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The storm's still between us and the mainland, right?

We can't even make a phone call if the storm passes.

Do you know how they executed people?

They threw them down the big pit on the hill.

And anyone that they punish in this way

becomes the Holly King.

We know you've arrested Douglas.

We know he killed Kai.

Then he killed Griffith.

We will deal with Douglas ourselves.

We are the true way.

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Whatever you have in mind, well, it's not gonna happen.

We'll see.

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Don't hurt her.

Don't hurt... anyone.

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What are you doing?

Get off me! What are you doing?!

Get off me! What the fuck are you doing?!

Get off me! Get off me!

Where -- Where are you taking me?

[Breathing heavily]

What's going on?

Grace, Grace!

Stop this, Grace! Stop this!

Listen to me, Douglas.

Nothing is gonna happen to you.

Oh, God. Oh, God. What is that?

What is that? No!

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There will be a trial in the village hall.

Say that sentence back to yourself.

Listen to how insane it sounds.

Thank you.

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Keep the house in Jodi's.

Lock up. Get your gear on and meet me in the hall.

Your attention, please.

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Owen.

No. No, no, no, no, no, no.

Owen, listen to me.

No, please don't. Please don't say it.

I have to, Owen.

I'm in the true way.

You have to be told now.

Have you done anything to my son?

What? Like what?

You tell me.

You know, indoctrinated him,

made him drink something, like a -- a potion.

No, we'd never -- Christ, Owen, no.

If -- if he takes that path when he's older,

that's up to him.

Well, that's not gonna happen.

You're not getting your hands on him.

You're not having him join your -- your --

Our what?

Well, I don't know, do I?

I don't know what you do.

We don't do anything.

It's just -- it's tradition.

And these rituals, these -- these beautiful rituals.

But it was private,

and this was the last thing that we wanted.

But, Christ, look around.

I mean, someone had to take charge.

We were in charge.

You weren't, love.

Best will in the world.

Kai, Mahangle, Griffith, and Douglas will get off somehow.

Some loophole. We all know it.

It's got so that we're not shocked anymore.

You know what I don't get you, either?

Griffith was a better dad to you than your dad.

You should be raging, front of the bloody queue.

Why'd you marry me, then?

Hmm? Not one of them.

Because --

'Cause I didn't love any of them.

Oh, I bet you've had a good laugh, though.

Poor Owen.

Doesn't have a clue.

No.

'Cause you're my man.

And that's not changed.

Anyway, you knew.

I suspected.

That's different.

You suspected.

But we laughed.

And we had sex.

We argued about whose turn it was to change unhappy.

But that's our life.

And it's great.

And none of that has to change.

I have to get to the hall.

All right, but listen to me.

You're gonna be important today.

You're not in anyone's shadow anymore.

People of Sinjuri, your attention, please.

Please make your way to the village hall immediately.

The killer of Kai Bredor has been found.

His hands still wet with the blood of our friend, the great Impossus.

The truth wave has assumed control of the situation.

But justice is a collective act.

So make your way to the village hall as quickly as you can.

Skip.

Run.

Hello, hello, girls. I'm so sorry to interrupt.

You look gorgeous. Come over here.

Girls, come on, girls, quick, quick.

That's it.

Now then, Jane is gonna make sure that you all get home safely, all right?

Yes.

And when you do get home,

I want you to ask all your mummies and daddies to come here to the village hall.

And I want you to promise me

that you will show me your lovely dance sometime soon. Good?

Yes. Yes, yes, yes.

Go on then, go and get your things.

Grace!

Grace!

What's going on?

They're saying that Douglas killed Kai, and now he's killed Griffith.

What are you all doing here? Are you OK?

Seriously, what the actual fuck is happening?

Where is he? Where's Douglas? Huh?

You have to go. Please, all of you, you have to go home.

Listen, they're saying he killed Kai. They're saying he's here.

Big one.

I made an arrest earlier. That's all I can say right now.

Don't bob me off with this shit, Grace. Not again.

Is he here? Guys?

Jesus Christ, what?

You have to take a storm. You'll need it later.

I'm not taking one.

