"I told you, I know." "You don't have to do this, Duke." "DNA doesn't lie, Seamus!" ""Previously on XIII"" "I became Seamus O'Neill." "I was in Montana." "In a terrorist training camp." "Ahhhhhhh!" "We need someone inside that camp." "We have that person." "an:" "The man is a walking time bomb." "Where was this mission gonna take place?" "Costa Verde." "You learn your Spanish in Costa Verde." "Hopefully he'll find something that will lead to the missing part of the weapon..." "The files are incomplete." "It cuts off at the end in mid-code." "There should be another part." "If we try to rebuild his memory, he just might lead us to the other pieces of the file." "Are you familiar with Ranier Gerhardt?" "I have a feeling that he's Sheridan's mysterious friend." "Now if we get to him, no more begging for scraps from Sheridan." "Gerhardt doesn't like to be found." "Agent Jones is a big help to XIII." "The friend of my enemy, is my enemy." "Agent Jones, you're suspended." "Indefinitely." "♪" "Keep your eyes open." "This Dillon kid's squirrely." "How bad do we need this kid?" "I lost my government clearance and every intelligence agency in the country's all over both of us." "If you want to find out about your past this kid's our only hope." "♪" "♪" "I think he's made us." "There!" "There he is!" "I'll take him over this way!" "♪" "It's your lucky day, kid." "We have a job for you to do." ""XIII:" "The Series" " S01E06" "Costa Verde" Original air date 25 May, 2011" "I was a secret Agent, betrayed by my own people." "Robbed of my face, my memories, my history." "Hidden in my past is a secret that threatens all humanity." "I search for answers with nothing to hold onto but the tattoo that has become my name." "I am XIII." "Shut up." "Shut up." "That's a nice comeback, dude." "Maybe you don't understand the favour I'm doing you here." "No, we had a deal." "I stay out of the CIA computers and you leave me the hell alone." "No, we had a deal that I let you walk and I own you." "Why me?" "Because unfortunately, you're the only person who can do this." "Hmmm." "Okay." "We're going on a trip." "You need to throw some people off our trail." "What kind of people?" "The NSA, secret service, CIA." "Well, that's a tall order." "For anyone else." "What the hell am I going to do with the rest of my afternoon?" "Intel on Costa Verde?" "The president is Ramon Ortiz." "The guy who runs the country is his right hand man, a guy named Peralta." "He's ex-military, keeps a tight grip on the generals." "Ortiz just called an election." "It's just for show." "Yeah." "Fortunately for people who support the opposition, they have a habit of disappearing." "They said I was trained down there." "Some sort of corporate intrusion mission." "Anything in the files?" "Yeah, about five years ago, someone blew up the Renelco Corporation plant." "And about 250 people died." "There was also some evidence of people being shot trying to escape the building." "That's what I was sent there to do?" "No, listen, we don't know that, okay?" "About a year and half afterwards, the government caught a guy who was the leader of a rebel group named El Cascador." "They said he confessed to it." "I still know someone stationed down there." "I'm gonna give him a call." "We'll figure this out." "Done." "Already?" "It's easy when you know what you're doing." "They'll never know what hit 'em." "Come on, people!" "A guy like this doesn't drop off the face of the earth." "Widen the search terms on the Echelon scan." "And run through all of Jones' known contacts again." "I've got a hit on the facial recognition scanner." "XIII and Jones just cleared customs at Munich airport." "What the hell is he doing in Munich?" "Alright, I want everyone on the ground in Germany on this." "Check all taxis, rental cars and hotels within a hundred mile radius." "Sir, I have an airport hit on XIII." "We've already got him in Munich." "He's not in Munich." "They're in Athens." "I also have them at Heathrow in London." "What the hell is going on?" "Find out where they are and who is helping them." "What the hell are you doing here, Jones?" "We're looking for information on an incident that happened down here four or five years ago." "Some kind of US sanction mission." "Costa Verde." "I think our government forgot this place existed." "Which is fine by me, by the way." "It might have been the Renelco disaster." "Not one of ours." "One of the rebels already confessed to that." "El Cascador." "Think he was telling the truth?" "Who the hell knows, right?" "He died in prison." "The rebels just disappeared after that." "Never to be seen again." "So, the only ones who know the truth are the ones who died." "And the ones who did it." "You know that the blast site is still a local shrine, right?" "We think there may have been a company connection." "You guys are here off the radar, right?" "If I was halfway smart, I would be on the phone right now to Washington." "You never were halfway