STARGATE SG1
Episode 420
"ENTITY"
By
Peter DeLuise
CONTROL ROOM
Jack walks in standing next to Teal'c and Daniel, Sam is seated
at a keyboard.
DAVIS
Chevron 6 encoded.
HAMMOND
Glad you could make it Colonel.
O'NEILL
Wouldn't miss it Sir, this is my favourite
part.
DAVIS
Chevron 7 locked.
The Gate engages.
CARTER
Proceeding with MALP transit.
DAVIS
MALP en route.
O'NEILL
You look tense. (to Teal'c)
DANIEL
No I'd say anxious.
TEAL'C
I am neither tense nor anxious. Perhaps
concerned.
DANIEL
Why?
TEAL'C
The address of this planet was procured
from the repository of the Ancients.
DAVIS
Receiving MALP telemetry.
Pictures come through.
DANIEL
Nothing I can see resembles anything
that we know about the Ancients. Architecture,
technology, writing.
CARTER
Maybe what we're looking at came to
this planet after the Ancients left
it.
HAMMOND
Teal'c, do you recognise any of this?
TEAL'C
I do not General Hammond.
O'NEILL
Nope, neither do I. (Beat as Daniel
and Teal'c look at him) I'm just saying.
The MALP takes off.
HAMMOND
What's it doing?
CARTER
Flying Sir.
O'NEILL
MALP's can't fly.
DANIEL
Apparently they can.
O'NEILL
Shouldn't there be a memo on this stuff?
TEAL'C
I do not believe we are still in control.
CARTER
Run a systems diagnostic on the MALP.
The screen goes blank.
O'NEILL
It's stopped transmitting.
CARTER
Negative Sir, we're still getting a
strong signal. We should be receiving
video.
DAVIS
Er Major, you should take a look at
this.
CARTER
Sir very high frequency oscillations
are being transmitted on a feedback
loop.
DANIEL
They may be trying to communicate.
O'NEILL
They?
DANIEL
Well whoever they are.
O'NEILL
Exactly.
DANIEL
What?
CARTER
Sir I recommend we disengage the Stargate
and analyse this data before proceeding.
HAMMOND
Agreed. Terminate the link.
Sparks start to come out of the computers.
CARTER
Woah, we've got an EM spike, the system's
overloading.
O'NEILL
Shut it down.
DAVIS
I can't get in.
CARTER
Try override.
DAVIS
Control systems are locked down. Arghhh.
His computer explodes. Sam's gives her an electric shock.
CARTER
The computer is no longer under our
control.
O'NEILL
Emergency disconnect Sir?
HAMMOND
Do it. Major are you okay?
CARTER
Yes Sir.
Jack and Teal'c go into the Gate room and pull a switch, shutting
the Gate down.
TITLES
Fraiser is in the control room with Davis on a stretcher.
FRAISER
Let's get him to the infirmary. He's
got 1st and 2nd degree burns Sir, mostly
superficial. But I would like to run
some more tests.
HAMMOND
Very well.
CARTER
The Stargate control systems and their
redundancies are inoperative including
the iris. The circuitry in these terminals
has been completely fused.
O'NEILL
Any idea what that was?
CARTER
None Sir. The secondary systems are
up and running but that was one hell
of an EM spike. I'd like to run a full
systems diagnostic on the main computer.
FRAISER
After I treat this hand.
CARTER
As soon as I get the systems up..
FRAISER
It is a very bad burn Sam.
CARTER
Five minutes.
FRAISER
Now!
O'NEILL
Do as the Doctor says.
CARTER
Yes Sir.
FRAISER
Thank you Colonel. You, Daniel and Teal'c
are next.
DANIEL/O'NEILL
What? I'm fine.
FRAISR
Yeah well I would like to be the judge
of that. Some form of energy came through
the Stargate. I think it's only prudent
to make sure there are no physiological
effects to those exposed. ASAP.
She leaves.
O'NEILL
Who put her in charge?
HAMMOND
The US Air Force.
TEAL'C
In medical matters, Dr. Fraiser may
overrule those of any rank.
O'NEILL
I'm not getting all my memos.
Infirmary
Sam is sitting on a bed while Walter is lying down. Sam is having
her hand bandaged.
FRAISER
By the looks of the control room I'd
say you were both very lucky.
