Prometheus Movie Quotes
David
"Big things have small beginnings."
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David
"There is nothing in the desert - and no man needs nothing."
Elizabeth Shaw
What was that?
David
Just something from a film I like.
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Charlie Holloway
What we hoped to achieve was to meet our makers. To get answers. Why they - why they even made us in the first place.
David
Why do you think your people made me?
Charlie Holloway
We made you because we could.
David
Can you imagine how disappointing it would be for you to hear the same thing from your creator?
David
Yes. It's wonderful, actually.
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[last lines]
Elizabeth Shaw
Final report of the vessel Prometheus. The ship and her entire crew are gone. If you're receiving this transmission, make no attempt to come to its point of origin. There is only death here now, and I'm leaving it behind. It is New Year's Day, the year of our Lord, 2094. My name is Elisabeth Shaw, last survivor of the Prometheus. And I am still searching.
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Charlie Holloway
David, why are you wearing a suit, man?
David
I beg your pardon?
Charlie Holloway
You don't breathe, remember? So why wear a suit?
David
I was designed like this because you are more comfortable interacting with your own kind. If I didn't wear a suit, it would defeat the purpose.
Charlie Holloway
They're making you guys pretty close, huh?
David
Not too close, I hope.
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Janek
You know, if you wanna get laid, you really don't have to pretend to be interested in the pyramid scan. I mean, you could just say, "Hey, I'm trying to get laid." Heh.
Meredith Vickers
I could. I could say that, right? But then it wouldn't make sense why I would fly myself half a billion miles from every man on Earth if I wanted to get laid, would it?
Janek
Hey, uh, Vickers. Hey, Vickers. I was wondering... Are you a robot?
[leaves]
Janek
[sings]
Well, if you can't be, With the one you love, Love the one you're with, Love the one you're with..."
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David
It must feel like your God abandoned you.
Elizabeth Shaw
What?
David
To lose Dr. Holloway after your father died under such similar circumstances. What was it that killed him? Ebola?
Elizabeth Shaw
How do you...? How do you know that?
David
I watched your dreams.
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David
A superior species, no doubt. The hypersleep chambers will impress, I trust.
Elizabeth Shaw
So they were traveling somewhere?
David
I've managed to work out the broad strips, it's fairly evident they were in the process of leaving, before things went to pot.
Elizabeth Shaw
Leaving to go where?
David
Earth.
Elizabeth Shaw
Why?
David
Sometimes to create, one must first destroy.
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David
How far would you go to get what you came all this way for - your answers? What would you be willing to do?
Charlie Holloway
Anything and everything.
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Peter Weyland
[from TED Talks viral video]
100,000 BC: stone tools. 4,000 BC: the wheel. 900 AD: gunpowder - bit of a game changer, that one. 19th century: eureka, the lightbulb! 20th century: the automobile, television, nuclear weapons, spacecrafts, Internet. 21st century: biotech, nanotech, fusion and fission and M theory - and THAT, was just the first decade! We are now three months into the year of our Lord, 2023. At this moment of our civilization, we can create cybernetic individuals, who in just a few short years will be completely indistinguishable from us. Which leads to an obvious conclusion: WE are the gods now.
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Peter Weyland
There's nothing.
David
I know. Have a good journey, Mr. Weyland.
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[from trailer]
Interviewer
David, what makes you sad?
David
War, poverty, cruelty, unneccessary violence. I understand human emotions, although I do not feel them myself. This allows me to be more efficient and capable, and makes it easier for my human counterparts to interact with me.
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[while putting his space suit on, Shaw walks in front of him. She has just had the squid removed]
David
I didn't think you had it in you.
[she looks at him suddenly]
David
Sorry, bad choice of words.
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Elizabeth Shaw
What happens when Weyland is not around to program you anymore?
David
I suppose I'll be free.
Elizabeth Shaw
You want that?
David
"Want"? Not a concept I'm familiar with. That being said, doesn't everyone want their parents dead?
Elizabeth Shaw
I didn't.
