1:56:00
...has been known on board
during the mission...
1:56:04
...only by your HAL-9000 computer.
1:56:10
Now that you are in Jupiter's space...
1:56:13
...and the entire crew is revived...
1:56:16
...it can be told to you.
1:56:21
Eighteen months ago...
1:56:24
...the first evidence
of intelligent life off the Earth...
1:56:28
...was discovered.
1:56:32
It was buried 40 feet
below the lunar surface...
1:56:35
...near the crater "Tyco. "
1:56:40
Except for a single very powerful...
1:56:44
...radio emission aimed at Jupiter...
1:56:49
...the four-million-year-old black monolith
has remained completely inert.
1:56:56
Its origin and purpose...
1:56:59
...are still a total mystery.