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 MATRIX 1 最初的剧本,和电影不同哦

THE MATRIX



                             Written by

                       Larry and Andy Wachowski





























                             April 8, 1996







     FADE IN ON:

     COMPUTER SCREEN

     So close it has no boundaries.

     A blinking cursor pulses in the electric darkness like a
     heart coursing with phosphorous light, burning beneath
     the derma of black-neon glass.

     A PHONE begins to RING, we hear it as though we were
     making the call. The cursor continues to throb,
     relentlessly patient, until --

                             MAN (V.O.)
                 Hello?

     Data now slashes across the screen, information flashing
     faster than we read.

                             SCREEN
                 Call trans opt: received.
                 2-19-96 13:24:18 REC:Log>

                             WOMAN (V.O.)
                 I'm inside. Anything to report?

     We listen to the phone conversation as though we were on
     a third line. The man's name is CYPHER. The woman,
     TRINITY.

                             CYPHER (V.O.)
                 Let's see. Target left work at
                 5:01 PM.

                             SCREEN
                 Trace program: running.

     The entire screen fills with racing columns of numbers.
     Shimmering like green-electric rivets, they rush at a 10-
     digit phone number in the top corner.

                             CYPHER (V.O.)
                 He caught the northbound Howard
                 line. Got off at Sheridan.
                 Stopped at 7-11. Purchased six-
                 pack of beer and a box of Captain
                 Crunch. Returned home.

     The area code is identified. The first three numbers
     suddenly fixed, leaving only seven flowing columns.

     We begin MOVING TOWARD the screen, CLOSING IN as each
     digit is matched, one by one, snapping into place like
     the wheels of a slot machine.

                             TRINITY (V.O.)
                 All right, you're relieved. Use
                 the usual exit.

                             CYPHER (V.O.)
                 Do you know when we're going to
                 make contact?

                             TRINITY
                 Soon.

     Only two thin digits left.

                             CYPHER (V.O.)
                 Just between you and me, you don't
                 believe it, do you? You don't
                 believe this guy is the one?

                             TRINITY (V.O.)
                 I think Morpheus believes he is.

                             CYPHER (V.O.)
                 I know. But what about you?

                             TRINITY (V.O.)
                 I think Morpheus knows things that
                 I don't.

                             CYPHER (V.O.)
                 Yeah, but if he's wrong --

     The final number pops into place --

                             TRINITY (V.O.)
                 Did you hear that?

                             CYPHER (V.O.)
                 Hear what?

                             SCREEN
                 Trace complete. Call origin:
                 #312-555-0690

                             TRINITY (V.O.)
                 Are you sure this line is clean?

                             CYPHER (V.O.)
                 Yeah, course I'm sure.

     We MOVE STILL CLOSER, the ELECTRIC HUM of the green
     numbers GROWING INTO an OMINOUS ROAR.

                             TRINITY (V.O.)
                 I better go.

                             CYPHER (V.O.)
                 Yeah. Right. See you on the other side.

     She hangs up as we PASS THROUGH the numbers, entering the
     netherworld of the computer screen.

     Where gradually the sound of a police radio grows around
     us.

                             RADIO (V.O.)
                 Attention all units. Attention
                 all units.

     Suddenly, a flashlight cuts open the darkness and we find
     ourselves in --


     INT. CHASE HOTEL - NIGHT

     The hotel was abandoned after a fire licked its way
     across the polyester carpeting, destroying several rooms
     as it spooled soot up the walls and ceiling leaving
     patterns of permanent shadow.

     We FOLLOW four armed POLICE officers using flashlights as
     they creep down the blackened hall and ready themselves
     on either side of room 303.

     The biggest of them violently kicks in the door --

     The other cops pour in behind him, guns thrust before
     them.

                             BIG COP
                 Police! Freeze!

     The room is almost devoid of furniture. There is a fold-
     up table and chair with a phone, a modern, and a powerbook
     computer. The only light in the room is the glow of the
     computer.

     Sitting there, her hands still on the keyboard, is
     TRINITY; a woman in black leather.

                             BIG COP
                 Get your hands behind your head!

     Trinity rises.

                             BIG COP
                 Hands behind your head! Now! Do
                 it!

     She slowly puts her hands behind her head.


     EXT. CHASE HOTEL - NIGHT

     A black sedan with tinted windows glides in through the
     police cruisers.

     AGENT SMITH and AGENT BROWN get out of the car.

     They wear dark suits and sunglasses even at night. They
     are also always hardwired; small Secret Service earphones
     in one ear, its cord coiling back into their shirt
     collars.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Lieutenant?

                             LIEUTENANT
                 Oh shit.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Lieutenant, you were given
                 specific orders --

                             LIEUTENANT
                 I'm just doing my job. You gimme
                 that Juris-my dick-tion and you
                 can cran it up your ass.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 The orders were for your protection.

     The Lieutenant laughs.

                             LIEUTENANT
                 I think we can handle one little
                 girl.

     Agent Smith nods to Agent Brown as they start toward the
     hotel.

                             LIEUTENANT
                 I sent two units. They're
                 bringing her down now.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 No, Lieutenant, your men are dead.


     INT. CHASE HOTEL

     The Big Cop flicks out his cuffs, the other cops holding
     a bead. They've done this a hundred times, they know
     they've got her, until the Big Cop reaches with the cuff
     and Trinity moves --

     It almost doesn't register, so smooth and fast, inhumanly
     fast.

     The eye blinks and Trinity's palm. snaps up and the nose
     explodes, blood erupting. The cop is dead before he
     begins to fall.

     And Trinity is moving again --

     Seizing a wrist, misdirecting a gun, as a startled cop
     FIRES --

     A head explodes.

     In blind panic, another airs his gun, the barrel, a fixed
     black hole --

     And FIRES --

     Trinity twists out of the way, the bullet missing as she
     reverses into a roundhouse kick, knocking the gun away.

     The cop begins to scream when a jump kick crushes his
     windpipe, killing the scream as he falls to the ground.

     She looks at the four bodies.

                             TRINITY
                 Shit.


     EXT. CHASE HOTEL

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


     INT. CHASE HOTEL

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

                             MAN (V.O.)
                 Operator.

                             TRINITY
                 Morpheus! The link was traced! I
                 don't know how.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 I know. Stay calm.

                             TRINITY
                 Are there any agents?

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 Yes.

                             TRINITY
                 Goddamnit!

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 You have to focus. There is a
                 phone. Wells and Laxe. You can
                 make it.

     She takes a deep breath, centering herself.

                             TRINITY
                 All right --

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 Go.

     She drops the phone.


     INT. HALL

     She bursts out of the room as Agent Brown enters the hall,
     leading another unit of police. Trinity races to the
     opposite end, exiting through a broken window onto the
     fire escape.


     EXT. FIRE E5CAPE

     In the alley below, Trinity sees Agent Smith staring at
     her. She can only go up.


     EXT. ROOF

     On the roof, Trinity is running as Agent Brown rises over
     the parapet, leading the cops in pursuit.

     Trinity begins to jump from one roof to the next, her
     moverents so clean, gliding in and out of each jump,
     contrasted to the wild jumps of the cops.

     Agent Brown, however, has the same unnatural grace.

     The METAL SCREAM of an EL TRAIN is heard and Trinity
     turns to it, racing for the back of the building.

     The edge falls away into a wide back alley. The next
     building is over 40 feet away, but Trinity's face is
     perfectly calm, staring at some point beyond the other
     roof.

     The cops slow, realizing they are about to see something
     ugly as Trinity drives at the edge, launching herself
     into the air.

     From above, the ground seems to flow beneath her as she
     hangs in flight

     Then hitting, somersaulting up, still running hard.

                             COP
                 Motherfucker -- that's impossible!

     They stare, slack-jawed, as Agent Brown duplicates the
     move exactly, landing, rolling over a shoulder, up onto
     one knee.

     Just below the building are the runbling tracks of
     riveted steel. The TRAIN SCREECHES beneath her, a
     rattling blur of gray metal. Trinity junps, landing
     easily.

     She looks back just as Agent Brown hurls through the air
     barely reaching the last car

     Agent Brown stands, yanking out a gun.

     Trinity is running hard as BULLETS WHISTLE past her head.

     Ahead she sees her only chance, 50 feet beyond the point
     where the train has begun to turn, there is --

     A window; a yellow glow in the midst of a dark brick
     building.

     Trinity zeroes in on it, running as hard as she can, her
     speed compounded by the train. The SCREAM of the STEEL
     rises as she nears the edge where the train rocks into the
     turn.

     Trinity hurtles into the empty night space, her body
     leveling into a dive. She falls, arms covering her head
     as --

     The whole world seems to spin on its axis --

     And she crashes with an EXPLOSION of GLASS and WOOD, then
     falls onto a back stairwell, tumbling, bouncing down
     stairs bleeding, broken --

     But still alive.

     Through the smashed window, she glimpses Agent Brown,
     still on the train, his tie and coat whipping in the
     wind; stone-faced, he touches his ear piece as the train
     slides him past the window.

