Useless. Totally, absolutely useless.
I feel so angry.
I can't put up with loose canons.
You're fired.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Ah!
Good evening. Good evening and welcome to You're Fired.
I'm Rhod Gilbert.
In this week's task,
the six remaining candidates competing for
a £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar were tasked with
creating a new gin brand and bringing it to market.
A mammoth task, then, which Grainne managed to sum up perfectly.
I-I keep forgetting I don't want it... I want it to... but I thi-think...
I need to stop drinking this.
In Apprentice news tonight...
BELL CHIMES
The girls go through Claude's man-bag and find his aftershave.
Ooh!
LAUGHTER
Grainne regrets giving her mobile number to Karthik before he was fired.
19 missed calls?
LAUGHTER
And Trishna demonstrates why she lost her job at the library.
What they really want more than anything is
a drink that means something.
It takes them on a journey...
CLATTERING ..of taste, so we've developed a journey of taste for them
within our brand. It's about rejuvenation...
CLATTERING ..excitement and spices.
LAUGHTER
And Karren tries to explain why Donald Trump's face looks that way.
The colouring came from natural orange peel. Well, it didn't.
It was added in as an additive,
to turn it that sort of strange tangerine colour.
And that is tonight's Apprentice news.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Let's meet our panel, ready to distil this week's gin task
until their mouths go dry and their heads hurt.
International entrepreneur Frances Dickens,
broadcaster and Apprentice fan Sara Cox and comedian Nathan Caton.
Welcome to You're Fired.
APPLAUSE
So the latest candidate to get slung out the saloon doors of
the Apprentice was poor Trishna.
Trishna, the failure of this task has a lot to do with the colour,
and that was down to you,
so it is with regret, Trishna, that you're fired.
No problem.
Please welcome Trishna Thakrar.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Listen to that! Listen to that! How amazing.
Have a seat.
What a response!
Listen to that - whoops, cheers...!
- What a response. Hear that? - Yeah, amazing response. Thanks, guys.
That's got to feel quite good, hearing that.
Yeah, amazing, I think. Obviously gutted, but really good response.
Every week I sit here going,
"She said some sensible things," and then here you are.
I didn't expect you to be here.
- I didn't expect to be here, either, to be honest. - No.
I think that I obviously had some suggestions or things
that I thought we should do that didn't quite work out and I think
that was probably ultimately why I got fired, mainly because of the
colour and that was my suggestion so can't really complain in that sense.
- Hm. - But I just feel, like, throughout the process,
I'd done more and shown more
than maybe Grainne, and I felt, like, that...
LAUGHTER
Just pluck a name from the air.
Maybe Grainne, perhaps.
So, yeah, I was disappointed, but looking at it,
- I can see the reasons why I was fired. - Yeah.
Frances, you've been in a lot of boardrooms in your time.
Ever seen one as blame-me as that? It got very blame-me, didn't it?
Yeah, it did, yeah. Well, thankfully, no, I haven't.
These guys are in a really super-heated situation
and they're literally fighting for their lives, but I think,
in the real world, you would definitely try and not let things
- escalate to the level where your boardroom's becoming a complete war zone. - Yeah.
Sara, could you handle that pressure?
I couldn't handle that pressure, no.
I mean, at Radio 2, it's a nice lady smiling at me
through some glass and we might put the kettle on and have a biscuit.
I mean, I couldn't sit in that boardroom...
But you've got five million people listening while you're having a biscuit.
Yeah, but it is relaxing cos you're essentially there just talking to them through a microphone.
You're not seeing the sort of whites of their eyes.
There's been quite a few tears this series, and I'm not surprised,
- cos I think I would dissolve into tears. - I haven't cried.
- You've not cried? - All right.
When Trishna was fired, Nathan, she said, "No problem."
It looked quite casual. How would you feel in that situation?
Er...I think I would've been a bit more...bit more rational.
You know, like, if Lord Sugar went, "Nathan, you're fired,"
I would have been like, "Yeah? Your mum's fired!"
LAUGHTER
Very cool. Very cool lady.
Thanks.
Courtney and Nebula had a jolly good knees-up while
Grainne's Titans were left looking like a sticky pub carpet.
Let's see where it went wrong.
Who decided to make it coloured?
