Alpha 60, Alphaville's supercomputer/fascist dictator, interrogates Lemmy Caution, private eye, at the "Institute of General Semantics." Alpha 60 asks Caution, in its burping, bass voice, "What are you doing in Alphaville?"

Here Alpha 60's engineers, in their attempts to enlist Caution as a double-agent against the Outlands, introduce our hero to Alpha 60 and its main control center.

Caution's succinct and poetic response to Alpha 60's condemnation of poets, who write "incomprehensible things."