Sub Rosa (episode)

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"Sub Rosa"
TNG, Episode 7x14 Production number: 40277-266 First aired: 31 January 1994
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Teleplay By Brannon Braga Story By Jeri Taylor (Based on material by Jeanna F. Gallo) Directed By Jonathan Frakes
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Beverly attends her grandmother's funeral, but the mysterious entity that inhabited her grandmother is now focusing on her.

Contents 1 Summary 1.1 Teaser 1.2 Act One 1.3 Act Two 1.4 Act Three 1.5 Act Four 1.6 Act Five 2 Background Information 2.1 Story and script 2.2 Production 2.3 Continuity 2.4 Reception 2.5 Video and DVD releases 3 Links and References 3.1 Main Cast 3.2 Guest Stars 3.3 Co-Star 3.4 Uncredited Co-Stars 3.5 References

[edit] Summary

[edit] Teaser

Doctor Beverly Crusher reads a eulogy before her late grandmother's coffin on Caldos II, with Counselor Deanna Troi and Captain Jean-Luc Picard at her side. Describing her grandmother, Felisa Howard; as a healer, and one who offers more than just a healthy body, she will miss her advice, healing, and most of all; her inspiration. Governor Maturin reads lines of Genesis 3:19 as her coffin slowly descends beneath the ground. As the colonists circle the grave and the gravediggers begin to bury her, a camellia is thrown to the coffin. Beverly looks over and sees a mysterious man walking with the other colonists, stops and gives her one glance.

[edit] Act One

Deanna compliments Beverly on the eulogy, where the doctor asks about the mysterious man she saw throw the camellia on the coffin, and describes him as mid 30s with short hair. Deanna says she didn't see anyone that fits her description She says the camellia was her favorite flower, which Troi asks he might be a friend or patient, but then Beverly mentions that he gave her a remarkable look. Realizing the need to get her grandmother's affairs in order, she heads to her house and Deanna comes along with her.

Maturin asks Picard how long he plans on staying, which the captain replies it would only be a few hours, and inquires why. Maturin explains to Picard that Caldos II was one of the first terraforming projects in the Federation, and the weather control infusion systems are a century old and he wouldn't mind having a starship engineer take a look at them, perhaps upgrade them; in exchange for a tour of the colony and some home-cooked meals. While the USS Enterprise isn't due to Starbase 621 until the next morning, Picard graciously accepts the governor's offer, and put off the port call and find the time. The tour is an intriguing offer to Picard as he remarks the colony impressive accomplishment, and describes the setting as being on Earth's Scottish Highlands. The governor says that's exactly what the colonists wanted. Every piece of corner stone was brought from cities in Scotland like Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. The founder had no intention to imitate Scotland, they wanted to recreate it. When asked what brought the governor to the colony, Maturin replies the culture and the heritage of the Scottish people. He visited Scotland's Glamis Castle when he was a boy and felt he was home when he gazed over the highlands.

At Beverly's grandmother's house, Deanna glances at a picture of her and her grandmother and remarks how incredible Felicia's green eyes were. It was a Howard tradition where every women in her family had green eyes, except her mother and herself, explains Beverly. She can remember her mother well, but remembers Nana more than her mother, who raised her after her mother died. Deanna pictures the candle and says how beautiful it is. The candle is a family heirloom and has been in the Howard clan for generations and supposed to symbolize the enduring Howard spirit. Deanna decides to return to the Enterprise and allow Beverly to have some time alone, which she appreciates. Wrapping herself in a blanket and reading her grandmother's journal, she goes upstairs.

Another man enters her house unannounced and blows out the candle. The sound of his breath causes Beverly to race down and demands he leaves the house. The man identifies himself to her as Ned Quint, Felicia's caregiver. This surprises the doctor as her grandmother made no mention about Ned, but he replies that there's a lot of things she never talked about and demands she gives up the heirloom. When asked why, he replies the candle has been a curse to her family for generations. Dismissing his claims as rubbish, Beverly forcefully asks Ned to leave. Before leaving, Ned warns her that he will not be responsible for what happens as long as she continues to be stubborn, as with all other Howard women were.