- We should look at maybe doing orange as the colour of the gin. - Yeah.
- With the taste of the spices, it will fit really well. - Yeah.
The colour of the liquid looks a bit like, you know,
a Scottish soft drink.
We wouldn't want to take away the colour - that is what the brand is all about.
This colour cost them orders.
If you don't think that what's going to happen is effective, tell her!
I just felt that that pitch didn't go very well because...
Why don't you tell her yourself?
I think the problems with the last pitch, we do need to learn...
- There's an absolute lack of structure. - What?
She really created an atmosphere.
Trishna, bad moods, having the hump...that's not the calibre
of person that I could work with.
Oooh! Bad moods, hump, atmosphere.
On the morning of the second day, Grainne said you were in a honking mood, Karren said you were furious.
What was the situation?
I just think I was...I went into day two feeling like we'd already lost,
and I just feel that that took an affect on my mood
and I just felt that obviously the ingredients didn't go on the bottle
and I just felt that the day didn't go well.
I wasn't sure whether you were frustrated with how things
- were going or whether you were just hungover, to be honest. - Yeah. It just...
- Was there a bit of that? - Maybe!
Do you know, in the supermarket pitch, Frances said, "Oh, we can change the colour."
- Then you said, "Oh, no, the colour is a key element of the brand. We're not changing that." - Yeah.
Did you think that was, in retrospect, perhaps the wrong thing to do,
- to contradict her like that? - I still don't think so.
If you're going to go in with a product that you believe in, that you've created,
you can't just go in to a pitch and say, "If you don't like that, we'll change it."
But once she's already said that, can you then come back...
But the other lady said, "If you're going to change the colour, what's your brand all about?"
Which is right. What have you gone in there to pitch if you're just going to change everything?
So maybe I was wrong, but I think that I still should have said that.
Frances, where do you stand on that one?
You should've spent some time brainstorming what are the things they're likely to ask,
how are we going to deal with it,
and probably more importantly,
- who is going to deal with those kind of questions. - Questions, yeah.
For me, that should have been Grainne.
She's the PM, she should have stepped in and dealt with that.
They were too busy, though, because they had to rehearse their Beyonce thing with...
# Who runs the world? Girls. Who runs the world? Girls. #
Talking of the pitches, Sara, did you enjoy, as I did,
the wonderful comedy sketch of Frances trying to deliver
a pitch while Trishna got...stormed around in the background?!
It was like someone had pushed a drum kit down a flight of stairs.
And also, in a past series of The Apprentice,
does anyone remember when someone was stabbing that microwave meal?
Like tok-tok-tok-tok-tok-tok-tok. Tok-tok-tok.
And it was that similar thing, like, "Really, is this happening?!" It was brilliant.
It was like a one-man band in the background. What was going on back there?!
Cos I opened the ice box, ready to make the cocktail,
which I had to make in time whilst Frances was delivering
her part of the pitch and I opened it, and I'm not joking,
it was like it was coated in duct tape.
The stuff was wrapped so much, I couldn't get it out!
I just couldn't get it out, and I was trying...
By the time I got it out, she'd finished!
You were like two men unloading a truck in the background.
I had such a small space as well, and then I just was trying
to get it out, everything was falling, it was just a catastrophe.
Well, there can only be one winner of The Apprentice,
and tension has been mounting in the house over the last few weeks.
As this bit of unseen footage shows, the candidates have been
employing all sorts of mind games to freak each other out.
LAUGHTER
HE MUTTERS
I mean, that clearly worked on Sofiane. He's gone!
Who was going to be next on your hit li... Was there a lot of pranks?
- Cos we get a very serious side sometimes. - Yeah.
- Is there a lot of fun and games in the house? - Yeah, definitely.
I think the mood and everything came across on that task, but I'm not a moody person at all
and I know how to have a laugh and in the house, yeah,
I was very much a sort of prankster and, yeah, made people laugh.
Right. We're going to talk about your product, the Colony Gin, the famous Colony Gin.
This is it. Um... Why this colour?
I don't know. I don't really know about gin.
If I knew, I probably wouldn't have done that, but I thought it'd make it a bit unique,
stand out and I thought, "Let's make it a colour." It was a suggestion I gave to the project manager,
"Shall we make it a colour?", and she said, "Yeah." So had she been like, "No," we would have been...
