1.   The other humans said something, and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin.

2.   The digger careered around in a big circle, so that when the two humans crawled out of the wreckage it was the first thing they saw.

3.   The two humans were still coming the other way.

4.   But the two humans are bereft.

5.   HAL watches their lips through the window and realizes that the two humans may attempt to disconnect his brain.

6.   Indeed, the three humans might all be the same individual at different stages of life.

7.   It took millennia for the earth to become home for the first billion humans.

8.   Miraculously the rabbit came to life, jumped up, waved its paw at the two humans and hopped down the road.

9.   One family is simian and the other human, but the film treats that as a difference only the small-minded would notice.