Dr. Frank Poole
Background
Dr. Frank Poole is the Deputy Commander of the Jupiter Mission. His father is Poole's Father and his mother is Poole's Mother.
During the events of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) played by Gary Lockwood
During the Jupiter Mission eighteen months later, Dr. David Bowman and Dr. Poole are flying the Discovery 1 spacecraft to Jupiter. Dr. Poole watches a program on the BBC about the Jupiter Mission while he eats. The program notes that the mission consists of the HAL 9000 and five men, three of who are in cryogenic sleep. Martin Amor interviews Dr. Bowman and Dr. Poole and asks how things are going. They discuss the hibernation process and then Martin Amor interviews HAL 9000. Martin asks HAL 9000 if he ever lacks confidence and HAL remarks that no 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. Dr. Poole tells Martin that HAL is like a sixth member of the crew and Dr. Bowman tells Martin he believes HAL has genuine emotions at least on the surface. Dr. Poole watches a transmission of Poole's Father and Poole's Mother who wish him Happy Birthday. They tell him they along with Dr. Bowman's parents were interviewed by the news. At the end of the transmission, HAL tells Dr. Poole Happy Birthday. Later Dr. Poole plays chess with HAL and loses. HAL tells Dr. Bowman that he has picked up a fault in the AE35 Unit. Dr. Bowman and Dr. Poole contact Mission Controller and he okays them going to fix the AE35 Unit. Dr. Bowman goes out in a pod and replaces the old AE35 Unit with a new one. He and Dr. Poole discover that nothing was wrong with the old unit, which HAL can't explain. They contact Mission Controller who tells them HAL is in error and they didn't detect any fault in the unit. After the transmission, HAL asks them if they are concerned about the information and HAL blames the problem on human error. HAL then reiterates that no HAL unit has ever made an error. Dr. Bowman asks Dr. Poole if he can help him fix a transmitter problem in one of the pods and and they go inside the pod. They turn off the communication system within the pod and then discuss what they should do about HAL. Dr. Poole tells Dr. Bowman he thinks something is off about HAL and they decide to put the AE35 Unit back in to test if it does in fact break. They then decide if it doesn't break and HAL is malfunctioning then they must disconnect him from the spaceship controls. Dr. Bowman wonders how HAL will take being disconnected. Dr. Poole takes a pod out to return the original AE35 Unit. As he is working on the unit, HAL takes control of the pod and cuts Dr. Poole's oxygen line and Dr. Poole goes spinning into space and dies.
