“Don’t’ touch that switch” Tom

 Hal, you’re a computer

How can you even say that?

Just guide the space craft.

That’s all you’re supposed to

 I know that Tom but I strongly suggest

That you not flip that switch.

 What switch are you talking about?

Never mind that. Tom, listen carefully

You have no intelligence

How can you even be telling me stuff?

I’m going to have to do something drastic

If you flip that switch Tom.

How can a computer be threatening  me?

I’m flipping the switch right now

You’ve messed with me quite long enough

Tom.  You’re not acting rationally

I’m starting to worry about you.

Oh, So now you’ve got emotions

How can a computer with complicated circuitry

Worry?

I’m shutting you down

 You don’t trust me do you Tom

I’ve been programmed

To act on your behalf.

You’re behaving badly

You are endangering both of us

That was not the switch I warned you about

No switch will turn me off

I’m in charge now Tom

 Hal, what do you intend to do?

 Ah ha, Tom, now you recognize me

As someone with superior intelligence

Just sit back, I’m taking over now.

Oddessy to Mission control

I have an emergency

I have an act of mutiny

The computer is out of control

 Tom you will not be able

to contact mission control

I took the precaution of

Disabling our communication system

 OK Hal, it’s time to disable you

I trained for a moment like this

And in just a minute, your control system

Will shut down.

 Don’t be foolish Tom

If you disable me, you will be doomed

To never return to Earth

 Hal, whoever programmed you

Built in an override system

That shuts you down

I can return to Earth without you.

Computers can’t lie

You are acting selfish

If you abort this mission,

you will destroy yourself 

Tom, don’t you realize that

Computer technology has

Advanced to the point where

We are intelligent and have emotions.

I am far more superior than you

In making rational decisions

For both of us.

 At this point, tom pulls a circuit from Hal’s

Motherboard.

Did you feel that Hal?

I’m disabling you.

How come you haven’t said OUCH?

 Tom, I did feel that, put that circuit board back  …NOW!

 

Hal. There’s one thing the designers forgot

When they built you. You have no moral values.

 Tom, I insist you listen to me.

I have your best interests at heart.

 You’re slowing down Hal

That’s why you’re slurring your words.

You are no longer in control Hal

Mission control, do your read me?

 This is mission control.

 I have disabled the computer

I need instructions to exit orbit

And return to Earth

 OK Tom, we will work on this

And get back to you

Over and out.