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Well, I hope you don't think I'm being too inquisitive, but perhaps you can clear up the big mystery about what is going on up there.

12 seconds sound clip from the 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:30:45 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, where are you all off to? Up or down?

- We're going home. We've just spent three months calibrating the new antenna at Tchalinko.

- What about you?

- I'm just on my way to Clavius.

- Oh, are you?

- Well, I hope you don't think I'm being too inquisitive, but perhaps you can clear up the big mystery about what is going on up there.

- I'm afraid I don't know what you mean.

- For the past two weeks some extremely odd things have been happening at Clavius.

- Oh, really?

- Yes, yes.

- Well, for one thing, when you phone the base, all you can get is a recording which repeats that the phone lines are temporarily out of order.

- Probably having some trouble with their equipment or something like that.

[...]

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Actors: Keir Dullea (Dr. David Bowman, Gary Lockwood (Dr. Frank Poole), William Sylvester (Dr. Heywood Floyd), Douglas Rain (HAL 9000)

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