First off, we get the severe-looking "language and nudity" warning. Ooh la la! Spicy!
Previously, Diane warns Kirky, Don sounds the booty call but Kirky (for a change) isn't having it, Mary whistles right in Ricky's ear, splitting his eardrum while stealing his heart, and after flashing her boob (is this what the nudity warning was for? We saw this last week!), decides she doesn't want to answer the sound of Ricky's booty call.
The usual moody keyboards and pounding drums lead us through some establishing shots of NYC, ending at a church. Inside, Kyle is getting his first communion (hey, nice suit) with Kirky and Don. Don chomps on the wafer, eww. Shots of the congregation reveal every Blue cop. I bet you a dollar this is all we see of Medavoy and Martinez. Ricky is in the same pew as Diane, which is far, far away from the tree that she wishes they were sitting in. Sip takes Theo outside and Ricky follows. Diane shoots him a look.
Outside, Theo is yanking on his dad's nose. "Don't pull my nose hairs," says Sip. "I wanna use the nose machine," Theo gurgles. He's incredibly cute. The nose machine is at home, so Sip sets him down and says, all paternally, "Show me how you run up those stairs. Go on, walk up and down the stairs. Be careful, they're slippery." Theo gets up like one step and Ricky comes out. "Whoa! You're climbing those stairs like a grade schooler!" Everyone loves Theo. Sip point out a mighty suspicious-looking van parked across the street. What are they watching for, illegal bingo games, Ricky wonders? Hee hee. How innocent for Blue. He and Sip agree that it "will cast a pall" over Kyle's first communion if everyone comes out and sees a surveillance van parked across the street, so they head over there, with Theo in Sip's arms. The guys in the truck look just like plumbers, but what do I know. "Don't break balls," one says. "You know who we are." Sip tells them there are "cops on the job" inside the church who don't need to come out and see a creepy-looking van parked outside. The dudes in the van get all crabby, and admit that Sip "ruined it for us," and take off. The driver yells, "So long, squirt!" in Theo's sweet face and Sip gets all bent out of shape. "'Squirt'? Do you have some preexisting relationship with my son so that you can call him that?" No, just eyes in his head. Sip kicks the van as is speeds off. Jeez, he's hard-boiled. And if Theo's sweetness stays intact throughout the whole season, he must have a Teflon soul.
Whoosh! Credits! Wavy camera work! Bloosh!
Inside the station, Mary and Ricky are having a little stony-faced chat. I show more warmth to strangers on the street, but then I'm not a cop. She's talking to the captain about doing plainclothes work. What do you think about that? Ricky thinks it's a sure way to a shield, but it's not as rewarding as being a street cop. They have absolutely no expressions on their faces, but their shoulders are stooped from carrying the weight of the world. Then they get down to it: Mary says she hasn't "acted like a six-year-old in anyone's apartment" lately, and Ricky rushes to say how happy he was to have her in his apartment, period. A teeny tiny smile races across Mary's face and Danny looks less creased for a second. They say 'bye, after Ricky says "Tell me how it breaks."
Sip is on the phone, all aggressive-aggressive with the person on the other end. He's trying to find out why the van was outside the church. Meaning the opposite, Sip says he's "ashamed he disturbed them" from continuing their snoop, and then calls whomever it is a douchebag. Language! Whoop whoop! He then tells Ricky that they were watching Don, Kirky's "ex, her loser former spouse." Hee hee! Don appears on camera twice a week picking up packages from Air Peru at Kennedy. While I just assumed it was drugs, Sip starts on about what a "bag of crap" this is. I love this catchphrase. It's so evocative!
Diane comes in, and takes off her jacket to reveal a tank top. Can someone tell me why Sip and Ricky are wearing shirts with sleeves, and Mary was in a turtleneck, while Diane LIVES in tank tops? Maybe she runs hot. So Sip acts a little weird, and says, "Hey! Ho!" like he's in the Ramones, then he manages to get out that Kirky's loser ex is also a drug runner. Diane says, "That prick! That jerk!" Sip agrees, and since Diane was "counseling" Kirky on this very issue of her loser ex, would she be a doll and tell her about it? The "dildo" is "muling drugs," got it? Oh, and hold this bag of crap for me too. Thanks.
