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Naked City Hitmen S01E01 Episode 1 Engsub
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00:20In the Naked City, generations of crooks are linked by blood, crimes and conspiracies.
00:30For some, death is just around the corner.
00:37Most people go about their business unaware there is a darker world that exists alongside
00:43them until, like a rumbling volcano, it bursts to the surface.
00:55There are five million stories in the Naked City.
00:59This is one of them.
01:20What causes someone to become a hitman?
01:24They don't really care too much for human life.
01:31Why don't you admit that you murdered my children?
01:35They're the lowest of the low, they take a human life for a sum of money.
01:41This was only ever about who controlled the pill market.
01:48An easy money for someone who has no conscience is to pick up a gun and take a contract out.
02:03I'm amazed that anyone can be callous enough to kill for payment.
02:09They believe that that would give them status within the criminal world.
02:14They don't care if an innocent person is injured or wounded or was killed.
02:19To have a psyche like that means you are the lowest form of humanity there is.
02:26An uncontrollable war where people were getting murdered on a monthly basis.
02:31There's enough money in the drug trade for everyone for a share.
02:35But of course, as soon as you get a taste of it, that's it.
02:39You want the lot.
02:41A .45 semi-auto loaded.
02:44Binoculars, night vision gear, ballistic vest.
02:49Balaclava, mask, wig.
02:52I would call that a pretty good assassin's kit.
02:56And you are the hitman.
03:12In the late 1980s and well into the 2000s, Melbourne didn't just have a crime problem.
03:18It had a full blown war on its hands.
03:21A bloody, drawn out, underworld conflict that would leave dozens of bodies on the ground,
03:27tie up thousands of police hours and feed a national obsession with crooks who acted like celebrities.
03:36At the centre of it were rival crews fighting for a slice of the city's booming drug trade.
03:41The Carlton crew were old school, organised, established and happy to mix gambling and stand over tactics.
03:50Mick Gatto, Graeme Kinneborough and Mario Condello were an underworld collective coming together to socialise and do business.
04:00And they would still be in business if a key group, the Moran family, weren't greedy and hot tempered.
04:06The Morans were connected through blood and business.
04:10Lewis was a bookmaker with sticky fingers.
04:12His sons, Mark, had the brains.
04:15Jason had the temper.
04:18Over a decade, it was a sprawling crime war involving hundreds of police, untold millions in drugs and money,
04:25that left major and minor underworld figures dead.
04:28At the same time, it would capture the fascination of a nation like no criminal story before or since.
04:36And that was because of the fuse that lit this powder keg of drugs, money and violence.
04:43Carl Anthony Williams.
04:53It seems so long ago, but I remember thinking way too much about Carl Williams.
05:01You know, I would have my working day full of how we were going to go and bring him behind
05:08bars,
05:09but that would often enter into my thoughts in the middle of the night.
05:13You know, I and many of my colleagues become very consumed by the work we did at the Piranha Task
05:21Force.
05:21And, you know, he was killing people, as it turned out, on a regular basis.
05:27We knew we weren't immune to that.
05:29We knew it was a threat and we took precautions for our own safety.
05:34All of us did.
05:36Ultimately, as I became more the focus of his attention, as we stepped out by our investigations,
05:44he became more focused on me.
05:46And we became aware of him making threats to kill me and my girlfriend.
05:51Williams was recorded asking his wife, Roberta,
05:55If Bateson comes looking for me, you know what to do, don't you?
05:58Shoot them in the head.
06:00If you want Bateson's missus, I'll just chop her up.
06:05When these threats are taking place in a context that they were,
06:10where people were actually getting murdered on a regular basis,
06:13we knew our lives were potentially at risk.
06:18There's not much you can do about it.
06:21But it's certainly, you know, from my point of view,
06:24the most important thing is it didn't affect the way I did my job.
06:29And it certainly didn't make me take a step backwards.
06:33In fact, it made me take a step forwards into the fight.
06:45There was talk in the early days that Carl Williams was a driver for the Morans.
06:51I'm not sure that that was true.
06:53He was certainly in and around the periphery of their drug trafficking.
06:58He had taken up with Roberta Williams.
07:02Roberta had been known to us previously to the police
07:06in other relationships she'd had with other serious criminals.
07:10She was a presence and a force to be reckoned with.
