[매트릭스] The Matrix

[매트릭스] The Matrix                      Written by     Larry and Andy Wachowski      April 8, 1996                    FADE IN ON:  COMPUTER SCREEN  So close it has no boundaries.  A blinking cursor pulses in the electric darkness like a  heart coursing with phosphorous light, burning beneath  the derma of black-neon glass.  A PHONE begins to RING, we hear it as though we were  making the call.  The cursor continues to throb,  relentlessly patient, until --      MAN (V.O.)    Hello?  Data now slashes across the screen, information flashing  faster than we read.      SCREEN    Call trans opt:  received.    2-19-96  13:24:18  REC:Log>      WOMAN (V.O.)    I'm inside.  Anything to report?  We listen to the phone conversation as though we were on  a third line.  The man's name is CYPHER.  The woman,  TRINITY.      CYPHER (V.O.)    Let's see.  Target left work at    5:01 PM.      SCREEN    Trace program:  running.  The entire screen fills with racing columns of numbers.  Shimmering like green-electric rivets, they rush at a 10-  digit phone number in the top corner.      CYPHER (V.O.)    He caught the northbound Howard    line. Got off at Sheridan.    Stopped at 7-11.  Purchased six-    pack of beer and a box of Captain    Crunch.  Returned home.  The area code is identified.  The first three numbers  suddenly fixed, leaving only seven flowing columns.  We begin MOVING TOWARD the screen, CLOSING IN as each  digit is matched, one by one, snapping into place like  the wheels of a slot machine.      TRINITY (V.O.)    All right, you're relieved.  Use    the usual exit.      CYPHER (V.O.)    Do you know when we're going to    make contact?      TRINITY    Soon.  Only two thin digits left.      CYPHER (V.O.)    Just between you and me, you don't    believe it, do you?  You don't    believe this guy is the one?      TRINITY (V.O.)    I think Morpheus believes he is.      CYPHER (V.O.)    I know.  But what about you?      TRINITY (V.O.)    I think Morpheus knows things that    I don't.      CYPHER (V.O.)    Yeah, but if he's wrong --  The final number pops into place --      TRINITY (V.O.)    Did you hear that?      CYPHER (V.O.)    Hear what?      SCREEN    Trace complete.  Call origin:    #312-555-0690      TRINITY (V.O.)    Are you sure this line is clean?      CYPHER (V.O.)    Yeah, course I'm sure.  We MOVE STILL CLOSER, the ELECTRIC HUM of the green  numbers GROWING INTO an OMINOUS ROAR.      TRINITY (V.O.)    I better go.      CYPHER (V.O.)    Yeah.  Right.  See you on the other side.  She hangs up as we PASS THROUGH the numbers, entering the  netherworld of the computer screen.  Where gradually the sound of a police radio grows around  us.      RADIO (V.O.)    Attention all units.  Attention    all units.  Suddenly, a flashlight cuts open the darkness and we find  ourselves in --  INT.  CHASE HOTEL - NIGHT  The hotel was abandoned after a fire licked its way  across the polyester carpeting, destroying several rooms  as it spooled soot up the walls and ceiling leaving  patterns of permanent shadow.  We FOLLOW four armed POLICE officers using flashlights as  they creep down the blackened hall and ready themselves  on either side of room 303.  The biggest of them violently kicks in the door --  The other cops pour in behind him, guns thrust before  them.      BIG COP    Police!  Freeze!  The room is almost devoid of furniture.  There is a fold-  up table and chair with a phone, a modern, and a powerbook  computer.  The only light in the room is the glow of the  computer.  Sitting there, her hands still on the keyboard, is  TRINITY; a woman in black leather.      BIG COP    Get your hands behind your head!  Trinity rises.      BIG COP    Hands behind your head!  Now!  Do    it!  She slowly puts her hands behind her head.  EXT.  CHASE HOTEL - NIGHT  A black sedan with tinted windows glides in through the  police cruisers.  AGENT SMITH and AGENT BROWN get out of the car.  They wear dark suits and sunglasses even at night.  They  are also always hardwired; small Secret Service earphones  in one ear, its cord coiling back into their shirt  collars.      AGENT SMITH    Lieutenant?      LIEUTENANT    Oh shit.      AGENT SMITH    Lieutenant, you were given    specific orders --      LIEUTENANT    I'm just doing my job.  You gimme    that Juris-my dick-tion and you    can cran it up your ass.      AGENT SMITH    The orders were for your protection.  The Lieutenant laughs.      LIEUTENANT    I think we can handle one little    girl.  Agent Smith nods to Agent Brown as they start toward the  hotel.      LIEUTENANT    I sent two units.  They're    bringing her down now.      AGENT SMITH    No, Lieutenant, your men are dead.  INT.  CHASE HOTEL  The Big Cop flicks out his cuffs, the other cops holding  a bead.  They've done this a hundred times, they know  they've got her, until the Big Cop reaches with the cuff  and Trinity moves --  It almost doesn't register, so smooth and fast, inhumanly  fast.  The eye blinks and Trinity's palm. snaps up and the nose  explodes, blood erupting.  The cop is dead before he  begins to fall.  And Trinity is moving again --  Seizing a wrist, misdirecting a gun, as a startled cop  FIRES --  A head explodes.  In blind panic, another airs his gun, the barrel, a fixed  black hole --  And FIRES --  Trinity twists out of the way, the bullet missing as she  reverses into a roundhouse kick, knocking the gun away.  The cop begins to scream when a jump kick crushes his  windpipe, killing the scream as he falls to the ground.  She looks at the four bodies.      TRINITY    Shit.  EXT.  CHASE HOTEL  Agent Brown enters the hotel, while Agent Smith heads for  the alley.  INT.  CHASE HOTEL  Trinity is on the phone, pacing.  The other end is  answered.      MAN (V.O.)    Operator.      TRINITY    Morpheus!  The link was traced!  I    don't know how.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    I know.  Stay calm.      TRINITY    Are there any agents?      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Yes.      TRINITY    Goddamnit!      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    You have to focus.  There is a    phone.  Wells and Laxe.  You can    make it.  She takes a deep breath, centering herself.      TRINITY    All right --      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Go.  She drops the phone.  INT.  HALL  She bursts out of the room as Agent Brown enters the hall,  leading another unit of police.  Trinity races to the  opposite end, exiting through a broken window onto the  fire escape.  EXT.  FIRE E5CAPE  In the alley below, Trinity sees Agent Smith staring at  her.  She can only go up.  EXT.  ROOF  On the roof, Trinity is running as Agent Brown rises over  the parapet, leading the cops in pursuit.  Trinity begins to jump from one roof to the next, her  moverents so clean, gliding in and out of each jump,  contrasted to the wild jumps of the cops.  Agent Brown, however, has the same unnatural grace.  The METAL SCREAM of an EL TRAIN is heard and Trinity  turns to it, racing for the back of the building.  The edge falls away into a wide back alley.  The next  building is over 40 feet away, but Trinity's face is  perfectly calm, staring at some point beyond the other  roof.  The cops slow, realizing they are about to see something  ugly as Trinity drives at the edge, launching herself  into the air.  From above, the ground seems to flow beneath her as she  hangs in flight  Then hitting, somersaulting up, still running hard.      COP    Motherfucker -- that's impossible!  They stare, slack-jawed, as Agent Brown duplicates the  move exactly, landing, rolling over a shoulder, up onto  one knee.  Just below the building are the runbling tracks of  riveted steel.  The TRAIN SCREECHES beneath her, a  rattling blur of gray metal.  Trinity junps, landing  easily.  She looks back just as Agent Brown hurls through the air  barely reaching the last car  Agent Brown stands, yanking out a gun.  Trinity is running hard as BULLETS WHISTLE past her head.  Ahead she sees her only chance, 50 feet beyond the point  where the train has begun to turn, there is --  A window; a yellow glow in the midst of a dark brick  building.  Trinity zeroes in on it, running as hard as she can, her  speed compounded by the train.  The SCREAM of the STEEL  rises as she nears the edge where the train rocks into the  turn.  Trinity hurtles into the empty night space, her body  leveling into a dive.  She falls, arms covering her head  as --  The whole world seems to spin on its axis --  And she crashes with an EXPLOSION of GLASS and WOOD, then  falls onto a back stairwell, tumbling, bouncing down  stairs bleeding, broken --  But still alive.  Through the smashed window, she glimpses Agent Brown,  still on the train, his tie and coat whipping in the  wind; stone-faced, he touches his ear piece as the train  slides him past the window.  Trinity tries to move.  Everything hurts.      TRINITY    Get up, Trinity.  You're fine.    Get up -- just get up!  She stands and limps down the rest of the stairs.  EXT.  STREET  Trinity emerges from the shadows of an alley and, at the  end of the block, in a pool of white street light, she  sees it.  The telephone booth.  Obviously hurt, she starts down the concrete walk,  focusing in completely, her pace quickening, as the PHONE  begins to RING.  Across the street, a garbage truck suddenly u-turns, its  TIRES SCREAMING as it accelerates.  Trinity sees the headlights on the truck arcing at the  telephone booth as if taking aim.  Gritting through the pain, she races the truck --  Slamming into the booth, the headlights blindingly  bright, bearing down on the box of Plexiglas just as --  She answers the phone.  There is a frozen instant of silence before the hulking  mass of dark metal lurches up onto the sidewalk --  Barreling through the booth, bulldozing it into a brick  wall, smashing it to Plexiglas pulp.  After a moment, a black loafer steps down from the cab of  the garbage truck.  Agent Smith inspects the wreckage.  There is no body.  Trinity is gone.  His jaw sets as he grinds his molars in frustration.  AGENT JONES walks up behind him.      AGENT SMITH    Did you get anything from the    room?      AGENT JONES    Their next target.  The name is    Neo.  The handset of the pay phone lays on the ground,  separated in the crash like a severed limb.      AGENT SMITH    We'll need a search running.      AGENT JONES    It's already begun.  We are SUCKED TOWARDS the mouthpiece of the phone, CLOSER  and CLOSER, UNTIL the smooth gray plastic spreads out  like a horizon and the small HOLES WIDEN until we fall  through one --  Swallowed by the darkness that becomes --  A computer screen.  We are on-line, inside a chat room called "The Matrix."  It is an exklusive web-site where hackers hang out.      SCREEN    JACKON:  I heard Morpheus has been    on this board.    SUPERASTIC:  Morpheus doesn't even    exist and the Matrix is nothing    but an advertising gimmick 4 a new    game.    TIMAXE:  All I want to know is    Trinity really a girl?    LODIII:  87% of all women on line    are really men.    QUARK:  The Matrix is a euphemism    for the government.    SUPERASTIC:  No, The Matrix is the    system controlling our lives.    TIMAXE:  You mean MTV.    SUPERASTIC:  I mean Sega.    FOS4:  ALL HAIL SEGA!!!  We drift back from the electric conversation entering --  INT.  NEO'S APARTMENT  It is a studio apartirent that seems overgrown with  technology.  Weed-like cables coil everywhere, duct-taped into  thickets that wind up and around the legs of several  desks.  Tabletops are filled with cannibalized equipment that lay  open like an autopsied corpse.  We turn towards the center of this rat-nest of  technology, following the slurping and crunching of  cereal.  We pass an open box of Capln Crunch as we find --  NEO, a younger man who knows more about living inside a  computer than living outside one.      NEO    Fuckin' idiots don't know shit.  He finishes his cereal and is about to disconnect when an  anonynous message slices onto the screen.      SCREEN    Do you want to know what the    Matrix is, Neo?  Neo is frozen when he reads his name.      SCREEN    SUPERASTIC:  Who said that?    JACKON:  Who's Neo?    GIBSON:  This is a private board.    If you want to know, follow the    white rabbit.      NEO    What the hell...      SCREEN    TIMAXE:  Someone is hacking the    hackers!    FOS4:  It's Morpheus!!!!!    JACKON:  Identify yourself.    Knock, knock, Neo.  A chill runs down his spine and when someone KNOCKS on  his door he almost jumps out of his chair.  He looks at the door, then back at the computer but the  message is gone.  He shakes his head, not completely sure what happened.  Again, someone knocks.  Cautiously, Neo approaches the door.      VOICE (O.S.)    Hey, Tommy-boy!  You in there?  Recognizing the voice, he relaxes and opens it.  ANTHONY,  who lives down the hall, is standing outside with a group  of friends.      NEO    What do you want, Anthony?      ANTHONY    I need your help, man.  Desperate.    They got me, man.  The shackles of    fascism.  He holds up the red notice that accompanies the Denver  boot.      NEO    You got the money this time?  He holds up two hundred dollars and Neo opens the door.  Anthony's girlfriend, DUJOUR, stops in front of Neo.      DUJOUR    You can really get that thing off,    right now?      ANTHONY    I told you, honey, he may look    like just another geek but this    here is all we got left standing    between Big Brother and the New    World Order.  EXT.  STREET  A police officer unlocks a yellow metal boot from the  wheel of an enormous oldsmobile.  INT.  NEO'S APARTMENT  They watch from the window as the cops, silently,  robotically, climb into their van.      ANTHONY    Look at 'em.  Automatons.  Don't    think about what they're- doing or    why.  Computer tells 'em what to    do and they do it.      FRIEND #l    Thc banality of evil.  He slaps the money in Neo's hand.      ANTHONY    Thanks, neighbor.      DUJOUR    Why don't you come to the party    with us?      NEO    I don't know.  I have to work    tomorrow.      DUJOUR    Come on.  It'll be fun.  He looks up at her and suddenly notices on her black  leather motorcycle jacket dozens of pins:  bands,  symbols, slogans, military medals and --  A small white rabbit.  The ROOM TILTS.      NEO    Yeah, yeah.  Sure, I'll go.  INT.  APARTMENT  An older Chicago apartment; a series of halls connects a  chain of small high-ceilinged rooms lined with heavy  casements.  Smoke hangs like a veil, blurring the few lights there  are.  Dressed predominantly in black, people are everywhere,  gathered in cliques around pieces of furniture like  jungle cats around a tree.  Neo stands against a wall, alone, sipping from a bottle  of beer, feeling completely out of place, he is about to  leave when he notices a woman staring at him.  The woman is Trinity.  She walks straight up to him.  In the nearest room, shadow-like figures grind against  each other to the pneumatic beat of INDUSTRIAL MUSIC.      TRINITY    Hello, Neo.      NEO    How did you know that --      TRINITY    I know a lot about you.  I've been    wanting to meet you for some time.      NEO    Who are you?      TRINITY    My name is Trinity.      NEO    Trinity?  The Trinity?  The    Trinity that cracked the I.R.S.    Kansas City D-Base?      TRINITY    That was a long time ago.      NEO    Gee-zus.      TRINITY    What?      NEO    I just thought... you were a guy.      TRINITY    Most guys do.  Neo is a little embarrassed.      NEO    Do you want to go sorewhere and    talk?      TRINITY    No.  It's safe here and I don't    have much time.  The MUSIC is so loud they must stand very close, talking  directly into each other's ear.      NEO    That was you on the board tonight.    That was your note, wasn't it?      TRINITY    I had to gamble that you would see    and they wouldn't.      NEO    Who wouldn't?      TRINITY    I can't explain everything to you.    I'm sure that it's all going to    seem very strange, but I brought    you here to warn you, Neo.  You    are in a lot of danger.      NEO    What?  Why?      TRINITY    They're watching you.  Something    happened and they found out about    you.  Normally, if our target is    exposed we let it go.  But this    time, we can't do that.      NEO    I don't understand --      TRINITY    You came here because you wanted    to know the answer to a hacker's    question.      NEO    The Matrix.  What is the Matrix?      TRINITY    Twelve years ago I met a man, a    great man, who said that no one    could be told the answer to that    question.  That they had to see    it, to believe it.  Her body is against his; her lips very close to his ear.      TRINITY    He told me that no one should look    for the answer unless they have to    because once you see it,    everything changes.  Your life and    the world you live in will never    be the same.  It's as if you wake    up one morning and the sky is    falling.  There is a hypnotic quality to her voice and Neo feels  the words like a drug, seeping into him.      TRINITY    The truth is out there, Neo.  It's    looking for you and it will find    you, if you want it to.  She takes hold of him with her eyes.      TRINITY    That's all I can tell you right    now.  Good-bye, Neo.  And good    luck.      NEO    Wait.  Who was it?  Who was the    man?  She leans close, her lips alrost touching his ear as she  whispers.      TRINITY    You know who.  She turns and he watches her melt into the shifting wall  of bodies.  A SOUND RISES steadily, growing out of the music,  pressing in on Neo until it is all he can hear as we --        CUT TO:  INT.  NEO'S APARTMENT  The sound is an ALARM CLOCK, slowly dragging Neo to  consciousness.  He strains to read the clock face:  9:15 A.M.      NEO    Shitshitshit.  EXT.  SKYSCRAPER  The downtown office of CorTechs, a software development  company.  INT.  CORTECHS OFFICE  The main offices are along each wall, the windows  overlooking downtown Chicago.  