Kirky comes in, floating on a cloud. "Isn't it a great day?" she asks, before skipping off to get coffee. Sip, Ricky and Diane grunt tentatively but affirmatively. Diane slinks to the coffee room, all bearer-of-bad-news-y. Kirky is still glowing, "Don was great!" and without wasting any time, Diane smashes her down to earth with the news that Don is a mule. Kirky knew he was a jackass, but this is too much. She breaks down in tears. Diane is sorry and says so, but Kirky bitterly asks "Isn't a small part of you saying 'I told you so'?" Di is all, "No, not even a little part." A big part of me is yelling "Hey Kirky! You're taking your pain out on Diane! STOP IT!" Kirky, between tears, says, "I forgot, you're a saint. Sorry for being bitter -- one more human shortcoming." Hey, messenger-killer! YOU'RE the sucker here! Quit beating up on Diane! Diane's lips get all quivery and she says, "Thanks for sharing," before she stomps on out of there.
Sip, all concerned-like, asks, "How'd it go?" and Diane yells, "SCREW YOU!" He deserved that.
In cruises a parole officer, Peron, with his parolee, Romeo Rodriguez. It seems Romeo's been getting some heat from his old running buddies (Tybalt and Mercutio, right?) and, as he's recently been released from jail, he needs help to stay straight. He wants to go on record about some stuff. As this is explained to Sip and Ricky, Sip checks out the sniffles and hurt looks of both Kirky and Diane, noting that they're avoiding each other. Kirky throws a slip of paper on Gay John's desk, and says "lost time." Gay John looks around, like, uh-oh. Oh, office fights. Just wait until Ricky and Diane start getting it on; then there will be some real doozies. Extra-large bags of crap, you might say. Something to look forward to!
In the interrogation room, Romeo is all cholo-liscious in his wife-beater shirt as he explains what's going down -- that is, former thug life friends are trying to involve him in crimes again. "Threats don't intimidate me," he says. Sip says, "So you need to learn alternate techniques in threat management." Romeo says, "I'm taking direction! My goal is to stay straight...what am I supposed to do, live in my basement? So I play nine-ball." Romeo finally gets to the heart of it: "I'm a rage-a-holic! Psychiatrist-diagnosed! You disrespect me, I'm gonna react." There's something really irritating about a thug who uses psychiatry as a shield. Sip says, "As opposed to the rest of us who just sail along, devil-may-care. Then when they lock you up again, it's not your fault." Ricky says, "Show us you're really working on keeping your mind right." Romeo busts a blood vessel screaming, " I AM keeping my mind right!" Sure, you've got it all under control, dude. Ricky pushes him a pad and pen and the P.O. says, "Juan and Ricky -- write 'em down." Romeo, filled with rage, goes, "They won't get a collar, right? Cause I ain't no snitch!" Oh no, not you. You're a little wounded bird! Ricky says, "You're building muscles up to keep yourself outside." Strong teeth and bones, too!
After the commercials, Fancy cruises into the office. Gay John jumps a mile. Diane stomps in and asks, "How was Comstat?" Fancy says, "Nifty." I say, "Hidely-ho there, Ned Flanders! What have you done with the Lieutenant?" "Where's Jill?" Fancy asks. "She's on lost time," snaps Diane. "Does she need lost time?" asks Fancy, with a slight expression of concern on his face. Diane snaps again, "She probably NEEDS to catch the case." And runs out, grabbing a walkie-talkie. Gay John looks upset. Fancy asks where Sip and Ricky are and Gay John makes something up. Fancy, with his goofing-off radar in full effect, heads to the interrogation room and finds them in there, kicking back with the newspaper. Whoops! They both jump up and run out, with Sip asking lamely, "How was Comstat?" The boss comes home and finds all his people falling apart...oh, poor Fancy. Things are not so nifty today.
