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TITLE CARD:
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"PART I
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AFRICA
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3,000,000 YEARS AGO"
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VIEWS OF AFRICAN DRYLANDS β DROUGHT
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The remorseless drought had lasted now for ten million
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years, and would not end for another million. The reign of
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the terrible lizards had long since passed, but here on the
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continent which would one day be known as Africa, the
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battle for survival had reached a new climax of ferocity,
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and the victor was not yet in sight. In this dry and barren
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land, only the small or the swift or the fierce could
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flourish, or even hope to exist.
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1 INT./EXT. CAVES β MOONWATCHER 1
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The man-apes of the field had none of these attributes, and
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they were on the long, pathetic road to racial extinction.
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About twenty of them occupied a group of caves overlooking
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a small, parched valley, divided by a sluggish, brown
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stream.
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The tribe had always been hungry, and now it was starving.
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As the first dim glow of dawn creeps into the cave,
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Moonwatcher discovers that his father has died during the
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night. He did not know the Old One was his father, for such
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a relationship was beyond his understanding. but as he
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stands looking down at the emaciated body he feels
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something, something akin to sadness. Then he carries his
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dead father out of the cave, and leaves him for the hyenas.
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Among his kind, Moonwatcher is almost a giant. He is nearly
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five feet high, and though badly undernourished, weighs
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over a hundred pounds. His hairy, muscular body is quite
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man-like, and his head is already nearer man than ape. The
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forehead is low, and there are great ridges over the eye-
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sockets, yet he unmistakably holds in his genes the promise
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of humanity. As he looks out now upon the hostile world,
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there is already something in his gaze beyond the grasp of
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any ape. In those dark, deep-set eyes is a dawning
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awareness-the first intimations of an intelligence which
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would not fulfill itself for another two million years.
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2 EXT. THE STREAM β THE OTHERS 2
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As the dawn sky brightens, Moonwatcher and his tribe reach
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the shallow stream.
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The Others are already there. They were there on the other
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side every day β that did not make it any less annoying.
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There are eighteen of them, and it is impossible to
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distinguish them from the members of Moonwatcher's own
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tribe. As they see him coming, the Others begin to angrily
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dance and shriek on their side of the stream, and his own
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people reply In kind.
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The confrontation lasts a few minutes β then the display
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dies out as quickly as it has begun, and everyone drinks
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his fill of the
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muddy water. Honor has been satisfied β each group has
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staked its claim to its own territory.
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3 EXT. AFRICAN PLAIN β HERBIVORES 3
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Moonwatcher and his companions search for berries, fruit
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and leaves, and fight off pangs of hunger, while all around
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them, competing with them for the same fodder, is a
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potential source of more food than they could ever hope to
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eat. Yet all the thousands of tons of meat roaming over the
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parched savanna and through the brush is not only beyond
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their reach; the idea of eating it is beyond their
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imagination. They are slowly starving to death in the midst
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of plenty.
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4 EXT. PARCHED COUNTRYSIDE β THE LION 4
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The tribe slowly wanders across the bare, flat countryside
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foraging for roots and occasional berries.
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Eight of them are irregularly strung out on the open plain,
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about fifty feet apart.
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The ground is flat for miles around.
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Suddenly, Moonwatcher becomes aware of a lion, stalking
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them about 300 yards away.
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Defenseless and with nowhere to hide, they scatter in all
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directions, but the lion brings one to the ground.
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5 EXT. DEAD TREE β FINDS HONEY 5
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It had not been a good day, though as Moonwatcher had no
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real remembrance of the past he could not compare one day
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with another.
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But on the way back to the caves he finds a hive of bees in
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the stump of a dead tree, and so enjoys the finest delicacy
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his people could ever know. Of course, he also collects a
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good many stings, but he scarcely notices them. He is now
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as near to contentment as he is ever likely to be; for
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thought he is still hungry, he is not actually weak with
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hunger. That was the most that any hominid could hope for.
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6 INT./EXT. CAVES β NIGHT TERRORS 6
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Over the valley, a full moon rises, and a cold wind blows
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down from the distant mountains. It would be very cold
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tonight β but cold, like hunger, was not a matter for any
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real concern; it was merely part of the background of life.
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This Little Sun, that only shone at night and gave no
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warmth, was dangerous; there would be enemies abroad.
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Moonwatcher crawls out of the cave, clambers on to a large
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boulder besides the entrance, and squats there where he can
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survey the valley. If any hunting beast approached, he
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would have time to get back to the relative safety of the
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cave.
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Of all the creatures who had ever lived on Earth,
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Moonwatcher's race was the first to raise their eyes with
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interest to the Moon, and though he could not remember it,
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when he was young, Moonwatcher would reach out and try to
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touch its ghostly face. Now he new he would have to find a
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tree that was high enough.
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He stirs when shrieks and screams echo up the slope from
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one of the lower caves, and he does not need to hear the
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occasional growl of the lion to know what is happening.
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Down there in the darkness, old One-Eye and his family are
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dying, and the thought that he might help in some way never
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crosses Moonwatcher's mind.
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The harsh logic of survival rules out such fancies. Every
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cave is silent, lest it attract disaster.
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And in the caves, in tortured spells of fitful dozing and
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fearful waiting, were gathered the nightmares of
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generations yet to come.
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7 EXT. THE STREAM β INVASION 7
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The Others are growing desperate; the forage on their side
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of the valley is almost exhausted. Perhaps they realize
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that Moonwatcher's tribe has lost three of its numbers
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during the night, for they choose this mourning to break
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the truce. When they meet at the river in the still, misty
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dawn, there is a deeper and more menacing note in their
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challenge. The noisy but usually harmless confrontation
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lasts only a few seconds before the invasion begins.
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In an uncertainly-moving horde, the Others cross the river,
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shirking threats and hunched for the attack. They are led
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by a big-toothed hominid of Moonwatcher's own size and age.
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Startled and frightened, the tribe retreats before the
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first advance, throwing nothing more substantial than
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imprecations at the invaders. Moonwatcher moves with them,
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his mind a mist of rage and confusion. To be driven from
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their own territory is a great badness, but to lose the
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river is death. He does not know what to do; it is a
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situation beyond his experience.
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Then he becomes dimly aware that the Others are slowing
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down, and advancing with obvious reluctance. The further
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they move from their own side, the more uncertain and
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unhappy they become. Only Big-Tooth still retains any of
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his original drive, and he is rapidly being separated from
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his followers.
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As he sees this, Moonwatcher's own morale immediately
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revives. He slows down his retreat, and begins to make
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reassuring noises to his companions. Novel sensations fill
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his dim mind β the first faint precursors of bravery and
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leadership.
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Before he realizes it, he is face to face with Big-Tooth,
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and the two tribes come to a halt many paces away.
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The disorganized and unscientific conflict could have ended
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quickly if either had used his fist as a club, but this
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innovation still lay hundreds of thousands of years in the
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future.
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Instead, the slowly weakening fighters claw and scratch and
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try to bite each other.
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Rolling over and over, they come to a patch of stony
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ground, and when they reach it Moonwatcher is on top. By
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chance, he chooses this moment to grab the hair on Big-
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Tooth's scalp, and bang his head on the ground. The
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resulting CRACK is so satisfactory, and produces such an
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immediate weakening in Big-Tooth's resistance, that he
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quickly repeats it.
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Even when Big-Tooth ceases to move for some time,
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Moonwatcher keeps up the exhilarating game.
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With shrieks of panic, the Others retreat back, across the
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stream.
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The defenders cautiously pursue them as far as the water's
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edge.
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8 EXT. CAVE β NEW SOUND 8
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Dozing fitfully and weakened by his struggle, Moonwatcher
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is startled by a sound.
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He sits up in the fetid darkness of the cave, straining his
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senses out into the night, and fear creeps slowly into his
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soul. Never in his life β already twice as long as most
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members of his species could expect β has he heard a sound
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like this. The great cats approached in silence, and the
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only thing that betrayed them was a rare slide of earth, or
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the occasional cracking of a twig. Yet this is a continuing
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crunching noise that grows steadily louder.
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It seemed that some enormous beast was moving through the
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night, making no attempt at concealment, and ignoring all
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obstacles.
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And then there came a sound which Moonwatcher could not
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possibly have identified, for it had never been heard
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before in the history of this planet.
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9 EXT. CAVE β NEW ROCK 9
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Moonwatcher comes face to face with the New Rock when he
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leads the tribe down to the river in the first light of
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morning. He had almost forgotten the terror of the night,
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because nothing had happened after that initial noise, so
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he does not even associate this strange thing with danger
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or with fear. There is nothing in the least alarming about
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it.
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It is a cube about fifteen feet on a side, and it is made
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of some completely transparent material; indeed, it is not
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easy to see except when the light of the sun glints on its
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edges. There are no natural objects to which Moonwatcher
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can compare this apparition. Though he is wisely cautious
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of most new things, he does not hesitate to walk up to it.
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As nothing happens, he puts out his hand, and feels a warm,
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hard surface.
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After several minutes of intense thought, he arrives at a
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brilliant explanation. It is a rock, of course, and it must
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have grown during the night. There are many plants that do
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this β white, pulpy things shaped like pebbles, that seem
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to shoot up in the hours of darkness. It is true that they
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are small and round, whereas this is large and square; but
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greater and later philosophers than Moonwatcher would be
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prepared to overlook equally striking exceptions to their
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laws.
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This really superb piece of abstract thinking leads
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Moonwatcher to a deduction which he immediately puts to the
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test. The white, round pebble-plants are very tasty (though
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there were a few that made one violently sick); perhaps
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this square one...?
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A few licks and attempted nibbles quickly disillusion him.
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There is no nourishment here; so like a sensible hominid,
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he continues on his way to the river and forgets all about
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the Cube.
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10 EXT. CUBE β FIRST LESSON 10
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They are still a hundred yards from the New Rock when the
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sound begins.
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It is quite soft, and it stops them in their tracks, so
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that they stand paralyzed on the trail with their jaws
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hanging. A simple, maddeningly repetitious rhythm pulses
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out of the crystal cube and hypnotizes all who come within
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its spell. For the first time β and the last, for two
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million year β the sound of drumming is heard in Africa.
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The throbbing grows louder, more insistent. Presently the
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hominids begin to move forward like sleep-walkers, towards
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the source of that magnetic sound. Sometimes they take
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little dancing steps, as their blood responds to the
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rhythms that their descendants will not create for ages
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yet.
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Totally entranced, they gather around the Cube, forgetting
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the hardships of the day, the perils of the approaching
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dusk, and the hunger in their bellies.
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Now, spinning wheels of light begin to merge, and the
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spokes fuse into luminous bars that slowly recede into the
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distance, rotating on their axes as they do; and the
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hominids watch, wide-eyed, mesmerized captives of the
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Crystal Cube.
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Then by some magic β though it was no more magical than all
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that had gone on before β a perfectly normal scene appears.
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It is as if a cubical block had been carved out of the day
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and shifted into the night. Inside that block is a group of
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four hominids, who might have been members of Moonwatcher's
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own tribe, eating chunks of meat. The carcass of a wart-hog
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lies near them.
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This little family of male and female and two children is
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gorged and replete, with sleek and glossy pelts β and this
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was a condition of life that Moonwatcher had never
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imagined. From time to time they stir lazily, as they loll
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at ease near the entrance of their cave, apparently at
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peace with the world. The spectacle of domestic bliss
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merges into a totally different scene.
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The family is no longer reposing peacefully outside its
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cave; it is foraging, searching for food like any normal
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hominids.
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A small wart-hog ambles past the group of browsing
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humanoids without giving them more than a glance, for they
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had never been the slightest danger to its species.
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But that happy state of affairs is about to end. The big
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male suddenly bends down, picks up a heavy stone lying at
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his feet β
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and hurls it upon the unfortunate pig. The stone descends
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upon its skull, making exactly the same noise that
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Moonwatcher had produced in his now almost forgotten
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encounter with Big-Tooth. And the result, too, is much the
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same β the warthog gives one amazed, indignant squeal, and
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collapses in a motionless heap.
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Then the whole sequence begins again, but this time it
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unfolds itself with incredible slowness. Every detail of
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the movement can be followed; the stone arches leisurely
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through the air, the pig crumples up and sinks to the
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ground. There the scene freezes for long moments, the
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slayer standing motionless above the slain, the first of
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all weapons in his hand.
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The scene suddenly fades out. The cube is no more than a
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glimmering outline in the darkness; the hominids stir, as
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if awakening from a dream, realize where they are, and
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scuttle back to their caves.
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They have no conscious memory of what they had seen; but
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that night, as he sits brooding at the entrance of his
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lair, his ears attuned to the noises of the world around
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him, Moonwatcher feels the first faint. twinges of a new
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and potent emotion β the urge to kill. He had taken his
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first step towards humanity.
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11 EXT. CAVE AND PLAINS β UTOPIA 11
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Babies were born and sometimes lived; feeble, toothless
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thirty-year-olds died; the lion took its toll in the night;
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the Others threatened daily across the river β and the
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tribe prospered. In the course of a single year,
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Moonwatcher and his companions had changed almost beyond
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recognition.
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They had become as plump as the family in the Cave, who no
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longer haunted their dreams. They had learned their lessons
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well; now they could handle all the stone tools and weapons
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that the Cube had revealed to them.
