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E5 "Tinker Tailor", HD, English subtitles. The legendary series based on John le Carre's novel, with an all-star cast. Retired espionage veteran George Smiley is called out on a top secret mission: to uncover a Soviet agent within top MI6's echelons. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1979 seven-part drama spy mini-series, directed by John Irvin. Jonathan Powell produced this adaptation of John le Carré's novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974). The mini-series stars Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Ian Richardson, Anthony Bate, Ian Bannen, Hywel Bennett, George Sewell, Beryl Reid, Susan Kodicek, Terence Rigby, Alexander Knox, Michael Aldridge and Patrick Stewart.
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00:00My daughter, I brought you all I could find on Jim Preeto, such as it is.
00:09Preeto and Bill Hayden were really very close, you know.
00:13I hadn't realised.
00:15Yes.
00:18Operation Testify.
00:20We still need to understand what happened, or rather, why it happened.
00:25The fire you borrowed, Peter, does at least give us a nudge in the right direction.
00:28I think I know who to talk to next.
00:31Your day was hardly wasted.
00:34I am glad of that, George.
00:35We've traced Preeto. He's become a teacher.
00:39Thursgood Preparatory School for Boys. It's in the West Country.
00:44Right.
00:58The End
02:04Three, two, one, go!
02:08Come on, come on!
02:12Come on, come on, come on!
02:22Come on, come on!
02:30script sing
02:32Come on!
02:33Come on!
02:37Hello, sir! Hello, sir!
02:39Hello, sir!
02:41Hello, sir!
02:43Hey!
02:45No break on!
02:47Near the neutral!
02:49Switch off ignition!
02:51Please, sir, how long, sir? What's my time, sir?
02:53Timekeeper, time please, Ronno!
02:55Please, sir, how long?
02:57Well done, Roach.
02:59Knew you would. Second time round.
03:01Sir, how long?
03:03Now then, Jumbo.
03:05See that man?
03:07Who's he then? Seen him before?
03:09No, sir.
03:11Anybody seen him before?
03:13No, sir!
03:15He's not staff and he's not village,
03:17so who is he? Beggar man?
03:19Thief?
03:21Tinker Tailor, soldier sailor.
03:23Rich man! Poor man!
03:25Beggar man! Thief!
03:27Why doesn't he look this way?
03:29Something funny about that.
03:31Here's a bunch of boys
03:33burning up a car round the playing field
03:35and he doesn't even give them a glance.
03:37You would, wouldn't you?
03:39Yes, sir!
03:41Doesn't he like boys? Doesn't he like cars?
03:43Doesn't he even look at that car?
03:45Best Britain ever made
03:47and years out of production.
03:53Right.
03:55Gather round.
03:57Come on!
03:59Right now, anybody sees him again
04:01let me know
04:03or any other sinister bodies.
04:05Understand?
04:07Don't want juju men
04:09wandering around pretending
04:11they don't know we exist.
04:13First glimpse.
04:15Tell me.
04:17Right?
04:19You know, Jumbo.
04:21Don't hold with odd bods wandering around a school.
04:23Last place I was at
04:25we had a whole gang broke in.
04:27Cleared the place out.
04:28House cups, money, boys watches.
04:29Nothing sacred to types like that.
04:31We don't want to swiping the Elvis.
04:35It's irreplaceable!
04:37Thanks to socialism.
04:39Color of hair, Jumbo?
04:41Sort of light-colored, sir.
04:43Height?
04:45About the same as you, sir.
04:46Age?
04:47Well...
04:49Hard to say, really, sir.
04:51Go as it was,
04:53at that distance.
04:54But you'd know him again, Jumbo, for sure.
04:56Best watcher in the unit, Jumbo Roaches, eh?
04:59As long as he keeps his specs clean.
05:13Uh...
05:29...
05:37Yeah.
06:07Oh, my God.
06:37Oh, my God.
07:07Oh, my God.
07:37Oh, my God.
08:07Oh, my God.
08:37Oh, my God.
08:38Oh, my God.
08:39Oh, my God.
08:40Oh, my God.
08:42Oh, my God.
08:43Oh, my God.
08:44Please, sir.
08:45Oh, it's you, Jumbo.
08:47Oh, my legs suck.
08:50Oh, dear.