     Trinity tries to move. Everything hurts.

                             TRINITY
                 Get up, Trinity. You're fine.
                 Get up -- just get up!

     She stands and limps down the rest of the stairs.


     EXT. STREET

     Trinity emerges from the shadows of an alley and, at the
     end of the block, in a pool of white street light, she
     sees it.

     The telephone booth.

     Obviously hurt, she starts down the concrete walk,
     focusing in completely, her pace quickening, as the PHONE
     begins to RING.

     Across the street, a garbage truck suddenly u-turns, its
     TIRES SCREAMING as it accelerates.

     Trinity sees the headlights on the truck arcing at the
     telephone booth as if taking aim.

     Gritting through the pain, she races the truck --

     Slamming into the booth, the headlights blindingly
     bright, bearing down on the box of Plexiglas just as --

     She answers the phone.

     There is a frozen instant of silence before the hulking
     mass of dark metal lurches up onto the sidewalk --

     Barreling through the booth, bulldozing it into a brick
     wall, smashing it to Plexiglas pulp.

     After a moment, a black loafer steps down from the cab of
     the garbage truck. Agent Smith inspects the wreckage.
     There is no body. Trinity is gone.

     His jaw sets as he grinds his molars in frustration.
     AGENT JONES walks up behind him.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Did you get anything from the
                 room?

                             AGENT JONES
                 Their next target. The name is
                 Neo.

     The handset of the pay phone lays on the ground,
     separated in the crash like a severed limb.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 We'll need a search running.

                             AGENT JONES
                 It's already begun.

     We are SUCKED TOWARDS the mouthpiece of the phone, CLOSER
     and CLOSER, UNTIL the smooth gray plastic spreads out
     like a horizon and the small HOLES WIDEN until we fall
     through one --

     Swallowed by the darkness that becomes --

     A computer screen.

     We are on-line, inside a chat room called "The Matrix."
     It is an exklusive web-site where hackers hang out.

                             SCREEN
                 JACKON: I heard Morpheus has been
                 on this board.
                 SUPERASTIC: Morpheus doesn't even
                 exist and the Matrix is nothing
                 but an advertising gimmick 4 a new
                 game.
                 TIMAXE: All I want to know is
                 Trinity really a girl?
                 LODIII: 87% of all women on line
                 are really men.
                 QUARK: The Matrix is a euphemism
                 for the government.
                 SUPERASTIC: No, The Matrix is the
                 system controlling our lives.
                 TIMAXE: You mean MTV.
                 SUPERASTIC: I mean Sega.
                 FOS4: ALL HAIL SEGA!!!

     We drift back from the electric conversation entering --


     INT. NEO'S APARTMENT

     It is a studio apartirent that seems overgrown with
     technology.

     Weed-like cables coil everywhere, duct-taped into
     thickets that wind up and around the legs of several
     desks.

     Tabletops are filled with cannibalized equipment that lay
     open like an autopsied corpse.

     We turn towards the center of this rat-nest of
     technology, following the slurping and crunching of
     cereal. We pass an open box of Capln Crunch as we find --

     NEO, a younger man who knows more about living inside a
     computer than living outside one.

                             NEO
                 Fuckin' idiots don't know shit.

     He finishes his cereal and is about to disconnect when an
     anonynous message slices onto the screen.

                             SCREEN
                 Do you want to know what the
                 Matrix is, Neo?

     Neo is frozen when he reads his name.

                             SCREEN
                 SUPERASTIC: Who said that?
                 JACKON: Who's Neo?
                 GIBSON: This is a private board.

                 If you want to know, follow the
                 white rabbit.

                             NEO
                 What the hell...

                             SCREEN
                 TIMAXE: Someone is hacking the
                 hackers!
                 FOS4: It's Morpheus!!!!!
                 JACKON: Identify yourself.

                 Knock, knock, Neo.

     A chill runs down his spine and when someone KNOCKS on
     his door he almost jumps out of his chair.

     He looks at the door, then back at the computer but the
     message is gone.

     He shakes his head, not completely sure what happened.
     Again, someone knocks.

     Cautiously, Neo approaches the door.

                             VOICE (O.S.)
                 Hey, Tommy-boy! You in there?

     Recognizing the voice, he relaxes and opens it. ANTHONY,
     who lives down the hall, is standing outside with a group
     of friends.

                             NEO
                 What do you want, Anthony?

                             ANTHONY
                 I need your help, man. Desperate.
                 They got me, man. The shackles of
                 fascism.

     He holds up the red notice that accompanies the Denver
     boot.

                             NEO
                 You got the money this time?

     He holds up two hundred dollars and Neo opens the door.
     Anthony's girlfriend, DUJOUR, stops in front of Neo.

                             DUJOUR
                 You can really get that thing off,
                 right now?

                             ANTHONY
                 I told you, honey, he may look
                 like just another geek but this
                 here is all we got left standing
                 between Big Brother and the New
                 World Order.


     EXT. STREET

     A police officer unlocks a yellow metal boot from the
     wheel of an enormous oldsmobile.


     INT. NEO'S APARTMENT

     They watch from the window as the cops, silently,
     robotically, climb into their van.

                             ANTHONY
                 Look at 'em. Automatons. Don't
                 think about what they're- doing or
                 why. Computer tells 'em what to
                 do and they do it.

                             FRIEND #l
                 Thc banality of evil.

     He slaps the money in Neo's hand.

                             ANTHONY
                 Thanks, neighbor.

                             DUJOUR
                 Why don't you come to the party
                 with us?

                             NEO
                 I don't know. I have to work
                 tomorrow.

                             DUJOUR
                 Come on. It'll be fun.

     He looks up at her and suddenly notices on her black
     leather motorcycle jacket dozens of pins: bands,
     symbols, slogans, military medals and --

     A small white rabbit.

     The ROOM TILTS.

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


     INT. APARTMENT

     An older Chicago apartment; a series of halls connects a
     chain of small high-ceilinged rooms lined with heavy
     casements.

     Smoke hangs like a veil, blurring the few lights there
     are.

     Dressed predominantly in black, people are everywhere,
     gathered in cliques around pieces of furniture like
     jungle cats around a tree.

     Neo stands against a wall, alone, sipping from a bottle
     of beer, feeling completely out of place, he is about to
     leave when he notices a woman staring at him.

     The woman is Trinity. She walks straight up to him.

     In the nearest room, shadow-like figures grind against
     each other to the pneumatic beat of INDUSTRIAL MUSIC.

                             TRINITY
                 Hello, Neo.

                             NEO
                 How did you know that --

                             TRINITY
                 I know a lot about you. I've been
                 wanting to meet you for some time.

                             NEO
                 Who are you?

                             TRINITY
                 My name is Trinity.

                             NEO
                 Trinity? The Trinity? The
                 Trinity that cracked the I.R.S.
                 Kansas City D-Base?

                             TRINITY
                 That was a long time ago.

                             NEO
                 Gee-zus.

                             TRINITY
                 What?

                             NEO
                 I just thought... you were a guy.

                             TRINITY
                 Most guys do.

     Neo is a little embarrassed.

                             NEO
                 Do you want to go sorewhere and
                 talk?

                             TRINITY
                 No. It's safe here and I don't
                 have much time.

     The MUSIC is so loud they must stand very close, talking
     directly into each other's ear.

                             NEO
                 That was you on the board tonight.
                 That was your note, wasn't it?

                             TRINITY
                 I had to gamble that you would see
                 and they wouldn't.

                             NEO
                 Who wouldn't?

                             TRINITY
                 I can't explain everything to you.
                 I'm sure that it's all going to
                 seem very strange, but I brought
                 you here to warn you, Neo. You
                 are in a lot of danger.

                             NEO
                 What? Why?

                             TRINITY
                 They're watching you. Something
                 happened and they found out about
                 you. Normally, if our target is
                 exposed we let it go. But this
                 time, we can't do that.

                             NEO
                 I don't understand --

                             TRINITY
                 You came here because you wanted
                 to know the answer to a hacker's
                 question.

                             NEO
                 The Matrix. What is the Matrix?

                             TRINITY
                 Twelve years ago I met a man, a
                 great man, who said that no one
                 could be told the answer to that
                 question. That they had to see
                 it, to believe it.

     Her body is against his; her lips very close to his ear.

                             TRINITY
                 He told me that no one should look
                 for the answer unless they have to
                 because once you see it,
                 everything changes. Your life and
                 the world you live in will never
                 be the same. It's as if you wake
                 up one morning and the sky is
                 falling.

     There is a hypnotic quality to her voice and Neo feels
     the words like a drug, seeping into him.

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

     She takes hold of him with her eyes.

                             TRINITY
                 That's all I can tell you right
                 now. Good-bye, Neo. And good
                 luck.

                             NEO
                 Wait. Who was it? Who was the
                 man?

     She leans close, her lips alrost touching his ear as she
     whispers.

