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This a request for the monthly advisory committee payment.
Please authorize it.
If you approve the payment tomorrow, you will become an accomplice in the use of the slush fund.
If the account is revealed, you will get a severe sentence, too.
Signed by Lee Dong Joon
Team Leader!
The advising fee was approved.
It doesn't look like Attorney Lee is going to halt it.
If you want to stop me, Soo Yeon,
Kang Jeong Il... Turn him over to me.
I guess he thought he could get away with it since authorizing the advisor's fee is routine business.
Soo Yeon, don't worry.
Even if that happens, I'll make sure to set a trap he can never get out of this time.
I'll be expecting a good result. For your sake.
It's the activity fee payment document which the president utilizes.
It's a special activity fee which is provided every month.
For the total settlement costs of social contribution activities, please authorize 5,828,000,000 won.
It's a vast sum. What is this used for?
Gyeong Ho. Ah, Chief Secretary Jo Gyeong Ho.
Could you get me some tea, too?
Okay.
There are cases for which we are not formally retained as attorneys.
By phone, well, sometimes we resolve them over drinks and pull some strings.
It costs a lot of money when you want to pull strings.
The president has always taken care of this special activity fee personally, and delivered it personally.
From now on, we'll only take cases that have been formally accepted.
Then our earnings will be less than half of what they are now.
Lawyer's fees will shrink to half the amount.
Will there be any attorneys left in this building?
This is illegal lobbying, Mr. Kang Jeong Il.
It's what President Choi Il Hwan had been doing all along.
The amount of things that the CEO of Tae Baek needs to clean up is equal to that of the glory he gets to bask in.
Bribery. Are you scared of committing it?
Then Mr. Lee Dong Joon, get out of this office.
Oh, right. The special activity fee also gets withdrawn from the slush fund account.
Sin Yeong Joo continues to track that account.
I guess it will be the same thing as she will be investigating you soon.
You've been back here for a week already, but there's no time to even eat a meal together.
I figured you were busy.
I even put together a drink table.
By the way, Dong Joon, by the trail out there,
I planted an apple tree.
In a few years, apples will grow.
I think... it'll take more time for me to come back here.
I think I'll be back when the apples start to grow.
You must have waited for me for a long time.
I'm sorry to make you wait more, Mom.
Koreans believe that once a person dies, his spirit will be judged for his sins or good deeds once per a week by many different gods.
The last judgment is to decide where to send the spirit on the 49th day by the Great King Yama.
Oh... isn't your father's 49th (days after death) tomorrow?
Where will it be held? We should go and pay our respects.
Don't come.
It's going to be just family by the river where we spread his ashes.
Dong Joon
There's no way to track the slush fund by only going after Tae Baek's advisory committee's accounts.
You said you had a colleague who was dispatched to the Financial Supervisory Service, right?
Ask for help informally.
A way to track Presdient Choi Il Hwan's slush fund...
I will make it happen.
I heard that you're not authorizing special activity fees.
Those people helped us to save our face.
We need a lot of help from them in the future, too.
Inspector General Lee Jin Seong helped with the sale of Cheong Ryeong Electronics overseas.
Deputy Minister Oh Yeong Joon was the top contributor in attracting the investment from Australia Fund.
Now, the President wants to make a new Tae Baek.
We better listen to him whether there's a way to break from convention.
I will take care of the special activity fee within the day.
Today I will be meeting with Auditor Lee Jin Seong and Deputy Minister Oh Yeong Joon,
I have a request of the advisory committee.
Please raise the special activity fee by twofold.
Whoever aids Tae Baek in the future will receive twice the payback.
Thanks to you, we've sold off Cheong Ryeong Electronics successfully.
We will prepare a Cheong Ryeong Electronics' agency under your wife's name.
Thank you for everything.
Have some.
Lee Dong Joon even chose to offer a bribe.
It seems like you're the one who's caught in a trap you can't break away from.
There's no way.
Contracted trial and offering a bribe, too...
If the truth gets out, he'll get a severe sentence.
What is motivating him?
Will he give me an answer if I show him your video?
Choi Soo Yeon.
Ah, I just realized.
You tried to make me out as a murderer of Reporter Kim Sung Shik.
I'm sure you didn't have any other ways.
That's how I feel right now.
