell of a lot more, so I don't get what he thinks he would be risking by just telling Mike no, he didn't cage fight, end of story. Not that I think that would stop Mikey from running the piece, but still. Anyway, Mikey tells Patrick that rather than run that story, he'd like to interview him about his fall from the top and his comeback, and adds that if Patrick's having money problems, that's not exactly unprecedented given the economic events of the last couple years. However, he's on a deadline, so Patrick tells him he'll think about it before closing the door in his face. And Mike, when he'd rather go back to an ice bath than talk to you, you're not really high on his priorities list.
In the morning, Patrick awakens, and after wincing at, presumably, the pain he's in, he looks at the clock and sees it's just after six, which sends him out of bed far more quickly than is probably comfortable in his current condition...
...and then he's driving frantically up to the house. He hustles up to the door and starts to open it with the key, and at first I thought Theresa had changed the locks, which I would find preposterous, but on second viewing it appears he just thinks better of walking in unannounced, which makes much more sense. He rings the bell, and Theresa, in workout attire, answers the door and is surprised to see him, since he's there to pick up the kids for school...on Sunday. I'd chalk this one up less to dementia and more to the haze of training, and at least they both laugh about it, but things are definitely a bit awkward, and when Patrick, since he's there already, asks if he can take the kids, Theresa tells him no, as she thinks it's important that they have some structure until they figure things out. Patrick asks what, then, they think is going on, and you'd think they wouldn't have waited for an unscheduled encounter to have this conversation, but Theresa says she told them he's living by the gym while he trains before asking how it's going. He tells her he's sore, but it feels great, and you'd think she'd react negatively to that statement but it seems clear that she misses him; in any case, she changes her mind and tells him he's welcome to take the kids, although Daniella's already at soccer practice, and I'd complain about her being gone already at ass o'clock on a Sunday, except I'll take any excuse to be rid of Daniella. Oh, did I not tell you I decided I completely loathe her whiny ass? My bad. Theresa calls up to Ava, and when she turns back, she finds Patrick's lips in her personal space. Given how ripped he's getting I wouldn't have a problem with that, but she's kind of endearingly awkward about it, which is also fine...
...and then Patrick is dropping Ava and Katie off AT SCHOOL in their UNIFORMS, like, if we went forward a day, fine, but in that case (a) where's Daniella, and (b) why couldn't we just have seen what they did the day before? I just hate being baffled by these script decisions. Anyway, Katie runs in, but Ava gets back in the car and asks what's up with him and Theresa. Patrick plays totally dumb (like I've said, he's a good enough liar to be a sociopath), but Ava says this feels different than the other times he's gone away to train, and also, she heard Theresa on the phone with a friend who just got a divorce asking about her lawyer. Patrick assures her there's no cause for concern and that he'll be home as soon as the fight is over, even promising that when Ava specifically asks him to, but after she's smiled and gotten out of the car, he takes a long moment to digest the news. Wouldn't now be just a great time for Mikey Fumbles to appear and ask Patrick if he and Theresa are splitting up?
At the gym, Patrick is broodily wrapping his hands when Stacy Keach finds him and asks where the hell he's been. Patrick doesn't answer the question but apologizes, and Stacy Keach tells him "Edgar" is waiting to spar with him...
...and then we cut to, presumably, the aforementioned Edgar hopping around in the ring as Stacy Keach puts Patrick's gloves on. Barry chooses this moment to make an appearance and tell Patrick he needs to see Johnny on business, and when Patrick says he can talk to him, Barry shows him the back cover of the "Bergen Star" with the story about Patrick and the cage fight. Patrick's chagrined, of course, and Barry reminds him that his fight against ED is supposed to be a good versus evil thing, and a story like this could seriously compromise his "good" status, not to mention the fact that cage fighting is, you know, potentially hazardous to one's health. Patrick tries to blame Mikey, but Barry points out that it's not really his problem -- Patrick is the one that needs to fix the story or make it go away. Stacy Keach then calls Patrick over, and Edgar takes the opportunity to introduce himself to Barry, but Barry looks like he wouldn't be impressed even if the dude had taken the time to remove his mouth guard. After Stacy Keach gives Patrick a little coaching, Edgar and Patrick go at it, but Edgar is obviously completely focused on impressing Barry rather than being a good sparring partner, and eventually, although not on purpose, he sticks a thumb in Patrick's eye. Damn, this is why I'd want everyone to be wearing the full gloves rather than the little sparring deals. Stacy Keach asks who the hell Edgar is trying to impress, and it doesn't take him long to catch up to the rest of the class and answer his own question, whereupon he kicks Edgar out and Barry and his hangers-on for good measure. He then turns on Patrick and asks where the hell his head is, and when Patrick looks at him, his vision is blurry. Well, Patrick, as someone with two different visual afflictions that make my non-corrected vision roughly twenty/one frillion, I hope this makes you appreciate your normal acuity, if and when it returns...