What are we meant to do with these? Are we going to storm someone?

I need to find Heather.

Edward, don't. Just, um...

It's not safe. Just stay with me.

Please.

Oh, God.

You came.

Good.

You have to stop this, Heather.

No-one is getting executed today.

Oh, no.

That's what the plan is, isn't it?

Douglas becomes the Holy King and you throw him down that pit.

No-one can say that we didn't give your way of thinking a chance.

But hand on heart, Grace,

you cannot guarantee me that Douglas won't be acquitted

or that his punishment won't be a fraction of what he deserves.

That's a risk you take by being part of a civilised society.

You can't be a civilised society with murderers on the street.

I don't suppose you've got a mint, do you?

How long do you think you've got left?

Alive, I mean.

There are some variables.

So your last act before you tap out

is to make everyone on this island an accessory to murder?

I don't think there's going to be a reckoning, if that's what you mean.

Or are you planning on killing me too?

Why on earth would we do that?

Oh, cos you're going to tell the world.

We'll see.

You might surprise yourself.

The energy you are wasting, Grace.

This is happening.

Engage with it, or, I don't know, go for a walk.

Listen, you listen to me.

I am your police sergeant. My job is to uphold the law.

You police by consent.

And we withdraw our consent.

Oh, you could advocate for him, if you like.

There'll be a vote at the end.

You might persuade the islanders to let him stand trial on the mainland.

This is a lynching mob. I'm not going to join in and legitimise it.

Then he'll die.

Today...

...is a lot.

But I'm not going to let you do it.

I'm not going to let you do it.

Today...

...is a lot, isn't it?

A lot to process.

Some of you will have just discovered a loved one...

...is a member of the true way.

There will be time to address that.

I promise.

But first, we need to decide what to do...

...about Douglas Carisford.

So, we now know that on the 1st of September last year...

...after an argument with his father, Kai Priddoe...

...came into contact with the Reverend Carisford.

We don't know what took place between them.

But some time later, Douglas attempted to flee to the mainland.

And there were no further sightings of Kai until a year later...

...when his naked body was found in the old lookout shelter.

A post-mortem concluded that Kai froze to death.

Meaning he was still alive when he was locked in that shelter.

But a satellite picture showed McHangle Pugh's car...

...beside the shelter at the time of Kai's death.

Before he could be questioned, McHangle kills himself.

And hours later, his corpse is desecrated.

Then, earlier today, Griffith finds Kai's backpack at the church.

And Douglas stabs him repeatedly.

And as he is dying to stop Douglas escaping...

...Griffith handcuffs them together.

So, the Reverend Carisford saws off Griffith's hand.

He is quickly arrested by Sergeant Narion and Constable Parry.

All right. So, let's leap forward to Douglas's trial on the mainland.

What do we think his defence will say?

Well, they'll start off with some character assassination.

Oh, not of Douglas. Of Kai.

An innocent crush on his babysitter...

...will be presented as something grubby, sinister.

It's not relevant, sure.

But the defence's point is to erode the jury's sympathy for the victim.

Kai was already in distress when he arrived at the vicarage, they might say.

He wanted to hurt himself. Douglas had to intervene.

And Kai was accidentally knocked out.

And they'll hit that word 'accident' over and over again, rooting it in the jury's mind.

And then there's the expert witnesses.

They will explain how Douglas can't be held accountable for his actions.

He was in shock.

And now Kai has been passed on to McHangle.

Why didn't he check that Kai was dead before we dumped him in that shelter?

And the desecration of his body?

Why, that was Douglas's righteous rage against Kai's murderer.

Not the actions of a guilty man trying to deflect blame onto an innocent group.

Because, yes, McHangle was a member of the True Way.

I wish I could tell you that he wasn't. I wish I knew why he did what he did.

But you can ask any member of the True Way here today,

and they will tell you that McHangle's actions were no more reflective of our faith than Douglas's were of Christianity.

Then there's Griffith.

They will talk about his temper, about his drinking.

Why, just the other day he stormed into Grace's bedroom and punched a hole through her wardrobe.

The next thing you know, he's conducting illegal searches.

