the_matrix 1.

FADE IN:

1 ON COMPUTER SCREEN 1
so close it has no boundaries.
A blinding 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.)
Yeah?
Data now slashes across the screen, information flashing
faster then we can read: "Call trans opt: received. 2-19-98
13:24:18 REC:Log>."
WOMAN (V.O.)
Is everything in place?
On screen: "Trace program: running."
We listen to the phone conversation as though we were on a
third line. The man's name is Cypher. The woman, Trinity.
TRINITY (WOMANV.O.)
I said, is everything in place?
The entire screen with racing columns of numbers. Shimmering
like green-electric rivers, they rush at a 10-digit phone
number in the top corner.
CYPHER (MANV.O.)
You weren't supposed to relieve me.
TRINITY (V.O.)
I know but I felt like taking a
shift.
The area code is identified. The first three numbers suddenly
fixed, leaving only seven flowing columns.
CYPHER (V.O.)
You like him, don't you? You like
watching him?

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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.
1 CONTINUED: 1
TRINITY (V.O.)
Don't be ridiculous.
CYPHER (V.O.)
We're going to kill him. Do you
understand that? He's going to die
just like the others.
TRINITY (V.O.)
Morpheus believes he is the One.
Only two thin digits left.
CYPHER (V.O.)
Do you?
TRINITY (V.O.)
I... it doesn't matter what I
believe.
CYPHER (V.O.)
You don't, do you?
TRINITY (V.O.)
If you have something to say, I
suggest you say it to Morpheus.
CYPHER (V.O.)
I intend to, believe me. Someone has
to.

The final NUMBER POPS into place --

TRINITY (V.O.)
Did you hear that?
CYPHER (V.O.)
Hear what?

On 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.

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We MOVE STILL CLOSER, the ELECTRIC HUM of the green NUMBERS

GROWING into an ominous ROAR.

TRINITY (V.O.)
I better go.

She hangs up as we PASS THROUGH the numbers, entering the

nether world of the computer screen. Suddenly, a flash- light
cuts open the darkness and we find ourselves in --

2 INT. HEART O' THE CITY HOTEL - NIGHT 2

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 modem, 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
Hands behind your head! Now! Do it!

She slowly puts her hands behind her head.

3 EXT. HEART O' THE CITY HOTEL - NIGHT 3

A black sedan with tinted windows glides in through the

police cruisers. AGENT SMITH, AGENT BROWN, and AGENT JONES
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, the cord coiling back into their shirt collars.

AGENT SMITH
Lieutenant?

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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
cram 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 already
dead.

4 INT. HEART O' THE CITY HOTEL 4

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 cuffs 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. Her leg kicks with the force of a
wrecking ball and he flies back, a two-hundred-fifty pound
sack of limp meat and bone that slams into the cop farthest
from her.

Trinity moves again, BULLETS RAKING the walls, flashlights

sweeping with panic as the remaining cops try to stop a
leather-clad ghost.

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A GUN still in the cop's hand is snatched, twisted, and

FIRED. There is a final violent exchange of GUNFIRE and when
it's over, Trinity is the only one standing.

THE MATRIX - Rev. 3/9/98 5.

4 CONTINUED: 4

A flashlight rocks slowly to a stop.

TRINITY
Shit.

5 EXT. HEART O' THE CITY HOTEL 5

Agent Brown enters the hotel while Agent Smith heads for the
alley.

6 INT. HEART O' THE CITY HOTEL 6

Trinity is on the phone, pacing. The other end is answered.

MAN (V.O.)
Operator.
TRINITY
Morpheus! The line was traced! I
don't know how.

MORPHEUS (MANV.O.)
I know. They cut the hardline. This
line is not a viable exit.
TRINITY
Are there any Agents?

MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Yes.

TRINITY
Goddamnit!

MORPHEUS (V.O.)
You have to focus. There is a phone.
Wells and Lake. You can make it.
She takes a deep breath, centering herself.

TRINITY
All right --

MORPHEUS (V.O.)

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Go.
She drops the phone.

THE MATRIX - Rev. 3/9/98 6.

7 INT. HALL 7

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.

8 EXT. FIRE ESCAPE 8

In the alley below, Trinity sees Agent Smith staring at her.

She can only go up.

9 EXT. ROOF 9

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

movements 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 roof 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.

COP
That's it, we got her now.

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 hits, somersaulting up, still running hard.

COP
Jesus Christ -- that's impossible!

They stare, slack-jawed, as Agent Brown duplicates the move

exactly, landing, rolling over a shoulder up onto one knee.

It is a dizzying chase up and over the dark plateaued

landscape of rooftops and sheer cliffs of brick. Ahead, she

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sees her only chance, 50 feet beyond the point where her path
drops away into a paved chasm, there is!--

10 EXT. WINDOW 10
A yellow glow in the midst of a dark brick building.

Trinity zeros in on it, running as hard as she can and --

10 CONTINUED: 10

Hurtles herself 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 --

A10 INT. BACK STAIRWELL A10

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.
She wheels on the smashed opening above, her gun instantly in
her hand, trained, waiting for Agent Brown but is met by only
a slight WIND that HISSES against the fanged maw of broken
glass.
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.

11 EXT. STREET 11
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, it's
TIRES SCREAMING as it accelerates. Trinity sees the
headlights of the truck arcing at the telephone booth as if
taking aim.

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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 --
(CONTINUED)

THE MATRIX - Rev. 3/9/98 8.

11 CONTINUED: 11

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 and Brown walk up behind him.
AGENT JONES
She got out.
AGENT SMITH
It doesn't matter.

AGENT BROWN
The informant is real.
Agent Smith almost smiles.

AGENT SMITH
Yes.
AGENT JONES
We have the name of their next
target.
AGENT BROWN
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.

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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 DARKNESS.
The DARKNESS CRACKLES with phosphorescent energy, the word
"searching" blazing in around us as we EMERGE FROM a computer
screen.
The screen flickers with windowing data as a search engine
runs with a steady relentless rhythm.

We DRIFT BACK FROM the screen and INTO --

12 INT. NEO'S APARTMENT 12

It is a studio apartment 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.
At the center of this technological rat-nest is NEO, a man
who knows more about living inside a computer than outside
one.

He is asleep in front of his PC. Behind him, the computer

screen suddenly goes blank. A prompt appears: "Wake up, Neo."
Neo's eye pries open. He sits up, one eye still closed,
looking around, unsure of where he is. He notices the screen.
He types "CTRL X" but the letter "T" appears.
NEO
What...?
He hits another and an "H" appears. He keeps typing, pushing
random functions and keys while the computer types out a
message as though it had a mind of its own.

He stops and stares at the four words on the screen: "The

Matrix has you."
NEO
What the hell?

He hits the "ESC" button. Another message appears: "Follow

the white rabbit."

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He hits it again and the message repeats. He rubs his eyes

but when he opens them, there is another message: "Knock,
knock, Neo."
Someone KNOCKS on his door and he almost jumps out of his
chair. He looks back at the computer, but the screen is now
blank.

Someone KNOCKS again. Neo rises, still unnerved.

NEO
Who is it?

CHOI (O.S)
It's Choi.
(CONTINUED)

12 CONTINUED: 12
Neo flips a series of locks and opens the door, leaving the
chain on. A young Chinese MAN stands there with several of
his friends.

NEO
You're two hours late.
CHOI (MAN)
I know. It's her fault.
NEO
You got the money?
CHOI
Two grand.
He takes out an envelope and gives it to Neo through the
cracked door.

NEO
Hold on.
He closes the door. On the floor near his bed is a book,
Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulations. The book has been
hollowed out and inside are several computer disks. He takes
one, sticks the money in the book and drops it on the floor.
Opening the door, he hands the disk to Choi.
CHOI
Hallelujah! You are my Savior, man!
My own personal Jesus Christ!
NEO

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If you get caught using that --

CHOI
I know, I know. This never happened.
You don't exist.

NEO
Right...
Neo nods as the strange feeling of unrealness suddenly
returns.

CHOI
Something wrong, man? You look a
little whiter than usual.
NEO
I don't know... My computer...
(CONTINUED)
12 CONTINUED: (2) 12

He looks back at Choi, unable to explain what just happened.

NEO
You ever have the feeling that
you're not sure if you're awake or
still dreaming?
CHOI
All the time. It's called mescaline
and it is the only way to fly.
He smiles and slaps the hand of his nearest droog.
CHOI
It sounds to me like you need to
unplug, man. A little R&R. What do
you think, Dujour, should we take
him with us?
DUJOUR
Definitely.
NEO
I can't. I have to work tomorrow.

DUJOUR
Come on. It'll be fun. I promise.
He looks up at her and suddenly notices on her black leather
motorcycle jacket dozens of pins: bands, symbols, slogans,
military medals and --

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A small white rabbit. The ROOM TILTS.

NEO
Yeah, yeah. Sure, I'll go.

13 INT. APARTMENT 13
An older 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 predominately in black, people are everywhere,
gathered in cliques around pieces of furniture like jungle
cats around a tree.
(CONTINUED)
13 CONTINUED: 13

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 do you know that name?
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. D-Base?
TRINITY
That was a long time ago.

NEO

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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 somewhere and
talk?
TRINITY
No. It's safe here and I don't have
much time.
(CONTINUED)
13 CONTINUED: (2) 13

The MUSIC is so LOUD they must stand very close, talking

directly into each other's ear.
NEO
That was you on my computer?

She nods.
NEO
How did you do that?
TRINITY
Right now, all I can tell you, is
that you are in danger. I brought
you here to warn you.
NEO
Of what?
TRINITY
They're watching you, Neo.
NEO
Who is?
TRINITY
Please. Just listen. I know why
you're here, Neo. I know what you've
been doing. I know why you hardly

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sleep, why you live alone and why,

night after night, you sit at your
computer. You're looking for him.
Her body is against his; her lips very close to his ear.

TRINITY
I know because I was once looking
for the same thing, but when he
found me he told me I wasn't really
looking for him. I was looking for
an answer.
There is a hypnotic quality to her voice and Neo feels the
words, like a drug, seeping into him.

TRINITY
It's the question that drives us,
the question that brought you here.
You know the question just as I did.
NEO
What is the Matrix?
(CONTINUED)

THE MATRIX - Rev. 3/22/98 14.

13 CONTINUED: (3) 13
TRINITY
When I asked him, he said that no
one could ever be told the answer to
that question. They have to see it
to believe it.
She leans close, her lips almost touching his ear.

TRINITY
The answer is out there, Neo. It's
looking for you and it will find
you, if you want it to.
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:

14 INT. NEO'S APARTMENT 14

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The sound is an ALARM CLOCK, slowly dragging Neo to

consciousness. He strains to read the clock-face: 9:15!A.M.
NEO
Shitshitshit.

15 EXT. SKYSCRAPER 15
The downtown office of Meta CorTechs, a software development
company.

16 INT. META CORTECHS OFFICE 16

The main offices are along each wall, the windows overlooking
downtown. 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 the surface of the
glass.
RHINEHEART
You have a problem with authority,
Mr. Anderson. You believe that you
are special, that somehow the rules
do not apply to you. Obviously, you
are mistaken.
16 CONTINUED: 16
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

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Yes, Mr. Rhineheart. Perfectly

clear.

17 INT. NEO'S CUBICLE 17

The entire floor looks like a human honeycomb, with a
labyrinth of cubicles structured around a core of elevators.
VOICE (O.S.)
Thomas Anderson?
Neo turns and finds a FEDERAL EXPRESS GUY at his cubicle
door.
NEO
Yeah. That's me.
Neo signs the electronic pad and the Fedex Guy hands him the
softpak.
FEDEX GUY
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?
(CONTINUED)
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17 CONTINUED: 17
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Hello, Neo. Do you know who this is?
Neo's knees give and he sinks into his chair.
NEO
Morpheus...

MORPHEUS (V.O.)
I've been looking for you, Neo. 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.

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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. The elevator.
His head peeks up over the partition. At the elevator, he
sees Agent Smith, Agent Brown and Agent Jones leading a group
of cops. A female employee turns and points out Neo's
cubicle.
Neo ducks.

NEO
Holy shit!
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Yes.
One cop stays at the elevator, the others follow the Agents.
NEO
What the hell do they want with me?!
17 CONTINUED: (2) 17
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.

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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 another 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.
(CONTINUED)
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17 CONTINUED: (3) 17
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.

18 INT. EMPTY OFFICE 18

The room is empty.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Good. Outside there is a scaffold.

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NEO
How do you know all this?
Morpheus laughs quietly.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
The answer is coming, Neo. There is
a window in front of you. Open it.
He opens the window. The WIND HOWLS into the room.

MORPHEUS (V.O.)
You can use the scaffold to get to
the roof.
NEO
No! It's too far away.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
There's a ledge. It's a short 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.)
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.
18 CONTINUED: 18
NEO
This is insane! Why is this
happening to me? What did I do? I'm
nobody. I didn't do anything.
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

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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
Shit!

19 EXT. SKYSCRAPER 19
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 rearview mirror of her motorcycle.

TRINITY
Shit.

