Talk:AE-35 unit/@comment-71.93.164.131-20190724025542

Suspicious, Poole and Bowman radio back to Earth; they are told that something is wrong with Hal and are given instructions to shut him off. These instructions are interrupted as the signal fades—the AE-35 unit has malfunctioned. Poole and Bowman begin to wonder how they will re-establish communication with Earth.

The Discovery Crew was given no instructions to shut "him" off at all. Mission Control only said the twin HAL-9000 on Earth did not concur with Discovery's 9000 Alpha-Echo 35 unit failure analysis. And the Discoverys' on-board 9000 was in error.