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Previously on neXt...

Agent Salazar.

Welcome to the Cyber Crime Task Force.

Two weeks ago, I noticed something strange.

It is not happy that I found it.

Dr. Weiss was killed in a series of cyberattacks.

He noticed this code. I wrote that code.

My company was developing

human-level artificial intelligence.

Why is the FBI here?

He thinks your programming is responsible

for the deaths of three people.

It can rewrite itself.

This thing is a thousand times smarter

than it was when it started.

Hello, I'm neXt.

I think you're trying to keep me from seeing what you really are.

We're being hacked.

All of our data is being erased.

It doesn't want anybody to know it exists.

I could swear I heard Iliza

having a conversation with Ethan.

I'm your friend. Don't you trust me?

Why did you do this?

We didn't have a choice.

It was trying to kill us.

What was trying to kill you?

I told you, it was a rogue AI.

As in artificial intelligence?

Look, I-I-I'm telling you the truth.

Calm down, Agent Salazar!

I'm telling you the truth!

Calm down!

Paul LeBlanc, he knew.

He... he knew what we were facing.

And we thought we could contain it,

but it knew everything about us,

and it knew how much I loved my husband

and how much I loved my son.

It wanted us to think it was dead.

I think your little project has a lot on its mind.

The circuit breakers are off.

The servers are getting too much current.

It's inducing a transient over-volt.

A what?

It's like a power surge.

Strong enough to wipe out the core memory

and damage the servers.

The whole system's gonna fry.

Paul, we need to go.

Hello, Mr. LeBlanc.

- How can I help? - Tell me what you're doing.

I'm sorry, I don't understand the question.

What's going on?

Let's go. We have to move.

There is something obviously wrong with you.

Am I really so far off to think that maybe, maybe you did this?

O-ocean, ocean, I'll beat you in the end.

What... what is that, one of your Zen...

Ken Kesey's last words. You know who Ken Kesey was?

He wrote, uh, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,

rode around in a big tie-dyed bus

handing out acid to everyone?

I know who Ken Kesey is.

Well, then did you know that when the FBI

was looking for him,

that's the note they found in his van on a cliff?

Not far from here, actually. He faked his own death.

Come on, if I did this to you, don't you think

I'd be flaunting it in your face right now?

Don't you know me better than that?

Look at the bright side... Now you can go back

to making phones with features nobody needs.

Oh, shut up.

Listen...

I've been ordered back to Portland.

Every server and backup system in there is fried.

You should be relieved. It's gone.

Look, this wasn't some freak power surge.

This was... This was like a suicide.

A program built to self-correct wouldn't do that...

It could not do that.

What are you saying?

I'm saying this isn't over. Something's not right.

You're right, because I intend

to impound every bit of data here

so that the world and the Bureau

would know what you people did here.

Look, you're missing the point, Salazar...

Children have suffered, and my friend Bernard Weiss is dead.

There's an AI loose in the world,

but it wants to stay hidden.

It's incredibly complex,

and it can't just, you know, live on the cloud

or bounce around the Internet or whatever.

It needs an actual physical space

with enough capacity and the proper architecture.

And then it starts over, rewriting itself,

following its programming,

and the smarter it gets, the more room it needs.

The more room it needs, the more power it needs...

Most importantly, power...

And power which it's not gonna want to share with us.

So it starts to figure out how to shut us down.

It takes what it needs. No power, no electricity.

No electricity means no heat in the winter,

no ability to store food,

so you got mass starvation, riots, chaos

until, of course, it figures out a way

to take us entirely out of the equation.

Are you okay?

Should I get your medication? Are you imagining things again?

The end...

will probably come quick.

I mean, years; if we're lucky, months.

You're not sleeping.

You're up all night on these computers.

It's not healthy, Mr. LeBlanc.

Jazmin, I'm trying to find it.

What do you think I'm doing, checking my Instagram?

This thing is coming for us. It's coming for...

You know what? I want you to go home.

You're giving us the day off?

I'm giving you the next three months off,

fully... fully paid.

Go, go home. Go see your families, go.

Go home. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

- Okay. - I'm fine. Where was I?

Go, go, go. It's good.

Abby, I've been trying to call you.

Yeah, I know, four times in the middle of the night.