08:52There. Can you get up? Now, slowly. Slowly.
09:08Fell off the bricks, did you, Jumbo? Let's have a look.
09:14Ah, nothing broken. Just a graze. Matron will soon put that right.
09:19One thing gives you a good excuse for getting in late. Missing Evensong. Tripped over in the lane. Is that what you tell her?
09:33We've got a secret, haven't we? I can trust you, I know that. We're good at keeping secrets, loners like you and me.
09:41Is it because of that man? Would you shoot him? Are you working undercover like Bulldog Drummond in the book?
09:50Some of the boys wanted to call you Bulldog, but we thought Rhino was better. Bigger than a Bulldog.
09:57I, uh, I used to be a soldier, Jumbo. What you saw just now, that's a souvenir.
10:05You know, it's like this. How I got it. They're both secrets. I keep them to myself.
10:12You understand, aren't you, Jumbo, eh?
10:16Yes, sir.
10:16Knew you would. Knew you would.
10:20Good night, Jumbo.
10:21Good night, sir.
10:23Thank you, sir.
10:24Well, well, long time no see.
10:40Well, well, long time no see.
10:53Hello, sir.
10:55Care for it?
10:57Very impressive.
11:02It's better than selling washing machines anywhere.
11:06It's a bit odd putting the dinner jacket on at 10 o'clock in the morning, of course.
11:14Reminds me of diplomatic cover, come to think of it.
11:16Believe it or not, it's straight, if you make some change.
11:31You get all the help we need from the arithmetic.
11:33I'm sure you do.
11:34My employers might let me invest a few pennies of my own before too long.
11:48They're tough boys, but very go-ahead, you know.
11:52Rather like we were in the old days.
11:54So, what can I do for you?
11:58I want to talk to you about the night Jim Predo was shot.
12:06The night of Operation Testify, which was what it was called, in case you didn't know.
12:10Oh, writing your memoirs, George?
12:12We are reopening the case.
12:15Who's this we, oh boy?
12:17Lacan called me in, with the minister's blessing.
12:21I can give you a telephone number to confirm, although I'd prefer not.
12:24All power corrupts, but some must govern,
12:27and in that case, Brother Lacan will reluctantly scramble to the top of the heap.
12:31The record's been filleted.
12:34Of what there is on the file, the most useful piece of information
12:37is that you were duty officer that night.
12:40Yes.
12:41Yes, I'd just come back from Tokyo, a three-year stint.
12:44Nobody seemed to have any plans for me,
12:45so I thought I'd push off to the south of France for a month's leave.
12:48And then old Mendel, controls minor,
12:50picked me up in the passage and marched me off to see control.
12:53The whole place felt weird.
12:55There was nobody about, except the radio and code people.
12:57That harridan Molly, somebody or other,
13:00was monitoring a busy little body.
13:02Molly, per se.
13:04You were in Berlin, Bill Hayden was up country,
13:07and Percy Annaline was in Scotland.
13:09Control seemed to have cleared the decks.
13:11My God, he was a shock.
13:14I'd heard he wasn't his old self anymore,
13:15but I hadn't been prepared for this.
13:18It was like opening a coffin lid.
13:20He didn't waste time on any pleasantries.
13:22I need somebody good to man the switchboard.
13:25It's got to be an old hand.
13:27I could bring in somebody from one of the outstations,
13:29but you're better, because you've been away for so long,
13:32away from the infighting and the vendettas around this place.
13:34You don't know what I'm talking about.
13:39That's good.
13:40Just do exactly what I tell you.
13:45There could be a crisis tonight.
13:48I've got a man doing a special job.
13:50It's of the utmost importance to the service.
13:53The service, it's for us.
13:54It could change everything for us.
13:56Your job tonight is to act as cut-out.
14:03Cut-out between me and whatever goes on in the rest of the building.
14:07If anything comes in,
14:10radio signal, phone call, letter, anything at all,
14:14no matter how trivial it seems,
14:18you want to wait,
14:20wait until the coast is clear,
14:22and then bring it straight to me by hand, Sam.
14:24You don't use the internal phones.
14:28You don't put anything down on paper for future reference.
14:33Is that understood?
14:37And when it's all over,
14:39you're not to breathe a word about it.
14:43Never.
