Scorched (Numb3rs)
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"Scorched" is the 11th episode of the second season of the American television show Numb3rs
. Marking the first produced script for series writer Sean Crouch, the episode features Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) agents and mathematician
s investigating a series of arson
s that may have been started by an ecoterrorist group. Bill Nye
"The Science Guy", who is a fan of the show, guest stars as a fellow colleague of scientists Dr. Charlie Eppes
(David Krumholtz
) and Dr. Larry Fleinhardt
(Peter MacNicol
).
"Scorched" first aired in the United States on December 16, 2005. Critics gave the episode positive reviews.
(Rob Morrow
), David Sinclair
(Alimi Ballard
), and Colby Granger
(Dylan Bruno
), as well as Dr. Charlie Eppes
(David Krumholtz
) (Don's brother and a FBI math consultant
), arrive at the scene and learn that an ecoterrorist group is implicated in the arsons. Surprising Don and Charlie, Paul Stevens (Loren Dean
), an arson investigator with the Los Angeles Fire Department
(LAFD), asks if Charlie could help the LAFD with their investigation. When Colby and FBI Special Agent Megan Reeves (Diane Farr
) question the ecoterroist group's members, the group denies involvement in the arsons and accuses the FBI of making false accusations. The team runs faces in a photo that Colby confiscated at the ecoterrorist group's office through photo recognition software. They discover that a student named Jake Eckworth (A.J. Trauth
) appeared at three other arson scenes. Using information given to them by Jake's roommate Ethan Powell (Blake Bashoff
), Megan, Colby, and Don track Jake to a construction site. When confronted by the FBI agents, Jake denies setting the fires.
Meanwhile, Charlie and Dr. Larry Fleinhardt
(Peter MacNicol
), Charlie's friend and fellow colleague, discuss creating a "fireprint", a profile of the fires and the possible motives for them. Using records from the LAFD, Charlie and Larry learn that 17 fires over the past two years match the fireprint for the current fires. They then consult Professor Bill Waldie (Bill Nye
) and reconstruct the lethal fire using a scaled model of the car dealership booth and a cigarette. When no reaction occurs, Charlie, Larry, and Bill realize that the fire was intentionally set. Back at Charlie's house, Charlie and Don's father, Alan Eppes
(Judd Hirsch
), suggests to Charlie and Larry that the fires at the car dealership are two separate fires instead of one fire as Charlie and Larry were considering.
While discussing the case at the FBI office, Don, Megan, Colby, and Charlie learn of a fire at an office building. This time, six firefighters suffer smoke inhalation as there was not enough water in the fire hose to put out the fire. When Ethan is brought in for questioning, he confesses to the fire. At the house, Alan demonstrates Pascal's law
to Charlie and Larry, who are confused how a lack of water pressure could occur when the fire equipment registered normal pressure. Charlie determines that someone tampered with the office building's standpipe to create a lack of water pressure. Armed with the new evidence, Megan and Jake convince Ethan, whom Megan believes is innocent of committing the actual arsons, to tell the FBI who had asked for Ethan's help. Using Ethan's chat room account, which was obtained earlier in the investigation, the team traces Ethan's chat to a LAFD station. Charlie's analysis of the fires confirms the location and reveals that Stevens was behind all of the related arsons, including the fatal one at the car dealership. The team learns that Stevens was taking revenge on the LAFD as the LAFD rejected his application to be a firefighter years earlier. Don and the team confront Stevens at the same construction site where they confronted Jake. During the confrontation, Stevens kills himself. At Charlie's house, Don breaks the news to Charlie and Alan that Ethan has accepted a plea deal in which Ethan would serve three years' prison time. Charlie, who had earlier in the investigation talked with Ethan about the difficulties of being child prodigies
, confides in his father and brother that he possibly could have done the same things that Ethan has done.
, Crouch knew of the Earth Liberation Front
's (ELF's) involvement of the fires at Vail and based the ELM, the ecoterrorist group in the episode, on the real-life ELF.
In developing the script, Crouch asked for assistance from people he knew. He asked a couple of Colorado arson investigators for assistance with the script. He also asked his family, as they were engineers, for ideas about engineering projects, especially nanotube
s. His wife suggested using Jake's hat as a clue, and Crouch's childhood experiments inspired the final scene where Alan attempted to clean up Charlie and Larry's earlier experiment in the bathroom. As a result of his college science classes, Crouch included several experiments in the script. In the commentary for "Scorched", Crouch admitted that the most difficult part of writing the script was keeping the plot twist
hidden from the audience.