He finds Kai's backpack, and then he attacks Douglas, who kills him in self-defence.

Why? Because Grace has led everyone to believe that there is a fanatical cult loose on the island.

Oh, he's already taken that excuse for a spin.

So now he is handcuffed to a member of a cult.

His body's survival mode kicks in, and that is why he sawed off Griffith's hand and fled.

Lie upon lie upon lie.

There was a time when conventional justice worked, when the objective was to decipher, not to win.

I miss that time.

Don't you?

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This is insane.

This is wrong.

One thing Heather didn't mention.

The plan is to execute Douglas.

I'm not talking a lethal injection or a gun to the back of the head.

They're going to throw him down that pit.

He will pinball down and break every bone in his body.

If he survives, he will lay at the bottom and die a slow and agonising death.

I want my son like Kai.

That's kind of my point.

I think we should strive to be better than the man who killed Kai.

I'll tell you something else you don't want to hear.

Everything Heather just said, that disingenuous, manipulative word salad.

It might be true.

Douglas has the right to have it heard, as would you.

Regardless of how well she sells it, what Heather wants isn't a more reliable form of justice, but a total rejection of it.

Because justice isn't just a result.

It's a process.

I'm not going to pretend that the law is perfect.

It's like a dam.

There are cracks, there are leaks, but without it, we drown.

You're not here by choice.

Are you, Grace?

Or I'm saying jury, I mean.

Grace's transfer here is what's called a punishment posting.

She reported two of her colleagues for beating up a man recently acquitted of sexual assault.

Well, he was acquitted because his victim had a previous conviction for shoplifting when she was a student.

His defence argued that made her testimony unsound.

That's right, isn't it, Grace?

Remember, character assassination.

I don't know. I wasn't on the jury.

It wasn't his first offence, though, was it?

There was a previous attack that never made it to trial.

Or at least that's what you told a packed pub the other night.

Suppose he had been incapacitated after the first attack.

What would have happened to the second victim?

I'm not going to speculate about something I have no idea.

The answer is there wouldn't have been a second victim.

Douglas.

The same question to you.

Oh, my God, what is wrong with you?

Just stop. Stop! Douglas. Douglas.

Why did you come to St. Jory?

I'm not doing this. I'm not doing this.

Grace just said you should have a chance to put your case forward.

This is it.

Why are you here?

I fell in love with one of my parishioners, where I worked before.

I've never made a secret of that.

But it didn't work out, so I came here for a fresh start.

This woman you fell in love with, what was her name?

Rachel.

Rachel.

Something I've always wanted to say to you, Douglas.

You have a beautiful smile.

Now, how would I...

How would I describe that smile?

I would say it was like...

..a rainbow.

Too cheesy?

Please.

Or...

Please.

I've heard that before.

Please, please, don't do this.

These letters were found in your house.

All of them signed from Rachel.

First, she's bemused at you wanting to communicate like this

and not by text or WhatsApp.

She says she hates her handwriting.

Please don't, Heather.

She talks about how exhausting her family are,

about the films she saw,

about how much she loves kissing you,

about how your smile is like a rainbow.

Your typical love letter, basically.

Old-fashioned.

Romantic.

And then she talks about how nervous she is

about going into year eight.

Oh!

Oh, no, no, please, please, please, please,

you're making a mistake, don't do this!

After two months, her letters become more graphic,

as she describes having sex.

In your living room, in a parent's living room,

Rachel was 12 years old at the time.

Did Kai find these? Is that why you attacked him?

The church knew.

They did nothing.

No one was allowed to pack his suitcase and come here.

Unless we act now.

Douglas will be free to offend over and over again,

just as your rapist did.

Can you see the pattern yet of your failure?

Of the law's failure?

These men are cancerous cells.

They cannot be counselled.

They cannot be cured.

They need to be cut out!

When will you stop protecting these predators

and start protecting us?

Yes!

All right, all right, all right, all right.

Thank you, all right.

There will now be a vote.

No, no, don't do this, please, no!

No, no, please, no!

You have all been given a stone.

If you think Douglas should be handed over to the police

on the mainland,

I want you to place your stone here.