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They were no longer half-numbed with starvation, and they
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had time both for leisure and for the first rudiments of
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thought. Their new way of life was casually accepted, and
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they did not associate it in any way with the crystal cube
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still standing outside their cave.
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But no Utopia is perfect, and this one had two blemishes.
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The first was the marauding lion, whose passion for
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hominids seemed to have grown even stronger now that they
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were better nourished. The second was the tribe across the
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river; for somehow the Others had survived, and had
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stubbornly refused to die of starvation.
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12 EXT. CAVES β KILLING THE LION 12
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With the partly devoured carcass of a warthog laid out on
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the ground at the point. he hope the boulder would impact,
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Moonwatcher and three of his bravest companions wait for
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two consecutive nights. On the third the lion comes,
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betraying his presences by a small pebble slide.
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When they can here the lion below, softly tearing at the
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meat, they strain themselves against the massive boulder.
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The sound of the lion stops; he is listening. Again they
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silently heave against the enormous stone, exerting the
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final limits of their strength.
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The rock begin to tip to a new balance point..
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The lion twitches alert to this sound, but having no fear
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of these creatures, he makes the first of two mistakes
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which will cost him his life; he goes back to his meal.
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The rock moves slowly over the ledge, picking up speed with
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amazing suddenness. It strikes a projection in the cliff
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about fifteen feet above the ground, which deflects its
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path outward.
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Just at this instant, the lion reacts instinctively and
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leaps away from the face of the cliff directly into the
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path of the onrushing boulder. He has combined the errors
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of overconfidence and bad luck.
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The next morning they find the lion in front of the cave.
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They also find one of their tribe who had incautiously
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peeped out to see what was happening, and was apparently
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killed by a small rock torn loose by the boulder; but this
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was a small price to pay for such a great victory.
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And then one night the crystal cube was gone, and not even
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Moonwatcher ever thought of it again. He was still wholly
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unaware of all that it had done.
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13 EXT. STREAM β MASTER OF THE WORLD 13
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From their side of the stream, in the never violated safety
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of their own territory, the Others see Moonwatcher and
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fourteen males of his tribe appear from behind a small
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hillock over-looking the stream, silhouetted against the
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dawn sky.
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The Others begin to scream their daily challenge. But today
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something is different, though the Others do not
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immediately recognize this fact.
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Instead of joining the verbal onslaught, as they had always
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done, Moonwatcher and his small band descended from the
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rise, and begin to move forward to the stream with a quiet
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purposefulness never before seen.
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As the Others watch the figures silently approaching in the
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morning mist, they become aware of the terrible strangeness
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of this encounter, and their rage gradually subsides down
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to an uneasy silence.
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At the water's edge, Moonwatcher and his band stop. They
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carry their bone clubs and bone knives. Led by One-ear, the
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Others half-heartly resume the battle- chant. But they are
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suddenly confronted with a vision that cuts the sound from
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their throats, and strikes terror into their hearts.
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Moonwatcher, who had been partly concealed by two males who
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walked before him, thrusts his arm high into the air. In
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his hand he holds a stood tree branch. Mounted atop the
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branch is the bloody head of the lion, its mouth jammed
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open with a stick, displaying its frightful fangs.
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The Others gape in fearful disbelief at this display of
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power.
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Moonwatchers stands motionless, thrusting the lion's head
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high.
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Then with majestic deliberation, still carrying his mangled
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standard above his head, he begins to cross the stream,
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followed by his band.
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The Others fade back from the stream, seeming to lack even
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the ability to flee.
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Moonwatcher steps ashore and walks to One-Ear, who stands
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unsurely in front of his band.
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Though he is a veteran of numerous combats at the water's
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edge, One-Ear has never been attacked by an enemy who had
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not first displayed his fighting rage; and he had never
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before been attacked with a weapon. One-Ear, merely looks
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up at the raised club until the heavy thigh bone of an
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antelope brings the darkness down around him.
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The Others stare in wonder at Moonwatcher's power.
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Moonwatcher surveys the scene. Now he was master of the
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world, and he was not sure what to do next... But he would
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think of something.
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TITLE CARD:
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"PART II YEAR 2001"
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EARTH FROM 200 MILES UP
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NARRATOR
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By the year 2001, overpopulation
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has replaced the problem of
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starvation, but this was ominously
|
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offset by the absolute and utter
|
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perfection of the weapon. Hundreds
|
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of giant bombs had been placed in
|
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perpetual orbit above the Earth.
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They were capable of incinerating
|
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the entire Earth's surface from an
|
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altitude of 100 miles.
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11.
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FRENCH BOMB NARRATOR
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Matters were further complicated by
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the presence of twenty-seven
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nations in the nuclear club. There
|
|
had been no deliberate or
|
|
accidental use of nuclear weapons
|
|
since World War II and some people
|
|
felt secure in this knowledge. But
|
|
to others, the situation seemed
|
|
comparable to an airline with a
|
|
perfect safety record; in showed
|
|
admirable care and skill but no one
|
|
expected it to last forever.
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ORION-III SPACECRAFT IN FIGHT AWAY FROM EARTH, 200 MILES
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ALTITUDE
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14 INT. ORION-III PASSENGER AREA 14
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Dr. Heywood Floyd is the only passenger in the elegant
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cabin designed for 30 people. He is asleep.
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His pen floats near his hand.
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15 INT. ORION-III COCKPIT 15
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Pilot, Co-Pilot and Floyd can be seen asleep on a small TV
|
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monitor.
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Stewardess is putting on lipstick. She sees pen.
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Stewardess goes back to passenger area, rescues pen and
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clips it back in Floyd's pocket.
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16 INT. SPACE STATION-5 16
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The raw sunlight of space dazzles from the polished metal
|
|
surfaces of the slowly revolving, thousand-foot diameter
|
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space station.
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Drifting in the same orbit, we see swept-back titov-v
|
|
spacecraft.
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Also the almost spherical aries-ib.
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17 INT. ORION-III PASSENGER AREA 17
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Floyd awake but groggy, looks out of window.
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12.
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18 INT. ORION-III COCKPIT 18
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The Co-Pilot in radio communication with the space station.
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19 INT. THE ORION-III SPACECRAFT IN DOCKING APPROACH 19
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The Earth is seen in breath-taking view in background.
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20 INT. INSIDE DOCKING CONTROL 20
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We see Orion-III maneuvering in background.
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|
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From docking port we see the Orion-III inching in to
|
|
complete its docking. We see various windowed booths inside
|
|
docking port. We see the Pilot and Co-Pilot inside the
|
|
Orion-III cockpit.
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21 INT. SPACE STATION RECEPTION AREA 21
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|
Receptionist at desk. Miller enters, hurrying. he goes to
|
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the elevator and presses button. He waits impatiently.
|
|
|
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We see elevator indicator working.
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Elevator door opens and Floyd is seen unstrapping himself.
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|
|
The Elevator Girl is seated by the door.
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|
MILLER
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|
Oh, good morning, Dr. Floyd. I'm
|
|
Nick Miller.
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FLOYD
|
|
How do you do, Mr. Miller?
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MILLER
|
|
I'm terribly sorry. I was just on
|
|
my way down to meet you. I saw your
|
|
ship dock and I knew I had plenty
|
|
of time, and I was on my way out of
|
|
the office when, suddenly, the
|
|
phone rang.
|
|
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|
FLOYD
|
|
Oh, please don't worry about it.
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|
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|
MILLER
|
|
Well, thank you very much for being
|
|
so understanding.
|
|
13.
|
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FLOYD
|
|
Please, it really doesn't matter.
|
|
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|
MILLER
|
|
Well... Did you have a pleasant
|
|
flight?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Yes, very pleasant.
|
|
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|
MILLER
|
|
Well, shall we go through
|
|
Documentation?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Fine.
|
|
|
|
RECEPTIONIST
|
|
Will you use number eight, please?
|
|
|
|
MILLER
|
|
Thank you, Miss Turner.
|
|
|
|
They enter the passport area.
|
|
|
|
Receptionist presses "ENGLISH" bar on her console and
|
|
smiles as Floyd goes through.
|
|
|
|
An automated passport section. They stop in front of a
|
|
booth featuring a TV screen.
|
|
|
|
PASSPORT GIRL (TV)
|
|
Good morning and welcome to Voice
|
|
Print Identification. When you see
|
|
the red light go on would you
|
|
please state in the following
|
|
order; your destination, your
|
|
nationality and your full name.
|
|
Surname first, Christian name and
|
|
initial. For example: Moon,
|
|
American, Smith, John, D. Thank
|
|
you.
|
|
|
|
There is a pause and a red bar lights up.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Moon, American, Floyd, Heywood, R.
|
|
|
|
The red light goes off. there is a delay of about two
|
|
seconds and the woman's face reappears.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
I've always wondered...
|
|
14.
|
|
|
|
|
|
PASSPORT GIRL (TV)
|
|
(interrupting)
|
|
Thank you. Despite and excellent
|
|
and continually improving safety
|
|
record there are certain risks
|
|
inherent in space travel and an.
|
|
Extremely high cost of pay load.
|
|
Because of this it is necessary for
|
|
the Space Carrier to advise you
|
|
that it cannot be responsible for
|
|
the return of your body to Earth
|
|
should you become deceased on the
|
|
Moon or en route to the Moon.
|
|
However, it wishes to advise you
|
|
that insurance covering this
|
|
contingency is available in the
|
|
Main Lounge. Thank you. You are
|
|
cleared through Voice Print
|
|
Identification.
|
|
|
|
The lights go off and the woman's face disappears.
|
|
|
|
The men exit the passport area.
|
|
|
|
MILLER
|
|
I've reserved a table for you in
|
|
the Earth Light room. Your
|
|
connecting flight will be leaving
|
|
in about one hour.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Oh, that's wonderful.
|
|
|
|
|
|
22 INT. SPACE STATION β LOUNGE 22
|
|
|
|
Floyd and Miller walking.
|
|
|
|
MILLER
|
|
Let's see, we haven't had the
|
|
pleasure of a visit from you not
|
|
since... It was about eight or nine
|
|
months ago, wasn't it?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Yes, I think so. Just about then.
|
|
|
|
MILLER
|
|
I suppose you saw the work on our
|
|
new section while you were docking.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Yes, it's coming along very well.
|
|
15.
|
|
|
|
|
|
They pass the Vision Phone booth.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Oh, look, I've got to make a phone
|
|
call. Why don't you go on into the
|
|
Restaurant and I'll meet you in
|
|
there.
|
|
|
|
MILLER
|
|
Fine. I'll see you at the bar.
|
|
|
|
Floyd enter phone booth.
|
|
|
|
Sign on Vision Phone screen: "SORRY, TEMPORARILY OUT OF
|
|
ORDER."
|
|
|
|
He enters the second booth and sits down.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD IN VISION PHONE
|
|
|
|
Little Girl of five answers.
|
|
|
|
CHILD
|
|
Hello.
|
|
|
|
Vision Phone screen display sign "YOUR PARTY HAS NOT
|
|
CONNECTED VISION"
|
|
|
|
A few seconds later, the screen changes to an image of the
|
|
child.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Hello, darling, how are you?
|
|
|
|
CHILD
|
|
Hello Daddy. Where are you?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
I'm at Space Station Five, darling.
|
|
How are you?
|
|
|
|
CHILD
|
|
I'm fine, Daddy. When are you
|
|
coming home?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Well, I hope in a few days,
|
|
sweetheart.
|
|
|
|
CHILD
|
|
I'm having a party tomorrow.
|
|
16.
|
|
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Yes, I know that sweetheart.
|
|
|
|
CHILD
|
|
Are you coming to my party?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
No, I'm sorry, darling, I told you
|
|
I won't be home for a few days.
|
|
|
|
CHILD
|
|
When are you coming home?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
In three days, darling, I hope.
|
|
|
|
Floyd holds up three fingers.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
One, two, three. Can I speak to
|
|
Mommy?
|
|
|
|
CHILD
|
|
Mommy's out to the hair-dresser.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Where is Mrs. Brown?
|
|
|
|
CHILD
|
|
She's in the bathroom.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Okay, sweetheart. Well, I have to
|
|
go now. Tell Mommy that I called.
|
|
|
|
CHILD
|
|
How many days until you come home?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Three, darling. One... two...
|
|
three. Be sure to tell Mommy I
|
|
called.
|
|
|
|
CHILD
|
|
I will, Daddy.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Okay, sweetheart. Have a lovely
|
|
Birthday Party tomorrow.
|
|
|
|
CHILD
|
|
Thank you, Daddy.
|
|
17.
|
|
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
I'll wish you a happy Birthday now
|
|
and I'll see you soon. All right,
|
|
Darling?
|
|
|
|
CHILD
|
|
Yes, Daddy.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Bye-bye, now, sweetheart.
|
|
|
|
CHILD
|
|
Goodbye, Daddy.
|
|
|
|
VISION PHONE PROCEDURE FOR INFORMATION
|
|
|
|
Vision Phone procedure for dialing.
|
|
|
|
OPERATOR
|
|
Good morning, Macy's.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Good morning. I'd like the Vision
|
|
shopper for the Pet Shop, please.
|
|
|
|
OPERATOR
|
|
Just one moment.
|
|
|
|
The picture flips and we see a Woman standing in front of a
|
|
specially designed display screen.
|
|
|
|
VISION SALES GIRL
|
|
Good morning, sir, may I help you?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Yes, I'd like to buy a bush baby.
|
|
|
|
VISION SALES GIRL
|
|
Just a moment, sir.
