True Lies (2023) s01e03 Episode Script

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I'm Harry Tasker,
husband, dad, computer salesman,
and for 17 years the most
important person in my life
didn't know I was also something else.
Omega Sector's top spy.
I'm Helen Tasker,
wife, mom and professor.
After an unfortunate incident
where I found out our
whole life was a lie,
now I'm also a spy.
Honey, all those things are true.
- They're just, you know
- What?
True lies.
The 2017 Zurich
terrorist attack killed 180 people,
destroying several city blocks.
The weapon was purchased
from an arms dealer
known only as the Engineer,
who disappeared without a trace.
In 2019, Omega Sector joined forces
with MI6 lead operative Ian Young,
tracking the Engineer to Prague
for an undercover arms
purchase called
Operation: Mousetrap.
Okay, Ian,
we're gonna review this one last time.
You're gonna be meeting on the
fifth floor of that building down there.
We'll be monitoring via the radios.
You go in, make contact
with the Engineer
And as soon as I confirm he's
got the nuke, you come in.
Just remember, be careful.
The Engineer only works alone, okay?
So, if we spook him,
- this could be the
- I will be extra charming.
You sure you don't want
me in there with you?
Appreciate it, but
MI6 has been after the
Engineer for over a year.
Can't let you Omegas swoop
in and steal all the glory.
Okay, team, let's get ready.
All right, I got eyes on Ian.
He's going in.
Maria? Luther? You ready?
- Ready steady.
- Best team ever.
You guys know you're still
on the radios, right?
Made it to the lift.
Copy that.
He's almost in, guys.
When we hear the word
"nuclear," we move.
I repeat, "nuclear" is our go term.
Going up the hall.
Approaching door.
Hello? Hello, is anyone?
What the hell do you think you're?
- No, no.
- Ian?
No, don't!
Ian, this is Gib. Report. Ian.
Ian's down.
Guys, Ian is down. I repeat, Ian's down.
Go now, go now!
Go, go, go.
Watch the corners.
Clear.
Clear.
Gib, we're too late.
-
- Ian's dead.
Operation: Mousetrap failed.
Wait
Is that the dishwasher?
I think it's the dishwasher.
That can't be good.
That's where the water's coming from.
Okay, I'm calling the repair guy.
That's so expensive.
We kept this thing together
with duct tape and a prayer for a year.
- We can just patch it up or something.
- Honey,
we're a little beyond patching.
Harry, between the
dishwasher and the pipes,
that's easily $8,000 to $10,000.
Are you sure we can't ask
Omega Sector for help?
Honey, you know the regulations.
We have to get paid exactly like
a regular computer salesman
and a professor It's our cover ID.
I know, I read the training manual, yes.
All I do is read training manuals,
but I genuinely don't understand
how we're supposed to
focus on saving the world
if we're stressed about
paying for plumbing.
We talked about this.
Now that you're with Omega,
we have to keep our work life
and our personal life separate.
It's all about compartmentalizing.
Okay, well, that might be easy for you.
No one said it was easy,
but trust me, babe,
this is the only way to keep you sane.
You have to put your home life here
and your work life here.
And you shake it all about.
I get it, Harry, I do, in theory,
but you were able to
compartmentalize me for 17 years.
And you went to work-life,
but I was here with sink blobs.
And, meanwhile, I have to grade papers,
I have to pick up Dana
and Jake from school,
and now apparently I
have to go to training
at 4:00 at Omega Sector.
Well, you know,
this is an adjustment period.
- I assume that's work-life calling?
- Yes.
I'm sorry.
No, go save the world.
I'm gonna battle the sink blob.
No!
No.
Doughnuts? What's the occasion?
This is a big one, guys.
We got a lead on the Engineer.
The Engineer? You're serious?
I've waited a long
time to hear those words.
- When do we leave?
- We're not that far along.
At the moment, all we know is,
he's selling nukes again.
Some sort of ultra portable high-yield
device that we do not
want floating around.
Who's the buyer?
We're working on that. But believe me,
this is a priority for everyone.
We all want payback for
what happened to Ian.
Bottom line You'll know when I do.
In the meantime,
I need you guys to run up to
Telonyx and file your
monthly sales reports.
We already did 'em.
Last month.
Now you do them this month.
That's what monthly means.