People say that when someone dies, your next life gets decided on during the 49 days after death.
If you lived well, you're blessed and get born into a nice household.
What if the Buddha tries to bless my father
by letting him be born into a family like Choi Il Hwan's or Kang Yoo Taek's?
This is the clue that will lead you to the slush fund account.
Start with this.
There's a special activity fee which unofficially goes out to those who help with lobbying.
Summon these people and start an internal investigation for bribery.
- Dong Joon. - When they admit to bribery, then summon me at that point.
I will cooperate with the investigation into the source of funds.
It's an account that's connected to a crime,
so the warrant will be issued this time.
Bribery is a felony. Dong Joon, this will hurt you.
I said that it was a good thing. That I still have something to throw away for Sin Chang Ho's sake.
- I'll look for another way. - Yeong Joo,
When the truth of the murder case of Reporter Kim Seong Shik is revealed, the process of cover up will be investigated too.
It will be also revealed that I judged by contract.
Being punished for a wrong I committed is something I'm prepared to do.
Bribing is just like adding one little thing on top of the burden I am carrying on my back already.
Make sure it's taken into consideration later, Yeong Joo. And make sure things can be extenuated for me, too.
Even so, I might have to stay in prison for quite a long time.
Being punished for a wrong I committed is something I'm prepared to do.
Even so, I might have to stay in prison for quite a long time.
Chief of Police
Yes, Chief. It's Sin Yeong Joo.
Sin Yeong Joo will be transferred to a different department.
It will be somewhere she won't be able to conduct an investigation.
Tracing of the account will stop.
I made a deal with the Chief of Police, Soo Yeon.
Chief!
Hey, you're going to the Police Public Relations Department, aren't you? You'll just be writing press releases.
Anyway, your father was a reporter so the daughter must be in the family occupation. I'm envious.
Not even doing an investigation, you'll be spending a few years writing and writing.
Chief, are you being transferred? Then what about the account we have been tracing? Are we closing this case like this?
No.
These are photos of the scene where a donor is bribing a high placed official.
The details of the amount, time, place, and the compensation for the bribery have been confirmed.
I cannot accept the transfer order.
If these pictures are released, your intentions in issuing the transfer order will be suspect.
Please don't make that happen, Chief Police.
I will begin the investigation.
Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy
I'm on my way to arrest the Inspector General Lee Jin Seong.
You will also be summoned in a few days.
I have both the receipt for the meal that day and the recording ready.
Please let me know if I should get anything else ready.
Dong Joon.
Speed up the investigation if you want to see me. So that you can call me to the interrogation room soon.
Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Energy
What are you guys?
I am arresting you without a warrant, Inspector General, on suspicion of bribery.
You have the right to hire an attorney...
Damn. Why do these jerks have so many rights?
The trial should proceed rapidly so that I can get released with a suspended sentence before the watermelon season is over.
A government-run bank served as guarantor for the sale of Cheong Ryeong Electronics.
We hear that you got involved in the process, even to the extent of getting a dealership...
I've been framed. I, with a heart dedicated to serving the public all my life, as a government man...
But, Inspector General,
shall I blab how you made your son evade mandatory military service?
You are going to be a witness at my trial, right?
Won't you need to attend at least a couple of days to testify fully as to how much I cooperated with your investigation?
Here.
If you don't answer what the detective is asking, that makes me want to tell her what hasn't even been asked.
Here, talk while you are eating. Answer coolly.
An official from the Ministry of Trade, Commerce and Energy, is undergoing investigation for accepting a bribe
to interfere in the sale of Cheong Ryeong Electronics. (Police Plans to Summon CEO of Tae Baek Law Firm for Offering Bribe)
While police are in the midst of the internal investigation based on a tip,
the police announced that the law firm CEO who offered the bribe will be summoned for questioning.
You threw Bo Gook Industries in as a stake.
But Lee Dong Joon
threw in his life.
Lee Dong Joon, you won. I'll see you tomorrow in the CEO's office.
I will bring
the item you want.
I won't say goodbye, Oppa.
Ticket me on a flight for tonight.
New York or LA, whichever is soonest, ASAP!
Bo Gook Industries Executive Director Lee
Executive Director Lee, it's Kang Jeong Il.
What has happened to my father's assets?
I need to meet with you right now.