...which has not yet happened when we come back from commercial, as Patrick tries to make sense of the menu, prompting Margaret to ask if he's expecting a surprise. Yeah, Patrick, even if you hadn't been here five thousand times I'd expect you could guess at least ninety-five percent of the menu items. Margaret asks if he's settled things with Johnny, and Patrick sternly tells her there's nothing to settle...whereupon Johnny walks in. You know, I haven't had much of an opinion on Margaret up to this point, but I'm starting to like her; not everyone could pull off such an exquisitely-timed ambush and then be all "What?" about it. After some dialogue that confirms that Margaret is the middle child, Johnny settles into the booth and, with a shit-eating grin, asks if Theresa kicked him out, adding that he knows that game. Patrick doesn't reply, so Johnny turns to the subject of Mikey, asking if Patrick's talked to him yet and if he wants him to take care of that. Patrick's only response, unsurprisingly, is a sardonic snort, so Johnny slides into his booth and pleads with him, saying he feels like a stranger in the gym. Patrick reasonably (and free of malice) says he's got enough to deal with at the moment without worrying about Johnny's sensitivities, but Johnny says that even if he's not his manager anymore, he's still his brother, and he doesn't want to see him in that dump of a motel when he could be staying with him. This is about as likable as I've seen Johnny, but Patrick still turns him down without even inquiring about his ice supply, and when Johnny invites him to go out that night like the old days, he replies, "The old days are gone, Johnny." Geez, Patrick, you're making me feel bad for your brother, and that's not someplace I want to be.
Stacy Keach is watching tape of ED when Johnny tentatively enters the office and notes that he's a beast; without looking at him, Stacy Keach nods, but then asks what he's doing there. Johnny replies that he works there sometimes, and Stacy Keach grunts before informing him that his "friend" Barry was in there earlier messing with Patrick's head, and adds that they got along just fine for fifteen years "without that S.O.B." Johnny opines that the game has changed and it's Barry's world now, but Stacy Keach doesn't want to hear it and tells him to get lost. Before he does, though, Johnny steps forward and says he wants to remind Stacy Keach of one thing he always told him - "You want the fight, you pay the price." I'd say he also just reminded him of a second thing, that being that he is approximately three and a half feet taller than Stacy Keach, but that was probably less intentional.
Mikey Fumbles is watching ED spar for some reason; ED knocks his partner out, and Mikey's face is all, "Great." So...why are you there again?
Patrick finds Mikey and complains about the story, but Mikey tells him he was very clear that he needed it, and by the way, he's "in hock" and has alimony and child support. Patrick asks how he makes the story go away, and pardon me for possibly being extremely slow, but the story has been printed already, yes? Is he looking for a retraction? For no further stories about it? Sigh. Anyway, Mikey says Patrick has to talk to him and give him "all access," which I wouldn't have called but they are both estranged from their wives, and Patrick agrees, much to Mikey's surprise. When Mikey starts to get right into it, though, Patrick asks if they can defer the conversation until the day, and invites Mikey to meet him at the gym at 8 AM. Mikey acts like that is not a time with which reporters are familiar, but agrees, and given his bitching about his expenses, I would hope so.
At night, Patrick's on the phone with Katie; he tries to get her to put Daniella on, but the actress has this episode off...I mean, "apparently isn't talking to Patrick," given that Katie reports she said she's studying. Katie then puts Theresa on, and after some awkward pausing, Patrick asks if she's had any further thoughts about their situation. Theresa begs off answering due to the fact that Katie is still in the room, but does offer that everyone misses him before hanging up and looking conflicted. Patrick, for his part, hears some sounds from another room suggesting that this motel is definitely of the "no-tell" variety...
...so it's perhaps no surprise that we cut to him out with his brother. They toast, although Patrick is only drinking water, and I know he's in training but you'd still think an Irishman would know better. Johnny asks him about working out with Stacy Keach again, and Patrick confesses that he's still really hard on him. "You were always the golden boy." He adds that Johnny's still undefeated, and that Stacy Keach is always insinuating that if Johnny hadn't gotten hurt, he would have been unstoppable. Johnny, however, tells him that however talented he may have been, he would have burned out, and he never had the discipline or maturity to be a champion, like Patrick does. Patrick jokes that Johnny's saying he's old, but Johnny corrects him that ever since he can remember, Patrick's carried the whole family, and he's still doing it. As I mentioned before, this is a good Johnny episode, but we can't have feelings for too long in a show about Irish boxers, so it's a good thing that two women approach them and ask if Patrick was really the heavyweight champion, using that "settle a bet for us" that is always a fast track to boning. Soon, Johnny's making out in a corner with one of them while Patrick dances with the other. Well, to be more accurate, Patrick stands and sways a bit while his woman treats him like a stripper pole. Patrick's vision is blurry...still? Again? And then the woman is telling him she thinks her ride just left, and I will refrain from making any jokes about that line, but sure enough, through the blurry haze, Patrick can see that his brother is no longer there...
