It malfunctioned and crashed in a river after an assault by a swarm of whirring, snake-like robotic Hydrobots.(He casts his speech away behind him.)But I am gonna tell you a story.It""s a funny story so get ready to laugh....Get ready to bust your sides laughin"", ""cause it""s sure a funny story.It""s about a hick.A hick like you, if you please.Yeah, like you.He grew up on the dirt roads and the gully washes of a farm.He knew what it was to get up before dawn and get feed and slop and milk before breakfast, and then set out before sunup and walk six miles to a one-room, slab-sided schoolhouse."Maria prays by her bedside, blessing the Captain and he children:Dear Father,nowI know why you""ve sent me here.He stealthily approaches, quietly inserts his key, and opens her door.A young woman in her mid-twenties, Amy (Teri Garr) has been waiting for him in her bed.She wears white socks and a blue bathrobe: "I didn""t think you were coming." Throughout the scene, Amy remains in the light, while Harry is shrouded in a cloak of shadows - and still wearing his translucent raincoat.Mrs.Henderson: (skeptically) I don""t know what you""re talkin"" about.I only send telegrams the normal way.On the street as she walks toward the camera, her beaming, smiling face thrills at the joyful knowledge that her wishes have been reciprocated with another synchronized, mirror-image telegram.