The Columbo Files – Requiem for a Falling Star Review

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here to talk about Columbo. These are the Columbo

files here inside Studio 2009. First up, we have

Season 2, Episode 5. It is a Requiem for a Falling

Star. Believe I I think I said on the last one

that this was the one where or the criminal got

away I got it confused with a later episode called

Forgotten Lady Because they're both about faded

Hollywood starlets. Yes, so to be fair to be

fair I got a minute. I saw I had the wrong episode.

I was like, oh god It's that it wasn't as bad

as what happened with that Star Trek nonsense

that one episode. I couldn't remember van Gelder

and the whole Craziness. Yvonne Craig, I still

don't remember what happens in that episode.

It's driving me crazy. I got it mixed up. And

it's funny because going into this, this was

not one of my favorite episodes. This was not

one that I remembered super well. I was remembering

it as it went along. But I actually ended up

really enjoying this episode. I had a lot of

fun with it. And I actually ended up As I was

saying before we started recording, I went back

this morning because I watched them last night.

I went back and rewatched it this morning because

I wanted to, as we'll get into telling the story,

I wanted to catch details. Part of it was when

I first was watching it, I was playing on my

phone and doing this and doing that. Partly because

I was thrown by the whole fact that I had the

episode wrong. I was looking up episodes, I was

doing this. I didn't know if I missed details.

So I went back to see what I missed and because

because my be as we as we get into telling the

story of the episode Your perception of what

you're watching is skewed. Yeah, they kind of

like they play with the formula Yeah, the formula

playing in the in the both of these so as it's

been Already said folks in previous episodes.

We record two of these at a time The formula

with both of these, season two, episode five,

Requiem for a Falling Star, and episode six,

A Stitch in Crime, both of these almost play

with the formula. And I don't think in either

of them he says his line. I was half expecting

it in Stitch in Crime, but he doesn't say it.

There is a moment, yeah, there's a moment at

the very end. Yeah, very good. I was like, OK,

he's leaving. Fine. That means that we'll get

to that. But like I was like, oh, he's leaving.

He's leaving the guy that he knows did the crime.

He goes back and he doesn't say it. And I'm like,

damn it. Because I think, you know, I think one

more thing is part of his artifice. And that's

well, I mean, that's that's a conversation for

the next episode. But I think that was a genuine

aha moment on his part, which we like, interestingly.

that comes up in this episode. There's a moment

that I don't think we've ever seen in a Colombo

episode so far. I don't think we have. I mean,

it's late in the episode where he figures it

out, like he realizes. Because usually it seems

like he pretty much has the right person pegged

from the start. He knows you did it, you're guilty.

And in this moment, in this episode, there is

a moment where he realizes that she's the killer.

Mm -hmm, and yet she has like cuz cuz he really

likes her he she's one of she's genuinely an

actress that she really he really likes Please

come on in. Oh Yeah What's the matter lieutenant

are you all right? No, it's just that You know

miss Chandler if anybody ever told me I'd be

standing here. I mean right face to face with

you. I mean I've been in love with you all my

life. I know. You never expected me to let you.

And he's really upset and saddened by it. Like,

it's a good moment. Oh, yeah, absolutely. This

whole episode was a good... It was a good episode,

but again, it was more of... like we've been

saying, playing with the formula of the way that

the episodes have been going. And I didn't...

But is that a bad thing? No, not necessarily

because I mean Colombo is very formulaic And

I think it's kind of it's kind of interesting

and neat that by the second season they were

like, okay We need to shake this up a little

bit Because people at home are like, okay great.

What would they because they're I think like

we've been stalling not stalling but so the whole

thing is The I don't remember everybody's names.

There's an actress she used to be big. She's

kind of fallen off She owns a chunk of the studio

that she works at. That would be our Chandler,

yep. Chandler. And there's a guy who is, like

he's quote a journalist, but he's really a scummy

artist, blackmailer. Yep. And he's trying to

like, he's shaking her down for money, and he's

kind of having an affair with her assistant,

her longtime assistant, who knows all the dirt.