...and then he's driving her home even though his vision makes it look like he's on mescaline, I mean, COME ON. I know he's got this need to solve everything himself, but it's called a taxi, Patrick. Jesus. Anyway, the woman hits on him for a while until he figures out that Johnny set this up in advance, and then he runs his car off the road into a tree. Just like Patrick to end up in an accident with paid-in-advance pro in the car (SPOILER) and not even get any action.
When we return, Patrick is being examined at the hospital as Johnny looks on, and the doctor tells him he's got some blood in the space between his cornea and iris, and I believe I spoke quite clearly in my recap of the pilot about my aversion to eye trauma above most others, so I'll just tell you that she advises Patrick to protect the eye until it heals. When they're alone, Johnny tells Patrick he took care of the situation -- he paid off the EMS guys and had the car towed down to the shore, and the woman will be no problem, as she's married, and "last thing she wants is for her husband to find out she moonlights." Well, sure. Then he'd always be worried she's saving her A game. Johnny assures him, "This never happened..."
...and then Patrick's back jumping rope with Stacy Keach timing him. When he's done, Stacy Keach tells him to get his hands wrapped, as he found someone with whom he can spar "who clubs just like [ED]." Patrick looks into the ring and sees a blurry image of some bruiser before checking the stands and waving to Margaret and Ava. Ava remarks that he looks tired, and even though Margaret says it's par for the training course, Ava says she's worried about him - she can see the stuff going on between him and Theresa is on his mind, and she's the only one from the house that comes down to support him. Back across the room, Patrick suggests that maybe he shouldn't spar today, but Stacy Keach tells him that if he caught a thumb during the fight with ED, he wouldn't quit, but would go on until he found "some tiny peephole to see through." Well, that may be, but it doesn't seem like enough of a reason to risk it worsening. But while we're on the subject, one of the two eye conditions I have rendered me close to blind in one eye for years, but with corrective lenses and one good eye I could get by just fine. My depth perception was a bit off, but I wasn't experiencing these sixties vids that Patrick seems to be. Regardless of how believable this all may not be, though, Patrick sticks to his guns and says he's not sparring, and Stacy Keach backs down...
...and then Patrick exits the gym and gets A Look on his face when he sees Mikey, as he apologizes for forgetting their meeting. Which...was at the gym, right? Was Patrick late and Mikey now just came back? Or was he waiting in the parking lot for Patrick to come get him? Sometimes I think this show is trying really hard to get me to hate it. Mikey then brings up the car accident Patrick was in and says he heard Johnny tried to buy the EMS guys' silence, which...you know what? Forget it. I can't nitpick every nonsensical thing the show offers until I start getting paid by the word here. Anyway, Mikey, in that dickishly detached way of his that has made me officially over him, brings up the hooker in the car, so Patrick begs him not to write it, and even resorts to attempting to bribe him and then shoving him up against his truck, but nothing is effective, and Mikey tells him he'll leave what just happened out for old times' sake, but the story's running the day...
...so it's no surprise that Patrick has come over to warn Theresa about the whole thing. He's kind of endearingly desperate in his explanations, but Theresa wonders if it's just like the old days - "you and Johnny and a couple of Friday night girls." Patrick assures her he didn't do anything, prompting her to wonder why he's telling her, so he confesses that it will be in the paper the day. After gaping about that for a moment, she reasonably enough asks what he wants from her, so he tells her he'd like her to believe him. She tells him this is why she didn't want him to fight again, but he counters that it wouldn't have happened if he'd been home, and I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that even he knows that's a ridiculous argument without clarification, so he gives some by saying that he's no good without his family, and there may have been years in the past when he could block everything out, but it's not like that anymore. She petulantly says they had a deal, and he asks if that's why she's getting a lawyer, to which she replies "Wot?" like she's a pre-Higgins Eliza Doolittle. He explains about what he heard, but Theresa informs him that she actually contacted her friend's tax attorney about the IRS lien, to which Patrick, after a predictably hilarious pause, is like, "Oh." She does go on, though, that the friend suggested she also speak to her divorce attorney, and wonders now if maybe she should. You'd think even a lunkhead like Patrick would know that this is the cue for an apology, but he just stares ahead like a deer in the blurry headlights.