Back on the Enterprise, Lieutenant Commander Data preforms basic maintenance on the colony's primary systems. Maturin asks about the seismic stabilizers due to the fact they've been having tremors for the past couple of months. He then humors the android by saying how it's like to enjoy afternoon tea while the earth is shaking. The governor is alerted about a power fluctuation by Geordi La Forge in one of the weather control substations that controls atmospheric humidity. A discovery that surprises Mautrin and says his substations were working for the past 22 years and asks if it's going to be a problem. Data checks the weather patterns and discovers the formation of a storm system in the northern coastal area. A baffled Maturin says they don't get rain in the middle of summer, and Geordi quickly gets to work to correct the problem, and promises Maturin that they'll keep him dry. A promise the governor hopes he would keep as a Caber Toss is scheduled the next day and the last thing he wants to see is that event spoiled by an unexpected downpour.

Picard and Beverly discuss the entries in her grandmother's journal and was surprised to learn she had a lover, in the mid 30s to be exact. A finding that surprises the captain. The man is identified as Ronin, 34; whom Felisa met shortly after Beverly's great-grandmother passed away. The fact supported that she believes it was Ronin who threw the camellia onto her grave, but there was no mention of him in any of the letters she sent to her. Picard explains to Beverly they'll be staying for a while longer, which gives her an opportunity to straighten out her grandmothers affairs. As she enters her quarters, Picard wonders why a man like Ronin would be dating Beverly's grandmother at his current age.

The heirloom begins to flicker in Beverly's quarters as she is sleeping soundly. The covers over her begin to slide away, as well as her nightgown begins to slide away exposing her shoulder, and Beverly reacts as if someone was kissing her on the neck. An eerie voice calls her name which causes her to rise from her bed in fear as she begins to shiver as to what just went on...

[edit] Act Two

Discussing the events the night before with Deanna, Beverly explains to her she did not dream, but felt a presence with her. The experience she felt, especially when she was called out by her name, felt like she knew the person, or vice versa. He knew how she liked to be touch, which surprises the councillor; and called it the most physical dream she ever had. She said the sensations were real, and extremely arousing, which caused Deanna to be envious of her. Beverly admitted she fell asleep after reading an erotic chapter in her grandmother's journal, going as far as detailing her experience with Ronin. She becomes curious if she would have another dream tonight, which Deanna suggests she reads two chapters.

Back on the colony, and out of uniform; Beverly enters the cemetery with flowers for her grave. She sees Ned putting the final touches of the grave and Ned suggests he leaves so she can spend time alone. Beverly apologizes that they didn't start off well, and understands how much he meant to her grandmother. Ned admits that she would not find another like Felisa, and says that she has Felisia's fire. She offers Ned an olive branch and welcomes him to stay at the house to take care of it when she's away, but Ned swore he would never enter that house again, and advices her to do the same. He explains the house is haunted, and warns her not to light the candle or she'll bring out the ghost. He's out now he says, angry about being driven out and blames the ghost on causing the storm that is about to occur. Beverly dismisses Ned's warning and explains the Enterprise is repairing one of the weather control substations that is malfunctioning. Ned asks her "Who do you think is causing the malfunction?" and warns her again not to light the candle or go into the house, or he'll be burying another Howard in the cemetery. As he turns to leave, the storm intensifies as thunder and green lightning begin to crackle. Beverly turns around and sees Felisa's grave covered in flowers. The storm continues to intensify as Beverly retreats to her residence.

Lieutenant Worf detects large pockets of atmospheric turbulence and pockets of electrical activity. Picard orders this on the main viewer, and sees in Commander Riker's own words "one hell of a thunderstorm" that is growing in intensity. Data explains to the captain that what began as a power fluctuation, has now spread throughout the control grid, and has caused an unusual concentration of cumuli-nimbus activity around the colony. Geordi recommends they set up a power transfer between the Enterprise and the weather control substations to give them enough power to stabilize the storm.