If you think we should deal with Douglas ourselves,

I want you to place your stone here.

If there are more stones on my right than on the left,

Douglas will be executed in accordance with true way law.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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The votes are equal.

[crowd murmuring]

You're the last, Grace.

It's up to you.

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[crowd groans]

[crying]

You're dead!

You're fucking dead!

Yes! Yes!

[crowd cheering]

Thank you.

That cannot have been easy.

Now I want you all to go home.

Close your windows.

Close your doors.

Close your curtains.

For the next hour,

Saint Jory belongs to the true way.

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What's going on out there?

Have they done it?

They've taken him to the Grouthers.

To be prepared, they said.

We did the right thing, Grace.

Who are you trying to convince?

There they are, my two little psychopaths.

No, turn around and go away. You're the last thing we need right now.

Uh-uh, we are doing this.

Look, you wouldn't understand, okay? I'm a father--

Literally shut up. Spaffing in Ayrland doesn't mean you can execute people.

And you, I don't even--

I look at someone's laptop and I'm dead to you.

A fucking mob wants to kill the vicar and you're like,

"Let me know when you're done, lads."

Hey, where are you going? I'm not finished with you.

I'm gonna pack my bags, go to the harbour, wait for the storm to clear

and get the next boat to the mainland.

Well, wait, 'cause Lucy's got something to tell you.

Go on, Lucy.

It was me who told Griffith to go to the church.

I'm in the true way, too.

Well, I was, but I was a nobody.

The original 30 families or whoever's left of them,

they're at the heart of it.

We just do what we're told.

I was meant to send you to the church.

They didn't tell me why, I swear.

But you weren't here, it's just Griffith, so I...

I sent him.

You see what this means?

The true way knew it was Douglas.

What? Any follow-up questions?

Like, how long did they know? Why didn't they tell you?

You can't both hear me, right? I am saying this out loud.

Good for them. They are clearly better detectives than we are.

Where did you get this from?

It's from your file, isn't it?

No, it's paid for the Holy King...

No, listen, you have got to snap out of this.

I've been wrong my whole life.

I've supported a system that allows criminals to go free.

Heather's right.

If I can't promise Ian that the man who...

..who killed his son and assaulted a child...

..will get the basic minimum punishment, then, seriously...

..what are we for?

Are we for?

I'm sorry that I wasn't who he wanted me to be.

I wasn't who I wanted to be either.

- "Highly is the body." - Don't!

"They call it ruination, but the preparation is exactly the same."

"First, the sacrifices fed Roanberries to help them on their way."

- Silas, what did you just say? - "In folklore, Roanberries protect travellers

"on their journeys and stop them from getting lost."

There were Roanberry seeds in Kai's teeth.

Anne said he must have found them and eaten them when he was delirious.

He couldn't have. They grow at high altitudes, not in the woods where Kai was.

But they're truly bright red.

That's where true race sacrifices get their name from - the Red King.

- And all of that was in your file? - Yeah, but it's gone now,

and all this stuff has added this page about apostates. That's not mine.

That's how we knew the symbols on Mahangel's body were wrong,

so there wasn't a link to the true way.

Only two people have come into contact with this file - Heather and... you.

I just hid it under my bed. I didn't fiddle with it.

Besides, Heather's a mother superior. It's going to be her, isn't it?

If Kai was a sacrifice, then what was he a sacrifice for?

I think it was to buy Heather time.

The Nankaros are the channel for the four gods.

The gods speak through them, but Heather's the last one.

She doesn't have any children, so there's no-one to take over when she dies.

We didn't worry, though. Heather was so strong and fit,

we thought there'd be more time to come up with a...

A succession plan? A miracle?

Then she got ill. She hid it, but we could see.

We'd asked the 30 families, but they'd just say,

"Don't worry, we've got a plan."

I think they meant Kai.

I think we got played.

But if killing Kai was to save Heather,

has anyone pointed out to her that it clearly didn't work?

Why do they need Douglas? Is that her having another pop?

No, Douglas is an execution, not a sacrifice. There's a difference.

Shit.

Douglas.

Hold him still!