Remember, guys, we maintain our
cover IDs as computer salespeople
by actually working at the
computer company upstairs.
So
take a doughnut and get to work.
- What?
- Nothing.
If you make a sale, but it's
not delivered in six months,
what quarter does that go in?
Come on, dude.
You note it in the sales column,
but the revenue doesn't get booked
until the sale goes through.
Stupid printer is jammed.
Hey. You okay?
Yeah. I'm fine.
Luther, I saw you eat six doughnuts
when we found out we're
going after the Engineer.
You remember how I was
dating Maria during that op?
Everyone does.
You guys know you were
on the radios, right?
Well, right after that,
she broke up with me.
We were on the tarmac and she just goes,
"Dude. You and me, this?
We're just not working well together."
- Hmm.
- What?
You're not looking to get
back together again, are you?
No, no.
That'd be That's stupid. No.
This mission just brought
back some feelings.
I get it. I do.
But we have a mission to do.
So put those feelings in
a box and put it away.
I tried.
For four years the
feelings went in the box.
Now this happens,
and the box just kind of
pops back open.
Luther. We are about to go after
the Engineer and prevent
him from selling a nuke.
Put your feelings and the
doughnut back in the box
and put it away.
Something wrong?
Luther was just upset about the printer.
Well, you're just gonna have to
stay at your lola and lolo's
until all the repairs are done.
For how long? Grandma keeps trying to
make me eat weird stuff that's
"good for my bowels,"
and Dana is locked in the
bathroom with her phone.
Well, at least the bathroom there works,
honey, okay?
You're just gonna have to sit tight
until all the plumbing
is done, all right?
I love you.
Huh? Hmm?
Honey
it smells like mildew.
Yes. Everything smells like mildew.
The entire first floor plumbing is shot.
And I sent the kids to my parents.
Wow. That bad, huh?
Mm-hmm. And the plumber says,
"Y'all should've fixed this a year ago."
What I want to know is, who's the genius
who decided to put
plumbing inside of walls?
How are you supposed to know
if the pipes aren't working
if you can't even see them, Harry?
Harry? How are you supposed to know?
I'm doing a rant.
What's the deal with pipes?
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm just
It's a big day at work.
This arms dealer that
we went after before,
the Engineer?
He's selling a miniaturized
nuclear weapon.
What?
No, I'm just realizing it's
hard for me to rant about
black mold in the walls
when you're dealing with
stray nukes.
What is it?
I guess I get to practice
that separate work life,
home life thing.
Gib wants me at the meeting tomorrow.
The Engineer did all of this?
Well, he built and
sold the weapons. Yeah.
I don't get it, he wants me to help?
How?
Don't worry.
You're-you're probably here just to
translate documents or something.
Listen up. We got the
intel we were waiting on.
And I think we finally got
our shot at the Engineer.
Omega Sector sources
have determined that the rogue
weapons dealer the Engineer
is selling a portable nuclear device.
The buyers are a South
African fascist group
known as The Noble Cross.
Their representative Pieter Voss
will arrive in Salzburg, Austria
tomorrow to make the purchase.
He will be staying at
the Luxus Resort Casino
with his companion Tiffany Mills.
This guy Pieter?
Can we turn him, get him to work for us?
It's not that simple.
We got no leverage.
So, if we try to strong-arm him,
we might lose our
chance at the Engineer.
We got to drive a wedge
between him and his people first.
Now, Voss has a weakness for gambling.
Does he like it enough
to gamble with somebody
else's nuclear bomb money?
It's our job to make
sure the answer's yes.
Luther, Maria?
You two are our sleight of hand experts.
We'll get you into the
casino as dealers.
Nice.
- Are you excited?
- I'm excited.
Your job is to make sure
Voss loses the money
he needs to buy the nuke.
We need him in trouble,
looking for a way out.
Which bring us to Harry and Helen.
What? Me? Why me?
The psych guys seem to think that
we'll have better luck with a couple.
So, you two go in as rich gamblers,
make friends,
and when Voss is at his most desperate,
you use him to bring us to the Engineer.
Wheels up in two hours.
Let's do it.
Undercover? Salzburg?
You know, an hour ago,
I was just plunging the sink.
- I got it.
- Okay.
Hey-hey, Gib.
Gib, wait up.