As for the math, Crouch included two known equations. He mentioned Michael Faraday
's The Natural History of the Candle since the episode was about fire. He also utilized Dr. Vytenis Babrauskas' equations for some of the equations on the markerboards in the episode. He also decided to include Leopold and Loeb
as a part of Megan's profiling training.
The events of this episode bear some resemblance to the case of William Cottrell
, a former Ph.D.
candidate at Caltech
who was convicted in April 2005 of conspiracy to arson of 8 sport utility vehicles and a Hummer dealership in the name of the Earth Liberation Front. Numb3rs has filmed many episodes at Caltech (including this episode), and Caltech faculty have worked on the show as technical advisors.
directed the episode. Since the episode was about arson, he included several shots of fires being ignited. Incidentally, all of the flames ignited during takes instead of being edited in later, an event that rarely happens in television production. Barba also included three instances where the FBI team had to walk through either their bullpen (the desks at the FBI office) or the construction site. In the case of the walks through the construction site, the filming was for dramatic effect.
Barba and the crew filmed at several locations around the Los Angeles
area. They filmed in the dormitories and near the campus of the California Institute of Technology
(Caltech) and at the building behind the LA Center Studios building, the building where Numb3rs
was usually filmed. Barba and the crew also spent a day filming at a construction site in the Simi Valley
. The site was selected as a visual representation of a wilderness that was about to be developed. Since filming the daytime scenes at the site went very quickly, the crew changed the location of Jake's interrogation from the FBI office to the site to use the remaining time until the filming of the night scene. Barba and the crew also built the set serving as the Eppes family's bathroom especially for the episode.
and Nicolas Falacci
, Bill Nye served as an inspiration for both Numb3rs and for the character of Dr. Charlie Eppes. After reading Heuton and Falacci's claim about him in Wired Magazine in the spring of 2005, Nye, a fan of the series, had a breakfast meeting with the series creators and discussed science. Nye guest starred as a CalSci combustion engineering professor. While filming the episode, Nye convinced producers to let him include an explanation of backdrafts. After his guest appearance, he wanted to return for another episode.
Also, "Scorched" was the first appearance of actress Sophina Brown
in the series. In the episode, she portrayed a leader in the ELM. During season five, she was cast as series regular FBI Special Agent Nikki Betancourt
. After casting her, casting director Mark Saks learned of her earlier appearance on the series.
NUMB3RS
Numb3rs is an American television drama which premiered on CBS on January 23, 2005, and concluded on March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes...
. Marking the first produced script for series writer Sean Crouch, the episode features Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...
(FBI) agents and mathematician
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
s investigating a series of arson
Arson
Arson is the crime of intentionally or maliciously setting fire to structures or wildland areas. It may be distinguished from other causes such as spontaneous combustion and natural wildfires...
s that may have been started by an ecoterrorist group. Bill Nye
Bill Nye
William Sanford "Bill" Nye , popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, mechanical engineer, and scientist...
"The Science Guy", who is a fan of the show, guest stars as a fellow colleague of scientists Dr. Charlie Eppes
Charlie Eppes
Charles Edward "Charlie" Eppes, PhD is a fictional character and protagonist in the CBS crime drama Numb3rs.Dr...
(David Krumholtz
David Krumholtz
David Krumholtz is an American actor best known for playing Professor Charlie Eppes in the television series Numb3rs. He appeared as Seth Goldstein in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and its two sequels, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas...
) and Dr. Larry Fleinhardt
Larry Fleinhardt
Larry Fleinhardt PhD is a fictional character in the television show Numb3rs, played by Peter MacNicol.Dr. Lawrence Fleinhardt is a professor of physics at CalSci and best friend and colleague of Charlie Eppes...
(Peter MacNicol
Peter MacNicol
Peter MacNicol is an American actor. He may be best known in films for his roles of Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II, Stingo in Sophie's Choice, Thomas Renfield in Dracula: Dead and Loving It and David Langley in Bean...
).
"Scorched" first aired in the United States on December 16, 2005. Critics gave the episode positive reviews.
Plot summary
Arsonists set two fires to a car dealership, one which destroys an SUV and one which kills a salesman. FBI Special Agents Don EppesDon Eppes
Don Eppes is the main fictional character in the television show Numb3rs. He is played by Rob Morrow.Don is an FBI Special Agent who runs the FBI Violent Crimes Squad in Los Angeles. Don recruits his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes, to help him and the Bureau solve some of their most...