20 INT. INTERROGATION ROOM 20

CLOSE ON a camera monitor; a wide angle view of a white room
where Neo is sitting at a table alone. We MOVE INTO the
monitor, entering the room as if the monitor was a window.
At the same moment, the door opens and the Agents enter.
Agent Smith sits down across from Neo. A thick manila
envelope slaps down on the table. The name on the file:
"Anderson, Thomas!A."
(CONTINUED)
THE MATRIX - Rev. 3/9/98 20.

20 CONTINUED: 20
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

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for a respectable software company.

You have a social security number,
you pay your taxes and you help your
landlady 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.
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. The fact is that he is
wanted for acts of terrorism in more
countries than any other man in the
world.
(MORE)
20 CONTINUED: (2) 20
AGENT SMITH (CONT'D)
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

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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 just give
you the finger --
He does.
NEO
And you give me my phone call!
Agent Smith puts his glasses back on.
AGENT SMITH
You disappoint me, Mr. Anderson.
NEO
You can't scare me with this Gestapo
crap. I know my rights. I want my
phone call!

Agent Smith smiles.

(CONTINUED)
20 CONTINUED: (3) 20
AGENT SMITH
And tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good
is a phone call if 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.

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Neo feels his lips grow soft and sticky as they slowly seal
shut, melding into each other until all traces of his mouth
are 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, becoming 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.

21 INT. NEO'S APARTMENT - NIGHT 21

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.
(CONTINUED)
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21 CONTINUED: 21
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
This line is tapped so I must be
brief.

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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
What are you talking about? What the
hell is happening to me?
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
You're the One, Neo. You see, you
may have spent the last few years
looking for me, but I've spent most
of my life looking for you.
Neo feels sick.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Do you still want to meet?
NEO
... Yes.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Go to the Adams Street bridge.
CLICK. He closes his eyes, unsure of what he has done.

22 EXT. CITY STREET - NIGHT 22

It is just beyond the middle of the night; that time when it

seems there are no rules and everything feels unsafe. Neo's
boots scrape against the concrete. Every pair of eyes he
passes seems to follow him. Rain pours from a black sky.
As he reaches the bridge, headlights creep in behind him. He
turns just as the car slides quickly to a stop beside him.
The back door opens.
TRINITY
Get in.

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23 INT. CAR 23
A large man named APOC is driving. Beside him is a beautiful
androgyne called SWITCH, aiming a large gun at Neo. WINDOW

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WIPERS BEAT HEAVILY against the windshield.

NEO
What the hell is this?!
TRINITY
It's necessary, Neo. For our
protection.
NEO
From what?
TRINITY
From you.
She lifts a strange steel and glass device that looks like a
cross between a rib separator, speculum and air compressor.
SWITCH
Take off your shirt.
He looks at the strange device and the gun still trained on
him.

NEO
What? Why?
SWITCH
Stop the car.
Apoc does.
SWITCH
Listen to me, coppertop! We don't
have time for 'twenty questions.'
Right now there is only one rule.
Our way or the highway.
NEO
Fine.
Neo opens the door.
TRINITY
Neo, please, you have to trust me.
NEO
Why?
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TRINITY

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Because you've been down there, Neo.

You already know that road. You know
exactly where it ends.
Neo stares out into the sheets of rain railing against the
dark street beyond the open door.
TRINITY
And I know that's not where you want
to be.
He closes the door.

A23 EXT. DARK STREET A23

A moment later the green street lights curve over the car's
tinted windshield as it rushes through the wet underworld.

24 INT. CAR 24
Neo grudgingly strips off his T-shirt.
TRINITY
Lie back.
Trinity aims the device at Neo, its glass snout forming a
seal over his navel. Switch snaps a cable into the front seat
cigarette lighter.
NEO
What is this thing?
TRINITY
We think you're bugged. Try to
relax.

She turns a dial and the machine bears down on Neo's

midsection, the cylinder sucking hard at his stomach.
Neo screams, squinting in pain as Trinity watches the needle
on a pressure gauge climb steadily.
TRINITY
Come on, come on...
On a small monitor that projects an ultrasound-like image, we
see Neo's insides begin to slither and churn. He gasps as
something wiggles beneath his skin inside his stomach.
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SWITCH
It's on the move.
TRINITY
Shit.

SWITCH
You're gonna lose it.
TRINITY
No I'm not. Clear.
The foreboding word hangs in Neo's ear for a moment when
Trinity squeezes a trigger. Electric current hammers into Neo
and rigid convulsions take hold of him beneath the flickering
car lamp until --
Something finally rockets wetly out of Neo's stomach through
the extractor's coils.
NEO
Jesus Christ! It's real?! That thing
is real?!
Trinity lifts a glass cage at the end of the tubing. Inside,
the small fluke-like bug flips and squirms, its tendrils
flapping against the clear walls.
She unrolls the window and dumps it out.

25 EXT. CAR 25
It hits the pavement with a metallic tink, reverted back into
a common wire tap, as the car disappears into the rainy
night.

26 EXT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE 26

The car stops in a deserted alley behind a forgotten hotel.

27 INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE 27

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.

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27 CONTINUED: 27
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.

28 INT. ROOM 1313 28

Across the room, a DARK FIGURE stares out the tall windows
veiled with decaying lace. He turns and his smile lights up
the room. A dull ROAR of THUNDER shakes the old building.
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
No, the honor is mine. Please. Come.
Sit.

He nods to Trinity and she 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.

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A smile, razor-thin, curls the corner of his lips.

28 CONTINUED: 28

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 have come because you know
something. What you know you can't
explain but you feel it. You've felt
it your whole life, felt that
something is wrong with the world.
You don't know what, but it's there
like a splinter in your mind,
driving you mad. It is this feeling
that brought you to me. Do you know
what I'm talking about?
NEO
The Matrix?
MORPHEUS
Do you want to know what it is?
Neo swallows hard and nods.

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(CONTINUED)
28 CONTINUED: (2) 28
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. Like
everyone else, you were born into
bondage, kept inside a prison that
you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A
prison for your mind.
The LEATHER CREAKS as he leans back.
MORPHEUS
Unfortunately, no one can be told
what the Matrix is. You have to see
it for yourself.
Morpheus opens his hands. In the right is a red pill. In the
left, a blue pill.

MORPHEUS
This is your last chance. After
this, there is no going back. 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, the moisture
growing in his palms.
MORPHEUS

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Remember that all I am offering is

the truth. Nothing more.
(CONTINUED)
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28 CONTINUED: (3) 28
Neo opens his mouth and swallows the red pill. The Cheshire
smile returns.
MORPHEUS
Follow me.

29 INT. OTHER ROOM 29

He leads Neo into the other room, which is cramped with high-
tech equipment, glowing ash-blue and electric green from the
racks of monitors. Trinity, Apoc, Switch and Cypher look up
as they enter.
MORPHEUS
Apoc, are we on-line?
APOC
Almost.
He and Trinity are working quickly, hardwiring a complex
system of monitors, modules and drives.
MORPHEUS
Neo, time is always against us. Will
you take a seat there?
Neo sits in a chair in the center of the room and Trinity
begins gently fixing white electrode disks to him. Near the
chair is an old oval dressing mirror that is cracked. He
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 designed to disrupt
your input/output carrier signal so
we can pinpoint your location.
NEO

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What does that mean?

CYPHER
It means buckle up, Dorothy, 'cause
Kansas is going bye-bye.
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29 CONTINUED: 29

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
Did you...?
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.
MORPHEUS
Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that
you were so sure was real?
A flash of lightning flickers white hot against Neo.
NEO
This can't be...
MORPHEUS
Be what? Be real?
The strands thin like rubber cement as he pulls away, until
the fragile wisps of mirror thread break.
MORPHEUS
What if you were unable to wake from
that dream, Neo? How would you know
the difference between the
dreamworld and the real world?
Neo looks at his hand; fingers distended into mirrored
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wax down his fingers, spreading across his palm where he sees
his face reflected.
NEO
Uh-oh...
TRINITY
It's going into replication.
MORPHEUS
Apoc?
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29 CONTINUED: (2) 29
APOC
Still nothing.

Morpheus takes out a cellular phone and dials a number.

MORPHEUS
Tank, we're going to need the signal
soon.
The mirror gel seems to come to life, racing, crawling up his
arms like hundreds of insects.
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 cold.
TRINITY
I got fibrillation!
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!
APOC
Lock! I got him!

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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.

30 INT. POWER PLANT - CLOSE ON MAN'S BODY 30

floating in a magenta amnion.
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30 CONTINUED: 30
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 cocoon.
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
magenta 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
magenta gelatin; beneath the wax-like surface, pale and
motionless, he sees other human beings.

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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.

30 CONTINUED: (2) 30
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.
The machine seizes hold of Neo, paralyzing him as the cable
lock at the back of his neck spins and opens.
The cable disengages itself. A long, clear plastic needle and
cerebrum-chip slides from the anterior of Neo's skull with an
ooze of blood and spinal fluid. The other connective hoses
snap free and snake away as the machine lets Neo go.
Suddenly, 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.

31 INT. WASTE LINE 31

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 oily clumps of cellulite.

32 INT. SEWER MAIN 32

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 machine hovering inside the sewer
main.

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33 INT. HOVERCRAFT 33
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.

He smiles.
MORPHEUS
Welcome to the real world, Neo.
Neo passes out.
FADE TO BLACK.
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FADE IN:

34 INT. HOVERCRAFT 34
We have no sense of time. We hear voices whispering.
MORPHEUS (O.S.)
We've done it, Trinity. We found
him.
TRINITY (O.S.)
I hope you're right.
MORPHEUS (O.S.)
I don't have to hope it. I know it.
Neo's eyes flutter open. We see Morpheus' face above us,
angelic in the fluorescent glow of a light stick.
NEO (O.S.)
... am I dead?
MORPHEUS
Far from it.
FADE TO BLACK.

35 INT. HOVERCRAFT - INFIRMARY 35

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 still needs a lot of work.

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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 closes Neo's eyes and Neo lays back.
35 CONTINUED: 35
MORPHEUS
Rest, Neo. The answers are coming.

36 INT. NEO'S ROOM 36

Neo wakes up from a deep sleep, feeling better. 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 runs his hand over the short hair now covering his 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.

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The wind is knocked from Neo's chest.

MORPHEUS
There is no reason for me to try to
explain it when I can simply show
it. Come with me.

37 INT. HOVERCRAFT 37
Like a sleepwalker, Neo follows Morpheus through the ship.
MORPHEUS
This is my ship, the Nebuchadnezzar.
It's a hovercraft.
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
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37 CONTINUED: 37

MORPHEUS (CONT'D)
Small like a submarine. It's cramped
and cold. But it's home.
They climb a ladder up to the main deck.

38 INT. MAIN DECK 38

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, Cypher, and Switch. Those two
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
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slabs, a black portable satellite dish and banks of life

systems and computer monitors.
At the center of the web, there are six ecto-skeleton 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
You want to know what the Matrix is,
Neo? The answer is right here.

He touches the back of Neo's head.

MORPHEUS
Help him, Trinity.
Neo allows himself to be helped into one of the chairs. He
feels Morpheus guiding a coaxial line into the jack at the
back of his neck. The cable has the same kind of cerebrum
chip we saw inside the plant.
38 CONTINUED: 38
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 --

39 INT. CONSTRUCT 39
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.

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Morpheus walks past Neo and when Neo turns he sees the two
leather chairs from the Hotel Lafayette 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 smiles.
MORPHEUS
Is it so hard to believe? Your
clothes are different, the plugs in
your arms and head are gone. Look at
your hair, you were bald a moment
ago.

Neo touches his head.

(CONTINUED)
39 CONTINUED: 39
MORPHEUS
It's what we call residual self
image. The mental projection of your
electronic self. Wild, isn't it?
Neo's hands run over the cracked leather.
NEO
This -- This isn't real?
MORPHEUS
What is real? How do you define
real? If you're talking about what
you feel, taste, smell, or see, then
real is simply electrical signals
interpreted by your brain.
He picks up a remote control and clicks on the television. On
the television, we see images of the Twentieth Century city
where Neo lived.
MORPHEUS
This is the world you know. The
world as it was at the end of the
Twentieth Century. It exists now
only as part of a neural-

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interactive simulation that we call

the Matrix.
He changes the channel and we see a very different city as we
enter the television.
MORPHEUS
You have been living inside a
dreamworld, Neo. As in Baudrillard's
vision, your whole life has been
spent inside the map, not the
territory. This is the world as it
exists today.
In the distance, we see the ruins of a future city protruding
from the wasteland like the blackened ribs of a long-dead
corpse.
MORPHEUS
'The desert of the real.'
Beneath us, the water is gone.
(CONTINUED)
39 CONTINUED: (2) 39
We TURN AND DESCEND, SPIRALING DOWN TOWARD the lake bed which
is scorched and split like burnt flesh, where we FIND
Morpheus and Neo. Neo clings to the chair, trying to get his
bearings.
MORPHEUS
We have only bits and pieces of
information. What we know for
certain is that, at some point in
the early Twenty-first Century, all
of mankind was united in
celebration. Through the blinding
inebriation of hubris, we marveled
at our magnificence as we gave birth
to A.I.
NEO
A.I.? You mean artificial
intelligence?
MORPHEUS
Yes. A singular consciousness that
spawned an entire race of machines.
I must say I find it almost funny to
imagine the world slapping itself on
the back, toasting the new age. I
say almost funny.

