Forgive the manner in which you were picked up. Hilda called the police before I saw your annotations on the board.

7 seconds sound clip from the The Day the Earth Stood Still (1954) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:23:46 in the radio play.

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- Up to bed now. Pronto!

- Is this the man you wanted to see, Professor Barnhardt?

- Oh, thank you. If I may speak to Mr. Carpenter alone, please?

- I'll wait outside, Professor.

- You are Mr. Carpenter, who wrote those equations on my blackboard?

- My clumsy way of introducing myself.

- Forgive the manner in which you were picked up. Hilda called the police before I saw your annotations on the board.

- I appreciate the need for security, Professor.

- I have not quite fathomed the problem, even with your remarkable assistance, Mr. Carpenter.

- Let's look at it, sir. All you have to do now is substitute this expression at this point.

- Yes. That will reproduce the first order term, but what about the effect of the other terms?

- Negligible.

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