07:14And, you know, I think in lots of ways,
07:16she may well have been a Lady Macbeth to Carl.
07:23I first met Carl in probably late 1999.
07:29I got the impression that he was a lower level criminal,
07:34perhaps of limited intelligence.
07:37His history indicated to us that he was not much more
07:39than a street level thug.
07:41He was a member of a local footy club.
07:43I think at various stages he had a job stacking shelves at a supermarket.
07:50And the underworld thought of him as a bit of a loser.
07:57But there was rumours that he'd taken position of a pill press
08:01that he refused to give back.
08:05He was manufacturing his own pills and selling them
08:10and undercutting the Moran's in the market.
08:12But whatever the exact cause, there was real animosity.
08:16He was starting to emerge as a potential threat to their business
08:20and they wanted to put him back into place.
08:24The Moran family did not want this,
08:27what they saw as this upstart challenging them.
08:44Carl Williams was lured to a suburban park.
08:48He was lured there by Mark and Jason Moran.
08:52When he met with them, he was shot in the stomach with a small calibre pistol.
09:03After he was shot in the stomach, there was talk of finishing him off.
09:08But Jason was quite strong on the fact that there was money owed
09:12and they needed to collect it from him and they couldn't do it if he was dead.
09:17Carl actually went home from the shooting that day
09:20and it was actually his parents that said to him,
09:23what's going on?
09:24And little did they know that Carl had been shot.
09:26They took him to hospital and they extracted this small calibre pallet from his stomach.
09:35This really was the thing that started the underworld war as we know it now.
09:42From that moment on, Carl knew that he was in danger,
09:45but he also swore that he'd get his revenge.
09:48He swore that he would kill the Morans.
09:57Mark Rand was smarter than the others.
10:01He had the reputation and the intelligence to do a lot of things.
10:07It was also pretty tough himself.
10:11It was around about 8.30 on this particular night we received a call.
10:16He was in danger, this way he destroyed himself.
10:46and as he got into that ute he was shot with a shotgun
10:55early on there was a number of people put forward as suspects but we did have a strong lead in
11:01terms
11:02of carl williams carl wasn't a particularly tough guy but there was no doubt carl williams
11:08was dangerous and he was willing to act with violence and take out his competitors
11:18still to come in the naked city for a story that's gripped melbourne today provided another
11:24riveting chapter it was just out of control these are the people who are willing to kill
11:31their friends their family for money where were we going to go from here carl williams said fasten
11:39your seat belts we had intelligence to suggest that his life was in danger oh you know there's
11:48so many in the dance we're gonna dance but you know there's been so many murders a special task
11:54force has been set up to catch the killers this was the most important breakthrough that we'd had in
12:00the criminal law in victoria for a very very long time here go it's nasty it's lots of blood and
12:09gore
12:10it looked like a professional head he was the only one that i would know who could run that far
12:15in that
12:16distance i thought it was him that was the crime that escalated this from criminals killing criminals to
12:24a public safety issue threat snipers all around the building carl moved quickly he was giving us a
12:32message yes this was me but you're not going to be able to do anything about it
12:42the hit on mark moran was first reported as the death of a local footballer
12:48it would take time to learn it was the declaration of an underworld war that would consume melbourne
12:55for years carl williams was a nobody who wanted to be the headline act he began recruiting a crew of
13:04hard men to carry out his plan to kill his enemies and leave him as the last man standing
13:12his star recruit came out of the west with a reputation for being violent
13:16efficient merciless and utterly fearless before long he became the most lethal contract killer
13:24in a gangland war that was only just getting started in the 90s we were seeing a number of
13:34crews emerge in the suburbs of melbourne and in particular there was a crew in sunshine that was
13:40becoming increasingly more violent involved in shootings robberies and this was a crew that was
13:47becoming increasingly on the police radar
13:54neil patterson's my name i'm a former deputy commissioner with victoria police
13:59you know i arrived at sunshine cib in january of 1995 andrew veneman and dino dibora were regulars through
14:09the ci officers back in those days these were two young boys who had been friends since teenagers
14:15they come together with paul colapolitis mark malia and a couple of others and they form a relationship
14:22that's going to help each of them uh make money out there and they become known as the sunshine crew
14:29they saw themselves as gangsters they carried guns they were dangerous individuals that were seen to be
14:35reckless they were rubbing shoulders and bumping into other uh criminal networks across melbourne
