Vince Gilligan
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Vince Gilligan is an American writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

, director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 and producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

. He is the creator of the highly acclaimed television series Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White , a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series...

.
Gilligan has also worked on the hit series The X-Files
The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...

and The Lone Gunmen
The Lone Gunmen (TV series)
The Lone Gunmen is a television show created by Chris Carter and broadcast on FOX. It was a spin-off of Carter's popular long-running television series The X-Files and a part of The X-Files franchise, starring several of the show's characters. The Lone Gunmen was first broadcast in March 2001 and,...

. He is a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts is one of the 15 schools that make up New York University ....

 at New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

. He also co-wrote Hancock
Hancock (film)
Hancock is a 2008 American action-comedy superhero film directed by Peter Berg and starring Will Smith, Jason Bateman, and Charlize Theron. It tells the story of a vigilante superhero, John Hancock from Los Angeles whose reckless actions routinely cost the city millions of dollars...

.

Early life

Gilligan was born in Richmond
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...

, Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

 and raised in Farmville and Chesterfield County
Chesterfield County, Virginia
Chesterfield County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States. In 2010, its population was estimated to be 316,236. Chesterfield County is now the fourth-largest municipality in Virginia . Its county seat is Chesterfield...

. After graduating from L.C. Bird High School, he went on to attend New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

 where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film production from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts is one of the 15 schools that make up New York University ....

. While at NYU, he penned the screen play Home Fries
Home Fries
Home Fries is a 1998 film directed by Dean Parisot, starring Drew Barrymore, Luke Wilson and Jake Busey. The script was originally penned by writer Vince Gilligan for a film class at New York University...

, which was later turned into a film starring Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore
Drew Blyth Barrymore is an American actress, film director, screenwriter, producer and model. She is a member of the Barrymore family of American actors and granddaughter of John Barrymore. She first appeared in an advertisement when she was 11 months old. Barrymore made her film debut in Altered...

 and Luke Wilson
Luke Wilson
Luke Cunningham Wilson is an American film actor known for his roles in Old School, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, Legally Blonde, Idiocracy and Death at a Funeral.-Early life:...

. Gilligan received the Virginia Governor's Screenwriting Award in 1989 for this screenplay.

The X-Files

His big break came when he earned various producer credits for the Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 television drama The X-Files
The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...

. He was co-executive producer of 44 episodes, executive producer of 40, co-producer of 24 and supervising producer of 20. After The X-Files, he became executive producer of all the thirteen episodes of The Lone Gunmen
The Lone Gunmen (TV series)
The Lone Gunmen is a television show created by Chris Carter and broadcast on FOX. It was a spin-off of Carter's popular long-running television series The X-Files and a part of The X-Files franchise, starring several of the show's characters. The Lone Gunmen was first broadcast in March 2001 and,...

.

Breaking Bad

Gilligan is known for creating, writing, directing and producing the AMC
AMC (TV network)
AMC is a cable television specialty channel that primarily airs movies, along with a limited amount of original programming. The letters originally stood for American Movie Classics; however since 2002, the full name has been deemphasized as a result of a major shift in programming...

 drama show, Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White , a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series...

.

He was nominated for a 2008 Primetime Emmy Award
Primetime Emmy Award
The Primetime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming...

 for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the pilot episode.

Television

Production staff
Year Show Role Notes
2011 Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White , a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series...

Executive producer Season 4
Breaking Bad (season 4)
The fourth season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad premiered on July 17, 2011 and concluded on October 9, 2011. It consists of 13 episodes, each running approximately 47 minutes in length...

2010 Season 3
Breaking Bad (season 3)
The third season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad premiered on March 21, 2010 and concluded on June 13, 2010. It consisted of 13 episodes, each running approximately 47 minutes in length. AMC broadcast the third season on Sundays at 10:00 pm in the United States...

2009 Season 2
Breaking Bad (season 2)
The second season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad premiered on March 8, 2009 and concluded on May 31, 2009. It consisted of 13 episodes, each running approximately 47 minutes in length. AMC broadcast the second season on Sundays at 10:00 pm in the United States...

2008 Season 1
Breaking Bad (season 1)
The first season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad premiered on January 20, 2008 and concluded on March 9, 2008. It consisted of seven episodes, each running approximately 47 minutes in length, except the pilot episode which runs approximately 57 minutes. AMC broadcast the first...

2007 A.M.P.E.D. Executive producer Television feature
2002 The X-Files
The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...

Executive producer Season 9
2001
The Lone Gunmen
The Lone Gunmen
The Lone Gunmen are a trio of fictional characters, Richard "Ringo" Langly, Melvin Frohike and John Fitzgerald Byers, who have recurring roles on the American television series The X-Files. They also starred in a short-lived spin-off, also called The Lone Gunmen. The name was derived from the lone...

