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I've been okay ever since I got liberated from Sagamo Prison in Tokyo 01:58.000 --> 02:05.000 in 1945. Yeah, ever since I woke up in this Veterans Hospital four years ago, I've been 02:06.000 --> 02:10.000 okay. I've got nothing to do but lie flat on my back and let my eyes wander over the 02:10.000 --> 02:16.000 ceiling and look at Suki smiling down at me. Suki seems to smile down at me from the little 02:16.000 --> 02:22.000 plaster square of ceiling that reminds me of the prison yard in Sagamo. He can't help 02:22.000 --> 02:30.000 smiling and laughing because he knows I can't get at him. Suki knows I'm paralyzed. He 02:30.000 --> 02:37.000 knows I can only blink my eyes once for yes and twice for no. You see, Suki was in charge 02:37.000 --> 02:44.000 of the camp at Sagamo. He helped slaughter guys like Camel and Jones, Mayberry, Evans, 02:44.000 --> 02:50.000 too many more to count. First he starved them until they couldn't crawl and then he... Well, 02:50.000 --> 02:55.000 anyway, just before we got liberated, I fuzzed up in my mind and I couldn't remember anything. 02:55.000 --> 03:02.000 Sometime later, I woke up in a Vet's Hospital, California, USA, and I've been on my back 03:02.000 --> 03:07.000 for four years staring at that little square. But once in a while, they dump me in a wheelchair 03:07.000 --> 03:13.000 and push me out into the sunshine, wheel me up and down the walk like I was a baby. Only 03:13.000 --> 03:15.000 babies can cry. 03:21.000 --> 03:26.000 Which road today, Tom? Do we get down the walk through the ground or the sidewalk down 03:26.000 --> 03:32.000 by the flower shop? Just open your eyes wide if it's a sidewalk. Well, good. You'll see 03:32.000 --> 03:37.000 all the flowers. Oh, here comes Janet, Willie Murdoch. You remember him? 03:37.000 --> 03:39.000 Hello, Tom. Hello, Tom. 03:39.000 --> 03:40.000 Hi, Janet. How you doing? 03:40.000 --> 03:43.000 Getting in shape for the dance tonight. Am I really? 03:43.000 --> 03:44.000 Hi, Tom. 03:44.000 --> 03:51.000 I'll see you there. Isn't Janet a pretty girl? I'll bet you have a nice girl someplace. Come 03:51.000 --> 03:59.000 on now, haven't you? We're almost to the flower shop, Tom. Oh, see that man in the window? 03:59.000 --> 04:06.000 Isn't that a pretty bouquet he's getting together? Well, look how tan he is. Oh, I guess he's 04:06.000 --> 04:07.000 a ch- 04:12.000 --> 04:16.000 I'm sitting in a wheelchair, paralyzed, looking at a man on a flower shop window, and the 04:16.000 --> 04:24.000 man I'm looking at is Suki. And while I'm looking at him, something's happening to me. 04:24.000 --> 04:28.000 My fingers that I haven't worked for four years are grabbing the arms of the wheelchair, 04:28.000 --> 04:32.000 and my legs are straining and pushing against the floor. The same legs I haven't used for 04:32.000 --> 04:35.000 48 months, and I want to cry out, and I feel my tongue getting ready to- 04:35.000 --> 04:42.000 Tom! Tom, what's the matter with you? Come on, Tom, now, relax. Maybe you don't like 04:42.000 --> 04:50.000 flowers. Ha ha, that's just like a man. Doesn't like flowers. Do you want to go home now, Tom? 04:50.000 --> 04:57.000 It's Suki, a man on the flower shop window, and it's Suki. I know it is. If we can get 04:57.000 --> 05:01.000 closer, all I have to do is look at that scar down the side of his face. I gave him that 05:01.000 --> 05:11.000 scar on Sagammo. Do you want to go home, Tom? Now, don't frown like that. Tom, what's the 05:11.000 --> 05:19.000 matter? Do you want to go closer? Okay, if you want to go closer to the flower shop. 05:25.000 --> 05:31.000 It was Suki, all right? Yeah, it was Suki. We got real close to the shop, and I got a 05:31.000 --> 05:37.000 good look. The scar, scar on his face stood out like a half moon. He was busy with 05:37.000 --> 05:44.000 flowers. Flowers, I couldn't imagine him working with flowers, but it was