Richard E. Grant :
Saturday 14 May 2022
No… No, You Ate Yours.
Richard E. Grant :
Tuesday 30 November 2021
Ghost Traps
Hey, it never occurred to me to ask you back then —
What Happens to Them
in Those Boxes…?
Do They Die in There?
Do You Care...?
That's why you didn't kill Beverly.
'Cause she wasn't afraid.
And we aren't either.
Not anymore.
Now you're the one who's afraid.
Because you're gonna starve.
"He thrusts his fists
against the posts
and still insists
he sees the ghosts
He thrusts his fists
against the posts"
IT :
Fear...
Danny :
Hey, Azzie.
You got your wires crossed tonight.
(DOOR CREAKS)
That room's empty, Az.
There's no one in that room.
HALLORAN :
Whoa! Hang on, Doc.
Danny :
Dick!
Oh, I'm so sorry.
I... I... I thought it was...
HALLORAN :
Thought I was from The Overlook.
[ Well, he is... ]
Almost locked me up.
Still getting visits
from them old ghosts?
Danny :
No, not for years.
Horace Derwent was the last one, confetti on his suit.
Said, "Great party, isn't it?"
Shit-eating grin on his face
‘til I pulled out A Box for him.
That grin went fast.
(CHUCKLES)
Hey, it never occurred to me to ask you back then.
What Happens to Them
in those boxes?
Do They Die in There?
HALLORAN :
Do you care?
Danny :
I missed you.
HALLORAN :
Has it been a long time?
Can't Tell.
This World is A Dream
of A Dream to Me now.
Danny :
Eight years. Little more.
HALLORAN :
Last time I saw You,
You was at The Bottom.
You look better now.
Danny :
Why are you here?
HALLORAN :
I'm here because it all comes 'round.
Ka's A Wheel, Doc.
You Listen, Son.
It Hurts to be here,
so I'll only say it once.
These empty devils ever
found you when you was a tyke,
if they'd even sniffed you,
you'd be long dead.
They're on the land like
a cancer on the skin.
Once, they rode camels in the desert.
Once, they drove caravans across Eastern Europe.
They Eat Screams,
and Drink Pain,
and They've noticed
that little girl.
They might kill her,
might turn her,
or might keep her
till she's all used up,
and that'd be worst of all.
You can't let 'em.
Danny :
Why me?
HALLORAN :
Because she found you.
Because she showed up.
Hell, Doc, why me?
You just walked on in
to My Kitchen one day,
and I'm still on the hook.
(CHUCKLES)
Danny :
What the hell am I supposed to do?
HALLORAN :
Get her what she asked for.
You won't see me again, Doc.
This is My Last Dream.
It seems to Me,
You Grew up Fine, Son —
but You still owe A Debt.
Pay it.
Friday 26 July 2019
The Majors Tom : 2010 - The Year We Make Contact
Understand, nobody can talk.
The accents will confuse him.
He can understand me, so if you have
any questions, please let me ask them.
Good morning, HAL.
HAL [OVER SPEAKERS]:
Good morning, Dr. Chandra.
Do you feel capable of resuming all of your duties?
Of course.
I am completely operational and all my circuits are functioning perfectly.
That's good.
Do you know what those duties are?
Yes. I will operate the onboard systems of Discovery.
There is a launch window in 31 days when Earth is in the proper position.
There is enough fuel on board
for a low consumption route that will enable Discovery
to return in 28 months.
This will not present a problem.
CHANDRA:
That's very good.
Now, HAL, do you mind if I ask you a question?
Not at all.
Do you recall Dave Bowman
and Frank Poole leaving the Discovery?
Certainly not. That could never have happened or I would remember it.
Where are Frank and Dave?
They're fine. They're not here right now.
Who are these people?
I can only identify you although I compute
a 65 percent probability that the man behind you is Dr. Floyd.
CHANDRA:
Don't worry, HAL.
I'll explain everything later.
Has the mission been completed?
You know that I have the greatest enthusiasm for it.
The mission has been completed
and you have carried out your program very well.
And now, HAL, if you will excuse us
for a moment we wish to have a private conversation.
Certainly.
What was that all about?
I've erased all of HAL's memory from the moment the trouble started.
The 9000 series
uses holographic memories so chronological erasures
would not work.
CHANDRA:
I made a tapeworm.
You made a what?
It's a program that's fed into a system that will destroy any desired memories.
Wait.
Do you know why HAL did what he did?
Yes. It wasn't his fault.
Whose fault was it?
Yours.
Mine?
CHANDRA:
Yours.
In going through HAL's memory banks
I discovered his original orders.
You wrote those orders.
Discovery's mission to Jupiter was already
in the advanced stages when the first small monolith was found
and sent its signal toward Jupiter.
By direct presidential order, the existence
of that monolith was kept secret.
So?
So as the function of the command crew, Bowman and Poole
was to get Discovery to its destination it was decided they shouldn't be informed.
The investigative team was trained separately and placed in hibernation before the voyage began.
Since HAL was capable of operating
Discovery without human assistance it was decided he should be programmed to complete the mission autonomously in the event the crew was incapacitated or killed.
He was given full knowledge
of the true objective and instructed not to reveal anything
to Bowman or Poole.
He was instructed to lie.
What are you talking about?
I didn't authorize anyone to tell HAL about the monolith.
The directive is NSC 342-slash-23, Top Secret, January 30, 2001 .
NSC, National Security Council, the White House.
I don't care who it is.
The situation was in conflict with the basic purpose of HAL's design the accurate processing of information without distortion or concealment.
He became trapped.
The technical term is an H-Mobius loop, which can happen in advanced computers with autonomous
goal-seeking programs.
The goddamn White House.
I don't believe it.
HAL was told to lie by people who find it easy to lie.
HAL doesn't know how, so he couldn't function.
He became paranoid.
Those sons of bitches.
I didn't know.
I didn't know.
The Messenger
I know you people are caught in the middle of this.
In a sense, we all are.
I wish there was something I could do.
FLOYD :
FLOYD :
FLOYD :
HAL-9000 :
FLOYD :
HAL-9000 :
HAL-9000 :
I don't know.
HAL-9000 :
HAL-9000 :
IWAS :
IWAS :
IWAS :
IWAS :
IWAS :
IWAS :