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Janek
Mr. Ravel, warm up the ion propulsion.
Meredith Vickers
What the hell are you talking about?
Ravel
Sir, burning the ion in the inner atmosphere...
Janek
...turns us into a bullet. That is exactly the point.
Meredith Vickers
The hell are you doing? Janek, this is my ship. I'm telling you to take us home!
Janek
Vickers, I'm gonna eject your life support module onto that surface. That's two years of life. You want it, or you wanna stay with me? You got 40 seconds to get to the escape pod.
Meredith Vickers
You're crazy!
Janek
Gentlemen, I can handle this myself. Feel free to join Miss Vickers.
Ravel
All due respect, captain, you're a shit pilot and you're gonna need all the help you can get.
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Elizabeth Shaw
What are you doing David?
David
I'm attempting to open the door.
Elizabeth Shaw
Wait, we don't know what's on the other side.
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Janek
Where the hell you going, doc? You know what this place is? Those Engineers, this ain't their home. It's an installation. Maybe even military. They put it out here in the middle of nowhere because they're not stupid enough to make weapons of mass destruction on their own doorstep. That's what all that shit is in those vases. They made it here. It got out, turned on them. The end. It's time for us to go home.
Elizabeth Shaw
One of them is still alive. Don't you want to know what they have to say?
Janek
I don't care.
Elizabeth Shaw
Right. All you do is fly the ship.
Janek
That's right.
Elizabeth Shaw
But you must care about something, captain. If you didn't, why are you here?
Janek
How about this? No matter what happens down there, I can't bring none of that shit back home with us. Can't let it happen. And I'll do whatever I have to to see that it doesn't.
Elizabeth Shaw
Make sure you do, captain.
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Meredith Vickers
Weyland found you impressive enough to fund this mission. But I'm fairly certain your Engineers are nothing but scribblings of savages living in dirty little caves. But let's say I'm wrong, and you do find these beings down there, you won't engage them, you won't talk to them. You will do nothing but report back to me.
Charlie Holloway
Um, Miss Vickers, is there an agenda that you're not telling us about?
Meredith Vickers
My company paid a trillion dollars to find this place and to bring you here. Had you raised the monies yourself, Mr. Holloway, we'd happily be pursuing your agenda. But you didn't. And that makes you an employee.
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Janek
Just got a ping about one click west of you.
Millburn
What do you mean "a ping"?
Janek
Well, whatever that probe is picking up, it's not dead. It's reading a life form.
Fifield
What?
Millburn
Okay, what you mean, "a life form"?
Fifield
Is it - Is it moving?
Janek
No, I don't think so.
Fifield
No, Captain, you're obviously not seeing what we're seeing down here. But if you were, you wouldn't be talking about a bloody ping, yeah?
Janek
I know, boys. Your signal has been coming in sporadically since the storm hit.
Fifield
That's no good to us down here, Captain! Is it - Is it moving? Are these things moving?
Janek
No. No, it just disappeared, actually. Must be a glitch.
Millburn
What do you mean, "a glitch"?
Janek
All right, boys. Sleep tight. Try not to bugger each other.
Millburn
Captain, what do you mean, "a glitch"?
Fifield
Millburn. What does he mean? Wait. Now, he said - He said one click west, yeah?
Millburn
Yeah.
Fifield
Now, we... We don't want to check that out, do we, huh?
Millburn
Shit, no.
Fifield
Where are we gonna go?
Millburn
East.
Fifield
Yeah, east.
Millburn
A fucking glitch, man. "Pings, glitch, life form." What the fuck?
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Charlie Holloway
There.
[points at what looks like a landing strip in the valley]
Janek
Dr. Holloway, why don't you take a seat.
Charlie Holloway
Right there. God does not build in straight lines.
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Young Shaw
[on the ship, Prometheus, David checks on the crew who are in hypersleep, he gazes upon Shaw and sees what she's dreaming of, which is from her childhood when she is with her father in a foreign land looking at a funeral procession]
What happened to that man?
Shaw's Father
He died.
