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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

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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

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