RHINEHEART, the ultimate company man, lectures Neo  without looking at him, typing at his computer  continuously.  Neo stares at two window cleaners on a scaffolding  outside, dragging their rubber squeegees down across the  surface of the glass.      RHINEHEART    You have a problem, Mr. Anderson.    You think that you're special.    You believe that somehow the rules    do not apply to you.  He stops, glancing over his glasses at Neo, who turns in  time.      RHINEHEART    Obviously, you are mistaken.  His long, bony fingers resume clicking the keyboard.      RHINEHEART    This company is one of the top    software companies in the world    because every single employee    understands that they are a part    of a whole.  Thus, if an employee    has a problem, the company has a    problem.  He turns again.      RHINEHEART    The time has come to make a    choice, Mr. Anderson.  Either you    choose to be at your desk on time    from this day forth, or you choose    to find yourself another job.  Do    I make myself clear?      NEO    Yes, Mr. Rhineheart.  Perfectly    clear.  INT.  NEO'S CUBICLE  The entire floor looks like a human honeycomb, with a  labyrinth of cubicles structured around a core of  elevators.  Neo slumps down into his chair.  A TALL EMPLOYEE stands  up in the adjacent cubicle, leaning over the partition.      TALL EMPLOYEE    What did he say?      NEO    If I was late again, I'm going to    be fired.  He smirks.      TALL EMPLOYEE    Well, it was nice working with    you.  Neo glares at him, as he sinks down.      VOICE (O.S.)    Thomas Anderson?  Neo turns and finds a FEDERAL EXPRESS MAN at his cubicle  door.      NEO    Yeah.  That's me.  Neo signs the electronic pad and the Fedex guy hands him  the softpak.      FEDEX    Have a nice day.  He opens the bag.  Inside is a CELLULAR PHONE.  It seems  the instant it is in his hand, it RINGS.  Unnerved, he  flips it open.      NEO    Hello?      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Hello, Neo.  This is Morpheus.  Neo's knees give and he falls into his chair.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    I had hoped for this conversation    to take place under less adverse    conditions, but you can never    count on hope, can you, Neo?      NEO    ... no.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    I've been watching you, Neo, and I    want to meet you.  I don't know if    you're ready to see what I want to    show you, but unfortunately, we    have run out of time.  They're    coming for you, Neo.  And I'm not    sure what they're going to do.      NEO    Who's coming for me?      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Stand up and see for yourself.      NEO    Right now?      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Yes.  Now.  Neo starts to stand.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Do it slowly.  Slowly.  The elevator.  His head slowly peeks up over the partition.  At the elevator, he sees Agent Brown and Agent Jones  leading a group of cops.  A female employee turns and  points out Neo's cubicle.  Neo ducks.      NEO    Holy fuckin' shit!      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Yes.  One cop stays at the elevator, the others follow the  agents.      NEO    What the fuck do they want with    me?!      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    I'm not sure.  But, if you don't    want to find out, you better get    out of there.      NEO    How?!      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    I can guide you out, but you have    to do exactly what I say.  The agents are moving quickly towards the cubicle.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    The cubicle across from you is    empty.      NEO    But what if...?      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Go!  Now!  Neo lunges across the hall, diving into the other cubicle  just as the agents turn into his row.  Neo crams himself into a dark corner, clutching the phone  tightly to him.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Stay here for a moment.  The agents enter Neo's empty cubicle.  A cop is sent to  search the bathroom.  Morpheus' voice is a whisper in Neo's ear.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    A little longer...  Brown is talking to the tall employee.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    When I tell you, go to the end of    the row to the first office on the    left, stay.as low as you can.  Sweat trickles down his forehead.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Now.  Neo rolls out of the cubicle, his eyes popping as he  freezes right behind a cop who has just turned around.  Staying crouched, he sneaks away, down the row, SHOOTING  across the opening to the first office on the left.  The room is empty.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Good.  Now there is a window.    Open it.      NEO    How do you know all this?  Morpheus laughs quietly.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    The answer is coming, Neo.  He opens the window.  The window howls into the room.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Outside, there's a scaffold.  You    can use it to get to the roof.  Leaning out the window, he sees that the scaffold is  several offices away.      NEO    No! It's too far away.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    There's a small ledge.  It's a    short climb.  You can make it.  Neo looks down; the building's glass wall vertigos into a  concrete chasm.      NEO    No way, no way, this is crazy.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Don't be controlled by your fear,    Neo.  There are only two ways out    of this building.  One is that    scaffold.  The other is in their    custody.  You take a chance either    way.  I leave it to you.  CLICK.  He hangs up.  Neo looks at the door, then back at  the scaffold.      NEO    This is insane!  Why is this    happening to me?  What did I do?    I'm nobody.  I didn't do anything.    Fuck! Fuck!  Fuck!  He climbs up onto the window ledge.  Hanging onto the  frame, he steps onto the small ledge.  The scaffold seems even farther away.      NEO    I'm going to die.  The WIND suddenly BLASTS up the face of the building,  knocking Neo off balance.  Recoiling, he clings harder to  the frame, and the phone falls out of his hand.  He watches as it is swallowed by the distance beneath him.      NEO    This is insane.  I can't do this!    Forget it!  He climbs back into the office just as a cop opens the  door.      NEO    I didn't do anything!  EXT.  SKYSCRAPER  The agents lead a handcuffed Neo out of the revolving  doors, forcing his head down as they push him into the  dark sedan.  Trinity watches in the rear view mirror of her  motorcycle.      TRINITY    Shit.  INT.  INTERROGATION ROOM - CLOSE ON CAMERA MONITOR  A wide angle view of a white roon, where Neo is sitting at  a table alone.  We MOVE INTO the monitor, ENTERING the room as if the  monitor were a window.  At the same moment, the door opens and the agents enter.  Smith sits down across from Neo.  A thick manila envelope  slaps down on the table between them.  Neo glances at the name on the file: "Anderson, Thomas  A."      AGENT SMITH    As you can see, we've had our eye    on you for some time now, Mr.    Anderson.  He opens the file.  Paper rattle marks the silence as he  flips several pages.  Neo cannot tell if he is looking at  the file or at him.      AGENT SMITH    It seems that you have been living    two lives.  In one life, you are    Thomas A. Anderson, program writer    for a respectable software    company.  You have a social    security number, you pay your    taxes and you help your land lady    carry out her garbage.  The pages continue to turn.      AGENT SMITH    The other life is lived in    computers where you go by the    hacker alias Neo, and are guilty    of virtually every computer crime    we have a law for, including the    unauthorized use of the D.M.V.    system for the removal of    automobile boots.  Neo feels himself sinking into a pit of shit.      AGENT SMITH    One of these,lives has a future.    One of them does not.  He closes the file.      AGENT SMITH    I'm going to be as forthcoming as    I can be, Mr. Anderson.  You are    here because we need your help.  He removes his sunglasses; his eyes are an unnatural ice-  blue.      AGENT SMITH    We know that you have been    contacted by a certain individual.    A man who calls himself Morpheus.    Whatever you think you know about    this man is irrelevant to the fact    that he is wanted for acts of    terrorism in more countries than    any other man in the world.  He is    considered by many authorities to    be the most dangerous man alive.  He leans closer.      AGENT SMITH    My colleagues believe that I am    wasting my time with you, but I    believe you want to do the right    thing.  It is obvious that you are    an intelligent man, Mr. Anderson,    and that you are interested in the    future.  That is why I believe you    are ready to put your past    mistakes behind you and get on    with your life.  Neo tries to match his stare.      AGENT SMITH    We are willing to wipe the slate    clean, to give you a fresh start    and all we are asking in return is    your cooperation in bringing a    known terrorist to justice.  Neo nods to himself.      NEO    Yeah.  Wow.  That sounds like a    real good deal.  But I think I    have a better one.  How about I    give you the finger --  He does.      NEO    And you can cram that file up your    Secret Service sphincter.  Agent Smith puts his glasses back on.      AGENT SMITH    You disappoint me, Mr. Anderson.      NEO    You ain't seen nothing yet.      AGENT SMITH    The irony of your situation is    that you have no choice.      NEO    You can't scare me with this    gestapo crap.  I know my rights.    I want my phone call.  Agent Smith smiles.      AGENT SMITH    And tell me, Mr. Anderson, what    good is a phone call iy you are    unable to speak?  The question unnerves Neo and strangely, he begins to  feel the muscles in his jaw tighten.  The standing agents snicker, watching Neo's confusion  grow into panic.  Neo feels his lips grow soft and sticky as they slowly  seal shut, melding into each other until all trace of his  mouth is gone.  Wild with fear, he lunges for the door but the agents  restrain him holding him in the chair.      AGENT SMITH    You are going to help us, Mr.    Anderson, whether you want to or    not.  Smith nods and the other two rip open his shirt.  From a case taken out of his suit coat, Smith removes a  long, fiber-optic wire tap.  Neo struggles helplessly as Smith dangles the wire over  his exposed abdomen.  Horrified, he watches as the  electronic device animates, become an organic creature  that resembles a hybrid of an insect and a fluke worm.  Thin, whisker-like tendrils reach out and probe into  Neo's navel.  He bucks wildly as Smith drops the creature  which looks for a moment like an uncut umbilical cord --  Before it begins to burrow its, tail thrashing as it  worms its way inside.  INT.  NEO'S APARTMENT - NIGHT  Screaming, Neo bolts upright in bed.  He realizes that he is home.  Was it a dream?  His mouth  is normal.  His stomach looks fine.  He starts to take a  deep, everything-is-okay breath, when --  The PHONE RINGS.  It almost stops his heart.  It CONTINUES RINGING,  building pressure in the room, forcing him up out of bed,  sucking him in with an almost gravitational force.  He answers it, saying nothing.      MORPHEUS (V.O.).    This line is tapped, so I must be    brief.      NEO    The agents --      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    They got to you first, but they've    underestimated how important you    are.  If they knew what I know,    you would probably be dead.  Neo feels sick.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    I don't know what you are thinking    right now but I want you to    understand that I will not give up    on you until you give up on me.  Neo's throat cracks, dry as the Sahara.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Do you still want to meet?      NEO    ... Yes.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Take the Howard line south.  CLICK.  He closes his eyes, unsure of what he has done.  EXT.  EL TRAIN  An EL TRAIN RAGES against its metal rails.  INT.  TRAIN  It is three a.m., and the train carries the usual urban  night crawlers.  Neo sits alone, eyes shifting, watching  everything nervously.  There is a METAL BANG and TRAIN CLATTER fills the car as  the door is opened.  Neo turns and sees a large man enter.  He is wearing  sunglasses and a black leather jacket.  His name is APOC  and he walks straight at Neo.      APOC    Come with me.  Neo stands just as the door at the opposite end opens and  two police officers rush in, drawing their guns.  Apoc grabs Neo, muscling him to the nearest exit.  There  is no upcoming station.  Apoc yanks the emergency brake and the train buckles  against its own speed.  The cops are thrown back.  Neo  slams against the metal rail.  The doors open onto nothing and just when Neo regains his  balance, Apoc shoves him backwards --  He flies out from the train, arms windrilling as he falls  from, the raised tracks --  Hurtling towards a busy city street when, out of nowhere,  a truck races under him and --  He crashes into a large dumpster-bed filled with empty  boxes.  INT.  TRUCK BED  Still shaking his head, Neo realizes he is not alone.  A  man named Cabie is aiming a big gun at him.  Trinity is  next to him, talking into a cellular phone.      TRINITY    We got him.  Call the chop-shop.  She hangs up.      TRINITY    Listen to me, Neo.  You have to,    trust us.  She tears off a long strip of black duct-tape and reaches  for his face.      NEO    What are you doing?      TRINITY    This has to be done for your    protection and ours.  She seals his eyes shut with the tape.      TRINITY    You can't understand right now,    but if you're not one of us,    you're one of them.  EXT.  LOWER WACKER  A featureless black van glides up to a staircase that  curls down from the city's surface.  trinity guides the blind Neo down the steps.  The back of  the van slaps open, revealing a young, skinny man who  looks to be still in his teens, wearing an outfit that is  a cross between a surgeon and a telephone repair man.  His name is GIZMO and he smiles lewdly at Trinity,  exposing his teeth that are wired with weird-looking  braces.      GIZMO    Va va va voom.  Still the hottest    software around.      TRINITY    Hello, Gizmo.  Neo hears the voices around him.      GIZMO    This is really the guy?  The guy    that Morpheus thinks --      TRINITY    Yeah.      GIZMO    But he's so old.      TRINITY    Are you going to help us or aren't    you?      GIZMO    Hacksaw.  Load up the copper-top    and let's get the hell outta here.  Hacksaw is a huge man in a leather welder's apron.  He  shoulders Neo and hauls him into the van.  A moment later the green lights of Lower Wacker curve  over the tinted windshield as the van rushes through the  underworld.  INT.  VAN  The chop-shop is filled with electronic gadgets, wired to  meters and monitors.  There are shelves lined with  medical supplies and rows of hanging tools, knives,  cleavers, and stainless steel clamps.  Neo is strapped down to an ambulance cart, listening  nervously as Gizmo gets to work.      GIZMO    Okay, first we take a little look    under the hood.  He pulls up the goggles hanging at his neck and they  blink to life with tiny halogen lights and lenses irising  to varying levels of magnification.      GIZMO    You're going to feel a little    prick.  He inserts acupuncture-like needles into Neo's lower  abdomen.  The needles are wired to video monitors.  Hacksaw pilots the fiber-optic lens.      NEO    What are you doing?      TRINITY    We think you're bugged.  We can't    take you to Morpheus until you're    clean.      GIZMO    There it is.  On a monitor, we see the bug nestled in among Neols large  intestines.      GIZMO    Hit him with 10 ccs of local.  Hacksaw loads a hypodermic needle and pumps an anesthetic  around Neols navel.  Using a device that looks like a miniature speculum,  Gizmo inserts a knuckled dental pick.  Typing into a  calculator keypad wired to the pick, he automates the  tip.  On the monitor, we watch it telescope out and the end  separate into a tiny hooked, metal claw.      GIZMO    Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.  The claw snags hold of the bug.      GIZMO    Gotcha!  But the bug reacts violently.  Neo screams as it wraps  itself around the soft tissue web of intestine.      GIZMO    Shit.      TRINITY    What's happening?      GIZMO    I don't know.  They've never done    that before.  Neo writhes in pain.      GIZMO    Hold him down.      NEO    Jesus!  God!      TRINITY    Do something!      GIZMO    I got it!  Maybe we can stun it.      TRINITY    Are you crazy?  That will kill    him.  We watch Neo, who can't see what they are talking about.      GIZMO    It'll work.  Come on, do it or    Hacksaw will.      NEO    Do what?  The instant he hears the word, he knows.      TRINITY    Clear.      NEO    Oh, shit --  The cry is frozen in his mouth as the paddles hit his  chest.  Gizmo wrestles with the bug.      GIZMO    Hit him again!  Again, the electricity convulses through him as Gizmo  yanks the speculum out.      GIZMO    Got it!  Trinity touches Neo, who is just beginning to breathe.  She eases the tape off his eyes.      TRINITY    Neo, are you okay?  He nods.      TRINITY    It's over.  We got it.  Hanging from the claw pick is the inanimate metal wire-  tap.      GIZMO    Nasty little bugger, ain't it?  INT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE  The van stops in a deserted alley behind a forgotten  hotel.  The doors open and Trinity helps Neo get out.      TRINITY    Thanks for your help, Gizmo.      GIZMO    I just hope the man knows what    he's doing.  She nods then climbs out of the van.  Gizmo ogles the  tight leather pants.      