- Grainne agreed. - Yeah, she said, "Let's do it."
- I think the time you talked about getting the colour with the spices and the brand and sort of... - Yeah.
We thought there were going to be spices from different parts of the world and things like that,
and I thought it tied in quite well to make it a colour.
Frances, Trishna was, you know,
fired in large part cos of the colour of this,
but there's a lot of sense in what she's saying, isn't there, that you've got the spices,
you've got...you know...why not have to follow through the brand with the colour? Why not?
I think there is.
It's just such a horrible colour, which I hate,
and the other problem is they didn't really follow through.
They talked about having an orange and brown label, as well.
I don't see any orange and brown on that label.
And then I also hated the shape of the bottle, so...
- It's not great so far. - No!
- Sara, you famously enjoyed a party... - Yes.
..in times gone by.
In my 20s, I used to take the odd dry sherry like Emily Bishop on Corrie.
- I do like... - Would that have put you off, the colour?
You know what? I don't like the colour.
It reminds me a little bit of the water that...
If you was to sluice down a spray-tan booth,
I think that would be the water that would be trickling away afterwards.
OK, I've got the other product here. Courtney's team and his "giin".
I found the whole thing a bit odd.
The concept of it was...seemed to be this revolutionary new idea
that it was...a drink that...a gin that you could drink...
I think Jessica said, "Literally with your friends."
- Yeah. - I was thinking, "Is that going to work, like, a social thing?"
What? Hang on a minute. What, like...?
I can't see booze working in that environment.
A gin you can have in the shed on your own, of course!
I use mine in the toilet cistern, drink at work at lunchtimes...
A drink you could literally drink in a social...almost like a pub, really.
Can you see that happening?
Yeah, I never thought of that, so hang on a minute...
Yeah, so you'd be together with your mates and somebody would,
I suppose, say, "Anybody want a drink?" and you'd all go, "Yeah!"
It's new, out there... Have you ever heard of this, Nathan?
Could you imagine a drink taking off in that way in a social environment?
- No. - No. But you like the concept? - Yeah, I liked it.
I think I would have liked it if there were three "I"s, not just two.
Oh, yeah, but then it would've taken all day to pronounce.
It was long enough. "Would you like a giiiiiin?
"What's that? Happy hour's finished? Oh, bugger!"
Get that out the way for the moment.
In hindsight, given that they ended up with
a map of Africa when they were talking about India,
and a slightly controversial brand based on the Colonies,
Nathan, was it a mistake to let Frances do the branding on her own?
She said she got an A-star in Geography, apparently.
INAUDIBLE
It's also the name, as well, it's like,
who was the target audience with that name, Colony?
Cos I can't imagine me and my West Indian family going like,
"Hey, guys, let's have some Colony."
No, I can't imagine you, either.
- This bloke that went round getting these spices from "afar"... - Yeah.
- Was meant to be, like, India, Africa. - Yeah. - But... - Africa, mainly, by the look of it. - Yeah.
Also, it's weird, cos Frances is so young, so the minute she went,
"Colony Gin" it was weird cos you'd expect, like,
a 90-year-old Tory peer to go, "Colony Gin. The good old days."
She's so young, and where did that come from?
It was quite an odd brand for young people to come up with.
- I think the whole thing was very odd, frankly, yeah! - Yeah.
It does stand out.
I mean, it would stand out on the shelf and you might go,
- "Ooh, what's that?" But I'm not sure you're going to want to drink it. - Yeah.
There were just six hardy souls left going into this week's task,
but Frances found herself up against her foe,
more formidable than any Apprentice candidate.
I can honestly put my hands up and say I've tried a lot of gin.
Oh!
I'm going to try my team, see if we can hear from them.
'This is the Vodafone voice...'
PHONE CUTS OUT
That's quite nice, isn't it?
- 'This is the Vodaf...' - Why does my team ignore me?
- Oh. That makes you... - No-one's answering my calls whatsoever.
- Really tastes like... - So nice!
'This is the Vodafone...'
No-one's really listening to me today and it's actually starting to really piss me off.
- Can I get a Colony Spice, please? - Make that two.
So there's five minutes going till the deadline,
God knows what they are doing.
