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• The season 10 premiere of CSI: Vegas began with an amazing…I mean AMAZING 3-D look through the entire lab and lot outside where a huge incident was taking place. We see shards of glass and blood droplets in mid air, along with bullets frozen in their trajectories. Dr. Robbins was using his crutch to take out a gunman and Langston was in mid-kick sending a gunman backward through a window. It was incredible. I’ll try to get you a clip of it.
• 48 HOURS EARLIER: Stokes is studying a book about caring for arachnids while a large tarantula crawls through an aquarium. I guess he’s going to take over the bug thing where Grissom left off.
• Catherine told someone on the phone about Riley leaving them with 100 open cases. And Langston got promoted to CSI Level 2.
• The team is called to the scene of an auto accident where a popular actress is dead. The other driver still had a pulse and the evidence shoed that he had kept his foot on the gas pedal after the crash. She had been stopped when he hit her.
• Catherine assigned Greg Sanders to go to a fleabag motel to check out a dead body. He protests because he thinks he should be able to stay and wants someone with less seniority to go. He loses his argument.
• A young man was in Brass’ office where he is questioned about the starlet being on the road at 4 am. He tells Brass that she had been on her way to the set of a movie she was working on. He’s her significant other and his father owns a casino.
• At the motel, Sanders finds the man’s body. He was robbed and had been dead for at least two days. He finds some fibers between two teeth in a dental partial.
• Dr. Robbins tells Catherine that the starlet had been 8 weeks pregnant. We see that he has a ghoulish hobby of collecting photos of dead people’s faces.
• At the hospital, the doctor tells Langston that the drunk managed to survive the crash, but with a broken C2 vertebra. He had had blood alcohol level of 1.8 and GHB in his system. Stokes finds a small vial of something in the man’s duffel bag and they take it to analyze it.
• When they look further in his possessions, he has a scrapbook full of pictures of the starlet he killed, along with duct tape, rope a hunting knife and a teddy bear. He had been stalking her.
• The guy had hacked into the film production company’s computer and had all the info from the actress’s call sheet, so he knew where she would be.
• Langston thought the guy wanted to kidnap her, but not kill her yet. Stokes thought he wanted to kill her with the accident. Just then, Brass found out that the driver had regained consciousness and he went to talk to him.
• The guy knew he had killed her but wasn’t making much sense otherwise.
• Langston & Stokes studied some security tapes near the crash scene for clues. They figured out that someone overrode the traffic signal to make her have to stop.
• When the boyfriend went to the morgue to view the actress’ body, he almost showed no emotion at all. Was he in shock?
• They didn’t find an “emitter” in the man’s car, but knew one had to have been used to stop her at the light. The one that had been used was an illegal one, without an identifier, so it hadn’t been one of the police, fire or ambulance ones.
• Langston went to the hospital to check out the driver and found bruises from a seatbelt on the passenger side. He hadn’t been driving after all. They figure that the real killer hit her, pulled the unconscious man to the driver’s seat and broke his neck.
• Just when Catherine was getting read the riot act about information leaked to the press, Sara Sidle walks in. She married Grissom and while he’s lecturing at the Sorbonne, she came to help out temporarily.
• Catherine read riley’s exit interview where she basically trashed Catherine as a leader. Then, when looking over the bad press on the case, she finds an article about the boyfriend having other women sue him for paternity.
• Langston & Stokes go to the hotel where the guy in the hospital had stayed and paid cash. The surveillance video showed him being taken from the bar by the boyfriend’s security man.
• Brass took the security guy to talk to him while Catherine asked the boyfriend about the reason he hadn’t been with her that morning. He took an engagement ring from his pocket and told her he was going to give it to her, but hadn’t had the chance.
• The security guy told Brass that he had talked to the stalker to get him to go away, but Langston did some homework on the guy and found that he raced cars. He searched the guy’s room and found a crash helmet, with white powder on it. He suspected it was airbag dust from the crash. The guy asked for a lawyer.
• The dust was confirmed to be airbag talc. Catherine confided in Sara about the exit interview. Sara suggested that Catherine make someone the second in charge to help her.
• Just then, men with dark sunglasses, black suits and white shirts burst into the morgue. The bodies were all pulled out and things were in total disarray. They carried out a body in a body bag. Dr. Robbins tried to stop them and the bullets started to fly. Two of the men got into a large panel truck with the body and fired at Stokes and Sara as they drove away.
• Two people from the lab were injured, but stable. They seemed to be Russian mobsters and instead of taking the actress’ body as people expected, they took the body of the bum that Sanders had been investigating. The bum’s DNA came back and he was the actress’ father.
• Nick & Sara arrived at a scene where the father had been put through a wood chipper. They found out that the man had been a diagnosed schizophrenic and the actress had been taking care of him as well as she could.
• The boyfriend’s father had hired the security guy to breakup the actress and the boyfriend. When the security guy went to talk to the father, they struggle and he kills the father. So now the only thing he can do to fix things is to kill the actress too.
• They know they have to find a way to connect the security guy to both murders. The father had bitten the man’s sleeve and swallowed his cufflink. They sifted through the remains to find it. He was arrested for killing the father, but they couldn’t connect him to the actress.
• Catherine called Nick Stokes to her office and promoted him to Assistant Supervisor on the Graveyard Shift. Then she handed him a pile of folders to go through for her.
• The episode ended with Langston going to visit Robbins in the morgue. Robbins is doing an autopsy and when he opens the abdomen, they are both shocked and puzzled. We don’t get to see what it is. I guess we have to wait for next week.