GIZMO    Goddamn, what I wouldn't give for    a copy of that software.  Trinity turns around.      TRINITY    Gizmo, you don't have the hardware    to handle this software.  He howls with adolescent laughter as the van pulls away.  Trinity turns to Neo.      TRINITY    Let's go.  He's waiting.  INT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE  It is a place of putrefying elegance, a rotting host of  urban maggotry.  Trinity leads Neo from the stairwell down the hall of the  thirteenth floor.  They stop outside room 1313.      TRINITY    This is it.  Neo can hear his own heart pounding.      TRINITY    Let me give one piece of advice.    Be honest.  He knows more than you    can possibly imagine.  INT.  ROOM 1313  Across the room, a dark figure stares out the tall  windows veiled with decaying lace.  He turns and his  smile lights up the room.      MORPHEUS    At last.  He wears a long black coat and his eyes are invisible  behind circular mirrored glasses.  He strides to Neo and they shake hands.      MORPHEUS    Welcome, Neo.  As you no doubt    have guessed, I am Morpheus.      NEO    It's an honor.      MORPHEUS    Please.  Come.  Sit.  He nods to Trinity.      MORPHEUS    Thank you, Trinity.  She bows her head sharply and exits through a door to an  adjacent room.  They sit across from one another in cracked, burgundy-  leather chairs.      MORPHEUS    I imagine, right now, you must be    feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling    down the rabbit hole?      NEO    You could say that.      MORPHEUS    I can see it in your eyes.  You    have the look of a man who accepts    what he sees because he is    expecting to wake up.  A smile, razor-thin, curls the corner of his lips.      MORPHEUS    Ironically, this is not far from    the truth.  But I'm getting ahead    of myself.  Can you tell me, Neo,    why are you here?      NEO    You're Morpheus, you're a legend.    Most hackers would die to meet    you.      MORPHEUS    Yes.  Thank you.  But I think we    both know there's more to it than    that.  Do you believe in fate, Neo?      NEO    No.      MORPHEUS    Why not?      NEO    Because I don't like the idea that    I'm not in control of my life.      MORPHEUS    I know exactly what you mean.  Again, that smile that could cut glass.      MORPHEUS    Let me tell you why you are here.    You are here because you have the    gift.      NEO    What gift?      MORPHEUS    I've watched you, Neo.  You do not    use a computer like a tool.  You    use it like it was part of    yourself.  What you can do inside    a computer is not normal.  I know.    I've seen it.  What you do is    magic.  Neo shrugs.      NEO    It's not magic.      MORPHEUS    But it is, Neo.  It is.  How else    would you describe what has been    happening to you?  He leans forward.      MORPHEUS    We are trained in this world to    accept only what is rational and    logical.  Have you ever wondered    why?  Neo shakes his head.      MORPHEUS    As children, we do not separate    the possible from the impossible    which is why the younger a mind is    the easier it is to free while a    mind like yours can be very    difficult.      NEO    Free from what?      MORPHEUS    From the Matrix.  Neo locks at his eyes but only sees a reflection of  himself.      MORPHEUS    Do you want to know what it is,    Neo?  Neo swallows and nods his head.      MORPHEUS    It's that feeling you have had all    your life.  That feeling that    something was wrong with the    world.  You don't know what it is    but it's there, like a splinter in    your mind, driving you mad,    driving you to me.  But what is    it?  The LEATHER CREAKS as he leans back.      MORPHEUS    The Matrix is everywhere, it's all    around us, here even in this room.    You can see it out your window, or    on your television.  You feel it    when you go to work, or go to    church or pay your taxes.  It is    the world that has been pulled    over your eyes to blind you from    the truth.      NEO    What truth?      MORPHEUS    That you are a slave, Neo.  That    you, like everyone else, was born    into bondage...    ... kept inside a prison that you    cannot smell, taste, or touch.  A    prison for your mind.  Outside, the WIND BATTERS a loose PANE of glass.      MORPHEUS    Unfortunately, no one can be told    what the Matrix is.  You have to    see it for yourself.      NEO    How?      MORPHEUS    Hold out your hands.  In Neo's right hand, Morpheus drops a red pill.      MORPHEUS    This is your last chance.  After    this, there is no going back.  In his left, a blue pill.      MORPHEUS    You take the blue pill and the    story ends.  You wake in your bed    and you believe whatever you want    to believe.  The pills in his open hands are reflected in the glasses.      MORPHEUS    You take the red pill and you stay    in Wonderland and I show you how    deep the rabbit-hole goes.  Neo feels the smooth skin of the capsules, with the  moisture growing in his palms.      MORPHEUS    Remember that all I am offering is    the truth.  Nothing more.  Neo opens his mouth and swallows the red pill.  The  Cheshire smile returns.      MORPHEUS    Follow me.  He leads Neo into the other room, which is cramped with  high-tech equipment, glowing ash-bliie and electric green  from the racks of monitors.  Trinity, Apoc and Cypher look up as they enter.      CYPHER    Shit.      TRINITY    I knew he would.  Cypher saddles up to Morpheus, talking in a hushed tone  away from, Neo.      CYPHER    Morpheus, I know what you believe    but I think this is a mistake.    We're rushing him.  He's old.  I'm    afraid he might pop.      MORPHEUS    Haven't I always told you, Cypher,    not to let fear control your life.    Apoc, are we on-line?  Neo recognizes the large man from the El train.      APOC    Almost.  He and Trinity are working quickly, hardwiring a complex  system of monitors, modules and drives.      NEO    Apoc?  You wrote the Four Horsemen    Virus.      APOC    That's right.      MORPHEUS    Neo, time is always against us.    Will you take a seat there?  In the center of the room sits a chair.  Near the chair  is an old oval dressing mirror that is cracked.      MORPHEUS    I imagine you know sonething about    virtual reality.  Neo sits and Trinity begins gently fixing white electrode  disks to his head, arns, and the back of his neck.      NEO    A little.      MORPHEUS    Tell me about it.      NEO    Essentially, it's a hardware    system that uses an apparatus;    headgear, gloves and whatever to    make you feel that you are in a    computer program.      MORPHEUS    If the virtual reality apparatus,    as you called it, was wired to all    of your senses and controlled them    completely, would you be able to    tell the difference between the    virtual world and the real world?      NEO    You might not, no.      MORPHEUS    No, you wouldn't.  Neo whispers to Trinity.      NEO    You did all this?  She nods, placing a set of headphones over his ears.  They are wired to an old hotel phone.      MORPHEUS    The pill you took is part of a    trace program.  It's going to make    things feel a bit strange.  Distantly, through the ear phones, he hears Apoc POUNDING  on a KEYBOARD.  Sweat beads his face.  His eyes blink and  twitch when he notices the mirror.  Wide-eyed he stares as it begins to heal itself, a  webwork of cracks that slowly run together as though the  mirror were becoming liquid.      NEO    Shit...  Cypher works with Apoc checking reams of phosphorescent  data.  Trinity monitors Neo's electric vital signs.  Neo reaches out to touch the mirror and his fingers  disappear beneath the rippling surface.  Quickly, he tries to pull his fingers out but the mirror  stretches in long rubbery strands like mirrored-taffy  stuck to his fingertips.      NEO    What is this?  Mescaline?      MORPHEUS    Just relax, Neo.  The strands thin like rubber cement as he pulls away,  until the fragile wisps of mirror thread break.  With the TINKLING of GLASS, shimmering snowflakes  of electric-blinking mercury fall, hit the ground, and  fade.  He looks at his hand; fingers distended into mirrored  icicles that begin to melt rapidly, dripping, running  like wax down his fingers, spreading across his palms  where he sees his face reflected.      NEO    Uh-oh...      TRINITY    It's going into replication.      MORPHEUS    Apoc?      APOC    Still nothing.  Morpheus takes out a cellular phone and dials a number.      MORPHEUS    Tank, we're going to need the    signal soon.  Stay calm, Neo.  The mirror gel seems to come to life, racing, crawling up  his arns like hundreds of insects.      NEO    It's cold.  The mirror creeps up his neck as Neo begins to panic,  tipping his head as though he were sinking into the  mirror, trying to keep his mouth up.      NEO    It's all over me --  Morpheus is right next to him, with the phone.      TRINITY    I got a fibrillation!      CYPHER    I knew it, I knew it...      MORPHEUS    Shit!  Apoc?  Streams of mercury run from Neo's nose.      APOC    Targeting... almost there.  An ALARM, on Trinity's monitor ERUPTS.      TRINITY    He's going into arrest!      CYPHER    He's gonna pop!      APOC    Lock!  I got him!      MORPHEUS    Now, Tank now!  His eyes tear with mirror, rolling up and closing as a  high-pitched ELECTRIC SCREAM ERUPTS in the headphones --  It is a piercing SHRIEK like a computer calling to  another computer --  Neo's body arches in agony and we are pulled like we were  pulled into the holes of the phone  Sucked into his SCREAM and swallowed by darkness.  INT.  POWER PLANT - CLOSE ON MAN'S BODY  Floating in a womb-red amnion.  His body spasms, fighting against the thick gelatin.  Metal tubes, surreal versions of hospital tubes, obscure  his face.  Other lines like IVs are connected to limbs  and cover his genitals.  He is struggling desperately now.  Air bubbles into the  Jell-O but does not break the surface.  Pressing up, the surface distends, stretching like a red  rubber coccon.  Unable to breathe, he fights wildly to stand, clawing at  the thinning elastic shroud --  Until it ruptures, a hole widening around his mouth as he  sucks for air.  Tearing himself free, he emerges from the  cell.  It is Neo.  He is bald and naked, his body slick with gelatin.  Dizzy, nauseous, he waits for his vision to focus.  He is standing in an oval capsule of clear alloy filled  with red gelatin, the surface of which has solidified  like curdled milk.  The IVs in his arms are plugged into outlets that appear  to be grafted to his flesh.  He feels the weight of another cable and reaches to the  back of his head where he finds an enormous coaxial  plugged and locked into the base of his skull.  He tries to pull it out but it would be easier to pull  off a finger.  To either side he sees other tube-shaped pods filled with  red gelatin; beneath the wax-like surface, pale and  motionless, he sees other human beings.  Fanning out in a circle, there are more.  All connected  to a center core, each capsule like a red, dimly glowing  petal attached to a black metal stem.  Above him, level after, level, the stem rises seemingly  forever.  He moves to the foot of the capsule and looks  out.  The image assaults his mind.  Towers of glowing petals spiral up to incomprehensible  heights, disappearing down into a dim murk like an  underwater abyss.  His sight is blurred and warped, exaggerating the  intensity of the vision.  The sound of the PLANT is like  the sound of the ocean heard from inside the belly of  Leviathan.  Below Neo, a petal detaches from the stem, bearing away  the body of an old man like an automated barge even as a  new pod rises up and plugs itself into the empty space.  Inside the new capsule, its surface more translucent and  pinkish in color, Neo sees a small baby.  From above, a machine drops directly in front of Neo.  He swallows his scream as it seems to stare at him.  It is almost insect-like in its design; beautiful  housings of alloyed metal covering organic-like systems  of hard and soft polymers.  A black particle beam washes over Neo, he reacts in pain  as the scanner seems to expose the nervous system wired  to the coaxial cable at his cerebral cortex.  At the back of the neck, the cable lock spins and opens,  disengaging.  The cable pulls itself free, a long clear plastic needle  and cerebrum-chip slides from the anterior of Neols skull  with an ooze of blood and spinal fluid.  The other  connective hoses snap free and snake away as --  The back of the unit opens and a tremendous vacuum, like  an airplane door opening, sucks the gelatin and then Neo  into a black hole.  INT.  WASTE LINE  The pipe is a waste disposal system and Neo falls,  sliding with the clot of gelatin.  Banking through pipe spirals and elbows, flushing up  through grease traps clogged with cily clunps of  cellulite.  Neo begins to drown when he is suddenly snatched from the  flow of waste.  The metallic cable then lifts, pulling him up into the  belly of the futuristic flying nachine, hovering inside  the sewer main line.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  The metal harness opens and drops the half-conscious Neo  onto the floor.  Human hands and arms help him up as he finds himself  looking straight at Morpheus.  Trinity and Apoc.  And others, dressed in bizarre, high-  tech combat gear.  Morpheus smiles.      MORPHEUS    Welcome to the real world, Neo.  Neo passes out.          FADE TO BLACK.  We have no sense of time.  We hear VOICES whispering.      MAN (O.S.)    Do you think Morpheus is right?    Do you think he could be the One?      WOMAN (O.S.)    It doesn't matter now.  But if    he's wrong...  FADE IN:  NEO'S POV  Neo's eyes flutter open.  We see Trinity's face above us,  angelic in the fluorescent glow of a light stick.  ANGLE ON NEO      NEO    ... am I dead?      TRINITY    Far from it.          FADE TO BLACK.  FADE IN:  ANGLE ON NEO  He opens his eyes again, something tingling through him.  He focuses and sees his body pierced with dozens of  acupuncture-like needles wired to a strange device.      DOZER    He needs a lot of work.      MORPHEUS    I know.  Dozer and Morpheus are operating on Neo.      NEO    What are you doing?      MORPHEUS    Your muscles have atrophied.    We're rebuilding them.  Fluorescent light sticks burn unnaturally bright.      NEO    Why do my eyes hurt?      MORPHEUS    You've never used them before.  Morpheus takes his sunglasses off and puts them on Neo.  Neo lays back.      MORPHEUS    Rest, Neo.  The answers are    coming.  INT.  NEO'S ROOM  Neo wakes up from a deep sleep, feeling better.  He is  wearing a black tank top and shorts.  He begins to examine himself.  There is a futuristic IV  plugged into the jack in his forearm.  He pulls it out,  staring at the grafted outlet.  He feels his bald head.  His fingers find and explore the  large outlet in the base of his skull.  Just as he starts to come unglued, Morpheus opens the  door.      NEO    Morpheus, what's happened to me?    What is this place?      MORPHEUS    More important than what is when?      NEO    When?      MORPHEUS    You believe the year is 1997 when    in fact it is much closer to 2197.    I can't say for certain what year    it is because we honestly do not    know.  The wind is knocked from Neo's chest.      NEO    That's not possible.      MORPHEUS    I promised you the truth, Neo, and    the truth is that the world you    were living in was a lie.      NEO    How?      MORPHEUS    I'll show you.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  Like a sleepwalker, Neo follows Morpheus through the ship.      MORPHEUS    This is my ship, the    Nebuchadnezzar.  It's a    hovercraft.  Small like a    submarine.  It's dark.  It's    cramped and cold.  But it's home.  They climb a ladder up to the main deck.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Everyone is there.      MORPHEUS    This is the main deck.  You know    most of my crew.  Trinity smiles and nods.      MORPHEUS    The ones you don't know.  That's    Mouse and Switch.  The two big    guys are Tank and Dozer.  The names and faces wash meaninglessly over Neo.      MORPHEUS    And this, this is the Core.  This    is where we broadcast our pirate    signal and hack into the Matrix.  It is a swamp of bizarre electronic equipment.  Vines of  coaxial hang and snake to and from huge monolithic  battery slabs, a black portable satellite dish and banks  of little systems and computer monitors.  At the center of the web, there are six ectoskeleton  chairs made of a poly-alloy frame and suspension harness.  Near the circle of chairs is the control console and  operator's station where the network is monitored.      MORPHEUS    Help him, Trinity.  Neo allows himself to be helped into one of the chairs.      MORPHEUS    Do you remember when I asked you    about an apparatus that could turn    a virtual reality into reality?  Neo nods.      MORPHEUS    It's right here.  He touches Neo's head.      MORPHEUS    And it's accessed here.  Neo feels Morpheus guiding a coaxial line into the jack  at the back of his neck.  The cable has the same kind of  cerebellum chip we saw inside the plant.      MORPHEUS    This will feel a little weird.  There are several disturbing NOISES as he works the  needle in.  We MOVE IN as Neo's shoulders bunch and his face tightens  into a grimace until a loud CLICK fires and his ears pop  like when you equalize them underwater.  He relaxes, opening his eyes as we pull back to a feeling  of weightlessness inside another place --  INT.  CONSTRUCT  Neo is standing in an empty, blank-white space.      MORPHEUS    This is the Construct.  Startled, Neo whips around and finds Morpheus now in the  room with him.      MORPHEUS    It is our loading program.  We can    load anything from clothes, to    weapons, to training simulations.    Anything we need.  Morpheus walks past Neo and when Neo turns he sees the  two leather chairs from the hotel set up in front of a  large-screen television.      MORPHEUS    Sit down.  Neo stands at the back of the chair as Morpheus sits.      