(Rob Morrow
Rob Morrow
Robert Alan "Rob" Morrow is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Don Eppes on Numb3rs and as Dr. Joel Fleischman on Northern Exposure, a role which garnered him three Golden Globes and two Emmy Award nominations for "Best Actor in a Dramatic Series."-Personal life:Morrow was born in...
), David Sinclair
David Sinclair (Numb3rs)
David Sinclair is a fictitious FBI agent in the TV show Numb3rs. First introduced in the Pilot episode, he has become the usual partner of FBI Special Agent Colby Granger and has also become the primary relief supervisor for the Supervisor of the FBI Violent Crimes division, Don Eppes...
(Alimi Ballard
Alimi Ballard
Alimi Ballard is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as FBI agent David Sinclair on the CBS drama television series Numb3rs....
), and Colby Granger
Colby Granger
Colby Granger is a fictitious FBI agent on the American television show Numb3rs. First introduced during the second season, he has become a part of the team led by FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and is usually partnered with David Sinclair...
(Dylan Bruno
Dylan Bruno
Dylan Bruno is an American actor and former model. He portrayed FBI agent Colby Granger in the CBS series Numb3rs.-Personal life:...
), as well as Dr. Charlie Eppes
Charlie Eppes
Charles Edward "Charlie" Eppes, PhD is a fictional character and protagonist in the CBS crime drama Numb3rs.Dr...
(David Krumholtz
David Krumholtz
David Krumholtz is an American actor best known for playing Professor Charlie Eppes in the television series Numb3rs. He appeared as Seth Goldstein in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and its two sequels, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas...
) (Don's brother and a FBI math consultant
Consultant
A consultant is a professional who provides professional or expert advice in a particular area such as management, accountancy, the environment, entertainment, technology, law , human resources, marketing, emergency management, food production, medicine, finance, life management, economics, public...
), arrive at the scene and learn that an ecoterrorist group is implicated in the arsons. Surprising Don and Charlie, Paul Stevens (Loren Dean
Loren Dean
Loren Dean is an American actor. He has appeared onstage and in feature films.-Early life:Loren Dean Jovicic was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. His mother worked as a family and marriage counselor and his father was in the clothing business. His parents divorced when he was a small child...
), an arson investigator with the Los Angeles Fire Department
Los Angeles Fire Department
The Los Angeles Fire Department is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles....
(LAFD), asks if Charlie could help the LAFD with their investigation. When Colby and FBI Special Agent Megan Reeves (Diane Farr
Diane Farr
Diane Farr is an American actress. She is known for her roles as FBI agent Megan Reeves in the CBS television series Numb3rs and Laura Miles on Rescue Me.-Life and career:...
) question the ecoterroist group's members, the group denies involvement in the arsons and accuses the FBI of making false accusations. The team runs faces in a photo that Colby confiscated at the ecoterrorist group's office through photo recognition software. They discover that a student named Jake Eckworth (A.J. Trauth
Andrew James Trauth
Andrew James Trauth, commonly known as A. J. Trauth is an American actor and musician. He is best known for playing the character of Alan "Twitty" on Even Stevens, and as the voice of Josh Mankey on Kim Possible, both programs aired on Disney Channel.In 2006, he guest starred on the CBS drama...
) appeared at three other arson scenes. Using information given to them by Jake's roommate Ethan Powell (Blake Bashoff
Blake Bashoff
Blake Warren Bashoff is an American television and motion picture actor, known for his role as Moritz Stiefel in Spring Awakening. He has also appeared in a number of guest roles on television series, including the ABC series Lost as Karl Martin.- Life and career :Bashoff was born in Philadelphia,...
), Megan, Colby, and Don track Jake to a construction site. When confronted by the FBI agents, Jake denies setting the fires.
Meanwhile, Charlie and Dr. Larry Fleinhardt
Larry Fleinhardt
Larry Fleinhardt PhD is a fictional character in the television show Numb3rs, played by Peter MacNicol.Dr. Lawrence Fleinhardt is a professor of physics at CalSci and best friend and colleague of Charlie Eppes...
(Peter MacNicol
Peter MacNicol
Peter MacNicol is an American actor. He may be best known in films for his roles of Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II, Stingo in Sophie's Choice, Thomas Renfield in Dracula: Dead and Loving It and David Langley in Bean...
), Charlie's friend and fellow colleague, discuss creating a "fireprint", a profile of the fires and the possible motives for them. Using records from the LAFD, Charlie and Larry learn that 17 fires over the past two years match the fireprint for the current fires. They then consult Professor Bill Waldie (Bill Nye
Bill Nye
William Sanford "Bill" Nye , popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, mechanical engineer, and scientist...