DAVIS
I guess it could have been worse.
CARTER
I'd like to know what it was trying
to do in the first place. Unfortunately
our best diagnostic tool for figuring
that out has been trashed.
FRAISER
You're all done here.
CARTER
Thanks.
She leaves and Teal'c comes in. The computer then starts to display
all sorts of images.
TEAL'C
Reporting as requested.
FRAISER
Thanks Teal'c. Just take a seat.
Sam's lab.
DANIEL
Can you freeze it just before it cuts
out, I wanna get a video capture of
this hub thing. Might be able to cross-reference
the architecture. No, on second thought
I don't think this place is even remotely
connected to ancient Earth.
CARTER
There. This is the start of the strange
high frequency oscillations. They began
seconds after we lost video and started
to multiply exponentially. After that
the oscillations maxed out our equipment
and made it impossible to easure them.
Now if I isolate this smaller more detailed
signal, and expand the timeline, there
it's a waveform of some kind.
DANIEL
The alien signal.
CARTER
Piggybacked on the MALP telemetry, that
must be how it managed to come back
through an outgoing wormhole. I can't
properly analyse it until I get the
computers back up, my hands are tied.
DANIEL
Well there are other computers in the
world.
CARTER
Not that I can access. General Hammond
has put the SGC under quarantine.
The security camera watches them.
Control Room.
HAMMOND
So information was accessed?
DANIEL
Apparently.
HAMMOND
Why? By what?
CARTER
We don't know Sir, but it branched out
through very specific areas. Network
and language software followed by system
and application software.
DANIEL
Learning to read, learning to talk.
CARTER
And knowledge of our systems.
HAMMOND
You're saying something was inside our
computers?
DANIEL
Well we're just guessing at this point.
CARTER
Whatever it was, we managed to interrupt
it before it could complete its entire
scan of our computer.
HAMMOND
Were you able to determine anything
further from the MALP transmission?
DANIEL
Not a single reference on or off world
that even remotely resembles the architecture,
it's entirely alien.
CARTER
We're running a virus scan and purging
the entire mainframe but it's a long
process. Our file allocation tables
were corrupted by the surge and there
are sectors we'll never be able to recover.
HAMMOND
I'm maintaining DEFCON2 and keeping
the mountain locked down until you can
tell me with confidence there will be
no further repercussions.
CARTER
Yes Sir.
MALP room. The MALP suddenly moves.
Briefing Room. Hammond sits at the head of the table, Jack to
his right, then Sam, Daniel. Janet sits to his left next to Teal'c.
O'NEILL
So it's a probe.
DANIEL
No we're saying it's like a probe. We
actually don't know what to call it.
CARTER
We do know that before we were able
to cut it off a structured EM wave managed
to navigate over half of our computer
system.
TEAL'C
For what reason?
DANIEL
Well we sent a probe to their world.
O'NEILL
So we're calling it a probe?
DANIEL
Sure. The point is we don't know what
would have happened if we hadn't interrupted
it.
HAMMOND
It did an awful lot of damage.
TEAL'C
Perhaps that was the intention.
CARTER
Or maybe it was intended to have been
passive but just so advanced it overwhelmed
our system. We really have no way of
knowing.
FRAISER
What is this?
CARTER
Those are the high frequency oscillations
we received. They're time magnified
and scaled for detail.
FRAISER
Looks like high amplitude tracings of
an EEG.
DANIEL
Like a brain wave?
FRAISER
Yeah.
The lights go off and a picture from the security camera appears
on the screen behind Hammond.
O'NEILL
Hello.
CARTER
It's still here.
O'NEILL
What the probe?
CARTER
Whatever it is. It must have been sustaining
itself in our secondary systems while
we were cleaning up the computer.
Jack gets up and the camera follows him projecting his image
onto the screen.
O'NEILL
Do I look fat?
DANIEL; It's like it wants us to know that its here.
Jack makes a sloppy salute.
O'NEILL
Come here often? (Files scroll on the
screen until Jack's is displayed. "John
O'Neill") Yeah all right that's me.
Camera pans to Sam and Daniel and displays their records. For
the record Sam's DoB is 29/12/68. Peter DeLuise is also shown
under Lee van Cleef- Team Designation SG1- Rank - Master. LOL
( For the totally dense as yself,according to my Dad, LvC was
in the Good the Bad and the Ugly. PdL is definitely good. )
Siler then comes up the stairs.