Christ, man!

(SCREAMING)

The lady's been sick again.

Why isn't she better?

She should be better.

Come on, son.

(LAUGHING)

(SCREAMING)

Shit!

Wait, I need to check if anyone's in here.

OK.

I need to do something about this. Fine.

But if you're thinking about running away,

this is the safest place on the island for you.

Why don't we go to the police station?

It's the first place they'll look.

We'll be fine here. We just have to secure the doors and windows.

How long are we going to be here for?

Till we can contact the mainland and call the cavalry, I guess.

Hey, we could hide under the stage. What?

Think about it. Every room has a window so people can see in,

but if we're under here, then nobody could see us.

And there's biscuits in the kitchen, so we'll be all right for a day or so.

And if somebody needs to go for a wee,

then they can just go to the toilet and hop forwards.

This is actually really heavy.

Windows were in 2018.

Wait, wasn't this one Miss It?

That's the police officer who killed himself in front of me.

That's Matt. Matt at Benfield. Benfield.

Well, that can't be him.

He went to school with us.

And where is he now?

I don't know. He went to the mainland a few years back.

That's him.

Trust me, it's not the sort of thing you forget.

Matt died in front of me, and I was transferred to his home.

That's not random.

One of the last things he said was, "They just asked for a name."

What if he meant me? My name?

But why bring me here to the heart of it all?

To solve Kai's murder?

But if it was a sacrifice, why risk me finding that out?

Heather said the votes were even, so I had the casting vote.

She lied.

More people voted not to execute. Not many, but more.

She'd already lost. She didn't need my vote.

Because this wasn't about Douglas.

Remember what Silas said? It's about ruination.

This whole thing has been about me.

Getting me to vote to execute Douglas,

to betray myself, to ruin myself.

I was the next sacrifice.

The moment I put my stone in that bowl, I became the Red King.

Remember those Welsh cakes you wanted me to give Grace?

I totally forgot. But later I was hungry, so I had one.

But it was rank.

Now I know why.

It had roanberries in it.

To help Grace on her way.

Just like Kai.

Anyway, she never had them, sorry.

I put some in her drink this morning when she collapsed,

and I didn't know about Kai.

Excuse me, say that again.

I didn't know about Kai.

That was the higher-ups.

What's left of the 30 families.

They needed me after.

To give the roanberries to Grace.

And I kept trying to feed her.

She probably thought I was mad.

All this just to save Heather.

Oh, you don't understand.

If she dies, we lose our gods.

We become nothing. Orphans. We become dust.

My God, man.

That's what they told me.

And you believe this?

Why would they lie? They're my family.

I thought I was your family.

You're you.

And you've been you since you were 10 years old.

You could have asked me to join.

I didn't want to.

It was mine.

And you would steal the show.

I have to go.

No, Winter, no, no, no, no.

Don't. Get in the way. Don't interfere.

Just let this play out.

They killed Kai!

Your family. They killed a kid!

Yeah.

To save something so much bigger.

Did you think I'd be ashamed?

I was lonely.

We're all lonely.

Do you know this little girl?

This lonely little girl, we can do something with her.

We can do something with her.

Come on.

Oh, well.

Now, where are you, little city mouse?

Check the other rooms. Go on.

You're in there, aren't you, little city mouse?

Gave us the right runaround. Got me pamped in.

You're in there, aren't you, little city mouse?

Squeak, squeak.

I can smell you.

I can smell you a fur.

That's in you.

Oh, but I reckon you've worked that out.

The lady just wants her little city mouse.

To be honest, boys, they're not here.

Saw them dark out the back door. You must have just missed them.

What?

Like I'd lie.

Go.

Jesus.

You under there?

They've gone.

Thank you.

I won't hurt you.

Probably.

Kai was a sacrifice.

Forever.

We're actually saying that.

We don't know for certain, but it's a theory.

He was.

And I was her second attempt.

Really fucking long story.

Yeah.

Apparently Lowry gave you some sort of roe and berry smoothie this morning.

Lowry's one of them.

Yeah. Sounded like it was a bit of a shock for winter, too.

I don't know what to believe anymore.