14:42like the carlton crew and they were becoming the much more uh serious criminal enterprise and causing problems
14:52andrew veneman was perhaps the most dangerous he was calculated and he was perhaps a little bit
14:59smarter than some of the others he was an aggressive violent kid he was a boxer tough
15:09and through the fight game he'd met people like mick gatto
15:17he was unpredictable uh he was somewhat well connected uh and as it turns out he had no hesitation to
15:29kill
15:29some of those uh friends that he had from his sunshine crew
15:49andrew veneman was the suspect in killing his mates paul colapolitis and dino dibora
15:57dino dibora's past caught up with him last night he was shot at close range and died in the driveway
16:03he shot him at least 14 times when you look at something like that you know you've got rage
16:13you know you see they're efficient killers they only need to shoot once
16:16when they're shooting excessive amount of times that is making a statement and that for us as police
16:23officers is a sign that we're dealing with some very dangerous people
16:29there's an element of ego for andrew as well he's wanting his reputation as a hitman as a murderer
16:36he was someone to be feared the the other criminals in melbourne would know that he would be prepared to
16:43uh do these things in a very public way and that was absolutely the reputation he saw
16:54carl williams and andrew veneman they did see themselves as up and comes at first it seemed like a
17:04strange coupling but carl and he ended up building quite a good friendship
17:10carl brought him in as part of the team he was earning good money through the drug trafficking
17:17and in lots of ways perhaps carl treated him as a partner and he enjoyed the prominence
17:24they certainly socialized together he was friends with roberta he was friends with carl's kids
17:31uh they became very close by that stage veneman had a reputation for violence and use of guns and that
17:41was something that uh no doubt williams thought that may be useful across the broader criminal networks
17:51and the creative had a bulgarian background but he was known as nick the russian
17:55he had a reputation for extreme violence
18:04he wanted access to the amphetamines cook who was controlled by carl williams
18:19the room was that nick bradoff was gonna kidnap that cook and force him into slave labor to make
18:25amphetamines he was someone to be feared and rightly so carl was trying to take over really much of
18:32melbourne's drug scene at that time and nick was trying to stand over carl and his crew to get access
18:39to that amphetamines cook of course carl didn't want to give it up
18:53nick radev had a long and violent criminal past
18:57he lived by the sword and last night he died by the sword
19:01a gunman fired at least seven shots one hitting radev in the head
19:08after the death of nick radev venom took on a different notion for victoria police as a
19:14the hitman for hire and it's something that victoria police probably wasn't ready for back in
19:21those days in terms of his propensity to kill someone to get an outcome that he wanted you know
19:27murder had now become a commonplace tactic in melbourne's underworld it was happening far too regularly and
19:37it built the pressure on us as a police force to act murders in suburban streets multiple shots fired
19:45into one victim from my point of view it was further evidence of the war the growing wall we were
19:52starting
19:52to deal with
20:05it's may 2003 the bodies have been stacking up shot dumped or both across laneways car parks and cafe
20:18corners with benji's reputation as a gun for hire firmly said and his loyalty to carl rock solid
20:25the pair didn't blink at removing anyone who got between them and their growing drug empire
20:34but even with the cash rolling in carl's eyes never left the morans
20:38the grudge was still there and it wasn't going anywhere
20:47so following mark brand's death jason knew he was potentially at risk and we know he left and went
20:56to london and lived overseas for a period of time why he came back i don't know but i suspect
21:04it was
21:04because he was never going to work pulling beers in a in a pub in kensington by this time carl
21:11had
21:11gathered some others into his crew carl was obsessed with killing jason moran and he was very motivated
21:19to do so he was pushing everyone to get information and they were looking for him everywhere and there
21:27was various times when carl got close to him there was a previous plot where andrew venom
21:33was going to walk through a park dressed as a woman pushing a pram and then pull a shotgun out
21:37of
21:38the out of the pram but ultimately the only option they had was the fact that they knew that he
21:46took
21:46his children to an auskick clinic at the cross keys hotel every saturday morning
21:59on this particular day jason moran took his kids to an auskick clinic with an associate
22:08so if you can imagine uh it's a saturday morning there's a hundred odd kids and parents uh grouped
22:15around and over watching their you know their young kids kick the football around this is a commonplace
22:21activity in melbourne on a saturday morning i think jason moran probably assumed that he was safe