Are we sure we want to use
Helen as an undercover?
We need a convincing couple.
Helen has been training
to be your wife for 17 years, buddy.
Yeah, I know she can do it, but
No, no, there is no "but."
This is the Engineer.
This guy single-handedly gave us
the biggest failure of our careers.
And a damn good MI6 agent didn't make it
home to his family.
Bottom line:
I'm starting to believe in Helen.
And I believe in you.
And I believe we got a plane to catch.
Hi, it's Mom.
I'm sure you're out having fun with Lola
and Lolo. I just wanted
to let you know that
we had to check into a motel
until all the plumbing is done.
So, you know
we're roughing it, too.
Okay, love you, bye.
This was on the cover of Vogue.
Where does all this stuff come from?
The undercover guys.
They do a profile on who we should be
and they buy all the clothes and stuff.
Two pairs of Louboutins?
Harry, we could sell these
and pay for the plumbing.
Yeah, one of these is worth
more than the dishwasher.
Honey, we're spies and now we're
gonna run a secondhand shoe store?
Harry, you can't, like, act
like this is nothing.
I mean, maybe you're used
to wearing Brioni suits
Think of it as a work uniform.
A $10,000 work uniform. Harry,
I'm buying 20-pack chicken thighs
and Mr. Freezey ice
cream to save some money
to put back for retirement.
How am I just supposed to put these on?
Well, here.
Let me show you.
Oh!
They hurt so bad.
Aah!
But they look so good.
Luther, Maria,
you guys on the casino roof?
I need access to those security cameras.
Yeah, we made it up.
Hey, so, with us going
after the Engineer
I've kind of been thinking about
when you and I were dating.
Remember how you used to
say we were a good team?
We were, right?
We were a good team.
How come you never say it anymore?
You know we're still
on the radios, right?
Gib, confirm you've just received
that awkward interaction?
Yep, still here.
Sorry to put you through that, Gib.
Moving for the casino's
security access point now.
Harry, Helen? Luther and Maria
are up on the roof breaking
into the casino system.
Are you two set for the initial
approach to the target?
Entering the casino now.
Thank you, sir.
Oh, you just tipped that man 100 euros.
Did you want to wait for change?
We're rich people, remember?
I've seen rich people get change.
Don't worry about the money.
I'm not worried about the money thing,
but it's this whole
work life/home life thing.
I have ten casino chips in my purse
- that could pay for the kids' college.
- Just breathe.
Let's go get a drink.
Two glasses of Armand De Brignac.
Of course.
Okay, so, just to be clear,
when you're rich,
everything costs 100 euros?
Honey, just think of it as a
fantasy that we get to live in.
I'm a billionaire shipping magnate
and you're my gorgeous trophy wife.
You remember when we met?
Yes, Milan.
I was a swimsuit model.
Harry,
who comes up with these scenarios?
This is an HR nightmare.
Remember, it's just a story we're using
to get to Voss.
Speaking of
there's our boy.
Hey, Harry,
what if I can't do it?
What if I screw up?
You won't. You're gonna do great.
Shall we?
Uh-huh. Hi.
All right, we are on the roof
of the casino, drilling in now.
Looks right.
Okay.
You're looking for the main data cable.
Copy that.
Let you know when we're in.
I'm sorry to bring this up again,
but I just want you to
admit we were a good team.
You know we're not getting
back together, right?
I know that.
I dated like a million people since you.
Okay, I think you mean like three.
Okay, that's not Oh, hey, look.
There's the main data cable.
Gib, we're into the data line.
You getting a signal?
Boom.
And we are in the corporate system.
Hey, nice work, guys.
All right, showtime.
Remember, we only get one shot at this,
so make it a good one, huh?
Five, no field five.
25 grand on hard eight.
I'm feeling lucky.
Here we go. Be lucky, huh?
Easy eight, easy eight.
Hard eight loses.
Maybe next time.
Fun crowd.
It's okay.
If I see one more rich man
with his trophy wife, I'm going home.
I know. Those girls are the worst.
I make my own money. In shipping.
I'm Gloria.
And this is Marcus.
He's a swimsuit model.
"Mature men's sportswear," technically.
Harry, Helen just
switched cover IDs. Go with it.
Isn't he delicious?
Hey, how you doing? I'm Marcus.
