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I can't see it yet, except I know it's there.

I also think it knows we're here.

It's time to unleash Chandra.

We'll see if our computer brain surgeon

and psychiatrist...

...can put Hal back together again.

To tell you the truth, I don't know if Hal

is homicidal, suicidal, neurotic, psychotic...

...orjust plain broken.

[Mysterious music]

[Laser blasts chirp]

[Low ambient humming]

CHANDRA:
This is initial voice-logic

reconstruction test number one.

Diagnostics on voice recognition

and speech synthesis centers...

...has been completed.

At this level all functions appear normal.

Hello.

Doctor....

Name.

Continue.

Yesterday.

Tomorrow.

HAL:
[Distorted]

Hello. Doctor. Name.

Continue. Yesterday.

Tomorrow.

[Distorted electronic voice]

[Hals voice becomes clearer]

[Electronic gibberish]

[Gibberish stops]

Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal.

I'm ready for my first test.

CURNOW:
What the hells this?

FLOYD:
I want you to do me a favor.

This line here, this is the main power

supply to the control bay circuits, right?

Well, most of them, yeah.

What other ones are there?

Well, all the environment circuits

are fed to this one here.

Yeah, but this is the one

that feeds into Hal, right?

CURNOW:
Yeah.

FLOYD:
All right.

I want you to install

this little baby right about there...

...inside the cable trunk.

I want you to put it where nobody

can find it without a deliberate search.

No sh*t?

FLOYD:
No sh*t.

Hey, this is pretty neat.

A nonconducting blade so there wont be

any short circuits when you trigger it.

CURNOW:
Wheres your remote control?

FLOYD:
lf I trigger it.

The controls in my compartment.

The red calculator. Youve seen it.

CURNOW:
Oh, yeah.

Put in nine nines, take the square root

and press the integer. Thats all.

FLOYD:
ln an emergency,

even you can do it.

CURNOW:

What kind of emergency?

Well, if I knew,

I wouldnt need that stupid thing, would l?

CURNOW:
Chandra would have

kittens if he found out.

FLOYD:
Hes not gonna find out, is he?

CURNOW:
Well, not from me. They can

tear off my fingernails, I wont talk.

FLOYD:
lnstall it tonight when hes asleep.

If he ever does sleep.

CURNOW:
How can you tell?

[Mysterious music]

FLOYD:
Dear Caroline, this is finally it.

After nine years and hundreds of millions

of miles, we are about to come...

...face to face with the monolith.

The last human being who did that

disappeared.

Something truly amazing is going on

out here...

...and I really believe this black giant

is controlling it all.

We have so much to ask.

I have a feeling the answers are bigger

than the questions.

[Engines roar]

[Low humming]

TANYA:
ls there any information stored

in Hal about the monolith?

FLOYD:
No.

Hal was disconnected

before the Discovery encountered it.

Theres nothing in the ships logs or

the recording systems after that.

Whatever secrets Bowman had,

he took with him.

ORLOV:
lts the proportions,

one by four by nine.

They are perfect even when carried

for six decimal places.

FLOYD:
The small one on the moon, we

encountered exactly the same proportions.

One-four-nine,

the squares of one-two-three.

We spent years trying to attach

some cosmic significance to that...

...and came up with nothing.

We can speculate all we want.

It will not do us any good.

If, for some reason or other,

it's resisting our instruments...

...then we must make a closer inspection.

I will send Max down with a pod.

I wouldnt do that.

Oh, really? You wouldnt?

Thats right, I wouldnt.

Thats not a pile of junk out there.

We dont know what it is, except that its

large and seems to have some purpose.

If you want to send a pod down,

send an unmanned one.

TANYA:
I dont agree.

MAXIM:
I would like to go.

Dumb.

Piece of pie.

CURNOW:
Cake. Piece of cake.

MAXIM:
Cake, yes.

CURNOW:
Dumb, thats what it is.

TANYA:
Tell me, Dr. Floyd...

...what has happened to American bravery?

Its alive and well, thank you very much.

Except for the Russian commonsense.

Max will take the pod.

[Bang]

[Low humming]

Just try not to get it mad, all right?

How do you get it mad?

CURNOW:
[Sighs] Dumb.

Easy as cake, huh?

CURNOW:
Pie. Easy as pie.

[Door bangs and hisses]

[Alarm buzzes]

[Low humming]

MAXIM:
I have no indication here.

No magnetic field.

Nothing.

I'm having difficulty gauging distance.

Radar signals are not bouncing back.

CURNOW:
That pod looks awful small.

Good. That means theres nothing

threatening about it.

Maybe Max should extend the pods arms

with the hands out.

ORLOV:
Are you serious?

FLOYD:
Yes.

CURNOW:
That thing with its claws in

the air would scare the piss out of me.

Maybe youre right.

FLOYD:
Stop there. Just pause.

Let it know that youre not gonna

crash into it.

There is no reflectivity.

I cant see any surface features.

Its totally smooth.

Pass over it lengthwise.

[Tanya and Maxim continue

verbal exchange over radio]

[Eerie humming]

[Alarm buzzes]

CURNOW:
Oh, my God!

Max, get the hell out of there!

[Thunderous rumbling]

Max!

Max, you bastard! Do you hear me?

CURNOW:
Answer me!

Max!

[Loud hissing]

[Dog barking]

MALE VOICE:

With convenient nonstops to the moon...

...and all major space stations,

on Pan Am...

...the sky is no longer the limit.

ANCHOR:
Secretary of State Caulfield

met with the president...

...for two hours this morning

at the White House.

Afterward he had no comment

for reporters.

The president has scheduled

a news conference this evening...

...at nine o'clock, Eastern Standard Time.

We will carry that conference live...

...followed by a special report

immediately afterward.

We have an unconfirmed report...

...that the president is going to announce

a full-scale military alert tonight.

White House sources have refused

to confirm or deny that report.

[Anchormans voice becomes distorted]

BOWMAN:
[Distorted] Hello, Betty.

Hello, Betty.

[Whispers] What is this?

Please talk to me.

Dave?

Dave, is that you?

BOWMAN:
I'm not sure.

I remember Dave Bowman

and everything about him.

Dave is dead.

All Dave Bowman really was...

...is still a part of me.

Why are you here?

I don't know why.

I think to say good-bye.

You're married again?

BETTY:
Yes.

BOWMAN:
ls he a good man?

Yes, he is.

BOWMAN:
I'm glad.

I love you.

Oh, Dave, I love....

Good-bye, Betty.

Dont go.

I'm already there.

I dont understand.

Something is gonna happen...

...and I wanted to say good-bye.

Whats gonna happen?

Something wonderful.

Dave?

FEMALE VOICE:
The Sheraton Hotel

and Coral Bay Lounge.

For those who never outgrow the wonder.

FLOYD:
Buy you a drink.

Great stuff, this bourbon.

It comes from the land called Kentucky.

I didnt know you brought liquor on board.

That is forbidden.

You think ld step foot on this tub sober?

Come on, try it. You cant beat

the taste of alcohol and plastic.

You think I was wrong to send Max?

Doesnt matter what I think.

You think I was wrong.

Yep.

[Sighs]

So what else do they do in Kentucky?

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