Beverly returns to the house soaked, and is surprised to find the foyer of the house full of flowers.

[edit] Act Three

The door slams shut behind her as the fear level in Beverly rises. Asking if it was Ned in the house or someone else, she calls out for that person, and no one replies. Walking around the house, she calls out that she knows someone is in the house and suggests the person comes out. The mirror begins to tap against the wall, which she picks up and checks behind it to find nothing out of the ordinary. As she places it back, she finds a man in the reflection beside her, which frightens her, and causing her to drop the mirror. She turns around and finds no one there, and warns whoever is in the house to show himself or she will contact the Enterprise and will have ten security guards down to the house in 30 seconds. The man calls her name and says he has come back for her and says that he was with her last night. Beverly dismisses it as a dream and reaches for her combadge to call the Enterprise. Suddenly she becomes pain stricken and dizzy, and drops her combadge to the floor. The mysterious visitor proclaims his love to her, just as he loved Felisa before. Beverly puts the pieces together and identifies the visitor as Ronin. She runs to the stairs and asks who he is. Ronin identifies himself as a spirit, who lived in Glasgow in 1647. There he found a home with Jessel Howard, describing her as a pretty lass with red hair, and eyes like diamonds. She stayed with her daughter after Jessel died, and her daughter after her, and down on down the family clan through generations.

Wracked in fear and terror, she wanted to know how he came to Caldos, 200 light years away from Earth. Ronin tells her when her family moved into the galaxy, he moved with them. Beverly doesn't believe him, but Ronin says he believes the Howard women are the most beautiful he has ever known. Beverly then feels a strange sensation as Ronin says they are becoming one. Something she doesn't understand, but nevertheless, wants him to stop.

Deanna stops by her quarters on the Enterprise and asks if she was going to mok'bara class tonight, but she plans to skip it, due to exhaustion. Deanna gets curious and asks if she had another dream, but the doctor says no, and everything is alright. Deanna gets suspicious and asks if she was seeing someone, a suspicion proved correct when Beverly tries to dismiss it. Beverly simply says she met someone, but Deanna's telepathic abilities says otherwise. Beverly admits defeat and reveals that she saw Ronin, her grandmother's lover. This man she says is unlike any man she met before, and is so passionate about her. It's a strange relationship says Deanna, but nonetheless is very happy for her. Despite this, Deanna offers her some advice: Ronin and Beverly both suffered a tremendous loss, and that shared trageties can often create the illusion of closeness, and romance. Beverly appreciates her advice but dismisses it, simply saying she's interested, but not in love; with Ronin.

In the turbolift Maturin explains to Picard that he moved to the colony because it was a recreation of Scotland, but admits it's getting a little too real, and sneezes. When they step foot on the bridge the deck is flooded with a dense fog. The cause is a malfunction in the ship's environmental controls, which is traced to the power transfer, which is creating a feedback from one of the weather control sub stations. Data is unable to terminate the connection as a feedback loop is preventing it from being shut off. He would have to go to the sub station itself and correct it from there. Picard agrees and decides to get his jacket in the meantime.

Geordi and Data determine that the weather control grid is experiencing a power failure. A problem that is impossible according to Geordi, but is interrupted by Ned Quint who is dismantling the primary power conduit. Data asks him to stop, but Ned will not. Data forces him to get up, but Ned warns both Starfleet officers to keep away from him and warns them the ghost is trying to kill them all. A shock of energy strikes Ned from the conduit sending him tumbling down near the feet of Data and Geordi. They both rush to check on him, and Data checks his pulse. He reads no pulsation and grimly tells Geordi "He's dead..."

[edit] Act Four

Geordi summarizes that he was trying to shut down the entire weather control system, and a plasma discharge from the primary plasma conduit is what killed Ned. Maturin knew him and doesn't believe he would do something like this. Because of the tampering, another day would have to be added to the repairs, and Data lets the governor know the weather patterns will continue.