                             TRINITY
                 You know who.

     She turns and he watches her melt into the shifting wall
     of bodies.

     A SOUND RISES steadily, growing out of the music,
     pressing in on Neo until it is all he can hear as we --

                                         CUT TO:


     INT. NEO'S APARTMENT

     The sound is an ALARM CLOCK, slowly dragging Neo to
     consciousness. He strains to read the clock face:
     9:15 A.M.

                             NEO
                 Shitshitshit.


     EXT. SKYSCRAPER

     The downtown office of CorTechs, a software development
     company.


     INT. CORTECHS OFFICE

     The main offices are along each wall, the windows
     overlooking downtown Chicago.

     RHINEHEART, the ultimate company man, lectures Neo
     without looking at him, typing at his computer
     continuously.

     Neo stares at two window cleaners on a scaffolding
     outside, dragging their rubber squeegees down across the
     surface of the glass.

                             RHINEHEART
                 You have a problem, Mr. Anderson.
                 You think that you're special.
                 You believe that somehow the rules
                 do not apply to you.

     He stops, glancing over his glasses at Neo, who turns in
     time.

                             RHINEHEART
                 Obviously, you are mistaken.

     His long, bony fingers resume clicking the keyboard.

                             RHINEHEART
                 This company is one of the top
                 software companies in the world
                 because every single employee
                 understands that they are a part
                 of a whole. Thus, if an employee
                 has a problem, the company has a
                 problem.

     He turns again.

                             RHINEHEART
                 The time has come to make a
                 choice, Mr. Anderson. Either you
                 choose to be at your desk on time
                 from this day forth, or you choose
                 to find yourself another job. Do
                 I make myself clear?

                             NEO
                 Yes, Mr. Rhineheart. Perfectly
                 clear.

     INT. NEO'S CUBICLE

     The entire floor looks like a human honeycomb, with a
     labyrinth of cubicles structured around a core of
     elevators.

     Neo slumps down into his chair. A TALL EMPLOYEE stands
     up in the adjacent cubicle, leaning over the partition.

                             TALL EMPLOYEE
                 What did he say?

                             NEO
                 If I was late again, I'm going to
                 be fired.

     He smirks.

                             TALL EMPLOYEE
                 Well, it was nice working with
                 you.

     Neo glares at him, as he sinks down.

                             VOICE (O.S.)
                 Thomas Anderson?

     Neo turns and finds a FEDERAL EXPRESS MAN at his cubicle
     door.

                             NEO
                 Yeah. That's me.

     Neo signs the electronic pad and the Fedex guy hands him
     the softpak.

                             FEDEX
                 Have a nice day.

     He opens the bag. Inside is a CELLULAR PHONE. It seems
     the instant it is in his hand, it RINGS. Unnerved, he
     flips it open.

                             NEO
                 Hello?

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 Hello, Neo. This is Morpheus.

     Neo's knees give and he falls into his chair.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 I had hoped for this conversation
                 to take place under less adverse
                 conditions, but you can never
                 count on hope, can you, Neo?

                             NEO
                 ... no.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 I've been watching you, Neo, and I
                 want to meet you. I don't know if
                 you're ready to see what I want to
                 show you, but unfortunately, we
                 have run out of time. They're
                 coming for you, Neo. And I'm not
                 sure what they're going to do.

                             NEO
                 Who's coming for me?

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 Stand up and see for yourself.

                             NEO
                 Right now?

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 Yes. Now.

     Neo starts to stand.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 Do it slowly. Slowly. The elevator.

     His head slowly peeks up over the partition.

     At the elevator, he sees Agent Brown and Agent Jones
     leading a group of cops. A female employee turns and
     points out Neo's cubicle.

     Neo ducks.

                             NEO
                 Holy fuckin' shit!

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 Yes.

     One cop stays at the elevator, the others follow the
     agents.

                             NEO
                 What the fuck do they want with
                 me?!

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 I'm not sure. But, if you don't
                 want to find out, you better get
                 out of there.

                             NEO
                 How?!

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 I can guide you out, but you have
                 to do exactly what I say.

     The agents are moving quickly towards the cubicle.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 The cubicle across from you is
                 empty.

                             NEO
                 But what if...?

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 Go! Now!

     Neo lunges across the hall, diving into the other cubicle
     just as the agents turn into his row.

     Neo crams himself into a dark corner, clutching the phone
     tightly to him.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 Stay here for a moment.

     The agents enter Neo's empty cubicle. A cop is sent to
     search the bathroom.

     Morpheus' voice is a whisper in Neo's ear.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 A little longer...

     Brown is talking to the tall employee.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 When I tell you, go to the end of
                 the row to the first office on the
                 left, stay.as low as you can.

     Sweat trickles down his forehead.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 Now.

     Neo rolls out of the cubicle, his eyes popping as he
     freezes right behind a cop who has just turned around.

     Staying crouched, he sneaks away, down the row, SHOOTING
     across the opening to the first office on the left.

     The room is empty.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 Good. Now there is a window.
                 Open it.

                             NEO
                 How do you know all this?

     Morpheus laughs quietly.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 The answer is coming, Neo.

     He opens the window. The window howls into the room.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 Outside, there's a scaffold. You
                 can use it to get to the roof.

     Leaning out the window, he sees that the scaffold is
     several offices away.

                             NEO
                 No! It's too far away.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 There's a small ledge. It's a
                 short climb. You can make it.

     Neo looks down; the building's glass wall vertigos into a
     concrete chasm.

                             NEO
                 No way, no way, this is crazy.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 Don't be controlled by your fear,
                 Neo. There are only two ways out
                 of this building. One is that
                 scaffold. The other is in their
                 custody. You take a chance either
                 way. I leave it to you.

     CLICK. He hangs up. Neo looks at the door, then back at
     the scaffold.

                             NEO
                 This is insane! Why is this
                 happening to me? What did I do?
                 I'm nobody. I didn't do anything.
                 Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!

     He climbs up onto the window ledge. Hanging onto the
     frame, he steps onto the small ledge.

     The scaffold seems even farther away.

                             NEO
                 I'm going to die.

     The WIND suddenly BLASTS up the face of the building,
     knocking Neo off balance. Recoiling, he clings harder to
     the frame, and the phone falls out of his hand.

     He watches as it is swallowed by the distance beneath him.

                             NEO
                 This is insane. I can't do this!
                 Forget it!

     He climbs back into the office just as a cop opens the
     door.

                             NEO
                 I didn't do anything!


     EXT. SKYSCRAPER

     The agents lead a handcuffed Neo out of the revolving
     doors, forcing his head down as they push him into the
     dark sedan.

     Trinity watches in the rear view mirror of her
     motorcycle.

                             TRINITY
                 Shit.

     INT. INTERROGATION ROOM - CLOSE ON CAMERA MONITOR

     A wide angle view of a white roon, where Neo is sitting at
     a table alone.

     We MOVE INTO the monitor, ENTERING the room as if the
     monitor were a window.

     At the same moment, the door opens and the agents enter.

     Smith sits down across from Neo. A thick manila envelope
     slaps down on the table between them.

     Neo glances at the name on the file: "Anderson, Thomas
     A."

                             AGENT SMITH
                 As you can see, we've had our eye
                 on you for some time now, Mr.
                 Anderson.

     He opens the file. Paper rattle marks the silence as he
     flips several pages. Neo cannot tell if he is looking at
     the file or at him.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 It seems that you have been living
                 two lives. In one life, you are
                 Thomas A. Anderson, program writer
                 for a respectable software
                 company. You have a social
                 security number, you pay your
                 taxes and you help your land lady
                 carry out her garbage.

     The pages continue to turn.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 The other life is lived in
                 computers where you go by the
                 hacker alias Neo, and are guilty
                 of virtually every computer crime
                 we have a law for, including the
                 unauthorized use of the D.M.V.
                 system for the removal of
                 automobile boots.

     Neo feels himself sinking into a pit of shit.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 One of these,lives has a future.
                 One of them does not.

     He closes the file.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 I'm going to be as forthcoming as
                 I can be, Mr. Anderson. You are
                 here because we need your help.

     He removes his sunglasses; his eyes are an unnatural ice-
     blue.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 We know that you have been
                 contacted by a certain individual.
                 A man who calls himself Morpheus.
                 Whatever you think you know about
                 this man is irrelevant to the fact
                 that he is wanted for acts of
                 terrorism in more countries than
                 any other man in the world. He is
                 considered by many authorities to
                 be the most dangerous man alive.

     He leans closer.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 My colleagues believe that I am
                 wasting my time with you, but I
                 believe you want to do the right
                 thing. It is obvious that you are
                 an intelligent man, Mr. Anderson,
                 and that you are interested in the
                 future. That is why I believe you
                 are ready to put your past
                 mistakes behind you and get on
                 with your life.

     Neo tries to match his stare.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 We are willing to wipe the slate
                 clean, to give you a fresh start
                 and all we are asking in return is
                 your cooperation in bringing a
                 known terrorist to justice.