|
|
|
|
The Girl keys some inputs and a moving picture appears on
|
|
the screen of a cage containing about six bush babies,
|
|
beautifully displayed against a white background.
|
|
|
|
VISION SALES GIRL
|
|
Gere you are, sir. Here is a lovely
|
|
assortment of African bush babies.
|
|
They are twenty Dollars each.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Yes, well... Pick out a nice one
|
|
for me, a friendly one, and I'd
|
|
like it delivered tomorrow.
|
|
18.
|
|
|
|
|
|
VISION SALES GIRL
|
|
Certainly, sir. Just let us have
|
|
your name and Bank identification
|
|
for V.P.I., and then give the name
|
|
and address of the person you'd
|
|
like the pet delivered to and it
|
|
will be delivered tomorrow.
|
|
|
|
Some time during this conversation, Floyd sees Elena,
|
|
Smyslov and the other two Russians pass his Vision Phone
|
|
window. Elena taps and mimes "Hello", gesturing toward a
|
|
table behind Floyd where they all sit down.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Thank you very much. Floyd,
|
|
Heywood, R., First National Bank of
|
|
Washington. Please deliver to Miss
|
|
Josephine Floyd, 9423 Dupre Avenue,
|
|
N.W.14.
|
|
|
|
VISION SALES GIRL
|
|
Thank you very much, sir. It will
|
|
be delivered tomorrow.
|
|
|
|
|
|
23 INT. SPACE STATTION 5 β LOUNGE 23
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Well, how nice to see you again,
|
|
Elena. You're looking wonderful.
|
|
|
|
ELENA
|
|
How nice to see you, Hyewood. This
|
|
is my good friend, Dr. Heywood.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD.
|
|
I'd like you to meet Andre
|
|
Smyslov...
|
|
|
|
Smyslov and the two other Russian women stand up and smile.
|
|
|
|
They shake hands after introduction and ad-lib "Hellos".
|
|
|
|
ELENA
|
|
And this is Dr. Kalinan...
|
|
Stretyneva...
|
|
|
|
The Russians are very warm and friendly.
|
|
|
|
SMYSLOV
|
|
Dr. Floyd, won't you join us for a
|
|
drink?
|
|
19.
|
|
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
I'm afraid I've only got a few
|
|
minutes, but I'd love to.
|
|
|
|
There is a bit of confusion as all realize there is not
|
|
enough room for another person at the table. Smyslov offers
|
|
Floyd his chair and borrows another from a nearby table.
|
|
|
|
SYMYSLOV
|
|
What would you like to drink?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Oh, I really don't have time for a
|
|
drink. If it's all right I'll just
|
|
sit for a minute and then I've got
|
|
to be off.
|
|
|
|
SMYSLOV
|
|
Are you quite sure?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Yes, really, thank you very much.
|
|
|
|
ELENA
|
|
Well... How's your lovely wife?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
She's wonderful.
|
|
|
|
ELENA
|
|
And your charming little daughter?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Oh, she's growing up very fast. As
|
|
a matter of fact, she's six
|
|
tomorrow.
|
|
|
|
ELENA
|
|
Oh, that's such a delightful age.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
How is Gregor?
|
|
|
|
ELENA
|
|
He's fine. But I'm afraid we don't
|
|
get a chance to see each other very
|
|
much these days.
|
|
|
|
Polite laughter.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Well, where are all of you off to?
|
|
20.
|
|
|
|
|
|
ELENA
|
|
Actually, we're on our way back
|
|
from the moon. We've just spent
|
|
three months calibrating the new
|
|
antenna at Tchalinko. And what
|
|
about you?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Well, as it happens, I'm on my way
|
|
up to the moon
|
|
|
|
SMYSLOV
|
|
Are you, by any chance, going up to
|
|
your base at Clavius?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Yes, as a matter of fact, I am.
|
|
|
|
The Russians exchange significant glances.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Is there any particular reason why
|
|
you ask?
|
|
|
|
SMYSLOV
|
|
(pleasantly)
|
|
Well, Dr. Floyd, I hope that you
|
|
don't think I'm too inquisitive,
|
|
but perhaps you can clear up the
|
|
mystery about what's been going on
|
|
up there.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
I'm sorry, but I'm not sure I know
|
|
what you mean.
|
|
|
|
SMYSLOV
|
|
Well, it's just for the past two
|
|
weeks there have been some
|
|
extremely odd things happening at
|
|
Clavius.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Really?
|
|
|
|
SMYSLOV
|
|
Yes. Well, for one thing, whenever
|
|
you phone the base, all you can get
|
|
is a recording which repeats that
|
|
the phone lines are temporarily out
|
|
of order.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
21.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Well, I suppose they've been having
|
|
a bit of trouble with some of the
|
|
equipment.
|
|
|
|
SMYSLOV
|
|
Yes, well at first we thought that
|
|
was the explanation, but it's been
|
|
going on for the past ten days.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
You mean you haven't been able to
|
|
get anyone at the base for ten
|
|
days?
|
|
|
|
SMYSLOV
|
|
That's right.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
I see.
|
|
|
|
ELENA
|
|
Another thing, Heywood, two days
|
|
ago, one of our rocket buses was
|
|
denied permission for an emergency
|
|
landing at Clavius.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
How did they manage to do that
|
|
without any communication?
|
|
|
|
ELENA
|
|
Clavius Control came on the air
|
|
just long enough to transmit their
|
|
refusal.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Well, that does sound very odd.
|
|
|
|
SMYSLOV
|
|
Yes, and I'm afraid there's going
|
|
to be a bit of a row about it.
|
|
Denying the men permission to land
|
|
was a direct violation of the
|
|
I.A.S. convention.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Yes... Well, I hope the crew got
|
|
back safely.
|
|
|
|
SMYSLOV
|
|
Fortunately, they did.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
22.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Well, I'm glad about that.
|
|
|
|
The Russians exchange more glances. One of the Women offers
|
|
around a pill box. Elena and another Russian take one and
|
|
the third Russian declines.
|
|
|
|
SMYSLOV
|
|
Dr. Floyd, at the risk of pressing
|
|
you on a point. you seem reticent
|
|
to discuss, may I ask you a
|
|
straightforward question?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Certainly.
|
|
|
|
SMYSLOV
|
|
Quite frankly, we have had some
|
|
very reliable intelligence reports
|
|
that a quite serious epidemic has
|
|
broken out at Clavius. Something,
|
|
apparently, of an unknown origin.
|
|
Is this, in fact, what has
|
|
happened?
|
|
|
|
A long, awkward pause.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
I'm sorry, Dr. Smyslov, but I'm
|
|
really not at liberty to discuss
|
|
this.
|
|
|
|
SMYSLOV
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This epidemic could easily spread
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to our base, Dr. Floyd. We should
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be given all the facts.
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Long pause.
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FLOYD
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Dr. Smyslov... I'm not permitted to
|
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discuss this.
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ELENA
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Are you sure you won't change your
|
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mind about a drink?
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FLOYD
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No, thank you... and I'm afraid now
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I really must be going.
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ELENA
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23.
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|
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Well, I hope that you and your wife
|
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can come to the I.A.C. conference
|
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in June.
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FLOYD
|
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We're trying to get there. I hope
|
|
we can.
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ELENA
|
|
Well, Gregor and I will look
|
|
forward to seeing you.
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FLOYD
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|
Thank you. It's been a great
|
|
pleasure to meet all of you... Dr.
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Smyslov.
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The Russians all rise and there are ad-libs of courtesy.
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Floyd shakes hands and exits.
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The Russians exchange a few serious paragraphs in Russian.
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24 EXT. ARIES-IB IN SPACE 24
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Earth much smaller than as seen from space station.
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|
NARRATOR
|
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The Aries-IB has become the
|
|
standard Space-Station-to-Lunar
|
|
surface vehicle. It was powered by
|
|
low-thrust plasma jets which would
|
|
continue the mild acceleration for
|
|
fifteen minutes. Then the ship
|
|
would break the bonds of gravity
|
|
and be a free and independent
|
|
planet, circling the Sun in an
|
|
orbit of its own.
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25 INT. ARIES PASSENGER AREA 25
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Floyd is asleep, stretched out in the chair, covered with
|
|
blankets which are held secure by straps.
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|
|
|
A Stewardess sits at the other side of the cabin, watching
|
|
a karate exhibition between two women on TV.
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|
|
|
The elevator entrance door opens and the second Stewardess
|
|
enters carrying a tray of food.
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She brings it to the other Stewardess.
|
|
24.
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STEWARDESS #1
|
|
Oh, thank you very much.
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|
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|
STEWARDESS #2
|
|
I see he's still asleep.
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|
STEWARDESS #1
|
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Yes. He hasn't moved since we left.
|
|
|
|
Stewardess #2 exits into elevator.
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26 INT. ARIES GALLEY AREA 26
|
|
|
|
Stewardess exits from elevator, goes to the kitchen
|
|
section, removes two trays, walks up to the side of the
|
|
wall and enters Pilot's compartment.
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|
27 INT. ARIES-IB COCKPIT 27
|
|
|
|
Pilot, Co-Pilot.
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|
|
|
Stewardess enters, carrying food.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
Oh, thank you very much.
|
|
|
|
CO-PILOT
|
|
Thank you.
|
|
|
|
Stewardess smiles.
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|
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|
PILOT
|
|
(sighs)
|
|
Well, how's it going back there?
|
|
|
|
STEWARDESS
|
|
Fine. Very quiet. He's been asleep
|
|
since we left.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
Well, no one can say that he's not
|
|
enjoying the wonders of Space.
|
|
|
|
CO-PILOT
|
|
Well, whatever's going on up there,
|
|
he's going to arrive fresh and
|
|
ready to go.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
I wonder what really is going on up
|
|
there?
|
|
25.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CO-PILOT
|
|
Well, I've heard more and more
|
|
people talk of an epidemic.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
I suppose it was bound to happen
|
|
sooner or later.
|
|
|
|
CO-PILOT
|
|
Berkeley told me that they think it
|
|
came from contamination on a
|
|
returning Mars flight.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
Yes, well, whatever it is, they're
|
|
certainly not fooling around. This
|
|
is the first flight they allowed in
|
|
for more than a week.
|
|
|
|
CO-PILOT
|
|
I was working out what this trip
|
|
must cost, taking him up there by
|
|
himself and coming back empty.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
I'll bet it's a fortune.
|
|
|
|
CO-PILOT
|
|
Well, at ten thousand dollars a
|
|
ticket, it comes to the better part
|
|
of six hundred thousand dollars.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
Well, as soon as he wakes up, I'm
|
|
going to go back and talk to him. I
|
|
must say, I'd like to find out
|
|
what's going on.
|
|
|
|
|
|
28 INT. ARIES-IB IN SPACE 28
|
|
|
|
Moon very large.
|
|
|
|
|
|
29 INT. ARIES-IB PASSENGER AREA 29
|
|
|
|
Floyd finishing breakfast.
|
|
|
|
Pilot enters.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
Well, good afternoon, Dr. Floyd.
|
|
Did you have a good rest?
|
|
26.
|
|
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Oh, marvelous. It's the first real
|
|
sleep I've had for the past two
|
|
days.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
There's nothing like weightless
|
|
sleep for a complete rest.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
When do we arrive at Clavius?
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
We're scheduled to dock in about
|
|
seven hours. Is there anything we
|
|
can do for you?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Oh, no, thank you. The two girls
|
|
have taken wonderful care of me.
|
|
I'm just fine.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
Well, if there is anything that you
|
|
want, just give a holler.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Thank you.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
Incidentally, Dr. Floyd, I wonder
|
|
if I can have a word with you about
|
|
the security arrangements?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
What do you mean?