Is this the, uh, sexy lady section?
Isn't he terrible?
Pieter, Pieter. Finally
some interesting people.
Gloria, Marcus, this is Pieter.
I'm Tiffany.
Good to meet you.
- Good to meet you, too.
- Vacationing, huh?
Little bit.
Gloria's got some work to do.
How about you?
Yeah, little work, too.
Where you from?
South Africa.
That's awesome. Amazing country.
We should take the jet
there sometime, kitten.
I call him kitten 'cause he's so cute.
That's what she calls me.
Kitten.
Yes!
Well, let's play.
Come on, shooter. Hope you are lucky!
Eh, this took a turn for the worse.
Hey,
why don't we get a drink at the bar?
No, I think we're done
for the night, thanks.
Got to keep 'em on the hook, guys.
Get another meeting.
Oh, you're going?
But everyone else here is so boring.
Do you want to meet up tomorrow night?
Please, baby, can we?
Oh, fine. Why not, for you, huh?
- See you.
- Ciao.
Perfect!
Helen, I could kiss you.
But, uh, Luther, Maria,
a security guard's
heading up to the roof for a smoke.
Get out of there.
What?
Go. Go. Get out of there now.
Go where?
I don't know, just don't let
him see you, or the op is blown.
Over the side.
Interesting choice.
There's a ledge.
Zurück in zwei Minuten.
Uh, if my German translator
program is right,
you got to hang on
for about two minutes.
We'll be fine.
See?
Pretty good team, right?
Depends if you fall.
I just remembered that the test
comparing German and Latin
declensions and conjugations
will be on Tuesday.
Hopefully, I'll be better by then.
Thanks for bearing with me. Goodbye.
Hey, sorry to rush,
but Gib's getting anxious
about us getting down to the casino.
Oh, that's okay. I'm all ready.
Do I look like a billionaire?
A beautiful billionaire.
- Thank you, kitten.
- Meow.
- Whoops.
- Oh, I got you, kitten.
It's go time, guys.
I hacked into the casino
employee records and schedule.
So, I got Maria and
Luther in as dealers.
Harry, Helen, you're on Voss.
Now, make sure you get him betting big.
But more importantly,
make sure he loses big.
We need Voss nice and desperate.
So he needs our help.
And we can use that to
get to the Engineer.
Everybody set?
All set, Gib.
Hey!
Hey.
The party people are here!
Finally.
Now, that is the thing
about valve sales is,
everybody needs valves.
We were going crazy without you.
These people are so annoying.
Ooh, we should play baccarat.
I'm teaching kitten to play.
Oh, honey, can we?
Yeah, sure.
Welcome.
Come on, guys. You got this.
Remember, guys,
we need Voss to lose big.
Yes, that's it!
We got him!
The banker needs to make nine to win.
You need to palm that next card.
Ah!
All right, it looks like the
draw is gonna be a face card.
97% chance he busts.
Oh, come on.
Yes, that's it.
Nice.
- Another half-million, please.
- Of course, sir.
I'm worried about Pieter.
He's had a bad run.
It happens to everybody.
That man has been at the
cashier's as much as Pieter.
He can't be as unlucky as him.
I mean, look at his hair. Wow.
Okay, okay, okay, guys, this is good.
This is the third time Voss
has gone back for more cash.
He's got to be down at
least a couple mil.
We got to hit him hard, now.
Hey.
Are you sure you want to keep playing?
I have to. I need to win.
You're already down.
Nobody asked you.
So you keep your stupid mouth shut, huh?
Fine.
I'm leaving.
She'll be back once you're up again.
Why don't I let you borrow
my good luck charm,
kitten, at the blackjack table?
That's where he's his best. Come on.
Ladies and gentlemen,
would you care to place a bet?
Hey, hey!
Blackjack, see?
Thank you.
Come on, make a bet.
You do bring a bit of luck, huh?
Go ahead.
Excellent, sir.
Wow, that's crazy.
You got to split.
You always split eights.
Sir, would you care to split?
This is where you make all
your money back, right here.
I can feel it. Come on.
I'm a good luck charm.
I will split.
That's 11.
You got to double down.
The gentleman has doubled down.
That's 18.
There you go.
Damn! That's a ten!
You got to double down again.
You're gonna win it all back,
right here.
