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take him off suicide watch. He had already attempted suicide. And, for all the reasons I just stated, it was someone that had to be watched, and he was high -- very high profile, and he would be under pressure to identify coconspirators. So I think that was one. The fact that the checks, the 30-minute checks were not performed. And I would say that there was nothing apparently unusual about that. This wasn't like people getting together and saying, "Okay, tonight we're not going to perform the watches." Apparently, it was pretty consistent that they failed to perform the checks. And, thirdly, that they didn't place -- and very importantly, that they didn't place another prisoner in his cell. So I was referring to those and, you know, all these -- and the camera not being on. That -- you know, that's obviously not necessarily directly relevant to it, but -- you know, the same way the others are, but it's still all these screwups happening at the same time. Q And that was going to be my next question. You also described it as a perfect storm of screwups, is -- A Uh-huh. Q -- I think, the exact quote, that you're referencing the same things, the checks not being done, the guards allegedly falsified the records regarding -- A Uh-huh. Q -- the checks, the cameras not working. Also, the corrections officers also didn't perform the institutional counts that night. A Right. Q Those kinds of things, the perfect storms of screwups. Is that what you were referring to? A Right. And that became clearer and clearer as things went by. But I started off with a state of mind on this thing like, you know, this is going to take some explaining, you know, and I can see why people would be suspicious, more than suspicious.