NEO    Right now, we're inside a computer    program?      MORPHEUS    Wild, isn't it?  Neo's hands run over the cracked leather.      NEO    This isn't real?      MORPHEUS    What is real?  How do you define    real?  If you're talking about    your senses, what you feel, taste,    smell, or see, then all you're    talking about are electrical    signals interpreted by your brain.  He picks up a remote control and clicks ON the  TELEVISION.  We drift through the Windy City circa 1996.      MORPHEUS    This is the Chicago you know.    Chicago as it was at the end of    the twentieth century.  This    Chicago exists only as part of a    neural-interactive simulation that    we call the Matrix.  We GLIDE AT the television as he changes the channel.      MORPHEUS    You have been living inside    Baulliaurd's vision, inside the    map, not the territory.  This is    Chicago as it exists today.  The sky is an endless sea of black and green bile.  The  earth, scorched and split like burnt flesh, spreads out  beneath us as we ENTER the television.      MORPHEUS    'The desert of the real.'  In the distance, we see the ruins of a future Chicago  protruding from the wasteland like the blackened ribs of  a long-dead corpse.      MORPHEUS    We are, right now, miles below the    earth's surface.  The only place    humans can survive outside the    Matrix is underground.  Still MOVING, we TURN and find Neo and Morpheus; the  chairs now sitting in the middle of the black desert.  Dizzy, Neo holds onto the chair.      NEO    What happened?      MORPHEUS    It started early in the twenty-    first century, with the birth of    artificial intelligence, a    singular consciousness that    spawned an entire race of    machines.  In his sunglasses, we see storm clouds gather.      MORPHEUS    At first all they wanted was to be    treated as equals, entitled to the    same human inalienable rights.    Whatever they were given, it was    not enough.  In the circular window of the glasses, EXPLOSIONS light  up a bloody battle field.      MORPHEUS    We don't know who struck first.    Us or them.  But sometime at the    end of the twenty-first century    the battle was joined.  We MOVE INTO his glasses and the war surrounds us.      MORPHEUS    The war raged for generations and    turned the face of our planet from    green and blue to black and red.  At last we see the Sentinels; killing machines that are  at once terrifying and beautiful.  They have an organic  architecture like a microbiotic organism, that is  perpetually in motion.  The Sentinel cracks the body armor of a soldier,  splitting open the soft, stearing meat inside.      MORPHEUS    It scorched and burned the sky.    Without the sun, the machines    sought out a new energy source to    survive.  The Sentinel locks up, as heat lightning of black ink  bursts against the sky, spreading into a permanent cloud  of stain.      MORPHEUS    They discovered a new form of    fusion.  All that was required to    initiate the reaction was a small    electric charge.  Throughout human    history we have been dependent on    machines to survive.  Fate, it    seems, is not without a sense of    irony.  We return to the power plant that Neo escaped from where  we see human beings looking almost blissful in their  gelatin cocoons.      MORPHEUS    The human body generates more bio-    electricity than a 120-volt    battery and over 25,000 B.T.U.'s    of body heat.  Outside, spreading all around the power plant, beneath a  breathing greenhouse, are the growing fields.      MORPHEUS    We are, as an energy source,    easily renewable and completely    recyclable, the dead liquified and    fed intravenously to the living.  Huge farm-like reapers are harvesting the crop.      MORPHEUS    All they needed to control this    new battery was something to    occupy our mind.  We see inside a clear tubular husk.  Floating in viscous  fluid, there is a human fetus; its soft skull already  growing around the brain-jack.      MORPHEUS    And so they built a prison out of    our past, wired it to our brains    and turned us into slaves.  We PULL BACK to find the image is now on the television  and we are again inside the white space of the Construct.      NEO    No!  I don't believe it!  It's not    possible!      MORPHEUS    I didn't say that it would be    easy, Neo.  I just said that it    would be the truth.  The room without walls begins to spin.      NEO    Stop!  Let me out!  I want out!  INT.  MAIN DECK  His eyes snap open and he thrashes against the chair,  trying to rip the cable from the back of his neck.      NEO    Get this thing out of me!      TRINITY    Easy, Neo.  Easy.  Dozer holds him while Trinity unlocks it.  Once it's out,  he tears away from them, falling as he trips free of the  harness.      NEO    Don't touch me!  Get away from me!  On his hands and knees, he reels as the world spins.  Sweat pours off him as a pressure builds inside his skull  as if his brian had been put into a centrifuge.      CYPHER    He's going to pop!  Vomiting violently, Neo pitches forward and blacks out.  INT.  NEO'S ROOM  He blinks, regaining consciousness.  The room is dark.  Neo is stretched out on his bed.      NEO    I can't go back, can I?  Morpheus sitting like a shadow on a chair in the far  corner.      MORPHEUS    No.  But if you could, would you    really want to?  Neo isn't sure of that answer.      MORPHEUS    I feel that I owe you an apology.    There is a rule that we do not    free a mind once it reaches a    certain age.  It is dangerous.    They have trouble letting go..    Their mind turns against them.    I've seen it happen.  I broke the    rule because I had to.  He stares into the darkness, confessing as much to  himself as Neo.      MORPHEUS    When the Matrix was first built    there was a man born inside that    had the ability to change what he    wanted, to remake the Matrix as he    saw fit.  It was this man that    freed the first of us and taught    us the secret of the war; control    the Matrix and you control the    future.  He pauses.      MORPHEUS    When he died, the Oracle at the    temple of Zion prophesied his    return and envisioned an end to    the war and freedom for our    people.  That is why there are    those of us that have spent our    entire lives searching the Matrix,    looking for him.  Neo can feel his eyes on him.      MORPHEUS    I did what I did, because I    believe we have been brought here    for a reason, Neo.  You are here    to serve a purpose, just as I am    here to serve mine.      NEO    I told you I don't believe in    fate.  Morpheus smiles, leaning towards hin.      MORPHEUS    But I do, Neo.  I do.  He stands up.      MORPHEUS    Get some rest.  You're going to    need it.      NEO    For what?      MORPHEUS    Your training.    INT.  HOVERCRAFT  There is no morning; there is only darkness and then the  fluorescent light sticks flicker on.  INT.  NEO'S ROOM  Neo is awake in his bed, staring up at the lights.  The  door opens and TA.NK steps inside.      TANK    Morning.  Did you sleep?      NEO    No.      TANK    You will tonight.  I guarantee it.    I'm Tank.  I'll be your operator.  He offers his hand and Neo shakes it.  He notices that  Tank doesn't have any jacks.      NEO    You don't have...      TANK    Any holes?  Nope.  Me and my    brother Dozer, we are 100 percent    pure, old fashioned, home-grown    human.  Born free.  Right here in    the real world.  Genuine child of    Zion.      NEO    Zion?      TANK    Zion is the place, man.  You'll    see it one day.  Last human city.    All we got left.  Tank smiles.      TANK    Goddamn, I got to tell you I'm    fairly excited to see what you are    capable of.  I mean if Morpheus is    right and all.  We're not supposed    to talk.about any of that, but if    you are, well then this is an    exciting time.  We got a lot to do    so let's get to it.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Neo is plugged in, hanging in one of the suspension  chairs.      TANK    We're supposed to load all these    operations programs first, but    this is some major boring shit.    Why don't we start something a    little fun?  Tank smiles as he plops into his operator's chair.  He  begins flipping through a tall carousel loaded with micro  discs.      TANK    How about sore combat training?  Neo reads the label on the disk.      NEO    Jiujitsu?  I'm going to learn    jujitsu?  Tank slides the disk into Neo's supplement drive.      NEO    No way.  Smiling, Tank punches the "load" code.  His body jumps against the harness as his eyes clamp  shut.  The monitors kick wildly as his heart pounds,  adrenaline surges, and his brain sizzles.  An instant later his eyes snap open.      NEO    Holy shit!      TANK    Hey, Mikey, he likes it!  Ready    for more?      NEO    Hell yes!  INT.  MAIN DECK - CLOSE ON COMPUTER MONITOR - LATER  as grey pixels slowly fill a small, half-empty box.  It  is a meter displaying how much download time is left.  The title bar reads:  "Combat Series 10 of 12," file  categories flashing beneath it:  Savate, Jujitsu, Ken Po,  Drunken Boxing...  Morpheus walks in.      MORPHEUS    How is he?  Tank looks at his watch, rubs his eyes.      TANK    Ten hours straight.  He's a    machine.  Neo's body spasms and relaxes as his eyes open, breath  hissing from his lips.  He looks like he just orgasmed.  He locks at Morpheus.      NEO    This is incredible.  I know Kung    Fu.  Morpheus sits in the drive chair next to hin.  He nods to  Tank.      MORPHEUS    Show me.  INT.  DOJO  They are standing in a very sparse japanese-style dojo.      MORPHEUS    This is a sparring program,    similar to the programmed reality    of the Matrix.  Consider this your    first lesson.  He assumes a fighting stance.      MORPHEUS    Attack me.  Neo assumes a similar stance, cautiously circling until  he gives a short cry and launches a furious attack.  It is like a Jackie Chan movie at high speed, fists and  feet striking from every angle as Neo presses his attack  --  But each and every blow is blocked by effortless speed.  INT.  MAIN DECK  While their minds battle in the programmed reality, the  two bodies appear quite serene, suspended in the drive  chairs.  Tank monitors their life systems noticing that Neo is  wildly and chaotically lit up as opposed to the slow and  steady rhythm of Morpheus.  INT.  MESS HALL  Dinner is up.  Everyone is eating bowls of single-cell  protein.  It has a cottage cheese consistency.  MOUSE bursts in the room.      MOUSE    Morpheus is fighting Neo!  All at once they bolt for the door.  INT.  DOJO  Neo's face is knotted, teeth clenched, as he hurls  himself at Morpheus.      MORPHEUS    Good.  Adaption.  Improvisation.    But your weakness isn't your    technique.  Morpheus attacks him and it is like nothing we have seen.  His feet and fists are everywhere taking Neo apart.  For  every blow Neo blocks, five more hit their marks until --  Neo falls.  Panting, on his hands and knees, blood spits fror, his  mouth speckling the white floor of the Dojo.      MORPHEUS    How did I beat you?      NEO    You -- You're too fast.      MORPHEUS    Do you think my being faster,    stronger has anything to do with    my muscles in this place?  Neo is frustrated, still unable to catch his breath.      MORPHEUS    Do you believe that's air you are    breathing now?  Neo squints at him.      MORPHEUS    If you can free your mind, the    body will follow.  Neo stands, nodding.      MORPHEUS    Again.  Their fists fly with  pneumatic speed.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Everyone is gathered behind Tank, watching the fight,  like watching a game of Mortal Combat.      CABLE    Jeezus Keerist!  That boy is fast!      MOUSE    You ever seen anyone that fast    that soon, Tank?      TANK    Never.      APOC    Morpheus is right.  He's got to be    the one.  INT.  DOJO  The speed of the blows rises like a drum solo that seems  impossible to sustain.  Neo's face sheds its mask of calm  with a scream.  He wants to beat Morpheus bad.  Finally a single blow catches Morpheus on the side of the  head, knocking his glasses off.  INT.  MAIN DECK  There are several gasps.      MOUSE    I don't believe it!  INT.  DOJO  Morpheus rubs his face.      MORPHEUS    You are angry with me.  Neo pants.      NEO    I, uh... maybe.      MORPHEUS    It's all right.  It's natural.      NEO    I feel better.      MORPHEUS    Good, good.  Anger is a gift, Neo,    but it's a heavy one.  Morpheus smiles.      MORPHEUS    Tank, load the jump program.  Neo straightens as the dojo DISSOLVES away like a curtain  lifting, leaving the two men now standing on a building  rooftop in a city skyline.      MORPHEUS    You have to learn to let go of    that anger.  You must let go of    everything.  A WIND HOWLS, whipping Morpheus' long coat to the side.      MORPHEUS    You must empty yourself to free    your mind.  Morpheus spins, running hard at the edge of the rooftop.  And jumps.  He sails through the air, his coat billowing  out behind him like a cape --  Somersaults once and lands on the rooftop across the  street.      NEO    Shit.  Neo looks down at the street twenty floors below, then at  Morpheus an impossible fifty feet away.      NEO    Okie dokie.  He takes a deep breath.      NEO    Yeah.  Free my mind.  Right.  No    problem.  He concentrates.  Runs.  INT.  MAIN DECK  They are transfixed.      CABLE    He's gonna make it.      APOC    No way.  Not possible.      MOUSE    No one's ever made their first    jump.      SWITCH    What if he does?      APOC    He won't.      TANK    It's never been done.  Trinity stares at the screen, her fists clenching as she  whispers.      TRINITY    Come on.  EXT.  ROOFTOP  Summoning every ounce of strength in his legs, Neo  launches himself into the air in a single maniacal shriek  --  But comes up drastically short.  His eyes widen as he plummets.  Stories fly by, the  ground rushing up at him, but as he hits --  The ground gives way, stretchinp like a trapeze net.  He bounces and flips, slowly coming to a rest, flat on  his back.  He laughs, a bit unsure, wiping the wind-blown tears from  his face.  Morpheus exits the building and helps him to his feet.      MORPHEUS    Everyone falls the first time.  Neo nods quietly.      MORPHEUS    If you never know failure, how can    you know success?  INT.  MAIN DECK  They break up.      MOUSE    What does it mean?      CABLE    It doesn't mean anything.      CYPHER    Everyone falls, right, Trinity?  But Trinity has left.  Neo's eyes open as Tank eases the plug out.  He tries to  move and groans, cradling his ribs.  While Tank helps Morpheus, Neo spits blood into his hand.      NEO    I thought it wasn't real.  Neo stares at the blood.      NEO    If you are killed in the Matrix,    you die here?      MORPHEUS    The body cannot live without the    mind.  INT.  NEO'S ROOM  Trinity enters from the hall, carrying a try of food.      TRINITY    Neo, I saved you some dinner --  She sees him passed out on the bed.  She sets the tray  down and pulls the blanket over him.  She pauses, her face close to his, then inhales lightly,  breathing in the scent of him, before slowly pulling away.  It seems the moment she closes the door, he wakes with a  start, unsure of where he is.  After a moment, he gets  out of bed.  INT.  HALL  The ship is quiet and dark.  Everyone is asleep.  INT.  MAIN DECK  The core glows with monitor light.  Cypher is in the  operator's chair as Neo cones up behind him.      CYPHER    Whoa!  Shit, Neo, you scared the    bejeezus out of ne.      NEO    Sorry.      CYPHER    No, it's all right.      NEO    What are you doing?      CYPHER    Midnight watch.  Neo's eyes light up as he steps closer to the screens  that seem alive with a constant flow of data.      NEO    Is that... ?      CYPHER    The Matrix?  Yeah.  The monitors are packed with bizarre codes and equations.      CYPHER    You want a drink?  He pours Neo a drink from a large plastic jug.      CYPHER    I'll tell you, I feel for you,    man.  I really do.  Most of us    were still young, just punks, when    Morpheus jacked us.  But you, you    had a real life.  Neo takes a sip and it almost kills him.  Cypher pounds  on his back.      CYPHER    Good shit, huh?  Dozer makes it.    It's good for two things:    degreasing engines and killing    brain cells.  Red-faced, Neo finally stops coughing.      CYPHER    Did he tell you why he did it?  Neo nods.      CYPHER,    I'll be the didn't tell you that    this wasn't the first time he    thought he found the One.  Neo shakes his head as Cypher fills his cup and laughs.      CYPHER    Let me give you a piece of advice.    Between you and me, if Morpheus    says you can fly, I wouldn't go    jumping out any windows to find    out if he's right.  Understand?  Cypher raises his drink.  Neo swallows another throat-  scorching mouthful.      CYPHER    Welcome to the real world!  INT.  RESTAURANT (MATRIX) - NIGHT  CHAMBER MUSIC and the ambiance of wealth soak the room as  we watch a serrated knife saw through a thick, gorgeous  steak.      CYPHER    That's what he said to me nine    years ago.  The meat is so perfect, charred on the outside, oozing  red juice from the inside, that it could be a dream.      CYPHER    The real world.  Ha, what a joke.  We recognize the grating voice, the insidious laugh.      CYPHER    You know what real is?  I'll tell    you what real is.  A fork stabs the cube of meat and we FOLLOW it UP TO the  face of Cypher.      CYPHER    Real is just another four-letter    word.  He laughs, shoving the steak into his mouth.  The restaurant is located on the top floor of a Chicago  skyscraper where the view is breathtaking and the menu  has no prices.  Sitting across from Cypher is Agent Smith.      AGENT SMITH    Do we have a deal, Mr. Reagan?  Cypher chews the steak loudly, smacking it between his  teeth.      CYPHER    Mmm, so, so fucking good.  Smith watches him shovel another hunk of meat into his  mouth.      CYPHER    You know, I know that this steak    doesn't exist.  