14:44Not to anybody.
14:45Not to Smiley.
14:46Not to Hayden.
14:48Not to Bland.
14:49Nobody.
14:51What if I have to send out something?
14:53Only what I tell you.
15:03Their defensive weaknesses
15:04have, I think, cost in the match,
15:07which could now be sewn up by Paul Mariner.
15:09And Paul Mariner is completely flat.
15:30And he deserves a great deal better than that,
15:32because I think my chair is my man of the match.
15:36Gollocks.
15:36Gollocks.
15:44Gollocks.
15:48Gollocks.
15:49Gollocks.
15:54Gollocks.
15:55Let's go.
16:55Yeah, I'll have to call you back. It all sounds fairly unlikely.
17:04Collins? This is urgent.
17:07Come on, it's open.
17:09There's all hell broken out in the Czechoslovak air.
17:11Half of it's coded, but there's enough that isn't.
17:14Proud for Brunner.
17:15Brunner?
17:25Yes?
17:27All right, Molly, keep listening.
17:50Control.
17:52Oh, Control.
17:54The resident clerk from the Foreign Office came on first
17:57with a story from Reuters, head man in London.
17:59Molly picked the same thing up on the radio.
18:01And Reuters and a couple of Fleet Street papers
18:03have already had another go at the Foreign Office.
18:05They're saying that a British spy has been shot in Brunner.
18:11The Czechs are telling the word about an act of gross provocation
18:14by a Western power.
18:17They haven't named the dead man yet.
18:19a British spy.
18:20Can I have a brief, please?
18:24Control, I need a brief.
18:30We must say something.
18:35Do you want me to deny it?
18:38A flat denial, just to start with.
18:45Do you want me to get someone else in?
18:52Do you want to come downstairs and handle it yourself?
18:55It's deniable he had foreign documents.
19:00No one could know he was British at this stage.
19:03There hasn't been time.
19:06Even if he's not dead.
19:13Find Smiley.
19:14He's in Berlin.
19:23Yes.
19:29Well, anyone will do.
19:31It makes no difference.
19:44Tell Mendel to get me a taxi.
19:55You sent Mendel home.
20:14He's been named.
20:27Hello?
20:29Hello.
20:31Hello.
20:33Hello.
20:34Hello.
20:35Hello.
20:36Hello.
20:37Hello.
20:38Is that Mrs. Smiley?
20:40Hello?
20:41Hello?
20:42Hello.
20:43Hello.
20:44Is that Mrs. Smiley?
21:04You got my message, then?
21:05Where did you leave him?
21:08Where did you leave him?
21:09I ran George Smiley's house, just in case his wife happened to know where you were.
21:14You are a friend of the family, aren't you?
21:18I saw the ticker tape at the club.
21:21I gather there's been some god-awful shooting party.
21:25Tell me, Czechoslovakia, right?
21:31Jim Priddow's been shot.
21:32Look, the Czechs haven't got his real name yet.
21:35They're using his work name, Ellis.
21:39Jim.
21:41Shot dead?
21:42Well, we're not sure.
21:43That was the first flash since then.
21:44The word used is simply shot.
21:48Well, the Czechs are saying that Priddow, what, well, Ellis,
21:51travelling on false papers and assisted by Czech counter-revolutionaries,
21:55tried to kidnap a Czech general unnamed in a forest near Brunner
21:59and smuggle him over the Austrian border.
22:02They say that further arrests are imminent.
22:08Go on.
22:10Well, according to our military, there are heavy Czech tank movements along the Austrian border.
22:14Laken's been on and so's the minister.
22:16They want to know what the hell and why.
22:19Now, I have put out emergency calls to Smiley, Alaline, Bland.
22:24I'm glad to see you.
22:30I'm sorry, Bill.
22:32All right, Sam.
22:34Now, first thing we do, you call this number.
22:39It's Toby Esterhazy.
22:40Tell him you're speaking from me and he's to pick up the two Czech agents
22:45we've had our eyes on at the London School of Economics
22:48and lock them up.
22:49Now.
22:50Straight away, Sam.
22:52Jim's worth a lot more than those two.
22:55But it's a start.
22:57I'll have a word with the Chief Hood at the Czech Embassy.