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He looks up and his sunglasses reflect the obsidian clouds

roiling overhead.
MORPHEUS
We don't know who struck first. Us
or them. But we do know it was us
that scorched the sky. At the time,
they were dependent on solar power.
It was believed they would be unable
to survive without an energy source
as abundant as the sun.
As we DESCEND INTO the circular window of his glasses, there
is a flash of lightning.
MORPHEUS
Throughout human history, we have
been dependent on machines to
survive. Fate, it seems, is not
without a sense of irony.

40 EXT. FETUS FIELDS 40

On the flash, we PULL BACK from the darkness which reveals
itself to be the black eye of a fetus.
MORPHEUS
The Machines discovered a new form
of fusion. All they needed was a
small electrical charge to initiate
the reaction.
The fetus is suspended in a placenta-like husk, where its
malleable skull is already growing around the brain-jack.
MORPHEUS
The human body generates more
bioelectricity than a 120-volt
battery and over 25,000 B.T.U.'s of
body heat.
The husk hanging from a stalk is plucked by a thresher- like
farm machine.
MORPHEUS
There are fields, endless fields
where human beings are no longer
born; we are grown.
We RISE UP, the field stretching in every direction to the
horizon, lightning tearing open the sky as a harvester sweeps
past us.

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A40 INT. POWER PLANT A40

From the yawning black of the waste port, we begin to PULL
BACK as it snaps shut.
Red amniotic gel flows into the pod below us, pooling around
a tiny newborn that suckles its feed tube.

MORPHEUS
For the longest time, I wouldn't
believe it. But then I saw the
fields with my own eyes, watched
them liquefy the dead so they could
be fed intravenously to the living
and standing there, facing the
efficiency, the pure, horrifying
precision, I came to realize the
obviousness of the truth.
Still PULLING BACK, we see the image of the power plant now
on the television as we return to the white space of the
construct.

41 INT. CONSTRUCT 41
Morpheus steps INTO VIEW as he clicks off the television.

MORPHEUS
What is the Matrix? Control.
He opens the back of the television remote control.
MORPHEUS
The Matrix is a computer-generated
dreamworld built to keep us under
control in order to change a human
being into this.
He holds up a coppertop battery.
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.

NEO
Stop! Let me out! I want out!

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42 INT. MAIN DECK 42

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
brain had been put into a centrifuge.
NEO
I don't believe it! I don't believe
it!
(CONTINUED)
42 CONTINUED: 42
CYPHER
He's going to pop!
Vomiting violently, Neo pitches forward and blacks out.

43 INT. NEO'S ROOM 43

He blinks, regaining consciousness. The room is dark. Neo is

stretched out on his bed.
NEO
I can't go back, can I?
Morpheus is sitting like a shadow on a chair in the far
corner.
MORPHEUS
No. But if you could, would you
really want to?
Deep down, Neo knows that answer.
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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'm sorry. I broke the rule because
I had to.
He stares into the darkness, confessing as much to himself as
to 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
truth; as long as the Matrix exists,
the human race will never be free.
He pauses.
(CONTINUED)

43 CONTINUED: 43
MORPHEUS
When he died, the Oracle prophesied
his return and envisioned that his
coming would hail the destruction of
the Matrix, 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
the search is over.
He stands up.
MORPHEUS
Get some rest. You're going to need
it.
NEO
For what?
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Your training.

44 INT. HOVERCRAFT 44
There is no morning; there is only darkness and then the
fluorescent light sticks flicker on.

45 INT. NEO'S ROOM 45

Neo is awake in his bed, staring up at the lights. The door
opens and TANK 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.
(CONTINUED)
45 CONTINUED: 45
NEO
You don't have...
TANK
Any holes? Nope. Me and my brother
Dozer, we are one hundred percent
pure, old- fashioned, home-grown
human. Born free. Right here in the
real world. Genuine child of Zion.
NEO
Zion?
TANK
If this war ended tomorrow, Zion is
where the party would be.
NEO
It's a city?
TANK
The last human city. The only place
we got left.

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NEO
Where is it?

TANK
Deep underground. Near the earth's
core, where it's still warm. You
live long enough, you might even see
it.
(he smiles)
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.

46 INT. MAIN DECK 46

Neo is plugged in, hanging in one of the suspension chairs.

(CONTINUED)
46 CONTINUED: 46
TANK
We're supposed to load all these
operations programs first, but this
is some major boring shit. Why don't
we start with 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 some combat training?
Neo reads the label on the disk.
NEO
Jujitsu? 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.

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NEO
Holy shit!
TANK
Hey, Mikey, he likes it! Ready for
more?
NEO
Hell yes!

47 INT. MAIN DECK 47

CLOSE ON a computer monitor 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.
(CONTINUED)
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47 CONTINUED: 47
MORPHEUS
How is he?

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.
NEO
This is incredible. I know kung fu.
MORPHEUS
Show me.

48 INT. DOJO 48
They are standing in a very sparse Japanese-style dojo.
MORPHEUS
This is a sparring program, similar
to the programmed reality of the
Matrix. It has the same basic rules.
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learn is that these rules are no

different than the rules of a
computer system. Some of them can be
bent. Others can be broken.
Understand?
Neo nods as Morpheus assumes a fighting stance.
MORPHEUS
Then hit me, if you can.
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.

49 INT. MAIN DECK 49

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.

50 INT. MESS HALL 50

MOUSE bursts into the room, interrupting dinner.
MOUSE
Morpheus is fighting Neo!
All at once, everyone bolts for the door.

51 INT. DOJO 51
Neo's face is knotted, teeth clenched, as he hurls himself at
Morpheus.
MORPHEUS
Good. Adaptation. 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 --
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Panting, on his hands and knees, blood spits from 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 stands, nodding slowly.
MORPHEUS
Again.
Their fists fly with pneumatic speed.

52 INT. MAIN DECK 52

Everyone is gathered behind Tank, watching the fight, like

watching a game of Mortal Kombat.
MOUSE
Jeezus Keeerist! He's fast! Look at
his neural-kinetics! They're way
above normal!

53 INT. DOJO 53
Morpheus begins to press Neo, countering blows while slipping
in several stinging slaps.
MORPHEUS
Come on, Neo. What are you waiting
for? You're faster than this. Don't
think you are. Know you are.
Whack, Morpheus cracks Neo again. Neo's face twists with rage
as the speed of the blows rises like a drum solo.

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Come on! Stop trying to hit me and

just hit me.
Wham. A single blow catches Morpheus on the side of the head,
knocking off his glasses.

54 INT. MAIN DECK 54

There are several gasps.
MOUSE
I don't believe it!

55 INT. DOJO 55
Morpheus rubs his face, then smiles.

NEO
I know what you're trying to do --
MORPHEUS
I'm trying to free your mind, Neo,
but all I can do is show you the
door. You're the one that has to
step through. Tank, load the jump
program.

56 INT. HOVERCRAFT 56
Apoc and Switch exchange looks as Tank grabs for the disk.

57 INT. CONSTRUCT - ROOFTOP - DAY 57

Morpheus and Neo are again in the white space of the
Construct. Beneath their feet, we see the jump program rush
up at them until they are standing on a rooftop in a city
skyline.
MORPHEUS
Let it all go, Neo. Fear. Doubt.
Disbelief. 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 as he lands on the rooftop across the
street.
NEO
Shit.

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Neo looks down at the street twenty floor below, then at

Morpheus an impossible fifty feet away.
NEO
Okie dokie. Free my mind. Right. No
problem.
He takes a deep breath. And starts to run.

58 INT. MAIN DECK 58

They are transfixed.
MOUSE
What if he makes it?

APOC
No way. Not possible.
TANK
No one's ever made their first jump.
MOUSE
I know, but what if he does?
APOC
He won't.
(CONTINUED)
58 CONTINUED: 58
Trinity stares at the screen, her fists clenching as she
whispers.
TRINITY
Come on.

59 EXT. ROOFTOP 59
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,
stretching like a trapeze net. He bounces and flips, slowly
coming to a rest, flat on his back.
He laughs, a bit unsure, wiping the windblown tears from his
face. Morpheus exits the building and helps him to his feet.

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MORPHEUS
Do you know why you didn't make it?
NEO
Because... I didn't think I would?
Morpheus smiles and nods.

60 INT. MAIN DECK 60

They break up.
MOUSE
What does it mean?
SWITCH
It doesn't mean anything.
CYPHER
Everyone falls the first time,
right, Trinity?
But Trinity has already 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.
(CONTINUED)
60 CONTINUED: 60
NEO
I thought it wasn't real.
MORPHEUS
Your mind makes it real.
Neo stares at the blood.
NEO
If you are killed in the Matrix, do
you die here?
MORPHEUS
The body cannot live without the
mind.

61 INT. NEO'S ROOM 61

Trinity enters from the hall, carrying a tray of food.

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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.

62 INT. HALL 62
Trinity steps out of Neo's room to find Cypher watching her.

CYPHER
I don't remember you ever bringing
me dinner.
Trinity says nothing.
CYPHER
There's something about him, isn't
there?
TRINITY
Don't tell me you're a believer now?
(CONTINUED)
62 CONTINUED: 62
CYPHER
I just keep wondering if Morpheus is
so sure, why doesn't he take him to
the Oracle? She would know.
TRINITY
Morpheus will take him when he's
ready.
She turns and he watches her walk away.

63 EXT. CITY STREET - TRAINING PROGRAM - DAY 63

Morpheus moves effortlessly through a crowded downtown street
while Neo struggles to keep up, constantly bumped and
shouldered off the path.
MORPHEUS
The Matrix is a system, Neo, and
that system is our enemy. But when
you are inside and you look around,
what do you see; businessmen,

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lawyers, teachers, carpenters. The

minds of the very people we are
trying to save. But until we do,
these people are still a part of the
system and that makes them our
enemy.
A cop writing a parking ticket stares at Neo from behind his
sunglasses.
MORPHEUS
You have to understand that most of
these people are not ready to be
unplugged and many of them are so
inured, so hopelessly dependent on
the system that they will fight to
protect it.
A beautiful woman in a red dress smiles at Neo as she passes
by.
MORPHEUS
Were you listening to me, Neo? Or
were you looking at the woman in the
red dress?
NEO
I was...
(CONTINUED)
63 CONTINUED: 63
MORPHEUS
Look again.
Neo turns just as Agent Smith levels a gun at his face. Neo
screams.
MORPHEUS
Freeze it.
Everything except Morpheus and Neo freezes.
NEO
This -- this isn't the Matrix?
MORPHEUS
No, it's another training program
designed to teach you one thing; if
you are not one of us, you're one of
them.
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What are they?

MORPHEUS
Sentient programs. They can move in
and out of any software still
hardwired to their system. That
means that anyone that we haven't
unplugged is potentially an Agent.
Inside the Matrix, they are everyone
and they are no one.
Neo stares at the Agent.

MORPHEUS
We've survived by hiding from them,
running from them, but they are the
gatekeepers, they're guarding all
the doors, holding all the keys,
which means that sooner or later
someone is going to have to fight
them.
NEO
Someone?
MORPHEUS
I won't lie to you, Neo. Every
single man or woman who has stood
their ground, who has fought an
Agent, has died. But where they
failed, you will succeed.
(CONTINUED)

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63 CONTINUED: (2) 63
NEO
Why?
MORPHEUS
I've seen an Agent punch through a
concrete wall. Men have emptied
entire clips at them and hit nothing
but air. Yet their strength and
their speed are still based on a
world that is built by rules.
Because of that they will never be
as strong or as fast as you can be.
Neo scratches his head.
NEO

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What? Are you trying to tell me that

I can dodge bullets?
MORPHEUS
No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that
when you're ready, you won't have
to.
Morpheus' cell PHONE RINGS and he flips it open.
TANK (V.O.)
We got trouble.

64 EXT. SEWER MAIN 64

The Nebuchadnezzar blisters by, trailing a swirling,
supercharged, electromagnetic wake.

65 INT. COCKPIT 65

Morpheus slides into the copilot's chair next to Dozer.

MORPHEUS
Did Zion send the warning?
DOZER
No. Another ship. Big Brother I
think, they're running a parallel
pipeline.
Morpheus scans the decayed landscape of the sewer main that
rolls by as Neo and Trinity squeeze into the cockpit behind
him. An ALARM BEGINS TO SOUND.
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65 CONTINUED: 65
DOZER
Shit, Squiddy's sweeping in quick.

MORPHEUS
Set it down in there.
NEO
Squiddy?
TRINITY
A Sentinel. It's a killing machine
designed for one thing.
DOZER

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Search and destroy.