And so the episode makes you think that in the

process of trying to kill him, Chandler kills

her assistant by mistake and it turns out like

it turns out at the end that no she was trying

to kill her assistant and then part of it was

also that with the thing the assistant knows

is that Chandler had killed her husband who was

the studio boss and had him buried in the front

yard and there's this whole thing about she will

never sell her bungalow which is part of the

studio even though it's prime real estate and

everybody wants to pay a fortune for it because

she doesn't want the body to be dug up. Right.

And there's a moment where Colombo, I think the

thing is Colombo figures out the solution to

that mystery. And that leads to the solution

to the initial mystery that we see. Now the reason

I watched the episode again is because everything

revolves around, well there's a lot of things

everything revolves around, but a key element

of the plot is that the assistant's car has a

flat tire. So they swap cars. The assistant and

the boyfriend slash blackmail guy. And that's

supposed to be why she killed her by mistake.

And the whole thing is, I wanted to see if they

showed Chandler letting air out of that tire.

They don't exactly. They show her getting out

of the car. The whole thing is the assistant

is supposed to be doing errands, so she goes

to meet her boyfriend slash the blackmailer guy

at a bookstore. Chandler follows in a random

car from the studio a lot. She gets out of the

car and walks over to the the bookstore where

the cars are parked. Before you know the twist,

you can be forgiven for assuming that she's just

checking to see if they're together, because

they don't actually show you her letting the

air out, but they show you her going to the cars.

So if you know the twist, you know that that's

when it happens, but they don't have to show

you the twist. For the rest of the episode, So

by the chunk of the episode, you think that she

was killed by a mistake, like you the audience.

I liked it. I think it was just honest enough,

but just deceptive enough to keep you going.

You know what I mean? Yeah. I think Agatha Christie

is sort of known for deliberately withholding

a key piece of information that would help you

solve the mystery. That's a knock on Agatha Christie.

I think Sherlock Holmes usually puts everything

out there and you can figure it out on your own.

I like that there was just enough misdirection

because when the twist comes, it's like she was

actually trying to kill the assistant. It was

fun and like I said, that moment where Columbo

actually realizes was actually really good acting

on Peter Falk's part because we're very used

to his Columbo, his shtick. So it was nice to

see a very human side of him. A different side.

Oh, man. Yeah. The way he pulled off his role.

Oh, my God. This man is, it's like the role.

I mean, obviously, the role is his. But like,

I feel like every time we watch one of these,

I feel like I'm living an episode of his own

life. Obviously, he was an actor, not a detective

kind of thing. But still, like the way that...

Peter plays go and in this episode like and again

I will say Hopefully I can point this out to

some of the people at to be TV or to be TV or

whatever the website is that I use over at to

be TV to say hey Please remove the the beginning

intro things the the little clip things because

it's not seeing the episode, bro I know it's

part of the episode Yeah, I know but when I saw

the the opening for this one I was like Okay,

I can already tell you just by the one one the

one quick thing like where he says in the in

the in the intro I've been in love with you my

whole life and I'm like, what the hell is he

talking to and then we get into the episode Obviously,

obviously he's talking about about Nora Chandler

the actress and everything else. And again, just

everything he does as that character, that character

is one of, if not the best detective characters

in all of television, period, end of sentence,

no arguments. I said one of. I said one of. Yeah,

I did not say he's end all, be all. I said he's

one of. The word best, I kind of hesitate. He's

definitely one of the most iconic characters

in all of television history, just not detective

television history. Yeah. So the first thing

that I noticed and the first thing I thought

that was going to get her caught was the gasoline

in the beginning. Was it gasoline or kerosene?

I think it was kerosene, whatever. I think it

was kerosene because the cans were gasoline cans.

Yeah, no, they weren't no they were yeah kerosene

gasoline. It was a flammable liquid cans. Yeah

So the thing is like we mentioned in the other

episode with Spraying the water on the pool deck

there I thought this was gonna be the same thing

because she should have gotten that liquid all

over her shoes as she was moving backwards You

know, I noticed I noticed When I watched it again,

man, she was in that fire and actress. Yeah,

I was like, damn. Yeah, she was in that fire.

Absolutely. She was. Cool car, too. Like, yeah,

it was like 90 percent. It was like the Batmobile.

It was 90 percent hood. You know, pretty much.

That's right. 90 % hood, 10 % taillights, or

not taillights, not taillights. But yeah, so,

and then, oh man, is it just, did they switch

Pujos? I was gonna ask, did you notice it? It

looked like they sandblasted the thing. It looks

like they beat the thing to shit. Yeah, because

usually it's kind of blue, and I mean, it's...