I know when I put    it in my mouth, the Matrix is    telling my brain that it is juicy    and delicious.  After nine years,    do you know what I've realized?  Pausing, he examines the meat skewered on his fork.  He  pops it in, eyes rolling up, savoring the tender beef  melting in his mouth.      CYPHER    Ignorance is bliss.      AGENT SMITH    Then we have a deal?      CYPHER    I don't want to remember nothing.    Nothing!  You understand?  And I    want to be rich.  Someone    important.  Like an actor.  You    can do that, right?      AGENT SMITH    Whatever you want, Mr. Reagan.  Cypher takes a deep drink of wine.      CYPHER    All right.  You get my body back    in a power plant, reinsert me into    the Matrix and I'll get you what    you want.      AGENT SMITH    Access codes to Zion.      CYPHER    I told you, I don't know them.    But I can give you the man who    does.      AGENT SMITH    Morpheus.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Sweat dapples his lip as Neo snaps out of the construct  coma.      NEO    Jeez, I was wondering about that.      TANK    What?      NEO    Why I was bald here but not in the    Matrix.      TANK    R.S.I.      NEO    Residual self image.      TANK    Good.  Now what's this?  He points to one of Neo's monitors.      NEO    Life systems monitor, glucose    levels.      TANK    What's that?      NEO    Main power supply to the core.  He follows Tank to the operator's station where he points  to a red key-switch.      TANK    How about this?      NEO    Mainframe self-destruct.  Uses all    remaining power to generate an...    E.M.P?      TANK    Electromagnetic pulse.  Our best    weapon against the machines.  The    problem is if someone is still in    the Matrix when that thing goes    off, they're not coming back.  Neo nods as Morpheus comes up behind them.      MORPHEUS    How's he doing?      TANK    We just finished the operation    programs and he's showing great    retention.      MORPHEUS    Good.  I want everyone alerted to    12-hour stand-by.  We're going in.    Neo, it's time for you to know why    you're here.  Morpheus walks away.      NEO    What's he talking about?      TANK    He's taking you into the Matrix to    see her.      NEO    See who?      TANK    The Oracle.  Neo looks down at the monitor teeming with Matrix data  that seems to coalesce, equations giving way to images as  a METAL SCREAM RISES BECOMING --  EXT.  CHICAGO (MATRIX) - DAY  An El train.  INT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY  The room is empty, heavy curtains covering windows.  It  looks as if it hasn't been touched in years.  In the  bedroom with the cracked oval mirror an old black PHONE  begins to RING.  In the mirror, we first glimpse them and as we keep  TURNING, the room fills with equipment and the team.  Morpheus answers the phone.      MORPHEUS    We're in.  He hangs up.      MORPHEUS    Mouse and Cable hold the exit.    Let's go.  INT.  STAIRWELL (MATRIX) - DAY  Neo follows the others down the stairwell that winds  around an antique elevator shaft.      NEO    Did you have to do this?      TRINITY    Yeah.      NEO    What did she tell you?      TRINITY    Lots of things.      NEO    Any of them true?  Trinity looks at him, then looks away.      TRINITY    Some of them.      GIZMO    Were they good or bad?      TRINITY    There's no point in worrylng.    Whatever is going to happen is    going to happen.  They cross the old lobby.  Switch and Apoc stop at the  doors.      MORPHEUS    We should be back in an hour.  EXT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY  Neo squints into the sun that seems unnaturally bright.  He is the only one without sunglasses.      MORPHEUS    Do you now understand what it    means when we say, if you're not    one of us, you're one of them?      NEO    The agents.  They're sentient    programs.  They can commandeer any    software hardwired to the    mainframe.      MORPHEUS    Anyone that is still in a power    plant.  That is why we try to be    invisible in the Matrix.      NEO    The best hacking is always    traceless.  Cypher and Trinity move away from them, securing the  perimeter.  As Cypher passes a garbage can, he  surreptitiously drops something inside.  It is a cellular phone and we watch the blue display as  the LINE CONNECTS.  An early 1970s, black Lincoln Continental emerges from a  corrugated roll-up garage.  Morpheus and Neo get in.  INT.  LINCOLN CONTINENTAL (MATRIX) - DAY  An enormous man is waiting for them.  A wad of chewing  tobacco bulges his cheek.  He spits into a Coke can.      MOJO    Morpheus, been a long time coming.      MORPHEUS    You're looking well, Mojo.  Mojo coughs a brown, cankerous laugh, juice speckling his  chin and shirt.  He stares at Neo.      MOJO    You bringing us geriatrics now.    Morpheus?  He spits and laughs again.      MOJO    Guess you are locking for a    miracle.  EXT.  BAR (MATRIX) - DAY  The Continental pulls up to a bar in the kind of  neighborhood where every corner has a pair of eyes.  INT.  BAR (MATRIX) - DAY  A lightless, lower-class bar.  No one enters that is not  expected.  The front doors open in a brilliant burst of sunlight as  Mojo leads Morpheus and Neo inside.  Neo looks around,  his eyes adjusting to the darkness.  Mojo talks to the bartender, then looks over.      MOJO    All right, it's cool.  Go on back.  They weave their way to the back of the bar, the STICKY  FLOOR SNAPPING under their FEET.  A monolith of a man rises from his stool as they walk up.      REX    You're late.  He moves to the side, opening the heavy iron door behind  him.  They descend the basement staircase toward the  single bare bulb at the bottom, hanging above the only  door.  INT.  BASEMENT (MATRIX) - DAY  A high-tech laptop and modem are set up on a stack of  milk crates.  Neo waits as Morpheus types in a series of  access codes.  After a moment the screen blinks, "Welcome  Morpheus."  Morpheus walks back to the same door they entered, but it  now leads into --  INT.  TEMPLE OF ZION (MATRIX) - DAY  The walls and floors are polished marble.  Neo follows,  his mouth agape.      NEO    What -- what happened?      MORPHEUS    This is the temple.  It is a part    of Zion's mainframe.  It's hidden    inside the Matrix so that we can    access it.  Two PRIESTESSES are waiting in the antechamber.      PRIESTESS    Hello, Morpheus.  We've been    expecting you.      MORPHEUS    Okay, you're on your own.  Go with    them.  They take Neo by the arm, leading him down a hall into  another room.      PRIESTESS    Wait here.  Among the other    Potentials.  INT.  ROOM OF POTENTIALS (MATRIX) - DAY  Neo enters and finally understands the attention given to  his age.  The Potentials are all little children.  The room feels at once like a Buddhist temple and a  kindergarten class.  The children's heads are either  shaved or thick with dreadlocks.  Some are playing,  others meditating or practicing their gift.  Neo watches a little girl levitate wooden alphabet  blocks.  A skinny BOY holds a SPOON which sways like a  blade of grass as he bends it with his rnind.  Neo crosses to him, sits.  The Boy smiles as Neo picks up a spoon and tries to  imitate him.  Despite his best efforts, Neo cannot make  it bend.      SPOON BOY    Your spoon does not bend because    it is just that, a spoon.  Mine    bends because there is no spoon,    just my mind.  Neo watches as it curls into a knot.      SPOON BOY    Link yourself to the spoon.    Become the spoon and bend    yourself.  Neo nods, again holding up his spoon.      NEO    There is no spoon.  Right.  He concentrates.  The spoon begins to bend just as the  Priestess touches his shoulder.      PRIESTESS    The Oracle will see you now.  Spoon Boy smiles.  INT.  SHRINE (MATRIX) - DAY  Neo enters nervously.  Beneath his feet is a path of the  zodiac leading to marbled stairs that rise to a dais and  a three-legged throne.  The throne is empty.      NEO    Hello?  A DISTANT FEMALE VOICE calls to him and he follows it up  the stairs.  At the top of the dais, he smells something  cooking.  Following the scent, he moves behind the pillars where he  finds an open door.      VOICE (O.S.)    Just come on in.  He walks through a vestibule where he sees a fabulous  moonstone headdress and velvet robes.  A second door  leads into --  INT.  ORACLE'S CHAMBERS (MATRIX) - DAY  It looks like a suburban tract house.  There is a lot of cozy furniture, a dining roon hutch  filled with china, shelves and tables crowded with  doilies, knick-knacks and ceramic brick-a-brack.  Neo follows the plastic carpet runner to the kitchen.  A WOMAN is huddled beside the oven, peering inside  through the cracked door.      NEO    Hello?      ORACLE (WOMAN)    I know.  You're Neo.  Be right    with you.      NEO    You're the Oracle?      ORACLE    Bingo.  I got to say I love seeing    you non-believers.  It's really a    relief.  All that pomp and    circumstances just plain tucker me    out.  Almost done.  Smell good,    don't they?      NEO    Yeah.      ORACLE    I'd ask you to sit down, but    you're not going to anyway.  And    don't worry about the vase.      NEO    What vase?  He turns to look around and his elbow knocks a VASE from  the table.  It BREAKS against the linoleum floor.      ORACLE    The vase.      NEO    Shit, I'm sorry.  She pulls out a tray of chocolate chip cookies and turns.  She is an older woman, wearing big oven mitts,  comfortable slacks and a print blouse.  She looks like  someone's grandma.      ORACLE    I said don't worry about it.  I'll    get one of my kids to fix it.      NEO    How did you know...?  She sets the cookie tray on a wooden hot-pad.      ORACLE    What's really going to bake your    noodle later on is, would you    still have broken it if I hadn't    said anything.  Smiling, she lights a cigarette.      ORACLE    You're cuter than I thought.  I    see why she likes you.      NEO    Who?      ORACLE    Not too bright, though.  She winks.      ORACLE    You know why Morpheus brought you    to see me?      NEO    I think so.      ORACLE    So? What do you think?  You think    you're the one?      NEO    I don't know.  She gestures to a wooden plaque, the kind every grandma  has, except that the words are in Latin.      ORACLE    You know what that means?  It's    Latin.  Means, 'Know thyself.'  She puts her cigarette down.      ORACLE    Well, let's have a look at you.  She widens his eyes, checks his ears, then feels the  glands in his neck.      ORACLE    Open your mouth.  Say, 'ahhh.'  She nods then looks at his palms.      ORACLE    Hmmm.  You sure got the gift, but    it's tricky.  I'd say the bad news    is, you're not the one.  Still got    a lot to learn.  Maybe next life.      NEO    What's the good news?      ORACLE    Same as the bad news, you're not    the one.      NEO    Is that it, then?      ORACLE    No.  Here.  She picks up the tray of cooling cookies.      ORACLE    You better take a cookie.  Got a    big day ahead of you.  He eyes her, then takes a cookie.      ORACLE    Make a believer out of you yet.  INT.  ANTECHAMBER (MATRIX) - DAY  Morpheus rises from a bench as the Priestess escorts Neo  out.  When they are alone, Morpheus puts his hand on  Neo's shoulder.      MORPHEUS    You don't have to tell me    anything, Neo, because I already    know what she said.      NEO    You do?      MORPHEUS    I brought you so that you could    hear it for yourself.  I knew it    would help.  Neo finishes his cookie.      MORPHEUS    No one will ever ask you because    it is a gift from her.  It is for    you and you alone.  EXT.  CITY STREET (MATRIX) - DAY  Storm clouds shroud the streets as the sky turns  jaundice.  Cypher nervously glances down the surrounding streets.  He notices several unmarked white vans.  He mops the sweat from his forehead, when Trinity sees  the black Lincoln.      TRINITY    Here they come.  INT.  MAIN DECK  In the hovercraft, we see the sweat rolling down Cypher's  face and neck.  Tank is typing rapidly at the keyboard.      TANK    Weird.  This area never has this    much activity.  EXT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY  Apoc opens the side door and they enter the hotel.  INT.  ROOM 1313 (MATRIX) - DAY  Mouse's CELLULAR RINGS.      MOUSE    Welcome to Movie-Phone.      TANK (V.O.)    They're on their way.      MOUSE    Right.  The phone flips shut as he jumps up.      MOUSE    Let's get to work.  INT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY  Light filters down the throat of the building through a  caged skylight at the top of the open elevator shaft.  Four figures glide up the dark stairs that wind around  the antique elevator.  Neo notices a black cat, a yellow-green-eyed shadow that  slinks past them and pads quickly down the stairs.  A moment later, Neo sees another black cat that looks and  moves identically to the first one.      NEO    Whoa.  Deja vu.  Those words stop the others dead in their tracks.  INT.  MAIN DECK  The monitors suddenly glitch as though the Matrix had an  electronic seizure.      TANK    Oh, shit!  Oh, shit!  INT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY  Trinity turns around, her face tight.      TRINITY    What did you just say?      NEO    Nothing.  Just had a little deja    vu.      TRINITY    What happened?  What did you see?      NEO    A black cat went past us and then    I saw another that looked just    like it.      TRINITY    How much like it?  Was it the same    cat?      NEO    It might have been.  I'm not sure.  Trinity looks at Morpheus, who listens quietly to the  rasping breath of the old building.      NEO    What is it?      TRINITY    A deja vu is usually a glitch in    the Matrix.  It happens when they    change something.  She also listens as the staccato BEAT of HELICOPTER  BLADES GROW ominously LOUDER.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Tank sees what was changed.      TANK    It's a trap!  INT.  STAIRCASE (MATRIX) - DAY  Morpheus looks up the stairs as a helicopter shadow  passes over the clouded glass.      MORPHEUS    Come on!  INT.  ROOM 1313 (MATRIX) - DAY  Cable goes to the draped windows.      CABLE    Did you just feel something weird?      MOUSE    Yeah...  The CELLULAR RINGS.  INT.  BASEMENT (MATRIX) - DAY  Heavy bolt-cutters snap through the main phone cable.  INT.  ROOM 1313 (MATRIX) - DAY  Mouse answers the phone.      MOUSE    What's going on?      TANK (V.O.)    They cut the hard-line!  It's a    trap!  Get out!  Cable yanks open the curtain.      CABLE    Oh, no.  The windows are bricked up.  INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY  The door to the roof explodes open as heavily-armed rnen  rush towards room 1313.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Tank watches helplessly.      TANK    No, no, no.  INT.  ROOM 1313 (MATRIX) - DAY  The door slams open and the police force pours in, dozens  of assault rifles surrounding Mouse and Cable who are  armed with only handguns.      CABLE    Morpheus!  It's a trap --  INT.  STAIRS (MATRIX) - DAY  Morpheus stops as the scream is drowned by the REPORT of  MACHINE GUNS filling the building with a terrible fury.      TRINITY    Oh, God.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Mouse's body thrashes against its harness as --  INT.  ROOM 1313 (MATRIX) - DAY  BULLETS POUND him against the blood-splattered brick  window.  Gun smoke thickens the room, Cable blasting and  moving until --  The HAMMER CLICKS empty.  He screams as a DOZEN GUNS OPEN  FIRE, ripping him apart.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Blood spits from Cable's mouth, his body spasming, then  lying perfectly still.  The flat-line ALARM softly cries out from the life  MONITORS of the two dead men.  EXT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY  More police cars arrive as cops break open the lobby  doors.  INT.  STAIRWELL (MATRIX) - DAY  Flying downstairs, Morpheus stops, hearing the police  swarming below.  He turns and rushes down the hall of the  eighth floor.  At the end of it, he finds the bricked-up  windows.      CYPHER    That's what they changed.  We're    trapped.  There's no way out.  The sound of heavy BOOT-STEPS close around them with the  mechanical sureness of a vice.      MORPHEUS    Give me your phone.      TRINITY    They'll be able to track it.      MORPHEUS    We have no choice.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Tank answers the call.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    Tank, find a structural drawing of    this building and find it fast.  His fingers pound the keyboard.  INT.  LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY  Flashlights probe the rotting darkness as the police  search every floor.  INT.  MAIN DECK  The diagram windows onto the screen.      TANK    Got it.      MORPHEUS (V.O.)    I need the main wet-wall.  INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY  Agent Smith pauses, his hand going to his earpiece.  INT.  ROOM 808 (MATRIX) - DAY  Morpheus is guided by Tank.      TANK (V.O.)    Now left and that's it in front of    you.      MORPHEUS    Good.  He cuts off the phone.  INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY  Agent Smith hears the LINE CLICK dead.      AGENT SMITH    Eighth floor.  They're on the    eighth floor.  INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY  Agent Brown hears Smith on his earphone.      AGENT BROWTJ    Eighth floor!  Move!  INT.  STAIRWELL (MATRIX) - DAY  Cops flood the eighth floor, rushing everywhere.  INT.  ROOM 808 (MATRIX) - DAY  Several cops sweep through the room.  It is empty.  As  they pass the bathroom, we see a man-sized hole smashed  through the plaster and lathe.  INT.  WALL (MATRIX) - DAY  They are inside the main plumbing wall, slowly worming  their way down the greasy, black stack pipes.  Above them, light fills the hole they made to get inside.  INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY  Brown turns to Smith.      AGENT BROWN    Where are they?  INT.  ROOM 608 (MATRIX) - DAY  The cops search in silence, straining for a clue, when  one hears SOMETHING STRANGE near the bathroom.  