Neo feels the ship rock to the side as it squeezes into a
tiny supply line.

66 EXT. HOVERCRAFT 66
The Nebuchadnezzar sets down, almost wedged into a pipe that
barely accommodates its size.

67 INT. COCKPIT 67
Morpheus clicks the intercom.
MORPHEUS
How we doing, Tank?

68 INT. MAIN DECK 68

Tank works furiously at the operator's station as the
ceaseless WHIR of the ship's TURBINES GRIND TO a HALT. The
main deck is plunged into dark silence. The rest of the screw
stands behind him as he whispers.
TANK
Power off-line. E.M.P. armed and
ready.

Tank's fingers curl around a small key that glows a dim red.

69 INT. COCKPIT 69
Neo leans into Trinity's ear.
69 CONTINUED: 69
NEO
E.M.P.?
TRINITY
An electromagnetic pulse. It
disables any electrical system in
the blast radius. It's the only
weapon we have against the machines.
Dozer looks up.
DOZER
Now we wait.

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THROUGH the cockpit's windshield, the vast cavern of the

sewer main yawns before them. Strands of green haze curl
round mossy icicles that dangle into a pool of churning
frozen waste. Neo begins to angle around Dozer but Morpheus
grabs him.
MORPHEUS
Don't move. It'll hear you.
Neo freezes and they wait. Without the Nebuchadnezzar's
heating systems, the temperature in the cockpit begins to
rapidly drop. The crew members huddle together, their breath
freezing into a uniform cloud as it gets colder and colder.
Dozer quietly reaches to brush away the frost on the
windshield and as his hand clears a swath --
They see it.

In the darkness, a shifting shadow of mechanized death. It is

beautiful and terrifying. Black alloy skin flickers like
sequins beneath sinewy coils and skeletal appendages.
Neo can feel the hairs on the back of his neck rise as it
silently glides over them with shark-like malevolence until
it disappears into the darkness.
In the frozen little room, everyone breathes a little easier.

70 INT. HALL 70
The ship is quiet and dark. Everyone is asleep.

71 INT. MAIN DECK 71

The core glows with monitor light. Cypher is in the
operator's chair as Neo comes up behind him.

CYPHER
Whoa! Shit, Neo, you scared the
bejeezus out of me.
NEO
Sorry.
CYPHER
No, it's all right.
Neo's eyes light up as he steps closer to the screens that
seem alive with a constant flow of data.
NEO

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Is that...?
CYPHER
The Matrix? Yeah.
Neo stares at the endlessly shifting river of information,
bizarre codes and equations flowing across the face of the
monitor.
NEO
Do you always look at it encoded?
CYPHER
Have to. The image translators sort
of work for the construct programs
but there's way too much information
to decode the Matrix. You get used
to it, though. Your brain does the
translating. I don't even see the
code. All I see is blonde, brunette,
and redhead. You want a drink?
Neo nods and he pours a clear alcohol from a plastic jug.
CYPHER
You know, I know what you're
thinking 'cause right now I'm
thinking the same thing. Actually,
to tell you the truth, I've been
thinking the same thing ever since I
got here.
He raises the glass.
(CONTINUED)
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71 CONTINUED: 71
CYPHER
Why, oh why, didn't I take that blue
pill?
He throws the shot down his throat. Neo does the same and it
almost kills him. Smiling, Cypher slaps him on the back.
CYPHER
Good shit, eh? Dozer makes it. It's
good for two things: degreasing
engines and killing brain cells.
Red-faced, Neo finally stops coughing. Cypher pours him
another.

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CYPHER
Can I ask you something? Did he
happen to tell you why he did it?
Neo looks up, unsure.
CYPHER
Why you're here?
NEO
... Yeah.
CYPHER
Gee-zus! What a mindjob. You're here
to save the world. You gotta be
shitting me. What do you say to
something like that?
Neo looks down at his drink.
CYPHER
I'm going to let you in on a little
secret here. Now don't tell him I
told you this, but this ain't the
first time Morpheus thought he found
the One.
NEO
Really?
CYPHER
You bet your ass. It keeps him
going. Maybe it keeps all of us
going.
NEO
How many were there?
71 CONTINUED: (2) 71
CYPHER
Five. Since I've been here.
NEO
What happened to them?
CYPHER
Dead. All dead.
NEO
How?
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Honestly. Morpheus. He got them all

amped up believing in bullshit. I
watched each of them take on an
Agent and I watched each of them
die. Little piece of advice: you see
an Agent, you do what we do; run.
Run your ass off.
Neo gulps down another shot.
NEO
Thanks... for the drink.
CYPHER
Anytime.
Cypher nods as Neo heads for the ladder.
CYPHER
Sweet dreams.

A71 INT. RESTAURANT - NIGHT A71

CHAMBER MUSIC and the ambiance of wealth soak the restaurant
around us as we watch a serrated knife saw through a thick,
gorgeous steak. The meat is so perfect, charred on the
outside, oozing red juice from the inside, that it could be a
dream.
We hear a voice that we recognize immediately.
AGENT SMITH
Do we have a deal, Mr. Reagan?
A fork stabs the cube of meat and we FOLLOW it UP TO the face
of Cypher.
(CONTINUED)
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A71 CONTINUED: A71
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?
He shoves it in, eyes rolling up, savoring the tender beef
melting in his mouth.

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CYPHER
Ignorance is bliss.
Agent Smith watches him chew the steak loudly, smacking it
between his teeth.
CYPHER
Mmm so, so goddamn good.
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 the Zion mainframe.
CYPHER
I told you I don't know them. But I
can give you the man who does.

AGENT SMITH
Morpheus.
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72 INT. MESS HALL 72

CLOSE ON breakfast, a substance with a consistency somewhere
between yogurt and cellulite.
TANK
Here you go, buddy. Breakfast of
champions.
Tank slides it in front of Neo and takes a seat with the
other crew members enjoying breakfast.

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APOC
You mean the breakfast, lunch, and
dinner of champions.
MOUSE
If you close your eyes, it almost
feels like you're eating runny eggs.
APOC
Or a bowl of snot.
MOUSE
But you know what it really reminds
me of? Cream of Wheat. Did you ever
eat Cream of Wheat?
SWITCH
No, but technically neither did you.
MOUSE
Exactly my point, because you have
to wonder, how do the machines know
what Cream of Wheat really tasted
like? Maybe they got it wrong, maybe
what I think Cream of Wheat tasted
like actually tasted like oatmeal,
or tuna fish. It makes you wonder
about a lot of things. Take chicken
for example. Maybe they couldn't
figure out what to make chicken
taste like which is why chicken
tastes like everything. And maybe --
APOC
Shut up, Mouse.
Neo scoops up a spoonful.
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DOZER
It's a single-celled protein
combined with synthetic aminos,
vitamins, and minerals. Everything
your body needs. We grow it in a
vat.
MOUSE
Oh no, it doesn't have everything
the body needs.
He sidles up to Neo.

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MOUSE
So I understand you've run through
the Agent training program? You
know, I wrote that program.
APOC
Here it comes.
MOUSE
So what did you think of her?
NEO
Of who?
MOUSE
The woman in the red dress. I
designed her. She doesn't talk much
but if you'd like to, you know, meet
her, I could arrange a more
personalized milieu.
SWITCH
The digital pimp hard at work.
MOUSE
Pay no attention to these
hypocrites, Neo. To deny our
impulses is to deny the very thing
that makes us human.
Morpheus enters.
MORPHEUS
I want everyone on twelve-hour
standby. We're going in. I'm taking
Neo to see her.
With that he turns and leaves.
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NEO
See who?
TANK
The Oracle.

A72 INT. MAIN DECK A72

Everyone is strapped into their chairs. Tank is at the
operator's station.

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TANK
All right, everyone please observe
that the no smoking and fasten seat
belt signs have been turned on. Sit
back and enjoy your flight.
He strikes the enter key and we RUSH CLOCKWISE OVER the
chairs, each body reacting as we...
CUT TO:

B72 INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE - ROOM 1313 B72

SPINNING COUNTER-CLOCKWISE AROUND an old PHONE that RINGS
inside the empty room until we SPIN FULL CIRCLE and FIND
everyone now standing there.
Morpheus answers the phone.
MORPHEUS
We're in.

73 EXT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE - DAY 73

The door opens and for the first time since his release, Neo
steps back into the Matrix. He squints at the sun which seems
unnaturally bright. He is the only one without sunglasses.
Apoc and Switch remain at the door as the others enter the
alley.
MORPHEUS
We should be back in an hour.
Cypher opens the driver's door of an old car as Trinity,
Morpheus and Neo cross to the car, Cypher glances about
quickly, then drops something inside a garbage can.
THE MATRIX - Rev. 3/9/98 64A.

73 CONTINUED: 73
It is a cellular phone and we see its blue display as the
line connects.

74 INT. CAR 74
Neo sits beside Trinity in the back. He cannot stop staring
as the simple images of the urban street blur past his window
like an endless stream of data rushing down a computer
screen.

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MORPHEUS
Almost unbelievable, isn't it?
Neo nods as the car continues to wind through the crowded
city.
74 CONTINUED: 74
NEO
God...
TRINITY
What?
NEO
I used to eat there... Really good
noodles...
He is speaking in a whisper, almost as if talking to himself.
NEO
I have these memories, from my
entire life but... none of them
really happened.
He turns to her.
NEO
What does that mean?

TRINITY
That the Matrix cannot tell you who
you are.
NEO
But an Oracle can.
TRINITY
That's different.
NEO
Obviously.
He turns to the window for a moment and then turns back.
NEO
Did you go to her?
TRINITY
Yes.

NEO
What did she tell you?

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TRINITY
She told me...
She looks at him and suddenly she is unable to speak or even
breathe.
(CONTINUED)
74 CONTINUED: (2) 74
NEO
What?
The car suddenly jerks to a stop.
MORPHEUS
We're here. Neo, come with me.
Neo and Morpheus get out of the car. Cypher looks into the
rearview mirror at Trinity.
CYPHER
Here we go again, eh, Trin?
He smiles as she turns to the window.

75 EXT. BUILDING 75
Tenement-like and vast, it is the kind of place where people
can disappear.

76 INT. BUILDING 76
Morpheus nods to a blind man who nods back. An elevator opens
and Neo follows Morpheus inside.

77 INT. ELEVATOR 77

The idea of learning one's fate begins to weigh upon Neo with
a steadily growing unease.
NEO
So is this the same oracle that made
the, uh, prophecy?
MORPHEUS
Yes. She's very old. She's been with
us since the beginning.
NEO
The beginning?

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MORPHEUS
Of the Resistance.
NEO
And she knows what? Everything?
MORPHEUS
She would say she knows enough.
(CONTINUED)
77 CONTINUED: 77
NEO
And she's never wrong.
MORPHEUS
Don't think of it in terms of right
and wrong. She is a guide, Neo. She
can help you find the path.
NEO
She helped you?
MORPHEUS
Yes.
NEO
What did she tell you?
MORPHEUS
That I would find the One.
DING. The ELEVATOR opens.

78 INT. HALL 78
The long dark hall beckons. Neo follows Morpheus out of the
elevator and the DOORS RATTLE shut behind him. With every
step, a disturbing sense of inevitability closes in around
him.
At the end of the hall, Morpheus steps to the side of a door.
MORPHEUS
I told you that I can only show you
the door. You have to step through
it.

Neo blows out a breath. His hand reaches but stops, hovering
over the spherical handle. He backs away.
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Morpheus, I don't think this is a

good idea.
MORPHEUS
Why?
NEO
I told you I don't believe in this
stuff. No matter what she says I'm
not going to believe it, so what's
the point?
(CONTINUED)
78 CONTINUED: 78
MORPHEUS
What do you believe in?
NEO
What do I believe in? Are you
kidding me? What do you think? The
world I grew up in isn't real. My
entire life was a lie. I don't
believe in anything anymore.
MORPHEUS
That's why we're here.
NEO
Why? So I can hear some old lady
tell me, what? That I'm this guy
that everybody's been waiting for?
That I'm supposed to save the world?
It sounds insane. Unbelievable. And
I don't care who says it, it's still
going to sound insane and
unbelievable.
MORPHEUS
Faith is not a matter of
reasonability. I do not believe
things with my mind. I believe them
with my heart. In my gut.
NEO
And you believe I'm the One?
MORPHEUS
Yes I do.
NEO
Yeah? What about the other five
guys? The five before me? What about

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them?
Morpheus tries to hide his heart being wrenched from his
chest.

NEO
Did you believe in them too?
MORPHEUS
I believed what the Oracle told
me... no, I misunderstood what she
told me. I believed that it was all
about me.
This is difficult for Morpheus to admit.
(CONTINUED)
78 CONTINUED: (2) 78
MORPHEUS
I believed that all I had to do was
point my finger and anoint whoever I
chose. I was wrong, Neo. Terribly
wrong. Not a day or night passes
that I do not think of them. After
the fifth, I lost my way. I doubted
everything the Oracle had said. I
doubted myself.
He looks up at Neo.
MORPHEUS
And then I saw you, Neo, and my
world changed. You can call it an
epiphany, you can call it whatever
the hell you want. It doesn't
matter. It's not about a word. It's
about this. So I can't explain it to
you. All I can do is believe, Neo,
believe that one day you will feel
what I felt and know what I know;
you are the sixth and the last. You
are the One.
His eyes blaze.