22:29that they wouldn't strike there around 10 30 in a calculated and deliberate slaying jason moran
22:45and another drug figure were shot dead while children sat in the back seat
22:55this was reasonably well planned this seemed to be executed in a professional manner we had some cctv
23:04footage that was attached to the cross keys hotel it was grainy footage but it was really telling
23:15what it showed us is there was a white high ace fan that pulled up in the car park and
23:22we could see
23:23the gunman get out of that van run around to the driver's side door and shoot both pasquale barbro and
23:32jason moran
23:36the gunman drops the shotgun of the scene and then he runs he doesn't get back into the
23:41white high as he runs and we uh we know from witnesses that he runs over the creek probably about
23:471500 meters before we lose sight of him
23:56that was telling we started to look into who carl williams was associating with at the time
24:03and we'd seen that he was checked only weeks before with a guy who was known as the runner
24:11so the runner uh is an interesting character he spent most of his adult life in jail
24:18and it was there that he met carl williams but he was a career criminal he was an armed robbery
24:24specialist that achieved his nickname because he was notorious from running from his scenes of his armed
24:39one of the state's most wanted fugitives after jumping from a police car while being driven to
24:44the old city watch house detectives hope he may help shed more light on other serious crimes
24:53he was being taken to the mooney ponds court and the police for some reason opened the back doors of
25:01the van and he ran he just ran and he ran and he ran and he ran and he was
25:09on the run and he went to
25:11south australia perth and then ended up in darwin eventually got caught in melbourne and that's when
25:17i hooked up with him when he was out at pentridge
25:23the runners family came to see me as the local community lawyer to ask if i would go and visit
25:30him
25:31out at pentridge he was a really tough man when he was in pentridge he got involved in a fight
25:41he got
25:42stabbed just above the heart and he he just kept going he was violent he was tough extremely fit could
25:52run like the clappers when the two people were killed at the oz kick i thought it was him
26:06what we are looking at is a fairly brazen uh execution style double homicide we went to the cross
26:14keys that morning how did they come to know where to go uh what to do we knew that they
26:23must have
26:24committed some sort of reconnaissance in the days before and there were some clues we noticed there
26:29was a phone box close to the cross keys and criminals in those days would use phone boxes to communicate
26:35with each other thinking that we wouldn't intercept them so we analyzed the calls made from this
26:41particular phone box what it told us is the guy that made the phone calls on that day rang car
26:48williams
26:49rang the runner and then rang a third person that we didn't know we identified that third person we
26:58went around to his house executed a warrant put some pressure on him and he gave up who'd rang him
27:04that day
27:06turns out it's the guy that we now refer to as the driver
27:21on june 20 2003 melbourne's gangland war stopped lurking in the shadows and stepped into full public
27:29view jason moran and pasquale barbara were gunned down in broad daylight in front of kids at a footy
27:36clinic what we are looking at is a fairly brazen execution style double homicide it was a professional
27:43hit and it sent a message no one was safe not long after detectives traced a phone call to the
27:51man they
27:51nicknamed the driver
27:56the driver was a uh was a different type of criminal he was a known burglar a very good burglar
28:03but he was also a known rapist uh and sex offender uh and he uh was a character that um
28:12in lots of ways was repulsive um but he was also willing to commit murders for payment and that's
28:19where carl uh utilized that particular skill that he had
28:27around 10 30 in a calculated and deliberate slaying jason moran and another less prominent
28:33drug figure was shot dead while children sat in the back seat the runner ran up to the side window
28:41of
28:41jason moran's fan fired shot from a double-barreled shotgun jason moran ducked the first shot hit pasquale
28:51barbro in the face killed him instantly and the runner gets up on his toes fires the second shot
29:00from the double-barreled shotgun into the back of jason moran he drops that shotgun at the scene
29:08pulls out a pistol fires five more shots into jason moran and then runs
29:14what's most horrific about that is there was 10 kids in the back of that van
29:22jason moran had invited a number of his son's friends back for hot dogs
29:30these parents had no idea who jason moran was
29:33they didn't know he had a nine mil pistol down the back of his pants
29:38they didn't know he was in the underworld wall they just thought their kids were going back for hot dogs
29:47for everyone in the community that was the crime that escalated this from criminals killing criminals to
29:54a public safety issue police have described the killings as callous and cold-blooded neighbors