Executive producer Season 1
The X-Files
The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...

Executive producer Season 8
2000
Co-executive producer Season 7
Harsh Realm
Harsh Realm
Harsh Realm is a science fiction television series about humans trapped inside a virtual reality simulation. It was developed by Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files and Millennium, and began airing on the Fox Network on October 8, 1999. The series fared poorly in the ratings and was removed from...

Consulting producer Season 1
1999 The X-Files
The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...

Co-executive producer Season 7
Harsh Realm
Harsh Realm
Harsh Realm is a science fiction television series about humans trapped inside a virtual reality simulation. It was developed by Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files and Millennium, and began airing on the Fox Network on October 8, 1999. The series fared poorly in the ratings and was removed from...

Consulting producer Season 1
The X-Files Co-executive producer Season 6
1998
Supervising producer Season 5
1997
Co-producer Season 4
1996
Creative consultant Season 3
1995


Writer
Year Show Season Episode title Episode Original airdate Notes
2011 Breaking Bad 4 "Face Off" 13 9 October 2011 Also director
2011 Breaking Bad 4 "Box Cutter" 1 17 July 2011
2010 Breaking Bad 3 "Full Measure" 13 13 June 2010 Also director
2010 Breaking Bad 3 "No Mas" 1 21 March 2010
2009 Breaking Bad 2 "ABQ" 13 31 May 2009
2009 Breaking Bad 2 "Peekaboo" 6 12 April 2009 Written by Gilligan & J Roberts
2008 Breaking Bad 1 "Cancer Man" 4 17 February 2008
2008 Breaking Bad 1 "...And the Bag's in the River" 3 10 February 2008
2008 Breaking Bad 1 "Cat's in the Bag..." 2 27 January 2008
2008 Breaking Bad 1 "Pilot" 1 20 January 2008 Also director
2005 Night Stalker
Night Stalker (TV series)
Night Stalker is a television series that ran for six weeks in the Fall of 2005 on ABC. The series starred Stuart Townsend as Carl Kolchak, an investigative reporter whose wife was murdered. Kolchak spends his time investigating other strange murders, believing they are linked in some way to his...

1 "What's the Frequency, Kolchak?" 10 17 March 2006
2002 Robbery Homicide Division
Robbery Homicide Division
Robbery Homicide Division was an American police procedural television series on CBS, created by Barry Schindel with executive producer Michael Mann.-Premise:...

1 "Life is Dust" 9 30 November 2002 Teleplay written by Gilligan, Todd A. Kessler
Todd A. Kessler
Todd A. Kessler is an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer and director. He is the co-creator and head writer of the FX drama series Damages...

 and Sean Jablonski
Story by Michael Mann
Michael Mann
Michael Mann is the name of:*Michael Mann , musician and professor of German literature, son of Thomas Mann*Michael Mann , Anglican clergyman...

2002 Robbery Homicide Division 1 "City of Strivers" 7 8 November 2002
2002 Robbery Homicide Division 1 "Free and Clear" 4 30 November 2002 Written by Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz
2002 The X-Files 9 "Sunshine Days" 18 12 May 2002
2002 The X-Files 9 "Jump the Shark" 15 21 April 2002 Written by Gilligan & John Shiban
John Shiban
John Shiban is an Emmy Award nominated American television writer and producer. He worked in both capacities on The X-Files and its spin-off The Lone Gunmen, Star Trek: Enterprise, Smallville, Supernatural, Legend of the Seeker, Breaking Bad and The Vampire Diaries...

 & Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz is an award-winning American television writer and producer, best known for his work on The X-Files television series.-Biography:...

2002 The X-Files 9 "John Doe
John Doe (The X-Files)
"John Doe" is the 189th episode and the seventh episode of the ninth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode first aired in the United States and Canada on January 13, 2002 on Fox, and subsequently aired in the United Kingdom and Ireland...

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7 13 January 2002
2001 The Lone Gunmen 1 "All About Yves" 13 11 May 2001 Written by Gilligan with John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz
2001 The Lone Gunmen 1 "Maximum Byers" 8 13 April 2001 Written by Gilligan with Frank Spotnitz
2001 The Lone Gunmen 1 "Pilot" 1 4 March 2001 Written by Gilligan with Chris Carter, John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz
2000 The X-Files 8 "Roadrunners" 4 26 November 2000
2000 The X-Files 7 "Je Souhaite" 21 14 May 2000
2000 The X-Files 7 "Theef" 14 12 March 2000 Written by Gilligan & John Shiban
John Shiban
John Shiban is an Emmy Award nominated American television writer and producer. He worked in both capacities on The X-Files and its spin-off The Lone Gunmen, Star Trek: Enterprise, Smallville, Supernatural, Legend of the Seeker, Breaking Bad and The Vampire Diaries...

 & Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz is an award-winning American television writer and producer, best known for his work on The X-Files television series.-Biography:...

2000 The X-Files 7 "X-Cops" 12 20 February 2000
2000 The X-Files 7 "The Amazing Maleeni" 8 16 January 2000 Written by Gilligan & John Shiban
John Shiban
John Shiban is an Emmy Award nominated American television writer and producer. He worked in both capacities on The X-Files and its spin-off The Lone Gunmen, Star Trek: Enterprise, Smallville, Supernatural, Legend of the Seeker, Breaking Bad and The Vampire Diaries...

 & Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz is an award-winning American television writer and producer, best known for his work on The X-Files television series.-Biography:...

1999 The X-Files 7 "Millennium
Millennium (The X-Files)
"Millennium" is the fourth episode of the seventh season of The X-Files. It is a crossover with the show Millennium. It is also the episode in which Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully share their first kiss of the series after developing a relationship throughout the previous six seasons.- Plot :In...

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4 28 November 1999 Written by Gilligan & Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz is an award-winning American television writer and producer, best known for his work on The X-Files television series.-Biography:...

1999 The X-Files 7 "Hungry" 3 21 November 1999
1999 The X-Files 6 "Field Trip
Field Trip
"Field Trip" is the twenty-first episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode first aired in the United States and Canada on May 9, 1999 on the Fox Network, and subsequently aired in the United Kingdom on Sky1. Frank Spotnitz came up with the story...

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21 9 May 1999 Teleplay by Gilligan & John Shiban
John Shiban
John Shiban is an Emmy Award nominated American television writer and producer. He worked in both capacities on The X-Files and its spin-off The Lone Gunmen, Star Trek: Enterprise, Smallville, Supernatural, Legend of the Seeker, Breaking Bad and The Vampire Diaries...


Story by Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz is an award-winning American television writer and producer, best known for his work on The X-Files television series.-Biography:...

)
1999 The X-Files 6 "Three of a Kind" 20 2 May 1999 Written by Gilligan & John Shiban
John Shiban
John Shiban is an Emmy Award nominated American television writer and producer. He worked in both capacities on The X-Files and its spin-off The Lone Gunmen, Star Trek: Enterprise, Smallville, Supernatural, Legend of the Seeker, Breaking Bad and The Vampire Diaries...

1999 The X-Files 6 "Monday" 14 28 February 1999 Written by Gilligan & John Shiban
John Shiban
John Shiban is an Emmy Award nominated American television writer and producer. He worked in both capacities on The X-Files and its spin-off The Lone Gunmen, Star Trek: Enterprise, Smallville, Supernatural, Legend of the Seeker, Breaking Bad and The Vampire Diaries...

1999 The X-Files 6 "Tithonus" 10 24 January 1999
1998 The X-Files 6 "Dreamland II" 5 6 December 1998 Written by Gilligan & John Shiban
John Shiban
John Shiban is an Emmy Award nominated American television writer and producer. He worked in both capacities on The X-Files and its spin-off The Lone Gunmen, Star Trek: Enterprise, Smallville, Supernatural, Legend of the Seeker, Breaking Bad and The Vampire Diaries...

 & Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz is an award-winning American television writer and producer, best known for his work on The X-Files television series.-Biography:...


Follows on from "Dreamland"
1998 The X-Files 6 "Dreamland" 4 29 November 1998 Written by Gilligan & John Shiban
John Shiban
John Shiban is an Emmy Award nominated American television writer and producer. He worked in both capacities on The X-Files and its spin-off The Lone Gunmen, Star Trek: Enterprise, Smallville, Supernatural, Legend of the Seeker, Breaking Bad and The Vampire Diaries...

 & Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz is an award-winning American television writer and producer, best known for his work on The X-Files television series.-Biography:...

1998 The X-Files 6 "Drive" 2 15 November 1998
1998 The X-Files 5 "Folie a Deux
Folie a Deux (The X-Files)
"Folie a Deux" is the nineteenth episode of the fifth season of television series The X-Files. Folie a Deux features a man who is the only one who can see that his boss is a monster and is turning his coworkers into monsters as well.- Plot :...

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19 10 May 1998
1998 The X-Files 5 "Bad Blood
Bad Blood (The X-Files)
"Bad Blood" is the twelfth episode of the fifth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. Written by Vince Gilligan and directed by Cliff Bole, it aired in the United States on February 22, 1998 on the Fox network...