SILER
Beg your pardon Sir, the dialling sequencer
just went down.
HAMMOND
Take it off line Sergeant.
SILER
Yes Sir.
DANIEL
It's learning.
O'NEILL
Learning what?
DANIEL
About us. Who we are, what we do here.
HAMMOND
Put a stop to it Major.
CARTER
Yes Sir.
DANIEL
We don't even know its intentions.
HAMMOND
Doctor, I can't allow an alien technology
into our computer systems whatever it's
intentions.
Control Room
Jack, Daniel and Hammond come down the stairs. Sam is already
there.
HAMMOND
Have we maintained quarantine?
CARTER
Yes Sir, for the moment we're still
isolated.
HAMMOND
I don't want to risk contamination of
the outside world. I want whatever this
is stopped right here right now.
The camera follows Jack from side to side.
O'NEILL
I think it likes me.
CARTER
From what I can decipher Sir, it's like
a computer program incredibly invasive
but as complex as a DNA strand and it's
growing. It's eating more and more memory.
HAMMOND
Can you remove it?
CARTER
Well this will take a complete shutdown
of all systems on base connected to
the mainframe, followed by a low level
format of all drives. Unfortunately
Sir, any and all data not properly backed
up before this event will be destroyed.
But it's the only way to be sure.
HAMMOND
Understood. Do it.
CARTER
We'll be out of commission for a while
Sir.
HAMMOND
I've already alerted all off world teams
to stay put until further notice.
CARTER
Yes Sir. Sergeant?
SILER
Stand by for a base wide systems power
down. Powering down.
O'NEILL
Hey. (The camera stops following him)
In the MALP room something is building. Looks like a Borg alcove
with a computer screen and keyboard at the front.
Control Room
SILER
All scans came back clean Sir.
HAMMOND
Thank you Sergeant.
CARTER
We may have only lost data from the
last 24 hours before the event. We'll
know more when I can hook up with the
SGC archives at the Pentagon.
HAMMOND
I'd like you and Sergeant Siler to double-check
your results before we do that.
CARTER
Yes Sir.
SILER
Major?
CARTER
You're kidding.
Corridor
O'NEILL
Carter! Emergency lighting?
CARTER
In the MALP room yes Sir, a small power
usage anomaly. General Hammond said
we should check it out before we resume
normal operations.
O'NEILL
Forget to change a light bulb Siler?
SILER
Not my job Sir. Yes sir, lightbulb,
very amusing.
Jack's key card won't work so he touches the door.
O'NEILL
It's warm.
CARTER
Fire?
SILER
Alarms would be going off by now Major.
O'NEILL
It's been welded from the inside.
CARTER
By who, there's been nobody on this
level since the power shutdown.
O'NEILL
Get a torch.
The MALP room.
Jack, Sam, Teal'c and Daniel all come in with weapons. Well all
except Daniel.
They see what looks like a Borg alcove to me.
O'NEILL
What is it?
CARTER
I don't know Sir. I think we robbed
the alien program of an environment
so it created one.
TEAL'C
It appears to be sustaining itself from
the electric power from the emergency
light system.
CARTER
Must have got into the MALP's, survived
on battery power while we were shut
down and built this memory mainframe
while we were on emergency power.
O'NEILL
Memory mainframe?
CARTER
I know for a fact we wiped out a ton
of it. This program must use incredible
compression; it must be able to reproduce
itself from a fraction of its original
size. And now it's expanding into whatever
available memory it can find.
O'NEILL
Okay. (into radio) General, we're gonna
need some claymores down here.
DANIEL
You wanna blow it up?
O'NEILL
Yes.
DANIEL
Why?
O'NEILL
Why?
CARTER
Sir we've completely isolated this area
of the base, there is no chance of reinfection
of our computer.
DANIEL
It's obviously trying to survive.
O'NEILL
So do bacteria.
CARTER
It's trying to communicate.
O'NEILL
So do bact.
CARTER
Sir I agree with Daniel. This is a life
form, obviously intelligent. Now we
have been in the exact same position
as this alien entity I don't know how
many times. On another planet, cut off
from our world, trying to stay alive.
General Hammond arrives.