30:02heard at least two shots the latest in a series of underworld killings going to any lengths to
30:07control the five billion dollar a year market in party drugs we had a number of murders that occurred
30:13after mark moran and it started to emerge that we had an issue there are fears this latest murder may
30:19escalate the city's gangland killings we are concerned about the potential for innocent people
30:24being caught up in that this sort of foolishness must stop we're talking a higher rate of people
30:32being killed within the criminal underworld than melbourne had ever seen before and hasn't seen since
30:40there was phil swindells one of our senior sergeants that first submitted a request to build a
30:47task force to have a look at the commonalities between those murders there's been so many murders a
30:53special task force has been set up to catch the killers i think it's the worst series of organized
30:58crime killings in australia's history why don't you admit that you murdered my children
31:07the pressure was on for victoria police and indeed you feel quite a sense of self-imposed pressure
31:13to really make a difference detectives who were working on piranha task force were highly motivated
31:20individuals who wanted to hold the criminals that were really causing havoc across melbourne suburbs
31:27to account for us it was one of the most important investigations in victoria police's history and
31:34we were putting significant resources and time into it are these paid hits that's one of the things
31:41we're looking at do you think it will keep happening i can't rule that out
31:47yes we're getting closer yes we're getting uh further into understanding what was going on in
31:52this war but the murders continued to occur mark marley was considered part of the sunshine crew
32:00but he wasn't through the doors being charged by detectives at anywhere near the same
32:05rate as as some of the others involved he was part of the crew but just at a different level
32:16and he was starting to make inquiries about why that occurred and in fact on one occasion we had
32:26some cctv footage of him meeting with andrew veneman at crown casino they'd often meet there not only
32:35was it neutral ground but they did know there was cameras so they always felt they were safe and we
32:40have some footage of uh mark mallet getting up and pointing in andrew veneman's chest uh and for us
32:47that was a a bit of a red flag we thought just that he may well be in danger and
32:52it turns out we're right
32:58mark marley was uh lured to a house in melbourne's north by a couple of his friends
33:05when they arrived uh laying there in wait was andrew veneman carl williams and the runner
33:14they tortured him believing that malia could give them access to nick radoff's hidden precursor chemicals
33:23he had a soldering iron put into the roof of his mouth uh he was bashed repeatedly
33:31they then put him in the boot of a car drove him to the western suburbs
33:41dumped him down a drain and set him on fire police were contacted at eight o'clock last night after
33:50fire
33:51crews made the discovery they'd been called to put out flames spotted near a fence on the sports field
33:56it was a gruesome and uh pretty horrific attack on him trying to get that information they thought he had
34:12ses volunteers joined police this morning in a line search of the sports field where the remains of the
34:18dead man were found it's believed accelerant was used in the death he was in a drain pit at one
34:24end of the
34:25ground it was interesting that they drove him from the northern suburbs to the western suburbs they
34:33dumped him in a position that was not far from andrew veneman's childhood home
34:38and for us that was a sign that andrew veneman was getting a little bit more out of control
34:45we believed that he was giving us a message yes this was me but you're not going to be able
34:51to do anything
34:59about it it's october 2003 in just six months melbourne's underworld war had racked up more bodies
35:10nick the russian radov mark martia and the public execution of jason moran and pasquale barbaro in front
35:17of the kids at oski shocked the nation every killing was more brazen than the last the city's body count
35:25was growing and so was the pressure they needed a win and quick the police response was to announce the
35:34piranha task force they inherited a lead from the homicide squad a phone link to the driver of the getaway
35:42car from the auskick shooting it would be the golden thread
35:51once we identified who the driver was we went round to his home in the southern suburbs of melbourne
36:00and there parked in the driveway was a white hiace that white hiace was used in the murder of jason
36:08moran
36:09this was a significant breakthrough for us and we thought we're on the right track
36:15what we did then is we commenced electronic surveillance on the driver and the runner and car
36:21williams
36:24when the prana task force was formed there was only seven detectives after jason moran
36:31we grew to 55 and over time we built on that by this stage we had telephone intercepts and listening
36:38devices
36:41someone had to actually listen to all those hours teams of people were doing that