On the gritty, gritty street, Kirky and Di have reunited to check out a crime scene. Today's special? Baby in a dumpster. We get a lovely shot of a baby's plump legs sticking out of garbage bags. I feel sick. Kirky looks and says, "No bruises. I want that baby out of there." Diane says, "I want a photo," and Kirky snaps, "Take a photo and then I want that baby out of there." They're still fighting. Some guy says, "What a mess." Yes, dumpsters filled with trash can be called a mess. A dead baby in one is a sick fucking tragedy, you goon. Kirky and Di whirl on him, asking, "Do you recognize this baby?" Yeah, he does. And he must have not liked the baby at all because his reaction seems to be more checking out the cops more than having any thought for the dead baby. Nice. So the baby's mother is Rosanna, who may or may not be down on the Bowery "lifting her skirt to get high." Wow -- I am so literal I lifted my skirt a couple of times to see that happens before I realized he meant she was a prostitute! They send Some Guy on his way and, licking his lips, he goes. Eww. Kirky says to the uniformed cops "Don't wait for the crime unit; get that baby out of there." Really, it's very disturbing.
Back at the office, Sip and Ricky have nothing better to do than talk about the fight Diane and Kirky are in. Sip goes, "They don't hold grudges like we do," and Ricky says, "They don't have the same duration." Sip goes, "So you think they'll come skipping back in here, arm-in-arm?" Yeah, women are famous for not holding grudges. Especially when you're on a dead baby case and your loser ex is a drug runner and everyone knows it. Fancy comes in and announces a DOA stabbing on 10th and Avenue C. The name is Juan Omedo. Sip does a double-take and realizes that's one of the guys against whom Romeo filed harassment charges just two hours ago. "We must have given him a very effective counseling session," Sip says. Ricky goes, "Two hours -- that must be some kind of record." Yeah, but the women are supposed to make up just like that, right?
On the scene, we get a shot of a stabbed-to-death guy with cops, onlookers, and yellow caution tape everywhere. Sip asks a uniformed cop, "Did you find a card that said 'Romeo Ramirez' on it?" Hee hee. The uniform doesn't get it and says "no." Then he points out a blonde who's been hanging around the scene. Sip and Ricky go over to talk to her. She's totally unhelpful, saying, "I didn't see nothing, I didn't hear nothing, I can't help you." Sip goes, "Oh, you're just hanging out in the hot sun for nothin', right?" and she yells, "The SUN doesn't BOTHER me." She must be using a high SPF. Sip and Ricky give her nah! looks and leave her. Then another lady cruises up -- Maria Alvarez, Romeo's woman. I guess Juliet didn't want to deal with a rage-a-holic. Maria takes control of the situation. She's super-bossy and I dig it. "Romeo's at my place, all freaked out. He saw Juan stabbed and knew you'd think he did it." Change that rage-a-holic diagnosis to paranoia. "He's drinking vodka and smoking cigarettes and talking about putting his head in the stove! I got a rent-controlled apartment -- I ain't about getting it blown up!" Um, add depression to that too, okay doc? So she makes Sip and Ricky take here there in the car. "Use your siren," she bosses. "Lights too?" asks Ricky. She doesn't answer but stands there with her arms folded until Sip opens the door for her.
At the Bowery, also known as Hookerland, Diane and Kirky arrive. They ask one hooker (who reminds me, in a good way, of Katherine on Talk Radio) where Rosanna is, and she goes, all exposition-y, "Rosanna is about to get in some drama around the corner. Mm-hmm." Drama! Make it gritty, too, please? Thanks. So Kirky and Di approach Rosanna -- a short 'n' sassy hooker-looking woman in a red halter top and Daisy Dukes cut-offs, with total butt cheek exposed for all to see. She's having words (including "Forty dollars!") with this transvestite with such a big, ugly head I'll call her Frankenhooker. Finally Frankenhooker goes, "It's a BABY, you dumb crack ho!" and grabs Rosanna by the shoulders menacingly. Di and Kirky sprint up and break it up. Frankenhooker divas out, grabbing her head and screaming "Oh!" like a little delicate flower is about to be thrown in the lake. They both get taken in, with Rosanna screaming "GREAT!" and Frankenhooker yelling at passersby, "What are you looking at! Looking at my moo-moo," and the Katherine look-alike is all like, "Remember who told you!" to Di and Kirky, and Frankenhooker goes, "Little miss sarcastic bitch!" I think you mean tattletale bitch, but hee hee anyway.