HAMMOND
What in God's name?
O'NEILL
Well General, whatever got into our
computers has apparently built a nest.
HAMMOND
Overnight?
CARTER
According to the security log there
hasn't been any human activity in the
MALP room for over 36 hours.
O'NEILL
For the record Sir, I want to blow it
to hell, these folks wanna chat with
it.
HAMMOND
Are you absolutely certain it can't
reconnect to our computers?
O'NEILL
General?
CARTER
It's surviving on an emergency circuit
which is battery powered so it's isolated
from the rest of the base. We can kill
it just by severing that connection.
HAMMOND
How do you intend to proceed?
CARTER
Well Sir, it's provided an interface,
I'd like to at least make contact with
it. If anything goes wrong, we just
cut the power.
HAMMOND
Very well.
Sam goes to the keyboard. She types in "What is your purpose
here?" It types back, "What is yours?"
DANIEL
Maybe it's trying to figure out why
we sent a probe to its world.
Sam types "We are explorers" The S repeats and repeats. Electricity
is going through the keyboard into her hands.
HAMMOND
Major Carter?
O'NEILL
Carter!
Jack cuts the connection.
Infirmary
FRAISER
Start an EEG and an EKG. On my count.
3,2,1. (They lift her onto the bed)
Are we in? (Sam flatlines.) Charge the
paddle to 100. Take over. (She listens
to Sam's chest) It's normal sinus rhythm.
Sir?
O'NEILL
What? What is it?
FRAISER
These readings match those that infected
the computer in the first place. It's
inside her.
Observation room overlooking Sam.
Jack is in the room with Sam. Janet, Daniel, Teal'c and Hammond
are in the observation room.
FRAISER
These weaker readings are Major Carter's,
these are the entity's.
DANIEL
How can a computer program be inside
a human brain?
FRAISER
Sam said the entity was looking for
memory within which to expand. The human
brain is capable of storing terabytes
of information.
HAMMOND
How do you intend to remove it?
FRAISER
I doubt it's even possible Sir. I mean
more and more of her brain is being
stimulated and it's impossible to tell
whether her memory is being suppressed,
overwritten or erased entirely.
TEAL'C
General Hammond. I recommend Major Carter
be placed under armed guard.
DANIEL
What?
TEAL'C
If an alien entity has somehow invaded
her body, then she is a security risk
and must be treated as such.
HAMMOND
I agree with Teal'c. The entity has
fooled us twice. I'll be damned if I
let it do it again. She's to remain
under guard at all times.
FRAISER
Yes Sir.
Sam's room.
Sam opens her eyes.
O'NEILL
Carter? (looking up at the observation
room) She's conscious.
Sam makes the sloppy salute mimicking Jack in the control room.
O'NEILL
Can you talk?
FRAISER
Colonel, her PET scan resembles that
of someone who has been the victim of
a stroke. Parts of her brain seem very
active, other seem dormant or suppressed.
The entity does has complete motor control
however, it might be able to communicate
with a speech synthesizer if I explain
its operation.
O'NEILL
Just concentrate on getting it out of
her will ya?
FRAISER
I don't know how Sir.
O'NEILL
What about the Tok'ra or Asgard, don't
they owe us a favour by now?
HAMMOND
Til this situation is resolved Colonel,
we're still under quarantine. That means
from our allies as well. We cannot risk
the entity leaving this facility.
MALP room.
SILER
Looks like it used a capacitor from
the MALP to deliver a charge right through
the keyboard Sir.
O'NEILL
Well don't touch it.
SILER
Yes Sir.
DANIEL
Sam said it was growing, expanding.
TEAL'C
Perhaps the entity that possessed her
sensed that Major Carter's mind was
a more efficient storage vessel?
O'NEILL
It was a trap.
DANIEL
Trap?
O'NEILL
Yep. It was watching us the whole time.
DANIEL
Er, so you're saying it knew Sam and
I wanted to make contact with it?
O'NEILL
Yeah.
TEAL'C
And this device was created as a delivery
system in order to invade the body of
Major Carter.
O'NEILL
Yes.
DANIEL
So basically you're saying if we had
just listened to you in the first place
and blown it up. No seriously, I'm asking,
is that what you're saying?
TEAL'C
If we had destroyed the entity Daniel
Jackson, Major Carter would not have
been adversely affected.