     Neo nods to himself.

                             NEO
                 Yeah. Wow. That sounds like a
                 real good deal. But I think I
                 have a better one. How about I
                 give you the finger --

     He does.

                             NEO
                 And you can cram that file up your
                 Secret Service sphincter.

     Agent Smith puts his glasses back on.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 You disappoint me, Mr. Anderson.

                             NEO
                 You ain't seen nothing yet.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 The irony of your situation is
                 that you have no choice.

                             NEO
                 You can't scare me with this
                 gestapo crap. I know my rights.
                 I want my phone call.

     Agent Smith smiles.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 And tell me, Mr. Anderson, what
                 good is a phone call iy you are
                 unable to speak?

     The question unnerves Neo and strangely, he begins to
     feel the muscles in his jaw tighten.

     The standing agents snicker, watching Neo's confusion
     grow into panic.

     Neo feels his lips grow soft and sticky as they slowly
     seal shut, melding into each other until all trace of his
     mouth is gone.

     Wild with fear, he lunges for the door but the agents
     restrain him holding him in the chair.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 You are going to help us, Mr.
                 Anderson, whether you want to or
                 not.

     Smith nods and the other two rip open his shirt.

     From a case taken out of his suit coat, Smith removes a
     long, fiber-optic wire tap.

     Neo struggles helplessly as Smith dangles the wire over
     his exposed abdomen. Horrified, he watches as the
     electronic device animates, become an organic creature
     that resembles a hybrid of an insect and a fluke worm.

     Thin, whisker-like tendrils reach out and probe into
     Neo's navel. He bucks wildly as Smith drops the creature
     which looks for a moment like an uncut umbilical cord --

     Before it begins to burrow its, tail thrashing as it
     worms its way inside.


     INT. NEO'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

     Screaming, Neo bolts upright in bed.

     He realizes that he is home. Was it a dream? His mouth
     is normal. His stomach looks fine. He starts to take a
     deep, everything-is-okay breath, when --

     The PHONE RINGS.

     It almost stops his heart. It CONTINUES RINGING,
     building pressure in the room, forcing him up out of bed,
     sucking him in with an almost gravitational force.

     He answers it, saying nothing.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.).
                 This line is tapped, so I must be
                 brief.

                             NEO
                 The agents --

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 They got to you first, but they've
                 underestimated how important you
                 are. If they knew what I know,
                 you would probably be dead.

     Neo feels sick.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 I don't know what you are thinking
                 right now but I want you to
                 understand that I will not give up
                 on you until you give up on me.

     Neo's throat cracks, dry as the Sahara.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 Do you still want to meet?

                             NEO
                 ... Yes.

                             MORPHEUS (V.O.)
                 Take the Howard line south.

     CLICK. He closes his eyes, unsure of what he has done.


     EXT. EL TRAIN

     An EL TRAIN RAGES against its metal rails.


     INT. TRAIN

     It is three a.m., and the train carries the usual urban
     night crawlers. Neo sits alone, eyes shifting, watching
     everything nervously.

     There is a METAL BANG and TRAIN CLATTER fills the car as
     the door is opened.

     Neo turns and sees a large man enter. He is wearing
     sunglasses and a black leather jacket. His name is APOC
     and he walks straight at Neo.

                             APOC
                 Come with me.

     Neo stands just as the door at the opposite end opens and
     two police officers rush in, drawing their guns.

     Apoc grabs Neo, muscling him to the nearest exit. There
     is no upcoming station.

     Apoc yanks the emergency brake and the train buckles
     against its own speed. The cops are thrown back. Neo
     slams against the metal rail.

     The doors open onto nothing and just when Neo regains his
     balance, Apoc shoves him backwards --

     He flies out from the train, arms windrilling as he falls
     from, the raised tracks --

     Hurtling towards a busy city street when, out of nowhere,
     a truck races under him and --

     He crashes into a large dumpster-bed filled with empty
     boxes.


     INT. TRUCK BED

     Still shaking his head, Neo realizes he is not alone. A
     man named Cabie is aiming a big gun at him. Trinity is
     next to him, talking into a cellular phone.

                             TRINITY
                 We got him. Call the chop-shop.

     She hangs up.

                             TRINITY
                 Listen to me, Neo. You have to,
                 trust us.

     She tears off a long strip of black duct-tape and reaches
     for his face.

                             NEO
                 What are you doing?

                             TRINITY
                 This has to be done for your
                 protection and ours.

     She seals his eyes shut with the tape.

                             TRINITY
                 You can't understand right now,
                 but if you're not one of us,
                 you're one of them.


     EXT. LOWER WACKER

     A featureless black van glides up to a staircase that
     curls down from the city's surface.

     trinity guides the blind Neo down the steps. The back of
     the van slaps open, revealing a young, skinny man who
     looks to be still in his teens, wearing an outfit that is
     a cross between a surgeon and a telephone repair man.

     His name is GIZMO and he smiles lewdly at Trinity,
     exposing his teeth that are wired with weird-looking
     braces.

                             GIZMO
                 Va va va voom. Still the hottest
                 software around.

                             TRINITY
                 Hello, Gizmo.

     Neo hears the voices around him.

                             GIZMO
                 This is really the guy? The guy
                 that Morpheus thinks --

                             TRINITY
                 Yeah.

                             GIZMO
                 But he's so old.

                             TRINITY
                 Are you going to help us or aren't
                 you?

                             GIZMO
                 Hacksaw. Load up the copper-top
                 and let's get the hell outta here.

     Hacksaw is a huge man in a leather welder's apron. He
     shoulders Neo and hauls him into the van.

     A moment later the green lights of Lower Wacker curve
     over the tinted windshield as the van rushes through the
     underworld.


     INT. VAN

     The chop-shop is filled with electronic gadgets, wired to
     meters and monitors. There are shelves lined with
     medical supplies and rows of hanging tools, knives,
     cleavers, and stainless steel clamps.

     Neo is strapped down to an ambulance cart, listening
     nervously as Gizmo gets to work.

                             GIZMO
                 Okay, first we take a little look
                 under the hood.

     He pulls up the goggles hanging at his neck and they
     blink to life with tiny halogen lights and lenses irising
     to varying levels of magnification.

                             GIZMO
                 You're going to feel a little
                 prick.

     He inserts acupuncture-like needles into Neo's lower
     abdomen. The needles are wired to video monitors.
     Hacksaw pilots the fiber-optic lens.

                             NEO
                 What are you doing?

                             TRINITY
                 We think you're bugged. We can't
                 take you to Morpheus until you're
                 clean.

                             GIZMO
                 There it is.

     On a monitor, we see the bug nestled in among Neols large
     intestines.

                             GIZMO
                 Hit him with 10 ccs of local.

     Hacksaw loads a hypodermic needle and pumps an anesthetic
     around Neols navel.

     Using a device that looks like a miniature speculum,
     Gizmo inserts a knuckled dental pick. Typing into a
     calculator keypad wired to the pick, he automates the
     tip.

     On the monitor, we watch it telescope out and the end
     separate into a tiny hooked, metal claw.

                             GIZMO
                 Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.

     The claw snags hold of the bug.

                             GIZMO
                 Gotcha!

     But the bug reacts violently. Neo screams as it wraps
     itself around the soft tissue web of intestine.

                             GIZMO
                 Shit.

                             TRINITY
                 What's happening?

                             GIZMO
                 I don't know. They've never done
                 that before.

     Neo writhes in pain.

                             GIZMO
                 Hold him down.

                             NEO
                 Jesus! God!

                             TRINITY
                 Do something!

                             GIZMO
                 I got it! Maybe we can stun it.

                             TRINITY
                 Are you crazy? That will kill
                 him.

     We watch Neo, who can't see what they are talking about.

                             GIZMO
                 It'll work. Come on, do it or
                 Hacksaw will.

                             NEO
                 Do what?

     The instant he hears the word, he knows.

                             TRINITY
                 Clear.

                             NEO
                 Oh, shit --

     The cry is frozen in his mouth as the paddles hit his
     chest. Gizmo wrestles with the bug.

                             GIZMO
                 Hit him again!

     Again, the electricity convulses through him as Gizmo
     yanks the speculum out.

                             GIZMO
                 Got it!

     Trinity touches Neo, who is just beginning to breathe.
     She eases the tape off his eyes.

                             TRINITY
                 Neo, are you okay?

     He nods.

                             TRINITY
                 It's over. We got it.

     Hanging from the claw pick is the inanimate metal wire-
     tap.

                             GIZMO
                 Nasty little bugger, ain't it?


     INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE

     The van stops in a deserted alley behind a forgotten
     hotel. The doors open and Trinity helps Neo get out.

                             TRINITY
                 Thanks for your help, Gizmo.

                             GIZMO
                 I just hope the man knows what
                 he's doing.

     She nods then climbs out of the van. Gizmo ogles the
     tight leather pants.

                             GIZMO
                 Goddamn, what I wouldn't give for
                 a copy of that software.