Raggedy enough as it is. Yeah, it looked like

it looked like they took like a Sandblast it

to the the all the sides were all scuffed and

torn up and and but even has like but the irony

the irony Irony is that he has this great line

about is this your only car and he's like, okay

Did you ever think of getting another car? Yeah,

but I got another car My wife drives it of course

is nothing special just for transportation Yeah,

it's French We'll say that someday I promise

you I know We're gonna we're gonna dance for

joy and the episodes probably gonna get a five

from both of us just because he said it was French

I thought he said that all the time. It's weird.

I I Swear he's come close Basically the same

thing where he's the point of saying it's French

is his is his expression of pride in this terrible

car You know, it's a double joke because the

pojo is a second fact that's righty -looking

and old in the show It's considered a terrible

car amongst car people like it's like the DeLorean

from back in the future The joke was it's a garbage

car. Yeah, but he's so proud of it because it's

foreign. It's French Yeah, it's like the one

with With the recent one with the guy with the

fancy foreign car and he takes the mechanic and

um, oh Yeah to the black mechanics like yeah,

I work on foreign cars. It's almost like this

is a foreign car Yes, I think does he say it

in that He says it's a foreign car, he didn't

say it's French. Oh, okay, he doesn't say it's

French. You will know when we get there. Yeah,

I'm sure. I will be so happy. I'm sure. We're

both gonna be just like... I'll be validating.

That's what I care about at this point, it's

validation. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Another thing

that I like, which, you know, because I'm always

rambling about, you know, that episode of Inside

the Actors Studio when he was asked if Columbo's

wife was real. Yep. And in this one, he called

first of all, she's real, but she's never home.

Right. He calls his house and she's not there,

but his brother -in -law, George is there. And

what's what's what's interesting to me or what's

more kind of I know this positive for me is that

he calls again when nobody else is around and

talks to George. Yep. Which to me is like proof

for the audience, you know, third person perspective

that George is real. Yeah. Well, because you

never know. Now George is real, but are like

his 10 million children real? You know, his dozens

and dozens of children that are Columbus nieces

and nephews. But that's a question that needs

to be answered. Have okay, so have we a stat

and I I'm gonna ask this all the time folks cuz

I never friggin remember Have we ever established

like we've have we established that he's the

oldest of X number of children from his has he

said yet? I don't think he's mentioned any siblings

any actual siblings He's mentioned in laws and

he's in laws in laws nieces and nephews. Okay,

cuz I swear in one of the episodes it might have

been the one where He was talking about how he

learned the trick as a kid. Which trick? He has

two of those. The potato and the... The potato.

The potato. I thought he was a bunch of bad kids.

Yeah, no, no, no. I thought in the potato episode

he said something about, I'm the oldest of blah,

blah, blah, blah, blah, but I could just be mixing

that up with my own life because my dad is actually

the oldest of, I think he has six. Brother had

six brothers and sisters. I forget how many or

I don't know anyway Specifically saying that

he was I remember he said he ran with like like

rough kids, but I don't remember But he hasn't

specifically said anything about other siblings

other than my wife's sisters so my nephew adjacent

and Yeah, it was an outlaw. He's mentioned. He's

mentioned his brother -in -law and I think you

mentioned he was George before Yeah, so I do

want to quickly jump in here real quick because

I'm sure we've already gotten like an Actually,

there are there were the spin -off theories with

Kate Mulgrew called myth of Colombo full to use

real First fall like that show only lasted a

season and it was like not it first of all It's

not that good like because there was one year

that A &E like added that to the roster No, wait,

there actually is one There's a TV show called

Kate. It was originally called Mrs. Colombo,

originally. But Kate Mulgrew was so young back

in those days that it caused a little bit of

a... She's too young to be Peter Falk's wife.

So they changed the name of the show to Kate

Loves a Mystery. So Kate Colombo is theoretically

his wife with Captain Janeway. Yep, I remember.

Kate Columbo, Kate the Detective, Kate Loves

a Mystery. It had four titles. Mrs. Columbo.