DANIEL
Okay, I know your first instinct is
to protect, both of you, that's your
job, that's what you do but no matter
what happens, no matter how this turns
out, Sam wasn't wrong to try to communicate
with it.
Daniel leaves. Camera focuses on Jack.
Sam's room.
Jack walks in, Sam is sitting up.
ENTITY
O'Neill.
O'NEILL
That's right. (To SF) Go get the Doc.
(To Entity) And you are?
ENTITY
I am within. You are O'Neill.
O'NEILL
Yeah, we've established that.
ENTITY
This one has memory of you.
O'NEILL
The one you're talking about is a person.
Her name is Major Samantha Carter.
ENTITY
Then I am Major.
O'NEILL
No. No you're not.
FRAISER
We understand you have taken control
of Major Carter, but you're not her.
ENTITY
There was no other choice. No other
place to go. You wish to terminate.
O'NEILL
Still do.
ENTITY
But you will not. Not now. I have observed.
You value the life of one.
O'NEILL
Yes we do.
ENTITY
This one is important.
O'NEILL
She is.
ENTITY
For this reason, this one was chosen.
You will not terminate this one in order
to destroy me.
FRAISER
It went into Sam out of self preservation.
ENTITY
I cannot be removed from this mind without
terminating. You will not terminate
this one. None of you will. Therefore
I will survive.
Briefing Room.
FRAISER
The entity insists Sam's mind is intact
but I can't detect anything beyond the
barest trace. I believe even if I was
somehow able to remove it she would
be essentially brain dead
HAMMOND
I see.
DANIEL
Then why does the entity insist that
Sam's mind is still within.
O'NEILL
It's the only way to keep us from killing
it.
DANIEL
Or it's telling the truth and we just
can't detect it.
FRAISER
Yeah well, even if Sam is still in there
somewhere it won't be for long. The
entity's influence is still growing
within her mind and there is nothing
I can do to stop it.
TEAL'C
What course of action remains?
DANIEL
It wants to survive so we offer to send
it home.
HAMMOND
This alien technology is capable of
travelling back to us through an outgoing
wormhole. I won't risk the same thing
happening again. I've already ordered
that the co-ordinates be locked out
of the dialling computer.
DANIEL
Let me talk to it. Maybe we can convince
it to leave willingly.
HAMMOND
Very well Dr. Jackson. Dismissed. Jack?
O'NEILL
Sir?
HAMMOND
We may have to make some difficult choices.
I know that Major Carter means a great
deal to you.
O'NEILL
She's a very valuable member of my team
Sir.
HAMMOND
Yes she is.
Teal'c walks along the corridor outside Sam's room and hands
a zat to Jack. Jack and Daniel walk into the room.
DANIEL
My name is Daniel.
ENTITY
I am aware.
DANIEL
Right, you read my file.
ENTITY
Yes.
DANIEL
Then you know I am a scientist.
ENTITY
Yes. You have determined I cannot be
extracted.
DANIEL
Yes.
ENTITY
I will now offer information in exchange
for continued survival.
DANIEL
We don't want your information, we want
Sam.
ENTITY
Leaving this mind would cause termination.
DANIEL
You left that thing you constructed
in the MALP room. Go back.
ENTITY
I have already grown beyond its capacity.
DANIEL
Why did you do this? Why did you come
here in the first place?
ENTITY
You attacked.
DANIEL
No, we sent a probe.
ENTITY
Yes.
DANIEL
It's something we do to determine whether
or not a place is safe for humans.
ENTITY
Radio energy was emitted from your probe.
Contagion. Much damage was caused within.
DANIEL
Within what?
ENTITY
Within us. It spread before we understood
it was poison.
DANIEL
You're saying your world was damaged
by radio waves from one probe?
ENTITY
Yes.
DANIEL
We didn't mean to hurt you, it was a
misunderstanding.
ENTITY
Yet is done.
DANIEL
So you came here to, to what?
ENTITY
Preserve.
DANIEL
Preserve your world?
ENTITY
Yes.
DANIEL
How?
ENTITY
By destroying you.
O'NEILL
Well that's not going to happen.
ENTITY
Transmission was interrupted. If I had
been able to complete transmisson, you
would have been destroyed. My world
would have been preserved.