     Trinity turns around.

                             TRINITY
                 Gizmo, you don't have the hardware
                 to handle this software.

     He howls with adolescent laughter as the van pulls away.
     Trinity turns to Neo.

                             TRINITY
                 Let's go. He's waiting.


     INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE

     It is a place of putrefying elegance, a rotting host of
     urban maggotry.

     Trinity leads Neo from the stairwell down the hall of the
     thirteenth floor. They stop outside room 1313.

                             TRINITY
                 This is it.

     Neo can hear his own heart pounding.

                             TRINITY
                 Let me give one piece of advice.
                 Be honest. He knows more than you
                 can possibly imagine.


     INT. ROOM 1313

     Across the room, a dark figure stares out the tall
     windows veiled with decaying lace. He turns and his
     smile lights up the room.

                             MORPHEUS
                 At last.

     He wears a long black coat and his eyes are invisible
     behind circular mirrored glasses.

     He strides to Neo and they shake hands.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Welcome, Neo. As you no doubt
                 have guessed, I am Morpheus.

                             NEO
                 It's an honor.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Please. Come. Sit.

     He nods to Trinity.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Thank you, Trinity.

     She bows her head sharply and exits through a door to an
     adjacent room.

     They sit across from one another in cracked, burgundy-
     leather chairs.

                             MORPHEUS
                 I imagine, right now, you must be
                 feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling
                 down the rabbit hole?

                             NEO
                 You could say that.

                             MORPHEUS
                 I can see it in your eyes. You
                 have the look of a man who accepts
                 what he sees because he is
                 expecting to wake up.

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

                             MORPHEUS
                 Ironically, this is not far from
                 the truth. But I'm getting ahead
                 of myself. Can you tell me, Neo,
                 why are you here?

                             NEO
                 You're Morpheus, you're a legend.
                 Most hackers would die to meet
                 you.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Yes. Thank you. But I think we
                 both know there's more to it than
                 that. Do you believe in fate, Neo?

                             NEO
                 No.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Why not?

                             NEO
                 Because I don't like the idea that
                 I'm not in control of my life.

                             MORPHEUS
                 I know exactly what you mean.

     Again, that smile that could cut glass.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Let me tell you why you are here.
                 You are here because you have the
                 gift.

                             NEO
                 What gift?

                             MORPHEUS
                 I've watched you, Neo. You do not
                 use a computer like a tool. You
                 use it like it was part of
                 yourself. What you can do inside
                 a computer is not normal. I know.
                 I've seen it. What you do is
                 magic.

     Neo shrugs.

                             NEO
                 It's not magic.

                             MORPHEUS
                 But it is, Neo. It is. How else
                 would you describe what has been
                 happening to you?

     He leans forward.

                             MORPHEUS
                 We are trained in this world to
                 accept only what is rational and
                 logical. Have you ever wondered
                 why?

     Neo shakes his head.

                             MORPHEUS
                 As children, we do not separate
                 the possible from the impossible
                 which is why the younger a mind is
                 the easier it is to free while a
                 mind like yours can be very
                 difficult.

                             NEO
                 Free from what?

                             MORPHEUS
                 From the Matrix.

     Neo locks at his eyes but only sees a reflection of
     himself.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Do you want to know what it is,
                 Neo?

     Neo swallows and nods his head.

                             MORPHEUS
                 It's that feeling you have had all
                 your life. That feeling that
                 something was wrong with the
                 world. You don't know what it is
                 but it's there, like a splinter in
                 your mind, driving you mad,
                 driving you to me. But what is
                 it?

     The LEATHER CREAKS as he leans back.

                             MORPHEUS
                 The Matrix is everywhere, it's all
                 around us, here even in this room.
                 You can see it out your window, or
                 on your television. You feel it
                 when you go to work, or go to
                 church or pay your taxes. It is
                 the world that has been pulled
                 over your eyes to blind you from
                 the truth.

                             NEO
                 What truth?

                             MORPHEUS
                 That you are a slave, Neo. That
                 you, like everyone else, was born
                 into bondage...
                 ... kept inside a prison that you
                 cannot smell, taste, or touch. A
                 prison for your mind.

     Outside, the WIND BATTERS a loose PANE of glass.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Unfortunately, no one can be told
                 what the Matrix is. You have to
                 see it for yourself.

                             NEO
                 How?

                             MORPHEUS
                 Hold out your hands.

     In Neo's right hand, Morpheus drops a red pill.

                             MORPHEUS
                 This is your last chance. After
                 this, there is no going back.

     In his left, a blue pill.

                             MORPHEUS
                 You take the blue pill and the
                 story ends. You wake in your bed
                 and you believe whatever you want
                 to believe.

     The pills in his open hands are reflected in the glasses.

                             MORPHEUS
                 You take the red pill and you stay
                 in Wonderland and I show you how
                 deep the rabbit-hole goes.

     Neo feels the smooth skin of the capsules, with the
     moisture growing in his palms.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Remember that all I am offering is
                 the truth. Nothing more.

     Neo opens his mouth and swallows the red pill. The
     Cheshire smile returns.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Follow me.

     He leads Neo into the other room, which is cramped with
     high-tech equipment, glowing ash-bliie and electric green
     from the racks of monitors.

     Trinity, Apoc and Cypher look up as they enter.

                             CYPHER
                 Shit.

                             TRINITY
                 I knew he would.

     Cypher saddles up to Morpheus, talking in a hushed tone
     away from, Neo.

                             CYPHER
                 Morpheus, I know what you believe
                 but I think this is a mistake.
                 We're rushing him. He's old. I'm
                 afraid he might pop.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Haven't I always told you, Cypher,
                 not to let fear control your life.
                 Apoc, are we on-line?

     Neo recognizes the large man from the El train.

                             APOC
                 Almost.

     He and Trinity are working quickly, hardwiring a complex
     system of monitors, modules and drives.

                             NEO
                 Apoc? You wrote the Four Horsemen
                 Virus.

                             APOC
                 That's right.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Neo, time is always against us.
                 Will you take a seat there?

     In the center of the room sits a chair. Near the chair
     is an old oval dressing mirror that is cracked.

                             MORPHEUS
                 I imagine you know sonething about
                 virtual reality.

     Neo sits and Trinity begins gently fixing white electrode
     disks to his head, arns, and the back of his neck.

                             NEO
                 A little.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Tell me about it.

                             NEO
                 Essentially, it's a hardware
                 system that uses an apparatus;
                 headgear, gloves and whatever to
                 make you feel that you are in a
                 computer program.

                             MORPHEUS
                 If the virtual reality apparatus,
                 as you called it, was wired to all
                 of your senses and controlled them
                 completely, would you be able to
                 tell the difference between the
                 virtual world and the real world?

                             NEO
                 You might not, no.

                             MORPHEUS
                 No, you wouldn't.

     Neo whispers to Trinity.

                             NEO
                 You did all this?

     She nods, placing a set of headphones over his ears.
     They are wired to an old hotel phone.

                             MORPHEUS
                 The pill you took is part of a
                 trace program. It's going to make
                 things feel a bit strange.

     Distantly, through the ear phones, he hears Apoc POUNDING
     on a KEYBOARD. Sweat beads his face. His eyes blink and
     twitch when he notices the mirror.

     Wide-eyed he stares as it begins to heal itself, a
     webwork of cracks that slowly run together as though the
     mirror were becoming liquid.

                             NEO
                 Shit...

     Cypher works with Apoc checking reams of phosphorescent
     data. Trinity monitors Neo's electric vital signs.

     Neo reaches out to touch the mirror and his fingers
     disappear beneath the rippling surface.

     Quickly, he tries to pull his fingers out but the mirror
     stretches in long rubbery strands like mirrored-taffy
     stuck to his fingertips.

                             NEO
                 What is this? Mescaline?

                             MORPHEUS
                 Just relax, Neo.

     The strands thin like rubber cement as he pulls away,
     until the fragile wisps of mirror thread break.

     With the TINKLING of GLASS, shimmering snowflakes
     of electric-blinking mercury fall, hit the ground, and
     fade.

     He looks at his hand; fingers distended into mirrored
     icicles that begin to melt rapidly, dripping, running
     like wax down his fingers, spreading across his palms
     where he sees his face reflected.

                             NEO
                 Uh-oh...

                             TRINITY
                 It's going into replication.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Apoc?

                             APOC
                 Still nothing.

     Morpheus takes out a cellular phone and dials a number.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Tank, we're going to need the
                 signal soon. Stay calm, Neo.

     The mirror gel seems to come to life, racing, crawling up
     his arns like hundreds of insects.

                             NEO
                 It's cold.

     The mirror creeps up his neck as Neo begins to panic,
     tipping his head as though he were sinking into the
     mirror, trying to keep his mouth up.

                             NEO
                 It's all over me --

     Morpheus is right next to him, with the phone.

                             TRINITY
                 I got a fibrillation!

                             CYPHER
                 I knew it, I knew it...

