yeah. hello. sorry i'm late -- thanks. i'm set, thanks. that's fine. it's nice to meet you. if you're up to it, i've got us set up in a suite upstairs -- all it takes is one second? i'm gonna start rolling -- ok. so, lemme just ask you a couple questions to start -- -- see, i thought you grew up here in the valley -- let's talk about -- it's fine. i can bleep it out. -- let's talk more about your background -- i'm confused about your past is the thing. -- just to clarify -- i would just want to clear some things up: this isn't meant -- are you asking me that? well, just trying to figure out who you are, and how you might have become -- i'm saying, frank, in trying to figure out who you are -- it's all important -- it's not like i'm trying to attack you -- we talked earlier about your mother. and we talked about your father and his death. and i don't want to be challenging or defeatist here, but i have to ask and i would want to clarify something -- something that i understand -- do you remember a miss simms? she does. from when you were a boy. she lived in tarzana. no, this is about getting something right and claryfying one of your answers to an earlier question -- i was told that your mother died. that your mother died when you were young -- i talked to miss simms. miss simms was your caretaker and neighbor after your mother died in 1980. in my research i have you listed as the only son of earl and lily partridge. and what i learned from mrs. simms is that your mother passed away in 1980. see: it's my understanding that the information supplied by you and your company and answers to question's i've asked are incorrect, frank. and if i'd like to get to the bottom of who you are and why you are then i think your family history -- you're accurate family history. well: this seems important. frank? frank. frank. what are we gonna do here? are we having a staring contest? do you have anything to say? i'm not trying to attack you, frank. i think that if you have something that needs to be cleared up. well, then. i was told that your father, that he left you and your mother and you were forced to take care of her during her illness. that you took care of your mother as she struggled with cancer. and miss simms became your caretaker after your mother died. frank. frank. frank, can you talk about your mother? frank. can you? c'mon, frank. what are you doing? yeah. so you sat it out, that's what you did? you're hurting a lot of people, frank --