INT.  WALL (MATRIX) - DAY  Cypher has slipped and is wedged between the wall and  several thick supply pipes.  INT.  ROOM 608 (MATRIX) - DAY  The Cop leans in, his ear almost against the thin  membrane of plaster separating them.  He can hear  WHISPERS, HISSES and a GRUNT when --  The WALL suddenly bulges, SHATTER-CRACKING as the Cop  realizes --      COP    They're in the walls!  INT.  WALL (MATRIX) - DAY  Neo pulls Cypher free just as the Cop OPENS FIRE --  BULLETS PUNCHING shafts of light like swords into the box  of soot-black space.  INT.  ROOM 608 (MATRIX) - DAY  The Cop keeps FIRING, his flashlight strapped to his gun  barrel, lighting up the wall until --  A BULLET spits out his forehead.  Agent Smith watches the  BODY fall with a THUD.      AGENT SMITH    Are orders that hard to follow?    I'll say it again.  Morpheus must    be taken alive.  Understand?  INT.  WALL (MATRIX) - DAY  They're almost falling, they're climbing so fast.  Above them, plaster is smashed open as crunbling bits  shower down on them, filling the crawlway with dust.  INT.  ROOM 608 (MATRIX) - DAY  Agent Smith looks into the open wall, at the exposed  intestines of the building, and realizes where they are  going.      AGENT SMITH    How like a rodent.  INT.  WALL (MATRIX) - DAY  Just below, a RIFLE-BUTT SMASHES open the WALL, light  raking across the lathe.      COP    I got him!  I got him!  Trinity finds her gun first.  BULLET-HOLES POP out the  WALL as she STRAFES the room, sending cops diving for  cover.  They continue, Trinity exposed for a roment, when a  creeping cop smashes a fist through and grabs a fistful  of her hair.  He starts to yank her out when Neo kicks, his boot  bursting through plaster and splintering lathe, knocking  the Cop out.  They then quickly sink out of sight.  INT.  BASEMENT (MATRIX) - DAY  This part of the basement, a dark concrete cavern, was  the main mechanical room.  There are four enormous  boilers, dinosaur-like technology that once pumped hot  water like arteries.  Black and bloody, they squeeze out from the ceiling into  the tangled web of pipes.  Their enemies are waiting for them.  Blinding lights cut open the darkness as gas-masked  figures FIRE GRENADE LAUNCHERS.  Smoke blossoms from the green-metal canisters.  Morpheus never stops moving.  Searching the floor, he  finds what.he needs; the cover of the catch basin.  Cypher watches him pry open the grate, when a gas can  bounces near him.      MORPHEUS    Come on!  Cypher seems to trip as the cloud envelops him.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Cypher's body begins to shiver uncontrollably.      TANK    Nerve gas.  INT.  BASEMENT (MATRIX) - DAY  Morpheus watches Cypher disappear into the smoke then  follows the others down the wet-black hole.  INT.  CATCH BASIN (MATRIX) - DAY  They crawl through greasy black water in a three foot  diameter pipe that feeds into the sewer main.  INT.  BASEMENT (MATRIX) - DAY  Gas-masked apparitions find the open hole.  EXT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY  Cypher is carried out, hand-cuffed, his body still  shaking, mucus bubbling out his nose.  As he is led past  Agent Smith, it almost seems that both men smile.      AGENT SMITH    We have them now.  INT.  SEWER MAIN (MATRIX) - DAY  Neo punches out the screen and then spills down into the  main water trough.  Oily water forms around them as they wade across the man-  made underground river, towards the service catwalk.  Neo is about to pull himself out when he sees them coming.  Flashlights and laser sites sweep at them as cops in  helmets and heavy armor, looking more nachine than human,  fill both ends of the tunnel.  There is a single manhole cover above them.  Morpheus whispers to Trinity.      MORPHEUS    You have to get Neo out.    Understand?  That's all that    matters now.      TRINITY    Morpheus, don't --      MORPHEUS    He must get out.  Do you    understand me?  She nods.  A font of water erupts as Morpheus leaps for the manhole  ladder, his coat flying open like the wings of a manta  ray.      COPS    There he is!  That's him!  Pools of light wash over him as he hauls himself to the  surface.      COP    He's heading for the street!  Trinity urges the others to follow her.  Grabbing Neo,  they wade quietly away from the chaos.  EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY  Morpheus shoots out of the sewer but the police are  waiting for him.  The closest cop is armed with a  tranquilized gun.  He fires --  But Morpheus' is too fast, using the manhole cover as a  shield, blocking the darts, then --  Frisbee-ing it into the cop's armored chest, knocking him  off his feet.  The cops lunge at him but every part of his body is a  deadly weapon moving with impossible speed.  It seems he might fight his way out when he throws a  spinning back fist that is caught by --  Agent Smith.      AGENT SMITH    So, we meet at last.      MORPHEUS    And you are?      AGENT SMITH    Smith.  I am Agent Smith.      MORPHEUS    You all look the same to me.      AGENT SMITH    I've been waiting for this noment.  Faster than a snake spits, Morpheus cracks Smith with a  jaw-breaking right.     MORPHEUS    Oh, so have I.  Agent Smith smiles.  INT.  SEWER MAIN (MATRIX) - DAY  Trinity leads the others, fading into the darkness of the  tunnel, lit only with shafts of lights streaming through  the street drains as we RISE TOWARDS them --  THROUGH a grate INTO the fight.  EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY  Smith and Morpheus exchange a furious serious of blows  that is witnessed but not believed by the surrounding  police.  Agent Smith delivers a punishing kick that staggers  Morpheus.      AGENT SMITH    You can't win.  Morpheus smiles.      MORPHEUS    I already have.  He stands up and drops his fists; a steely resolve in his  eyes.      AGENT SMITH    Take him.  Cops swarm over Morpheus.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Tank reaches out to the screen as if reaching for  Morpheus.      TANK    No!  EXT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY  Cuff ed and beaten, Morpheus is thrown into a caged  transport vehicle.  The DOOR CLANGS shut.  Agent Jones finds Agent Smith.      AGENT JONES    The others were lost.      AGENT SMITH    You've taken care of Reagan?  Agent Jones nods.      AGENT SMITH    Then the others do not matter.  EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY  A manhole cover cracks open.  Two eyes peek out just as a  TRUCK RATTLES over it.  The THUNDER DOPPLERS AWAY and the  cover opens.  Neo, Trinity, Switch and Apoc climb out.  Trinity pulls a  water-logged phone from her pocket.      TRINITY    We need a phone.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Tank is again at the monitors, searching the Matrix.      TANK    We gotta find the others.  They're    still alive.  The PHONE RINGS.      TANK    Operator.      CYPHER (V.O.)    I need an exit!  Fast!      TANK    Cypher?  I thought they had you?  EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY  Cypher is standing at a public phone.  Across the street  is the burning paddy wagon that appears to have collided  witli an oncoming car.      CYPHER    There was an accident.  A fucking    car accident.  All of a sudden.    Boom.  They're all dead.  I still    got the shakes but, Jesus,    someone's going to make a believer    out of me.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Dozer spots the wreck.      DOZER    There he is.      TANK    I got you.      CYPHER (V.O.)    Just get me outta here.  EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY      TANK (V.O.)    Nearest exit is Franklin and Erie.    An old appliance store.  Cypher hangs up and smiles as the fire trucks arrive.      CYPHER    An actor.  Definitely.  INT.  MAIN DECK  The PHONE RINGS.  Tank answers.      TANK    Operator.      TRINITY (V.O.)    Tank, it's me.  EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY  They are outside a pawn shop.  Trinity has a new cellular.      TRINITY    We need an exit!      TANK (V.O.)    Gotcha.  You're not far from    Cypher.      TRINITY    Cypher, I thought --      TANK (V.O.)    So did we.  That boy's got nine    lives.  I sent him to Franklin and    Erie.      TRINITY    Got it.  She hangs up.  EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY  Running, Cypher turns onto Erie.  INT.  APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY  Dead machines, eviscerated and shrouded with dust lay on  metal shelves like bodies in a morgue.  Plywood covering a small window is ripped off and Cypher  crawls inside.  Deep in the back room, a PHONE that has not rung in years  begins to RING.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Tank punches the emit command.      TANK    Got him.  Cypher's body twitches in its harness, jerking itself  awake.  His eyes blink open.  Dozer unplugs him.      DOZER    System check looks fine.  Cypher stands, a raspy cough spewing from his lungs.  EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY  Trinity sees the appliance shop.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Cypher holds his chest.      DOZER    You okay?      CYPHER    Goddamn gas.  My lungs are killing    me.  He crosses to an overhead bin.      CYPHER    We got any pain killers?      DOZER    The first aid kit's over here.  As Dozer stoops for a cabinet, Cypher pulls back a heavy  blanket exposing a plasma rifle.  INT.  APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY  Neo crawls through the window that Cypher opened.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Tank finishes loading the exit programs as Cypher rises  behind him, swinging the weapon at his back.  He looks over as Dozer turns with the first aid kit, a  look of frozen disbelief crossing his face --      DOZER    No!  Tank spins as red hot wads of PLASMA EXPLODE through his  chair and into his back.  Diving, a second BURST tears up  his side --  As Dozer shoots a look at the monitor where Tank was  working.  He stabs the enter command activating the exit  sequence and ducks under a BARRAGE of PLASMA FIRE-  INT.  APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY  The PHONE begins to RING as the others crawl in.      SWITCH    God, I love that sound.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Dozer rolls up, grabbing a heavy crowbar from a box of  tools.  Cypher circles the drive chairs as the sights of the  plasma rifle find Dozer's face.  Dozer charges, screaming, and the PLASMA RIFLE SCREAMS  back.  INT.  APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY  The PHONE is still RINGING.      TRINITY    You first,.Neo.  Neo answers the phone when there is a CLICK.  There is no  signal.  Nothing but silence.      TRINITY    What happened?      NEO    I don't know.  It just went dead.  Trinity listens to the dead line and takes out the  cellular.  INT. MAIN DECK  The operator PHONE begins to RING- Cypher steps over the  body of Tank and looks at the monitor.  INT.  APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY  Trinity can almost feel him watching them.  Every  unanswered RING wrings her gut a little tighter, until --      CYPHER (V.O.)    Hello, Trinity.      TRINITY    Cypher?  Where's Tank?      CYPHER (V.O.)    He had an accident.      TRINITY    An accident?  What about Dozer?    Is Dozer there?  INT.  MAIN DECK  He walks over to Trinity's body, staring down at it  hanging in its coma-like stillness.      CYPHER    You know, for a long time, I    thought I was in love with you,    Trinity.  I used to dream about    you...  He nuzzles his face against hers, feeling the softness of  it.      CYPHER    You are a beautiful woman.  Too    bad things had to work out like    this.  We INTERCUT BETWEEN the appliance store and the main  deck.      TRINITY    You killed them.      APOC    What?!      SWITCH    Oh God.  Wearing Tank's operator headgear, Cypher moves among the  silent bodies.      CYPHER    In a way you're very lucky.  Most    people never know why they die.    One minute they're alive, the next    they're dead.  No warning.    Nothing.  That's why I thought    maybe I should tell you.  It    seemed the least I could do.  He stands over the body of Morpheus, as his anger boils  up out of him.      CYPHER    You see, the truth, the real,truth    is that the war is over.  It's    been over for a long time.  And    guess what?  We lost!  Did you    hear that?  We lost the war!      TRINITY    What about Zion?      CYPHER    Zion?  Zion is a part of this    delusion.  More of this madness.    That's why this has to be done.    It has to end.  Now and forever.  She suddenly sees the entire dark plan.      TRINITY    Oh rny God.  This is abzut Zion.    You gave them Morpheus for the    access codes to Zion.  Cypher walks away from Morpheus and bends down next to  Apoc's body.      CYPHER    You see, Trinity, we humans have a    place in the future.  But it's not    here.  It's in the Matrix.      TRINITY    The Matrix isn't real!      CYPHER    Oh, I disagree, Trinity.  I    disagree.  I think the Matrix is    more real than this world.  I    mean, all I do is pull a plug    here.  But there, you watch a man    die.  He grabs hold of the cable in Apoc's neck, twists it and  yanks it out.      CYPHER    You tell me which is more real.  Apoc seems to go blind for an instant, a scream caught in  his throat, his hands reaching for nothing, and then  falls dead.  Switch screams.      CYPHER    Welcome to the real world, right?  He laughs.      TRINITY    Somehow, some way, you're going to    pay for this.      CYPHER    Pay for it?  I'm not even going to    remember it.  It'll be like it    never happened.  The tree falling    in the forest.  It doesn't make a    sound.  His hand slides around the neck of Switch as he takes  hold of her plug.  She suddenly feels her body severed from her mind as she  is murdered.      TRINITY    Goddamn you, Cypher!      CYPHER    Don't hate me, Trinity.  I'm just    the messenger.  And right now I'm    going to prove that the message is    true.  He stands over Neo.      CYPHER    If Morpheus was right, then    there's no way I can pull this    plug, is there?  She turns to Neo, eyes wide with fear, and he knows he is  next.      CYPHER    If he is the One, then in the next    few seconds there has to be some    kind of miracle to stop me.    Because if he dies like the others    that means Morpheus was wrong.    How can he be the One if he's    dead?  He takes hold of the cord when --  She hears an EXPLOSION and a scream.  Cypher is on the ground, his left leg blown off at the  knee.  He rolls over and finds Tank on the ground, and  the sights of the plasma rifle.      TANK    How's it feel, Cypher?  Knowing    you're about to die?      NEO    It's Tank!  He's alive.  Cypher lunges for Neo's plug just as Tank BLOWS his head  off.  INT.  APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY  They're both listening, trying to figure out what is  happening when the store PHONE starts to RING.  Trinity smiles, tears moistening her eyes as Neo throws  his arms around her.  For a moment, it looks as if they  might kiss before Trinity lets go.      TRINITY    We should, we should hurry.      NEO    Yeah.  Right.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Trinity's eyes open, a sense of relief surging through  her at the sight of the ship.  As Tank unplugs her, she  sees his charred wounds.      TRINITY    Tank, you're hurt.      TANK    I'll be all right.      TRINITY    Dozer?  Tank's face tightens.      TRINITY    I'm sorry, Tank.  EXT.  NIKO HOTEL (MATRIX) - DAY  A Japanese luxury hotel in downtown Chicago.  A military helicopter sets down on the roof.  Heavily  armed Marines begin to deploy.  Agent Jones gets out of the helicopter, flanked by  columns of Marines.  They open the roof access door  and enter the top-floor maintenance level of the hotel.  INT.  TOP FLOOR (MATRIX) - DAY  They get in the elevator.  At every door, at least two  Marines stop and post guard.  INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY  They exit the elevator and walk to the Presidential  suite; the final two Marines post guard.  INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY  Inside, he finds Agent Smith.      AGENT JONES    There is a problem.  Reagan has    failed to secure the hardware.  Agent Smith stares out the window.      AGENT SMITH    Never send a human to do a    machine's job.      AGENT JONES    But if Reagan has failed, why    haven't they pulled the plug?      AGENT SMITH    Haven't you learned by now, that    it is impossible to understand why    they do the things they do?  He turns.      AGENT SMITH    Continue as planned.  Trace his    signal to locate their position    and deploy an extermination unit.  Morpheus is handcuffed to a chair, stripped to the waist.  He is bleeding from numerous wounds and is pumped full of  serum, alternately shivering and sweating.  He is hooked  up to various monitors with white disk electrodes.  Agent Brown begins running a trace program.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Neo looks at Morpheus whose body is covered with a cold  sweat.      NEO    What are they doing to him?      TANK    They're cracking his mind.      NEO    How?      TANK    They inject virus-like serums to    break down the system.  It's like    cracking a computer.  All it takes    is time.      NEO    How much time?      TANK    Depends on the mind.  But    eventually, it will crack and his    alpha pattern will change from    this to this.  Tank punches several commands on Morpheus' personal unit.  The monitor waves change from a chaotic pattern to an  orderly symmetrical one.      TANK    When it does, Morpheus will tell    them anything they want to know.      NEO    The access codes to Zion.      TANK    If an agent got inside Zion's    mainframe he could do anything.    Disable the defense system. It    would be the end of us.  He looks up at Trinity who is pacing relentlessly.      TANK    We can't let that happen.  