Beverly finds something and brings it to the attention of Data. It was not a plasma discharge that killed him, but an anomalous energy residual, which Data links to the malfunctions to the sub stations, and suggests they scan the colony for those same readings. Beverly asks Maturin to take Ned's body back to the ship for further tests, which he accepts; but she won't run the tests herself, quoting other matters she needs to attend to.

Back at the house, Beverly again makes contact with Ronin. He knows about Quint's death but tell her there is something more important they have to talk about. And so he appears in the flesh, claiming he can not stay in corporeal form for long and that he needs Beverly's help - he wants her to light the candle. Ronin confirms that he lives in the candle, that he weakens if he is away from it for too long. That is why the women in Beverly's family have kept it lit. The candle is on the ship so as Beverly go there to get it Ronin follows her, traveling along the power transfer beam in his natural form.

In her quarters back on the Enterprise, Beverly lits the candle. Ronin appears again. He promises her they will be together as one. As it was for the Howard women before her. And so he transforms into his anaphasic state and merge with Beverly.

A distraught Picard walks in to the transporter room where Beverly is getting ready to transport to the surface. He is holding a padd displaying Beverly's resignation from Starfleet and demands an explanation. Beverly, who is all to anxious to get out of there, states that her intentions are to stay at the colony to be a healer and thus upholding the family tradition. As she has resigned from Starfleet, Picard is forced to let her go.

[edit] Act Five

Picard and Troi discuss what has happened in his ready room. She tells him that the attraction between Beverly and Ronin is intense and intimate, and that the counselor warned her that the relationship was very sudden but that Beverly did not want to discuss it. But Deanna sensed there was something Beverly was not telling her. Picard characterizes this decision as sudden and ill-considered, and that it is at all like Beverly to behave like this. Data comes in and informs the captain that he and Geordi have detected an energy residual that matches the anaphasic signature found on Quint's body. It is coming from the cemetery. Picard orders Data to go there and find the source. As Data and Geordi scan the cemetery they discover that the energy readings are concentrated at Felisa Howard's burial site.

At the Howard house Ronin tell Beverly that very soon they are completely merged and will become one. There is a knocking on the door, when Beverly does not react Picard opens it by himself. He startles her, apologizes and say he would like to meet Ronin. Beverly tells him Ronin is not there. He asks her if she has changed the color of her eyes. He tells her that he preferred the color they used to be, that he preferred her the way she used to be. Beverly becomes agitated and makes it clear to him that she is not going to change her mind, and asks Picard to leave. But he won't as he understands that something is wrong. He points out the fact that no-one but Beverly has even seen Ronin. And so Ronin reveals himself to Picard, coming down the stairs. Picard starts questioning him, asking where he is from and how long he has been on Caldos II. Ronin avoids the questions and tell Picard that all that matter is that he and Beverly will be together for the rest of their lives. Data and Geordi hails Picard over the combadge and tell him of the findings at the cemetary, they want permission to exhume the body. Ronin protests and urges Picard not to desecrate Felisa's grave. Picard orders Data to ask the governor's permission to exhume the body. Ronin threatens to go to the governor himself. Picard challenges him to do it, believing that the governor won't know who Ronin is and will have the same questions for him as Picard has. Picard continues to ask Ronin questions he can not answer until he turns in to his natural form and attacks Picard who is struck unconscious. Beverly takes out her medkit and starts to treat the captain. Ronin urges her to stop the exhumation, but she fears Jean-Luc will die if she leaves him. Ronin leaves for the cemetery and as Picard comes to he urges Beverly to go after him.