I didn't know it had four. I knew it had Kate

Loves a Mystery and Mrs. Columbo. Because the

opening credits showed a desk and there was a

cigar on the ashtray and she puts that out. Yeah,

so the Wikipedia article for it says Mrs. Columbo

later called Kate Columbo, Kate the Detective,

and then Kate Loves a Mystery. So yeah, four

titles. I think there's more titles than episodes

aired. It's a whale let me get down here. Yeah,

pretty much. No It had five in the first season

and eight in the second. Oh my god. I had two

seasons yes, but and they did all okay that they

that I wanted to double check and make sure they

all actually aired because sometimes you know

yeah and other things will be like oh there was

a second season but only one episode aired and

seven didn't and I'm like oh great you know folks

we might have to do that next Christmas I'm saving

this document for now but yeah I I want to think

she's real Yeah There is an episode coming up

it's a couple seasons away the one with Ricardo

Montalban it is like it's weird that question

came up at all because it's She's like Vera from

Cheers Where she's doing stuff and you just never

see her but other people see her and talk about

her So it is she she's real. It's weird that

question came up and inside the actor studio

because I do think the show establishes pretty

there's there's The one with Ricardo Montalban,

and then there's one of the NBC episodes is literally

like, I can't remember what it's called exactly,

but it's one where the spouse of one of the people

that Colombo arrested tries to kill, I think

it's Rest In Peace Mrs. Colombo, she tries to

kill Mrs. Colombo. So Mrs. Colombo is real. Of

course that's an NBC episode, so I almost don't

count those. Anything Peter Falk is in, I will

count. I don't care. The ABC episode. The NBC

is the original one. At least I have a distinction

between classic and slightly less classic, 60

years later. Vintage and just slightly 40 years

old. The one thing that shocks me is that that

series, he's not even a guest star. Wait, oh

no. No, no, he's not even in it and I'm like

wait. Why not? Come on Wait, oh man. I'm saving

that for sweeps Yeah, sweeps don't exist anymore

I mean they kind of do but they kind of don't

in this day and age but yeah back then good old

sweeps Well, that was a joke, but I think it

was more that they wanted to establish the show

without. Oh, yeah I'm saying overshadowing the

character because remember This is a good 20

years before Captain Janeway. So this is Kate

Mulgrew probably very good The controversy was

that she was really too young but she's you know

young starting out and they didn't want to You

know all those years later. They were happy to

overshadow her with a What's her name in the

tight skin suit which? Was kind of understandably

cheesed about so yeah That was her name, because

her husband ran her thing here in Illinois. Jerry

Ryan, Jerry Ryan. Oh yeah, Jerry Ryan. Yep, yep,

yep. Good ol' seven of nine. Seven of nine. So

yeah, Requiem for a Falling Star. Oh yeah, Requiem

for a Falling Star. This, um, yeah, I liked it,

but I don't know if I liked it enough that...

Don't know so the things that kind of well the

one thing that bugged me about what's her name?

No, no, no or channel one thing have bugged me

about Nora is she has that same kind of like

I like it in the other episode But she's similar

to what's her name? But always called him lover

in the other episode you Goldie. Yeah, she's

very similar to Goldie very Just in how she acts

with Columbo because She's like, that tie, come

on, get rid of that. Oh, god, that was kind of

a fun little thing. Well, first of all, that

was a scene with Edith Head. Yes, it was. And

we will talk about it. He was a legendary costumer

in Hollywood. Absolutely. And was the inspiration

for Edna Mode in The Incredibles. Yep, absolutely.

No, no, no. It's not about, yeah, it's a great

scene. I'm not saying it's not a great scene.

I'm just saying the way that. She interacts with

him in this episode the way that she is in that

scene Reminds me of how Goldie was with him in

the other episode Although this one luckily that

one luckily Goldie wasn't the killer this lady

was Well, I think it's a I think it's a personality

type. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. The one thing I

noticed in this is After that part of the scene

when he has the the uglier tie on I'm sorry.

It was look it was very it was very 70s high

fashion Look here to say yeah. Well the problem

with that tie, you know, I'm sure I'll go back

and get a screenshot of it son The 70s are not

no the 70s are known for fashion the way that

the British are known for food that uh, you know

But okay, but you look at Colombo specifically

in this episode He's got the tan coat. He's got

his coat He's got his I think he has like tan

slacks on he's got a white shirt. Okay, so you

got all this Beige brown whatever because I don't

know. I don't even remember if we saw his shoes.