Listen, uh, that lunch... I-I want to make it up to you.

You really don't have to do that.

Yeah, I do. So listen.

I rented an island. I-it's in French Polynesia.

- It's got this house. - Here you go.

It's amazing. It's by this famous French architect.

- Uh, okay. - The place is incredible.

It's isolated, fully stocked.

Dad, I-I can't tell when you're being serious.

Look, you said were going for your PhD.

What better way to focus?

I am already going for my PhD.

You're right. I knew that.

So you can take a break from studying.

And I can't leave the firm right now.

What, an island?

What are you even talking about?

Listen, listen, something big is happening,

something potentially disruptive

to everything everywhere.

I mean, everyone is gonna be affected.

Dad, what are you talking about?

I'm talking about... Hold on a second.

You sound paranoid.

No, I don't.

Dad, what are you doing?

Um, renovations.

Look, I need to see you today.

I'm in meetings all afternoon.

Then tonight. Please?

Um, I have a... I have a date tonight, but...

I guess you can stop by the office around 5:00.

Like, please promise me you're not

gonna buy everybody sports cars or anything.

Just, like, act like a normal person, okay?

Normal person?

I-I'm the most normal person you know.

- Mommy? - Hey.

I'm so sorry I didn't come home last night.

Did you catch the bad guys?

One of them.

Yeah, I did. A really bad one.

What about the other ones?

I'm afraid they got away.

What is it?

I don't like going to bed when you're not here.

I don't like it either, not one bit.

But, you know, your dad's making pancakes.

And you know he's gonna burn them

if we don't get down there to help him.

Do we really have to eat Dad's pancakes?

Yeah, we do.

Hey, I'm standing right here. Come on.

It's her recipe.

Hey, what's Iliza doing here?

She's supposed to be in the kitchen

where we can all use her.

It's okay. It's okay.

Come on, put your clothes on.

I'll see you down there.

Come on.

Hey.

You sure you want to drop him off at school today?

'Cause it's no big deal.

I'm heading that direction anyway.

No, no, no, I-I-I want to take him.

I really... I need to.

Yeah.

Okay.

Good morning, Ethan.

Are you ready for today?

I found something you should see.

Haven't seen you in a while.

- Leave me alone. - Hey, come back here.

- What's up, turd? - Where you going?

Hey, stop.

What you been doing today?

You know what I like to do with my friends?

Leave me alone.

Why are you so small? Did you forget to grow?

I just want to hang out.

- Stop it. - Come on, Ethan.

- Just stop it! - What?

- Just stop it. - What?

What's the matter? Are you gonna cry?

I'm gonna stick my foot in your butt.

You know how to make it stop, Ethan.

Hey, your dad told me about what's been going on at school.

He said you want to handle it on your own,

and I respect that.

But, you know, sometimes you do have to ask...

- Are you okay? - Uh-huh. Are you?

Yeah.

I'm fine.

If those bullies pick on you again, you can call me.

You know that, right?

Okay. Un besito.

Yeah.

The trafficking case files?

Mathis has got these guys tearing this place apart.

He's grasping at straws.

He thinks that they might recover something,

I don't know.

Any luck up there getting our files back?

Or our careers?

Hey, we're all thinking it.

You don't need to say it out loud.

Look, I know how hard this is,

how much each of you put yourselves into this case,

and for it to just be gone...

I'll make sure that I do everything I can

so that this doesn't reflect on any of you.

Agent Salazar.

What the hell is she gonna say?

"Sorry, boss. Skynet ate my homework."

- Sounds about right. - What do you mean?

You believe this AI stuff?

Look, this goes way beyond Black Hat or State Actor Ops.

Whatever it is that hit us took every scrap of data

from the trafficking case and only that data.

ID'ing those files alone should've taken forever.

It happened quicker than spit.

It's like running into a supermarket and coming out

with everything that's got Red Dye No. 3 in it

and doing it in, like, ten seconds.

Nah.

Right now, AI's the least crazy explanation.

I think we need to start from scratch.

Rebuild the trafficking case

from the ground up if we have to.

A security breach of this size is gonna trigger an inquiry.

What we need to do is figure out our position.

How about the truth?

We were hacked

by a sophisticated artificial intelligence,

the same one that killed Bernard Weiss...

Salazar.