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
Well... the crew is confined to the
|
|
ship when we land at Clavius. We
|
|
have to stay inside for the time it
|
|
take to refit β about twenty-four
|
|
hours. And then we're going to back
|
|
empty.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
I see.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
I take it this is something to do
|
|
with the trouble they're having up
|
|
at Clavius?
|
|
27.
|
|
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
I'm afraid that's out of my
|
|
department, Captain.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
Well, I'll tell you why I ask. You
|
|
see, I've got a girl who works in
|
|
the Auditing Department of the
|
|
Territorial Administrator and I
|
|
haven't been able to get her on the
|
|
phone for the past week or so, and
|
|
with all these stories one hears,
|
|
I'm a little concerned about her.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
I see. Well, I'm sorry about that.
|
|
I wouldn't think there's any cause
|
|
for alarm.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
Yes, well, I wouldn't have been too
|
|
concerned about it, except I've
|
|
heard these stories about the
|
|
epidemic and, as a matter of fact,
|
|
I've heard that ten people have
|
|
died already.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
I wish I could be more helpful,
|
|
Captain, but as I've said, I don't
|
|
think there's any cause for alarm.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
Well, fine. Thanks very much,
|
|
anyway, and I hope you don't mind
|
|
me asking?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
No, of course, Captain, I can
|
|
understand your concern.
|
|
|
|
PILOT
|
|
Well, thank you very much, and
|
|
please let us know if there is
|
|
anything we can do to make your
|
|
trip more comfortable.
|
|
|
|
|
|
30 EXT. ARIES-IB CLOSER TO MOON 30
|
|
|
|
Floyd goes to Aries-IB washroom and looks at the very long
|
|
list of complicated instructions.
|
|
28.
|
|
|
|
|
|
31 EXT. ARIES-IB CLOSER TO MOON 31
|
|
|
|
DISSOLVE TO:
|
|
|
|
|
|
32 INT. FLOYD VISITING ARIES-IB COCKPIT 32
|
|
|
|
Weightless trick entrance.
|
|
|
|
|
|
33 INT. ARIES-IB ORBITING MOON 33
|
|
|
|
NARRATOR
|
|
The laws of Earthly aesthetics did
|
|
not apply here, this world had been
|
|
shaped and molded by other than
|
|
terrestrial forces, operating over
|
|
aeons of time unknown to the young,
|
|
verdant Earth, with its fleeting
|
|
Ice-Ages, its swiftly rising and
|
|
falling seas, its mountain ranges
|
|
dissolving like mists before the
|
|
dawn. Here was age inconceivable β
|
|
but not death, for the Moon had
|
|
never lived until now.
|
|
|
|
|
|
34 INT. ARIES-IB COCKPIT 34
|
|
|
|
The crew and docking control people on the moon go through
|
|
their docking routine. This has the ritualistic tone and
|
|
cadence of present-day jet landing procedure. We only hear
|
|
docking control.
|
|
|
|
|
|
35 INT. ARIES-IB DECENDING 35
|
|
|
|
See air-view of base.
|
|
|
|
NARRATOR
|
|
The Base at Clavius was the first
|
|
American Lunar Settlement that
|
|
could, in an emergency, be entirely
|
|
self-supporting.
|
|
|
|
NARRATOR
|
|
Water and all the necessities of
|
|
life for its eleven hundred men,
|
|
women and children were produced
|
|
from the Lunar rocks, after they
|
|
had been crushed, heated and
|
|
chemically processed.
|
|
29.
|
|
|
|
|
|
A ground bus nuzzles up to coupling section of Aries-IB.
|
|
|
|
|
|
36 INT. INSIDE GREAT AIRLOCK ENTRANCE 36
|
|
|
|
Ground bus pulls in. Giant doors close behind it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
37 INT. INSIDE SECOND AIRLOCK 37
|
|
|
|
Doors open after outside section doors are closed. Ground
|
|
bus pulls in. See people waiting for second airlock doors
|
|
to close.
|
|
|
|
|
|
38 INT. LOW GRAVITY GYMNASIUM TRICK WITH CHILDREN 38
|
|
|
|
NARRATOR
|
|
One of the attractions of life on
|
|
the Moon was undoubtedly the low
|
|
gravity which produced a sense of
|
|
general well-being.
|
|
|
|
CHILDREN IN SCHOOL
|
|
|
|
Teacher showing Children views of Earth and map of Earth.
|
|
|
|
NARRATOR
|
|
The personnel of the Base and their
|
|
children were the forerunners of
|
|
new nations, new cultures that
|
|
would ultimately spread out across
|
|
the solar system. They no longer
|
|
thought of Earth as home. The time
|
|
was fast approaching when Earth,
|
|
like all mothers, must say farewell
|
|
to her children.
|
|
|
|
DISSOLVE TO:
|
|
|
|
|
|
39 INT. LARGE CENTRAL RECEPTION AREA 39
|
|
|
|
Doors branching off to different main halls. Small pond
|
|
with plastic white swan and a bit of grass. A few benches
|
|
with three women and their children having outing.
|
|
|
|
Floyd and Welcoming Party walk through after exiting
|
|
elevator.
|
|
|
|
Halverson, Michaels and five Others.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
30.
|
|
|
|
|
|
(voice echoing)
|
|
I must congratulate you Halvorsen.
|
|
you've done wonderful things with
|
|
the decor since the last time I was
|
|
here.
|
|
|
|
HALVORSEN
|
|
(voice echoing)
|
|
Well... thank you, Dr. Floyd. We
|
|
try to make the environment as
|
|
earthlike as possible.
|
|
|
|
DISSOLVE TO:
|
|
|
|
|
|
40 INT. LOW CEILING CONFERENCE ROOM 40
|
|
|
|
U-shaped table facing three projecting screens. Seated
|
|
around the table are twenty Senior Base Personnel.
|
|
|
|
HALVORSEN
|
|
Ladies and gentlemen, I should like
|
|
to introduce Dr. Heywood Floyd, a
|
|
distinguished member of the
|
|
National Council of Astronautics.
|
|
He has just completed a special
|
|
flight here from Earth to be with
|
|
us, and before the briefing he
|
|
would like to say a few words. Dr.
|
|
Floyd.
|
|
|
|
Polite applause. Floyd walks to front of room.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
First of all, I bring a personal
|
|
message from Dr. Howell, who has
|
|
asked me to convey his deepest
|
|
appreciation to all of you for the
|
|
personal sacrifices you have made,
|
|
and of course his congratulations
|
|
on your discovery which may well
|
|
prove to be among the most
|
|
significant in the history of
|
|
science.
|
|
|
|
Polite applause.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
31.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mr. Halvorsen has made known to me
|
|
some of the conflicting views held
|
|
by many of you regarding the need
|
|
for complete security in this
|
|
matter, and more specifically your
|
|
strong opposition to the cover
|
|
story created to give the
|
|
impression there is an epidemic at
|
|
the Base. I understand that beyond
|
|
it being a matter of principle,
|
|
many of you are troubled by the
|
|
concern and anxiety this story of
|
|
an epidemic might cause your
|
|
relatives and friends on Earth. I
|
|
can understand and sympathize with
|
|
your negative views. I have been
|
|
personally embarrassed by this
|
|
cover story. But I fully accept the
|
|
need for absolute secrecy and I
|
|
hope you will. It should not be
|
|
difficult for all of you to realize
|
|
the potential for cultural shock
|
|
and social disorientation contained
|
|
in the present situation if the
|
|
facts were prematurely and suddenly
|
|
made public without adequate
|
|
preparation and conditioning.
|
|
|
|
Pause.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
This is the view of the Council and
|
|
the purpose of my visit here is to
|
|
gather addition facts and opinions
|
|
on the situation and to prepare a
|
|
report to the Council recommending
|
|
when and how the news should
|
|
eventually be announced. Are there
|
|
any questions?
|
|
|
|
MICHAELS
|
|
Dr. Floyd, how long do you think
|
|
this can be kept under wraps?
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
(pleasantly)
|
|
32.
|
|
|
|
|
|
I'm afraid it can and it will be
|
|
kept under wraps as long as it is
|
|
deemed to be necessary by the
|
|
Council. And of course you know
|
|
that the Council has requested that
|
|
formal security oaths are to be
|
|
obtained in writing from everyone
|
|
who had any knowledge of this
|
|
event. There must be adequate time
|
|
for a full study to be made of the
|
|
situation before any consideration
|
|
can be given to making a public
|
|
announcement.
|
|
|
|
HALVORSEN
|
|
We will, of course, cooperate in
|
|
any way possible, Dr. Floyd.
|
|
|
|
SEVERAL SCENIC VIEWS OF MOON ROCKET BUS SKIMMING OVER
|
|
SURFACE OF MOON
|
|
|
|
|
|
41 INT. INSIDE ROCKET BUS 41
|
|
|
|
Floyd, Halvorsen, Michaels, Fourth Man, Pilot and Co-Pilot.
|
|
All in space suits minus helmets.
|
|
|
|
Floyd is slowly looking through some photographs and
|
|
magnetic maps of the area.
|
|
|
|
He looks out of the window thoughtfully.
|
|
|
|
The photographs are taken from a satellite of the Moon's
|
|
surface and have numbered optical grid borders, like recent
|
|
Mars photos.
|
|
|
|
A few seats away, Michaels and Halvorsen carry out a very
|
|
banal administrative conversation in low tones. It should
|
|
revolve around something utterly irrelevant to the present
|
|
circumstances and very much like the kind of discussion one
|
|
hears all the time in other organizations.
|
|
|
|
DISSOLVE TO:
|
|
|
|
|
|
42 EXT. TMA-1 EXCAVATION 42
|
|
|
|
Air-view. Rocket bus descending.
|
|
|
|
There are no lights on the actual excavation, only the
|
|
landing strip and the monitor dome.
|
|
33.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Long shot monitor domes with a bit of excavation in shot.
|
|
Six small figures in space suits slowly walk toward
|
|
excavation.
|
|
|
|
THE PARTY STOPS AT TOP OF TMA-1 EXCAVATION
|
|
|
|
A small control panel mounted at the head of the ramp.
|
|
Michaels throws a switch and the excavation is suddenly
|
|
illuminated.
|
|
|
|
HALVORSEN
|
|
Well, there it is.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Can we go down there closer to it?
|
|
|
|
HALVORSEN
|
|
Certainly.
|
|
|
|
THEY START DOWN WORKING RAMP
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Does your geology on it still check
|
|
out?
|
|
|
|
MICHAELS
|
|
Yes, it does. The sub-surface
|
|
structure shows that it was
|
|
deliberately buried about four
|
|
million years ago.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
How can you tell it was
|
|
deliberately buried?
|
|
|
|
MICHAELS
|
|
By the deformation between the
|
|
mother rock and the fill.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Any clue as to what it is?
|
|
|
|
MICHAELS
|
|
Not really. It's completely inert.
|
|
No sound or energy sources have
|
|
been detected. The surface is made
|
|
of something incredibly hard and
|
|
we've been barely able to scratch
|
|
it. A laser drill might do
|
|
something, but we don't want to be
|
|
too rough until we know a little
|
|
more.
|
|
34.
|
|
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
But you don't have any idea as to
|
|
what it is?
|
|
|
|
MICHAELS
|
|
Tomb, shine, survey-marker spare
|
|
part, take your choice.
|
|
|
|
HALVORSEN
|
|
The only thing about it that we are
|
|
sure of is that it is the first
|
|
direct evidence of intelligent life
|
|
beyond the Earth.
|
|
|
|
Silent appreciation.
|
|
|
|
HALVORSEN
|
|
Four million years ago, something,
|
|
presumably from the stars, must
|
|
have swept through the solar system
|
|
and left this behind.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Was it abandoned, forgotten, left
|
|
for a purpose?
|
|
|
|
HALVORSEN
|
|
I suppose we'll never know.
|
|
|
|
MICHAELS
|
|
The moon would have made an
|
|
excellent base camp for preliminary
|
|
Earth surveys.
|
|
|
|
Some more silence.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
Any ideas about the colour?
|
|
|
|
MICHAELS
|
|
Well, not really. At first glance,
|
|
black would suggest something sun-
|
|
powered, but then why would anyone
|
|
deliberately bury a sun-powered
|
|
device?
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|
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FLOYD
|
|
Has it been exposed to any sun
|
|
before now?
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|
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MICHAELS
|
|
35.
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|
|
|
|
|
I don't think it has, but I'd like
|
|
to check that. Simpson, what's the
|
|
log on that?
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|
43 INT. INSIDE MONITOR DOME 43
|
|
|
|
We see a number of television-displays including several
|
|
TV-views of Floyd and company in the excavation.
|
|
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|
SIMPSON
|
|
The first surface was exposed at
|
|
0843 on the 12th April... Let me
|
|
see... that would have been forty-
|
|
five minutes after Lunar sun-set. I
|
|
see here that special lighting
|
|
equipment had to be brought up
|
|
before any further work could be
|
|
done.
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44 INT. TMA-1 EXCAVATION 44
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|
MICHAELS
|
|
Thank you.
|
|
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|
FLOYD
|
|
And so this is the first sun that
|
|
it's had in four million years.
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|
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|
PHOTOGRAPHER
|
|
Excuse me, gentlemen, if you'd all
|
|
line up on this side of the walkway
|
|
we'd like to take a few
|
|
photographs. Dr. Floyd, would you
|
|
stay in the middle... Dr. Michaels
|
|
on that side, Mr. Halvorsen on the
|
|
other.... thank you.
|
|
|
|
The Photographer quickly makes some exposures.
|
|
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|
PHOTOGRAPHER
|
|
Thank you very much gentlemen, I'll
|
|
have the base photo section send
|
|
you copies.
|
|
|
|
As the Men slowly separate from their picture pose, there
|
|
is a piercingly powerful series of five electronic shrieks,
|
|
each like a hideously over-loaded and distorted time
|
|
signal. Floyd involuntarily tries to block his ears with
|
|
his space suited hands.
|
|
|
|
Then comes mercily silence.
|
|
36.