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12 22 February 1998
1998 The X-Files 5 "Kitsunegari
Kitsunegari
"Kitsunegari" is a 1998 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the eighth episode broadcast in the show's fifth season. When an influential former killer who was arrested by Mulder and Scully escapes, the agents search for him but discover that he is not their only concern.- Plot :In...

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8 4 January 1998 Written by Gilligan & Tim Minear
Tim Minear
Tim Minear is an American screenwriter and director. He was born in New York, grew up in Whittier, California, and studied film at California State University, Long Beach....

1997 The X-Files 5 "Emily
Emily (The X-Files)
"Emily" is a 1997 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the seventh episode broadcast in the show's fifth season. "Emily" continues the storyline start in the episode "Christmas Carol" where Scully discovers that she has a daughter brought to life after her abduction.- Plot :In a...

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7 14 December 1997 Written by Gilligan & John Shiban
John Shiban
John Shiban is an Emmy Award nominated American television writer and producer. He worked in both capacities on The X-Files and its spin-off The Lone Gunmen, Star Trek: Enterprise, Smallville, Supernatural, Legend of the Seeker, Breaking Bad and The Vampire Diaries...

 & Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz is an award-winning American television writer and producer, best known for his work on The X-Files television series.-Biography:...


Follows on from "Christmas Carol"
1997 The X-Files 5 "Christmas Carol
Christmas Carol (The X-Files)
"Christmas Carol" is the sixth episode of the fifth season of American science fiction television series The X-Files. It was written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz, and directed by Peter Markle. It aired in the United States on December 7, 1997 on the Fox network...

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6 7 December 1997 Written by Gilligan & John Shiban
John Shiban
John Shiban is an Emmy Award nominated American television writer and producer. He worked in both capacities on The X-Files and its spin-off The Lone Gunmen, Star Trek: Enterprise, Smallville, Supernatural, Legend of the Seeker, Breaking Bad and The Vampire Diaries...

 & Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz is an award-winning American television writer and producer, best known for his work on The X-Files television series.-Biography:...

1997 The X-Files 5 "Unusual Suspects
Unusual Suspects
"Unusual Suspects" is the third episode of the fifth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It was written by Vince Gilligan and directed by Kim Manners and aired in the United States on November 16, 1997 on the Fox network...

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3 16 November 1997
1997 The X-Files 4 "Small Potatoes" 20 20 April 1997
1997 The X-Files 4 "Memento Mori
Memento Mori (The X-Files)
"Memento Mori" is a 1997 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the fourteenth episode broadcast in the show's fourth season. In "Memento Mori" Dana Scully confirms previous suspicions of cancer, leaving Fox Mulder to investigate the cause and how to save her.- Plot :Dana Scully finds...

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14 9 February 1997 Written by Gilligan & Chris Carter
Chris Carter (screenwriter)
Christopher Carl Carter is an American screenwriter, film director and producer. He is the creator of The X-Files and Millennium.- Ten Thirteen Productions :...

 & Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz is an award-winning American television writer and producer, best known for his work on The X-Files television series.-Biography:...

 & John Shiban
John Shiban
John Shiban is an Emmy Award nominated American television writer and producer. He worked in both capacities on The X-Files and its spin-off The Lone Gunmen, Star Trek: Enterprise, Smallville, Supernatural, Legend of the Seeker, Breaking Bad and The Vampire Diaries...


Nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing
1997 The X-Files 4 "Leonard Betts" 12 26 January 1997 Written by Gilligan & John Shiban
John Shiban
John Shiban is an Emmy Award nominated American television writer and producer. He worked in both capacities on The X-Files and its spin-off The Lone Gunmen, Star Trek: Enterprise, Smallville, Supernatural, Legend of the Seeker, Breaking Bad and The Vampire Diaries...

 & Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz is an award-winning American television writer and producer, best known for his work on The X-Files television series.-Biography:...

1996 The X-Files 4 "Paper Hearts
Paper Hearts
"Paper Hearts" is the tenth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on December 15, 1996. It was written by Vince Gilligan, directed by Rob Bowman, and featured guest appearances by Tom Noonan, Rebecca...

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10 15 December 1996
1996 The X-Files 4 "Unruhe
Unruhe
"Unruhe" is a 1996 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the fourth episode broadcast in the show's fourth season, and the first episode to air on Sunday night when the show was moved from Fridays to Sundays. "Unruhe" features a man who kidnaps women and lobotomizes them...

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4 27 October 1996
1996 The X-Files 3 "Pusher
Pusher (The X-Files)
"Pusher" is a 1996 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the seventeenth episode broadcast in the show's third season. "Pusher" surrounds the agents' pursuit of a serial killer who can convince people to do whatever he says.- Plot :...

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17 23 February 1996
1995 The X-Files 2 "Soft Light" 23 5 May 1995

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