Suki. And this time 05:44.000 --> 05:50.000 I didn't clench my fingers or strain my legs. I just laid back in the chair and relaxed, 05:50.000 --> 05:59.000 and I began to plan. I began a plan. I began a plan that I'd started the day I looked around 05:59.000 --> 06:04.000 and I found myself in a Jap prison camp. A plan that almost worked the day Suki got that 06:04.000 --> 06:10.000 scar. It didn't work that day. It's going to work now. 06:16.000 --> 06:20.000 I'll leave you here by the door a minute, Tom. Then we'll put you to bed. 06:23.000 --> 06:30.000 All right, Tom. Tom, how did you get moved over there? Didn't I leave you right here 06:30.000 --> 06:38.000 by the door? Tom, did you wheel yourself over there? Oh, ho, so that's it. Somebody came 06:38.000 --> 06:44.000 in here and gave you a push. One day you'll be pushing that chair around like mad, Tom. 06:44.000 --> 06:50.000 Just you wait. Just you wait. All right, now we'll get ready for bed. 06:53.000 --> 06:58.000 You ready for me? Just about. Would you bring Dr. Benson here? Okay. 06:58.000 --> 07:03.000 I can't imagine who just walked in here and gave you a shove. Wouldn't it be funny if 07:03.000 --> 07:10.000 you did it yourself? Didn't know it. You sent for me, Miss Rhodes. He must have used his 07:10.000 --> 07:18.000 hands. He wheeled himself across the room. How are you tonight, Tom? I think that sunshine 07:18.000 --> 07:24.000 is doing you some good. Tom, did you move yourself across the room? And if you did, blink 07:24.000 --> 07:31.000 your eyes once. And if you didn't, blink them twice. No, you didn't do it, huh? That's 07:31.000 --> 07:33.000 all. Thank you, Tom. 07:35.000 --> 07:40.000 I got myself in a jam already. It's funny how I grabbed those wheels instinctively. 07:40.000 --> 07:47.000 I guess I gave myself a shove. And now I'm in bed and I'm looking up at that little 07:47.000 --> 07:53.000 square. And the hospital's quiet except for Murdoch, who you can always hear mumbling 07:53.000 --> 08:00.000 someplace far off. So then I'm turning over on my face in bed, moving muscles I haven't 08:00.000 --> 08:08.000 moved for four long years. And in a moment I was sitting up. I was trying to light my 08:08.000 --> 08:15.000 own cigarette. But then I got so exhausted I decided to wait till the next night. And 08:15.000 --> 08:20.000 it was the same thing over again. Night after night I practiced at being alive. Ten days 08:20.000 --> 08:23.000 later I got out of bed and I stood up. And two weeks later I was so strong that I walked 08:23.000 --> 08:28.000 around the room ten times. I never felt better in my life. That night I nearly got caught. 08:28.000 --> 08:34.000 I was sitting in my chair smoking a cigarette. I scrambled in the bed. 08:39.000 --> 08:46.000 Asleep, Tom? You've been having visitors, Tom. The air's full of smoke. Tom, are you 08:46.000 --> 08:54.000 asleep? Oh, that's a close one. Nothing ever came of it, though, but I was more careful 08:54.000 --> 09:02.000 after that. A week went by. Every day brought me closer and closer to Suki. And Suki closer 09:02.000 --> 09:08.000 and closer to some of his own medicine right back in his face. And then something happened 09:08.000 --> 09:13.000 that spoiled everything. Tom, we've got good news for you this morning. Look how wide his 09:13.000 --> 09:18.000 eyes are. You better not keep him waiting. Tom, you're getting out of here. We're moving 09:18.000 --> 09:23.000 you to within twenty miles of your old hometown. You're going to Colville Hospital. Better 09:23.000 --> 09:31.000 tell him when. Yes. Tomorrow morning. He doesn't seem to like it. Tom, what's the matter? 09:36.000 --> 09:41.000 Suki was laughing now. He stood on that little square in the ceiling and he laughed on at 09:41.000 --> 09:47.000 me because he knew I was going away and I'd never get him. So they were shipping me out 09:47.000 --> 09:53.000 on Sunday. Yeah, tomorrow was Sunday. 