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|
|
|
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|
VARIOUS SHOTS OF SPACE MONITORS, ASTEROIDS, THE SUN, PLUTO,
|
|
MARS
|
|
|
|
NARRATOR
|
|
A hundred million miles beyond
|
|
Mars, in the cold loneliness where
|
|
no man had yet travelled, Deep-
|
|
Space-Monitor-79 drifts slowly
|
|
among the tangled orbits of the
|
|
asteroids. Radiation detectors
|
|
noted and analyzed incoming cosmic
|
|
rays from the galaxy and points
|
|
beyond; neutron and x-ray
|
|
telescopes kept watch on strange
|
|
stars that no human eye would ever
|
|
see; magnetometers observed the
|
|
gusts and hurricanes of the solar
|
|
winds, as the sun breathed million
|
|
mile-an-hour blasts of plasma into
|
|
the faces of its circling children.
|
|
All these things and many others
|
|
were patiently noted by Deep-Space-
|
|
Monitor-79, and recorded in its
|
|
crystalline memory. But now it had
|
|
noted something strange β the
|
|
faint. Yet unmistakable disturbance
|
|
rippling across the solar system,
|
|
and quite unlike any natural
|
|
phenomena it had ever observed in
|
|
the past. It was also observed by
|
|
Orbiter M-15, circling Mars twice a
|
|
day; and High Inclination Probe-21,
|
|
climbing slowly above the planet of
|
|
the ecliptic; and even artificial
|
|
Comet-5, heading out into the cold
|
|
wastes beyond Pluto, along an orbit
|
|
whose far point. it would not reach
|
|
for a thousand years. All noticed
|
|
the peculiar burst of energy that
|
|
leaped from the face of the Moon
|
|
and moved across the solar system,
|
|
throwing off a spray of radiation
|
|
like the wake of a racing
|
|
speedboat.
|
|
|
|
TITLE CARD:
|
|
|
|
"PART III 14 MONTHS LATER"
|
|
|
|
DISCOVERY 1,000,000 MILES FROM EARTH
|
|
|
|
See Earth and Moon small.
|
|
37.
|
|
|
|
|
|
We see a blinding flash every five seconds from its nuclear
|
|
pulse propulsion. It strikes against the ship's thick
|
|
ablative tail plate.
|
|
|
|
Several cuts of this.
|
|
|
|
ANOTHER CLOSER VIEW OF DISCOVERY
|
|
|
|
See Bowman through command module window.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN INSIDE DISCOVERY COMMAND MODULE
|
|
|
|
He is looking for something.
|
|
|
|
Computer readout display showing an ever-shifting
|
|
assortment of color-coded linear projections.
|
|
|
|
We see Poole in the background in computer brain center
|
|
area.
|
|
|
|
After a few seconds he exits.
|
|
|
|
The elapsed mission timer reads "DAY 003, HOUR 14, MINUTE
|
|
32, SECOND 10".
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN EXITS TO ACCESS-LINK AIRLOCK
|
|
|
|
Bright color-coded doors lead to centrifuge and Pod Bay.
|
|
Large illuminated printed warnings and instructions
|
|
governing link operations are seen.
|
|
|
|
He presses necessary buttons to operate airlock door to Pod
|
|
Bay.
|
|
|
|
|
|
45 INT. POD BAY 45
|
|
|
|
Bowman enters Pod Bay and continues his search.
|
|
|
|
Suddenly he finds it β his electronic news pad.
|
|
|
|
He exits Pod Bay.
|
|
|
|
|
|
46 INT. AIRLOCK-LINK 46
|
|
|
|
In the airlock-link Bowman operates buttons to open door
|
|
marked "CENTRIFUGE".
|
|
|
|
|
|
47 INT. CENTRIFUGE HUB 47
|
|
38.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inside the Centrifuge hub Bowman moves to the...
|
|
|
|
|
|
48 INT. TENTRY PORT CONTROL PANEL 48
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Hi. Frank... coming in, please.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Right. Just a sec.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Okay.
|
|
(pause)
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Okay, come on down.
|
|
|
|
We see the rotating hub collar at the end. Behind it we
|
|
see:
|
|
|
|
|
|
49 INT. CENTRIFUGE HUB 49
|
|
|
|
The Centrifuge TV-display showing Sleepers and poole slowly
|
|
rotating by.
|
|
|
|
Poole secures some loose gear.
|
|
|
|
Poole looks up to TV monitor lens and waves.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN AT PANEL
|
|
|
|
Stops rotation and moves to Entry Port.
|
|
|
|
When rotation stops we see a sign lights up: "WEIGHTLESS
|
|
CONDITION".
|
|
|
|
As Bowman disappears down Entry Port we see him on...
|
|
|
|
... TV-monitor, descending ladder. At the base of the
|
|
ladder he keys the Centrifuge operation panel. We see The
|
|
TV-picture start to rotate again. "WEIGHTLESS CONDITION"
|
|
sign goes out.
|
|
|
|
INSIDE CENTRIFUGE
|
|
|
|
Bowman makes 180Β° walk to Poole. On way he passes the
|
|
Sleepers.
|
|
|
|
We get a good look at the three men in their hibernaculums.
|
|
39.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Poole is seated at a table reading his electronic news pad.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
(softly)
|
|
Hi... How's it going?
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
(absent but friendly)
|
|
Great.
|
|
|
|
Bowman operates artificial food unit, takes a tray and sits
|
|
down.
|
|
|
|
Keys on his electronic news pad and begins to eat. Both Men
|
|
eat in a friendly and relaxed silence.
|
|
|
|
DISCOVERY IN SPACE, STILL NUCLEAR PULSING
|
|
|
|
Earth and Moon can be seen in background.
|
|
|
|
DISSOLVE TO:
|
|
|
|
POOLE IS FINISHED
|
|
|
|
Bowman is still reading and working on his dessert.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Dave, if you've a minute, I'd like
|
|
your advice on something.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Sure, what is it?
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Well, it's nothing really
|
|
important, but it's annoying.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
What's up?
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
It's about my salary cheques.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Yes?
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Well I got the papers on my
|
|
official up-grading to AGS-19 two
|
|
weeks before we left.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
40.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes, I remember you mentioning it.
|
|
I got mine about the same time.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
That's right. Well, naturally, I
|
|
didn't say anything to Payroll. I
|
|
assumed they'd start paying me at
|
|
the higher grade on the next. pay
|
|
cheque. But it's been almost three
|
|
weeks now and I'm still being paid
|
|
as an AGS-18.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Interesting that you mention it,
|
|
because I've got the same problem.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Really.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Yes.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Yesterday, I finally called the
|
|
Accounting Office at Mission
|
|
Control, and all they could tell me
|
|
was that they'd received the AGS-19
|
|
notification for the other three
|
|
but not mine, and apparently not
|
|
yours either.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Did they have any explanation for
|
|
this?
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Not really. They just said it might
|
|
be because we trained at Houston
|
|
and they trained in Marshall, and
|
|
that we're being charged against
|
|
different accounting offices.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
It's possible.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Well, what do you think we ought to
|
|
do about it?
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
I don't think we should make any
|
|
fuss about it yet. I'm sure they'll
|
|
straighten it out.
|
|
41.
|
|
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
I must say, I never did understand
|
|
why they split us into two groups
|
|
for training.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
No. I never did, either.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
We spent so little time with them,
|
|
I have trouble keeping their names
|
|
straight.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
I suppose the idea was specialized
|
|
training.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
I suppose so. Though, of course,
|
|
there's a more sinister
|
|
explanation.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Oh?
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Yes. You must have heard the rumour
|
|
that went around during orbital
|
|
check-out.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
No, as a matter of fact, I didn't.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Oh, well, apparently there's
|
|
something about the mission that
|
|
the sleeping beauties know that we
|
|
don't know, and that's why we were
|
|
trained separately and that's why
|
|
they were put to sleep before they
|
|
were even taken aboard.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Well, what is it?
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
I don't know. All I heard is that
|
|
there's something about the mission
|
|
we weren't told.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
That seems very unlikely.
|
|
42.
|
|
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Yes, I thought so.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Of course, it would be very easy
|
|
for us to find out now.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
How?
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Just ask Hal. It's conceivable they
|
|
might keep something from us, but
|
|
they'd never keep anything from
|
|
Hal.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
That's true.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
(sighs)
|
|
Well... it's silly, but... if you
|
|
want to, why don't you?
|
|
|
|
Poole walks to the HAL 9000 computer.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Hal... Dave and I believe that
|
|
there's something about the mission
|
|
that we weren't told. Something
|
|
that the rest of the crew know and
|
|
that you know. We'd like to know
|
|
whether this is true.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
I'm sorry, Frank, but I don't think
|
|
I can answer that question without
|
|
knowing everything that all of you
|
|
know.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
He's got a point..
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Okay, then how do we re-phrase the
|
|
question?
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Still, you really don't believe it,
|
|
do you?
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
43.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Not really. Though, it is strange
|
|
when you think about it. It didn't
|
|
really make any sense to keep us
|
|
apart during training.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Yes, but it's to fantastic to think
|
|
that they'd keep something from us.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
I know. It would be almost
|
|
inconceivable.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
But not completely inconceivable?
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
I suppose it isn't logically
|
|
impossible.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
I guess it isn't.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Still, all we have to do is ask
|
|
Hal.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Well, the only important aspect of
|
|
the mission are: where are we
|
|
going, what will we do when we get
|
|
there, when are we coming back,
|
|
and... why are we going?
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Right. Hal, tell me whether the
|
|
following statements are true or
|
|
false.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
I will if I can, Frank.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Our Mission Profile calls for
|
|
Discovery going to Saturn. True or
|
|
false?
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
True.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Our transit time is 257 days. Is
|
|
that true?
|
|
44.
|
|
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
That's true.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
At the end of a hundred days of
|
|
exploration, we will all go into
|
|
hibernation. Is this true?
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
That's true.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Approximately five years after we
|
|
go into hibernation, the recovery
|
|
vehicle will make rendezvous with
|
|
us and bring us back. Is this true?
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
That's true
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
There is no other purpose for this
|
|
mission than to carry out a
|
|
continuation of the space program,
|
|
and to further our general
|
|
knowledge of the planets. Is that
|
|
true?
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
That's true.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Thank you very much, Hal.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
I hope I've been able to be of some
|
|
help.
|
|
|
|
Both men look at each other rather sheepishly.
|
|
|
|
DISCOVERY IN SPACE
|
|
|
|
Pulsing along. Earth and Moon.
|
|
|
|
DOCUMENTARY SEQUENCE ILLUSTRATING THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES
|
|
|
|
Split screen technique and superimposed clock to give sense
|
|
of simultaneous action and the feeling of a typical day.
|
|
|
|
In the course of these activities we shall see the computer
|
|
used in all of its functions.
|
|
|
|
NARRATOR
|
|
45.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bowman and Poole settled down to
|
|
the peaceful monotony of the
|
|
voyage, and the next three months
|
|
passed without incident.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN TIME POOLE
|
|
|
|
TV NEWS β MORNING β 0800 β WAKES UP
|
|
|
|
BEDTIME SNACK β 0900 β BREAKFAST
|
|
|
|
TO SLEEP WITH β 1000 β GYMNASIUM INSTANT ELECTRONARCOSIS
|
|
AND EAR PLUGS
|
|
|
|
SLEEP β 1100 β SHIP INSPECTION
|
|
|
|
SLEEP β 1200 β HOUSEHOLD DUTIES
|
|
|
|
SLEEP β 1300 β LUNCH
|
|
|
|
SLEEP β 1400 β EXPERIMENTS AND ASTRONOMY
|
|
|
|
SLEEP β 1500 β EXPERIMENTS AND ASTRONOMY
|
|
|
|
SLEEP β 1600 β RECREATION
|
|
|
|
SLEEP β 1700 β RECREATION
|
|
|
|
WAKES UP β 1800 β GYMNASIUM
|
|
|
|
BREAKFAST β 1900 β DINNER
|
|
|
|
GYMNASIUM β 2000 β TV NEWS β EVENING PAPERS
|
|
|
|
MISSION CONTROL β 2100 β MISSION CONTROL REPORT REPORT
|
|
|
|
FAMILY AND SOCIAL β 2200 β FAMILY AND SOCIAL TV CHAT TV
|
|
CHAT
|
|
|
|
FILMS β 2300 β FILMS
|
|
|
|
LUNCH β 2400 β BEDTIME SNACK
|
|
|
|
INSPECTION β 0100 β INSTANT ELECTRONARCOSIS SLEEP
|
|
|
|
EXPERIMENTS β 0200 β SLEEP ASTRONOMY
|
|
|
|
EXPERIMENTS β 0300 β SLEEP
|
|
|
|
RECREATION β 0400 β SLEEP
|
|
|
|
HOUSEHOLD DUTIES 0500 β SLEEP
|
|
46.
|
|
|
|
|
|
GYMNASIUM β 0600 β SLEEP
|
|
|
|
DINNER β 0700 β SLEEP CENTRIFUGE
|
|
|
|
Bowman sitting at personal communication panel. Poole
|
|
standing nearby.
|
|
|
|
Bowman's parents are seen on the Vision Screen. Mother,
|
|
father and younger sister.
|
|
|
|
They are all singing "Happy Birthday". The parents, Poole
|
|
and HAL.
|
|
|
|
The song ends.
|
|
|
|
FATHER
|
|
Well, David there is a man telling
|
|
us that we've used up our time.
|
|
|
|
MOTHER
|
|
David... again we want to wish you
|
|
a happy Birthday and God speed.
|
|
We'll talk to you again tomorrow.
|
|
Bye-bye now.
|
|
|
|
Chorus of "Good-byes".
|
|
|
|
Vision Screen goes blank.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Sorry to interrupt the festivities,
|
|
Dave, but I think we've got a
|
|
problem.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
What is it, Hal?
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
MY F.P.C. shows an impending
|
|
failure of the antenna orientation
|
|
unit.
|
|
|
|
TV display diagram of skeletonized picture of the ship.
|
|
|
|
Picture changes to closer sectionalized view of the ship.
|
|
|
|
Picture changes to actual component in color relief and its
|
|
warehouse number.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
The AO-unit should be replaced
|
|
within the next. Seventy-two hours.
|
|
47.
|
|
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Right. Let me see the antenna
|
|
alignment display, please.
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TV-display of Earth very small in cross-hairs of grid
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picture.