Young Shaw
Why aren't you helping them?
Shaw's Father
They don't want my help. Their God is different than ours.
Young Shaw
Why did he die?
Shaw's Father
Sooner or later everyone does.
Young Shaw
Like mommy?
Shaw's Father
Like mommy.
Young Shaw
Where do they go?
Shaw's Father
Everyone has their own word; heaven, paradise. Whatever it's called, it's someplace beautiful.
Young Shaw
How do you know it's beautiful?
Shaw's Father
Cause that's what I choose to believe. What do you believe, darling?
[at that point David comes out of watching he dream]
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[from trailer]
David
Hello. I'm David.
Interviewer
What can you do, David?
David
I can do almost anything that could possibly be asked of me. I can assist your employees. I can make your organization more efficient. I can carry out directives that my future counterparts might find distressing or unethical. I can blend in with your workforce effortlessly.
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Meredith Vickers
If you're really going down there, you're going to die.
Peter Weyland
Very negative way of looking at things. Exactly why you should have stayed at home.
Meredith Vickers
Did you really think I was gonna sit in a boardroom for years arguing over who was in charge while you go look for some miracle on some godforsaken rock in the middle of space? A king has his reign, and then he dies. It's inevitable. That is natural order of things.
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Charlie Holloway
These are images of archaeological digs from all over the earth.
[pointing to different images]
Charlie Holloway
That's Egyptian, Mayan, Sumerian, Babylonian. That's Hawaiian at the end there and Mesopotamian. Now this one here is our most recent discovery, it's a thirty five thousand year old cave painting from the Isle of Skye in Scotland. These are ancient civilizations, they were separated by centuries, they shared no contact with one another, and yet...
[he gathers the hologram images to line up and he goes through each one]
Charlie Holloway
The same pictogram, showing men worshipping giant beings pointing to the stars was discovered at every last one of them. The only galactic system that matched, was so far from Earth, that there's no way that these primitive ancient civilizations could have possibly known about it. But it just so happens, that system has a sun, a lot like ours. And based on our long range scans, there seemed to be a planet. Just one planet with the moon, capable of sustaining life, and we arrived there this morning.
Fifield
So you're saying we're here because of a map you two kids found in a cave, is that right?
Elizabeth Shaw
No.
Charlie Holloway
Yeah. Um...
Elizabeth Shaw
No. Not a map. An invitation.
Fifield
From whom?
Elizabeth Shaw
We call them Engineers.
Fifield
Engineers? Do you mind, um, telling us what they engineered?
Elizabeth Shaw
They engineered us.
Fifield
Bullshit.
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Meredith Vickers
Take us home!
Elizabeth Shaw
If we don't stop it, there won't be any home to go back to!
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Fifield
No, I'm, uh... I'm out of here.
Elizabeth Shaw
Hey, Fifield, where are you going?
Fifield
What?
[walks over]
Fifield
Look, I'm just a geologist. I like rocks. I *love*, rocks! Now it's clear you two don't give a *s - -* about rocks. But what you do seem to care about is gigantic *dead bodies*. And as I don't really have anything to contribute in the gigantic
[shouting]
Fifield
dead body arena... I wanna go back to the ship. If you don't mind.
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Peter Weyland
[from TED Talks viral video]
T.E. Lawrence, eponymously of Arabia but very much an Englishman, favoured pinching a burning match between his fingers to put it out. When asked by his colleague William Potter to reveal his trick, how is it he effectively extinguished the flame without hurting himself whatsoever, Lawrence just smiled and said, "The trick, Potter, is not minding it hurts." The fire that danced at the end of that match was a gift from the Titan Prometheus, a gift that he stole from the gods. When Prometheus was caught and brought to justice for his theft, the gods, well, you might say they overreacted a little. The poor man was tied to a rock, as an eagle ripped through his belly and ate his liver over and over, day after day, ad infinitum. All because he gave us fire. Our first true piece of technology, fire...
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David
2 years, 4 months, 18 days, 36 hours, 15 minutes.
Meredith Vickers
Any casualties?