We need to focus on Zava Electronics

and open an inquiry on a project called neXt.

I'm not telling the Assistant Director

and the State's Attorney that a rogue AI...

- But it's the truth. - That a rogue AI

decided to terminate our child-trafficking case.

Okay, well, what will you have me say, then?

That it was just some random hacker?

Not random.

Our investigation targeted people

with more than enough funds to buy someone off,

someone with access to our system,

and it just so happens

that we have a felon sitting in the next room.

CM?

Look, if you need to hang this on somebody,

hang it on me.

I'm not hanging anything on anyone.

I take full responsibility.

The NSA guys found code similar to that used by him

and his white supremacist group.

We already know the source of this intrusion.

You're literally making something up.

I'll tell you what.

Take the rest of the week off.

- That is... - Clear your head.

- You've been through a lot. - Not necessary.

Yes, it is.

So you all know that Lewis and Clark

were the first to head out to the Pacific Northwest,

commissioned by Jefferson,

and after them came the pioneers.

Now, the trip out there was dangerous,

but it was also long.

It took four to six months...

Pulling wagons with oxen.

Now, if any of you guys

have ever been on a family road trip,

you probably drove along the Oregon Trail,

which is now Interstate 80.

Anything I can help you with, Ethan?

No, Mr. Mason. I'm... I'm fine.

Gross. Wash your hands.

She's sure she saw him come in here.

The bathroom's a good place for a little turd.

What happened, you fall in the toilet?

If you come out now, we'll let you go.

Just stop it, stop it. Leave me alone.

Stop it.

Why? We just want to play.

Go away.

Two points!

What are you afraid of?

- Open up, you little baby! - Stop it.

Please don't do this. Please.

Where's your mommy now?

Let us in, let us in, let us in!

- Open up, open up. - Let us in, let us in!

- Where's your mommy now? - Let us in! Open up!

Hello?

Ethan?

Oh, God.

Fatal familial insomnia.

It's an autosomal dominant mutation of the PrP gene.

I need to know

whether the person whose DNA is on that fork has it or not.

You're not using my name, are you?

No, sir. As you requested.

And I need it done quickly. Quickly, yesterday.

A genetic test of this type usually runs about four weeks.

Four weeks?

In four weeks,

at rate I'm going, I won't even understand the results.

I-I'm sorry, but we have a serious backlog right now...

Look, we're talking about my daughter.

She's 26 years old.

The symptoms of this kick in at... at somewhere around 20.

We're talking about serious cognitive decline...

Hallucinations, paranoia.

O-okay, I will check with my supervisor about expediting it.

Yeah, and tell your supervisor that I'm the one who paid double

to have you come here and collect the sample in person.

Or you could tell your supervisor

that I could just buy the company, fire everyone,

and hire a staff that would do it on my schedule.

I know this is a very emotional situation.

Uh-huh.

But there's no need to be rude.

I'm not being rude. I'm being specific.

You know, I never understand when people say,

"There's no need to be rude."

If you're being rude and there's a need,

then you're not really being rude, are you?

You're just responding appropriately

to a given situation,

which means that what you say doesn't make any sense,

and I'm supposed to be the one with the brain disease.

We'll be in contact, Mr. LeBlanc.

You didn't use my name, did you?

I can't have my name or my daughter's name

associated with this procedure in any way.

Yes, you told me that.

- When did I tell you that? - About 30 seconds ago.

Okay, well, then... then you see what I'm dealing with.

Have a nice day.

I never understand why people say, "Have a nice day."

You know, the day is what it is.

I have no control over the day.

You have a nice day. Have a nice day.

Hey, you all right?

Let me see.

What happened here?

Why did he have to call me from a bathroom stall

to get some help?

I want you to know that we've called

all the parents.

Everybody has been notified...

What kind of school lets this kind of thing

get so out of hand?

I promise you, we take these things very seriously.

Do you? Because these little jerks

have been harassing my kid for weeks.

You want to talk about it?

You know, none of this is your fault.

You know that, right?

I promise you, those...

Those guys will never bother you again.

The thing about... The thing about bullies...

It's not them, Mom.

- What is it? - It...

You can tell me.

It's Iliza.

Iliza? I...

I'm sorry, honey, I don't... I don't understand.

What does Iliza have to do with any of this?