At the cemetery Geordi and Data have the Enterprise transport the coffin out of the grave, where they lift off the lid and scan Felisa Howard's peaceful body. Data determines that there is anaphasic energy in her body and that it has extended to the cellular level. Geordi is surprised at this as Felisa was nowhere the weather station and in fact died of natural causes. All of the sudden the dead woman sits up from her coffin, her eyes glowing green. She strikes Data and Geordi to the ground in the same manner as Ronin attacked Picard, green bolts shooting through their bodies. As her friends fall to the ground, Beverly screams "no!" across the cemetery. Ronin, in her grandmother's body, asks her to trust him. Beverly, holding the candle in her hand, scream at him to leave her grandmother's body. And so he does, materializing again as the young man who has followed the Howard women through generations. He asks for her forgiveness, as he was only trying to make sure they could be together. But she can see through his game now, realizing that she has been infused with the same energy that killed Quint. Now she understands what he is, not a ghost but an anaphasic lifeform that's been using her grandmother as a host in order to maintain molecular cohesion. She's scanned the candle and it turned out to be plasma based, used only as a receptacle in order to merge with Beverly. In order to merge with her grandmother and those who came before her. Ronin defends himself, claiming he loved his hosts and that they loved him. He asks her to give him the candle and as she refuses, LaForge is treated to another energy charge. Ronin threatens to kill him. Reluctantly, Beverly sets the candle down on the ground between them. Quickly, she grabs Geordi's phaser and shoots at the candle, destroying it. Then she hails Riker and tell him to close off all the plasma conduits at the weather control systems. As Ronin throws himself at her in one final attempt to take her as his host, Beverly fires the phaser at him and the anaphasic lifeform is vaporized.

Back on the Enterprise, Data and Geordi have recovered from their ordeal. Doctor Crusher is talking to Troi about the events of the last few days. Now she understands that Ronin had somehow found one of her ancestors, a woman who had a biochemistry that made her compatible as a host. Although relieved that she escaped the "family tradition", a part of her is sad. As she re-read the entries from her grandmother's diary, she realized that whatever else Ronin had done, he made Felisa very happy.

[edit] Background Information

[edit] Story and script

• "Sub Rosa" originated from a pitch from freelance writer Jeanna F. Gallo. Jeri Taylor recalled, "The original spec script was that there have been aliens throughout history on Earth who had possessed people and they were responsible for much of what we called supernatural paranormal events. That writer had the idea of the Scottish kind of origins of Beverly. Rick and Michael were very distrustful of this story. They considered it a romance novel in space and felt the possibility for embarrassment was monumental, but I just knew it would work. It's a different kind of story for Star Trek to tell. It is a romance but we do have women in our audience and women do traditionally respond to romantic stories." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
• Taylor denied that the story was inspired by Ann Rice's The Witching Hour. She explained, "One of Brannon and my favorite movies is The Innocents, which comes from Henry James' Turn of the Screw. We saw this episode as a homage, and we packed in every sort of gothic ghost story trick that one could imagine." (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
• Consequently, the caretaker Ned Quint and Jessel Howard were a homage by Brannon Braga to valet Peter Quint and the governess Miss Jessel in The Innocents. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
• Literally translated from Japanese, rōnin means "drifting person". Generally, however, it is used to refer to a Samurai warrior who lacked a master. Braga made up the name before learning the meaning in Japanese. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
• Felisa was named for Braga's own grandmother, who had died shortly before this episode was written. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
• The episode features several religious allusions. At Howard's burial service, the mourners can clearly be heard uttering 'Amen', as well as blessing themselves and using the term 'ashes to ashes' in the Christian tradition.
• The title is Latin for "under the rose," an expression meaning "secretly," as roses were displayed at Roman gatherings as a signal that what was said there was to be kept confidential. (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)

[edit] Production

• As in-jokes, the gravestones in the graveyard bore the names of various movie characters, including McFly (Back to the Future) and Vader (Star Wars). (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
• Property master Alan Sims was surprised during the filming of this episode when the actress chosen to play Felisa Howard turned out to be Ellen Albertini Dow, his college drama teacher in 1972. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
• Effects supervisor David Stipes recalled, "The challenge really was to get the ghost. I thought everyone was really courageous in tackling this story. But if we didn't make that work, the whole story wouldn't sell: how to do purposeful, borderline-erotic ephemerals to look like it's caressing and hugging Beverly – without looking ridiculous or lewd?" (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)

[edit] Continuity

• This episode is one of seven Star Trek episodes with Latin titles. The others are "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges", "Dramatis Personae", "Ex Post Facto", "Non Sequitur", "Terra Nova" and "Vox Sola".
• Duncan Regehr later went on to play the recurring role of Shakaar Edon in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Michael Keenan also appeared on DS9 as Patrick in "Statistical Probabilities" and "Chrysalis".