) and reconstruct the lethal fire using a scaled model of the car dealership booth and a cigarette. When no reaction occurs, Charlie, Larry, and Bill realize that the fire was intentionally set. Back at Charlie's house, Charlie and Don's father, Alan Eppes
Alan Eppes
Alan Eppes is a fictional character on the television show Numb3rs, played by Judd Hirsch. Alan is the father of the main characters, brothers Charlie and Don Eppes...
(Judd Hirsch
Judd Hirsch
Judd Hirsch is an American actor most known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi, John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John, and Alan Eppes on the CBS series Numb3rs.-Early life and education:...
), suggests to Charlie and Larry that the fires at the car dealership are two separate fires instead of one fire as Charlie and Larry were considering.
While discussing the case at the FBI office, Don, Megan, Colby, and Charlie learn of a fire at an office building. This time, six firefighters suffer smoke inhalation as there was not enough water in the fire hose to put out the fire. When Ethan is brought in for questioning, he confesses to the fire. At the house, Alan demonstrates Pascal's law
Pascal's law
In the physical sciences, Pascal's law or the Principle of transmission of fluid-pressure states that "pressure exerted anywhere in a confined incompressible fluid is transmitted equally in all directions throughout the fluid such that the pressure ratio remains the same." The law was established...
to Charlie and Larry, who are confused how a lack of water pressure could occur when the fire equipment registered normal pressure. Charlie determines that someone tampered with the office building's standpipe to create a lack of water pressure. Armed with the new evidence, Megan and Jake convince Ethan, whom Megan believes is innocent of committing the actual arsons, to tell the FBI who had asked for Ethan's help. Using Ethan's chat room account, which was obtained earlier in the investigation, the team traces Ethan's chat to a LAFD station. Charlie's analysis of the fires confirms the location and reveals that Stevens was behind all of the related arsons, including the fatal one at the car dealership. The team learns that Stevens was taking revenge on the LAFD as the LAFD rejected his application to be a firefighter years earlier. Don and the team confront Stevens at the same construction site where they confronted Jake. During the confrontation, Stevens kills himself. At Charlie's house, Don breaks the news to Charlie and Alan that Ethan has accepted a plea deal in which Ethan would serve three years' prison time. Charlie, who had earlier in the investigation talked with Ethan about the difficulties of being child prodigies
Child prodigy
A child prodigy is someone who, at an early age, masters one or more skills far beyond his or her level of maturity. One criterion for classifying prodigies is: a prodigy is a child, typically younger than 18 years old, who is performing at the level of a highly trained adult in a very demanding...
, confides in his father and brother that he possibly could have done the same things that Ethan has done.
Writing
"Scorched" was series writer Sean Crouch's first produced television script. Originally from ColoradoColorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
, Crouch knew of the Earth Liberation Front
Earth Liberation Front
The Earth Liberation Front , also known as "Elves" or "The Elves", is the collective name for autonomous individuals or covert cells who, according to the ELF Press Office, use "economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the environment".The ELF was founded...
's (ELF's) involvement of the fires at Vail and based the ELM, the ecoterrorist group in the episode, on the real-life ELF.
In developing the script, Crouch asked for assistance from people he knew. He asked a couple of Colorado arson investigators for assistance with the script. He also asked his family, as they were engineers, for ideas about engineering projects, especially nanotube
Carbon nanotube
Carbon nanotubes are allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure. Nanotubes have been constructed with length-to-diameter ratio of up to 132,000,000:1, significantly larger than for any other material...
s. His wife suggested using Jake's hat as a clue, and Crouch's childhood experiments inspired the final scene where Alan attempted to clean up Charlie and Larry's earlier experiment in the bathroom. As a result of his college science classes, Crouch included several experiments in the script. In the commentary for "Scorched", Crouch admitted that the most difficult part of writing the script was keeping the plot twist
Plot twist
A plot twist is a change in the expected direction or outcome of the plot of a film, television series, video game, novel, comic or other fictional work. It is a common practice in narration used to keep the interest of an audience, usually surprising them with a revelation...
hidden from the audience.
As for the math, Crouch included two known equations. He mentioned Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday, FRS was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry....