At Maria's apartment, Sip and Ricky arrive to find the door chained. "Kick it in! But don't break the frame!" They do and find Romeo with his head in the oven. "He's trying to do this because of you!" Maria yells. Sip says, all pot-to-kettle, "Maybe it's because of your bossy mouth that he's trying to kill himself!" Score one for Sip. Maria pays no mind and says, "What about my possessions, Romeo? What would happen when you blew this place to smithereens?" Ricky drags Romeo to the window and he says he was scared that they would pin the murder on him, so he stuck his head in the oven. "Don't claim innocence yet!" yells Sip. They drag him out while Maria yells, "The reason you stuck your head in the oven is because you ain't got no sense of consideration! Don't go dying on me!" 'Cause she cares so much, don't you know.
After some establishing shots of the stationhouse, we see Kirky and Di hauling a hooker each up the steps. Gay John, tiptoeing down the stairs, sees them and looks alarmed. Rosanna yells, "Would you ask her the whereabouts of my baby at the present?" and Frankenhooker goes, "You got some nerve asking me some question like that!" They get Rosanna and Frankenhooker (whose name is Inez) into separate interrogation rooms and Gay John stares after Inez transfixed, like she's My First Tranny Hooker by Playskool or something.
In the little room, Rosanna is shifting and fidgeting around like any actor impersonating a crack ho would. "Bring me up here for some street fight. You can't get me on solicitation, I wasn't near no trick." Diane is all, "Is that why you think you're here? What's between you and Inez?" Rosanna says, "I don't know what's in no he-she-crazy-wacky-mind. I gave the bitch forty dollars to look after Tanya." Hey, Tanya is Ruth's unborn baby's name in the excellent movie Citizen Ruth! Save baby Tanya! Save baby Tanya! "When's the last time you saw your baby?" asks Di. Rosanna stops tossing her head and wiggling around for a second and says, "Four days ago. But I paid Inez to look after her! What the hell is going on?" Jumping right in, Diane says, "We found Tanya dead in a dumpster." Ugh. Rosanna starts to fake-cry and goes, "Why you telling me all cold like that that my baby's dead! Not me! It wasn't my fault! It must have been Inez!" Kirky asks, "Do you know Inez to have a violent temper?" Rosanna jumps at this: "Yeah! You saw her out on the street!" Kirky pulls the metaphorical rope, trapping Rosanna: "So why'd you leave her to watch your baby?" Rosanna starts to really cry now, all "I loved that baby!" boo hoo! Di and Kirky toss a notepad at her, saying "Account for your time over the last four days." Rosanna hesitates at first but then does, snuffling. Then Diane goes, hey, I really like that red halter-top you have on, where'd you get it? Just kidding.
In yet another interrogation room, Sip asks, "Do you got enough fumes outta your head to tell us what happened?" Romeo, all feeling sorry for himself, pulls his head back to Cholo Mode and goes, "What's the point? I write down Juan Omedo, and then he turns up dead." Ricky asks, "Did you commit this murder?" Romeo fusses around in his chair a bit and says no, but he has no alibi because he called in sick to file the report. What did he do after he filed the report? "Went to my room...listened to affirmation tapes." BA HA HA!!! Stupid hippie. Sip rolls his eyes accordingly. Then Sip gets the names of the perp and the DOA mixed up, asking, "So Juan, when did you learn Romeo was dead?" Ricky clears his throat as a not-too-subtle 'HEL-lo,' and Sip asks the question again, getting the names right this time. Sip and Ricky are NOT on top of their game today. Maybe they should get Maria the boss-lady to come in, she knows how to get things done. Ricky asks Romeo to "climb out of his pity pit" so that he can help them solve the case. Hee hee, pity party, table of one, now seating Romeo! Finally Romeo mentions Ricky the old running buddy who called him to tell him about Juan. Sip gets all excited, like, "Okay, the guy that was harassing you calls you at home when he knows you don't have an alibi to tell you a third party is found dead." Romeo gets on board the clue train and says, "You think Ricky did it? What would be his motive?" So Romeo reads detective fiction along with his usual selection of New Age literature. Then, totally uninvited, Romeo's P.O. busts in the room and yells, "Did you DO it, Romeo?" Uh, do you have jurisdiction here, dude? Sip, instead of slapping the P.O. in the head, starts rubbing his own head like a genie is about to pop out of it and solve the crime for them. "Oh, glad you're here, we weren't getting anywhere with this on our own." Go sarcasm! The P.O. starts pacing back and forth, leading the interrogation, and demanding, "Account for your time!" Oy, what a nag. Sip starts rubbing his head so fast his hands are a blur as he prompts, "Go on, tell him about the affirmation tapes you were listening to with your head in the oven." Hee hee.