The day, at the diner, Johnny tells Patrick the welcome news that the story didn't run after all, but Patrick only looks bummed, presumably that he told Theresa about the hooker incident for what now seems like nothing. Johnny, noting this, offers that he doesn't have to go through with the fight -- he could make an insurance claim for about ten grand over the eye injury -- but Patrick of course is like, "Yeah, and after the three days it takes us to blow through that?" Not in those words, but the meaning was clear. He then asks Johnny if he can borrow his car, and at first Johnny suggests that he take him, but when he hears Patrick is bringing the girls to church, is like, "Drive slowly." Heh. Patrick thanks Johnny, and it feels like things are right between them again...
...but the thing we see is Patrick turning up to some bar that Mikey is currently patronizing. Not sure how Patrick found him, but let's assume that he checked Foursquare and learned that Mikey just became the drunken mayor of the place. Anyway, Patrick thanks Mikey for not running the story, but Mikey rather wastedly tells him he did write it, and it was "damn good entertainment." However, when the fact-checkers did their job, they found that there was no record of Patrick having been at the hospital, and that the police report said that Johnny was the lone occupant of the car. "You a Kennedy? You get in trouble and your brother takes the hit?" Funny, I guess, but...was the cage-fight article also fact-checked? If so, did someone actually give an account of it? He adds that the paper fired him, which...seems extreme, but when Patrick expresses his sympathy, Mikey tells him not to worry about him, because he's got enough going on with ED, who's a killer, but then expresses admiration for the way that Patrick never quits. "I do." Well, Mikey, considering how you just ordered another shot, at least I can say you're not quitting this bender anytime soon.
Oh, now we cut to church? I mean, I know papers can turn shit around quickly, but still: Since Patrick saw Mikey yesterday, he wrote that story, turned it in, got it fact-checked, got canned, and then tied one on before morning Mass? I'm doing it again, aren't I?
ED is sparring again as Barry and Reynolds watch, and Reynolds opines that ED will kill Patrick before pointing out that he's waited five years for the rematch. Barry, however, says that if Patrick were "a brother," he'd certainly have to prove himself with at least one fight before taking on the titleholder, and he's not buying into "this two-tiered system for boxers." Reynolds is like, that's great, but what happens if Patrick doesn't get past ED? Barry: "Then for once, D-Row, you get to play the good guy." He then giggles for a while in that inimitable style of his, which I'd imagine would be hella annoying if I didn't totally, totally love it.
After a random shot of Patrick exiting church, Margaret shows up to Theresa's door, and Theresa invites her in as Margaret expresses thanks for seeing her. It's pretty clear that neither of them is particularly comfortable with the other, and inside, after a predictable different-side-of-the-tracks discussion about types of tea, Margaret says she heard what happened the other night, and assures Theresa that Patrick worships the ground she walks on. Theresa says that's between her and Patrick, but Margaret starts to say that they're all being dragged in now, prompting Theresa to inquire, "You're being dragged into our marriage?" There's some defensiveness there, but Margaret chooses merely to absorb it before calmly stating that Patrick needs his family to fight effectively. In response, Theresa lets down her guard and offers that she thought her days of worrying about whether he'd get hurt were over, and also, it was supposed to be her turn to support the family. In a surprise to Theresa, Margaret says she's with her -- she thinks Theresa deserved her turn, and she doesn't know how she put up with Patrick and the rest of the Learys sometimes. "But what I don't understand...haven't you missed him?" Theresa says she has, of course, but Margaret says she's not just talking about the last two weeks, although I appreciate the time context -- Patrick is a fighter, and that's who she fell in love with. Theresa's temperature starts to go back up as she says she knows who she married, prompting Margaret, after a pause, to gather her stuff and apologize if she overstepped. Before she reaches the door, though, she turns back and says what she really came to say: "He's been climbing the walls for five years, Theresa. Let him out." Yup, I was not wrong about liking her.
Patrick compliments Ava on her driving as they return to the house, and then Theresa comes out to meet them. After the girls head inside, Theresa asks Patrick if he'd like to stay for "supper," but Patrick, after taking in what that might mean, apologetically declines, saying he has to stay focused and asking for a rain check. She assents and forces a smile, and Patrick takes off...
...and then he's back at the gym, working the heavy bag and trying to figure out a way to compensate for his compromised vision. He seems to find an angle he can work with and starts hitting away...and we're out. Total placeholder episode, to be sure, but ED is scary enough that I can wait for that fight, which I'd imagine will happen time. See you then.
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