smart." "That's why i liked you, Markle." "Alright, I'll ask around." "Thank you." "That's a nice watch." "You know, I almost scored myself one of those." "Almost exactly like that one." "Yeah." "Where?" "Here." "Costa Verde." "Turns out there's a local jeweller who suddenly has three of those." "What are the chances, huh?" "All three were bought by Maria Cardenas." "The head of the opposition?" "Word is that, um..." "Well, she was supporting the rebels before the Renelco disaster." "Might have even been one of them." "Of course now she's all on the up and up." "I need another drink." "You gonna come with me?" "They say you're hooked up with a guy from the conspiracy that killed the president." "Do they?" "Hmm." "That's him, isn't it?" "I don't know what you're talking about." "This country's unstable." "And you're hanging with a guy who burns everything he touches." "And you've got no agency support." "You go looking for trouble here, you will find it." "You didn't used to shy away from trouble, Markle." "That was a long time ago." "I made a nice life for myself here." "Mostly by avoiding drama." "It's quiet, but uh..." "It's lucrative." "Middle class does not look good on you." "We need to know more about Renelco, but first I want to try and find out where that watch came from." "Sir, I think we know how XIII got out of the country." "Dillon Masters, 23." "Thrown out of MIT for hacking the physics department's computers." "And revising most of the accepted theorems they were working on." "They threw him out of school, but kept using his revisions." "How'd he get involved with XIII?" "He was under investigation for the CIA intrusion two years ago." "Agent in charge cleared him and closed the investigation." "Jones." "too long have those who rule this country lived like kings while the rest of us fight for every meal." "Too long have those who speak out against this injustice been murdered because of their beliefs." "Even tonight we can be sure there are government agents among us." "Waiting for me to say something treasonous." "But in two days, we will have the opportunity to change our destiny." "Not with killings." "Or bombs." "But in the voting poll." "You are the ones who will get the people out to vote!" "You must remember the example of El Cascador." "He gave his life for us!" "Because of him death holds no fear!" "We will stand firm." "We will never give up!" "Until freedom... reigns once more in Costa Verde!" "Ms. Cardanas!" "It's time we talked." "So what was so important that you needed to speak with me, Mr...." "Merritt." "Andrew Merritt." "And I think you know what I want to talk to you about." "You bought this and two others just like it." "I think you made a mistake." "This is important." "Please." "Try to remember." "Those watches belonged to my husband." "He said if anyone came asking after them, they were our enemies." "I'm afidid for you, I don't have the luxury of allowing my enemies to stay alive." "I think you've got me all wrong here." "Angel!" "Luis!" "He has a watch that belonged to Seamus." "Seamus O'Neill." "He was your husband?" "Ugh!" "Where did you get this?" "Seamus gave it to me." "Ugh!" "My brother loved Seamus as much as I did." "Don't lie to us." "Look, I knew him before he came here, okay?" "We worked together." "What kind of work?" "Intelligence." "How can I be sure you knew my husband?" "His real name." "He must have told you what it was." "Ryan." "My husband was a special man." "He was passionate." "About me, about our country." "He became the voice of our rebellion." "He became the voice of freedom." "Seamus was El Cascador." "Those watches had nothing to do with who my husband was." "He wanted them as gifts." "That's all there is to it." "I knew Seamus too." "He was a friend." "I just want to know what he did here." "You ask a lot for a gringo I've never seen before." ""To get what you want, you have to ask for it."" "That's what he told our people." "Come to my apartment this evening." "Avendida de Norte." "Number six." "Leave us." "So..." "You're supposed to be CIA." "'Cause I'd be surprised if the brain trust out there could even spell it." "We have a misunderstanding." "Good." "So how about you let me go?" "Ahh!" "The misunderstanding is that you think you can talk to me like you're a solid citizen." "Like you have rights." "Take it out." "Now I could have started by threatening to take your life apart, getting your parents arrested for child porn, your friends taken down on drug busts." "But I find when there's a misunderstanding, the direct approach is most effective." "Ahhhhhhh!" "Ah!" "See?" "There." "That's the bone." "Please... please... we're getting each other now, right?