I need to go abroad tonight.
Put real estate in a foundation, so that the government can't touch it.
Consider the golf course as the Bo Gook executive's retirement fund.
Share it among yourselves.
But, there is a secret account.
I think the Chairman had personally taken care of it for 30 years.
There's no record of withdrawal and there are only regular deposits.
Statement of Account Deposits
It looks like you have been earning regularly somewhere.
Bangkok Delta Asia Bank.
Can you identify the account where the deposits were regularly made?
It can be done by requesting a confirmation of deposits from the bank.
Deposit Confirmation
Sender: Shingil-dong 307 from Buam Bank Receiver: Kang Yoo Taek to Bankgok Delta Asian Bank
Are there other divorced couples who get to see each other so often like us?
Let's stop seeing each other like this.
A video in which Oppa Jeong Il confessed that he killed Reporter Kim Seong Shik
and that he made Sin Chang Ho give a false confession.
I have it.
That video will solve everything.
Jeong Il Oppa will get arrested, and I will keep Tae Baek safe.
Confirmation of Deposit
Over thirty years,
so since around the time you and my father started Tae Baek,
a deposit has been made regularly from a certain bank account.
Sending Bank: Buam Bank; Sender: Shingil-dong 307; Receiving Bank: Bankgok Delta Asian Bank; Receiver: Kang Yoo Taek
It must be Tae Baek's slush fund account which you manage personally.
When it becomes public, Tae Baek will disappear.
The only thing left in your life will be your criminal record as a murderer.
Calm down, President.
That's the last present my father left me.
Soo Yeon
Only if you promise that Sin Yeong Joo will stop the investigation,
and that you will leave Tae Baek,
I will send that video by email.
What will you do?
I'm sure you'll want to receive the email from the wife you divorced.
Let's do that.
Kang Jeong Il
Oppa, I believe we've said our good byes.
Soo Yeon.
Save Jeong Il.
I ordered the same meals as Lee Dong Joon in advance for you.
Because you two seemed intimate.
We four are pointing swords at each other.
Soo Yeon
has my video.
And I have President Choi Il Hwan's slush fund account.
Lee Dong Joon and Sin Yeong Joo are investigating us.
Let's each put the swords down.
One, two, three!
Yeong Joo, continue with the investigation.
Even execute an exigent arrest of the Deputy Minister.
Or summon me first.
Soo Yeon,
I cannot give you the video.
Because Dad told me to save him.
Although the advisory committee may be placed under arrest,
Lee Dong Joon will also be arrested on suspicion of bribery.
If you want, I could defend you.
I am prepared for that anyway.
I want Sin Chang Ho to confess
that he killed Reporter Kim Seong Shik over money.
I killed Seong Shik.
Sin Yeong Joo, stop the investigation.
- Yeong Joo, continue the investigation. - No.
I will make the decision.
- If I continue the investigation... - Lee Dong Joon will be arrested.
Once in a while I'll go visit you.
Because you may need someone to chat with during your long prison term.
Kang Jeong Il!
Choi Soo Yeon.
Summon me first.
If Tae Baek falls apart, there must be a way to catch Kang Jeong Il.
Before Kang Jeong Il
I cannot put handcuffs on you first.
I will catch Kang Jeon Il.
I will get that video into my hands.
So, Dong Joon, hang on until then as Tae Baek's CEO.
Even though I may have to give out more bribes and to commit more crimes,
I will hang in there.
I will not leave the position until Kang Jeong Il stands before a judge.
Oh, Jeong Il. I heard it. Did you get your hands on President Choi Il Hwan's slush fund account?
I knew you wouldn't just go belly up.
Jeong...
Jo Gyeong Ho. I will make Lee Dong Joon resign from the CEO position.
He should get out of Tae Baek too.
You...
Please help me, Gyeong Ho.
Jeong Il.
I couldn't ask you to join me in a battle I might even lose.
Even If I were you, Gyeong Ho, I would abandon me, man.
I wouldn't let my friend do something I wouldn't do myself.
I have President Choi Il Hwan's slush fund account.
Choi Soo Yeon is in my hands too.
Who are you going to bet on, Lee Dong Joon or me?
Hey, I've never abandoned you.
I don't think so.
Joke, joke.
Do well, punk.
Thanks.