David
Casualties, ma'am?
Meredith Vickers
Has anyone died?
David
No, ma'am. Everyone is fine.
Meredith Vickers
Well, then wake them up.
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[from trailer]
Interviewer
Eighth-generation Weyland TIPE: Technological, Intellectual, Physical...
David
Emotional.
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Janek
Prometheus has landed.
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Elizabeth Shaw
But you don't understand. You don't know. This place isn't what we thought it was. They aren't what we thought they were. I was wrong. We were so wrong. Charlie, Dr. Holloway's dead. We must leave.
Peter Weyland
And what would Charlie do now that we're so close to answering the most meaningful questions ever asked by mankind? Hm? How can you leave without knowing what they are? Or have you lost your faith, Shaw?
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Janek
What is the atmosphere?
Ravel
Atmosphere is 71 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, traces of argon gas.
Janek
Whoa, now, that's weather.
Charlie Holloway
Just like home.
Ford
Only if you're breathing through an exhaust pipe. CO2 is over 3 percent. Two minutes without a suit, you're dead.
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Charlie Holloway
Captain, would you please tell the survey to suit up and meet us in the airlock.
Janek
There's only six hours left of daylight. Why don't you leave it till the morning.
Charlie Holloway
No, no, no. It's Christmas, captain, and I want to open my presents.
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Elizabeth Shaw
There's no bloody way I'm three months pregnant.
David
Well, doctor, it's not exactly a traditional fetus.
Elizabeth Shaw
I want to see it.
David
Don't think that's a good idea.
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Fifield
Can you get a message to the scientist and that zealot girlfriend of his?
Janek
Mmmm hmmm.
Fifield
You got a pen nearby?
Janek
Nope. Nope, think we got it.
Fifield
Tell them I said #static interference# themselves.
Janek
#Laughs#
Fifield
Copy?
Janek
Copy that. Alright boys, keep your head down and we'll come and get you in the morning.
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Chance
Well, come on. Pay up.
Ravel
Pay what?
Chance
What do you mean, "Pay what"? Something is manufacturing breathable air down there. That, mate, is terraforming.
Ravel
No, no. The bet was why we came here. If you said that dead old man wanted to talk to Martians, then I'd pay.
Chance
Oh, come on. A hundred credits. Put it towards a lap dance with Miss Vickers.
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Millburn
Is that tobacco? Is that tobacco in your respirator?
Fifield
Yeah, sure.
[takes a puff]
Fifield
Tobacco.
Millburn
On the behalf of scientists everywhere, I am ashamed to count you amongst us, Fifield. Really.
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[from trailer]
Interviewer
What is it about robots that make them so robotic? At Weyland Industries, it has long been our goal to create artifical intelligence that is almost indistinguishable from mankind itself.
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Janek
Gentlemen, I can handle this myself. Feel free to join Miss Vickers.
Ravel
All due respect, captain, you're a shit pilot and you're gonna need all the help you can get.
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Peter Weyland
[from TED Talks viral video]
To those of you who know me: you will be aware by now that my ambition is unlimited. You know that I will settle for nothing short of greatness, or I will die trying. To those of you who do not yet know me: allow me to introduce myself. My name is Peter Weyland, and if you'll indulge me, I'd like to change the world.
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Peter Weyland
[as a holographic recording]
Hello, friends. My name is Peter Weyland. I am your employer. I am recording this, 22 June, 2091. And if you're watching it, you have reached your destination. And I am long dead. May I rest in peace. There's a man sitting with you today. His name is David. And he is the closest thing to a son I will ever have. Unfortunately, he is not human. He will never grow old and he will never die. And yet he is unable to appreciate these remarkable gifts for that would require the one thing that David will never have. A soul. I have spent my entire lifetime contemplating the questions: Where do we come from? What is our purpose? What happens when we die? And I have finally found two people who convinced me they're on the verge of answering them. Doctors Holloway and Shaw, if you would please stand. As far as you're concerned, they're in charge. The Titan Prometheus wanted to give mankind equal footing with the gods and for that, he was cast from Olympus. Well, my friends, the time has finally come for his return. Doctors, please. The floor is yours.