In yet ANOTHER interrogation room, Diane and Kirky cruise in, releasing Hank the grim-faced cop from guarding Frankenhooker. He leaves, and Frankenhooker calls after him, "You kept looking, didn't you, big man?" Hookers always have to have the last word; that's a rule. "Harold Carmichael," says Diane, tossing Frankenhooker's file on the desk. "Just like the football player, but four inches shorter," screeches Frankenhooker. His voice is terrible. I wish I had captioning. He wants to be called Inez. Anyway, when asked why he was giving a beating to Rosanna, Inez screeches, "I was upset at her irresponsibility." Ah yes, crack hos usually maintain a very high standard of morals, and live an elevated life from the rest of us. Thank god we have shows like NYPD Blue to show us the truth, or else crack hos would surely be running the country and making it impossible for people to slack off in any way. Inez rattles on about how "that baby" was ten months old, and a gift from God, and that Rosanna said she would come back at 9 PM but didn't, and Inez had an appointment about something to do with her "feminine parts" on which she's already spent $23,000...Damn! You can go to fucking college on that money! And for $23,000, can't the doctors do something about that enormous, ugly head of yours? And how about your voice -- aren't there hormones for that? Hey, how do you make a hormone? Don't pay her. It's a joke, people. Anyway, after Rosanna didn't show to pick up that baby, Inez just put her back in her crib, in perfect health to boot. Hey, the REAL Frankenstein would have thrown the baby into the lake; I think baby Tanya did all right landing in the crib. But the crib was not her final destination, so back to the plot I go. Diane tells Frankenhooker that the baby was found dead in a dumpster. Frankenhooker asks twice, "What are you referring to?" before totally losing it. Diane spells it out, that after taking care of a baby for three days Frankenhooker might have gotten stir crazy and killed the baby. Frankenhooker screams, "It's dead! Quit referring to it!" Oh my god, say "referring" one more time, why don't you? Totally freaking and crying, Frankenhooker goes, "I did nothing of the kind! I would never! I love that baby! I have love in my heart! And so much pain!" On the "p" in pain, Frankenhooker TOTALLY sprays a huge amount of spit, which is picked up nicely by the natural light flooding the room. I thought the wavy camera work in this episode was minimal -- they're letting the actors do the work by having them spit and LEAVING it in for us at home. What a treat. I don't have to remind you, this show has grit.
Diane charges in to Fancy's office, followed not-too-closely by Kirkendall. Fancy's all straight-faced and cop-y, and says "What do ya got." He listens to Diane tell the details of this dead-baby case, and Kirky says a few words here and there, filling out Diane's analysis. They think Rosanna the mom didn't do it, and that she's telling the truth when she says she didn't see the baby for four days. Diane thinks Frankenhooker "is going to tip over pretty quick," and I scream, "PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF HER HUGE HEAD!" They both decide to go to Rosanna's place to see there the baby died. Then Fancy asks if there's anything going on between Di and Kirky, because they're STILL fighting, and, lying, they both say no. Come on, catfight! Cage match! Well, maybe during sweeps.
Diane and Kirky come in to the room containing baby Tanya's crib and silently check the place out. The only thing they find of interest is some pea-green baby barf on the crib mattress. Diane takes a Polaroid and Kirky grimaces. Old, stale baby barf. It's gross.
Back at the station house, the nasty blonde non-witness of the stabbing creeps in. Gay John is all, can I help you? The blonde asks about the detectives, a "boyish-looking one and a loudmouth, older bald one." Hee hee. Gay John, all shrewdly, asks what her inquiry's about. NOW she has information on the stabbing -- but first what's the reward? John sounds all official and says, "This is a high-profile case," and the blonde's eyes flash dollar signs. He finally gets her name -- Margaret -- when Sip, Ricky and the eager P.O. come out. She gets it all out in a rush: "The guy that did that stabbing was wearing a tank top [sure it wasn't Diane?], had a ponytail, and a left-ear earring. Write down when I told you." Because she's all about the reward, don't you know. Down the hall, at the same time, the P.O. describes Ricky the former running buddy as being "six foot tall with a ponytail and earring." Ding ding ding! Ricky and Sip will try and get him. They all walk down the hall and the bonds witness is all eager beaver-y, asking breathlessly, "Are you FBI?" Because Gay John tricked her, see? Gay John looks pleased with himself and Sip, all thinking on his feet, nods. Go, Gay John!
