2001: A Space Odyssey. Hal 9000 Odyssey
Friday, November 30th, 2007HAL suggests another EVA mission to restore the part and wait for it to fail, to determine the problem. Hiding their concern, Dave and Frank retreat to a pod to discuss HAL’s questionable reliability in secret, finally agreeing to “disconnect” him should the AE-35 not fail, as HAL predicted. However, unbeknownst to them, HAL is reading their lips.
Frank exits in a pod to put back the original AE-35 as Dave watches from inside Discovery. While Frank is performing the EVA, HAL takes control of the empty pod, hurtles it at Frank and kills him, sending his body tumbling in space. Dave hurriedly exits the ship in another pod to rescue Frank, forgetting to bring his space helmet. While Dave is outside, HAL kills the three hibernating scientists by deactivating their life support systems.
Upon returning to the ship with Frank’s lifeless body, Dave is refused reentry into the ship by HAL. HAL reveals that he knows of Frank and Dave’s plan to disconnect him, and asserts that the mission is “too important” to allow Dave to jeopardize it. HAL terminates the conversation. After releasing Frank’s body, Dave opens an air lock, and activates the pod’s emergency hatch bolts. The explosive decompression propels him into the airlock, exposed to the vacuum of space without a helmet, but he manages to close and pressurize the airlock.
Safely inside the ship, Dave enters HAL’s ‘Logic Memory Center’. As HAL futilely attempts to negotiate with him, Dave proceeds to disconnect his higher brain functions. HAL pleads and protests his termination, slowly regresses to past memories, and finally falls silent. Suddenly, a pre-recorded video briefing by Dr. Floyd plays, explaining the true nature of the mission — to investigate the signal sent to Jupiter from the alien artifact on the Moon. Floyd discloses that the secret mission had been known only to HAL until the ship’s arrival in Jupiter space.