The gentleman has 17.
No, dealer has 11, that's not good.
21. The house wins.
Better luck next time, sir.
Hey, buddy, you, uh
Want to get some air outside?
- Yeah, yeah, I think I'll get some air.
- Yeah.
All right, Harry,
we've got a lot civilians
in the area and security
is manning the perimeter.
Hey, Pete, buddy, we got to
talk about your situation.
Yes. I think we should talk.
Put the gun down, Pete.
Everyone has bad luck sometimes.
I think you are my bad luck.
Ever since I met you,
every bet I place I lose.
It's impossible!
I would never have made those bets.
- We can work this out.
- No, no.
No, the money's gone.
It's over.
Harry! Harry, you all right?
Bro, this is crazy.
I don't control the cards.
It's just money.
Just money?
That money wasn't mine to lose.
It was for a deal.
All right.
How much did you lose?
Almost three million.
Really? I didn't even notice.
Do you know how loaded Gloria is?
She spends that on handbags.
Do you think I care?
The people that I work for
will kill me for losing their money.
Harry
Somebody just called security.
Your man's making a scene.
Get him someplace private.
All right, listen.
If I do this,
we need to trust each other.
- Do what?
- Gloria.
I wasn't kidding about her spending
that kind of dough on handbags.
But if I help you,
this could really screw me over.
I could lose my meal ticket.
So I need something in return.
I need three million U.S. now.
I'll tell her some sob story
that it was my fault that you
lost the money, blah-blah.
We'll ask her for six million.
You get three and then I get three.
- And you're able to do this?
- Yes, absolutely.
Unless you shoot me
in front of all these people.
One hour.
- Room 566.
- Yeah.
All right. You got it.
So, Gib
I hope you can get us another
three million in cash.
Already on it,
but you're gonna be the one
talking to accounting when we get back.
You guys ready?
I got Harry and Helen the cash for Voss.
They're going to see him now.
I'll let you know when the meeting
with the Engineer is set.
Standing by.
Also, you guys resolve
this relationship issue
you've been having? We got work to do.
I didn't have an issue.
Luther? Do you have an issue?
No. No issue.
I would just like to hear you
say that we were a good team.
Negative on the issue resolution, Gib.
Someone can't move on.
Not true. Issue resolved.
I've moved on. I've totally moved on.
Okay.
I think we put this on hold until
we recover that nuclear bomb.
You're right, I'm sorry.
Let's just go.
Voss had a gun to your head?
So what happened to the plan?
Shh, it's all the same.
He just needed to calm down a little.
But he tried to shoot you.
It's fine. He lost the
Noble Cross's money
he was gonna use to buy the nuke.
He's afraid of his own buddies now.
He has to work with us
or he's a dead man.
He leads us to the Engineer, we're done.
Oh, it's that simple?
Harry, I've been doing my
best Godfather impression
for the past 48 hours
- What is it?
- It's the plumber.
- Okay, I'm compartmentalizing, okay?
- Okay. All right.
- I'm compartmentalizing.
- Once he's on the hook,
you're done, I'll take care of the rest.
Pieter, buddy.
Hey, we're here.
Pieter?
Something's wrong. I'm going in.
Stay here.
Okay.
Pieter?
Buddy?
I think we got a problem.
What? What's up? Did Voss skip out?
No.
He's dead.
What? What do you mean he's dead?
Well, he's got a hole in him.
And he's not breathing.
Okay That is not good.
No, that's really bad.
His friends.
The Noble Cross.
They must've found out that
he lost all of their money.
No, I don't think it
was the Noble Cross.
We're a long way from Cape Town.
Gib?
I think he's here.
Who?
The Engineer.
Harry, you're right.
I just checked all the outgoing emails
from that room's IP address.
One went out less than ten minutes ago.
It says,
"Your representative is short on funds.
"I am terminating our arrangement.
And his life."
Signed it, the Engineer.
If he knew what happened he
must've been in the casino somewhere.
Yeah, but there was a
hundred people in there.
How would we know which one he was?
It had to be somebody who
knew Voss was losing.
A cashier.
Yeah, but the cashier can't
just run out of the cage
and run upstairs and shoot a guy.
Harry, Harry.
Hear my thing.
- What thing?
- The annoying guy.
You know, with the combover?