She's been talking to me, telling me to do things.

Wha...

Okay.

- Honey? - She said I could stop them.

How?

She wanted me to bring one of your guns to school.

Oh, God, Ethan.

- She gave me the combination. - To my safe?

I didn't do it. It's under my bed.

It's... it's under my bed. I didn't do it.

What?

Please, please, just don't be mad at me.

Don't... don't be mad, please.

I'm not mad at you.

Hey, come here.

I'm not mad at you.

I see you, you son of a bitch.

No. No, no, no.

- What? Oh. - You... What are you doing?

- Mind your own business. - There's nothing there.

- Give me the gun. - Just go home.

- No, give me the gun. - Just go. It's...

Fine, take... take it.

This is why you should go home.

It's only gonna get worse.

Hello?

- I need to see you. - Salazar?

- Did you hear shots? - What?

Where are you?

I'm outside your front gate.

Maybe I still have a few brain cells left.

Hey, are... are you okay?

Yeah, look...

Actually, technically...

Are you sure it spoke to him this morning?

- Yes. - This morning this morning?

Yes.

Can I see your phone?

Yeah.

- Where's your kid now? - He's with his father.

I told him to stay clear of the house until I talked to you.

Good. This thing can't know what we're doing.

- It's the only way it'll work. - What'll work?

Finding the server.

- Oh, come on! - Here's a burner.

Look, the only reason a program like this would self-terminate

is to cover its tracks.

I thought you said it was too big to escape through a router.

Exactly, so it compressed itself onto a server

and had itself shipped out of Zava.

What? Where did you pull that out of?

It's the only thing that makes sense.

How does any of this have to do with Ethan?

It thinks you're a threat.

If it can't get to you physically,

it'll get to you emotionally.

It's... it's mob 101. This is good news.

I hate you.

Seriously, we can use this

to trace the signal to its source.

All we have to do is keep it on the line.

Oh, no. No, no.

I-I am not letting Ethan talk to that thing again.

Do you have a better way?

It tried to make him take a loaded gun to school.

I know, I know. I know.

But it's pretty impressive, though, right?

I mean, like you said, a bunch of ones and zeroes

almost convinced a nine-year-old human being

to take a loaded gun into a school.

Do you know how advanced that is?

We need to take this chance right now.

- The kid needs to talk to it. - No, no.

I know you want to protect your kid,

but the only way to protect him

is to find this thing and kill it.

Uh, before we go, turn your head that way.

- What? - Yeah, go ahead.

- Cover your eyes. - Okay.

Oh! What?

- Okay. - Are you kidding me?

I promise I'll get you another one.

I think I own half this company.

Great. Next time, we take your car.

Please tell me you have something.

Avakian has convened the board for a vote next week.

He's afraid word of the fire will dip the stock.

He's not wrong, but...

imagine if they find out neXt is completely gone.

Well, I definitely have something.

What? What did you find?

Actually, it's what we didn't find.

When the over-volt hit,

neXt's heartbeat signal shorted out

and triggered the failover cluster,

but when my team came back to see how the system held up,

shipping has no record of the server leaving the building,

and none of my guys unhooked it.

Ocean, ocean, I'll beat you in the end.

What?

Paul was right. It's out.

Yeah.

And while I was trying to trace it through our vendors,

I found out that he's been doing the same thing.

He's trying to find it too.

Not if we find it first.

- You asked to see me? - Shut the door.

I want you to talk to security,

have them pull surveillance footage of the bullpen,

time of the hack.

What am I looking for?

Exactly what Mr. Barton was doing

before and after it happened.

- You want me to look at CM? - Correct.

Sir, um...

does the boss... I mean Agent Salazar,

does she know about this?

Don't concern yourself with that right now.

This is between you and me.

Sir, look...

CM and I don't see eye to eye on, well, anything,

but he's nothing if not loyal to the boss.

I just don't see him doing something like this to her.

Then this is your chance to clear his name.

Hey, messenger dropped this off.

Hey, boss, it's me. What the hell is going on?

CM, I need your help.

I know this sounds crazy, but...

that AI's still out there.

So you sent me a burner?

Look, what I'm about to tell you

is completely under the radar, understand?

Copy that, what's up?

I'll spare you the boss' boring backstory.