[edit] Reception

• The production staff noted that fan response to the episode was split along gender lines, with men hating "Sub Rosa" and women loving it. (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
• Braga noted the show was not popular among who he dubbed "hard-core fans". "I've come to notice that whenever you infuse a show with sexual themes, some of these fans seem to short-circuit. I mean, the weather array malfunction causing thunderstorms – it was fun!" (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
• René Echevarria recalled, "I can still reduce Brannon to shudders when I go into his office and say, 'I can travel on the power transfer beam'. But the cast loved it. Every woman on the lot who read it was coming up to Brannon and patting him. Ultimately I think it was worth doing because it was campy fun and the production values were wonderful. The sets look great and everybody threw themselves into it. Gates did a wonderful job. It just got bigger and broader and to the point of grandmother leaping out of the grave. Just having Beverly basically writhing around having an orgasm at 6 o'clock on family TV was great. For that alone it was worth doing. We got away with murder." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
• Naren Shankar was one of story's early opponents. "It's a gothic ghost story. Either you buy it or you don't buy it at all, and I was sort of in the latter category." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
• Ronald D. Moore stated, "I kinda liked it. I thought it was good to try a different genre on TNG and mix things up a little. It's not a perfect show by any means, but I'm glad we did it." (AOL chat, 1997)
• Gates McFadden was praised for her performance in what she called the highlight of her season. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
  • Taylor remarked, "The lovemaking without a partner – this is not easy stuff to do and she committed herself to it completely." (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
  • Braga commented, "It was the best performance I've ever seen. I just thought she did a wonderful job. Picard catches Beverly masturbating for crying out loud! What a tough role to play. When I was writing the words, 'She writhes around in the bed having invisible sex,' I just thought, 'Oh man, we're asking for trouble. Are they gonna be able to pull this off?' Thanks to [director] Jonathan Frakes and Gates, it was not hokey. It was very good. Look, I scripted the first orgasm in "The Game". This was mild by comparison. Sure it was racy. Even Rick Berman had said, 'I can't believe we're doing this.' I think they trimmed quite a bit out of the writhing sequences." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
  • Frakes opined, "I drew a good straw because it wasn't a Star Trek. It was more like Tales from the Crypt. Gates and I have worked well together and she was never better than in 'Sub Rosa' and never looked more beautiful. She looked like a movie star." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)

[edit] Video and DVD releases

• UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 83, 11 July 1994.
• As part of the UK VHS collection Star Trek: The Next Generation - 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition under the "Crusher" section, 29 September 1997.
• As part of the TNG Season 7 DVD collection.

[edit] Links and References

[edit] Main Cast

• Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard
• Jonathan Frakes as William T. Riker
• LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge
• Michael Dorn as Worf
• Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher
• Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi
• Brent Spiner as Data

[edit] Guest Stars

• Michael Keenan as Maturin
• Shay Duffin as Ned Quint
• and Duncan Regehr as Ronin

[edit] Co-Star

• Ellen Albertini Dow as Felisa Howard

[edit] Uncredited Co-Stars

• Michael Braveheart as Ensign Martinez
• Tracee Lee Cocco as Lieutenant Jae
• Elliot Durant III as an operations division ensign
• Keith Rayve as Crewman
• Tim McCormack as Ensign Bennett (stock footage)

[edit] References

47; 1647; Aberdeen; anaphasic energy; anaphasic lifeform; aqueduct; caber toss; Caldos II; Caldos colony; camellia; Celsius; Crusher, Jack; cumulonimbus; Edinburgh; fog; ghost; Glasgow; Glamis Castle; Governor; Howard, Isabel; Howard, Jessel; Howard family candle; McFly; McManus; mok'bara; plasma conduit; power transfer beam; Scots; Scotland; Scottish Highlands; seismic stabilizer; Selar; Starbase 621; terraforming; thunderstorm; Vader; weather control system

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