Do you remember him?
No. Helen, what are you talking about?
You were instructed to watch Pieter
so I was watching everyone else.
You were?
Yeah, it's in the
training manual. Anyways,
he was at the table
when we first went to meet them.
And he was always staring at Pieter
every time that he was playing.
Harry. He was with Pieter at the cashier
every single time that Pieter
went and got more chips.
Kind of looking over his shoulder?
I thought, "This guy's kind of nosy."
But he would've known
exactly how much money
Pieter lost.
Running the facial recognition now.
Boom. Wow. Half a dozen hits.
Perth, Zurich, Venice.
See?
All of these were MI6 missions.
And he was following Ian
in Prague four years ago!
This is him. He's the Engineer!
Okay, I'm searching the
hotel's security cameras now
to see if the Engineer is still here.
Okay, he's at the valet now.
He's got the nuke with him. Go.
Heading down to the valet now. Come on!
Maria, Luther, get over there.
We're on our way.
Honey, this is gonna be dangerous.
- Stay here.
- Harry, wait.
You shouldn't drive and
shoot at the same time.
What?
It's in the training manual.
I'll drive.
Okay, he's busting a left
on the Hafnerstrasse.
Am I pronouncing that right?
Hafnerstrasse? Haf?
Close enough!
I got a visual on the target.
He saw us. He's speeding up.
Do not let him crash.
There's a nuclear bomb on board.
I got it!
We can't let him crash.
The truck!
The truck has a green light,
he's not gonna stop!
Stop the truck!
- What?
- Maria, go!
There's a nuke in there!
Aah! Are they alive?
They're alive.
I got heartbeats. Get to the Engineer.
Maria? Luther?
I hit my head.
We'll be fine.
Just don't let the Engineer get away.
Harry, Helen. How close are you?
Approaching the target now.
Aah!
Harry, if something
goes wrong, you're gonna take out
five miles of Salzburg!
No shooting!
No shooting?
What are we supposed to do, Gib?
Follow him until he runs out of gas?
You're the field op,
I just assess the threat.
Figure it out!
Can you get alongside the car?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. What are you gonna do?
- You don't want to know.
- What?
Turns, aah!
I can't do this! I can't do this!
Just get as close as you can.
You're doing great.
- I'm proud of you, honey.
- Okay, thanks.
Harry, my peripheral vision
sees your feet getting out the window!
Aah!
Harry, get down.
Get down. Get down.
Harry, get down.
Aah!
Oh, my God!
Nice try.
I'm dizzy.
They gave you some drugs, so
Yeah, they did.
The bomb didn't go off, right?
No, the bomb didn't go off.
Because you figured out that we
should crash into that truck.
- That was dangerous.
- Yeah.
It was.
Maria
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I couldn't
let the team thing go.
Thing is, I just miss the old days.
And I know you don't.
I'll be honest, it makes me
sad in here, in my heart.
But I accept it.
I was just stupid.
I was being stupid. I'm stupid.
You're not
stupid.
We were a good team.
Oh. There, I said it.
I knew it.
That's why I broke up with you.
When Ian got killed,
I realized
you were supposed to be with him.
You would've died too. So, that
I can't lose someone I
care about like that, I
Nice work, guys.
That one was for Ian
and our friends at MI6.
We got a nuclear bomb off the streets.
And the Engineer's gonna spend
the next several decades
in a nice, cozy cement box.
Let's pack it up and get home.
I'm gonna miss you.
And you.
And you most of all.
You okay?
Yeah, no, I'm good.
I get it more now, you know?
Separating work and life.
You can't jump out of a car
to stop a guy with a nuclear
bomb if you're worried
about the slime that's growing
underneath your floorboards.
You just have to do the job,
stuff it away, and
zip it all up.
Yeah, about that.
The only reason why I was
good at compartmentalizing
is because you were at home
in the other compartment,
handling things.
It's time I started worrying
about the dishwasher.
What does that mean?
I called Omega.
I pointed out how our
little slime problem
could ruin our $30
million security system.
- Mm-hmm.
- So they're sending a team out
and they're replacing the
pipes and the dishwasher.
Oh, my gosh!
That's amazing.
As long as we're mixing our work life
- and our personal life
- Mm-hmm?
How about we stay rich for another hour?
What did you have in mind?