23:01If they hurt a hair of Jim Fredo's head,
23:05I'll strip the entire Czech network in this country bare.
23:09And he can pass that on to his master.
23:12I'll make him the laughingstock of the professor.
23:31I'm bound to say Hayden was a treat to watch.
23:35I used to think of him as a pretty erratic sort of devil.
23:40Not that night, believe me.
23:42He virtually dictated a press statement for the Foreign Office to put out.
23:46And there it was the following morning in the Sunday papers.
23:50Prague radio's sensational revelations dismissed with dignified scorn.
23:56I found it good like reading over breakfast at the Savoy.
24:00And then you went to the south of France?
24:02Two lovely months.
24:04Did anyone question you again?
24:07Percy Alleline.
24:09Well, he was acting chief by then.
24:12You were out on your ear and control was in hospital.
24:14Percy wanted to know how I'd come to be doing duty officer on the fateful night.
24:19That chap Masterman was down for it.
24:21Well, I told him what I'd put to Masterman that I'd know at a kip and a quiet weekend in the circus would save me a bit of spending money for the south of France.
24:28Percy said I was a liar.
24:30And that's why they sacked you? For fibbing?
24:33Alcoholism. There were five empty beer cans in the duty officer's waste paper basket.
24:37Well, there's a standing order against booze on the premises.
24:40So what was your offence, George?
24:42Oh, I couldn't convince them that I wasn't involved.
24:45Oh, well, if you want anyone's throat cut, give me a buzz.
24:47Sam, listen.
24:51It was too late for Hayden's club to be still running ticker tape, wasn't it?
24:56He was making love to Anne that night.
24:59You made a guess of that and you were right.
25:01You telephoned her.
25:03She told you he wasn't there.
25:04And then as soon as you'd rung off, she pushed him out of bed.
25:07And Bill turned up an hour later knowing about Checo.
25:16But you didn't tell Anne about Checo.
25:25I'll find my own way down.
25:28Mind how you go, George?
25:29There you go, George.
25:59You load it.
26:01There you go, George!
26:03And then you're dead.
26:04Or you can clean the güç away arm and pitch it.
26:05You'll see me!
26:07the king will be enfim.
26:08I'll know you, baby.
26:10You're dead!
26:13I can't help me.
26:14It's mine.
26:43Jim?
26:46If you're not on your own, I swear I'll break your neck.
26:51I'm quite alone, Jim.
27:13God damn you, George.
27:27What the hell do you want?
27:29I'm sorry, Jim, but I have to know what happened.
27:32I'm finished, man.
27:34They told me to draw the line. I've drawn it.
27:39Don't you like schoolmastering?
27:41I think you had a spell of it after the war, didn't you?
27:43Was that at a prep school?
27:46Don't come round here playing cat and mouse with me, George Smalley.
27:49Look at the file.
27:51Circus file? Not available to me, Jim.
27:53I'm blackballed.
27:55Hard luck.
27:56I've had access to a few papers, which Lakon borrowed for me.
28:08Pretty old stuff.
28:10Part of it went right back to your undergraduate days,
28:12when you and Bill Hayden met at Oxford.
28:14There's a letter Bill wrote about you to his tutor, Fanshawe,
28:21Circus talent spotter,
28:23in which Bill named you a suitable material for British intelligence.
28:27I can quote the odd line from memory.
28:31He has that heavy quiet that commands.
28:35He's my other half.
28:38Between us we'd make one marvellous man.
28:40He asks nothing better than to be in my company
28:43or that of my wicked, divine friends.
28:47And I'm vastly tickled by the compliment.
28:50He's virgin, about eight foot tall,
28:53and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge.
28:57Christ.
28:59Oh, Christ, man.
29:01We were children.
29:02Yes, of course.
29:05What do you want to know?
29:07I thought we could at least be comfortable while we talk.
29:11It doesn't matter.
29:12What do you want to know?
29:30It doesn't matter.
29:31It doesn't matter.
29:32I came round in a prison hospital.
29:48Barred windows, high up.
29:51They operated after a fashion.
29:53Next time I came round, I was in a prison cell.
29:55No windows at all.
29:59I tried to work out a plan of campaign
30:02to meet the interrogation.
30:03I knew I'd never be able to keep quiet.
30:05No chance of that.
