[ The coughing was both worrisome and irritating at the same time. Were Oswald not so angry and caught up in keeping himself under control he may have properly registered that a phone call likely wasn't the best thing for Ed to be engaging in, but. Well. He probably wasn't going to stop being mad any time soon. ]

That's what I said. [ He was going to regret being so impatient later. ] As fine and dandy is that is, Ed, I don't trust her. How do you know for certain she's the same person you think she is? How is it that Barbara Kean's timeline matches ours but Kristen Kringle's doesn't? Does that not bother you even a little bit? [ How does it not bother him? It has to. It's supposed to. ]