We have    to do it, Trinity.  Zion has to be    protected.  Trinity sees Cypher's dead body.  Rage overtakes her and  she starts kicking hin.      TRINITY    Goddamnit!  Goddamnit!      TANK    We have to pull the plug.      TRINITY    No!      TANK    We don't have any other choice.  Those words are like using gasoline to put out a fire and  we watch the pain in her eyes burn into a blaze.  She  walks past him and gets into her chair.      TANK    Trinity, what are you doing?      TRINITY    I'm going in after him.      TANK    Morpheus could conform at any    minute --      TRINITY    If he does I'm sure you'll do what    has to be done.      TANK    You saw that place.  It's suicide.  She glares at him.      TANK    I know what Morpheus means to    you --      TRINITY    No.  No, I don't think you do.  If    you did, then you would know that    I'm not letting him go.  Not    without a fight, Tank.  She yanks her harness tight.      TRINITY    Not without a fight.  INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY  Agent Smith stands in the bedroon of the enormous suite,  staring out the windows at the city, below, shimmering  with brilliant sunlight.      AGENT SMITH    Have you ever stood and stared at    it, Morpheus?  Marveled at its    beauty.  Its genius.  Billions of    people just living out their    lives... oblivious.  Agent Brown sucks a serum from a glass vial, filling a  hypodermic needle.      AGENT SMITH    Did you know that the first Matrix    was designed to be a perfect human    world?  Where none suffered, where    everyone would be happy.  It was a    disaster.  No one would accept the    program.  Entire crops were lost.  Agent Brown jams the needle into Morpheus' shoulder, and  plunges down.      AGENT SMITH    Some believed we lacked the    programming language to describe    your perfect world.  But I believe    that, as a species, human beings    define their reality through    suffering and misery.  Agent Brown studies the screens as the life signs react  violently to the injection.      AGENT SMITH    The perfect world was a dream that    your primitive cerebrum kept    trying to wake up from.  Which is    why the Matrix was re-designed to    this:  the peak of your    civilization.  He turns from the window.      AGENT SMITH    I say 'your civilization' because    as soon as we start thinking for    you, it really becomes our    civilization, which is, of course,    what this is all about.  He sits down directly in front of Morpheus.      AGENT SMITH    Evolution, Morpheus.  Evolution.  He lifts Morpheus' head.      AGENT SMITH    Like the dinosaur.  Look out that    window.  You had your time.  Morpheus stares hard at him, trying hard not to show the  pain racking his mind.      AGENT SMITH    The future is our world, Morpheus.    The future is our time.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Neo goes to his chair and begins strapping in.      TRINITY    What do you think you're doing?      NEO    You need help.  I'm coming with    you.      TRINITY    No.  No way.  Morpheus sacrificed    himself so you could escape.    There's no way you're going back    in.      NEO    Morpheus did what he did because    he believed that I'm something    that I'm not.      TRINITY    What?      NEO    I'm not the One, Trinity.  The    Oracle told me.  Trinity is stunned.      NEO    She said I had a gift but I still    had a lot to learn.  She told me    maybe next life.      TRINITY    Did you tell Morpheus?      NEO    Why?  It wouldn't mean anything.    He'd still believe what he wanted    to believe.  But Morpheus is the    one that matters.  He's more    important than me and we both know    it.  He straps in.      NEO    I may not be what Morpheus thinks    I am, but if I don't try to help    him, then I'm not even what I    think I am.      TRINITY    What are you?      NEO    His friend.  INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY  Agent Smith sits casually across from Morpheus who is  hunched over, his body leaking and twitching.      AGENT SMITH    I'd like to share a revelation    that I've had during my time here.    It came to me when I tried to    classify your species.  I've    realized that you are not actually    mammals.  The life signs continue their chaotic patterns.      AGENT SMITH    Every mammal on this planet    instinctively develops a natural    equilibrium with the surrounding    environment.  But you humans do    not.  You move to an area and you    multiply and multiply until every    natural resource is consumed and    the only way you can survive is to    spread to another area.  He leans forward.      AGENT SMITH    There is another organism on this    planet that follows the same    pattern.  Do you know what it is?    A virus.  He smiles.      AGENT SMITH    Human beings are a disease, a    cancer of this planet.  You are a    plague.  And we are... the cure.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Trinity and Neo hang motionless in the suspension unit.  Tank is at the operations station.      TANK    Okay.  Store's open.  What do you    need?      TRINITY (V.O.)    Guns.  Lots of guns.      TANK    Coming right up.  He loads the weapons disk.  INT.  CONSTRUCT  Racks of weapons appear and Neo and Trinity arm  themselves.      TRINITY    No one has ever done anything like    this.      NEO    Yeah?  He snap cocks an Uzi.      NEO    That's why it's going to work.  INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY  Agent Smith is again at the window.      AGENT SMITH    Why isn't the serum working?      AGENT BROWN    Perhaps we are asking the wrong    questions.      AGENT JONES    Or he doesn't know.      AGENT SMITH    Of course he knows.  He's    resisting.      AGENT BROWN    How?      AGENT SMITH    I don't know.  If I knew...  Agent Smith hides his knotting fist.  He is becoming  angry.  It is something that isn't supposed to happen to  agents.      AGENT SMITH    Leave me with him.  Agent Brown and Jones look at each other.      AGENT SMITH    Now!  INT.  MAIN DECK  Tank sits down beside Morpheus whose face is ashen like  someone near death.  He takes hold of his hand.      TANK    Hold on, Morpheus.  They're coming    for you.  They're coming.  EXT.  NIKO HOTEL (MATRIX) - DAY  A dark wind blows.  INT.  NIKO HOTEL (MATRIX) - DAY  In long, black coats, Trinity and Neo push through the  revolving doors.  Neo is carrying a duffel bag.  Trinity has a large metal  suitcase.  They cut across the lobby drawing nervous  glances.  Dark glasses, game faces.  Several plainclothes cops try to stop them.  They are met  by the MUTED SPIT of a SILENCED GUN and the RAZORED  WHISTLE of THROWING STARS.  The cops slump down to the marbled floor while Neo and  Trinity do not even break stride.  INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY  Agent Smith leans close to Morpheus, whispering to him.      AGENT SMITH    Can you hear me, Morpheus?  I'm    going to be honest with you.  He removes his earphone, letting it dangle over his  shoulder.      AGENT SMITH    I hate this place.  This zoo.    This prison.  This reality,    whatever you want to call it, I    can't stand it any longer.  It's    the smell, if there is such a    thing.  I feel saturated by it.  I    can taste your stink and every    time I do, I fear that I've    somehow been infected by it.  He wipes sweat from Morpheus' forehead, coating the tips  of his fingers, holding them to Morpheus' nose.      AGENT SMITH    Repulsive, isn't it?  He lifts Morpheus' head, holding it tightly with both  hands.      AGENT SMITH    I must get out of here, I must get    free.  In this mind is tlie key.    My key.  Morpheus sneers through his pain.      AGENT SMITH    Once Zion is gone, there's no    need for me to be here.  Do you    understand?  I need the codes.  I    have to get inside Zion.  You have    to tell me how.  He begins squeezing, his fingers gouging into his flesh.      AGENT SMITH    Tell me!  Tell me!  The skull is about to shatter when Agents Jones and Brown  burst into the room.  Agent Smith releases Morpheus.      AGENT BROWN    What were you doing?  Agent Smith recovers, replacing his ear piece.      AGENT JONES    You don't know.      AGENT SMITH    Know what?  Agent Smith listens to his earphone, not believing what  he is hearing.  INT.  ELEVATORS (MATRIX) - DAY  They get in.  Trinity immediately drops and opens the  suitcase, wiring a plastique and napalm bomb.  Beneath their trench coats is an arsenal of weapons slung  from climbing harnesses.  Neo hits the emergency stop.  He pulls down part of the  false ceiling and finds the elevator shaft access panel.  INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY  Agent Jones looks at Morpheus.      AGENT JONES    I think they're trying to save    him.  INT.  ELEVATOR SHAFT (MATRIX) - DAY  Neo ratchets down a clamp onto the elevator cable.  Both  of them lock on.  He looks up the long, dark throat of  the building and takes a deep breath.      NEO    There is no spoon.  Neo whips out his gun and presses it to the cable, lower  than where they attached themselves.  BOOM!  The CABLE SNAPS.  The counter-weights plummet, yanking Trinity and Neo up  through the shaft as --  The elevator falls away beneath them, distending space,  filling it with the sound of WHISTLING METAL as they soar  to the top.  INT.  LOBBY (MATRIX) - DAY  The ELEVATOR hits the botton.  BA-BOOM!  The massive EXPLOSION blows open the doors, fire clouds  engulfing the elevator section of the lobby.  INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY  The Agents hear the BLAST AND FIRE ALARMS.      AGENT JONES    Lower level --      AGENT BROWN    They are actually attacking.  INT.  ELEVATOR SHAFT (MATRIX) - DAY  Hanging by a rope, Trinity hot-wires the panel for the  door.  INT.  TOP FLOOR (MATRIX) - DAY  Nervous, the Marines watch as the ELEVATOR "DINGS" softly  and slides open.  Black smoke rises out of the exposed shaft.  The nearest Marine eases to the edge, peering down at the  churning blaze engulfing the lower levels.  He does not see Trinity and Neo above him until it is too  late.  Krack!  Neo kicks, knocking the Marine flying down into  the shaft.  Before the others can react, Trinity flips out into the  hall, decking the nearest Marine.  Neo cracks another.  The fight is over before it begins.  INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY  An enormous EXPLOSION THUNDERS above them, shaking the  building.  The ALARM SOUNDS, emergency sprinklers begin  showering the room.  Agent Smith smashes a table.      AGENT SMITH    Find them and destroy them!  Agent Jones nods and touches his ear piece.  EXT.  ROOF (MATRIX) - DAY  The roof-access tower is now engulfed in flames as Neo  and Trinity lay waste to a dozen more Marines.  Guns and knives, like extensions of their bodies used  with the same deadly precision as their feet and their  fists.  Across the roof, the pilot inside the army helicopter  watches the ferocious onslaught.      PILOT    I repeat, we are under attack!  Suddenly his face, his whole body dissolves, consumed by  spreading locust-like swarm, of STATIC as --  Agent Jones emerges.  Just as she drops the last Marine, Trinity sees what's  coming.  Neo sees her, the fear in her face, and he knows what is  behind him.  Screaming, he whirls, GUNS filling his hands with  thought-speed.  Fingers PUMPING, SHELLS ejecting, dancing up and away, we  look through the sights and gun smoke at --  The Agent blurred with motion --  Until the HAMMERS CLICK against empty metal.      NEO    Trinity!  Agent Jones charges.      NEO    ... help.  His GUN BOOMS as we enter the liquid space of --  Bullet-time.  The AIR SIZZLES with wads of lead-like angry flies as Neo  twists, bends, ducks just between them.  Agent Jones still running, narrows the gap, the BULLETS  coming faster until --  Neo bent impossibly back, one hand on the ground as a  spiraling gray ball shears open his shoulder.  He starts to scream as another digs a red groove across  his thigh.  He has only time to look up, to see the barrel when Agent  Jones, standing over him, pulls the TRIGGER the final  time.  CLICK.  Empty.  Neo rolls, reaching for another gun when around-house  kick snaps his jaw.  Agent Jones grabs the gun and levels  it at Neo.      AGENT JONES    Only human...  Suddenly Agent Jones stops.  Something is wrong.  He  scans the roof.  Trinity is gone.  Immediately, he whirls around and turns straight into the  muzzle of her .45 --  Jammed right into his head.      TRINITY    Dodge this, motherfucker!  BOOM!  BOOM!  BOOM!  The body flies back with a flash of  mercurial light and when it hits the ground --  It is the pilot.  Trinity helps Neo up.      NEO    Thanks.      TRINITY    You're hit --      NEO    I'm fine.  Neo is already looking at the helicopter.      NEO    Can you fly that thing?      TRINITY    Not yet.  She pulls out a cellular phone.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  Tank is back at the controls.      TANK    Operator.      TRINITY (V.O.)    Tank, I need a pilot program for a    military M-109 helicopter.  Tank is immediately searching the disk drawers.      TRINITY (V.O.)    Hurry!  His fingers flash over the gleaming laser disks, finding  one that he feeds into Trinityls supplement drive,  punching the "load" cormands on her keyboard.  EXT.  ROOF (MATRIX) - DAY  Trinity's eyes flutter as information surges into her  brain, all the essentials of flying a helicopter absorbed  at light-speed.      TRINITY    Let's go.  INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY  Marines, trying to communicate with the men on the roof,  are beginning to panic when Agent Jones comes around the  corner.      SERGEANT    Sir!  Sir!  There was gunfire --    we've lost communication with the    roof!      AGENT JONES    Remain at your posts.      SERGEANT    But, sir -- the fire -- we should    evacuate!      AGENT JONES    You will do as you are ordered!      SERGEANT    Yes, sir.  Agent Jones marches into the Presidential Suite.  INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY  Agent Jones throws open the bedroom door and enters,  walking through the puddles pooling in the carpet.  Over the RUSHING WATER and the ALARMS, Agent Smith hears  a SOUND and understands the seriousness of the attack.  He turns to the wall of windows as the helicopter drops  INTO VIEW --  Neo is in the back bay, aiming the mounted .50 machine  gun.      AGENT SMITH    No.  The GUN jumps and BULLETS EXPLODE through the WINDOW in a  cacophony of CRASHING GLASS --  As the Agents go for their weapons.  But Neo is too close, the .50 CALIBER too fast and  BULLETS are everywhere, perforating the room.  Agent Smith is hit first, his body jack-knifing back,  blood arcing out with a sudden flash of light --  Then Agent Brown, his GUN still FIRING as his body falls.  And finally Agent Jones.  Neo stares at Morpheus, trying to will him into action.      NEO    Get up, Morpheus!  Get up!  Morpheus sits unmoving, his head still down.  Neo grabs the climbing rope just as marines burst into  the adjoining room.  He attaches only one end to his harness when they OPEN  FIRE.  Quickly he swings the GUN, SPRAYING the other room,  WINDOWS SHATTERING, FURNITURE EXPLODING, marines diving  for cover.  INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY  Just outside the Presidential Suite, three marines  blister with snow-static.  INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY  Morpheus lifts his face into the room's rain.  His eyes,  still white, begin to blink, twitch, then close.  And when he opens them, they are again dark and flashing  with fire.  The Agents knife into the room, FIRING even as Neo's  BULLET TRAILS chase them.  Morpheus strains at his handcuffs.  The Agents and the marines turn the tide, BLASTING LEAD,  RICOCHETING, POCK-MARKING the COPTER.  FIRING wildly, Neo turns to see Morpheus rising, snapping  the handcuffs, starting for the window.  Agent Smith stops and sees Morpheus run past the open  bedroom door.      AGENT SMITH    Nooo!  He FIRES, sweeping across the sheetrocked wall in a  perfect line.  For an instant, we see the BULLETS SHRED, PUNCTURING the  WALL, searing through the wet air with jet trails of  chalk.  And as Morpheus starts to dive for the window, a bullet  buries itself in his leg --  Knocking him off balance.      NEO    He won't make it.  Morpheus lunges, out of control --  As Neo spins, every move a whip crack --  Snapping the other rope-end onto a bolted bar.  Morpheus begins to fall when Neo hurls himself into the  wide blue empty space --  Flying for a moment.  The rope snaking out behind him; an umbilical cord  attached to a machine.  As their two bodies, set in motion, rushing at each other  on a seemingly magnetic course until --  They collide.  Almost bouncing free of each other, arms, legs,  scrambling, hands searching in furious desperation,  finding hold and clinging.  Until the line ends, snapping taut, cracking their  fragile embrace.  Morpheus tumbles, legs flipping over,  falling down --  The ground deliriously distant --  As Neo snatches hold of his mentor's still handcuffed  wrist.      NEO    Gotcha!  Trinity is already pulling the copter up and away.  As Agent Smith grabs the M-16 from the nearest marine.  He'll bring them all down.  Targeting the helicopter, he  aims at something only he can see: the oil line.  PONK.  PONK.  PONK.  The rear HULL is PUNCHED full of  holes and smoke and oil pours out like black blood.      TRINITY    Shit-shit-no!  Neo is pulling Morpheus up to him when he hears the  HELICOPTER BEGIN TO DIE.      NEO    Oh fuck.  Trinity throws the helicopter towards the roof of the  nearest building.  Morpheus and Neo cling to one another as they and the  machine above them begin to fall.  The ENGINE GRINDS, the CHOPPING BLADES start to slow  while --  The Agents stand in the open shattered window, watching  the helicopter disappear behind taller buildings.  Carried by its nomentum, Trinity guides the parabolic  fall over the nearest roof where --  Neo and Morpheus drop safely, rolling free as the rope  goes slack.  