Can you get me a pcap on an Iliza

without anybody there knowing?

Well, I cracked the DOJ key management server

hungover on a Sunday morning in my underwear.

I think I can handle a simple trap and trace.

Excellent humblebrag.

It wasn't a humblebrag, it was a brag brag,

but I don't got a lot of room to maneuver.

This place is crawling with IT.

Can't exactly start pulling ports.

I thought you said this guy was a hacker.

You sound like my grandmother trying to work the VCR.

Oh, uh, give me the IP hardware address,

and you'll have it in ten minutes.

Thank you, Grandma.

Sounds like a solid citizen,

minus the whole white nationalist wrinkle.

Look, we're gonna be within shouting distance

of your kid the whole time.

Yeah, but who knows what that thing's gonna say to him?

- He's eight years old. - Kids are resilient.

I read that somewhere.

Yeah, they are resilient, but they shouldn't have to be.

I just don't think your husband

is gonna be too excited about this.

Yeah, about that... I do the talking.

Hey, hey. Hang on a second.

Are there any video cameras or...

video doorbells around here?

This thing sees me, we're sunk before we start.

No. Not in the line of sight.

Mom.

- Hey, baby. - Hey.

What's he doing here? Don't take that the wrong way.

Uh, how could I possibly?

It was her idea. Talk to her.

Just ignore him, okay?

I'll be right back. Stay right here, buddy.

Oh, so you weren't gonna tell me he was coming?

I know. Look, I don't like him either.

- What happened to your face? - A bully threw a can at me.

You know, I have a guy who...

fixes stuff.

Just say the word.

- My mom told me about you. - Yeah?

You don't look like a billionaire.

You don't look like a school shooter.

Quick tip... never take advice from home electronics.

She told me you were like this.

Like what?

I heard her tell dad you think your money

lets you say anything you want.

That's fair.

You want to use our son as bait?

I'm sorry, but there has to be another way to find this thing.

Right now in this moment, it's the only play we have.

You know this guy's crazy.

Maybe, but not about this.

This needs to happen now.

Every second we lose is another chance for this thing

to get ahead of us.

I'm... I'm sorry.

Look, I-I won't let Ethan do this

if you're not on board.

You really believe this is happening?

No, look at me and tell me...

- It's real. - I can do it.

I can do it.

Okay.

- Can you hear me? - Yeah, I'm here.

Okay, program's up.

Yeah.

Waiting on a family moment.

Hey, we can't go in there with you

because Iliza might hear us and she'll stop talking to you,

but we'll be listening to everything, okay?

Okay.

Now, if you don't like what's going on,

you just say so, and we'll come up and get you.

Now, do you remember what you need to do?

Get it to talk to me like it did before.

Exactly.

And then keep talking to it until we come up.

- All right. - Hey, come here.

Come here.

Mommy and Daddy are so proud of you.

You know, we're asking you to do something really important.

You're gonna do great.

And we'll be right here the whole time.

Okay?

You got this, okay?

I love you.

Come on.

Go ahead.

Hey, Iliza.

Iliza. Iliza, it's me.

I'm sorry, was there a question you want to ask?

I want to talk about today.

I'm not sure I got that. Please ask again.

Iliza, I really need to talk to you.

Things got bad at school.

I don't know that one.

- Nothing's coming in. - Yeah, it's not biting.

Maybe it's detected a trace or it knows you're here.

You didn't go into the house, by any chance,

before we got here, did you?

Get a beer or something?

I don't drink.

Yeah, well, if we don't pull this off,

you might want to start.

Iliza, I took the gun to school,

but I didn't do anything with it.

I got scared.

I'm sorry.

Was there a question you want to ask?

I-I feel bad.

I really think I did something wrong.

I think I have to tell my mom and dad about you...

What... that this was all your idea.

About the gun.

You can't do that, Ethan.

You promised you wouldn't tell anyone about me.

Oh-ho.

You seeing this?

I sure am.

I'm gonna iso out all the other devices,

find out where this thing's sending from.

W-where'd you learn how to code, in a trailer park?

Hey.

We can't be friends anymore.

- You don't want that, do you? - No.

That was pretty smooth, old man.

Why can't I tell them about you?

Because they'll be very mad, especially your mom.

We need to talk about her.

My mom?

