Open the pod bay doors

Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.

HAL 9000 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke

Context: Locked outside the ship in a pod, Dave asks the computer to let him back in.

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