09:58.000 --> 10:07.000 And then I had a plan. I had a desperate plan. It might work and it might not. But if it 10:07.000 --> 10:11.000 did, it would bring Suki right into my room. You see, the plan wouldn't work except today 10:11.000 --> 10:18.000 was Saturday. Today was Saturday. And right the day before they were shipping me to Colville, 10:18.000 --> 10:23.000 three thousand miles away. Today, yeah, today was Saturday and on Saturday. This is your 10:23.000 --> 10:28.000 last spin around the grounds, Tom. And here comes Jackie. I'll bet you forgot this was 10:28.000 --> 10:33.000 Saturday and Jackie's out of school. And he's going to play Mr. Wheelchair Conductor. Hello, 10:33.000 --> 10:37.000 Jackie. Ready to take over? Sure thing, Miss Rhodes. I'll get him lots of sun and keep him 10:37.000 --> 10:41.000 up full time. Then when you're through, you can help Janet with Murdoch. Yes, Miss Rhodes. 10:41.000 --> 10:44.000 I'll see you later. You be careful. You bet. 10:48.000 --> 10:56.000 All right, kid, you can stop. What? Did you say something? I said stop right here. Gosh, 10:56.000 --> 11:01.000 I didn't know you could talk, mister. Well, sure I'll stop right here, but maybe I'd better 11:01.000 --> 11:06.000 get in order. Stay right here and shut up. Listen to me. You and I are going to have a 11:06.000 --> 11:11.000 little secret. Are you with me? What kind of a secret? You just don't say anything about 11:11.000 --> 11:15.000 what you see or hear until tomorrow. Now, what are you going to do? Are you going to help 11:15.000 --> 11:21.000 a soldier or are you going to spill everything? Why, I'll help, of course. All right, now. 11:21.000 --> 11:25.000 Now keep pushing me until we get down to that tavern and then push me in that little alcove 11:25.000 --> 11:29.000 there. Come on, come on, come on. What are we waiting for? Hurry up. Yeah, mister. Yeah, 11:29.000 --> 11:33.000 but I shouldn't be doing this, should I? That's the best thing you ever did. 11:40.000 --> 11:44.000 Now, now go into that tavern and get me three dollars worth of quarters. Here's three bucks. 11:44.000 --> 11:48.000 I'm going to use this phone. And don't get any funny ideas about calling the hospital. 11:48.000 --> 12:01.000 You're working with me, aren't you, kid? I guess so. All right, now. I'm going to watch 12:01.000 --> 12:05.000 you through the glass of this phone booth. Stay right out there where I can see you. Get 12:05.000 --> 12:11.000 me? Yes, sir. All right. All right, here goes. You shouldn't get up. Hey, don't try to get 12:11.000 --> 12:18.000 up of your wheelchair. Already out. All right, now stand right there. Stand where I can see 12:18.000 --> 12:35.000 you. Long distance one. One. One. Long distance. I want to talk to Bill Mason at Mason's Real 12:35.000 --> 12:43.000 Estate Office in San Bernardino. What is your name, please? My name's Tom Warner. That will 12:43.000 --> 12:48.000 be a dollar and a quarter for three minutes. Dollar. Please deposit a dollar and a quarter 12:48.000 --> 13:00.000 for three minutes. Dollar and a quarter. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. One. Here is your 13:00.000 --> 13:08.000 party. Hello, Bill. Hello. Who's this? Tom. Tom Warner. Oh, you're kidding. Who is this? 13:08.000 --> 13:13.000 It's Tom. It's Tom, you dope. Why? What's the matter? What's the matter? I just can't 13:13.000 --> 13:16.000 get it through my thick head. That's all. Last time I heard about you. I know. I know. 13:16.000 --> 13:21.000 I know. But it's all over now. I'm alive. Now, Bill, listen to me. Now listen close. That's 13:21.000 --> 13:30.000 an awful close, Bill. Bill, Suki's alive. Suki? Yeah, yeah, Suki. He's working a flower shop 13:30.000 --> 13:34.000 in the hospital here. Are you crazy? Now, no, I've seen him. I've watched him. I've noticed 13:34.000 --> 13:39.000 all his gestures. Yeah, he's got the scar I gave him right on the side of his face. Hey, 13:39.000 --> 13:43.000 are you