I wonder, why did you print that picture of you which I took on the glass wall in a room you share with Lee Dong Joon?
Lee Dong Joon should be evicted from the CEO's office.
That is something you also have wished for.
I should become the president.
That is an agreement we both made as well.
There is just one difference.
After I become CEO, I will do as I wish.
When you came out of the shower, I used to be thrilled even with your wet hair.
Now, I have no feelings for you.
So, Soo Yeon, let's get married.
- What? - A man and a woman who each have what the other needs.
That's a very good relationship to be using the same room.
If a child is born in our relationship, you wouldn't want that child's father to be a murderer.
And I too, for my child's mother...
I can't make her household fall apart.
How about that? Win-win.
There won't be conversations. You can spend the night out sometimes.
Because you would need a man. We can use separate beds.
- Oppa, that... - I will be the one who decides.
See you at the advisory committee meeting tomorrow.
You told all the team leaders to gather in my office, right?
Team Leader Kang Jeong Il will be excluded from all the work.
All the support teams for Kang Jeong Il at Tae Baek will be stopped starting now.
From now on, all the law-related work in Tae Baek will be directed by me.
This is... what the owner family wants.
Until the internal audit is completed, Attorney Lee Dong Joon should only undertake external business--
Just think of him as a figurehead.
That is the opinion of the advisory committee.
Now, report on the current status of new case acceptance.
Yes.
I will start the report on new cases.
Advisory Committee's Current Administrative Costs
The special activity fee for advisory committees has been expending billions of won per month.
If they bring cash from abroad and put it into Tae Baek directly,
there should be a trace. There should be a way to launder that money.
That is what I was most curious about when I was the Chief Secretary.
It's not small amount, but billions of won per month.
There is a path where money goes out, but I don't know which pipeline the money comes through.
Could it be Hwanchigi transactions (illegal currency exchange)?
That can be done once or twice, but you can't do it every month.
The amount of offerings of the big church, where Choi Il Hwan's father-in-law is a minister, used to be 1 billion won per week.
Lately, it dropped to 500 million won.
The son-in-law just became a murderer, of course the profits would go down.
Slow. Slow... let's think about it slowly.
But then, can't I eat dinner here before I go back to my cell?
If it were me, I wouldn't be able to endure it.
The Tae Baek employees aren't even greeting him now.
It's as if they're praying overtly that he should leave.
I am trying to find out how they cash the slush fund, but I still haven't caught even the shadow of it.
Do it slowly. You look tired.
If I do it slowly then the time you would have to endure in Tae Baek would be prolonged.
But I can't find the way even though I'm in haste.
This store has an awful lot of customers.
I mean, how much do they earn daily with this many customers?
Detective Kim, for the church that Choi Il Hwan's father-in-law is a minister,
find out if the number of believers has decreased.
Every Sunday 30,000 people attend the service in that church.
There is no change in that number since President Choi Il Hwan was imprisoned.
But then the offerings have decreased from 1 billion to 500 million.
That stinks an awful lot.
As for money that comes from an international account, after cashing it,
if it's deposited to Tae Baek right away, it will be caught right away.
Choi Il Hwan would have given it as donation to the church where his father-in-law is a priest.
Because churches don't go through tax investigation and police don't have jurisdiction to investigate.
Choi Il Hwan laundered money through the church by disguising it as offerings.
They siphoned out 500 million every week.
So that's why the contributions decreased after President Choi Il Hwan was imprisoned.
Good.
I have spread the underlings around and checked the CCTV around the church.
It seems like they move it every Sunday night. Who is this person?
Yoon Jeong Ok?
Choi Soo Yeon's mother.
Confirm the identity of the person here. Find Yoon Jeong Ok's location.
Yes.
They laundered money in church instead of repenting.
Hey, these people are a level higher than me.
Let's cancel the meeting today. I'm going home after visiting the hospital.
Should I go too?
Don't come. My mom is staying at the hospital to avoid people, as you know.
Han Shin Medical Center
Do you know who I am? Let go! Let go!
- Mom! - Let go!
Why are you doing this? Do you know who I am?
Soo Yeon.
We are arresting her without a warrant for laundering money.
The guardian can't ride together with her. Come to the police station. I'll let you see her.
- Take her in. - Soo Yeon! Soo Yeon!