Discussion Points:

1. Were you disappointed at how little Sara was involved this week?
2. Did I miss something? Why were the men in black that broke in to the morgue to steal the man’s body from the Russian mob? I didn’t see how they were ever connected that way, did you?
3. What are your thoughts about Riley leaving in such a negative way?
4. What are your thoughts about Grissom & Sara being married now?
5. Did you notice that Hodges was intent on protecting Wendy? I wonder how long he’s going to have a crush on her before letting her know…
6. Did you like this episode? What did you like/dislike most about it?

Leave a comment to let us know what you think!

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Check out these fun photos of the cast & crew of CSI: Vegas when they celebrated their 200th episode yesterday on the lot at Universal Studios. The cake is hilarious! It’s a crime scene, complete with a chalk-body marking, crime scene tape and a magnifying glass. I love it!! It’s absolutely the most appropriate cake for the occasion.

And it looks like everyone except Gary Dourdan & Jorja Fox were there to celebrate too. Check out the photo with Laurence Fishburne, William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Paul Guilfoyle, Liz Vassey, George Eads, Eric Szmana, Lauren Lee Smith, Archie Kao, David Berman & Robert David Hall.

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Episode 9.12 – Disarmed & Dangerous
Air Date: January 29, 2009

Here’s a video clip spoiler for tonight’s episode of CSI: Vegas. In it, Willows and Langston are investigating a crime scene with a dismembered FBI agent. Willows tries to help Langston remember that it’s important not to think ahead of the evidence. It’s a grisly crime scene, but the show looks like another great one!!

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CSI: Vegas – Episode 9.09 – 19 Down
Air Date: December 11, 2008

This is the episode where we get to meet new cast member Laurence Fishburne. His character’s name is Dr. Raymond Langston. And, sadly, it’s the next-to-last episode with William Petersen. If you like spoilers, be sure to click on “Read More”.