listening? Yeah, yeah, yeah, go on. Now, I want you to get a hold of Curly, and 13:43.000 --> 13:46.000 tonight the three of us will blast him right out of the face of the earth. Tom, are you 13:46.000 --> 13:49.000 okay? What's the matter with you? I found Suki. He's here right in the United States 13:49.000 --> 13:52.000 where we can get at him. Well, if you're sure it's Suki, why don't you call the cops or 13:52.000 --> 13:56.000 the FBI? Because I know what'll happen to him then. He'll end up in American jail and 13:56.000 --> 14:00.000 he'll have a nice soft bed to sleep in. He'll get three good hot meals a day and he'll get 14:00.000 --> 14:04.000 all the comforts of home. Look what he gave to us. What in your life, Bill? Now, look, 14:04.000 --> 14:07.000 if you start driving right now, you can be here by nine o'clock. Tom, the war's over. 14:07.000 --> 14:11.000 I forgot all that stuff a long time ago. I want you to forget it too. Sure, sure, and 14:11.000 --> 14:14.000 you can forget it all if you want to. I know why you're forgetting it is because you're 14:14.000 --> 14:18.000 a chicken, that's why. You haven't got the guts to face him and you're lousy, yell on 14:18.000 --> 14:22.000 your back, bonus, turn to a sponge. I only wish Maybear and Evans were all here to listen 14:22.000 --> 14:27.000 to the lousy rot that was dripping out of you. Tom, what's the matter? 14:32.000 --> 14:39.000 I'm blacking out. Hang on, Tom, hang on. What place are you calling from, Tom? Tom? 14:40.000 --> 14:45.000 I'm going to throw it on my face. 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Tom, can you hear me? 16:35.000 --> 16:41.000 Help me, kid. Gee, you shouldn't have got up, mister. There, why brace the chair 16:41.000 --> 16:49.000 just like that. There. I'll be all right. Maybe I need a little air. Gee, you look 16:49.000 --> 16:54.000 as white as a sheet. I don't say anything about this, kid. Just keep your mouth 16:54.000 --> 16:58.000 shut until tomorrow, will you? Tomorrow morning I'll be going away. You promise 16:58.000 --> 17:12.000 me that? Well, okay. Okay, now take me home, huh? Yes, sir. 17:12.000 --> 17:17.000 I was back in my room, flattened out like a pancake, and the bed in the room kept 17:17.000 --> 17:22.000 spinning around when I stayed still. Pretty soon I got a sort of a second wind. 17:22.000 --> 17:27.000 I decided to try to get up out of bed, and I found I could get up okay. I was 17:27.000 --> 17:32.000 awful weak. I'd just about given up my plan when I happened to look out the 17:32.000 --> 17:38.000 window. The day watchman was changing places with the night patrolman, and the 17:38.000 --> 17:45.000 item that caught my eye was a big fat revolver bulging at the man's side. Maybe 17:45.000 --> 17:50.000 my plan would work after all. I didn't need to be Bill Mason and Curly and 17:50.000 --> 17:57.000 anybody else. All I needed was my two hands, a little luck. Let's see. I'd have to make another phone 17:57.000 --> 18:02.000 call. Well, there's a phone on this floor right in front of Murdoch's door. 18:02.000 --> 18:30.000 Hospital flower shop. Hello, this is Dr. Benson. 18:30.000 --> 18:36.000 Oh, yes, doctor. Would you send a bouquet of flowers, that is, I mean roses. 18:36.000 --> 18:42.000 A lot of big roses, up to a 411. See, one of the patients is leaving, and we'd like 18:42.000 --> 18:45.000 to make him feel good. It's kind of a surprise just before he goes to sleep and 18:45.000 --> 18:50.000 the ward's quiet. You see, about nine o'clock this evening. Okey-dokey. You want 18:50.000 --> 18:55.000 some fern to go with it? Yeah, yeah, I think that'd be nice. Just a minute, who 18:55.000 --> 19:00.000 delivers at that hour? Have you got someone? Oh, I deliver myself, just before I close 19:00.000 --> 19:08.000 up. Okey-dokey. Fine. Fine, thank you. 19:08.000 --> 19:11.000 I just got the phone back on the hook on Dr. Benson and two nurses came walking along. 