...Europe about o blow up and all I can get out of my foreign staff is a daily guessing game.I want some facts, Mr.Bradley!...Any kind of facts.There must be something going on in Europe beside a nervous breakdown." When Bradley offered to be sent to Europe, Powers rejected him because Bradley was an intellectual economist and not a hard-nosed reporter:I don""t want any more economists, sages, or oracles bombinating over our cables.Mrs.Vale: Go to your cabin.(Charlotte, in voice-over) I had said I was glad, and I was glad.He had defied my mother and placed me on a throne - and before a witness too.It was the proudest moment of my life.My moment didn""t last long, as you can see.My mother didn""t think hat Leslie was suitable for a Vale of Boston.The film returns to the present, as the pages of the book flip forward.Charlotte (with her back to the camera) wrings her hands in front of a window where rain strikes the panes, speaking of her entire aborted life:What man is suitable, doctor? She""s never found one.The film""s screenplay (by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde) was taken from aCollier""s Magazinestory authored by Hagar Wilde.[The second monolith - another indication of extra-terrestrial intelligent life and their desire to provide further guidance to mankind - also exerts its unmistakable will on human beings in a different era.