30:07If I was to stay sane and possibly even survive,
30:11there'd have to be dialogue.
30:12At the end, they'd have to believe I told them all I knew.
30:17I decided I'd give them my version of Operation Testify first,
30:21the one control spelled out for me.
30:24I was head of Scalp Hunters.
30:26I mounted my own campaign
30:28without the knowledge of my superiors
30:29because I wanted to prove I was worth promotion.
30:32If I could believe that,
30:35I could bury deep inside myself
30:36all thoughts of a traitor inside the circus.
30:40No mole.
30:41No meeting with control.
30:43No Tinket Taylor.
30:44I was there to turn General Stevchek and just that.
30:51Then I thought I could throw them the names
30:54of one or two other Soviet and satellite officials
30:56who'd been turned recently.
30:57I might even give them the rundown of my entire Brixton stable.
31:02anything so long as I forgot the mole and Tinket Taylor
31:07and kept to myself our Czech networks.
31:10You know, I recruited the founder members.
31:15Yes, a fine piece of work.
31:17That's the joke.
31:18I couldn't care less about the networks.
31:20Knew it all.
31:21Rolled them up, haven't they?
31:22Knew damn well that Testify was my private brainchild.
31:26I began exactly where I wanted to end,
31:31with the briefing in St. James'.
31:34All they wanted to talk about was
31:36Control's rotten apple theory,
31:39Tinket Taylor, the circus spy.
31:42Did they actually know the address of the St. James' flat?
31:45No, they knew the brand of the sherry.
31:50What about the charts?
31:52Control's charts on General Stevchek's career.
31:55Did they know about those?
31:58No.
32:00Not at first.
32:04Tell me about the, uh, networks.
32:10Did anyone get out?
32:12No.
32:15It seems they were shot.
32:18The story is you blew them to save your own skin.
32:20I know that isn't true, of course.
32:34It's gone.
32:49Oh, for Christ's sake,
32:53let's go somewhere that can breathe.
32:55They move me about a lot.
33:25Different rooms, different prisons, depending on who was doing the interrogating and what methods they wanted to use.
33:34There's quite a lot of muscle.
33:38Electrical, most of it.
33:44Yes, movement. Cars, lorries, corridors, cells.
33:50Once in a plane, I was hooded for it and passed out soon after takeoff.
33:56Punished for that.
34:01Think I was in Russia part of the time.
34:06Would you like to stretch your legs?
34:09Might help.
34:10It went straight to the heart of it.
34:35Why did Control go out alone? What did he hope to achieve?
34:41His comeback, I said.
34:43Not gonna laugh.
34:44The tin pot information about Checo military emplacements.
34:48Wouldn't get him a square meal at his club.
34:51So, I said, maybe poor old Control was losing his grip.
34:57That bored them.
34:59Back to the cooler.
35:01Punished again.
35:02You know, I hoped I'd go mad.
35:24And now, they knew how to stop that.
35:28They left me alone for a couple of days.
35:30Got me ready for the long one.
35:35That was when I...
35:38Gave...
35:40Gave them what they wanted.
35:44It's a matter of health as much as anything.
35:47Yes, you don't break exactly.
35:48You just run out of stories to tell.
35:51I'd reached the point where the things I'd locked away deep down
35:55were the only things coming into my brain.
35:57That was when I told them about Control's charts on Stepchick.
36:02And also about Control's rotten apple theory.
36:05Yes, the mole.
36:07The codenames we'd worked out for Control's suspects.
36:10Tinker, Percy Alolan.
36:12Taylor, Bill Hayden.
36:14Soldier, Ryeblan.
36:16And poor man, Toby Estehisi.
36:19Beggar man, George Smiley.
36:22What was the reaction?
36:24He thought for a bit.
36:27Then he offered me a cigarette.
36:28Who did?
36:31What?
36:31Oh, sorry.
36:35By this stage, there was some frosty, bearded fellow left.
36:40Seemed to be a head boy.
36:42Just him and a couple of guards standing back a bit while he made his kill.
36:48I hated that damn cigarette.
36:50Why?
36:51It was a foul American thing.
36:53Camel, actually.
36:54I remember the packet.
36:56Did he smoke them?
36:57Never stopped.
36:59And was that the end of it?
37:02More or less.
37:03More or less, yes.