                             MORPHEUS
                 Shit! Apoc?

     Streams of mercury run from Neo's nose.

                             APOC
                 Targeting... almost there.

     An ALARM, on Trinity's monitor ERUPTS.

                             TRINITY
                 He's going into arrest!

                             CYPHER
                 He's gonna pop!

                             APOC
                 Lock! I got him!

                             MORPHEUS
                 Now, Tank now!

     His eyes tear with mirror, rolling up and closing as a
     high-pitched ELECTRIC SCREAM ERUPTS in the headphones --

     It is a piercing SHRIEK like a computer calling to
     another computer --

     Neo's body arches in agony and we are pulled like we were
     pulled into the holes of the phone

     Sucked into his SCREAM and swallowed by darkness.


     INT. POWER PLANT - CLOSE ON MAN'S BODY

     Floating in a womb-red amnion.

     His body spasms, fighting against the thick gelatin.

     Metal tubes, surreal versions of hospital tubes, obscure
     his face. Other lines like IVs are connected to limbs
     and cover his genitals.

     He is struggling desperately now. Air bubbles into the
     Jell-O but does not break the surface.

     Pressing up, the surface distends, stretching like a red
     rubber coccon.

     Unable to breathe, he fights wildly to stand, clawing at
     the thinning elastic shroud --

     Until it ruptures, a hole widening around his mouth as he
     sucks for air. Tearing himself free, he emerges from the
     cell.

     It is Neo.

     He is bald and naked, his body slick with gelatin.
     Dizzy, nauseous, he waits for his vision to focus.

     He is standing in an oval capsule of clear alloy filled
     with red gelatin, the surface of which has solidified
     like curdled milk.

     The IVs in his arms are plugged into outlets that appear
     to be grafted to his flesh.

     He feels the weight of another cable and reaches to the
     back of his head where he finds an enormous coaxial
     plugged and locked into the base of his skull.

     He tries to pull it out but it would be easier to pull
     off a finger.

     To either side he sees other tube-shaped pods filled with
     red gelatin; beneath the wax-like surface, pale and
     motionless, he sees other human beings.

     Fanning out in a circle, there are more. All connected
     to a center core, each capsule like a red, dimly glowing
     petal attached to a black metal stem.

     Above him, level after, level, the stem rises seemingly
     forever. He moves to the foot of the capsule and looks
     out.

     The image assaults his mind.

     Towers of glowing petals spiral up to incomprehensible
     heights, disappearing down into a dim murk like an
     underwater abyss.

     His sight is blurred and warped, exaggerating the
     intensity of the vision. The sound of the PLANT is like
     the sound of the ocean heard from inside the belly of
     Leviathan.

     Below Neo, a petal detaches from the stem, bearing away
     the body of an old man like an automated barge even as a
     new pod rises up and plugs itself into the empty space.

     Inside the new capsule, its surface more translucent and
     pinkish in color, Neo sees a small baby.

     From above, a machine drops directly in front of Neo.

     He swallows his scream as it seems to stare at him.

     It is almost insect-like in its design; beautiful
     housings of alloyed metal covering organic-like systems
     of hard and soft polymers.

     A black particle beam washes over Neo, he reacts in pain
     as the scanner seems to expose the nervous system wired
     to the coaxial cable at his cerebral cortex.

     At the back of the neck, the cable lock spins and opens,
     disengaging.

     The cable pulls itself free, a long clear plastic needle
     and cerebrum-chip slides from the anterior of Neols skull
     with an ooze of blood and spinal fluid. The other
     connective hoses snap free and snake away as --

     The back of the unit opens and a tremendous vacuum, like
     an airplane door opening, sucks the gelatin and then Neo
     into a black hole.


     INT. WASTE LINE

     The pipe is a waste disposal system and Neo falls,
     sliding with the clot of gelatin.

     Banking through pipe spirals and elbows, flushing up
     through grease traps clogged with cily clunps of
     cellulite.

     Neo begins to drown when he is suddenly snatched from the
     flow of waste.

     The metallic cable then lifts, pulling him up into the
     belly of the futuristic flying nachine, hovering inside
     the sewer main line.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     The metal harness opens and drops the half-conscious Neo
     onto the floor.

     Human hands and arms help him up as he finds himself
     looking straight at Morpheus.

     Trinity and Apoc. And others, dressed in bizarre, high-
     tech combat gear.

     Morpheus smiles.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Welcome to the real world, Neo.

     Neo passes out.

                                                     FADE TO BLACK.

     We have no sense of time. We hear VOICES whispering.

                             MAN (O.S.)
                 Do you think Morpheus is right?
                 Do you think he could be the One?

                             WOMAN (O.S.)
                 It doesn't matter now. But if
                 he's wrong...

     FADE IN:

     NEO'S POV

     Neo's eyes flutter open. We see Trinity's face above us,
     angelic in the fluorescent glow of a light stick.


     ANGLE ON NEO

                             NEO
                 ... am I dead?

                             TRINITY
                 Far from it.

                                                     FADE TO BLACK.


     FADE IN:


     ANGLE ON NEO

     He opens his eyes again, something tingling through him.
     He focuses and sees his body pierced with dozens of
     acupuncture-like needles wired to a strange device.

                             DOZER
                 He needs a lot of work.

                             MORPHEUS
                 I know.

     Dozer and Morpheus are operating on Neo.

                             NEO
                 What are you doing?

                             MORPHEUS
                 Your muscles have atrophied.
                 We're rebuilding them.

     Fluorescent light sticks burn unnaturally bright.

                             NEO
                 Why do my eyes hurt?

                             MORPHEUS
                 You've never used them before.

     Morpheus takes his sunglasses off and puts them on Neo.
     Neo lays back.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Rest, Neo. The answers are
                 coming.


     INT. NEO'S ROOM

     Neo wakes up from a deep sleep, feeling better. He is
     wearing a black tank top and shorts.

     He begins to examine himself. There is a futuristic IV
     plugged into the jack in his forearm. He pulls it out,
     staring at the grafted outlet.

     He feels his bald head. His fingers find and explore the
     large outlet in the base of his skull.

     Just as he starts to come unglued, Morpheus opens the
     door.

                             NEO
                 Morpheus, what's happened to me?
                 What is this place?

                             MORPHEUS
                 More important than what is when?

                             NEO
                 When?

                             MORPHEUS
                 You believe the year is 1997 when
                 in fact it is much closer to 2197.
                 I can't say for certain what year
                 it is because we honestly do not
                 know.

     The wind is knocked from Neo's chest.

                             NEO
                 That's not possible.

                             MORPHEUS
                 I promised you the truth, Neo, and
                 the truth is that the world you
                 were living in was a lie.

                             NEO
                 How?

                             MORPHEUS
                 I'll show you.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     Like a sleepwalker, Neo follows Morpheus through the ship.

                             MORPHEUS
                 This is my ship, the
                 Nebuchadnezzar. It's a
                 hovercraft. Small like a
                 submarine. It's dark. It's
                 cramped and cold. But it's home.

     They climb a ladder up to the main deck.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Everyone is there.

                             MORPHEUS
                 This is the main deck. You know
                 most of my crew.

     Trinity smiles and nods.

                             MORPHEUS
                 The ones you don't know. That's
                 Mouse and Switch. The two big
                 guys are Tank and Dozer.

     The names and faces wash meaninglessly over Neo.

                             MORPHEUS
                 And this, this is the Core. This
                 is where we broadcast our pirate
                 signal and hack into the Matrix.

     It is a swamp of bizarre electronic equipment. Vines of
     coaxial hang and snake to and from huge monolithic
     battery slabs, a black portable satellite dish and banks
     of little systems and computer monitors.

     At the center of the web, there are six ectoskeleton
     chairs made of a poly-alloy frame and suspension harness.

     Near the circle of chairs is the control console and
     operator's station where the network is monitored.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Help him, Trinity.

     Neo allows himself to be helped into one of the chairs.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Do you remember when I asked you
                 about an apparatus that could turn
                 a virtual reality into reality?

     Neo nods.

                             MORPHEUS
                 It's right here.

     He touches Neo's head.

                             MORPHEUS
                 And it's accessed here.

     Neo feels Morpheus guiding a coaxial line into the jack
     at the back of his neck. The cable has the same kind of
     cerebellum chip we saw inside the plant.

                             MORPHEUS
                 This will feel a little weird.

     There are several disturbing NOISES as he works the
     needle in.

     We MOVE IN as Neo's shoulders bunch and his face tightens
     into a grimace until a loud CLICK fires and his ears pop
     like when you equalize them underwater.

     He relaxes, opening his eyes as we pull back to a feeling
     of weightlessness inside another place --


     INT. CONSTRUCT

     Neo is standing in an empty, blank-white space.

                             MORPHEUS
                 This is the Construct.

     Startled, Neo whips around and finds Morpheus now in the
     room with him.

                             MORPHEUS
                 It is our loading program. We can
                 load anything from clothes, to
                 weapons, to training simulations.
                 Anything we need.

