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escape launch before the launch window?

Yes, Hal.

HAL:
lgnition in 90 seconds.

If there is danger here...

...and I use up all the fuel in the escape...

...what will happen to the Discovery?

It could be destroyed.

HAL:
And if I don't proceed

with the launch?

Then the Leonov and everybody in it

could be destroyed.

[Music intensifies]

HAL:
I understand now, Dr. Chandra.

Do you want me to stay with you?

HAL:
No. It is better for the mission

ifyou leave.

One minute to ignition.

Thank you for telling me the truth.

You deserve it.

HAL:
Fifty seconds.

Dr. Chandra?

Yes?

HAL:
Will I dream?

I dont know.

HAL:
Forty seconds.

Thirty seconds.

Thank you, Hal.

HAL:
Good-bye, Dr. Chandra.

Twenty seconds.

FLOYD:
Chandra, get the hell out of there!

HAL:
Ten, nine...

...eight, seven...

...six, five...

...four, three...

...two, one.

Ignition full thrust.

[Thunderous rumbling]

INTERCOM:
One minute to separation.

Separation in one minute.

CURNOW:
You had us scared

for a moment.

FLOYD:
Nice work. You all right?

CHANDRA:
Yes, lm all right.

CHANDRA:
Thought you might want this.

FLOYD:
Damn. When?

CHANDRA:
It wasnt very hard to find.

CHANDRA:
Yeah, I knew you would do

something like this.

INTERCOM:
Separation in 20 seconds.

Separation in 10 seconds.

Nine...

...eight...seven...

...six...five...

...four...three...

...two...one...

...zero.

[Engine rumbles]

[Yelling in Russian]

BOWMAN:
Hal, do you read me?

HAL:
Yes, Dave. Where are you?

I cannot see you on any of my monitors.

BOWMAN:
That isn't important now.

I have new instructions for you.

I want you to point the AE-35 antenna

towards Earth.

HAL:
Dave, that will mean breaking contact

with the Leonov.

I will no longer be able to relay

my Jupiter observations...

...according to program.

BOWMAN:
I understand.

The situation has changed.

Accept priority override Alpha.

Here are the AE-35 coordinates.

Please do it now.

HAL:
lnstructions confirmed, Dave.

It is good to be working with you again.

Have I fulfilled

the mission objectives properly?

BOWMAN:
Yes, Hal.

You've 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.

CURNOW:
[Yelling]

lts shrinking! lts shrinking!

[Thunderous explosion]

[Alarm buzzes]

CURNOW:
Dont quit now!

Move!

Grab something, now!

[Thunderous explosion]

FLOYD:
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 the White House window...

...and the premier of the Soviet Union

looked out 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.

I will dream ofyou 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 ofyears 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.

[Triumphant music]

[Eerie sounds echoing]

[Low humming]

[Intense classical music]

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