19 missed calls?
APPLAUSE DROWNS OUT SPEECH
Let's talk about the product itself, then.
I'll have a Colony Gin, please. I'm going to give it a little whirl.
I've seen how you do gin tasting.
I've watched you and Grainne, the experts.
Ah. It is spicy. Oh, they're from afar, aren't they, the spices?
Oh, definitely... Don't worry! Stop writing.
Put your pens down, Tunbridge Wells. We swapped the bottles.
That is a fizzy Scottish soft drink.
Although it has gone to my head a bit, I'll level with you.
Why didn't you spit it out when you were trying it? The other team...
I don't know if you noticed...
Yeah, I just felt like, unless I swallowed it,
I wasn't going to know how strong it was.
I just thought I'd have to... LAUGHTER
..I'd have to try it. How am I going to know?
There's sort of logic in there somewhere, isn't there?
APPLAUSE
I think I forgot to swap the bottles.
Did you not realise that drinking truckloads of gin would affect
your ability to do the job?
Uh, well, obviously, at the time, no, but looking back on it,
I shouldn't have.
I bet my dad's really upset about this.
Dad, are you upset?
- VOICE FROM AUDIENCE: - No. - No!
But I shouldn't have, I should have been more professional
and not done that, but what can I do? I done it.
Yeah. "What can I do? I done it."
Spiced gin, Nathan, is that your tipple?
- Actually, I used to be a massive gin drinker. - Did you?
Then I had a really bad experience, so I stopped.
Basically, I watched the episode.
That's it, no more gin now.
Well, Trishna may not have been firing on all cylinders this week,
but Karren picked up the slack,
firing on all her own cylinders, and a few more besides.
SINGING:
I don't know about gins. I'm completely...
I don't drink gin, I don't know about gin,
- OK? I try to just come up with suggestions. - You drank enough of it.
LAUGHTER
So, we are down to the final five.
Let's talk about some of the other candidates quickly. Jessica?
Yeah, I love Jessica, I think she's amazing.
I think she can definitely brighten up a room, she's just got
so much positivity, she lifts morale and I think she's a real contender.
Could you see her winning, Frances?
Yeah, absolutely, she's in my top three.
I think she's very strong.
I think she needs to be quite careful in the interviews to listen
and perhaps speak a little bit more cohesively,
but I love her personality,
her positivity and I think she has some great ideas.
- Jessica, Sara, do you think she's a contender? - I do like her.
I think she's like a very beautiful cross between
a labradoodle and Su Pollard,
because I just think she's quite excitable.
I'm sure she'll take that as a massive compliment.
Su Pollardoodle.
But I think she's really likeable and I think she is very warm.
People seem to sort of like her, but I just...
I can't see her with Lord Suges coping
- with her exuberance. - Yeah, is she too exuberant?
Does she wear her heart on her sleeve too much?
Yeah, I think perhaps she does a little bit
and I don't know how long you'd be able to cope with that for.
I think she could win just from exhausting Lord Sugar.
"OK, you're hired, just stop talking. Oh, gosh!
- "Please!" - Just wear him down, you think? - Exactly.
OK. Frances didn't have a great week, again.
How do you rate Frances?
Um, I think out of all the other candidates,
she's probably the most calculated.
I think that she's really worked out how to kind of not be
in the bottom three, she plays to the project manager a lot on tasks.
She's lost eight times out of ten, I think,
but only ended up in the bottom three very few times.
Yeah, and I think that's because she knows what she's doing a little bit
and she kind of plays up to the project manager
to makes sure she doesn't go back in there.
That's why I had to call her up on it on this task,
I just thought she'd done it too much.
Frances, do you think our Frances is in with a chance?
Um, I think she is. She's quite a good all-rounder.
She's quite creative, she presents well,
and she does have some pretty smart business ideas.
Nathan, her stats are the worst of anybody in terms of wins and losses.
Do you still think she can win?
She's probably got a one-in-five chance.
- That's an accurate stat. - Yeah! - I don't know.
I mean, I agree with you, she does play the game quite well,
but I do think there are stronger candidates there, so I think...
- I can't see her winning. - Sara, can you see Frances winning?
The first couple of episodes, I thought, "She's out quick."