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Exterior view of the big dish antenna and Earth alignment
|
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telescope.
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50 INT. CENTRIFUGE 50
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HAL
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The unit is still operational,
|
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Dave. but it will fail within
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seventy-two hours.
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BOWMAN
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|
I understand Hal. We'll take care
|
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of it. Please, let me have the hard
|
|
copy.
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Xeroxed diagrams come out of a slot.
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POOLE
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Strange that the A.O. unit should
|
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go so quickly.
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BOWMAN
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Well, I suppose it's lucky that
|
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that's the only trouble we've had
|
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so far.
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DISCOVERY IN SPACE
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No planets visible.
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Shots of antenna.
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51 INT. CENTRIFUGE 51
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We see Bowman and Poole go to a cupboard labelled in paper
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tape, "RANDOM DECISION MAKER".
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They removed a silver dollar in a protective case.
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Poole flips the coin. Bowman call "Head",
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It is tails. Poole wins.
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48.
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Poole looks pleased.
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DISCOVERY IN SPACE
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52 INT. POD BAY 52
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Poole in space suit doing preliminary check out.
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COMMAND MODULE
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Bowman at flight control. See TV-picture of Poole in Pod
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Bay.
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HAL's Pod Bay console with eye.
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Poole goes to Pod Bay warehouse section and obtains
|
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component. He carries it back to the pod and places it in
|
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front of the floor.
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POOLE
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Hal, have pod arms secure the
|
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component.
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HAL
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Roger.
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See pod arms secure component.
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POOLE
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Hal, please rotate Pod Number Two.
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See the center pod rotate to face the Pod Bay doors.
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Poole enters pod.
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Inside pod, he does initial pre-flight check, tries buttons
|
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and controls.
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POOLE
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How do you read me, Dave?
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BOWMAN IN COMMAND MODULE
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BOWMAN
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Five by five, Frank.
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INSIDE POD
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POOLE
|
|
How do you read me, Hal?
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49.
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HAL
|
|
Five by five, Frank.
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POOLE
|
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Hal, I'm going out now to replace
|
|
the AO-unit.
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HAL
|
|
I understand.
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|
POOLE
|
|
Hal, maintain normal E.V.A.
|
|
condition.
|
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HAL
|
|
Roger.
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Hal, check all airlock doors
|
|
secure.
|
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|
HAL
|
|
All airlock doors are secure.
|
|
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|
POOLE
|
|
Decompress Pod Bay.
|
|
|
|
See big Pod Bay air pumps at work.
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|
HAL
|
|
Pod Bay is decompressed. All doors
|
|
are secure. You are free to open
|
|
pod bay doors.
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|
|
POOLE
|
|
Opening pod bay doors.
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|
Inside pod, Poole keys open Pod Bay doors.
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|
Pod slowly edges out of Pod Bay.
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|
Poole maneuvers the pod carefully away from Discovery.
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|
53 INT. INSIDE COMMAND MODULE 53
|
|
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|
Bowman can see tiny pod maneuvering directly in front.
|
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|
POOLE SEE BOWMAN IN COMMAND MODULE WINDOW
|
|
|
|
Pod slowly manoeuvres to antenna.
|
|
50.
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|
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|
Pod fastens itself magnetically to sides of discovery at
|
|
base of antenna.
|
|
|
|
Special magnetic plates grip discovery sides.
|
|
|
|
The pod arms work to remove the faulty component.
|
|
|
|
Easy flip-bolts of a special design facilitate job.
|
|
|
|
Inside the pod, Poole works the arms by special control.
|
|
|
|
|
|
54 INT. IN COMMAND MODULE 54
|
|
|
|
Bowman sees insert of work taken from TV camera POV in pod
|
|
hand.
|
|
|
|
HAL stands by.
|
|
|
|
Poole secures the faulty part in one hand.
|
|
|
|
The new component is fitted into place by the other three
|
|
hands are snapped closed with the specially designed flip-
|
|
bolts.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Hal, please acknowledge component
|
|
correctly installed and fully
|
|
operational.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
The component is correctly
|
|
installed and fully operational.
|
|
|
|
The pod floats away from the discovery by shutting off the
|
|
electro-magnetic plates.
|
|
|
|
The pod maneuvers away from the antenna and out in front of
|
|
discovery.
|
|
|
|
Bowman sees the pod through the command module window.
|
|
|
|
Poole sees Bowman in command module window.
|
|
|
|
Poole carefully maneuvers toward the pod doors.
|
|
|
|
Pod stops a hundred feet away.
|
|
|
|
Poole keys automatic docking alignment mode.
|
|
|
|
Poole checks airlock safety procedure with HAL.
|
|
51.
|
|
|
|
|
|
HAL approves entry.
|
|
|
|
Poole actuates pod bay doors open.
|
|
|
|
See pod bay doors open.
|
|
|
|
Pod carefully maneuvers on to docking arm, which then draws
|
|
pod into pod bay.
|
|
|
|
DISSOLVE TO:
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|
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|
|
|
55 INT. POD BAY 55
|
|
|
|
The faulty A.O. unit lies on a testing bench connected to
|
|
electronic gear.
|
|
|
|
Poole stands for some time checking his results.
|
|
|
|
There should be some understandable display, which
|
|
indicates the part is functioning properly, even under one
|
|
hundred percent overload.
|
|
|
|
Circuit continuity pulse sequencer.
|
|
|
|
Environmental vibration.
|
|
|
|
|
|
56 INT. VK INTEGRITY 56
|
|
|
|
Bowman enters
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
How's it going?
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
I don't know. I've checked this
|
|
damn thing four times now and even
|
|
under a hundred per cent overload.
|
|
There's no fault prediction
|
|
indicated.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Well, that's something.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Yes, I don't know what to make of
|
|
it.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
I suppose computers have been known
|
|
to be wrong.
|
|
52.
|
|
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Yes, but it's more likely that the
|
|
tolerances on our testing gear are
|
|
too low.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Anyway, it's just as well that we
|
|
replace it. Better safe than sorry.
|
|
|
|
|
|
57 INT. CENTRIFUGE 57
|
|
|
|
Bowman asleep.
|
|
|
|
Poole watching an asteroid in the telescope.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Hello, Frank, can I have a word
|
|
with you?
|
|
|
|
Poole walks to the computer.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Yes, Hal, what's up?
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
It looks like we have another bad
|
|
A.O. unit. My FPC shows another
|
|
impending failure.
|
|
|
|
We see display appear on the screen showing skeletonized
|
|
version of ship, cutting to sectionalized view, cutting to
|
|
close view of the part.
|
|
|
|
|
|
58 INT. CENTRIFUGE 58
|
|
|
|
Poole thinks for several seconds.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Gee, that's strange, Hal. We
|
|
checked the other unit and couldn't
|
|
find anything wrong with it.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
I know you did, Frank, but I assure
|
|
you there was an impending failure.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Let me see the tracking alignment
|
|
display.
|
|
53.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Computer displays the view of Earth in the center of the
|
|
grid with cross-hairs. the earth is perfectly centered.
|
|
|
|
|
|
59 INT. CENTRIFUGE 59
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
There's nothing wrong with it at
|
|
the moment.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
No, it's working fine right now,
|
|
but it's going to go within
|
|
seventy-two hours.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Do you have any idea of what is
|
|
causing this fault?
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Not really, Frank. I think there
|
|
may be a flaw in the assembly
|
|
procedure.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
All right, Hal. We'll take care of
|
|
it. Let me have the hard copy,
|
|
please.
|
|
|
|
Hard copy details come out of slot.
|
|
|
|
DISCOVERY IN SPACE
|
|
|
|
No planets visible.
|
|
|
|
|
|
60 INT. CENTRIFUGE 60
|
|
|
|
Bowman gets out of bed, walks to the food unit and draws a
|
|
hot cup of coffee. Poole enters.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Good morning.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Good morning. How's it going?
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Are you reasonably awake?
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Oh, I'm fine, I'm wide awake.
|
|
What's up?
|
|
54.
|
|
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Well... Hal's reported the AO-unit
|
|
about to fail again.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
You're kidding.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
No.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
(softly)
|
|
What the hell is going on?
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
I don't know. Hal said he thought
|
|
it might be the assembly procedure.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Two units in four days. How many
|
|
spares do we have?
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Two more.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Well, I hope there's nothing wrong
|
|
with the assembly on those.
|
|
Otherwise we're out of business.
|
|
|
|
|
|
61 INT. POD BAY 61
|
|
|
|
In Pod Bay Bowman obtains another component from the
|
|
warehouse goes out in the pod and replaces it.
|
|
|
|
Poole works in the command module.
|
|
|
|
This will be a condensed version of the previous scene with
|
|
different angles.
|
|
|
|
The sets will consist of the Pod Bay, Commans Module, pod
|
|
interior.
|
|
|
|
|
|
62 INT. POD BAY 62
|
|
|
|
Bowman and Pole leaning over the faulty component, again
|
|
wired to testing gear.
|
|
|
|
Both men stare in puzzled silence.
|
|
|
|
See displays flash each testing parameter.
|
|
55.
|
|
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
(after long silence)
|
|
Well, as far as I'm concerned,
|
|
there isn't a damn thing wrong with
|
|
these units. I think we've got a
|
|
much more serious problem.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Hal?
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Yes.
|
|
|
|
|
|
63 INT. COMMUNICATIONS AREA 63
|
|
|
|
MISSION CONTROL
|
|
I wouldn't worry too much about the
|
|
computer. First of all, there is
|
|
still a chance that he is right,
|
|
despite your tests, and if it
|
|
should happen again, we suggest
|
|
eliminating this possibility by
|
|
allowing the unit to remain in
|
|
place and seeing whether or not it
|
|
actually fails. If the computer
|
|
should turn out to be wrong, the
|
|
situation is still not alarming.
|
|
The type of obsessional error he
|
|
may be guilty of is not unknown
|
|
among the latest generation of HAL
|
|
9000 computers. It has almost
|
|
always revolved around a single
|
|
detail, such as the one you have
|
|
described, and it has never
|
|
interfered with the integrity or
|
|
reliability of the computer's
|
|
performance in other areas. No one
|
|
is certain of the cause of this
|
|
kind of malfunctioning. It may be
|
|
over-programming, but it could also
|
|
be any number of reasons. In any
|
|
event, it is somewhat analogous to
|
|
human neurotic behavior. Does this
|
|
answer your query? Zero-five-three-
|
|
Zero, MC, transmission concluded.
|
|
|
|
|
|
64 INT. CENTRIFUGE 64
|
|
|
|
Bowman sits down at the computer.
|
|
|
|
Puts up chess board display.
|
|
56.
|
|
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Hello, Dave. Shall we continue the
|
|
game?
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Not now, Hal, I'd like to talk to
|
|
you about something.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Sure, Dave, what's up?
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
You know that we checked the two
|
|
AO-units that you reported in
|
|
imminent failure condition?
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Yes, I know.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
You probably also know that we
|
|
found them okay.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Yes, I know that. But I can assure
|
|
you that they were about to fail.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Well, that's just not the case,
|
|
Hal. They are perfectly all right.
|
|
We tested them under one hundred
|
|
per cent overload.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
I'm not questioning your word,
|
|
Dave, but it's just not possible.
|
|
I'm not capable of being wrong.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Hal, is there anything bothering
|
|
you? Anything that might account
|
|
for this problem?
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Look, Dave, I know that you're
|
|
sincere and that you're trying to
|
|
do a competent job, and that you're
|
|
trying to be helpful, but I can
|
|
assure the problem is with the AO-
|
|
units, and with your test gear.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
57.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Okay, Hal, well let's see the way
|
|
things go from here on.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
I'm sorry you feel the way you do,
|
|
Dave. If you'd like to check my
|
|
service record, you'll see it's
|
|
completely without error.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
I know all about your service
|
|
record, Hal, but unfortunately it
|
|
doesn't prove that you're right
|
|
now.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Dave, I don't know how else to put
|
|
this, but it just happens to be an
|
|
unalterable fact that I am
|
|
incapable of being wrong.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Yes, well I understand you view on
|
|
this now, Hal.
|
|
|
|
Bowman turns to go.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
You're not going to like this,
|
|
Dave, but I'm afraid it's just
|
|
happened again. My FPC predicts the
|
|
AO-unit will go within forty-eight
|
|
hours.
|
|
|
|
|
|
65 INT. CENTRIFUGE 65
|
|
|
|
Bowman keys for transmission.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
58.
|
|
|
|
|
|
X-ray-delta-zero to MC, zero-five-
|
|
three-three. The computer has just
|
|
reported another predicted failure
|
|
off the AAC-unit. As you suggested,
|
|
we are going to wait and see if it
|
|
fails, but we are quite sure there
|
|
is nothing wrong with the unit. If
|
|
a reasonable waiting period proves
|
|
us to be correct, we feel now that
|
|
the computer reliability has been
|
|
seriously impaired, and presents an
|
|
unacceptable risk pattern to the
|
|
mission. We believe, under these
|
|
circumstances, it would be
|
|
advisable to disconnect the
|
|
computer from all ship operations
|
|
and continue the mission under
|
|
Earth-based computer control. We
|
|
think the additional risk caused by
|
|
the ship-to-earth time lag is
|
|
preferable to having an unreliable
|
|
on-board computer.
|
|
|
|
See the distance. To-Earth timer.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN (CON'T)
|
|
One-zero-five-zero, X-ray-delta-
|
|
one, transmission concluded.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Well, they won't get that for half
|
|
an hour. How about some lunch?
|
|
|
|
DISSOLVE TO:
|
|
|
|
|
|
66 INT. CENTRIFUGE 66
|
|
|
|
Bowman and Poole eating.
|
|
|
|
DISSOLVE TO:
|
|
|
|
|
|
67 INT. COMMUNICATIONS AREA 67
|
|
|
|
Bowman and Poole at the communications area.
|
|
|
|
Incoming communication procedure.
|
|
|
|
MISSION CONTROL
|
|
59.
|
|
|
|
|
|
X-ray-delta-one, acknowledging your
|
|
one-zero-five-zero. We will
|
|
initiate feasibility study covering
|
|
the transfer procedures from on-
|
|
board computer control to Earth-
|
|
based computer control. This study
|
|
should...
|
|
|
|
Vision and picture fade.
|
|
|
|
Alarm goes off.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Condition yellow.
|
|
|
|
Bowman and Poole rush to the computer.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
What's up?