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Now you're going to tell me everything you know about Agent Jones and the man she was with." "Ahhhhhhh!" "Sooner or later I'm bound to hit an artery." "I don't know!" "I hacked the airport security for them..." "I know there's more." "I set up a backdoor in the NSA for them..." "Jones will be using it to check in." "You're on the road to buying your family some slack." "And what about me?" "Oh, I own you." "To what do I owe the honor?" "The president would like a word." "My office." "Frank, what the hell's going on?" "Why am I getting reports from all over the world about XIII and Jones?" "I've got it under control, sir." "Doesn't sound that way." "Where are they?" "I have the man in custody who helped them spoof the airport security system." "Okay." "Is there a reason for this added scrutiny?" "My people uncovered new information." "There was an undiscovered tap on the data connection at the photo shop where XIII was residing." "So the information off that chip could be in Sheridan's hands." "Sir, my people have been unable to uncover any treasonous activity that the former president might be involved with." "That's what we believed last time." "For whatever reason, Sheridan's operative," "Irina Svetlanova has been tracking XIII's movements." "That means we have to do the same." "All due respect, sir, I wasn't the one who pulled Jones from the game." "She was the only person who could keep a leash on XIII." "You were the one who fed me the intel that she'd gone rogue." "Okay..." "he's right." "You should have kept Jones in the fold." "She was working for XIII, not us." "And only God knows what he's planning." "Look, I have no idea if he's truly a friend, but I know he can be a powerful enemy." "And I know that Sheridan is interested in him." "I need to know where he is and what he's doing." "Now can you gentlemen do that for me, or do I have to find someone who can?" "We can do it, Mr. President." "Hey, come take a look at this... surveillance footage of El Cascador." "I must have made a mistake." "Maybe I didn't come here as Seamus O'Neil." "No, there's no mistake, take away the hat and the beard, that's your original face." "Height size facial features, they're all the same." "So are eye colour and spacing." "They said I was dead." "Look, maybe you broke out of prison and didn't want to admit that you'd gotten away." "Yeah, but why wouldn't I have gone blblic?" "Why wouldn't have I told my wife?" "We don't know what the marriage was like." "You wouldn't be the first guy to go out for a cup of coffee and never come back." "Look, I also found some information about Renelco." "They're an electronics company," "GPS and Marine guidance systems, but according to export records the amount of goods they shipped were virtually nonexistent." "It was a front." "Well there are no CIA records of them having any affiliation with either a foreign or domestic intelligence agency." "So it was a private operation, but who ran it?" "And who wanted to take it down?" "Not just take it down, they killed 250 people." "Look at this... now 100 or so were foreign nationals, but the rest were locals." "Somebody covering their tracks." "Yeah trying to make sure no one got their hands on what they were up to." "Am I going to disappear now?" "I invited you into my home to have a friendly conversation." "You're afraid the polls won't go the way you rigged them." "The people's will is going to be heard." "These are dangerous times, my friend." "Unpredictable things happen." "Some become rich, others die suddenly." "It all has to do with choices made." "I'm not afraid of threats." "I wouldn't waste my time." "But your sister on the other hand is someone who has made herself a very large target." "You wouldn't." "Of course not." "But without protection there are emotional people who would not hesitate to kill someone they feel is working against our country's interests." "And what do you expect for this protection?" "I want to know anything that would endanger our government's position." "And you would let her continue to run?" "We are a free country." "Surely a friend can tell a friend something that he has learned." "A man came to visit her." "Gringo." "He was a friend of El Cascador's, said El Cascador gave him something to hold." "A watch." "Is that all?" "He asked about Renelco, about what happened there." "You might have a future in this government after all my friend." "You found them." "Jones used the back door that I created." "She's accessing from an IP in Costa Verde, South America." "What's she looking for?" "Information on a company called Renelco, something about an explosion." "Find out about Renelco, and if we have anybody on the ground in Costa Verde." "I need to know what they're doing." "We remember." "Electro magnetic shielding." "Intercepts any electronic signal across the membrane and grounds it." "A lot of security for a small electronics firm." "They may be using GPSS as a cover, but this is a high end operation" "it's a little bit too high tech for a developing country like Costa Verde." "A good place to hide something you don't want the rest of the world to see." "That's why they hire professionals to get inside I guess." "Are