     Morpheus walks past Neo and when Neo turns he sees the
     two leather chairs from the hotel set up in front of a
     large-screen television.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Sit down.

     Neo stands at the back of the chair as Morpheus sits.

                             NEO
                 Right now, we're inside a computer
                 program?

                             MORPHEUS
                 Wild, isn't it?

     Neo's hands run over the cracked leather.

                             NEO
                 This isn't real?

                             MORPHEUS
                 What is real? How do you define
                 real? If you're talking about
                 your senses, what you feel, taste,
                 smell, or see, then all you're
                 talking about are electrical
                 signals interpreted by your brain.

     He picks up a remote control and clicks ON the
     TELEVISION. We drift through the Windy City circa 1996.

                             MORPHEUS
                 This is the Chicago you know.
                 Chicago as it was at the end of
                 the twentieth century. This
                 Chicago exists only as part of a
                 neural-interactive simulation that
                 we call the Matrix.

     We GLIDE AT the television as he changes the channel.

                             MORPHEUS
                 You have been living inside
                 Baulliaurd's vision, inside the
                 map, not the territory. This is
                 Chicago as it exists today.

     The sky is an endless sea of black and green bile. The
     earth, scorched and split like burnt flesh, spreads out
     beneath us as we ENTER the television.

                             MORPHEUS
                 'The desert of the real.'

     In the distance, we see the ruins of a future Chicago
     protruding from the wasteland like the blackened ribs of
     a long-dead corpse.

                             MORPHEUS
                 We are, right now, miles below the
                 earth's surface. The only place
                 humans can survive outside the
                 Matrix is underground.

     Still MOVING, we TURN and find Neo and Morpheus; the
     chairs now sitting in the middle of the black desert.
     Dizzy, Neo holds onto the chair.

                             NEO
                 What happened?

                             MORPHEUS
                 It started early in the twenty-
                 first century, with the birth of
                 artificial intelligence, a
                 singular consciousness that
                 spawned an entire race of
                 machines.

     In his sunglasses, we see storm clouds gather.

                             MORPHEUS
                 At first all they wanted was to be
                 treated as equals, entitled to the
                 same human inalienable rights.
                 Whatever they were given, it was
                 not enough.

     In the circular window of the glasses, EXPLOSIONS light
     up a bloody battle field.

                             MORPHEUS
                 We don't know who struck first.
                 Us or them. But sometime at the
                 end of the twenty-first century
                 the battle was joined.

     We MOVE INTO his glasses and the war surrounds us.

                             MORPHEUS
                 The war raged for generations and
                 turned the face of our planet from
                 green and blue to black and red.

     At last we see the Sentinels; killing machines that are
     at once terrifying and beautiful. They have an organic
     architecture like a microbiotic organism, that is
     perpetually in motion.

     The Sentinel cracks the body armor of a soldier,
     splitting open the soft, stearing meat inside.

                             MORPHEUS
                 It scorched and burned the sky.
                 Without the sun, the machines
                 sought out a new energy source to
                 survive.

     The Sentinel locks up, as heat lightning of black ink
     bursts against the sky, spreading into a permanent cloud
     of stain.

                             MORPHEUS
                 They discovered a new form of
                 fusion. All that was required to
                 initiate the reaction was a small
                 electric charge. Throughout human
                 history we have been dependent on
                 machines to survive. Fate, it
                 seems, is not without a sense of
                 irony.

     We return to the power plant that Neo escaped from where
     we see human beings looking almost blissful in their
     gelatin cocoons.

                             MORPHEUS
                 The human body generates more bio-
                 electricity than a 120-volt
                 battery and over 25,000 B.T.U.'s
                 of body heat.

     Outside, spreading all around the power plant, beneath a
     breathing greenhouse, are the growing fields.

                             MORPHEUS
                 We are, as an energy source,
                 easily renewable and completely
                 recyclable, the dead liquified and
                 fed intravenously to the living.

     Huge farm-like reapers are harvesting the crop.

                             MORPHEUS
                 All they needed to control this
                 new battery was something to
                 occupy our mind.

     We see inside a clear tubular husk. Floating in viscous
     fluid, there is a human fetus; its soft skull already
     growing around the brain-jack.

                             MORPHEUS
                 And so they built a prison out of
                 our past, wired it to our brains
                 and turned us into slaves.

     We PULL BACK to find the image is now on the television
     and we are again inside the white space of the Construct.

                             NEO
                 No! I don't believe it! It's not
                 possible!

                             MORPHEUS
                 I didn't say that it would be
                 easy, Neo. I just said that it
                 would be the truth.

     The room without walls begins to spin.

                             NEO
                 Stop! Let me out! I want out!


     INT. MAIN DECK

     His eyes snap open and he thrashes against the chair,
     trying to rip the cable from the back of his neck.

                             NEO
                 Get this thing out of me!

                             TRINITY
                 Easy, Neo. Easy.

     Dozer holds him while Trinity unlocks it. Once it's out,
     he tears away from them, falling as he trips free of the
     harness.

                             NEO
                 Don't touch me! Get away from me!

     On his hands and knees, he reels as the world spins.
     Sweat pours off him as a pressure builds inside his skull
     as if his brian had been put into a centrifuge.

                             CYPHER
                 He's going to pop!

     Vomiting violently, Neo pitches forward and blacks out.


     INT. NEO'S ROOM

     He blinks, regaining consciousness. The room is dark.
     Neo is stretched out on his bed.

                             NEO
                 I can't go back, can I?

     Morpheus sitting like a shadow on a chair in the far
     corner.

                             MORPHEUS
                 No. But if you could, would you
                 really want to?

     Neo isn't sure of that answer.

                             MORPHEUS
                 I feel that I owe you an apology.
                 There is a rule that we do not
                 free a mind once it reaches a
                 certain age. It is dangerous.
                 They have trouble letting go..
                 Their mind turns against them.
                 I've seen it happen. I broke the
                 rule because I had to.

     He stares into the darkness, confessing as much to
     himself as Neo.

                             MORPHEUS
                 When the Matrix was first built
                 there was a man born inside that
                 had the ability to change what he
                 wanted, to remake the Matrix as he
                 saw fit. It was this man that
                 freed the first of us and taught
                 us the secret of the war; control
                 the Matrix and you control the
                 future.

     He pauses.

                             MORPHEUS
                 When he died, the Oracle at the
                 temple of Zion prophesied his
                 return and envisioned an end to
                 the war and freedom for our
                 people. That is why there are
                 those of us that have spent our
                 entire lives searching the Matrix,
                 looking for him.

     Neo can feel his eyes on him.

                             MORPHEUS
                 I did what I did, because I
                 believe we have been brought here
                 for a reason, Neo. You are here
                 to serve a purpose, just as I am
                 here to serve mine.

                             NEO
                 I told you I don't believe in
                 fate.

     Morpheus smiles, leaning towards hin.

                             MORPHEUS
                 But I do, Neo. I do.

     He stands up.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Get some rest. You're going to
                 need it.

                             NEO
                 For what?

                             MORPHEUS
                 Your training.



     INT. HOVERCRAFT

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


     INT. NEO'S ROOM

     Neo is awake in his bed, staring up at the lights. The
     door opens and TA.NK steps inside.

                             TANK
                 Morning. Did you sleep?

                             NEO
                 No.

                             TANK
                 You will tonight. I guarantee it.
                 I'm Tank. I'll be your operator.

     He offers his hand and Neo shakes it. He notices that
     Tank doesn't have any jacks.

                             NEO
                 You don't have...

                             TANK
                 Any holes? Nope. Me and my
                 brother Dozer, we are 100 percent
                 pure, old fashioned, home-grown
                 human. Born free. Right here in
                 the real world. Genuine child of
                 Zion.

                             NEO
                 Zion?

                             TANK
                 Zion is the place, man. You'll
                 see it one day. Last human city.
                 All we got left.

     Tank smiles.

                             TANK
                 Goddamn, I got to tell you I'm
                 fairly excited to see what you are
                 capable of. I mean if Morpheus is
                 right and all. We're not supposed
                 to talk.about any of that, but if
                 you are, well then this is an
                 exciting time. We got a lot to do
                 so let's get to it.


     INT. MAIN DECK

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

                             TANK
                 We're supposed to load all these
                 operations programs first, but
                 this is some major boring shit.
                 Why don't we start something a
                 little fun?

     Tank smiles as he plops into his operator's chair. He
     begins flipping through a tall carousel loaded with micro
     discs.

                             TANK
                 How about sore combat training?

     Neo reads the label on the disk.

                             NEO
                 Jiujitsu? I'm going to learn
                 jujitsu?

     Tank slides the disk into Neo's supplement drive.

                             NEO
                 No way.

     Smiling, Tank punches the "load" code.

     His body jumps against the harness as his eyes clamp
     shut. The monitors kick wildly as his heart pounds,
     adrenaline surges, and his brain sizzles.