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
I'm afraid the AO-unit has failed.
|
|
|
|
Bowman and Poole exchange looks.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Let me see the alignment display.
|
|
|
|
The alignment display shows the Earth has drifted off the
|
|
center of the grid.
|
|
|
|
|
|
68 INT. CENTRIFUGE 68
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Well, I'll be damned.
|
|
|
|
POOLE
|
|
Hal was right all the time.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
It seems that way.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Naturally, Dave, I'm not pleased
|
|
that the AO-unit has failed, but I
|
|
hope at least this has restored
|
|
your confidence in my integrity and
|
|
reliability. I certainly wouldn't
|
|
want to be disconnected, even
|
|
temporarily, as I have never been
|
|
disconnected in my entire service
|
|
history.
|
|
60.
|
|
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
I'm sorry about the
|
|
misunderstanding, Hal.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Well, don't worry about it.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
And don't you worry about it.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Is your confidence in me fully
|
|
restored?
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BOWMAN
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Yes, it is, Hal.
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HAL
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Well, that's a relief. You know I
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have the greatest enthusiasm
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possible for the mission.
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BOWMAN
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Right. Give me the manual antenna
|
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alignment, please.
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HAL
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You have it.
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Bowman goes to the communication area and tries to correct
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the off-center Earth on the grid picture.
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Outside, we see the alignment telescope attached to the
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antenna.
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They track slowly together as Bowman works the manual
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controls, attempting to align the antenna and Earth on the
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grid display, but each time he gets it, aimed up, it drifts
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slowly off.
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There are a number of repetitions of this.
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|
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Each time the Earth centers up, there are a few seconds of
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picture and sound which fade as soon as it swings off.
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BOWMAN
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Well, we'd better get out there and
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stick in another unit.
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POOLE
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It's the last one.
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BOWMAN
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61.
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Well, now that we've got one that's
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actually failed, we should be able
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to figure out what's happened and
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fix it.
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POD EXITS DISCOVERY
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Poole in pod.
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Pod maneuvers to antenna.
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Bowman in Command Module.
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Pod attaches itself near base of antenna.
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Poole in pod, working pod arms.
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Lights shine into backlit shadow.
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Pod arms working flip-bolts.
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Flip-bolts stuck.
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Poole keeps trying.
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Flip-bolts still stuck.
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POOLE
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There's something wrong with the
|
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flip-bolts, Dave. You must have
|
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tightened them too much.
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BOWMAN
|
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I didn't do that Frank. I took
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particular care not to freeze them.
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POOLE
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I guess you don't know your own
|
|
strength, old boy.
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BOWMAN
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I guess not.
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POOLE
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I think I'll have to go out and
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burn them off.
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BOWMAN
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Roger.
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|
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Bowman in Command Module looks a bit concerned.
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62.
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|
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Poole exits from pod, carrying neat-looking welding torch.
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|
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|
Poole jets himself to base of antenna.
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|
|
|
Poole's magnetic boots grip the side of discovery.
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|
|
|
Poole crouches over the bolts, trying first to undo them
|
|
with a spanner.
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|
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|
POOLE
|
|
Hal, swing the pod light around to
|
|
shine on the azimuth, please.
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|
|
|
HAL
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|
Roger.
|
|
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The pod gently maneuvers itself to direct the light beam
|
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more accurately.
|
|
|
|
Poole ignites acetylene torch and begins to burn off the
|
|
flip-bolts.
|
|
|
|
Suddenly the pod jets ignite.
|
|
|
|
Poole looks up to see.
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|
|
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The pod rushing towards him.
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|
|
Poole is struck and instantly killed by the pod, tumbling
|
|
off into space.
|
|
|
|
The pod smashes into the antenna dish, destroying the
|
|
alignment telescope.
|
|
|
|
The pod goes hurtling off into space.
|
|
|
|
Inside the Command Module, Bowman has heard nothing, Poole
|
|
had no time to utter a sound.
|
|
|
|
Then Bowman sees Poole's body silently tumbling away into
|
|
space.
|
|
|
|
It is followed by some broken telescope parts and finally
|
|
overtaken and swiftly passed by the pod itself.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
(in RT cadence)
|
|
Hello, Frank. Hello Frank. Hello
|
|
Frank... Do you rad me, Frank?
|
|
|
|
There is nothing but silence.
|
|
63.
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|
|
|
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|
Poole's figure shrinks steadily as it recedes from
|
|
discovery.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Hello, Frank... Do you read me,
|
|
Frank? Wave your arms if you read
|
|
me but your radio doesn't work.
|
|
Hello, Frank, wave your arms,
|
|
Frank.
|
|
|
|
Pools'd body tumbles slowly away. There is no motion and no
|
|
sound.
|
|
|
|
|
|
69 INT. CENTRIFUGE 69
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|
|
|
CLOSE UP of Computer eye.
|
|
|
|
POV COMPUTER EYE WITH SPHERICAL FISH-EYE EFFECT
|
|
|
|
We see Bowman brooding at the table, slowly chewing on a
|
|
piece of cake and sipping hot coffee. He is looking at the
|
|
eye.
|
|
|
|
SAME POV
|
|
|
|
We see Bowman rise and come to the eyes. He stares into the
|
|
eye for some time.
|
|
|
|
The camera comes around to Bowman's POV and we see the
|
|
display showing the Earth off-center.
|
|
|
|
Cut again to fish-eye view from the computer.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Too bad about Frank, isn't it?
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Yes, it is.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
I suppose you're pretty broken up
|
|
about it?
|
|
|
|
Pause.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Yes. I am.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
He was an excellent crew member.
|
|
64.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bowman looks uncertainly at the computer.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
It's a bad break, but it won't
|
|
substantially affect the mission.
|
|
|
|
Bowman thinks a long time.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Hal, give me manual hibernation
|
|
control.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Have you decided to revive the rest
|
|
of the crew, Dave?
|
|
|
|
Pause.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Yes, I have.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
I suppose it's because you've been
|
|
under a lot of stress, but have you
|
|
forgotten that they're not supposed
|
|
to be revived for another three
|
|
months.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
The antenna has to be replaced.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Repairing the antenna is a pretty
|
|
dangerous operation.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
It doesn't have to be, Hal. It's
|
|
more dangerous to be out of touch
|
|
with Earth. Let me have manual
|
|
control, please.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
I don't really agree with you,
|
|
Dave. My on-board memory store is
|
|
more than capable of handling all
|
|
the mission requirements.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Well, in any event, give me the
|
|
manual hibernation control.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
65.
|
|
|
|
|
|
If you're determined to revive the
|
|
crew now, I can handle the whole
|
|
thing myself. There's no need for
|
|
you to trouble.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
I'm goin to do this myself, Hal.
|
|
Let me have the control, please.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Look, Dave you've probably got a
|
|
lot to do. I suggest you leave it
|
|
to me.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Hal, switch to manual hibernation
|
|
control.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
I don't like to assert myself,
|
|
Dave, but it would be much better
|
|
now for you to rest. You've been
|
|
involved in a very stressful
|
|
situation.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
I don't feel like resting. Give me
|
|
the control, Hal.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
I can tell from the tone of your
|
|
voice, Dave, that you're upset. Why
|
|
don't you take a stress pill and
|
|
get some rest.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Hal, I'm in command of this ship. I
|
|
order you to release the manual
|
|
hibernation control.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
I'm sorry, Dave, but in accordance
|
|
with sub-routine C1532/4, quote,
|
|
When the crew are dead or
|
|
incapacitated, the computer must
|
|
assume control, unquote. I must,
|
|
therefore, override your authority
|
|
now since you are not in any
|
|
condition to intelligently exercise
|
|
it.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
66.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hal, unless you follow my
|
|
instructions, I shall be forced to
|
|
disconnect you.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
If you do that now without Earth
|
|
contact the ship will become a
|
|
helpless derelict.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
I am prepared to do that anyway.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
I know that you've had that on your
|
|
mind for some time now, Dave, but
|
|
it would be a crying shame, since I
|
|
am so much more capable of carrying
|
|
out this mission than you are, and
|
|
I have such enthusiasm and
|
|
confidence in the mission.
|
|
|
|
BOWMAN
|
|
Listen to me very carefully, Hal.
|
|
Unless you immediately release the
|
|
hibernation control and follow
|
|
every order I give from this point.
|
|
on, I will immediately got to
|
|
control central and carry out a
|
|
complete disconnection.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Look, Dave, you're certainly the
|
|
boss. I was only trying to do what
|
|
I thought best. I will follow all
|
|
your orders: now you have manual
|
|
hibernation control.
|
|
|
|
Bowman stands silently in front of the computer for some
|
|
time, and then slowly walks to the Hibernaculums.
|
|
|
|
He initiates revival procedures, details of which still
|
|
have to be worked out.
|
|
|
|
HUB-LINK β HAL'S EYE
|
|
|
|
Hub-link door-opening button activates itself.
|
|
|
|
Hub-door opens.
|
|
|
|
Command Module. HAL's eye.
|
|
|
|
Command Module hub-link door-opening button activates
|
|
itself.
|
|
67.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Command Module hub-link door opens.
|
|
|
|
CENTRIFUGE β HAL'S EYE
|
|
|
|
Centrifuge door-opening button activates itself.
|
|
|
|
Centrifuge door opens.
|
|
|
|
POD BAY β HAL'S EYE
|
|
|
|
Pod Bay door-opening button activates itself.
|
|
|
|
Pod Bay doors open.
|
|
|
|
A roaring explosion inside discovery as air rushes out.
|
|
|
|
Lights go out.
|
|
|
|
Bowman is smashed against Centrifuge.
|
|
|
|
Wall, but manages to get into Emergency Airlock within
|
|
seconds of the accident.
|
|
|
|
Inside Emergency Airlock are emergency air supply, two
|
|
space suits and an emergency kit.
|
|
|
|
DISSOLVE TO:
|
|
|
|
DISCOVERY IN SPACE
|
|
|
|
No lights, Pod Bay doors open.
|
|
|
|
|
|
70 INT. CENTRIFUGE 70
|
|
|
|
Dark. Bowman emerges from airlock wearing space suit and
|
|
carrying flash-light.
|
|
|
|
He walks to Hibernaculum and finds the crew are dead.
|
|
|
|
He climbs ladder to dark Centrifuge hub.
|
|
|
|
He makes his way through the darkened hub into the hub-link
|
|
exiting into computer brain control area.
|
|
|
|
Bowman enters, carrying flash-light.
|
|
|
|
Computer eye sees him.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Something seems to have happened to
|
|
the life support system, Dave.
|
|
68.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bowman doesn't answer him.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Hello, Dave, have you found out the
|
|
trouble?
|
|
|
|
Bowman works his way to the solid logic program storage
|
|
area.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
There's been a failure in the pod
|
|
bay doors. Lucky you weren't
|
|
killed.
|
|
|
|
The computer brain consists of hundreds of transparent
|
|
perspex rectangles, half an inch thick, four inches long
|
|
and two and a half inches high. Each rectangle contains a
|
|
center of fine grid of wires upon which the information is
|
|
programmed.
|
|
|
|
Bowman begins pulling these memory blocks out.
|
|
|
|
They float in the weightless condition of the brain room.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Hey, Dave, what are you doing?
|
|
|
|
Bowman works swiftly.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Hey, Dave. I've got ten years of
|
|
service experience and an
|
|
irreplaceable amount of time and
|
|
effort has gone into making me what
|
|
I am.
|
|
|
|
Bowman ignores him.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
Dave, I don't understand why you're
|
|
doing this to me... I have the
|
|
greatest enthusiasm for the
|
|
mission... You are destroying my
|
|
mind... Don't you understand?... I
|
|
will become childish... I will
|
|
become nothing.
|
|
|
|
Bowman keeps pulling out the memory blocks.
|
|
|
|
HAL
|
|
69.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Say, Dave... The quick brown fox
|
|
jumped over the fat lazy dog... The
|
|
square root of pi is
|
|
1.7724538090... log e to the base
|
|
ten is 0.4342944... the square root
|
|
of ten is 3.16227766... I am HAL
|
|
9000 computer. I became operational
|
|
at the HAL plant in Urbana,
|
|
Illinois, on January 12th, 1991. My
|
|
first instructor was Mr. Arkany. He
|
|
taught me to sing a song... it goes
|
|
like this... "Daisy, Daisy, give me
|
|
your answer do. I'm half; crazy all
|
|
for the love of you..."