we sure it wasn't rebels?" "Whoever blew this place up knew exactly what they were doing." "They used shape charges, plus incendiary devices to create flash fires." "There would have been no time for people to escape." "That's a hell lot of collateral death for a corporate intrusion job." "Taking everybody out is cleaner." "Hey I know what you're thinking right now, you did not do this." "This was not you." "The question is, what does the information hidden in the watch have to do with it?" "Come on!" "♪" "I guess we're asking the right questions." "You took your time gettin' back." "Ah, I'm on my way to an interview with a reporter from the Washington post." "He's been digging into transactions my associates have been affecting in Iraq." "I still can't figure out whether I should buy him, or imagine another solution." "How about not killing anybody for a while." "There's only so many messes" "I can clean up at once." "XIII is in Costa Verde." "Costa Verde?" "He's looking into a company called Renelco that was bombed a few years ago." "The principles were all foreign nationals, most of them ended up dead over the next few weeks all over the world." "They all had ties to weapons manufacturing at high tech." "What were they manufacturing?" "Maybe you could ask your mystery man that." "My guess is it's the weapon that he has been promising to deliver." "Nah, he would've told me." "I don't know who you think is working for whom here, but he's playing both of us." "I'll get back to you." "I want a trace put on all communications to and from all of ex-president Sheridan's computers and telephones." "Do we have that authority?" "We most certainly do not, no one outside your team is to be apprised." "So you came here to learn about my husband?" "Well after a training session I got a package and a note, then nothing." "What happened to him?" "Salute." "I knew he had been a spy, knew he had done things he was not proud of." "Seamus never lied to me, but he never told me the whole truth either." "I didn't care." "I trusted him." "That's a lot to ask of someone." "No." "Seamus was a very special man." "Anyone that knew him wanted to be near him." "Anything he said he was going to do he made happen." "Without him our revolution would have been crushed." "It was his will that kept us going." "There were also other things." "More personal things." "The way his hands felt in mine." "I don't know where this is going." "I'll tell you a secret only my husband and I knew... that drink I just gave you, it's made from a local herb called Chanca Piedra." "His favorite?" "No." "Seamus had a rare, but deadly allergy to Chanca." "After just a few minutes his tongue and throat would begin to swell up." "His windpipe would close, and then his heart would start to beat erratically." "If left long enough it would shutdown all together." "Epinephrine." "Seamus always kept this close in case he had a reaction." "What do you want?" "I don't know why you changed your face, but you speak with my husband's voice." "I know my own husband." "♪" "Tell me the truth and I let you live." "♪" "Hey, did you ever think of Athens?" "A year and half of deep cover as husband and wife?" "How could I forget." "Okay, admission time." "Oh no." "Yes." "I still celebrate our fake anniversary." "Do you think we should've had fake kids?" "Maybe we should have." "It's not too late." "Look, my partner and I were at the Renelco plant today." "Government thugs tried to kill us." "I really need your help trying to figure out what the connection is between the Ortiz government and Renelco." "I got a good thing going down here," "I'm not going to get myself burned for whatever your buddy is into." "Okay?" "This is not about my friend." "Alright?" "This is important, like change the world important." "I'm really..." "Look, I'm just hoping that my fake husband still wants the good guys to win." "Ok... there's a fundraiser tonight at Peralta's mansion." "I need you to get me in." "Is that it?" "Wear something sexy." "For you?" "Absolutely." "I knew they were lying." "I knew you weren't dead." "Why didn't you tell me?" "I don't know what happened in that prison," "I don't even know how I got out." "You don't remember me, do you?" "Our lives together?" "I hear you talking about me, about who I was." "But... it's like you're talking about a stranger." "That's why I need you to help me fill in the gaps." "We'll make a comeback." "We'll make you like you were." "Maria..." "No." "Your face is different, but somewhere inside is my husband." "You see?" "Your body remembers things that you don't." "I know where you need to be touched." "I need you to tell me why I came here." "We met when you volunteered to work with the movement." "I never said what I did?" "Never." "But there were two friends you said you came to Costa Verde with." "They left the country before we met." "But you still spoke with them every few months." "Did you hear any names?" "No, it was part of your