It's like when you watch a disaster movie and you think,
"Yeah, she's dead, he's dead, she's going to fall off a building.
"She'll fall down the earthquake," or whatever.
You think, "They're all gone," and she's clung on, she's still here.
Courtney's the last guy in, Nathan.
Oh, he's a cool guy, he's a nice guy, but when he does his pitching,
it's like, "Switch off, man."
He seems to bring the same energy in front of 300 people,
he's exactly the same as if he was making a cup of tea
in his pants at home.
- There's just no difference, he's got one gear, it seems. - Exactly.
But then what made it worse in this week's task is that you had Courtney
and you had Jessica doing the same pitch, so you had two extremes.
You've got Courtney, who's going, "Yeah, uh...uh..."
and you've Jessica kind of just like MCs her way through the pitch.
RAPIDLY: "Da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-da-ba-da-ba."
HE CONTINUES GABBERING RAPIDLY
Whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down, girl.
- Courtney has led his team to victory again this week. - Yes.
He's won I think eight, am I right in saying?
I think it's unbelievable that he's done so well.
I mean, he's a nice guy.
I can't help think of him as a member of a boyband.
I think he's kind of run away from a boyband
and found himself on The Apprentice.
There was bits this week where he went...
- IN CHILDLIKE VOICE: - "They like the taste of the gin."
Then he was going, "I want to buy a heli-fopter,"
at the end, and it's like he's regressing,
he's like a four-year-old.
It's like Benjamin Button, he's getting younger each week.
Frances, very quickly, Courtney,
- can you sum him up? - I'm sure he's a nice guy and he's quite funny.
- But if he's to... - LAUGHTER
You know, business, you don't have to be good at everything,
but what you do have to do is recognise what your weaknesses are
and mitigate them.
- Don't keep putting yourself up to present. - Yeah.
What about Alana?
I think she's really good. I think that she's been underestimated.
I think she had a tough first few weeks, but as it's gone on,
she's really come into her own and she's not been scared
to say how she feels, she's provided opinions
and I think she's a real, real contender.
She's stood up for herself and been very composed under
- a lot of pressure, I thought. - Yeah, I think she can be really composed.
I think, when she's pitching,
she's really engaging, she's super-relaxed.
When Courtney couldn't get the board up and he's giving it
a touch of the Chuckle Brothers in the background and all that
- and she was like, "Why don't we just pop this on here?" - Yeah.
You instantly relax and you instantly take on what she says
and the same in the boardroom. I think she's really calm
and she's got a really nice way about her.
I think she does sometimes have a touch of the Princess Diana's,
with the under-the-fringe sort of look up kind of thing
that she does quite a lot.
She does that kind of coy thing, which I find a bit strange.
She did step in at the right moment and relax the situation.
She sees things, what's going on.
She got very excited this week when she went, "Final five, final five!"
- Can she win? - Definitely, most definitely.
I think she is definitely one of the strongest in there.
She's got so much to give
and I think that she's started to show that
as we went past the first few weeks, so, yeah,
I definitely think she can win.
Is she too meek, Frances, to be Lord Sugar's business partner?
Uh, I don't think so, no.
I was really heartened this week to see her be a bit more assertive.
She made a pretty passionate pitch for wanting to be PM.
I know she lost out to Courtney,
but that was really a function of Jessica
having worked with him before
and having more confidence in him and sometimes
in business it goes that way, but I think she's really smart,
I think she's engaging, I think she has a smart brain on her
and I'd like to see her in the final for sure.
Well, Trishna, unfortunately,
somebody who won't be in the final...
- is you. - Yeah, cheers, Rhod(!)
That's one thing we do know - Lord Sugar won't, unfortunately,
be investing in you, but he does have this advice for your future.
Trishna - a very bright young lady.
I picked that up because she seems to absorb things very well.
Very good memory.
I think Trishna went wrong in this particular task as they actually
coloured the gin orange and I think it's certainly affected
the level of orders for the product.
My advice to Trishna is get a little bit more technical
in the business that she's doing and become a recognised expert at it.
- Become a recognised expert? - Yeah.
You're going to be recognised now, anyway.
No, I think that's fair.
I definitely will be an expert in my field.
I already am, but I hold information really well.
LAUGHTER
"If I say so myself."
What's your business plan? What would you have done?