I'm sure we did Ironically, they did look new.

Yeah, but my point is the blue tie that he had

on Breaks up all the beige breaks up. I thought

it was a brown. I thought it was a dark brown

tie I don't know. It wasn't what the color was

that she replaced. It was like the replacement

tie was gold with an ugly pad. And again, I really

feel like all you have to say is 70s fashion.

Yeah. And put the mic down and walk away. But

what I noticed after that scene was when he asks

her, do you mind if I use the phone? She's like,

no, it's over there. He goes to the phone, picks

up the receiver, because back then, folks in

the 70s, you had receivers and whatever else.

and it's an old rotary phone and reminded me

of the days of when we could like angrily dial

people literally i hear i i heard as he's dialing

as he's doing the finger hole things with the

numbers I heard the sound of the phone. I'm like,

yeah He's angry dialing the office or whoever

it is and then obviously back in those days and

later in the 80s and somewhat 90s You can still

slam the phone receiver down or whatever. Oh,

man. I miss those days because now it's just

like You have been disconnected. Goodbye It's

just a little little thing I know the other thing

I noticed in this is she offers him a drink and

he drinks That was the other reason I went back,

because I missed that exact moment. So I went

back and watched it, and yep, he does take a

drink. Yep. And what's interesting is, in the

beginning, when the blackmailer guy is in her

bungalow, and she's pouring a drink, he's like,

are you going to pour me one? She's like, you

can get your own. And then later on, when Columbo's

there to arrest her, she offers him a drink,

and he accepts it. Drinks, yeah. It doesn't make

me dislike the character overall obviously, but

it was one of those things where I was kind of

hoping even though she does pour him a drink

that he would have said Oh, no, thank you ma

'am. I'm on duty or something because that's

what every policeman would do is they would refuse

because Okay, the good one the good one. Okay

They're supposed to Okay That's the chief's phrase

there. Yeah. Somebody's got a case of the supposed

does. Oh, yeah. It was one sip of a drink. Yeah.

No, no, no. I understand that. It was the end

of the day. Hey, look, I don't mind if Colombo

goes home to his wife and his nephew and has

a drink at his own house. Why is George at his

house at 24 -7? What's up with that? Does George

live there? Don't know like it's even like it's

it's like it's not that necessarily weird that

we'll just call her Kate is always out shopping

because I mean, you know, it's and according

to the spin -off She's a reporter. So she's she's

she's got stuff to do. But why is George there

every time he calls? watching TV George is a

freeloader apparently George is hanging out the

kids but like he ain't He's a baby daddy, but

he ain't contributing much Yep. Oh, God. Oh,

God. Oh, man. You just, ugh. I had a whole flash

in my brain about Columbo, Mrs. Columbo, and

George being on the Maury Povich show. Oh, my

God. No. Like, is your wife real? Is she not

real? The verdict is... Oh, God. What else about

this one? Did you like or didn't you like? Like

I said, I liked that there was the little twist

to it. So I don't really have a lot of ties to

communities and things. So the whole thing about

the Shriner's ring and the dead husband being

a Shriner, it seemed like the stuff he was talking

about was more like a Mason than a Shriner, but

I don't know if they're related or if they're

different. I mean, I only really know about the

Masons through like fiction the Illuminati and

that kind of nonsense I don't know how much of

that is real and but it was like I don't know

and it was it was a somewhat of a plot point

because at one point he needs a Mason He needs

a Shriner's ring. Yeah, that's I was confused

with I was like wait Did she hit the husband

with the ring? Did she? No, no, no It was it

because the whole thing was the the idea was

the blackmailer guy had something else on her

on her Yeah, and so what? The ring was to make

her think that somehow He'd gotten a hold of

the husband's ring and knew that the husband

was buried in the in the yard. Oh, okay She's

the ring. Yeah, you know she goes to look where

he's buried under the fountain Yep, which by

the way is kind of a neat little thing because

that's the last shot of the episode is the fountain

which is, as you see in the background, they're

leaving that house. Yep. Absolutely. And Colombo's

deduction of, oh, you come in the house, nothing

but darkness. You run immediately to the, to

the window there, to the door, to the balcony,

whatever the hell it is. Towards the fountain.