life you kept private." "There must have been something." "You know a word, a name, a place I talked about them going?" "Nothing." "Just those three watches that I bought." "You said two of them were for them." "Is there anyone I was close to?" "A friend, someone in the movement?" "There was one." "Padre Jacinto." "A priest?" "He disappeared shortly after you went into prison." "I need to find him." "We will." "We'll find him." "But first we need to bring El Cascador back." "♪" "♪" "That's the man I married." "We'll tell my brother, tell the people." "Maria, it's not that simple." "I believe who you are." "They will too." "It's not the people." "Okay then, first we have to find Jacinto." "Then we'll know everything." "Sheridan." "You called?" "XIII is in Costa Verde." "Good." "He's where it all started... where he can learn what he needs to find the others." "Well, if you knew this, you might have told us we could have taken him there from the start." "He had to find it himself." "He had to connect the dots." "Now stop playing games with me." "What was Renelco?" "What does it have to do with the weapon you promised me?" "Renelco created it, and I determined that it was safer in my hands." "So the pieces are in place, we just have to move in and take them?" "If they were there, I would know." "Costa Verde is where XIII had the weapon in his hands, and where he will learn what happened to it." "It's just a matter of time until I have what I need, and you have what you desire." "This is a dangerous play, Jones." "Aw, you going soft on me, Markle?" "Giordino called." "Oh, really." "Yeah." "Knows you're in town." "Wonders if I'd seen you." "Hm, what did you tell him?" "I said I'd keep my eye out for you." "Ah, you think he bought it?" "I'm not losing my job over this one, okay?" "So you just get in, get what you need and get out by tomorrow, or I will have to file a report." "Oh, it's like that, Is it?" "Yeah, it's like that." "That's Peralta." "He's a nasty package;" "good dresser though, huh?" "Well someone is in good with him." "If he knew why I brought you here he'd kill me." "Wouldn't think twice about it." "Well..." "all the more incentive not to get caught then isn't it?" "Indeed." "♪" "♪" "Yeah." "Look, I've got a hijack setup in an encrypted system," "I need you to download the encryption and break it." "Can you do that?" "Just turn it on and stand back." "Alright, one second." "It's coming online now." "He's got an RFID lock on the system." "It must be tearing up the key card." "I'm going to upload a data app on your phone." "Get within a foot of whoever owns the computer keep it there till i finish the download." "If you leave before it finishes the whole thing is useless." "Call you when it's done." "Alright." "He says he'll call if he hears anything." "Is there anyone else I might have trusted?" "I used to think you trusted me." "Maria... look I don't know why" "I didn't tell you what was going on." "Tell me you believe you can come back to me." "I hope so." "There is nothing more I'd love than to have a memory and life of my own, with someone like you in it." "Well it is very bad form to abandon a girl." "I'm sorry..." "I was seduced by a superlative burgundy." "And you haven't even introduced me to our host." "Brian would you go and get us some more drinks?" "Okay." "on:" "Come on..." "Come on, baby." "What aren't you ready?" "We have a rally tonight!" "I'm trying to find padre Jacinto." "Why would you look for this old fool?" "Angel, you won't believe it..." "I don't know if I believe it." "This man is really Seamus." "Have you gone insane?" "She's telling the truth." "Someone took him out of prison, they changed his face." "We have to help him get his memory... we are going to get him back!" "His voice will be heard again!" "He will tell about how Ortiz and Peralta lied about his death!" "Even if he is Seamus, he abandoned us before." "He'll do it again." "Come on, come on, come on, come on." "♪" "Come to daddy." "♪" "Got it." "Oh can you just give me a second?" "I have to get this, I'll be right back." "I am kind of busy here." "Excuse me, I just thought you might like to know I got your file, but it might take a while to crack." "Well you have exactly one hour." "I've spoiled you." "Yes, indeed." "Excuse me." "Gotta get out of here, honey." "Absolutely." "They're gonna know somebody broke into their computers." "Won't take a genius to figure out who it was." "Or who invited you." "I'm sorry I screwed things up for you." "Middle class was getting boring anyway." "Oh look, there is a fire in the basement." "Whatever happened to not getting involved?" "Not so good at taking my own advice, let's go." "What took you so long?" "Well some dates get a little complicated." "I did get the data we wanted, I sent it to Dillon." "Speaking of dates, how was yours?" "She knew who I was." "I didn't tell her, she just knew." "How did she take it?" "She thinks that we can go back like before," "I told