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Press Release:
THE CSI TEAM DISCOVERS A LINK BETWEEN A NEW MURDER AND THE INFAMOUS “DICK & JANE KILLER,” ON “CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION,” THURSDAY, DEC. 11

Introducing Oscar Nominee And Emmy And Tony Award Winner Laurence Fishburne (“What’s Love Got To Do With It,” “The Matrix,” “Miss Evers’ Boys”) As Dr. Raymond Langston

“19 Down…” When a new murder leads to a connection with an infamous serial killer, Grissom secretly joins the class of well-known criminal pathologist Dr. Raymond Langston (Fishburne), to gain access to the killer and get a crack in the case, on CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, Thursday, Dec. 11 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS:
Gil Grissom: William Petersen
Catherine Willows: Marg Helgenberger
Dr. Raymond Langston: Laurence Fishburne
Nick Stokes: George Eads
Captain Jim Brass: Paul Guilfoyle
Greg Sanders: Eric Szmanda
Dr. Robbins: Robert David Hall
David Phillips: David Berman
Hodges: Wallace Langham
Wendy Simms: Liz Vassey
Riley Adams: Lauren Lee Smith

RECURRING CAST:
Conrad Ecklie: Marc Vann
Archie Johnson: Archie Kao

GUEST CAST:
Det. Vartann: Alex Carter
Mandy Webster: Sheeri Rappaport
Nathan Haskell: Bill Irwin
Gerald Tolliver: Brad Carter
ADA Valerie Nichols: Amy Aquino
Overcoat Man: Shane Woodson
Officer Akers: Larry Sullivan
Det. Ken Martz: Maury Sterling
Mr. Steiner: Richard Gilliland
Mrs. Steiner: Caroline Aaron
Thomas: Jimmi Simpson
Silvia: Aimee DeShayes
Car Wash Manager: David H. Lawrence XVII
Richie: Stephan Sowan
Donny: Todd Giebenhain
Student #1: Roy Vongtama
Dan Forester: Matt O’Leary
Tiffany Cohen: Mimi Michaels
Joel Steiner: Josh Jacobson

WRITTEN BY: Naren Shankar and Carol Mendelsohn, series co-executive producers
DIRECTED BY: Kenneth Fink [Source: CBS]

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Episode 9.07 – Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda
Air Date: November 20, 2008

It looks like a murderer from a decade-old case may be at it again…
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Press Release:
THE MURDER OF A MOTHER AND HER YOUNG CHILD APPEARS TO BE CONNECTED TO A SUSPECT IN A CSI INVESTIGATION FROM OVER A DECADE AGO, ON “CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION,” THURSDAY, NOV. 20

Joshua Malina (“The West Wing”) Guest Stars

“Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda” – The prime suspect in a murder case from 12 years earlier comes to the forefront of a new CSI investigation, on CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, Thursday, Nov. 20 (9:00-10:01 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Joshua Malina (“The West Wing”) guest stars.

SERIES REGULARS:
Gil Grissom………………………. William Petersen
Catherine Willows………….. Marg Helgenberger
Nick Stokes………………………….. George Eads
Captain Jim Brass………………….. Paul Guilfoyle
Greg Sanders………………………… Eric Szmanda
Dr. Robbins……………………. Robert David Hall
David Phillips……………………….. David Berman
Hodges………………………….. Wallace Langham
Wendy Simms…………………………… Liz Vassey
Riley Adams……………………. Lauren Lee Smith

RECURRING CAST:
Archie Johnson………………………… Archie Kao

GUEST CAST:
DA Monroe…………………………. Joshua Malina
Nora Rowe……………………………….. Joey King
Peter Rowe…………………………….. Loren Dean
Kelsey Levin……………………………… Alison Pill
Nathan Levin……………………………… Billy Lush
Det. Chris Cavaliere………………….. Jose Zuniga
Hal Jackmin………………………….. Mike Hagerty
ADA Valerie Nichols………………. Amy Aquino
Natalie Davis……………………….. Jessica Collins
Judge…………………………………. Michael Ensign
Dr. Wilson………………………… Cyd Strittmatter

TELEPLAY BY: Allen MacDonald
STORY BY: Naren Shankar, one of the series’ executive producers, and Allen MacDonald
DIRECTED BY: Brad Tanenbaum [Source: CBS]

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Episode 9.02 – The Happy Place
Air Date: October 16, 2008

The show begins with Sara and Grissom sharing moments in bed. As obvious as it is that they still care deeply for each other, he can’t convince her to stay in Vegas. His phone rings. It’s the lab.