Like you don't even turn any lights on or anything.

I don't know anyone. When they come home, that

would just meet house, apartment, whatever, wherever

you live, that would not turn that hall light

on or some sort of light. Everybody turns on

a light as soon as they come home. Her whole

thing was she wanted to see if the thing had

been dug up. Right. Because this guy, from her

perspective, the blackmailer guy had the ring

that had been buried with her husband. Right

now so what you know, she wanted to make sure

she wanted to check to see if anything had happened

to the garden One thing I wanted to mention is

when like so She kills his assistant and then

the whole thing is like they think she was trying

to kill up I think the killer is trying to go

after the blackmailer because he blackmailed

other people too Yep, and then at one point to

try to like change the the Colombo seems to be

changing his focus So she tries to put him back

onto that whole thing. So she tries to run him

down run the blackmailer down Like is it me or

does she miss by a country mile? He just sort

of ducks down Like it was this weird shot and

I think Colombo says that he wasn't hit Yeah

Yeah, that's the whole thing is he tells her

that that he'd been injured and that on his person

was this ring which is Trying to ring that he

had to get from a bartender down the street.

Mm -hmm Interesting I love in that scene where

he's like Are you a Shriner? Are you a Shriner?

Is anyone here a Shriner? Like my kingdom for

Shriners right now. The bartender guy down the

street. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. Thank

you very much. No, I thought this one was really

good. I thought even though I have a little bit

of a whatever against the going against the grain

of the formula, I liked it again. I was kind

of timing to see how long it would take. for

him to show up or for that, and it didn't take

too long this time. Sometimes it takes 20 minutes,

sometimes it takes almost a full half hour of

a 90 minute Colombo episode for him to show up

depending on. And I think the problem I have

with the format, and it's nothing, I'll get over

it, it's fine, but it seemed like the murder

took, maybe it's the next one, a couple of these,

the murder takes too long to happen. Like I'm

expecting the murder to happen within the first

15 minutes. Well, okay as a general rule It seems

like it you you you enter a colombo episode what

they say in media res The killer has already

made up his mind to kill the person. Yeah already

has the plan put together and Really we're coming

in as they're executing on the plan. Mm -hmm.

And these episodes in particular You know, I

mean it You could have bounced another way. Yeah

So could have All right, anything else on this

one Hey, you know, I I liked it a lot more than

I remember liking it. Um There are a lot of old

and you know again, I went back and rewatched

it which is I think the height of a compliment

Yeah, absolutely zero to five with half points.

What are you gonna give it? I? Mean there was

no dog so four point five Like I like that they

tinker with the form because the I mean the formula

is great. It's iconic. It works What you know,

you got out you got to play with it from time

to time like there's there's one coming up that

I think is gonna blow your mind. Oh That is down

the road. I don't use it down as far as I think

it is but it's it's coming We're gonna be like,

oh my god, this was weird. Yeah And I'm not opposed

to having a weird Colombo episode I'm just noticing

the slight overall changes that they've made

here in season two to, as you said earlier, kind

of spruce it up and spice it up and kind of mix

things up, which is not a bad thing. Well, imagine

an episode where you don't know who the killer

is. That's true. It's coming. And it's weird.

Alright, I am gonna give it a four point four

four to five For this one. I take a full point

off for no dog. I mean the dog could have at

least been in the car Look I love I enjoy this

one a lot like I'm joking about the dog thing

I mean this but this was a it's it's this would

be an interesting experience with this particular

episode because like You know, I remember watching

these things, you know back in the 90s I enjoyed

them but there were some that I remember more

strongly enjoying than others. And this one was

kind of a, oh yeah. And like watching it this

time, I had a lot of, because we're doing it

for this podcast, and theoretically, particularly

the second time, paying attention to what's going

on. To be fair, you know what, I did actually

go back and correct my mistake and watch it again.

I enjoyed this episode more than I remember enjoying

it. Yeah, but it didn't have the dog, so it's

not going to get a perfect score. It can't be

a perfect Colombo episode without the dog. Oh,

wait. Oh. What? There is one. There is one. There

is one. My favorite one does not have the dog,

I don't think. Interesting. It's like the very

last episode of the NBC series. Awesome awesome

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