Neo gets to his feet, trying to detach  himself but --  The helicopter is falling too fast, arcing over the roof  like a setting sun --  The coils of slack snap taught --  Yanking Neo off his feet, dragging him with ferocious  speed towards the edge even as --  Trinity lunges for the back door, her gun in one hand,  grabbing for the rope with the other --  Neo flies like a skipping stone, hurtling straight AT us,  when his feet hit the rain gutter --  A fulcrum that levers him up just as --  Trinity FIRES, severing the cord from the HELICOPTER,  falling free of it as it SMASHES, blades first into a  glass skyscraper.  Holding onto the rope she swings, connected to Neo, who  stands on the building's edge watching her arc beneath  him as the HELICOPTER EXPLODES --  She bounces against a shatterproof window that spider-  cracks out while FLAMES ERUPT behind her.  INT.  MAIN DECK  Tank stares at the screen, his mouth agape.      TANK    He's the One.  He's got to be...  EXT.  ROOFTOP (MATRIX) - DAY  Neo pulls Trinity up into his arms.  Both shaking, they  hold each other again.      MORPHEUS    I knew it!  I goddamn knew it!      TRINITY    Morpheus!  She runs at him, throwing her arms around him.      MORPHEUS    Do you believe me now?  He's the    One!  Who else could have done    this?      NEO    Morpheus, I know you won't believe    me but the Oracle told ne I'm not    the One.      MORPHEUS    It doesn't matter if I don't    believe you --  His eyes light up.      MORPHEUS    What matters is that you don't    believe her.  INT.  MAIN DECK  The PHONE RINGS.      TRINITY (V.O.)    Tank, get us out of here.      TANK    Got one ready.  An underground El    station.  State and Balbo.      TRINITY (V.O.)    See ya soon.  LINE GOES DEAD.  Tank looks at the bodies and smiles.      TANK    See ya soon.  EXT.  ROOFTOP (MATRIX) - DAY  The rope is all that remains.  Agent Smith can barely  control his anger.      AGENT BROWN    The trace was completed.      AGENT JONES    We have their position.      AGENT BROWN    The extermination unit is in    place.      AGENT JONES    Order the strike.  Agent Smith can't stand listening to them.  He moves to  the edge of the building, looking out at the surrounding  city.      AGENT SMITH    They're not out yet.  INT.  "EL" STATION (MATRIX) - DAY  A metal gate is locked, the sign reading, "Station  Closed."  Neo looks around, takes out a GUN and BLOWS OFF  the LOCK.  In the moist underground distance they hear the MUTED  RING of a TELEPHONE.  The PHONE is RINGING inside a graffiti-covered booth.  Across from it, sitting hunched against the red concrete  wall, is an OLD MAN.  He stares at the RINGING PHONE,  taking a final pull off his T-bird.  No one is around.  It continues to RING.  Determined, he stands and walks to the booth.  He is  about to answer the phone, when Neo sees him.      NEO    Don't!  The Old Man stops, Neo rushes at hin, gliding smoothly  over the turnstiles.      OLD MAN    I'm sorry -- I didn't mean!  The Old Man is shaking, terrified.  Neo looks at his gun.  He glances over his shoulder, then eases back the hammer.      NEO    Get outta here.  Okay?  Run!  Go!  The Old Man nods, turns and hurries deeper into the urban  cave, disappearing into the shadows as Trinity and  Morpheus arrive.      TRINITY    What happened?  Was that --      NEO    It was nobody.  Neo turns to the RINGING BOOTH.      NEO    Let's go!  You first, Morpheus.  Morpheus gets in and answers the phone.  Lost in the shadow, the Old Man turns back and watches as  Morpheus disappears, the phone dropping, dangling by its  cord.  His eyes grow wide, glowing white in the dark.  EXT.  ROOFTOP (MATRIX) - DAY  Agent Smith stares, his face twisted with hate.  He will  never be free of the Matrix.  He starts to turn from the edge of the building when he  suddenly hears it, his head whipping back around,  staring --  INT.  "EL" STATION (MATRIX) - DAY  As the Old Man stares.  Trinity hangs up the phone.  She turns to Neo, standing  close enough to kiss him.      TRINITY    Morpheus is right, you know.  It    doesn't matter what he believes or    even what the Oracle believes.    What matters is what you believe.      NEO    I believe...  He stares at the fullness of her lips.      NEO    I want to kiss you.  She smiles.      TRINITY    I want to kiss you too...  The PHONE begins to RING.      TRINITY    But I want it to be real.  She pulls herself away and gets into the booth when  something catches Neo's eye and he looks to where the Old  Man had been.  She hears him SCREAM and sees Agent Smith emerge as if  formed by congealing darkness, charging with a fistful of  metal.  The GUN FIRES, the BULLET flying at her, BURSTING through  the plastic WINDOW just as --  Trinity disappears.  The handset hanging in the air as the BULLET HITS,  SHATTERING the EAR-PIECE.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  Trinity blinks, shivering as her conscious exits the  Construct.      TRINITY    Neo!      TANK    What the hell just happened?      TRINITY    An Agent!  You have to send me    back!      TANK    I can't!  INT.  "EL" STATION (MATRIX) - DAY  GUN REPORT THUNDERS through the underground, both men  BLASTING, moving at impossible speed.  For a blinking noment we enter BULLET-TIME.  Gun flash tongues curl from Neols gun, bullets float  forward like a plane noving across the sky, cartridges  cartwheel into space.  An instant later they are nearly on top of each other,  rolling up out of a move that is almost a mirrored  reflection of the other --  Each jamming their gun tight to the other's head.  They freeze in a kind of embrace; Neo sweating, panting,  Agent Smith machine-calm.  Agent Smith smiles.      AGENT SMITH    You're empty.  Neo pulls the TRIGGER.  CLICK.      NEO    So are you.  The smile falls.  Agent Smith yanks his TRIGGER.  CLICK.  Agent Smith's face warps with rage and he attacks, fist  flying at furious speed, blows and counters, Neo  retreating as --  A knife-hand opens his forearm, and a kick sends him  slamming back against a steel column.  Stunned, he ducks just under a punch that crunches into  the beam, STEEL CHUNKS EXPLODING like shrapnel.  Behind him, Neo leaps into the air, delivering a neck-  snapping reverse round-house.  Agent Smith's glasses fly  off and he glares at Neo; his eyes, ice blue.      AGENT SMITH    You can't win.      NEO    I already have.  He attacks with a vicious series of blows but the Agent  seems to absorb them, waiting for his opening.  And this time Agent Smith's attack is too much, an  unrelenting fury, fists pounding like jackhammers.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  Trinity watches Neo as his body jerks, mouth coughing  blood, his life signs going wild.      TRINITY    Jesus, he's killing him!  INT.  "EL" STATION (MATRIX) - DAY  Agent Smith grabs hold of him, lifting him into the air,  hurling him against the curved wall of the train tunnel,  where he falls inches from the electrified third-rail.  The Agent is about to jump down, and press his attack  when he hears sonething.  From deep in the tunnel, like  an animal cry; a burst of high-speed METAL GRINDING  against METAL.  The sound of an ON-COMING TRAIN.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  Tank is trying to find another entrance.      TRINITY    Send me back, Tank!  Anywhere!      TANK    I'm looking, Trinity!  I'm    looking!  From the cockpit, an ALARM sounds.  Morpheus hurries to  the front console, typing, bringing up the radar.  Trinity follows him.      TRINITY    What is it... oh no.  In every pipe surrounding them, they see the  Extermination Unit.      TRINITY    Sentinels.  INT.  SEWER MAIN  The killing machine we saw in the History Program blister  by us like tracer bullets shot down the throat of the  abyss.  INT.  "EL" STATION (MATRIX) - DAY  Neo tries to get up.  Agent Smith jumps down onto the  tracks and drop-kicks him in the face.  The world begins to shake, RUMBLING as the TRAIN NEARS.      AGENT SMITH    Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson?  Agent Smith grabs Neo in a choke-hold, forcing him to  look down the tracks, the train's headlight burning a  hole in the darkness.      AGENT SMITH    That is the sound of    inevitability.  Neo sees it coming and he starts to fight.      AGENT SMITH    It is the sound of your death.  There is another METAL SCREECH, MUCH LOUDER, closer, as  Agent Smith tightens his hold.  Neo is unable to breathe.      AGENT SMITH    Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.  The TRAIN ROARS at them, swallowing Agent Smith's words.  The veins bulge in Neo's head, as he grits through the  pain.  He is not ready to die.      NEO    My name is Neo.  Impossibly, he hurls himself straight up, smashing Smith  against the concrete ceiling of the tunnel.  They fall as the sound and fury of the TRAIN EXPLODES  INTO the station.  Neo back-flips up off the tracks just as --  The train barrels over Agent Smith.  Neo stands, knees shaking, when the train slams on its  emergency brake.  With an ear-splitting SHRIEK of  TORTURED RAILS, the train slows, part of it still in the  station.  Neo turns, limping, starting to run, racing for the  escalator --  As the train comes to a stop and the doors of the last  car open; Agent Smith bursts out in furious pursuit, his  glasses again intact.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  Morpheus checks the ship's self destruct key.      TRINITY    You can't use that until Neo is    out!      MORPHEUS    I know.  Don't worry, he'll make    it.  EXT.  CITY STREET (MATRIX) - DAY  A man sits in his Mercedes, talking on his car phone when  his door is thrown open.  Neo yanks him out and jumps in.  Further down the street, Agent Smith slows, calmly  touching his ear-piece.  Neo throws the car across traffic, rocketing down a side-  street.  INT.  CAR (MATRIX) - DAY  Driving like a demon with one hand, he grabs the car  phone and dials long distance.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  Tank answers.      TANK    Operator.      NEO (V.O.)    Mr. Wizard, Get me the fuck out    of here!  INT.  CAR (MATRIX) - DAY  Looking over his shoulder, watching the mirrors, Neo  drives almost unconsciously.      NEO    Hurry, Tank!  I got some serious    pursuit!  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  The keyboard clicking, Tank searches for an exit.  Trinity screams into the headset.      TRINITY    Neo, you better get your ass back    here!  INT.  CAR      NEO    I'm trying, Trinity.  I'm trying.      TANK (V.O.)    I got one!  Neo glances to his right and sees Agent Brown, now  driving the car beside his.  Agent Brown swerves,  slamming into him.      TANK (V.O.)    Wabash and Lake.  A hotel.  Neo fights the steering wheel as Agent Brown pushes the  car up over the median.      TANK (V.O.)    Room 303.  Neo drops the phone as his car bucks into the opposing  lane --  Directly into the charging path of an enormous truck  driven by Agent Smith.  Neo dives from the Mercedes as the truck plows into it,  rending metal and GLASS, crushing through, totaling other  cars, as it EXPLODES.  Neo is up and running even as orange and black clouds  billow up behind hin.  EXT.  CITY STREET (MATRIX) - DAY  Three figures silhouette by the burning wreckage become  the three agents.  Further down the street, Neo hauls his broken, bleeding  ass.  Agents Brown and Smith slow, touching their ear-pieces as  Agent Jones continues chasing full-bore.  Neo spins around a corner, racing toward a hotel called:  the Heart of Chicago Hotel.  Only Agent Jones is behind him now.  Neo dives into the alley.  At the far end he sees Agent  Brown charging.  Neo leaps for the fire escape and begins  to climb.  INT.  SEWER MAIN  Sentinels open and shift like killer kaleidoscopes as  they ready their weapons, swarming around the  Nebuchadnezzar.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  The hovercraft booms as machines drop onto it.      TANK    I'm going to make the call.      MORPHEUS    Do it!  INT.  "HEART OF CHICAGO" HOTEL (MATRIX) - DAY  Agent Snith is in the elevator when he hears the DISTANT  RING of a PHONE.  EXT.  ALLEY (MATRIX) - DAY  The agents chase him, FIRING, BULLETS SPARKING and  RICOCHETING even as Neo jumps for the third-floor  platform.  Neo kicks in the window, jumping into the hall.  The  doors count backwards:  310...  309...  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  Morpheus grabs the biggest gun he can find.  The lasers  begin to slice through the hull.      TRINITY    Where is he?      TANK    Almost there.      MORPHEUS    He's going to make it.      TRINITY    Hurry, Neo.  INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY  Neo can hear the PHONE RINGING.  305...  304...  Agent Brown reaches the broken window behind him just as  Neo grabs the handle of 303, throwing open the door to  find --  Agent Sniith, waiting, .45 cocked.  Neo can't move -- can't think --  BOOM.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  Neo's body jerks, and everyone hears it as the life  monitors snap flat-line.  Trinity screams.  Morpheus is frozen in disbelief.  INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY  Three holes in his chest, Neo falls to the blue shag  carpeting, blood smearing down the wallpaper.  Agent Smith stands over him, still aiming, taking no  chances.      AGENT SMITH    Check him.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  Through the lasered opening, Morpheus screams, blasting  away at the machines; comet-wads of plasma burning holes  in their armored housings.  Trinity collapses onto Neo's body.      TRINITY    No-no-no!  Neo, you're not dead!    You can't be dead!  INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY  Kneeling beside him, Agent Brown checks his vital signs.      AGENT BROWN    He's gone.  Agent Smith smiles, standing over him.      AGENT SMITH    I told you, you couldn't win.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  Tank is hit, a laser bolt knocking him to the ground.  They can't hold them off any longer.  Morpheus lunges for  the self destruct --  As Trinity whispers in Neo's ear.      TRINITY    You're right here.  I'm holding    you, Neo.  I'm not letting you go.    Do you hear me?  I won't let you    go.  INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY  The agents walk to the elevator, leaving Neo's body  behind.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  Morpheus flicks the Plexiglas shield of the self-  destruct.      TRINITY    Goddamnit, Neo!  Don't give it up!    Not now!  She pounds on his chest.      TRINITY    Not now!  INT.  HOTEL HALL (MATRIX) - DAY  The BLOW ECHOES deep in his mind.  His eyes snap open.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  Trinity screams as the monitors jump back to life.  Tank  and Morpheus stare, unbelieving.  It is a miracle.      TRINITY    Now get up!  INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY  Neo struggles, holding his chest, sitting up.  Down the  hall, he sees the elevator closing and --  Agent Smith staring at him as if he were looking at a  Cypher.  Neo gives him the finger.      AGENT SMITH    Nooooo!  Agent Smith pounds on the elevator door.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  A sentinel BLOWS a hole in Morpheus' right arm and he  screams, refusing to let go of the detonator.  INT.  ROOM 303 (MATRIX) - DAY  Neo dives for the RINGING PHONE.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  Machines split open the craft, pouring in, lasers  targeting everywhere.  A beat finds the center of Morpheus' forehead and he  screams, ready to die.      TRINITY    Now!  He turns the key.  INT.  OVERFLOW PIT  A blinding shock of white lights flood the chamber;  sentinels blink and fall instantly dead, filling the pit  with their cold, metal carcasses.  INT.  HOVERCRAFT  In the still darkness, only the humans are alive.      TRINITY    Neo?  His eyes open.  Tears pour from her smiling eyes as he  reaches up to touch her.  And she kisses hin; it seems like it might last forever.          FADE TO BLACK.  FADE IN:  ON COMPUTER SCREEN  as in the opening.  The cursor beating steadily, waiting.  A PHONE begins to RING.  It is answered and the screen fills instantly with the  trace program.  After a long beat, we recognize Neo's  voice.      NEO (V.O.)    Hi.  It's me.  I know you're out    there.  I know you're working as    fast as you can to catch me.  We CLOSE IN ON the racing columns of numbers shimmering  across the screen.      NEO (V.O.)    I thought I should call and let    you know how things stand.  We DIVE THROUGH the numbers, surging UP THROUGH the  darkness, sucked TOWARDS a tight constellation of stars.      NEO (V.O.)    I know you're real proud of this    world you've built, the way it    works, all the nice little rules    and such, but I've got some bad    news.  We realize that the constellation is actually the holes  in the mouthpiece of a phone.  Seen from inside.      NEO (V.O.)    I've decided to make a few    changes.  We SHOOT THROUGH the holes as Neo hangs up the phone.  He steps out of the phone booth and starts walking,  wearing a long black coat and dark glasses.  He passes a  mother dragging her little BOY, who cranes his neck as --  Neo takes off, flying up into the air.      BOY    Mommy!  Mommy!      MOMMY    What?      BOY    That man!  That man flies!      MOMMY    Don't be silly, honey.  Men don't    fly.  There is a RUSH of AIR as the Boy stares up as Neo shoots  overhead.  His coat billowing like a black leather cape  as he soars up, up, and away.           FADE OUT.          THE END                                             <a href="javascript:checkVirus('grpid%3Dya44%26fldid%3DHmM3%26dataid%3D34%26fileid%3D1%26regdt%3D20091101202203&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcfile266.uf.daum.net%2Fattach%2F1138051C4AED6F2FDF19E0')"><img src="https://t1.daumcdn.net/daumtop_deco/icon/icon.hanmail.net/editor/p_txt_s.gif?rv=1.0.1" border="0" alt="첨부파일" class="vam"/> Matrix.txt</a>