A woman, Sprig Grenigier, leaps to her death from an apartment window. The team begins investigating the apartment and surrounding scene. They are unconvinced that Sprig committed suicide. Minutes before her death, she had received a phone call from a payphone across the street from the apartments.

Meanwhile, Grissom leads the investigation at the scene of a woman’s body in the alley behind a pawn shop. Her eyes have been poked and ruptured like a pair of grapes, as if by a pair of thumbs.
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Sprig and her fiancé were getting married in a just a couple weeks. He told Willows that she had just lost her job as a bank teller, accused of stealing ten thousand dollars. She had recently applied for unemployment benefits.

Sara arrives at Pam Adler’s hospital bedside, where she had just died. Her husband had “pulled the plug”for his wife. Police were cautiously waiting outside the door for her. Her husband, Tom, sat next to her still body. Tom tells Sara that he had received a newspaper clipping from Tony Thorpe.

Thorpe, who had raped and beaten Pam, had written on the clipping, claiming to have visited her in the hopital and raped her again. Tom said that pulling the plug on his wife was the only way he knew to save her from Thorpe. He tells Sara and the police, though, that he had burned the note. Sara goes with Tom, as he heads to the station to give his statement.

Willows and Nick watch surveillance video from the bank. It shows Sprig giving a man, obviously a woman in “drag”, one hundred hundred dollar bills as change for two fifty dollar bills. There are, however, no signs of duress. There is no note, no gun, and no other evidence that she was coerced. The bank manager, though, said that Sprig claimed not to remember the customer or the transaction.

Nick shows Willows a video from a different bank, where another teller lost her job, having given the same “change”. The customer was the same “man” from Sprig’s bank.

Willow questions other teller, Linara Powell. She had no memory of the transaction, just as Sprig had claimed. Willows asks Powell if she had done anything to lose weight, recently. She says that she quit smoking, recently, with the help of a hypnotherapist. She hands Catherine a business card for Viviana Conway, AKA Madame Marvelous.

Willows discovers an entry in Sprig’s checkbook, a check made out to Viviana Conway. She and Nick visit a Madame Marvelous show, where Conway has a stage full of people clucking like chickens.

After the show, Viviana tells them that most of her work is with private clients. Sprig Grenigier was one of her weight-loss clients. She says Sprig lost twelve pounds to get ready for her honeymoon. She explains that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. She just provides visualizations of what the client really wants. She had Sprig picture herself in a “teeny bikini”. She explains the different states of mind between awake and asleep. She says, though, that she can’t convince anyone to do anything they wouldn’t otherwise do.

Detective Williams tells Brass that they’ve identified the body of the woman in the alley. Paula Bonfilio was a high school guidance counselor. The Tangiers room key belonged to a pit boss who used the room to entertain high rollers. Bonfilio would hit the casino like clockwork, every time she got a paycheck. The night before, she was in pretty deep. The pit boss claims he helped her get out of the hole. His DNA sample matched semen found in Bonfilio’s vaginal vault.

Grissom and Williams visit Bonfilio’s home to try and find out what she might have been doing in the part of town where they found her. Her son, Scott, drives up, and says he talked to his mother the night before, and that she was fine. She was with his baby sister, Lexi Bonfilio. The police initiate an Amber Alert for Lexi.

Scott brings the team a pacifier, unwashed, for a DNA sample. He tells Grissom and Williams that his mom said she and Lexi were going shopping. Around 10 PM, she called and said she’d be out for the night. According to Scott, her staying out all night was normal. Taking Lexi out late was not as normal, except when Scott had to work. Scott tells them that he and his mom didn’t have a good relationship. He’s a straight A senior, but was going to community college, thanks to her gambling addiction. He hid his paychecks, but she found them. Grissom asks about the possibility that Lexi is with her father, but Scott says that she had always been a party girl. She never brought men home, but always met them. Paula told Scott that Lexi was a “gift from God”.