Establishing shots of the 15th precinct lead us to the interrogation room, where Inez waits. Diane charges in and sits down, with Kirky trailing behind again. Di goes, "We know you're upset, and so are we. We're upset here." See how that phrase has a double meaning? Di wants to ask Frankenhooker a series of yes-or-no questions. Even a big old headshake would be okay. Does Frankenhooker get it? A sideways giant-head tilt in the affirmative is the response. Di asks, "Had the baby choked on her vomit?" Frankenhooker goes, "It may have happened when I was out." So did Frankenhooker put the baby in the dumpster then? Totally still, she taps her hand twice on the table. After a silence, Frankenhooker tilts her enormous melon so it faces away (hooray!) and says, "Are we through at this moment? Because I believe I said yes." Damn! Frankenhooker truly IS a monster! Baby-dumpster-putter-inner! Now Kirky and Di have to go tell Rosanna what happened to her baby.
Rosanna takes the news quietly. "Is that how she died?" she asks, after learning about the vomit. "And Inez put her in the dumpster?" Diane says, "She stayed four days when you said you'd be gone three hours." Rosanna starts crying, saying, "I don't know how to live." Really fucking sad.
Whoosh bloosh, and in the office Sip, Ricky and Di are all typing away at their reports. Maria the boss-lady is sitting there, and then she offers her hand out palm up and asks why Ricky-the-former-running-buddy was arrested in Yonkers. He was involved in yet another crime up there, it seems. She huffs and rolls her eyes, saying, "That's criminals for you." Romeo comes in and she jumps up. He goes, "Hi, baby," and she corrects him: "'Hi, baby, and sorry about your stove.'" Bossy! They all leave, and Sip goes, "Bon voyage," while Ricky says, "Stay right." Then after they're gone, Ricky says, "I could have told him it takes forty-seven less muscles to smile." Sip knits his brows together and stares before sending him to "walk them out." As Ricky gets up, he and Diane have that looking/not looking at each other exchange and Sip observes the whole thing. With Ricky gone, Sip asks Di how the talk with Kirkendall went. Uh, badly, baldy! Just then Kirky stomps in and Di says she doesn't want to talk about it. Sip suggests that they talk later. Di is like, never.
When Ricky comes back, Sip starts pointing his finger at him until Ricky points back. It's some kind of point-down. A point-off. Sip starts sputtering, "Let this be a lesson," and lecturing about "don't mix" and "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it," all the time pointing, while Ricky goes, "Put something away for a rainy day." The camera waves between each pointed finger. Then Sip drops the finger and says, "You can take that to the bank." Ricky resumes typing before muttering, "Momma said there'd be days like this." Sip shoots him a look. And THAT'S one to grow on.
In the locker room, Diane meekly confronts Kirkendall. Kirky apologizes first, then Di follows with hers. They hug and cry. Then Kirky says she's not going to see Don anymore, and cries anew while Diane internalizes her quarterback-doing-a-touchdown-dance and hugs Kirky some more.
Some quiet music and a night scene of NYC lead us to Kirkendall's apartment. In comes Don, the sleazy-loser-former-ex-dildo-jerk-prick-drug-mule. Kirkendall is wearing a long, slinky white satin nightgown with nothing underneath. Don tries to nuzzle with her and she leads him into the living room as to not wake the kids. Right away, she says, "You're an asshole, Don. You're a real bad guy." Don goes, "Is there a past tense in there somewhere?" You WISH! Kirky tells him that he has to stay away from her and the kids FOREVER because of the drug muling. Don, all face-of-innocence, goes, "Are you sure it's drugs, honey? 'Cause I thought the packages were vases." Oh, PLEASE. Kirky slaps his lying face and says, "Don't make me wake those boys." Truly a perfect ass, Don says, "And you wore THAT to tell me you never wanted to see me again." What better way to tell your ex to fuck off that to do it looking gorgeous, I ask? Then he goes, "I hope you don't turn into a bitter old broad. I hope so for the KIDS' sake." Were you running drugs for the kids' sake too? 'Cause that was really thoughtful of you. He leaves, hooray! And Kirky cries. Dang.