DANIEL
Well in a way, you succeeded. We won't
go back there. You can repair the damage
we did and we won't send any more probes
through.
O'NEILL
Yes we will.
DANIEL
Jack?
O'NEILL
We'll send dozens of them, one after
another. I don't care what it does.
ENTITY
No.
O'NEILL
Leave her now.
ENTITY
You won't.
O'NEILL
You've read my file, think again.
ENTITY
I must preserve.
O'NEILL
Fine stick to your guns then!
DANIEL
Jack?
O'NEILL
Daniel, we're gonna do this my way.
ENTITY
You can't.
O'NEILL
General?
HAMMOND
You're damned right we can.
ENTITY
No, please.
O'NEILL
Leave her.
ENTITY
I must preserve.
O'NEILL
If you wanna preserve your world, leave
Major Carter right now.
Sam's hand shakes and she then pulls off the wires and jumps
out of bed.
O'NEILL
Stand down. Let her go.
Daniel and Jack follow her along with Teal'c and Hammond from
the observation room. Janet makes a phone call.
FRAISER
We've got an emergency situation, code
649.
Sam walks down the corridor to be met by 2 SF's. She raises her
arms to release energy into the ceiling.
TEAL'C
I believe the alien is attempting to
return to the mainframe.
Jack zats her. She carries on and Jack is forced to zat her a
second time. Janet arrives and she and Jack go over to Sam who
is lying on the floor.
Janet walks into Sam's room where Jack is sitting alone with
her.
FRAISER
Still no change. I don't know if she
ever told you this Colonel, but Sam
made a living will. No extraordinary
means.
O'NEILL
Yeah, she told me.
FRAISER
There's no brain activity of any kind,
no brain wave from either Sam or the
entity. She's being kept alive entirely
on life support. I think it's time to
let her go Sir.
O'NEILL
Just give it a minute, huh.
Daniel and Teal'c walk in.
DANIEL
Just thought you should know, Hammond
ordered the mainframe thing in the MALP
room destroyed in case the entity managed
to find it's way back in there, it's
probably what it was trying to do.
Jack, Teal'c and Daniel stand staring at Sam.
Control Room
DAVIS
Sir we're go for a systems restart.
HAMMOND
Proceed Sergeant.
DAVIS
Yes Sir.
Siler and two others are laying claymores in the MALP room.
DAVIS
All operational systems are back on
line.
The computer thing in the MALP room suddenly starts.
SILER
Get back.
Control Room
DAVIS
It's the MALP room Sir.
HAMMOND
(over tannoy) SG1 to the MALP room immediately.
Sam's room
SG-1 gets up and goes to the MALP room.
MALP Room
SILER
I think our friend is back Sir.
O'NEILL
Alright lets blow it.
The computer screen suddenly types "I am here"
DANIEL
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Look at
this.
TEAL'C
The entity.
DANIEL
No it said it couldn't go back. It's
Sam.
O'NEILL
Daniel, I shot her twice.
DANIEL
After it transferred Sam's consciousness
out of her body. You killed the entity
after it put Sam into this, this thing.
She's in here.
O'NEILL
Why? Why would it do that?
DANIEL
You demanded it. You threatened to send
an army of probes through to its homeworld.
Saving Sam and allowing itself to be
killed was the only way to preserve
its homeworld.
Jack picks up the phone.
O'NEILL
Get me Hammond.
HAMMOND
Hammond.
O'NEILL
General, we've got a situation down
here.
HAMMOND
Same here Colonel. I'm on my way.
MALP Room
Janet has moved Sam into the MALP room on her bed.
FRAISER
This EEG matches Sam's. I don't know
how but it's her.
HAMMOND
So what do we do?
FRAISER
There's nothing I can do Sir but to
provide a conduit for her to return
into her own body.
Teal'c raises his zat gun.
TEAL'C
The entity has deceived us on several
occasions.
HAMMOND
Go ahead Doctor.
FRAISER
Yes Sir.
She flicks a switch and Sam jerks with the electric current.
She then takes a breath.
FRAISER
She's back.
Teal'c lowers his weapon.
O'NEILL
Hey Carter, where you been?
CARTER
It's gone?
HAMMOND
Yes it is.
CARTER
I was shouting for you to hear.
O'NEILL
We heard.
The camera pans back over the entire team.
THE END
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