Archie shows Grissom that Paula’s card had been used at the Tangiers Casino child care. On the casino surveillance video, Archie shows Grissom that Paula spent a long time at the tables, losing big for a couple of hours. Around 6, she gets up and finds a pit boss, whom she walks away with for a bit. At one point, she received a call on a disposable cell phone, then a white-haired man arrived. The man grabs her shoulders, she picks up her last $500 chip and they leave. Grissom notes that the larger value chips often have Radio Frequency devices. At 8:15 PM, Paula and the man pick up her baby. Later, they all appear on video at Pete’s Pawn Shop, near the scene of her body. Around 9PM, her ATM card was rejected at the pawn shop. A while later, she showed up dead in the alley.

Sara watches Tom, as he’s escorted into jail. Although he pulled the cord to help his wife, euthanasia is a felony. Though he was trying to help her, he failed to save the note from Thorpe, hurting his case.

Grissom tells Sara that none of Adler’s incoming calls came from Tony Thorpe. She figures he used a cell phone. Grissom also says that they found no evidence that Thorpe had ever hean inside Pam Adler’s room. There’s also no sign of sexual assault. Grissom doen’t believe Adler’s story. He appeals to Sara’s belief in science, making a case for the possibility that Tom Adler is just covering up for his own action. His words, though, make her wonder whose relationship he’s describing.

A hypnotherapist tries to help Grace remember the day of the robbery. She says the man wants change for two fifties; she gave him 100 singles. The hypnotherapist says the hypnotist must have put a “block” in, preventing her from remembering the details. The hypnotist must have used a post-hypnotic suggestion with a word or phrase to trigger the scam. Nick asks if the person could have used post-hypnotic suggestion to get them to do something they wouldn’t normally do. He says you can, depending on how you word it. If it sounds like something the person would do, it’s possible. He says, also, that the trigger has to be from the same voice that gave the post-hypnotic suggestion. Grace said the “man” had small hands…”little sissy hands”…and “jacked up” fingernails. Archie zooms in on the video to the man’s hands. “His” nails show signs of ripped off acrylic tips. Willows has Archie compare the facial features of the “man” in the teller windows to those on Viviana Conway’s DMV photo. They match!

Sanders tells Sara that Thorpe may have been harrassing Tom to get him to euthanize his wife. According to a new law, he could still be tried for her murder. At one time, if Adler’s died over a year after the assault and rape, he would have been free. Now, however, at any time, if her death could be attributed to Thorpe’s raping and assaulting her, he could still face charges. If Tom did it, though, it would remove him from the list of potential charges for the murder.

Williams and the police spot Paula Bonfilio’s car. A prostitute, “Trixie,” says an old man with a baby gave her the car, on the condition that he drop the baby off for him. Trixie leads them to the Palermo hotel nursery, where she had taken the baby. Williams claims Lexi, and Scott holds her briefly. Williams says CPS will have to decide if Scott can take custody of Lext, though.

Willows and Nick confront Viviana. Nick asks why she would take advantage of these people, who had trusted them. She says she “had to try”. She said she gave Sprig a free session. Viviana’s prints were on the payphone that called Sprig. Apparently, she told Sprig to picture herself in a bikini, at the beach, and jump into the water.

Viviana: There is no way that you can prove I had anything to do with her death. It’s like I told you. I cannot make people do anything that they don’t want to do.
Willows: I can. Get in jail.

Sara and Detective Vega visit Tony Thorpe. He’s in a wheelchair, and had been since Christmas.

Williams questions Leon. He says he roughed Paula up, and relieved her of her car and her baby. He says, though, that he left her alive in the alley. About the $500 chip, he says that she owed him $12,000, so it wasn’t enough to worry about.

Sara confronts Tom about Thorpe, asking why he lied. He says he wasn’t living, just sitting with Pam in the hospital. He tells Sara that he couldn’t move on, and leave Pam in the hospital like that. He couldn’t ask the doctors to help, though. He couldn’t ask them to kill his wife so he could have a weekend to himself.