MORPHEUS
Until that time all I am asking from
you is for you to hold on to
whatever respect you may have for me
and trust me.

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Neo feels a rush from Morpheus's intensity, the unadulterated

confidence of a zealot.
NEO
All right.
He reaches for the handle which turns without him even
touching it. A WOMAN wearing white opens the door.
PRIESTESS (WOMAN)
Hello, Neo. You're right on time.

79 INT. ORACLE'S APARTMENT 79

It seems particularly normal.
PRIESTESS
Make yourself at home, Morpheus.
(CONTINUED)
79 CONTINUED: 79
MORPHEUS
Thank you.
PRIESTESS
Neo, come with me.
She leads Neo down another hall and into what appears to be a
family room.
There is another woman in white sitting on a couch watching a
soap opera. Scattered about the room are a half dozen
children. Some of them are playing, others are deep in
meditation. All of them exude a kind of Zen calm.
PRIESTESS
These are the other Potentials. You
can wait here.
Neo watches a little girl levitate wooden alphabet blocks.
Closer to him, a SKINNY BOY with a shaved head holds a spoon
which sways like a blade of grass.
In front of him is a pile of spoons bent and twisted into
knots. Neo crosses to him and sits. The boy smiles and hands
Neo the spoon which is now perfectly straight.
SPOON BOY (SKINNY BOY)
Do not try to bend the spoon. That
is impossible. Instead, only try to
realize the truth.

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NEO
What truth?
SPOON BOY
That there is no spoon.
Neo nods, staring at the spoon.
NEO
There is no spoon.
SPOON BOY
Then you will see that it is not the
spoon that bends. It is only
yourself.
The entire room is reflected inside the spoon and as Neo
stares into it, it slowly begins to bend until --
A hand touches his shoulder.
PRIESTESS
The Oracle will see you now.
Spoon Boy smiles.

80 INT. KITCHEN 80
An OLD WOMAN is huddled beside the oven, peering inside
through a cracked door.
NEO
Hello?
ORACLE (OLD WOMAN)
I know. You're Neo. Be right with
you.
NEO
You're the Oracle?
ORACLE
Bingo. Not quite what you were
expecting, right? I got to say I
love seeing you non-believers.
Always a pip. Almost done. Smell
good, don't they?
NEO
Yeah.
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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
That 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.
(CONTINUED)
80 CONTINUED: 80
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.

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You know why Morpheus brought you to

see me?
He nods.
ORACLE
So? What do you think? You think
you're the One?
NEO
Honestly? I don't know.
She gestures to a wooden plaque, the kind every kitchen has,
except that the words are in Latin.
ORACLE
You know what that means? It's
Latin. Means, 'Know Thyself.' I'm
gonna let you in on a little secret.
Being the One is just like being in
love. Nobody can tell you you're in
love. You just know it. Through and
through. Balls to bones.
She puts her cigarette down.
ORACLE
Well, I better have a look at you.
Open your mouth. Say, 'ahh.'
She widens his eyes, checks his ears, then feels the glands
in his neck. She nods, then looks at his palms.
(CONTINUED)
80 CONTINUED: (2) 80
ORACLE
Okay, now I'm supposed to say,
'Hmmm, that's interesting but...'
Then you say --
NEO
But what?
ORACLE
But you already know what I'm going
to tell you.
NEO
I'm not the One.
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Sorry, kid. You got the gift but

looks like you're waiting for
something.
NEO
What?
ORACLE
Your next life, maybe. Who knows?
That's how these things go.
Neo almost has to laugh.
ORACLE
What's funny?
NEO
Morpheus. He almost had me
convinced.
ORACLE
I know. Poor Morpheus. Without him
we are lost.
NEO
What do you mean, without him?
The Oracle takes a long drag, regarding Neo with the eyes of
a Sphinx.
ORACLE
Are you sure you want to hear this?
Neo nods.
(CONTINUED)
80 CONTINUED: (3) 80
ORACLE
Morpheus believes in you, Neo, and
no one, not you or even me can
convince him otherwise. He believes
it so blindly that he's going to
sacrifice his life to save yours.
NEO
What?
ORACLE
You're going to have to make a
choice. In one hand, you will have
Morpheus's life. In the other hand,
you will have your own. One of you

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is going to die. Which one, will be

up to you.
Neo can't breathe.
ORACLE
I'm sorry, kiddo. I really am. You
have a good soul and I hate giving
good people bad news. But don't
worry, as soon as you walk outside
that door, you'll start feeling
better. You'll remember that you
don't believe any of this fate crap.
You're in control of your own life,
remember?
He tries to nod as she reaches for the tray of cookies.
ORACLE
Here, take a cookie. I promise by
the time you're done eating it,
you'll feel right as rain.
Neo takes a cookie, the tightness in his chest slowly
beginning to fade.

81 INT. SITTING ROOM - DAY 81

Morpheus rises from a couch 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 anyone what
she told you. What was said was said
for you and you alone.
Neo nods and takes a bite of his cookie.

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82 INT. CAR 82
Neo and Morpheus get in the car.
MORPHEUS
Let's go.
Cypher looks into the rearview mirror at Neo.
CYPHER
Well, good news or bad news?

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MORPHEUS
Not now, Cypher.
Cypher slaps the car in gear and pulls into traffic. Trinity
looks at Neo who is staring at the final bit of cookie. He
puts it in his mouth and chews.

TRINITY
Are you all right?
NEO
... Right as rain.
83 OMITTED 83

84 INT. ROOM 1313 - DAY 84

Mouse's CELLULAR RINGS.
MOUSE
Welcome to Movie-Phone.
TANK (V.O.)
They're on their way.

85 EXT. CITY STREET - DAY 85

As they get out of the car, Cypher smiles at Neo.
CYPHER
Like the man says, welcome to the
real world.
Cypher, following the others into the hotel, nervously
glances around, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

86 INT. MAIN DECK 86

Sweat rolls down Cypher's face and neck. At the operator's
station, Tank is typing rapidly.
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86 CONTINUED: 86
TANK
What is that...?

87 INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE - DAY 87

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Light filters down the throat of the building through a caged

skylight at the top of the open elevator shaft. Six figures
glide up the dark stairs that wind around the antique
elevator.
87 CONTINUED: 87
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.

88 INT. MAIN DECK 88

The monitors suddenly glitch as though the Matrix had an
electronic seizure.
TANK
Oh shit! Oh shit!

89 INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE - DAY 89

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.

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Trinity looks at Morpheus who listens quietly to the RASPING

breath of the old BUILDING.
NEO
What is it?
(CONTINUED)
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89 CONTINUED: 89
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
GROWS ominously LOUD.

90 INT. MAIN DECK 90

Tank sees what was changed.

TANK
It's a trap!

91 INT. STAIRCASE - DAY 91

Morpheus looks up the stairs as he hears a HELICOPTER.
MORPHEUS
Come on!
Apoc slaps a gun into Neo's hand.
APOC
Something to ward off evil spirits.
Neo nods, stuffing it into his belt.

92 INT. BASEMENT - DAY 92

Heavy bolt cutters snap through the main phone cable.

93 INT. ROOM 1313 - DAY 93

Hearing the HELICOPTER, Mouse goes to the draped windows as
his CELLULAR RINGS. He answers it.

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TANK (V.O.)
They cut the hardline! It's a trap!
Get out!
Mouse yanks open the curtain.
MOUSE
Oh no.
The windows are bricked up. Mouse spins as the RUMBLE of
combat BOOTS BUILDS, then explodes into the room.
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94 INT. MAIN DECK 94

Tank watches helplessly.
TANK
No, no, no.

95 INT. STAIRS - DAY 95

Morpheus stops as Mouse's SCREAM is drowned out by the report
of MACHINE GUN FIRE.

96 INT. ROOM 1313 - DAY 96

Mouse sails backwards as BULLETS POUND him against the blood-
spattered brick window.

97 INT. MAIN DECK 97

Mouse's body thrashes against its harness, blood coughing
from his mouth in one final spasm, then lying perfectly
still. The flatline ALARM softly cries out from the life
MONITOR.
98 OMITTED 98

99 INT. STAIRWELL - DAY 99

Flying downstairs, Morpheus stops, hearing POLICE SWARMING
below.

A99 INT. HALL - DAY A99

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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.
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A99 CONTINUED: A99
MORPHEUS
We have no choice.
Morpheus rips off his jacket.

100 INT. MAIN DECK 100

Tank answers the call.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Tank, find a structural drawing of
this building and find it fast.

101 INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE - DAY 101

Flashlights probe the rotting darkness as the police search
every floor.

102 INT. MAIN DECK 102

The diagram windows onto the screen.

TANK
Got it.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
I need the main wet-wall.

103 INT. ROOM 1313 - DAY 103

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Agent Smith stands over Mouse's dead body, his hand going to
his earpiece.

104 INT. ROOM 808 - DAY 104

Morpheus is guided by Tank.
TANK (V.O.)
Now left, and that's it in front of
you.

MORPHEUS
Good.

105 INT. ROOM 1313 - DAY 105

Agent Smith hears the LINE CLICK dead.
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AGENT SMITH
Eighth floor. They're on the eighth
floor.

A105 INT. STAIRWELL - DAY A105

Agent Brown listens to his earpiece.

106 INT. STAIRWELL - DAY 106

Boots clatter up the marble staircase.

A106 INT. HALL - DAY A106

Cops flood the eight floor, rushing everywhere.

107 INT. ROOM 808 - DAY 107

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 lath.

108 INT. WALL - DAY 108

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They are inside the main plumbing wall, slowly worming their
way down the grease-black stack pipes. Above them, light
fills the hole they made to get inside.

109 INT. HALL - DAY 109

Agent Brown and Agent Smith stand over Morpheus's jacket.
AGENT BROWN
Where are they?

110 INT. ROOM 608 - DAY 110

The cops search in silence, straining for a clue, when one
hears SOMETHING STRANGE near the bathroom.

111 INT. WALL - DAY 111

Cypher has slipped and is wedged between the wall and several
thick supply pipes.
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112 INT. ROOM 608 - DAY 112

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!

113 INT. WALL - DAY 113

Trinity pulls Cypher free just as the Cop OPENS FIRE, BULLETS
PUNCHING shafts of light like swords into the box of soot-
black space.
Neo finds his GUN first and begins BLASTING wildly through
the plaster and lath.

114 INT. ROOM 608 - DAY 114

The Cop spins out of the bathroom for cover, Neo's BULLETS
SPLINTERING the door jamb.

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114 CONTINUED: 114

About to whirl back in, he freezes as something seems to
seize hold of him. The Cop's body starts to spasm and his M-
16 falls to the ground, long shadows springing up from the
mounted flashlight.

115 INT. WALL - DAY 115

Neo listens for a moment, the gunfire quiet, when he hears
FOOTSTEPS RISING FAST.
Two arms suddenly smash through the wall, punching Neo back
against the iron stack pipe, fingers gouging into his neck.
CYPHER
It's an Agent!
Just as Neo's throat is about to collapse, Morpheus explodes
through the tattered plaster and lath, diving on top of Agent
Smith.
The two men crash to the wet terrazzo floor.
Before Agent Smith can find his weapon, Morpheus is on him,
pinning him in an iron grip.
In the crawlspace, Trinity tries to scramble up past Cypher.

TRINITY
Morpheus!
Morpheus squeezes Agent Smith's throat.
MORPHEUS
Trinity, you must get Neo out. Do
you understand? He is all that
matters.
Neo suddenly glimpses what is happening but is powerless to
stop it.
NEO
No. No! Morpheus! Don't!
MORPHEUS
Trinity! Go!
Trinity's fists ball in frustration. She yells down to Apoc.

TRINITY
Go!

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115 CONTINUED: 115
NEO
We can't leave him!
TRINITY
We have to!
She grabs his ankle and they begin almost falling, using the
lath as a brake, skidding down the inside of the wall.

116 INT. BASEMENT - DAY 116

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.
Soldier's blinding lights cut open the darkness as Trinity,
Neo and the others crash through the ceiling. Around them
they hear a chorus of short, sharp coughs of grenade
launchers from gas-masked figures.
Smoke blossoms from the green metal canisters. Trinity never
stops moving. Searching the floor, she finds what she needs;
the cover of the catch basin.
Cypher watches her pry open the grate, when a gas can bounces
near him.
TRINITY
Come on!
Cypher seems to trip as the cloud envelops him.
Trinity watches Cypher disappear into the smoke, then follow
the others down the wet-black hole.

117 INT. ROOM 608 - DAY 117

Morpheus and Agent Smith remain on the ground, locked in each
other's death grip.
AGENT SMITH
The great Morpheus. We meet at last.
MORPHEUS
And you are?
AGENT SMITH

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Smith. I am Agent Smith.