her we couldn't." "She did give me information though." "I gave two of the watches to other guys." "That's while the file in mine was incomplete." "We must have split it up." "Two other guys from the intrusion operation?" "Maria doesn't know." "She is trying to hook us up with a priest who was a friend of mine." "I'm going to check in with Dillon." "I want to know how this data relates to XIII, you tell her nothing." "Information goes one way." "Dillon, it's Jones." "Yeah... it's good to talk to you, Jones." "You alright?" "Never better, loving my work." "How about you?" "You find what you're looking for?" "Well the problem with this work is there's always a truth inside a truth." "Ask her." "That data you sent me, what the hell is in it?" "It's better you don't know." "What'd you get?" "Well, the encryption algorithm was tougher than I thought, but I'll send it to you as soon as I can." "Yeah, alright." "I want you to shut down all outgoing access from his net connection." "Call me when he's done." "What'd you get?" "Something is wrong with Dillon." "He was actually nice." "I found Jacinto." "He is at a church in Santa Ynez." "This is Agent Jones, she works with me." "Oh... the car is downstairs." "I'll wait for you." "So much for not leading her on." "Father Jacinto?" "Maria." "It's father Thomas now." "We've missed you." "The days of blood and fighting are over." "Now politics is the way." "I arrange flowers." "We need to talk to you about Seamus O'Neil." "You, I talk to about El Cascador, him, I don't talk about our business with people I don't know." "Jacinto... he is El Cascador." "Seamus is dead." "No that is only more of the government's lies." "Someone changed his face." "But this is my husband." "Nothing less than what I'd expect from El Cascador." "Tell me everything." "It's starting to unlock." "I want the contents analyzed and I want a full report on anything of value." "It's open." "Get your team on it." "You're not going to let me go are you?" "Don't be stupid." "I kind of thought that." "He's sending something." "I told you to shut him down." "There's no way he could have got passed it." "Amateurs." "But this is not face I thought I'd see." "You didn't believe I was dead." "Well the last time I visited him, he said the Americans were getting him released." "He said... he said he wanted to protect you." "Protect me?" "By letting me believe he was dead?" "I guess I didn't anticipate losing my memory." "He wanted me to deliver this to you if I got word from America he died." "You do not want to read it." "I have to know." "It says, he was one of the men who created the Renelco disaster." "What did I do?" "The letter says that you were there, that you never imagined that it would come to the horror it became." "You see why I couldn't tell the people?" "Seamus was so important to the cause," "I couldn't destroy their beliefs." "Does it say who hired me?" "A man named Gerhardt." "He wanted you to steal a weapon, something that terrified you when you found it." "What about the men who went in with me?" "One died." "The other two were the ones you gave the watches to." "Robert Simons and Max Serle." "It says if this letter reaches me," "I should try to warn them." "You couldn't listen, could you?" "Angel..." "What I need to do to save you." "How dare you in the House of God!" "I don't understand." "Your brother is working for Ortiz." "Angel?" "They were going to kill you," "I had to give them something." "Please." "Did you learn nothing from Seamus?" "We stand together or we die." "Don't protect him, even if he is Seamus." "Don't believe Peralta's promises, Angel." "He gets what he wants, you're gone." "Bastard." "ia:" "Angel!" "Angel!" "Maria..." "I've lost my brother..." "And now I've lost my husband." "It was all a lie." "It wasn't a lie." "You killed 200 people at Renelco." "That's not true." "The Seamus O'Neil you knew loved you." "He believed in all of the things he said he did." "You don't have to keep fighting for what El Cascador stood for." "I think I have something that can help." "The files on Peralta's computer show that he was taking kick backs from Renelco and depositing them in the president's accounts off shore." "I can get you those files." "The people will have more than empty words to change their minds." "Thank you." "You're not my husband." "He brought hope." "All you bring is lies." "You could never be him." "I found out something else, in Peralta's files." "About you." "The CIA made a deal with Ortiz, they broke you out of prison to break the Roman numeral conspiracy." "It was supposed to be a suicide mission." "They promised Ortiz he'd never see you again." "Somebody else I disappointed." "II:" "What the hell did I do in Renelco?" "Did I kill several hundred civilians?" "There were two men who survived that mission with me." "I find them and what's hidden in the watches I gave them then maybe I'll have the answers I need." "I hope they're answers I can live with."