This talk is a summary of the Dehghanian+19 paper that recently appeared on the arXiv as arXiv:1812.11578D. We are trying to understand the NGC 5548 emission line "holiday," a period when the broad lines did not respond to changes in the FUV continuum. We study the FUV absorption lines since these are simpler to model and they display similar behavior. We created physical models of the cloud producing absorption FUV lines. We showed that changes in the covering factor of the "obscurer," which heavily modifies the observed SED of NGC 5548, produces changes in the soft X-rays. This changes the ionization of the cloud in ways that reproduce the FUV observations. Other models which change the soft x-ray SED like the Mathur+ Comptonization or Sun+ Falling Corona Models might work as well.