(CONTINUED)
117 CONTINUED: 117

MORPHEUS
You all look the same to me.
Agent Smith counters Morpheus and slowly begins to pry his
hands from his throat. Striking like a viper, Morpheus,
drives a vicious head butt into Agent Smith's face. His nose
and glasses shatter.
Agent Smith, unfazed, smiles, blood oozing from the shattered
bridge of his nose, and returns Morpheus's head butt with
three of his own in pneumatic succession.
Morpheus staggers back, his body going slack when another
kick buries him deep into crunching plaster and lathe.
Morpheus turns in time to see a wall of men in the doorway.
AGENT SMITH
Take him.
The wall of cops rushes Morpheus, filling the tiny bathroom
until he disappears under the tide.

118 INT. MAIN DECK 118

Tank reaches out to the screen as if reaching for Morpheus.
TANK
No!
119 OMITTED 119

120 EXT. STREET - DAY 120

A manhole cover cracks open. Two eyes peek out just as a
TRUCK RATTLES over it. The THUNDER DOPPLERS away and the
cover opens. Trinity climbs out.

121 INT. MAIN DECK 121

Tank is again at the monitors, searching the Matrix when the
PHONE RINGS.
TANK
Operator.

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CYPHER (V.O.)
I need an exit! Fast!
(CONTINUED)
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121 CONTINUED: 121
TANK
Cypher?

122 EXT. STREET - DAY 122

Cypher is standing at a public phone. Across the street is

the burning paddy wagon that appears to have collided with an
oncoming car.
CYPHER
There was an accident. A goddamn car
accident. All of a sudden. Boom.
Jesus, someone up there still likes
me.
TANK (V.O.)
I got you.
CYPHER
Just get me outta here.
TANK (V.O.)
Nearest exit is Franklin and Erie.
An old TV repair shop.
Cypher hangs up and smiles as we hear FIRE TRUCKS in the
distance.
CYPHER
An actor. Definitely.

123 INT. MAIN DECK 123

The PHONE RINGS. Tank answers.
TRINITY (V.O.)
Tank, it's me.

124 EXT. STREET - DAY 124

All four are moving quickly down a back street.

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NEO
Is Morpheus alive?
TRINITY
Is Morpheus still alive, Tank?
TANK (V.O.)
Yes. They're moving him. I don't
know where yet.
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124 CONTINUED: 124
TRINITY
He's alive.
Again, inevitability seems to cinch around Neo.
TRINITY
We need an exit!
TANK (V.O.)
You're not far from Cypher.
TRINITY
Cypher, I thought --
TANK (V.O.)
So did we. I sent him to Franklin
and Erie.
TRINITY
Got it.

A124 EXT. TV REPAIR SHOP - DAY A124

In a deserted alley, Cypher steps onto a dumpster in front of
a small boarded-up window.

125 INT. TV REPAIR SHOP - DAY 125

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.

126 EXT. STREET - DAY 126

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Trinity sees the TV repair shop.

127 INT. MAIN DECK 127

Tank punches the exit command.
TANK
Got him.
Cypher's body twitches in its harness, jerking itself awake.
THE MATRIX - Rev. 3/9/98 86.

128 INT. TV REPAIR SHOP - DAY 128

Neo crawls through the window that Cypher opened.

129 INT. MAIN DECK 129

Tank finishes loading the exit program as Cypher pulls back a
heavy blanket, exposing a high-tech rifle.

130 INT. TV REPAIR SHOP - DAY 130

The PHONE begins to RING as the others crawl in.
SWITCH
God, I love that sound.

131 INT. MAIN DECK 131

Suddenly, a white bolt of LIGHTNING EXPLODES against Tank's
chair, blasting him into the air.
Cypher checks the GUN, unable to believe he missed.
CYPHER
Shit.
Tank is on his feet, lunging when Cypher FIRES again, square
into his chest.
DOZER
No!

132 INT. TV REPAIR SHOP - DAY 132

The PHONE is still RINGING.

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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.
THE MATRIX - Rev. 3/9/98 87.

133 INT. MAIN DECK 133

The operator PHONE begins to RING. Cypher steps over the
SIZZLING BODY of Dozer and looks at the monitor.

134 INT. TV REPAIR SHOP - DAY 134

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?!
INTERCUT WITH:

135 INT. MAIN DECK 135

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...
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CYPHER
You are a beautiful woman. Too bad
things had to work out like this.
TRINITY
You killed them.
APOC
What?!
SWITCH
Oh, God.
Wearing Tank's operator headgear, Cypher moves among the
silent bodies.
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135 CONTINUED: 135
CYPHER
I'm tired, Trinity. I'm tired of
this war, I'm tired of fighting. I'm
tired of this ship, of being cold,
of eating the same goddamn goop
every day. But most of all, I'm
tired of this jagoff and all of his
bullshit.
Cypher leans over, talking to Morpheus.
CYPHER
Surprise, asshole. But you never saw
this coming, did you? God, I wish I
could be there when they break you.
I wish I could walk in just as it
happens, so right then, you'd know
it was me.
TRINITY
My God. Morpheus. You gave them
Morpheus.
CYPHER
He lied to us, Trinity! He tricked
us! If he would've told us the
truth, we would've told him to shove
that red pill up his ass!
TRINITY
That's not true, Cypher. He set us
free.

CYPHER

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Free? You call this free? All I do

is what he tells me to do. If I have
to choose between that and the
Matrix, I choose the Matrix.
TRINITY
The Matrix isn't real!
CYPHER
Oh, I disagree, Trinity. I disagree.
I think the Matrix can be more real
than this world. I mean, all I do is
pull a plug here. But there, you
have to watch a man die.
She looks up at Apoc, her face going white.
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135 CONTINUED: (1A) 135
APOC
Trinity?
He grabs hold of the cable in Apoc's neck, twists it and
yanks it out.
CYPHER
Welcome to the real world, eh baby?
Apoc seems to go blind for an instant, a scream caught in his
throat, his hands reaching for nothing, and then falls dead.
SWITCH
No!
TRINITY
But you're out, Cypher. You can't go
back.
CYPHER
That's what you think. They've
promised to take me back. They're
going to reinsert my body. I'll go
back to sleep and when I wake up,
I'll be fat and rich and I won't
remember a goddamned thing. It's the
American dream.
He laughs, his hand sliding around the neck of Switch as he
takes hold of her plug.
CYPHER

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By the way, if you have anything

terribly important to say to Switch,
I suggest you say it now.
TRINITY
Oh no, please don't.
Trinity eyes find Switch and she knows she's next.
SWITCH
Not like this. Not like this.
She suddenly feels her body severed from her mind as she is
murdered.
CYPHER
Yoo late.
135 CONTINUED: (2) 135
TRINITY
Goddamn you, Cypher!
CYPHER
Don't hate me, Trinity. I'm just the
messenger. And right now I'm going
to prove it to you.
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 Neo is the One, then in the next
few seconds there has to be some
kind of miracle to stop me. Right?
How can he be the One if he's dead?
He takes hold of the cord.
CYPHER
You never did answer me, Trinity,
when I asked you before. Did you buy
Morpheus's bullshit? Come on. You
can tell me, did you? All I want is
a little yes or no. Look into his
eyes, Trinity, those big pretty eyes
and tell me the truth. Yes or no.

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Trinity stares at Neo as a single word falls soundlessly from

her lips.
TRINITY
... yes.
CYPHER
No!
Charred and bloody, Tank levels the gun.
CYPHER
I don't believe it!
TANK
Believe it or not, you piece of
shit, you're still going to burn.
(CONTINUED)
THE MATRIX - Rev. 3/9/98 90.
135 CONTINUED: (3) 135
He FIRES a CRACKLING BOLT of LIGHTNING that knocks Cypher
flying backwards.
136 OMITTED 136

137 INT. TV REPAIR SHOP 137

Trinity throws her arms around Neo and for a moment they are
alone and alive until the PHONE RINGS.
NEO
Go. You first this time.

138 INT. MAIN DECK 138

Trinity's eyes snap 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?

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Tank's face tightens and she takes him into her arms.

139 EXT. GOVERNMENT BUILDING - DAY 139

A government highrise in the middle of downtown where a
military helicopter sets down on the roof.
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.

140 INT. EXECUTIVE OFFICE - DAY 140

Agent Smith stands, staring out the windows at the city below
shimmering with brilliant sunlight.
140 CONTINUED: 140
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.
Morpheus is handcuffed to a chair, stripped to the waist. He
is alternately shivering and sweating, wired to various
monitors with white disk electrodes. Beside him, 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's 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.

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AGENT SMITH
The perfect world was a dream that
your primitive cerebrum kept trying
to wake up from. Which is why the
Matrix was redesigned to this: the
peak of your civilization.
He turns from the window.
AGENT SMITH
I say 'your civilization' because as
soon as we started thinking for you,
it really became our civilization,
which is, of course, what this is
all about.

He sits down directly in front of Morpheus.

(CONTINUED)
140 CONTINUED: (2) 140
AGENT SMITH
Evolution, Morpheus. Evolution.
He lifts Morpheus's head.
AGENT SMITH
Like the dinosaur. Look out that
window. You had your time.
Morpheus stares hard at him, trying not to show the pain
racking his mind.
AGENT SMITH
The future is our world, Morpheus.
The future is our time.
Agent Smith looks at Agent Brown.
AGENT SMITH
Double the dosage.
Agent Jones suddenly enters.
AGENT JONES
There could be a problem.

141 INT. MAIN DECK 141

Tank drapes a sheet over his dead brother. The other bodies
are covered.

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Neo looks at Morpheus, whose body is covered with a cold

sweat.
NEO
What are they doing to him?
TANK
They're breaking into his mind. It's
like hacking 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.
(CONTINUED)
141 CONTINUED: 141
Tank punches several commands on Morpheus's personal unit.
The monitor waves change from a chaotic pattern to an ordered
symmetrical one.
TANK
When it does, Morpheus will tell
them anything they want to know.
NEO
What do they want?
TANK
The leader of every ship is given
the codes to Zion's mainframe
computer. If an Agent had those
codes and got inside Zion's
mainframe, they could destroy us.
He looks up at Trinity who is pacing relentlessly.
TANK
We can't let that happen, Trinity.
Zion is more important than me. Or
you, or even Morpheus.
Trinity sees Cypher's dead body. Rage overtakes her and she
kicks him.
TRINITY
Goddamnit! Goddamnit!

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NEO
There has to be something that we
can do.
TANK
There is. We have to pull the plug.
TRINITY
You're going to kill him? Kill
Morpheus?!
TANK
Trinity, we don't have any other
choice.

142 INT. GOVERNMENT BUILDING 142

Morpheus is fighting to hold his mind together. The Agents
stand over him.
(CONTINUED)
142 CONTINUED: 142
AGENT SMITH
Never send a human to do a machine's
job.
AGENT BROWN
If, indeed, the insider has failed,
they will sever the connection as
soon as possible, unless --

AGENT JONES
They are dead. In either case --
AGENT SMITH
We have no choice but to continue as
planned. Deploy the sentinels.
Immediately.

143 INT. MAIN DECK 143

Tank kneels beside Morpheus's body.
Neo suddenly sees it perfectly clear, fate rushing at him
like an oncoming train.
TANK
Morpheus, you were more than our
leader. You were... a father. We
will miss you, always.

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Trinity can't bear to watch. As she closes her eyes, her

tears slip free.
Tank closes his eyes and takes hold of the plug.
Neo is paralyzed, his whole life is suddenly suspended by the
finality of this moment hurling at him with the speed of a
bullet.
NEO
Stop!
They both look at him.
NEO
Goddamnit! I don't believe this is
happening!
TANK
Neo, this has to be done!
(CONTINUED)
143 CONTINUED: 143
NEO
Does it? I don't know. This can't be
just coincidence. It can't be! Can
it?
TANK
What are you talking about?
NEO
The Oracle. She told me this would
happen. She told me...
Neo stops, his stare fixed on Morpheus.
NEO
That I would have to make a
choice...

TRINITY
What choice?
He makes his choice. Turning, he walks to his chair.
TRINITY
What are you doing?
NEO
I'm going in.

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TRINITY
You can't!
NEO
I have to.
TRINITY
Morpheus sacrificed himself so we
could get you out! There's no way
you're going back in!
NEO
Morpheus did what he did because he
believed that I'm something I'm not.
TRINITY
What?
NEO
I'm not the One, Trinity. The Oracle
hit me with that, too.
Trinity is stunned.
(CONTINUED)
143 CONTINUED: (2) 143
TRINITY
No, you... have to be.

NEO
I'm sorry, I'm not. I'm just another
guy. Morpheus is the one that
matters.
TRINITY
No, Neo. That's not true. It can't
be true.
NEO
Why?
TRINITY
Because...
Uncertainty swallows her words and she is unable to tell him
what she wants to.
TANK
Neo, this is loco. They've got
Morpheus in a military controlled
building. Even if you somehow got
inside, those are Agents holding

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him. Three of them! I want Morpheus

back, too, but what you are talking
about is suicide.
NEO
I know that's what it looks like,
but it's not. I can't logically
explain to you why it's not.
Morpheus believed something and he
was ready to give his life for what
he believed. I understand that now.
That's why I have to go.