36:46the sheer weight of numbers showed the seriousness victoria police were taking this war
36:53the more information we got in uh we built good intelligence databases so in lots of ways if you
37:01had a deck of cards we were targeting the sevens and eights so we could move our way up to
37:06the ace of
37:06spades which was carl williams
37:12we through our web of electronic surveillance uh got wind that the runner and the driver were looking
37:20for a clean car that couldn't be traced back to them
37:24we worked hard to get an electronic device into that vehicle unfortunately for us they noticed one
37:31of the brake lights wasn't working they started going through all the wiring in the car and they
37:36found our device we thought our job was blown but we underestimated how desperate they were
37:43to commit this crime so they used their own car little did they know that we had a listening
37:50device in that car as well
38:02both the runner and the driver parked down the end of joy street south yarra in a laneway
38:10and we believed that they were actually going to commit an armed robbery
38:14but we heard them playing with a gun we started to think oh my god this might be something different
38:23they'd pull into joy street we hear uh the driver uh and the runner talking
38:53uh says that's him go go go
39:19the runner then takes off in a gap between a block of flats
39:24and he gets back into the driver's car who's waiting for him and you hear uh the driver say
39:31quite clearly get down get down get in get down get down nice and down stay down
39:52they drove straight uh back to the driver's house uh in the southern suburbs little did they know we had
40:02a
40:02listening device in there as well and we overhear them uh getting rid of their clothes getting rid of
40:08the gun but most importantly we hear a phone call uh where the runner calls carl williams and says
40:16these words carl you know that horse you tipped us it's just been scratched
40:24michael marshall lived in a beautiful house in south yarra his business or at least publicly known
40:32business was a small hot dog van which he operated in south melbourne marshall was a a quiet achiever
40:40in terms of the drug world but he also had access to precursor chemicals and he was willing to supply
40:48to fuel the anivertimen market in melbourne he was out collecting bread rolls with his five-year-old son
41:01uh for that night for his hot dog van you know sometimes it's easy to look uh at you know
41:19that time
41:20where there were just criminals being murdered but to do so forgets some of the collateral damage that's
41:27left behind marshall's five-year-old son witnessed his father's murder he was standing on the side of
41:35the road and when the uniformed police attended he was still standing there looking at his father
41:41and he said to the uniformed police i'm not allowed to cross the road without holding my dad's hand
41:48and for the police that was just the most heartbreaking thing to come out of a five-year-old's mouth
41:55uh as his father lay in the gutter on the other side of the road bleeding to death
42:08after the call to carl williams uh they decide they're going to meet carl so they get back into
42:15uh the driver's vehicle uh and they're heading down uh saint kilda road i wanted to let them run all
42:23the way to carl williams to get the evidence of their meeting but it was decided that was too dangerous
42:31the decision was made to have the sog arrest them and that occurred outside the elstonwick hotel
42:39they were blocked in by the sog dragged from their vehicle and it was five minutes later that i arrived
42:47uh to find them both handcuffed face down on the nature street
42:53the runner tried to fight the sog he lost as you'd expect but he was angry throughout the whole evening
43:00as is his way he was an aggressive violent man uh and he was not happy about being arrested at
43:07all
43:07the driver on the other hand sensed an opportunity he knew he was in trouble and right from that moment
43:13he
43:14was arrested he was looking for a deal on that night we interviewed both the driver and the runner
43:23the runner didn't say anything in fact he made a no comment interview and he was aggressive throughout
43:28the whole night the driver did likewise but off the record he started to indicate he was willing to give
43:36information about carl williams and others and we knew then uh that we had our first crack in you know
43:44what is loosely called the underworld code of silence
43:51next time in the naked city we just needed a breakthrough where were we going to go from here
43:59the establishment we're not going to let this occur without consequences and it brought mick gatto into it
44:05you know you generally don't do deals with murderers
44:11without the driver they'd have a problem connecting williams but we could make things happen if we made
44:22a brave decision he would be the best person to do that
44:28it's huge two murders in a week the person did build and the pressure didn't stop it was just out
44:36of control
44:37the murder the crime the war this has got to stop
44:44so
44:44you
44:44you
44:48you
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