And I'm...

I'm losing my mind.

See, you need to tell me what you did to Kai.

Or I'll walk outside.

I'll get the Krautlers back.

And I don't care what they do to any of you.

I never touched Kai.

Nothing like that ever happened.

Ever.

He turned up at my house, he was distressed, all of that is true.

Griffith had just told him about you and Lucy.

But we talked.

And I calmed him down.

He was going to go home.

But I...

Before he arrived, I'd been looking at...

At Rachel's letters.

They were on the desk.

Kai said he was going to tell everyone.

I just tried to...

Pacify him.

It really was an accident.

And then I panicked, I tried to get away, that didn't work.

I was walking home and...

And I met Mahangle.

I swear to you, I didn't know he was still alive.

If I did, I never would have let Mahangle take him.

And he took Kai's backpack.

I didn't see that again until Griffith found it.

It definitely wasn't in that cupboard.

Someone put it there.

And I want to explain about Rachel and me.

Our relationship was so utterly authentic.

It was so real and gentle.

It was actually beautiful.

I have met so many men like you

and every single one thought he was a nice guy.

It wasn't a love story, you raped a child.

Now be quiet.

Ian, go home.

We've got this.

I said I'd let them kill you.

Not just for Kai.

You are such a hypocrite.

Kai was in love with Lucy and you...

You were fucking her.

That's why Kai came to me that day.

And now, you, me, my brother, Mahangle, Griffith, me, and you...

We all locked Kai in that shelter.

Owen, get Douglas to the station and lock him in a cell.

There's still plenty of people who'd like to see him dead.

What are you going to do?

I'm going to bring this to an end.

I'm going to get you out of here.

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Was it always going to be Kai? And then me?

He was a gift.

When Mahangle walked into that vicarage and realised that Kai was just unconscious,

he saw the opportunity to save our entire faith.

So he brought him to me and we prepared Kai together.

And then Mahangle took him to the shelter.

Well, you waited for a recovery that never happened.

He was soiled by his carnality.

We know that now.

So you came looking for me.

Someone like you.

Someone to ruin.

And yet here we are.

So, I'm guessing that didn't work either.

Your body will serve us just as well.

No, no, wait.

Let's just calm down a second.

I know you think I'm a fanatic, Grace.

But I don't understand you either.

I look at you, at the chamber of your heart where faith should be.

I am shocked by its emptiness.

Except I do believe in something.

I'm not alone.

Owen asked me earlier what the plan was.

I said we just had to wait for the cavalry to arrive.

It turns out they were here all along.

I just had to get your thugs out of town long enough for him to round them up.

That's a lot of witnesses, isn't it?

But sure, go ahead.

Kill me.

Who knows, maybe it'll work.

You'll be the healthiest woman in prison.

Cutting it a bit fine, weren't you?

I got everyone though, didn't I?

So, what are we going to do with the monsters?

Sit them on the ground, put their hands behind their heads, we'll process them one by one.

So, my mum's in a cult then?

Yeah.

How you doing with that?

Not amazing.

You killed us.

You know that?

We were something wonderful and you killed us.

Don't know how long this is all going to take.

Yeah.

Listen.

The woman I love is still in there.

We're going to find her, okay?

What?

What?

No!

I'm ready for you now.

I'm pleased to tell you that having completed their inquiries, the IOPC have concluded there is no case to answer.

You are therefore fully exonerated of any wrongdoing.

Right, sorry, so what?

The situation on St. Jory was supremely complex and we do not believe it would be in the public interest to take any further action against you.

Now...

No, this...

Do you know how many people died?

The whole thing was a fuck up, a spectacular fuck up.

There had been a degree of infiltration into the police force by associates of Heather Nankaro.

Mistakes were made.

But it doesn't do to dwell.

Gotcha.

Sir?

Sergeant Narayan.

The situation on St. Jory remains complex.

The army have minded the shop for the last six months but what the island needs is a return to some kind of normality.

Most pressing is the restoration of its police force.

You have got to be kidding me.

St. Jory requires a very specific tone of policing.

Now especially.

What do you say, Grace?

Will you go back?

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