TANK
Why?
NEO
Because I believe in something.
TRINITY
What?
NEO
I believe I can bring him back.

(CONTINUED)
143 CONTINUED: (3) 143

Trinity stares at him, hovering on the edge that he just

jumped off. Her jaw sets and she starts climbing into the
chair beside him.

NEO
What are you doing?

TRINITY
I'm coming with you.
NEO
No you're not.
TRINITY
No? Let me tell you what I believe.
I believe Morpheus means more to me
than he does to you. I believe that
if you are serious about saving him
then you are going to need my help
and since I am the ranking officer
on this ship, if you don't like it
then I believe that you can go to
hell, because you aren't going
anywhere else.

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There is nothing more to say except --

TRINITY
Tank, load us up.

144 INT. EXECUTIVE OFFICE - DAY 144

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.
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)

144 CONTINUED: 144

AGENT SMITH (CONT'D)

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.

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A144 INT. CONSTRUCT A144

Neo and Trinity stand in the white space of the construct as
he answers his RINGING cell PHONE.

TANK (V.O.)
Okay. What do you need? Besides a
miracle...

NEO
Guns. Lots of guns.

145 INT. MAIN DECK 145

Neo and Trinity's bodies hang motionless in their drive
chairs as Tank hits load.

146 INT. CONSTRUCT 146

Racks of weapons appear and they begin to arm themselves.

TRINITY
No one has ever done anything like
this.

NEO
Yeah?
He snap-cocks an Uzi.

(CONTINUED)
146 CONTINUED: 146

NEO
That's why it's going to work.

147 INT. EXECUTIVE OFFICE - DAY 147

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 Smith hides his knotting fist. He is becoming angry. It

is something that isn't supposed to happen to Agents.

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AGENT SMITH
Leave me with him.
Agents Brown and Jones look at each other.

AGENT SMITH
Now!

They leave and Agent Smith sits beside Morpheus.

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?
(CONTINUED)

147 CONTINUED: 147

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 the key. My
key.

Morpheus sneers through his pain.

AGENT SMITH
Once Zion is destroyed, there is 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.

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AGENT SMITH
You are going to tell me or you are
going to die.

148 INT. MAIN DECK 148

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.

149 EXT. GOVERNMENT BUILDING - DAY 149

A dark wind blows.

150 INT. GOVERNMENT BUILDING - DAY 150

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 to the security station,
drawing nervous glances.
Dark glasses, game faces.

Neo calmly passes through the METAL DETECTOR which begins to

WAIL immediately. A SECURITY GUARD moves over toward Neo,
raising his metal detection wand.

(CONTINUED)

THE MATRIX - Rev. 3/9/98 101.

150 CONTINUED: 150

GUARD
Would you please remove any metallic
items you are carrying: keys, loose
change --

Neo slowly sets down his duffel bag and throws open his coat,
revealing an arsenal of guns, knives and grenades slung from
a climbing harness.

GUARD
Holy shit --

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Neo is a blur of motion. In a split second, three guards are

dead before they hit the ground.

A fourth guard dives for cover, clutching his radio.

GUARD #4
Backup! Send in the backup!
He looks up as Trinity sets off the metal detector. It is the
last thing he sees.

The backup arrives. A wave of soldiers blocking the

elevators. The concrete cavern of the lobby becomes a white
noise ROAR of GUNFIRE.

Slate walls and pillars pock, crack, and crater under a hail
storm of EXPLOSIVE-tipped BULLETS.

They are met by the quivering spit of a SUB-HAND MACHINE GUN

and the RAZORED WHISTLE of throwing knives. Weapons like
extensions of their bodies, are used with the same deadly
precision as their feet and their fists.

Bodies slump down to the marbled floor while Neo and Trinity
hardly even break their stride.

151 INT. EXECUTIVE OFFICE 151

Agents Jones and Brown burst into the room. Agent Smith
releases Morpheus.
AGENT BROWN
What were you doing?
Agent Smith recovers, replacing his earpiece.

AGENT JONES
You don't know.
AGENT SMITH
Know what?
THE MATRIX - Rev. 3/9/98 101A.

151 CONTINUED: 151

Agent Smith listens to his earphone, not believing what he is
hearing.

152 INT. ELEVATORS - DAY 152

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They get in. Trinity immediately drops and opens the

suitcase, wiring a plastique and napalm bomb.

Neo hits the emergency stop. He pulls down part of the false
ceiling and finds the elevator shaft access panel.

153 INT. EXECUTIVE OFFICE - DAY 153

Agent Jones looks at Morpheus.

AGENT JONES
I think they're trying to save him.

154 INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT - DAY 154

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
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 sear to the top.

155 INT. LOBBY - DAY 155

The ELEVATOR hits the bottom.

BA-BOOM!

The massive explosion blows open the doors, fire clouds

engulfing the elevator section of the lobby.

156 INT. EXECUTIVE OFFICE - DAY 156

The Agents hear the BLAST of FIRE ALARMS.

AGENT JONES
Lower level --

AGENT BROWN
They are actually attacking.

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Another enormous EXPLOSION thunders above them, shaking the

building. The ALARM sounds, emergency sprinklers begin
showering the room.
Agent Smith smashes a table.

(CONTINUED)
156 CONTINUED: 156

AGENT SMITH
Find them and destroy them!

Agent Jones nods and touches his earpiece.

157 EXT. ROOF - DAY 157

The roof-access tower is now engulfed in flames as Neo and

Trinity stand amongst a pile of their fallen enemies.

Across the roof, the PILOT inside the army helicopter watches
the last of their 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 final 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 the empty metal.

NEO
Trinity!
Agent Jones charges.

NEO
... Help.

His GUN BOOMS as we ENTER the liquid space of --

-- BULLET-TIME.

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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.
(CONTINUED)

THE MATRIX - Rev. 3/9/98 104.

157 CONTINUED: 157

He starts to scream as another digs a red groove across his

thigh. He has only time to look up, to see Agent Jones
standing over him, raising his gun a final time.

AGENT JONES
Only human...

Suddenly Agent Jones stops. He hears a sharp metal click.

Immediately, he whirls around and turns straight into the
muzzle of Trinity's .45 --

-- jammed tight to his head.

TRINITY
Dodge this!
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.

TRINITY
Neo, how did you do that?
NEO
Do what?
TRINITY
You moved like they moved. I've
never seen anyone move that fast.
NEO
It wasn't fast enough.

He checks his shoulder wound.

TRINITY
Are you all right?
NEO

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I'm fine. Come on, we have to keep

moving.
Neo sees the helicopter.

NEO
Can you fly that thing?

TRINITY
Not yet.
She pulls out the cellular phone.

THE MATRIX - Rev. 3/29/98 105.

158 INT. HOVERCRAFT 158

Tank is back at the controls.

TANK
Operator.

TRINITY (V.O.)
Tank, I need a pilot program for a
military B-212 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 Trinity's supplement drive, punching the
"load" commands on her keyboard.

159 EXT. ROOF - DAY 159

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.

160 OMITTED 160

161 INT. EXECUTIVE OFFICE - DAY 161

Agent Jones throws open the door and enters, walking through
the puddles pooling in the carpet. Over the RUSHING WATER and

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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.
161 CONTINUED: 161

Agent Jones 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 Smith.
Neo stares at Morpheus, trying to will him into action.

NEO
Get up, Morpheus! Get up!

Neo grabs the climbing rope and attaches one end to his
harness.

162 INT. HALL - DAY 162

Just outside the executive office, three Marines blister with
snow-static.

163 INT. EXECUTIVE OFFICE - DAY 163

Slowly, Morpheus lifts his face into the room's rain. When he
finally opens his eyes, they are again dark and flashing with
fire.

He rises from the chair, snapping his handcuffs just as the

Agents enter the adjoining room. Agent Smith stops and sees
Morpheus run past the open door.
AGENT SMITH
Nooo!

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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 his 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 on to a bolted bar as --
Morpheus begins to fall, when Neo hurls himself into the wide
blue empty space, flying for a moment.
(CONTINUED)

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163 CONTINUED: 163

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!

164 EXT. GOVERNMENT BUILDING - DAY 164

Trinity pulls the copter up and away as Agent Smith stands in

the shattered window, aiming his GUN out through the curtain
of rain.

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PONK. PONK. PONK. The rear hull is punched full of holes and
smoke and oil pour out like black blood.

TRINITY
Shit-shit-no!

Neo hears the helicopter begin to die.

NEO
Uh-oh --

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 --

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 --
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164 CONTINUED: 164

The helicopter is falling too fast, arcing over the roof like
a setting sun --
The coils of slack snap taut, 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 at the parapet,

when his feet hit the rain gutter and he levers 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 on to 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.

165 INT. MAIN DECK 165

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Tank stares at the screen, his mouth agape.

TANK
I knew it! He's the One!
166 OMITTED 166

167 EXT. ROOFTOP - DAY 167

Neo pulls Trinity up into his arms. Both shaking, they hold
each other again.
MORPHEUS
Do you believe it now, Trinity?
Trinity looks at Neo.

NEO
Morpheus, the Oracle... she told me
--

MORPHEUS
She told you exactly what you needed
to hear. That's all. Sooner or
later, Neo, you're going to realize
just like I did the difference
between knowing a path and walking a
path.

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168 INT. MAIN DECK 168

The PHONE RINGS.

MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Tank.

TANK
Goddamn! It's good to hear your
voice, sir!

MORPHEUS (V.O.)
We need an exit.
TANK
Got one ready, sir. Subway. State
and Balbo.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
We're on our way --

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169 EXT. ROOFTOP - DAY 169

We rush at the roof access door as it suddenly slams open and

the three Agents charge out. But Neo, Trinity and Morpheus
are already gone.

AGENT SMITH
Damnit!

AGENT BROWN
The trace was completed.
AGENT JONES
We have their position.
AGENT BROWN
Sentinels are standing by.

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.

170 INT. SUBWAY STATION - DAY 170

An old man sits hunched in the far corner of the station,
shadows gathered around him like blankets.

170 CONTINUED: 170

Mumbling, he nurses from a bottle of Thunderbird when --

A PHONE begins to RING.

Neo leads Trinity and Morpheus bounding over a set of
turnstiles towards the ringing phone inside a graffiti-
covered booth.
NEO
Let's go! You first, Morpheus.
Morpheus gets in and answers the phone.

Lost in the shadow, the old man watches as Morpheus

disappears, the phone dropping, dangling by its cord. His
eyes grow wide, glowing white in the dark.

171 EXT. ROOFTOP - DAY 171

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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!--

172 INT. SUBWAY - OLD MAN'S POV - DAY 172

Through the old man's eyes as the world begins to RUMBLE.

Trinity hangs up the phone, then turns to Neo.

TRINITY
Neo, I have to tell you something. I
don't know what it means or even if
it matters but I feel I have to say
it.
The RUMBLE GROWS, the ground beginning to shake.

TRINITY
I've never told anyone this before.
I think I've been afraid to.

Behind her, the PHONE begins to RING.

TRINITY
When I went to the Oracle, she told
me... she told me that I was going
to fall in love... But...

(CONTINUED)
172 CONTINUED: 172

The RUMBLE RISES, drowning her voice. Neo is drawn towards

her, their lips close enough to kiss when a TRAIN BLASTS into
the station.

For a moment, they are frozen by the strobing lights of the

train until Neo whispers in her ear.

NEO
Promise me you'll tell me the rest?
She nods as he closes the booth. The PHONE RINGS once more
before she lifts the receiver when, In the darkness of the
far corner, Neo sees the old man in the flashing train-light
as he becomes --

Agent Smith, raising a fistful of black gun-metal.

NEO

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No!
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.

173 INT. HOVERCRAFT 173

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!

174 INT. SUBWAY STATION - DAY 174

The destroyed phone dangles in the empty booth. Neo turns to
Agent Smith whose gun stares at him like a third eye.

AGENT SMITH
Mr. Anderson.

175 INT. MAIN DECK 175

Morpheus and Trinity stand behind Tank riveted to the
scrolling code.
TRINITY
Run, Neo. Run.

176 INT. SUBWAY STATION - DAY 176

Neo looks at the dead escalator that rises up behind him.

Slowly he turns back and in his eyes we see something
different, something fixed and hard like a gunfighter's
resolve.
There is no past or future in these eyes. There is only what
is.

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177 INT. MAIN DECK 177

Trinity is unable to understand.

TRINITY
What is he doing?
MORPHEUS
He's beginning to believe.

178 INT. SUBWAY STATION - DAY 178

Neo whip-draws his gun with the flashpoint speed of lightning
as!--

Smith OPENS FIRE.

GUN REPORT THUNDERS through the underground, both men
BLASTING, moving at impossible speed.
For a blinking moment we enter BULLET-TIME.