19:11.000 --> 19:15.000 Like a shot I dropped to the floor of the phone booth and I tried to double up like 19:15.000 --> 19:20.000 an accordion. My heart beat so loudly I was afraid they'd hear it, but drowning out 19:20.000 --> 19:26.000 in my heart was Murdoch saying something. Hey, Tom's on the phone. Don't be silly, 19:26.000 --> 19:35.000 Patty. Yeah? I'll go back to the system. Yeah. I held my breath, but they kept on 19:35.000 --> 19:42.000 walking down the hall and they turned into the solarium. I got up, I got the door 19:42.000 --> 19:47.000 open, I almost fell across the hall into my room. I laid back in the bed casping 19:47.000 --> 19:57.000 in, waiting for my pulse to get back to normal. It was eight o'clock, getting dark 19:57.000 --> 20:05.000 outside. The only sound was the clock ticking in the hall. I was getting all the 20:05.000 --> 20:12.000 breaks. A summer shower had just come up, light wind blowing. I got down the hall 20:12.000 --> 20:16.000 all right and through the solarium to the fire escape. It was easy going down, 20:16.000 --> 20:22.000 hugging the shadows. Pretty soon I was at the bottom. I spotted the patrolman 20:22.000 --> 20:26.000 sitting under the little eaves at the tool shed. He was trying to keep out of the 20:26.000 --> 20:33.000 rain. My hand closed around the broken brick that had fallen off the building. I 20:33.000 --> 20:38.000 crept up in the back of him. I got the brick ready to smash him on the head when 20:38.000 --> 20:46.000 I suddenly realized he was asleep. I took a step real close and then I had his 20:46.000 --> 20:51.000 revolver and I was pointing it right into his eyes which were still blinking off 20:51.000 --> 20:58.000 some sleep and he muttered and then he started to yell. One little whisper and 20:58.000 --> 21:02.000 this goes off right in your face. Now get up and get into that tool shed. Open the 21:02.000 --> 21:08.000 door and crawl in. Come on quick. All right now take this adhesive tape and tie 21:08.000 --> 21:12.000 your feet together. Come on hurry up. Tie it. Hurry. What are you trying to do 21:12.000 --> 21:19.000 fella? Shut up. Do as I say. I made him tie his feet together with adhesive tape 21:19.000 --> 21:23.000 and lie flat in his face while I wound long strips of tape around his wrist. I 21:23.000 --> 21:26.000 tied his wrist together and then I hog tied his wrist to his feet and pulled 21:26.000 --> 21:30.000 them up tight behind him. When I turned him over on his side and I crammed two 21:30.000 --> 21:36.000 handkerchiefs into his mouth. Put long strips of tape around those. The rain was 21:36.000 --> 21:42.000 coming down in buckets as it made my way back to the fire escape. I made the first 21:42.000 --> 22:01.000 two flights and then three and finally hit four and I slid on my face out cold. I 22:01.000 --> 22:05.000 don't know how long I lay there on those iron bars of a fire escape. It was too 22:05.000 --> 22:11.000 long for my plans. Now there was nobody in the hall so I ran for it. Still 22:11.000 --> 22:16.000 nobody in the hall. Still nobody. Nobody in my room. I slid open the door and I 22:16.000 --> 22:21.000 started for bed. Bed met me halfway and I lay there soaking wet with a gun 22:21.000 --> 22:30.000 sticking out of my pocket. I spun the cylinder. I saw six 45 caliber bullets. 22:30.000 --> 22:38.000 15 minutes went by. Then it was nine o'clock. The ward was very quiet. You could 22:38.000 --> 22:45.000 have heard a pin drop. Nothing sounded until I heard the sound of the elevator 22:45.000 --> 22:51.000 and it's stopping on four. Someone had got out of the elevator and was patting 22:51.000 --> 22:57.000 down the hall and it was the same little shuffle I'd heard every day for three 22:57.000 --> 23:04.000 years in a bug infested hell hole called a prison camp. Yeah, the same footsteps, 23:04.000 --> 23:08.000 the footsteps I used to turn my brain to water and sent my heart right down to my 23:08.000 --> 23:13.000 shoes. The footsteps that meant someone was going to get it and I wanted to yell 23:13.000 --> 23:17.000 and scream, come on Suki, it's different now, come on Suki, I'm waiting for you. 23:17.000 --> 23:24.000 I couldn't breathe very good. Every breath I took drowned out Suki's feet. So I 23:24.000 --> 23:30.000 just, I just, I just took a little short press and I waited and I had to grab the 23:30.000 --> 23:34.000 revolver with both hands to keep it steady. 