2010: The Year We Make Contact Page #9

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Have I fulfilled

the mission objectives properly?

BOWMAN:

Yes, HAL. You have done very well.

Now, there is one final message for you

to transmit to Earth.

It is the most important message

you have ever sent.

I want you to keep repeating it

as many times as possible.

HAL:
What is going to happen, Dave?

BOWMAN:
Something wonderful.

HAL:
I'm afraid.

BOWMAN:
Don't be. We'll be together.

HAL:
Where will we be?

BOWMAN:
Where I am now.

HAL:
Lock confirmed on Beacon Terra 1.

Message commencing.

It's shrinking! It's shrinking!

[ALARM BEEPING]

Don't quit. Don't quit, damn it.

Move!

Grab something, now!

FLOYD [OVER TRANSMISSION]:

My dear Christopher...

...this is the last time I'll be able

to speak to you for a long while.

I'm trying to put into words

what has happened.

Maybe that's for historians to do

sometime later.

They will record that the next day...

...the president of the United States

looked out of the White House window...

...and the premier of the Soviet Union

looked out of the Kremlin window...

...and saw the new distant sun

in the sky.

They read the message,

and perhaps they learned something...

...because they finally recalled

their ships and their planes.

I'm going to sleep now.

And I will dream of you and your mother.

I will sleep knowing

that you are both safe...

...that the fear is over.

We have seen the process of life

take place.

Maybe this is the way it happened on Earth

millions of years ago.

Maybe it's something

completely different.

I still don't know really

what the monolith is.

I think it's many things.

An embassy

for an intelligence beyond ours...

...a shape of some kind

for something that has no shape.

Your children will be born

in a world of two suns.

They will never know a sky without them.

You can tell them that you remember

when there was a pitch black sky...

...with no bright star,

and people feared the night.

You can tell them when we were alone...

...when we couldn't point to the light

and say to ourselves:

"There is life out there."

Someday the children of the new sun

will meet the children of the old.

I think they will be our friends.

You can tell your children

of the day when everyone looked up...

...and realized that we were only tenants

of this world.

We have been given a new lease

and a warning from the landlord.

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