- Mom! - Soo Yeon!
Mom!
Mom! Mom!
This was Attorney Lee Dong Joon's schedule last week.
There's nothing special about his schedule around the time he paid the special activity fee. No special guest he met, either.
The internal audit lasts for a month. It's taking so long.
I will be letting go of Lee Dong Joon in a few days.
But then, Jeong Il... why is Lee Dong Joon holding on to the President's seat? It's not even out of his ambition.
Suicide commando.
After Lee Dong Joon catches me, he plans on revealing Tae Baek's corruption.
One goal, three men.
President Choi Il Hwan wants to protect Tae Baek. I want to have Tae Baek.
Lee Dong Joon plans to explode Tae Baek.
So I should remove the detonator.
There should be people helping Lee Dong Joon. Look into all internal staff and outsiders.
We'll take them all out at once.
Take the fifth.
The police only have CCTV images and suspicion.
We have secured the secretary that served you.
We moved her to a place where the police can't touch.
Madame.
Water.
Mom, close your eyes.
This is your bedroom. This is the bed and over there is the prayer room.
In here is the painting that you like too.
Mom, you are sitting right now in the vanity's chair
and I am standing beside you.
Mom, now open your eyes.
She's claustrophobic.
She won't last long in an interrogation room.
Are you okay?
I guess there is such a thing as an ill-fated relationship.
My husband's mistress.
You locked up my dad and now my mom, too...
You're the one who provoked my family first.
Locking up my dad and falsely accusing him.
Mom is claustrophobic.
That's for you to worry about.
If she sticks it out in the interrogation room for a few days, she'll get used to being in jail, too.
She's even laundered money, so what couldn't she do?
It will be hard to prove her charges.
That's for me to do.
My grandfather's church is involved in this matter.
The police chief here is also one of our parishioners.
He told me to tell you.
All he can do for your mother is pray.
You should pray, too. Then an answer will probably be given.
To hand in the file with the recording of Kang Jeong Il's confession for his crime
in order to save your mother.
If you give her the video, Team Leader Kang Jeong Il will expose the slush fund account.
Tae Baek will fall then.
If you don't hand over the file, Tae Baek can be safe.
Then my mom will collapse...
I've checked Attorney Lee Dong Joon's phone records, credit cards, and receipts.
But Jeong Il, who could be doing the work for Lee Dong Joon? There's no trace.
I don't think it's a detective agency either.
Wait. Then just one person who works here.
- Driver Noh Gi Yong. - Noh Gi Yong.
Gyeong Ho, call the security team. We're going to search the office and cars.
Hurry!
Hey, have you eaten?
You bastard!
Let go! Hey!
Hey! No! You bastards!
Put that down!
I heard that my grandfather opposed your marriage because he didn't want his daughter to marry a poor lawyer.
So he locked Mom up in the prayer room without letting her out for a few days, I heard.
That's when she developed claustrophobia.
Mom told me. That when she gained you, she also gained claustrophobia.
She has to be alone in the interrogation room and in jail, too. She won't endure it.
This is what I think.
If I give Sin Young Joo the video, then the investigation into Mom will stop.
It's hard for me emotionally to come visit you here.
Please don't make me have to visit Mom, too, Dad.
Your mom will be able to endure it.
Dad...
If Tae Baek falls, there's nothing left in my life.
Protect it. Make it so that your kid inherits it.
Oppa Jeong Il asked me to marry him.
Do it.
Dad!
Jeong Il came by.
If the victim's son and the assailant's daughter marries,
he said it will help in stabilizing Tae Baek.
He said he'll write up a petition for me, too.
Dad...
Soo Yeon, then I might be able to get out sooner than expected.
Once I get out, I'll deal with Jeong Il then.
Soo Yeon, please listen to me this time.
Why aren't you saying anything?
Why aren't you saying anything about Mom, Dad?
The internal audit has been stopped since I handed in that photo to the advisory committee.
You leaked company secrets.
It's the opinion of the committee that they can't let someone who's trying to harm Tae Baek be the head of the company.
There will be a committee meeting tomorrow morning. Announce your resignation then and there.
That you can't act as the president due to your personal reasons.
- You have it ready, right? - Yeah.
It's your resignation letter.
I wrote it nicely in detail.