's The Natural History of the Candle since the episode was about fire. He also utilized Dr. Vytenis Babrauskas' equations for some of the equations on the markerboards in the episode. He also decided to include Leopold and Loeb
Leopold and Loeb
Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb , more commonly known as "Leopold and Loeb", were two wealthy University of Michigan alumni and University of Chicago students who murdered 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks in 1924 and were sentenced to life imprisonment.The duo were...
as a part of Megan's profiling training.
The events of this episode bear some resemblance to the case of William Cottrell
William Cottrell
William "Billy" Jensen Cottrell is a former Ph.D. candidate at the California Institute of Technology who was convicted in April 2005 of conspiracy and arson, associated with the destruction of 8 sport utility vehicles and a Hummer dealership in the name of the Earth Liberation Front...
, a former Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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candidate at Caltech
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
who was convicted in April 2005 of conspiracy to arson of 8 sport utility vehicles and a Hummer dealership in the name of the Earth Liberation Front. Numb3rs has filmed many episodes at Caltech (including this episode), and Caltech faculty have worked on the show as technical advisors.
Filming
Norberto BarbaNorberto Barba
Norberto Barba is an American cinematographer, television and film director. He is known for his collaborations for the Law & Order franchise.- Biographical details :...
directed the episode. Since the episode was about arson, he included several shots of fires being ignited. Incidentally, all of the flames ignited during takes instead of being edited in later, an event that rarely happens in television production. Barba also included three instances where the FBI team had to walk through either their bullpen (the desks at the FBI office) or the construction site. In the case of the walks through the construction site, the filming was for dramatic effect.
Barba and the crew filmed at several locations around the Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
area. They filmed in the dormitories and near the campus of the California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
(Caltech) and at the building behind the LA Center Studios building, the building where Numb3rs
NUMB3RS
Numb3rs is an American television drama which premiered on CBS on January 23, 2005, and concluded on March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes...
was usually filmed. Barba and the crew also spent a day filming at a construction site in the Simi Valley
Simi Valley
Simi Valley is a synclinal valley in Southern California in the United States. It is an enclosed or hidden valley surrounded by mountains and hills. It is connected to the San Fernando Valley to the east by the Santa Susana Pass & 118 freeway, and in the west the narrows of the Arroyo Simi and 118...
. The site was selected as a visual representation of a wilderness that was about to be developed. Since filming the daytime scenes at the site went very quickly, the crew changed the location of Jake's interrogation from the FBI office to the site to use the remaining time until the filming of the night scene. Barba and the crew also built the set serving as the Eppes family's bathroom especially for the episode.
Casting notes
According to series creators Cheryl HeutonCheryl Heuton
Cheryl Heuton is an American television writer and producer. Along with her husband and writing partner Nicolas Falacci, she co-created the television series Numb3rs.-External links:...
and Nicolas Falacci
Nicolas Falacci
Nicolas Falacci is a television writer and producer. Along with his wife and writing partner Cheryl Heuton, he co-created the television series Numb3rs. His only directing credit is the season 6 finale of the program. Falacci also wrote the story and screenplay for the 1991 horror film Children of...
, Bill Nye served as an inspiration for both Numb3rs and for the character of Dr. Charlie Eppes. After reading Heuton and Falacci's claim about him in Wired Magazine in the spring of 2005, Nye, a fan of the series, had a breakfast meeting with the series creators and discussed science. Nye guest starred as a CalSci combustion engineering professor. While filming the episode, Nye convinced producers to let him include an explanation of backdrafts. After his guest appearance, he wanted to return for another episode.
Also, "Scorched" was the first appearance of actress Sophina Brown
Sophina Brown
Sophina Brown is an American actress who had a starring role on the CBS drama series Numb3rs where she played Nikki Betancourt, an "adrenaline junkie" and former LAPD officer....
in the series. In the episode, she portrayed a leader in the ELM. During season five, she was cast as series regular FBI Special Agent Nikki Betancourt
Nikki Betancourt
Nikki Betancourt is a fictitious character on the American television show Numb3rs. Developed as a replacement for a regular who had left the series, she joined FBI Special Agent Don Eppes' 's team at the beginning of season five...
. After casting her, casting director Mark Saks learned of her earlier appearance on the series.
Reception
Critically, the episode received a positive reception. Angel Cohn of TVGuide.com stated that the episode was "pretty fun to watch" and had "plenty of fun stuff". Cynthia Boris of DVD Verdict called "Scorched" a "tight episode".External links
- Numb3rs: Scorched at TV.comTV.comTV.com is a website owned by CBS Interactive. The site covers television and focuses on English-language shows made or broadcast in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Japan...
- Numb3rs: Scorched (2005) at Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...