Archie receives a call saying that the $500 chip showed up. Scott was trying to cash it. Back in the Bonfilio house, Grissom finds a bloodied gold chain matching the one near Paula’s body. Grissom also finds sexy photos of Scott and Paula. Grissom believes he had Oedipus issues.

Lab results, however, show that Scott and Paula didn’t share any DNA markers. Lexi, however, is Scott and Paula’s child. Records show that Paula worked in Akron, Ohio, until 2 years before. So, she brought Scott and Lexi to Vegas, when he was 15. Scott’s fingerprints are in the missing children’s database.

Scott claims that Paula didn’t kidnap him. He says, though, that it was better than his parents. Paula was Scott’s guidance counselor. She listened to all his problems. Scott tells Grissom that she only liked him while he was more risky. He tells Grissom that Lexi is better off without Paula, even if she is without her father.

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CBS Just released a spoiler/teaser video clip for tomorrow night’s season 9 premiere. In it, the cast members all talk about what it was like to film both the S8 finale and the S9 premiere. Apparently, they found it very emotional. After all, they’ve been a “family”, of sorts for over 8 years. It really must be hard to act out the loss of one of their own.

Check out this clip. I really enjoyed when Marg Helgenberger says that it was good to have Jorja Fox back for the episode because there had been an “overabundance of testosterone on the set.”

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CSI: Vegas – Episode 9.01 For Warrick
Air Date: October 9, 2008

We have to wait until the season 9 premiere of CSI: Vegas to find out if Warrick lives or dies on CSI: Vegas. We do know that Sara (Jorja Fox) will be back for this episode, but we don’t know if it’s for his hospital vigil, his funeral, or his recovery. We do know that Gary Dourdan is leaving the show, but that’s all we’ve known. But today, CBS released another teeny, tiny tidbit of information about the premiere. Click on “Read More” for the scoop.

THE CSI TEAM DEALS WITH THE AFTERMATH OF WARRICK’S SHOOTING, ON THE NINTH SEASON PREMIERE OF “CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION,” THURSDAY, OCT. 9

Jorja Fox Returns As Sara Sidle

“For Warrick” – The CSI team comes together after Warrick is shot in a Las Vegas alleyway, on the ninth season premiere of CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, Thursday, Oct. 9 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Jorja Fox reprises her role as Sara Sidle.

SERIES REGULARS:

Gil Grissom………………………. William Petersen
Catherine Willows………….. Marg Helgenberger
Warrick Brown…………………….. Gary Dourdan
Nick Stokes………………………….. George Eads
Captain Jim Brass………………….. Paul Guilfoyle
Greg Sanders………………………… Eric Szmanda
Dr. Robbins……………………. Robert David Hall
Hodges………………………….. Wallace Langham
David Phillips……………………….. David Berman

RECURRING CAST:

Wendy Simms…………………………… Liz Vassey
Conrad Ecklie………………………….. Marc Vann
Archie Johnson………………………… Archie Kao

GUEST CAST:

Sara Sidle………………………………….. Jorja Fox
Bobby Dawson……………… Gerald McCullouch
Mandy Webster……………….. Sheeri Rappaport
Henry Andrews……………………….. Jon Wellner
Undersheriff McKeen…………. Conor O’Farrell
Office Mitchell………………………. Larry Mitchell
Tina Brewster……………………….. Meta Golding
Officer Metcalf…………….. Joseph Patrick Kelly
Officer Devlin………………………. DeLon Howell
Daniel Pritchard……………… David Gianopoulos
Minister………………………….. Thom Gossom Jr.

STORY BY: Carol Mendelsohn, one of the series’ executive producers
TELEPLAY BY: Allen MacDonald and Richard J. Lewis
DIRECTED BY: Richard J. Lewis

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Paul Guilfoyle, who plays Captain Brass and William Petersen, better known in the show as Gil Grissom, fill us in on some of the details as they talk to Julie Chen on the Early Show. The stunt man who actually did get ignited tells us and shows us just how he does it…and survives! Who knew he had to put on frozen underwear and a fake head? Great stuff:

William Petersen, Paul Guilfoyle

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