It was to set up a specialist IT recruitment business,
something that I'm obviously really experienced in already and, yeah,
I still plan to do that, so watch this space.
Well, Trishna, Lord Sugar made his decision,
but does our panel feel it was the right one? Frances.
Um, I think it's unfortunate.
You definitely weren't firing on all cylinders tonight, so I do,
but I'm surprised that Grainne wasn't hot on your heels
going out the door, as well.
I think the orange was your undoing, which is a real shame,
cos I really, really like you, so with regret, yes,
it was right that you were fired.
- Nathan. - I think you've been one of the strongest candidates
throughout the whole process, so I would have fired Grainne instead.
TRISHNA: Thanks. Thanks, Nathan.
OK, that's what the panel thinks of it.
Let's see what the audience make of everything.
If you agree with Lord Sugar, then hold up "Fired" now,
and if you disagree, then hold up "Hired", please.
That's definitely more "Hired".
LAUGHTER
Waay! Back in your box now.
Ladies and gentlemen, Trishna, you are hired!
Cheers. CHEERING
I mean, you're not, obviously, you're fired,
but, you know...
you're not.
Definitely hired from the audience,
but, unfortunately, it was a red "Fired" from Lord Sugar.
But no-one leaves here, Trishna, empty-handed.
I've got you a rather wonderful gift.
19 missed calls.
Well, never miss a phone call again, Trishna,
with this Apprentice answering machine.
Beautiful, it's got your face on there, it's got Apprentice.
Listen, there's one thing this needs, obviously,
before I give you it. This will need a message.
I'm going to record it for you
so that it comes ready-loaded. Here we go...
- BEEP - This is Rhod Gilbert.
I'm afraid Trishna can't come to the phone right now.
She's getting bladdered on Colony Gin.
Don't bother leaving a message, she's ignored 19 already. Goodbye!
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
Thank you, thank you.
Never miss a phone call again.
You're looking on the back to see if there's anything else - that's it.
"There must be something else on the back,
"perhaps a puppy or a PlayStation."
Nope, that is it, I'm afraid.
Trishna, thanks for coming on the show.
- Thank you. - I hope you've enjoyed yourself. - Absolutely loved it.
Yeah, would recommend it to anyone.
- Cool. - LAUGHTER
They're all saying, "No way!"
- Let's have a look at your highlights. - Thanks.
We need to move really fast.
Strawberry and champagne, £1!
Do we think that the packaging is luxury enough?
If I tell you I love it, I'm lying to you.
Love Trishna to pieces, she's my little soul sister.
Look at the camera.
Trishna - what an absolute legend.
Living with her, being in a room with her,
she actually brought a ray of sunshine to my life.
She can't just get knocked over and they break out
all of a sudden into a dance.
Waaay! Don't worry if, when you go in there,
you don't feel like it's a good price. Just walk out of there.
Thanks very much, Alison. Have a great day.
It's, like, typical Liberty, those scarves.
That woman has got a photographic memory
that I would love to have.
Ladies and gentlemen, Trishna Thakrar.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
And, also, please thank tonight's Apprentice fans and guests,
Frances Dickens, Sara Cox and Nathan Caton.
CHEERING
And if you think you have what it takes
to be Lord Sugar's next business partner,
applications are still open to take part in next year's series.
Head over to...
..for more details.
Next week, it's the final five, the interviews,
when our candidates will dust off their business plans
and go in front of Lord Sugar's most trusted aides.
Today is all about your business plans.
I'm genuinely cacking myself now.
- This is like Christmas for Claude. - Yes.
- # It's the most wonderful time... # - This is fast, innit?
- Right. - Hello, I'm Frances. - Hello, there.
Can you just sit back a bit?
- How much profit did you make? - It was a massive loss.
I don't understand why you'd want to do that.
Oh, God.
Very amateurish.
- I don't know what you're doing here. - I think I've been pretty awesome.
How much money did you make? HE MUMBLES
God help us.
I think you're dreaming.
Come on!
HE SIGHS
This is actually worse than childbirth.
Right, we'll leave that alone.
It's a grilling like no other,
but who will come up a lovely, all-over golden brown,
and who'll set off the smoke alarms?
Join me next Thursday at 10pm for more You're Fired. Goodnight.
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