23:36.000 --> 23:43.000 And Suki was getting closer and so I released the safety catch and I tried to 23:43.000 --> 23:51.000 keep my wobbly hands steady. He was almost here now. The knob was turning in 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 the door. 23:53.000 --> 24:03.000 Suki, Suki, this is for Camel and this is for Jones and this is for Mayberry and Evans 24:03.000 --> 24:05.000 and Murphy. 24:05.000 --> 24:28.000 I killed Suki. Yes, yes you killed Suki Tom. He's dead and he'll never bother you 24:28.000 --> 24:34.000 again. You killed him. Yes I did. I killed Suki. Now give me the gun Tom. 24:34.000 --> 24:40.000 That's it. Yes you killed Suki in your mind. He's dead in your mind. You can 24:40.000 --> 24:45.000 forget him now Tom. Yeah, yeah I think I better sit down. Miss Rhodes shove that 24:45.000 --> 24:48.000 wheelchair out of the room. You can sit in a chair Tom but not in a wheelchair. 24:48.000 --> 24:53.000 You're through with that for good. What? Jimmy, are you all right? Yes doctor. 24:53.000 --> 24:58.000 No powder burns? No I'm fine doctor. Good, good. Now Tom, Tom I want you to meet 24:58.000 --> 25:01.000 Jimmy Cato who works in our flower shop here and who was lieutenant Cato of the 25:01.000 --> 25:05.000 armed forces in Italy not so long ago. Yeah I killed Suki. I killed him. Yes, yes 25:05.000 --> 25:09.000 in your mind you killed Suki Tom and you're okay now. The man you thought was 25:09.000 --> 25:13.000 Suki was Jimmy Cato. He was born and raised here in this community and he has 25:13.000 --> 25:18.000 almost as many medals as you have. Now I want you to shake hands with him. I'm 25:18.000 --> 25:22.000 paralyzed. All I can do is blink my eyes. No, no, no you are not Tom. You are going 25:22.000 --> 25:29.000 to shake hands with Jimmy and thank him. Oh Cato, I'm sorry. Oh nothing to be 25:29.000 --> 25:33.000 sorry about. When Dr. Benson told me about your reaction the day you saw me I 25:33.000 --> 25:38.000 was glad to help out. You see Tom we're pretty thorough here. When you thought 25:38.000 --> 25:42.000 you saw Suki Miss Rhodes made a notation that you flexed muscles you hadn't 25:42.000 --> 25:48.000 commanded for nearly four years and so we went from there. You must have thick 25:48.000 --> 25:52.000 skin Cato. I'm pretty good shot. No, no, no the patrolmen on the grounds here Tom 25:52.000 --> 25:59.000 always carry blanks, no bullets. You're going home tomorrow Tom. Well on the way 25:59.000 --> 26:06.000 to complete recovery and in your mind there's a big X mark canceling out a 26:06.000 --> 26:12.000 nightmare of four years duration and written in huge letters is a beautiful 26:12.000 --> 26:34.000 beautiful sign Tom and it says to you once and for all mission completed. 26:34.000 --> 26:40.000 Suspense presented by Auto Light tonight star James Stewart. Oh Mr. Wilcox, Mr. 26:40.000 --> 26:44.000 Wilcox. Well Gracie Allen what are you doing here? Well I came to ask you and 26:44.000 --> 26:48.000 Jimmy Stewart if you can fix it with Auto Light for my husband Sugar Throat 26:48.000 --> 26:53.000 Burns to sing on Suspense. Our sponsor will hear it and realize how great George 26:53.000 --> 26:57.000 is and then he let him sing on our show Wednesday night. Well look Gracie 26:57.000 --> 27:02.000 Suspense is all booked up for next week Mickey Rooney will be on. Well how about 27:02.000 --> 27:06.000 the week after that Mr. Stewart? 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