Gun flash tongues curl from Neo's gun, bullets float forward
like a plane moving 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.
(CONTINUED)

178 CONTINUED: 178

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, fists
flying at furious speed, blows and counters, Neo retreating

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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
I'm going to enjoy watching you die,
Mr. Anderson.

Agent Smith attacks with unrelenting fury, fists pounding Neo

like jackhammers.

179 INT. HOVERCRAFT 179

Trinity watches Neo as his body jerks, mouth coughing blood,
his life signs going wild.
TRINITY
Jesus, he's killing him!

180 INT. SUBWAY STATION - DAY 180

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 something. From deep in the tunnel, like an animal cry;
a BURST of HIGH-SPEED METAL GRINDING against METAL.

The sound of an ONCOMING TRAIN.

(CONTINUED)

180 CONTINUED: 180

Neo tries to get up. Agent Smith jumps down onto the tracks
and drop-kicks him in the face. The world again begins to
shake, RUMBLING as a 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.

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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
Good-bye, Mr. Anderson.

The TRAIN ROARS at them, swallowing Agent's 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 backflips 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.

181 INT. HOVERCRAFT 181

Tank searches the Matrix.

TRINITY
What just happened?

TANK
I don't know. I lost him.

MORPHEUS
He's on the run!--

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Suddenly, a SIREN SOUNDS.

TANK
Oh shit!
Morpheus bolts to the ladder.

182 INT. COCKPIT 182

Morpheus climbs into the cockpit. On the hologram radar, he

sees the sentinels.
TRINITY
Oh no.
Trinity is behind him.

TRINITY
How long?

MORPHEUS
Five minutes. Maybe six.
Morpheus lifts the headset.

MORPHEUS
Tank, charge the E.M.P.

TANK (V.O.)
Yes, sir.
TRINITY
You can't use that until Neo is out!
MORPHEUS
I know, Trinity. Don't worry. He's
going to make it.
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183 EXT. CITY STREET - DAY 183

A BUSINESSMAN walks along the sidewalk, wheeling and dealing

into his cell phone when it disappears, snatched by Neo as he
flashes by.

MAN (BUSINESSMAN)
What the shit!-- my phone!
The Man turns to call for help and when he turns back, it is
Agent Smith.

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Neo is in a full-out sprint, spinning and weaving away from

every pedestrian, every potential Agent. He flips open the
cell phone and dials long distance.

184 INT. HOVERCRAFT 184

Tank answers.

TANK
Operator.
NEO (V.O.)
Mr. Wizard, get me the hell out of
here!

185 EXT. CITY STREET - DAY 185

Neo dives down an alley, Agent Smith starting to gain.

NEO
Hurry, Tank! I got some serious
pursuit!

186 INT. HOVERCRAFT 186

The KEYBOARD is CLICKING, Tank searches for an exit. Trinity

screams into the headset.
TRINITY
Neo, you better get your ass back
here!

187 EXT. ALLEY 187

Agent Smith stops and takes aim.

NEO
I'm trying, Trinity. I'm trying.
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187 CONTINUED: 187

A BULLET SHATTERS the image of Neo in a truck's rearview

MIRROR.

188 INT. MAIN DECK 188

Tank speed-reads the reams of Matrix code.

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TANK
I got a patch on an old exit. Wabash
and Lake. A hotel. Room 303.
189 OMITTED 189

190 EXT. OPEN MARKET 190

Neo spins away, turning, and finds himself in an open market

that teems with people.
He kamikazes his way down the!little avenues lined with
vendors and shops, careening through the labyrinth, out of
control. And at every turn there is an Agent; appearing from
crowds, behind fish counters, tent flaps and crates.

191 OMITTED 191

192 EXT. ALLEY 192

He dives from the maze!down a service alley but it is a dead
end.

Neo turns back as the Agents emerge from the market.

NEO
Uh, help! Need a little help!

193 INT. MAIN DECK 193

Tank frantically scans the monitor like a road map.

TANK
The door.

194 EXT. ALLEY 194

Neo dives for it but!--

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194 CONTINUED: 194

NEO
It's locked.
TANK (V.O.)
Kick it in!

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Peeling back, Neo almost kicks the door from its hinges,
lunging from the Agents' BULLETS.

195 INT. APARTMENT BUILDING - STAIRCASE 195

Neo springs up the old crooked apartment building stairs.

A195 INT. APARTMENT BUILDING - HALL A195

He is halfway down the hall, running in sharp, long strides
when a door explodes open at the end.
TANK (V.O.)
Shit! The door on your left.

Neo lurches, kicking in an apartment door.

TANK (V.O.)
No! Other left!
He whirls back to his other left, battering through the door
which splinters, perforated by BULLETS.
An old woman watches TV as Neo blurs past her and into her
kitchen, where another woman is chopping vegetables.

TANK (V.O.)
That window!

Neo throws it open, leaping for the fire escape just as a

knife buries itself in the window casing.
TANK (V.O.)
Down! Down!

B195 EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING - FIRE ESCAPE B195

Tumbling down the RATTLING FIRE ESCAPE, Neo leaps the last
ten feet into the alley below with Agent Brown right behind
him.

Neo scrapes himself to his feet, broken and bleeding,

charging for the end of the alley.

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196 INT. MAIN DECK 196

Finger on the monitor, Tank traces Neo's path.

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TANK
That's it! You're almost there! That
fire escape at the end of the alley!

197 EXT. HEART O' THE CITY HOTEL - DAY 197

Agent Smith suddenly pauses as if recognizing something; the
faded NEON BUZZES: Heart O' The City Hotel.

198 INT. HOVERCRAFT 198

Tank loads the exit.

TANK
I'm going to make the call.
MORPHEUS
Do it!
Suddenly, the lights go red.

TRINITY
No.
Morpheus looks up.

MORPHEUS
Here they come.

199 EXT. SEWER MAIN 199

The sentinels open and shift like killer kaleidoscopes as

they attack, slamming down on the Nebuchadnezzar.

200 INT. HOVERCRAFT 200

The hovercraft booms down as they hit. Morpheus opens the
lock on the EMP detonator.

Trinity watches him.

MORPHEUS
He's going to make it.
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201 EXT. ALLEY - DAY 201

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Neo scrambles up the fire escape, BULLETS SPARKING and

RICOCHETING around him as Agents Brown and Jones close the
gap.

A201 INT. HALL - DAY A201

On the third floor, he kicks in the window, jumping into the

hall. The doors count backwards: 310... 309...

202 INT. MAIN DECK 202

Another SYSTEM ALARM SOUNDS.

TANK
They've burned through the outer
hull.

TRINITY
Hurry, Neo.

203 INT. HALL - DAY 203

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 Smith, waiting, .45 cocked.

Neo can't move!-- can't think!--

BOOM.

204 INT. MAIN DECK 204

Neo's body jerks, and everyone hears it as the LIFE MONITORS

SNAP FLATLINE.

Trinity screams. Morpheus stumbles back in disbelief.

204 CONTINUED: 204

MORPHEUS
No, it can't be. It can't be.

Lasers suddenly sear through the main deck as the sentinels

slice open the hull.

205 INT. HALL - DAY 205

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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.

206 INT. MAIN DECK 206

Amid the destruction raining around her, Trinity takes hold

of Neo's body.
TRINITY
Neo...

207 INT. HALL - DAY 207

Kneeling beside him, Agent Brown checks his vital signs.

AGENT BROWN
He's gone.
Agent Smith smiles, standing over him.

AGENT SMITH
Good-bye, Mr. Anderson.

208 INT. MAIN DECK 208

In tears, Morpheus takes hold of the EMP switch.

Trinity whispers in Neo's ear.

TRINITY
Neo, please, listen to me. I
promised to tell you the rest. The
Oracle, she told me that I'd fall in
love and that man, the man I loved
would be the one. You see? You can't
be dead, Neo, you can't be because I
love you. You hear me? I love you!

(CONTINUED)
208 CONTINUED: 208

Her eyes close and she kisses him, believing in all her heart
that he will feel her lips and know that they speak the
truth.

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209 INT. HOTEL HALL - DAY 209

He does. And they do.

His eyes snap open.

210 INT. MAIN DECK 210

Trinity screams as the monitors jump back to life. Tank and
Morpheus look at each other.
It is a miracle.

TRINITY
Now get up!

211 INT. HALL - DAY 211

Holding his chest, Neo struggles to get up. At the end of the
hall, the Agents wait for the elevator when Agent Smith
glances back. He rips off his sunglasses, looking at Neo as
if he were looking at a ghost.

Neo gets to his feet, all three Agents grabbing for their
guns. As one, they FIRE.
NEO
No!
Neo raises his hands and the BULLETS, like a cloud of
obedient bees, slow and come to a stop. They hang frozen in
space, fixed like stainless steel stars.
The Agents are unable to absorb what they are seeing.

Neo plucks one of the bullets from the air. We see him and
the hall reflected in the bright casing. We MOVE CLOSER UNTIL
the bullet fills our vision and the distorted reflection
morphs, becoming the "real" image.
He drops the bullet and the others fall to the floor.

Neo looks out, now able to see through the curtain of the
Matrix. For a moment, the walls, the floor, even the Agents
become a rushing stream of code.

212 INT. MAIN DECK 212

All three stare transfixed with awe as the scrolling code
accelerates, faster and faster, as if the machine language
was unable to keep up or perhaps describe what is happening.

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They begin to blur into streaks, shimmering ribbons of light

that open like windows, as!--

Each screen fills with brilliant, saturated color images of

Neo standing in the hall.

TANK
How...?!

MORPHEUS
He is the one. He is the one!
An EXPLOSION shakes the entire ship.

213 INT. HALL 213

Agent Smith screams, his calm machine-like expression

shredding with pure rage.
He rushes Neo. His attack is ferocious but Neo blocks each
blow easily. Then with one quick strike to the chest he sends
Agent Smith flying backwards.
For the first time since their inception, the Agents know
fear.
Agent Smith gets up, bracing himself as Neo charges him and
springs into a dive. But the impact doesn't come. Neo sinks
into Agent Smith, disappearing, his tie and coat rippling as
if he were a deep pool of water.

Spinning around he looks to the others and feels something,

like a tremor before a quake, something deep, something that
is going to change everything.

Suddenly a SEARING SOUND stabs through his earpiece as his

chest begins to swell, then balloon as!--
Neo BURSTS up out of him. And with a final death scream,
Agent Smith EXPLODES like an empty husk in a brilliant
cacophony of light, his shards spinning away, absorbed by the
Matrix until!--

Only Neo is left.

Neo faces the remaining Agents. They look at each other, the
same idea striking simultaneously!--

They run.

214 INT. MAIN DECK 214

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sentinels are everywhere destroying the ship.

TRINITY
Neo!

215 INT. HALL 215

Again he hears her. He reacts to the RINGING PHONE, rushing
toward it even as!--

216 INT. MAIN DECK 216

A sentinel descends towards Morpheus. On the screen we see

Neo dive for the phone as!--

TRINITY
Now!

Morpheus turns the key.

217 INT. OVERFLOW PIT 217

A blinding shock of white light floods the chamber; sentinels

blink and fall instantly dead, filling the pit with their
cold metal carcasses.

218 INT. HOVERCRAFT 218

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 him; it seems like it might last forever.

FADE TO BLACK.

FADE IN:
219 CLOSE ON COMPUTER SCREEN 219

as in the opening. The cursor beating steadily, waiting. A

PHONE begins to RING.

(CONTINUED)
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219 CONTINUED: 219

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 can feel you now.

We CLOSE IN ON the racing columns of numbers shimmering

across the screen.

NEO (V.O.)
I imagine you can also feel me.
The numbers begin to lock into place.

NEO (V.O.)
You won't have to search for me
anymore. I'm done running. Done
hiding. Whether I'm done fighting, I
suppose, is up to you.
We GLIDE IN TOWARDS the screen.

NEO (V.O.)
I believe deep down, we both want
this world to change. I believe that
the Matrix can remain our cage or it
can become our chrysalis, that's
what you helped me to understand.
That to be free, you cannot change
your cage. You have to change
yourself.

We DIVE THROUGH the numbers, surging UP THROUGH the darkness,

sucked TOWARDS a tight constellation of stars.
NEO (V.O.)
When I used to look out at this
world, all I could see was its
edges, its boundaries, its rules and
controls, its leaders and laws. But
now, I see another world. A
different world where all things are
possible. A world of hope. Of peace.

We realize that the constellation is actually the holes in

the mouthpiece of a phone. Seen from inside.

NEO (V.O.)
I can't tell you how to get there,
but I know if you can free your
mind, you'll find the way.

Generated on November 17, 2022

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THE MATRIX - Rev. 3/9/98 125A.

220 EXT. STREET - PHONE BOOTH 220

We SHOOT THROUGH the holes as!Neo hangs up the phone.

220 CONTINUED: 220

He steps out of the phone and slides on a pair of sunglasses.

He looks up and we RISE.

HIGHER and HIGHER, until the city is miles below.

After a moment, Neo blasts by us, his long, black coat
billowing like a black leather cape as he flies faster than a
speeding bullet.
FADE OUT.

THE END

Generated on November 17, 2022