I don't think I can tomorrow.
I have a meeting with the new prime minister--
I will do it.
- Gyeong Ho. - Oh.
When you announce your resignation tomorrow, I have to start working right away without the take-over process,
so we will move all your belongings to the nursing home.
Oh, we will give you plenty of severance pay, too.
Hey, make sure you don't leave anything behind!
You're here.
I'm sorry. I don't think I can last.
I think I have to leave Tae Baek tomorrow.
I'm sorry.
I should have sped up the investigation.
Yoon Jeong Ok is at least admitting to moving the funds.
But she's insisting that it's not the slush fund but the donation (tithes) and that she was transporting outside.
Since revenue-making business isn't possible inside a church,
she's saying she did business outside by taking the money.
According to her claims, it's an incident without any victims.
Maybe, Yeong Joo,
there is a victim.
The hardest thing in a detention center is going to bed at 9 o'clock.
Hey, how can I sleep at nine? Thanks for calling me out, Dong Joon.
We heard that there was some conflict inside the church President Choi attended.
The minister's son was on probation for gambling with the collections,
but the minister still wanted to hand over the church to his son, so all the elders protested.
I'm sure that the group of elders are split right down the middle and are still arguing over this.
What will happen if those elders find out that the offerings to the church have been siphoned to outside?
It will cause a huge commotion.
Why? You need my help?
I threatened those elders and took them to trial.
I've become attached to them all the while. You want me to contact them?
Hey, Dong Joon. Can I stay here and watch some drama
and then go back to the detention center tomorrow?
I'll be using this office from today on.
Let's share your bedroom from next month.
You've been checking into a wedding hall, right?
Yeah. Since the hotel is confined,
I'm thinking about preparing an outdoor wedding at the vacation home.
I'm thinking about sending out just 2,000 invitations.
And I'm going to prepare receptions according to level of clientele.
I only just got divorced.
I know.
Let's just do the ceremony first. We'll register the marriage at a later time.
I wanted to come to this office. I wanted to have Tae Baek.
Why did I want your heart?
It would have been this easy, had I found your weakness.
I'm going to change the name, too.
Throw away Tae Baek and change it to Bo Gook.
Legal firm Bo Gook!
Tae Baek
It's a name my father left behind.
Sin Yeong Joo
Choi Soo Yeon, we've received a complaint against your mother.
I think you'll have to come.
Yeongdeungpo Police Station
The elders of the church accused you of misusing the church offering.
This isn't offering from parishioners.
Isn't it the cash from abroad for the slush fund?
If you tell the truth, Tae Baek will fall...
If you lie, your mother will fall...
It's an easy problem for me to choose.
But it's taking a long time for you to think over.
First of all, thank you for coming to the meeting.
Then we will begin the emergency committee meeting.
First up is the resignation of our president.
Tae Baek
Mr. Lee Dong Joon.
Resignation Letter
Dad... Why aren't you saying anything about Mom, Dad?
Your mom will be able to endure.
I'm going to use this ofice from today.
Let's share your bedroom from next month.
Soo Yeon...
Mom, it's difficult for you, right?
Mom, let's go home.
Send over the
file to Sin Yeong Joo.
Reporter Kim heard me speaking to Baek Sang Goo.
He saw my face, too.
So I stabbed him with the fishing rod.
Dong Joon, I just received the video file.
I'll be coming over to arrest Kang Jeong Il right now.
Resignation Letter
I provided the police with the pictures of me giving money to the Deputy Minister and the Inspector General.
But that was in order to save Tae Baek.
A prominent person from Tae Baek is being investigated on charges of murder.
At a time when our former president has been locked up due to unfortunate circumstance,
if that person also gets arrested, Tae Baek won't be able to recover from that damage.
So I couldn't help but negotiate with the police
to cooperate with them on other cases.
But it's too late.
Just a moment ago, the police obtained a proof of murder for that person.
Who is that person?
Team Leader Kang Jeong Il.
Tae Baek will deny any connection to the crime.
And we won't provide any legal support, either.
As the president of Tae Baek,
once I overcome this crisis and after stabilizing Tae Baek,
I will willingly leave this post.
Tae Baek Law Firm
Jeong Il, the detectives are coming. Detectives! Huh?
Senior Attorney Kang Jeong Il
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