37:04I have to know everything, Jim.
37:08The rest was just gossip.
37:10He wanted to know a lot of circus tittle-tittle.
37:12Who was going up, who was going down.
37:13A lot of tripe.
37:14About what?
37:15Who?
37:16Bland.
37:17How much was he drinking?
37:19Estehisi.
37:20How could anybody trust a man who dressed like that?
37:23A lot of tripe.
37:26What did he say about me?
37:29He showed me a cigarette lighter.
37:31Said it was yours.
37:34Present from Anne, with all my love.
37:36Her signature engraved.
37:39Did he tell you how he came by it?
37:41Some confrontation years ago.
37:43Said you'd remember.
37:45Anything else?
37:47Oh, come on, Jim.
37:48I'm not going to weaken at the knees
37:50just because some Russian hood's made a bad joke about me.
37:53He reckoned that after Bill Hayden's fling with her,
37:57she might care to redraft the inscription.
38:01I told him to his face he could go to bloody hell.
38:04You can't judge Bill by things like that.
38:06He's got different standards.
38:08He was certainly never one for regulations.
38:11And you were never one to see him straight.
38:17That's it.
38:19Everything.
38:20Bill made a huge fight.
38:50fuss about your repatriation.
38:53He said any price was fair to get one loyal Englishman home.
38:57I remember his verdict on Control's handling of Testify,
39:02the most incompetent operation ever launched
39:04by an old man for his dying glory.
39:07and Jim Pridot paid the cost of it.
39:11Proud of your memory, aren't you?
39:13Did you see Bill at all after you got back?
39:15No.
39:18Your oldest, closest friend.
39:21I was in quarantine, wasn't I?
39:23Well, yes, but...
39:26never mind.
39:28Let's just go over your debriefing at Sarat
39:30to wrap it up.
39:32Were the inquisitors sympathetic or not?
39:35Never appeared.
39:37No questions at all.
39:39I was in limbo.
39:40Ate a lot, drank a lot, slept a lot.
39:42Then Toby Esterhazy turns up.
39:44New suit, full of himself.
39:47Tells me the circus had nearly gone under
39:49because of Operation Testify,
39:50and I'm currently number one leper.
39:53Control's out of the game,
39:55and there's a reorganization going on
39:57to appease Whitehall.
39:59They sent Toby.
40:01Yes, a little charmer.
40:04He told me not to worry.
40:06About what?
40:07My special brief,
40:08whatever control had told me.
40:11Did Toby spell it all out?
40:14He said a few people knew the real story,
40:16and I needn't worry
40:17because it was being taken care of
40:20all the facts were known.
40:22Were they indeed?
40:23And then he gave me a thousand quid in cash
40:27to add to my gratuity.
40:30Who from?
40:31Didn't say.
40:33Didn't all this strike you as a bit odd?
40:36No inquisition.
40:38Toby throwing loose money around.
40:41After all, through you,
40:42the Russians had discovered
40:44the exact reach of control suspicions
40:46about a traitor in the circus.
40:48It narrowed the field to five,
40:52and no one's asking you anything.
40:58The facts were known, man.
41:04Toby ordered me not to approach anyone
41:07or to try and make my story heard.
41:10The circus was back in the road.
41:12I could forget Tinker, Taylor,
41:14and the whole damn game.
41:15Moles, everything.
41:17Drop out, he said.
41:20You're a lucky man, Jim.
41:23Forget it, eh?
41:24Forget it.
41:29So Toby actually mentioned
41:31Tinker, Taylor, for you.
41:37However, did he get hold of that?
41:39And that's what I've been doing.
41:54Obeying orders and forgetting.
41:55Forgetting.
41:56B跳
42:08Hey,
42:14Hey,
42:19Hey.
42:20Lord, now lettest thou thy servant deposit in peace.
42:50According to thy word,
43:04Through my eyes have seen thy salvation,
43:20Which thou hast breathed before the face of all people,
43:40To be a light, to lighten thy chances,
43:54And to be the glory of thy people, Israel.
44:09Glory be to the Father,
44:22And to the Son,
44:25And to the Holy Ghost,
44:29As it was in the beginning,
44:34Is now and ever shall be.
44:42One will not end.
44:47Amen.
44:59Amen.
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