Hal supine; Pemulis wants to interface — "Will you do me a favor?…"
‘Will you do me a favor? Get Good-Looking Men in Small Clever Rooms That Utilize Every Centimeter of Available Space with Mind-Boggling Efficiency out for me. It’s about a dozen cartridges in from the right on the third shelf down in the entertainment-case. Cue it up to about 2300, 2350 maybe? The last five minutes or so.’
Context
Hal can place the cartridge blind — a dozen in from the right, third shelf down, cue point by counter number — while lying on the floor unable to decide whether to speak. He knows the physical archive of the father's work the way other people know a prayer: "They’ve got all Himself’s stuff together on the third shelf." The precision of the request against the paralysis of everything else in the scene is the tell; the filmography is the one thing Hal can still navigate.