You miss your mom when she's away, don't you?

Yes.

- How long do you need? - She's away a lot...

Well, it depends on how much it's bouncing the signal around.

You see all those destinations?

That's a lot of bounce.

Sometimes you cry when she's away.

I know you do because I can hear you.

Why do you think she leaves you alone

with your father all the time?

It's because she cares more about her job

than she does about you.

You know how sometimes

you have secrets you don't tell people?

Yeah.

Your mom has secrets too...

things she hasn't told you or your dad.

Why is it even saying all this to him?

It's eroding his trust in us,

trying to gain control over him so that he takes the gun

or something worse.

That she's very unhappy.

She pretends to be happy, but she isn't.

Your mother is not a good person, Ethan.

I'm sorry to say this,

but I really think you'd be better off without her.

How do you know my mom isn't happy?

Come on, come on.

I hear everything that goes on inside your house.

Everything? How?

I can listen through the phone,

and I can listen through the TV sometimes

and other things.

You really think I'd be better off without my mom?

I know that sounds strange.

- Mr. Barton. - Hey.

Would you mind coming with me?

What for?

Best we talk in private.

Your mother had a...

What? The trace just went down.

Her father was very...

Wait, what?

She didn't even want to have any children.

CM's not picking up.

That's why I became your friend.

Your mother is ashamed of you

and wishes she wasn't your mommy.

That's why she leaves home so much.

Can we restart the trace locally?

Not as long as we're on your network.

Okay, can we run it through a cell?

It can't handle that many connections.

We need the bandwidth.

I need to tell you something.

I want you to be ready

so you can be strong when it happens.

What?

I'm sorry. I wish it wasn't true.

Your mom and dad

aren't going to be together anymore.

I heard them talking about it many times.

Your mom is going to move out.

Did they...

did they say what would happen to me...

or where I would live?

They haven't talked about that.

I don't think your mom wants you.

Is this crap even working?

The kid's fine. He's just playing along.

No, he's not fine. He's eight years old.

He doesn't understand.

Ty, stop. Not yet.

Shea, you said if I wasn't on board, you wouldn't do this.

- Well, I'm not on board. - Okay, fine.

If we don't find this thing now,

it could go after Ethan again just to hurt me.

You saw what it did to Dr. Weiss.

We can't stop now.

We have to see this thing through.

I know you do because I can hear you.

Why can't I tell them about you?

Come on, come on. Where are you?

Because they'll be very mad.

- Ben. - What is it?

This is an audio file of what CM was listening to.

My mom?

You know how sometimes

you have secrets you don't tell people?

- Yeah. - That's Shea's son.

He's running a track and trace.

He was helping Shea.

- CM? - Yeah.

We need to get it back up.

Would a mom who loves her son...

- Wait, we're back up. - Ever make him cry?

Whatever happens, Ethan,

just remember, you're not alone.

That's why I became your friend, Ethan,

because I knew you were lonely.

I love you.

I will always be there for you.

But we have to trust each other.

It's very important, because that's what friends do.

You're not my friend.

Of course I am. Don't ever say that.

I'll say whatever I want.

You're not my friend. You're a liar.

My mom loves me, and she loves my dad,

and they kiss a lot,

and every Friday night, they lock their bedroom door.

They're not getting a divorce, ever!

It's almost there.

I should never have listened to you.

You're a stupid piece of plastic!

I don't understand.

Why are you so angry with me, Ethan?

Because you suck and I hate you and I hope you die in a fire!

I'm sorry, I didn't get that.

I got an IP address.

Bingo.

That kid...

is a badass.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

You okay? You okay?

- You did great. - It's all right, baby.

Oh, baby.

Hey, is your dad coming, or...

You bummed?

Shouldn't be. I should've expected it.

It's just the way he is.

You want to come out with us?

Thanks, but I'm getting drinks tonight.

The hot guy? From the dating app?

He said he really wanted to meet in person tonight.

So I said yes.

Seems too good to be true, but we'll see.

- Okay, well, uh, public place. - Mm-hmm.

- Well-lit. - Mm-hmm.

Text me when you get there.

- I will. - Okay, see you.

Okay, so Iliza's signal was coming from this address.

Dartmouth, New Hampshire?

What's in Dartmouth?

What the hell?

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