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Helen (Patricia Neal) and Klaatu (Michael Rennie) are in a taxi on their way to Professor Barnhard's home, where Klaatu hopes that the Professor could manage to hide him before the meeting at the ship.

Klaatu: "I'm worried about Gort. I'm afraid of what he might do if anything should happen to me."

Helen: "Gort? But he's a robot, without you, what could he do?"

Klaatu: "There's no limit to what he could do. He could destroy the Earth."

Klaatu: "If anything should happen to me, you must go to Gort. You must say these words.... 'Klaatu, Barada Nikto'. Please repeat that."

After Klaatu was shot, he said to Helen, with his dying breath, "Get that message to Gort, right away."

.... By the way, the only commands ever issued by Klaatu to Gort were:
   1. "Gort, Deglet Ovrosco" At the beginning of the film.
   2. "Gort, Baringa" Twice during the film.