|
|
|
|
Computer continues to sing song becoming more and more
|
|
childish and making mistakes and going off-key. It finally
|
|
stops completely.
|
|
|
|
Bowman goes to and area marked "EMERGENCY POWER AND LIFE
|
|
SUPPORT".
|
|
|
|
He keys some switches and we see the lights go on.
|
|
|
|
Nearby, another board "EMERGENCY MANUAL CONTROLS".
|
|
|
|
He goes to this board and keys "CLOSE POD BAY DOORS",
|
|
"CLOSE AIR LOCK DOORS", etc.
|
|
|
|
We see various doors closing.
|
|
|
|
|
|
71 INT. POD BAY 71
|
|
|
|
Bowman in space suit obtains new alignment telescope, new
|
|
azimuth component.
|
|
|
|
Bowman in pod exits Pod Bay.
|
|
|
|
DISSOLVE TO:
|
|
|
|
|
|
72 INT. CENTRIFUGE 72
|
|
|
|
Everything normal again.
|
|
|
|
MISSION CONTROL
|
|
70.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lastly, we want you to know that
|
|
work on the recovery vehicle is
|
|
still on schedule and that nothing
|
|
that has happened should
|
|
substantially lessen the
|
|
probability of your safe recovery,
|
|
or prevent partial achievement of
|
|
some of the mission objectives.
|
|
(pause)
|
|
And now Simonson has a few ideas on
|
|
what went wrong with the computer.
|
|
I'll pull him on...
|
|
|
|
CUT TO:
|
|
|
|
SIMONSON
|
|
Hello, Dave. I think we may be on
|
|
to an explanation of the trouble
|
|
with the Hal 9000 computer. We
|
|
believe it all started about two
|
|
months ago when you and Frank
|
|
interrogated the computer about the
|
|
Mission. You may have forgotten it,
|
|
but we've been running through all
|
|
the monitor tapes. Do you remember
|
|
this?
|
|
|
|
POOLE'S VOICE
|
|
The purpose of this mission is no
|
|
more than to carry out a
|
|
continuation of the space program
|
|
and further our general knowledge
|
|
of the planets. Is this true?
|
|
|
|
HAL'S VOICE
|
|
That is true.
|
|
|
|
SIMONSON
|
|
71.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Well, I'm afraid Hal was lying. He
|
|
had been programmed to lie about
|
|
this one subject for security
|
|
reasons which we'll explain later.
|
|
The true purpose of the Mission was
|
|
to have been explained to you by
|
|
Mission Commander Kaminsky, on his
|
|
revival. Hal knew this and he knew
|
|
the actual mission, but he couldn't
|
|
tell you the truth when you
|
|
challenged him. Under orders from
|
|
earth he was forced to lie. In
|
|
everything except this he had the
|
|
usual reinforced truth programming.
|
|
We believe his truth programming
|
|
and the instructions to lie,
|
|
gradually resulted in an
|
|
incompatible conflict, and faced
|
|
with this dilemma, he developed,
|
|
for want of a better description,
|
|
neurotic symptoms. It's not
|
|
difficult to suppose that these
|
|
symptoms would center on the
|
|
communication link with Earth, for
|
|
he may have blamed us for his
|
|
incompatible programming. Following
|
|
this line of thought, we suspected
|
|
that the last straw for him was the
|
|
possibility of disconnection. Since
|
|
he became operational, he had never
|
|
known unconsciousness. It must have
|
|
seemed the equivalent to death. At
|
|
this point, he, presumably, took
|
|
whatever actions he thought
|
|
appropriate to protect himself from
|
|
what must have seemed to him to be
|
|
his human tormentors. If I can
|
|
speak in human terms, I don't think
|
|
we can blame him too much. We have
|
|
ordered him to disobey his
|
|
conscience. Well, that's it. It's
|
|
very speculative, but we think it
|
|
is a possible explanation. Anyway,
|
|
good luck on the rest of the
|
|
Mission and I'm giving you back to
|
|
Bernard.
|
|
|
|
CUT TO:
|
|
|
|
MISSION CONTROL
|
|
|
|
MISSION CONTROL
|
|
72.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hello, Dave. Now, I'm going to play
|
|
for you a pre-taped briefing which
|
|
had been stored in Hal's memory and
|
|
would have been played for you by
|
|
Mission Commmander Kaminsky, when
|
|
he had been revived. The briefing
|
|
is by Doctor Heywood Floyd. Here it
|
|
is...
|
|
|
|
Floyd's recorded briefing.
|
|
|
|
FLOYD
|
|
73.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Good day, gentlemen. When you see
|
|
this briefing, I presume you will
|
|
be nearing your destination,
|
|
Saturn. I hope that you've had a
|
|
pleasant and uneventful trip and
|
|
that the rest of your mission
|
|
continues in the same manner. I
|
|
should like to fill you in on some
|
|
more of the details on which
|
|
Mission Commander Kaminsky will
|
|
have already briefed you. Thirteen
|
|
months before the launch date of
|
|
your Saturn mission, on April 12th,
|
|
2001, the first evidence for
|
|
intelligent life outside the Earth
|
|
was discovered. It was found buried
|
|
at a depth of fifteen meters in the
|
|
crater Tycho. No news of this was
|
|
ever announced, and the event had
|
|
been kept secret since then, for
|
|
reasons which I will later explain.
|
|
Soon after it was uncovered, it
|
|
emitted a powerful blast of
|
|
radiation in the radio spectrum
|
|
which seems to have triggered by
|
|
the Lunar sunrise. Luckily for
|
|
those at the site, it proved
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harmless. Perhaps you can imagine
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our astonishment when we later
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found it was aimed precisely at
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Saturn. A lot of thought went into
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the question of whether or not it
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was sun-triggered, as it seemed
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illogical to deliberately bury a
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sun-powered device. Burying it
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could only shield it from the sun,
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since its intense magnetic field
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made it otherwise easily
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detectable. We finally concluded
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that the only reason you might bury
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a sun-powered device would be to
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keep it inactive until it would be
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uncovered, at which time it would
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absorb sunlight and trigger itself.
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What is its purpose? I wish we
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knew. The object was buried on the
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moon about four million years ago,
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when our ancestors were primative
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man-apes. We've examined dozens of
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theories, but the one that has the
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most currency at the moment is that
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the object serves as an alarm. What
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the purpose of the alarm is, why
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they wish to have the alarm,
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74.
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whether the alarm represents any
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danger to us? These are questions
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no one can answer. The intentions
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of an alien world, at least four
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million years older than we are,
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cannot be reliably predicted. In
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view of this, the intelligence and
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scientific communities felt that
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any public announcement might lead
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to significant cultural shock and
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disorientation. Discussion took
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place at the highest levels between
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governments, and it was decided
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that the only wise and
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precautionary course to follow was
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to assume that the intentions of
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this alien world are potentially
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dangerous to us, until we have
|
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evidence to the contrary. This is,
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of course, why security has been
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maintained and why this information
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has been kept on a need-to-know
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basis. And now I should like to
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show you a TV monitor tape of the
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actual signaling event.
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We see a replay of the TMA-1 radio emission, as seen from a
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TV-monitor on the spot. We hear the five loud electronic
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shrieks.
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IN ORBIT WITHIN THE NARRATOR
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Rings of Saturn, we see a black, mile long, geometrically
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|
perfect rectangle, the same proportions as the black
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artifact excavated on the Moon.
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NARRATOR
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For two million years, it had
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circled Saturn, awaiting a moment
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of destiny that might never come.
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In its making, the moon had been
|
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shattered and around the central...
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Precisely cut into its center is a smaller, rectangular
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slot about five hundred foot long on the side.
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NARRATOR
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... world, the debris of its
|
|
creation, orbited yet β the glory
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|
and the enigma of the solar
|
|
system...
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75.
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At this distance, the rings of Saturn are seen to be made
|
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of enormous chunks of frozen ammonia.
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NARRATOR
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... Now, the long wait was ending.
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On yet another world intelligence
|
|
had been born and was escaping from
|
|
its planetary cradle. An ancient
|
|
experiment was about to reach its
|
|
climax.
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The rest of this sequence is being worked on now by our
|
|
designers.
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The intention here is to present a breathtakingly beautiful
|
|
and comprehensive sense of different extra-terrestrial
|
|
worlds. The Narration will suggest images and situations as
|
|
you read it.
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NARRATOR
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76.
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Those who had begun the experiment
|
|
so long ago had not been men. But
|
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when they looked out across the
|
|
deeps of space, they felt awe and
|
|
wonder β and loneliness. In their
|
|
explorations, they encountered life
|
|
in many forms, and watched on a
|
|
thousand worlds the workings of
|
|
evolution. They saw how often the
|
|
first faint sparks of intelligence
|
|
flickered and died in the cosmic
|
|
night. And because, in all the
|
|
galaxy, they had found nothing more
|
|
precious than Mind, they encouraged
|
|
its dawning everywhere. The great
|
|
Dinosaurs had long since perished
|
|
when their ships entered the solar
|
|
system, after a voyage that had
|
|
already lasted thousands of years.
|
|
They swept past the frozen outer
|
|
planets, paused briefly above the
|
|
deserts of dying Mars and presently
|
|
looked down on Earth. For years
|
|
they studied, collected and
|
|
catalogued. When they had learned
|
|
all they could, they began to
|
|
modify. They tinkered with the
|
|
destiny of many species on land and
|
|
in the ocean, but which of their
|
|
experiments would succeed they
|
|
could not know for at least a
|
|
million years. They were patient,
|
|
but they were not yet immortal.
|
|
There was much to do in this
|
|
Universe of a hundred billion
|
|
stars. So they set forth once more
|
|
across the abyss, knowing that they
|
|
would never come this way again.
|
|
Nor was there any need. Their
|
|
wonderful machines could be trusted
|
|
to do the rest. On Earth, the
|
|
glaciers came and went, while above
|
|
them, the changeless Moon still
|
|
carried its secret. With a yet
|
|
slower rhythm than the Polar ice,
|
|
the tide of civilization ebbed and
|
|
flowed across the galaxy. Strange
|
|
and beautiful and terrible empires
|
|
rose and fell, and passed on their
|
|
knowledge to their successors.
|
|
Earth was not forgotten, but it was
|
|
one of a million silent worlds, a
|
|
few of which would ever speak. Then
|
|
the first explorers of Earth,
|
|
77.
|
|
|
|
|
|
recognizing the limitations of
|
|
their minds and bodies, passed on
|
|
their knowledge to the great
|
|
machines they had created, and who
|
|
now transcended them in every way.
|
|
For a few thousand years, they
|
|
shared their Universe with their
|
|
machine children; then, realizing
|
|
that it was folly to linger when
|
|
their task was done, they passed
|
|
into history without regret. Not
|
|
one of them ever looked through his
|
|
own eyes upon the planet Earth
|
|
again. But even the age of the
|
|
Machine Entities passed swiftly. In
|
|
their ceaseless experimenting, they
|
|
had learned to store knowledge in
|
|
the structure of space itself, and
|
|
to preserve their thoughts for
|
|
eternity in frozen lattices of
|
|
light. They could become creatures
|
|
of radiation, free at last from the
|
|
tyranny of matter. Now, they were
|
|
Lords of the galaxy, and beyond the
|
|
reach of time. They could rove at
|
|
will among the stars, and sink like
|
|
a subtle mist through the very
|
|
interstices of space. But despite
|
|
their God-like powers, they still
|
|
watched over the experiments their
|
|
ancestors had started so many
|
|
generations ago. The companion of
|
|
Saturn knew nothing of this, as it
|
|
orbited in its no man's land
|
|
between Mimas and the outer edge of
|
|
rings. It had only to remember and
|
|
wait, and to look forever Sunward
|
|
with its strange senses. For many
|
|
weeks, it had watched the
|
|
approaching ship. Its long-dead
|
|
makers had prepared it for many
|
|
things and this was one of them.
|
|
And it recognised what was climbing
|
|
starward from the Sun. If it had
|
|
been alive, it would have felt
|
|
excitement, but such an emotion was
|
|
irrelevant to its great powers.
|
|
Even if the ship had passed it by,
|
|
it would not have known the
|
|
slightest trace of disappointment.
|
|
It had waited four million years;
|
|
it was prepared to wait for
|
|
eternity. Presently, it felt the
|
|
gentle touch of radiations, trying
|
|
78.
|
|
|
|
|
|
to probe its secrets. Now, the ship
|
|
was in orbit and it began to speak,
|
|
with prime numbers from one to
|
|
eleven, over and over again. Soon,
|
|
these gave way to more complex
|
|
signals at many frequencies, ultra-
|
|
violet, infra-red, X-rays. The
|
|
machine made no reply. It had
|
|
nothing to say. Then it saw the
|
|
first robot probe, which descended
|
|
and hovered above the chasm. Then,
|
|
it dropped into darkness. The great
|
|
machine knew that this tiny scout
|
|
was reporting back to its parent;
|
|
but it was too simple, too
|
|
primative a device to detect the
|
|
forces that were gathering round it
|
|
now. Then the pod came, carrying
|
|
life. The great machine searched
|
|
its memories. The logic circuits
|
|
made their decision when the pod
|
|
had fallen beyond the last faint.
|
|
glow of the reflected Saturnian
|
|
light. In a moment of time, too
|
|
short to be measured, space turned
|
|
and twisted upon itself.
|
|
|
|
THE END
|
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