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Peter Weyland
There's nothing to learn.
David
I understand, Mr. Weyland. Have a safe journey.
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Meredith Vickers
They were right...
Janek
What you wanted them to be? Wrong?
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Elizabeth Shaw
I think they want us to come and find them.
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David
May I ask what you hope to achieve by going there?
Elizabeth Shaw
They created us. Then they tried to kill us. They changed their minds. I deserve to know why.
David
The answer is irrelevant. Does it matter why they changed their minds?
Elizabeth Shaw
Yes. Yes, it does.
David
I don't understand.
Elizabeth Shaw
Well... I guess that's because I'm a human being... and you're a robot.
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[from trailer]
Interviewer
Is there anything you would like to say, David?
David
I would like to express gratitude to those who created me. Happy Birthday, David, from Weyland Industries.
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Millburn
Cut it off! Cut it off!
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Peter Weyland
T.E. Lawrence, eponymously of Arabia but very much an Englishman, favoured pinching a burning match between his fingers to put it out. When asked by his colleague, William Potter, to reveal his trick - how is it he so effectively extinguised the flame without hurting himself whatsoever - Lawrence just smiled and said: "The trick, Potter, is not minding it hurts." The fire that danced at the end of that match was a gift from the titan, Prometheus. A gift that he stole from the gods. When Prometheus was caught, and bought to justice for his theft, the gods... well, you might say they... overreacted a little. The poor man was tied to a rock as an eagle ripped through his belly and ate his liver. Over and over. Day after day. Ad infinitum. All because he gave us fire. Our first true piece of technology: fire. 100,000 BC: stone tools. 4,000 BC: the wheel. 9th century AD: gunpowder. A bit of a game-changer, that one. 19th century: EUREKA! The lightbulb! 20th century: the automobile, television, nuclear weapons, spacecraft, internet. 21st century: biotech, nanotech, fusion and fission and M theory, and THAT was just the first decade! We are now 3 months into the year of our Lord, 2023. At this moment in our civilisation, we can create cybernetic individuals who, in just a few short years, will be completely indistinguishable from us. Which leads to an obvious conclusion: WE are the GODS now. For those of you who know me, you will be aware by now that my ambition is unlimited. You know that I will settle for nothing short of greatness, or I will die trying. For those of you who do not yet know me, allow me to introduce myself: My name is Peter Weyland... and if you'll indulge me... I'd like to change the world.
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[first lines]
Elizabeth Shaw
Get Charlie.
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Meredith Vickers
Good morning. I am Meredith Vickers, and it is my job to make sure you do yours.
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David
That's worth drinking to, I'd imagine.
Charlie Holloway
Here's mud in your eye, pal.
David
Good health.
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Fifield
Looks like a scene out some sort of holocaust painting, you know?
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Charlie Holloway
Hey. This is just one small step for mankind.
Elizabeth Shaw
Seriously?
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Charlie Holloway
They made us.
Elizabeth Shaw
And who made them?
Charlie Holloway
Well, exactly. We'll never know. But here's what we do know: is that there is nothing special about the creation of life. Right? Anybody can do it. All you need is a dash of DNA and half a brain, right?
Elizabeth Shaw
I can't. I can't create life. What does that say about me?
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Millburn
Maybe it's Martian piss.
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Elizabeth Shaw
Please, get it out of me. Get it out of me! Please.
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David
I was afraid you were dead.
Elizabeth Shaw
You have no idea what afraid is.
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Meredith Vickers
[Janek plays a chord on his concertina]
That thing sounds like a dying cat, by the way.
Janek
I'll have you know that this - thing once belonged to Stephen Stills.
Meredith Vickers
Am I supposed to know who that is?
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Peter Weyland
You - convinced me that - if these things made us - then surely they could save us. My stick, please. Well, save me, anyway.
Elizabeth Shaw
Save you - from what?
Peter Weyland
Death, of course.
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