     An instant later his eyes snap open.

                             NEO
                 Holy shit!

                             TANK
                 Hey, Mikey, he likes it! Ready
                 for more?

                             NEO
                 Hell yes!


     INT. MAIN DECK - CLOSE ON COMPUTER MONITOR - LATER

     as grey pixels slowly fill a small, half-empty box. It
     is a meter displaying how much download time is left.

     The title bar reads: "Combat Series 10 of 12," file
     categories flashing beneath it: Savate, Jujitsu, Ken Po,
     Drunken Boxing...

     Morpheus walks in.

                             MORPHEUS
                 How is he?

     Tank looks at his watch, rubs his eyes.

                             TANK
                 Ten hours straight. He's a
                 machine.

     Neo's body spasms and relaxes as his eyes open, breath
     hissing from his lips. He looks like he just orgasmed.

     He locks at Morpheus.

                             NEO
                 This is incredible. I know Kung
                 Fu.

     Morpheus sits in the drive chair next to hin. He nods to
     Tank.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Show me.


     INT. DOJO

     They are standing in a very sparse japanese-style dojo.

                             MORPHEUS
                 This is a sparring program,
                 similar to the programmed reality
                 of the Matrix. Consider this your
                 first lesson.

     He assumes a fighting stance.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Attack me.

     Neo assumes a similar stance, cautiously circling until
     he gives a short cry and launches a furious attack.

     It is like a Jackie Chan movie at high speed, fists and
     feet striking from every angle as Neo presses his attack
     --

     But each and every blow is blocked by effortless speed.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     While their minds battle in the programmed reality, the
     two bodies appear quite serene, suspended in the drive
     chairs.

     Tank monitors their life systems noticing that Neo is
     wildly and chaotically lit up as opposed to the slow and
     steady rhythm of Morpheus.


     INT. MESS HALL

     Dinner is up. Everyone is eating bowls of single-cell
     protein. It has a cottage cheese consistency.

     MOUSE bursts in the room.

                             MOUSE
                 Morpheus is fighting Neo!

     All at once they bolt for the door.


     INT. DOJO

     Neo's face is knotted, teeth clenched, as he hurls
     himself at Morpheus.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Good. Adaption. Improvisation.
                 But your weakness isn't your
                 technique.

     Morpheus attacks him and it is like nothing we have seen.
     His feet and fists are everywhere taking Neo apart. For
     every blow Neo blocks, five more hit their marks until --

     Neo falls.

     Panting, on his hands and knees, blood spits fror, his
     mouth speckling the white floor of the Dojo.

                             MORPHEUS
                 How did I beat you?

                             NEO
                 You -- You're too fast.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Do you think my being faster,
                 stronger has anything to do with
                 my muscles in this place?

     Neo is frustrated, still unable to catch his breath.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Do you believe that's air you are
                 breathing now?

     Neo squints at him.

                             MORPHEUS
                 If you can free your mind, the
                 body will follow.

     Neo stands, nodding.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Again.

     Their fists fly with pneumatic speed.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Everyone is gathered behind Tank, watching the fight,
     like watching a game of Mortal Combat.

                             CABLE
                 Jeezus Keerist! That boy is fast!

                             MOUSE
                 You ever seen anyone that fast
                 that soon, Tank?

                             TANK
                 Never.

                             APOC
                 Morpheus is right. He's got to be
                 the one.


     INT. DOJO

     The speed of the blows rises like a drum solo that seems
     impossible to sustain. Neo's face sheds its mask of calm
     with a scream.

     He wants to beat Morpheus bad.

     Finally a single blow catches Morpheus on the side of the
     head, knocking his glasses off.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     There are several gasps.

                             MOUSE
                 I don't believe it!


     INT. DOJO

     Morpheus rubs his face.

                             MORPHEUS
                 You are angry with me.

     Neo pants.

                             NEO
                 I, uh... maybe.

                             MORPHEUS
                 It's all right. It's natural.

                             NEO
                 I feel better.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Good, good. Anger is a gift, Neo,
                 but it's a heavy one.

     Morpheus smiles.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Tank, load the jump program.

     Neo straightens as the dojo DISSOLVES away like a curtain
     lifting, leaving the two men now standing on a building
     rooftop in a city skyline.

                             MORPHEUS
                 You have to learn to let go of
                 that anger. You must let go of
                 everything.

     A WIND HOWLS, whipping Morpheus' long coat to the side.

                             MORPHEUS
                 You must empty yourself to free
                 your mind.

     Morpheus spins, running hard at the edge of the rooftop.
     And jumps. He sails through the air, his coat billowing
     out behind him like a cape --

     Somersaults once and lands on the rooftop across the
     street.

                             NEO
                 Shit.

     Neo looks down at the street twenty floors below, then at
     Morpheus an impossible fifty feet away.

                             NEO
                 Okie dokie.

     He takes a deep breath.

                             NEO
                 Yeah. Free my mind. Right. No
                 problem.

     He concentrates. Runs.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     They are transfixed.

                             CABLE
                 He's gonna make it.

                             APOC
                 No way. Not possible.

                             MOUSE
                 No one's ever made their first
                 jump.

                             SWITCH
                 What if he does?

                             APOC
                 He won't.

                             TANK
                 It's never been done.

     Trinity stares at the screen, her fists clenching as she
     whispers.

                             TRINITY
                 Come on.


     EXT. ROOFTOP

     Summoning every ounce of strength in his legs, Neo
     launches himself into the air in a single maniacal shriek
     --

     But comes up drastically short.

     His eyes widen as he plummets. Stories fly by, the
     ground rushing up at him, but as he hits --

     The ground gives way, stretchinp like a trapeze net.

     He bounces and flips, slowly coming to a rest, flat on
     his back.

     He laughs, a bit unsure, wiping the wind-blown tears from
     his face.

     Morpheus exits the building and helps him to his feet.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Everyone falls the first time.

     Neo nods quietly.

                             MORPHEUS
                 If you never know failure, how can
                 you know success?


     INT. MAIN DECK

     They break up.

                             MOUSE
                 What does it mean?

                             CABLE
                 It doesn't mean anything.

                             CYPHER
                 Everyone falls, right, Trinity?

     But Trinity has left.

     Neo's eyes open as Tank eases the plug out. He tries to
     move and groans, cradling his ribs.

     While Tank helps Morpheus, Neo spits blood into his hand.

                             NEO
                 I thought it wasn't real.

     Neo stares at the blood.

                             NEO
                 If you are killed in the Matrix,
                 you die here?

                             MORPHEUS
                 The body cannot live without the
                 mind.


     INT. NEO'S ROOM

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

                             TRINITY
                 Neo, I saved you some dinner --

     She sees him passed out on the bed. She sets the tray
     down and pulls the blanket over him.

     She pauses, her face close to his, then inhales lightly,
     breathing in the scent of him, before slowly pulling away.

     It seems the moment she closes the door, he wakes with a
     start, unsure of where he is. After a moment, he gets
     out of bed.


     INT. HALL

     The ship is quiet and dark. Everyone is asleep.


     INT. MAIN DECK

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

                             CYPHER
                 Whoa! Shit, Neo, you scared the
                 bejeezus out of ne.

                             NEO
                 Sorry.

                             CYPHER
                 No, it's all right.

                             NEO
                 What are you doing?

                             CYPHER
                 Midnight watch.

     Neo's eyes light up as he steps closer to the screens
     that seem alive with a constant flow of data.

                             NEO
                 Is that... ?

                             CYPHER
                 The Matrix? Yeah.

     The monitors are packed with bizarre codes and equations.

                             CYPHER
                 You want a drink?

     He pours Neo a drink from a large plastic jug.

                             CYPHER
                 I'll tell you, I feel for you,
                 man. I really do. Most of us
                 were still young, just punks, when
                 Morpheus jacked us. But you, you
                 had a real life.

     Neo takes a sip and it almost kills him. Cypher pounds
     on his back.

                             CYPHER
                 Good shit, huh? Dozer makes it.
                 It's good for two things:
                 degreasing engines and killing
                 brain cells.

     Red-faced, Neo finally stops coughing.

                             CYPHER
                 Did he tell you why he did it?

     Neo nods.

                             CYPHER,
                 I'll be the didn't tell you that
                 this wasn't the first time he
                 thought he found the One.

     Neo shakes his head as Cypher fills his cup and laughs.

                             CYPHER
                 Let me give you a piece of advice.
                 Between you and me, if Morpheus
                 says you can fly, I wouldn't go
                 jumping out any windows to find
                 out if he's right. Understand?

     Cypher raises his drink. Neo swallows another throat-
     scorching mouthful.

                             CYPHER
                 Welcome to the real world!


     INT. RESTAURANT (MATRIX) - NIGHT

     CHAMBER MUSIC and the ambiance of wealth soak the room as
     we watch a serrated knife saw through a thick, gorgeous
     steak.

                             CYPHER
                 That's what he said to me nine
                 years ago.

     The meat is so perfect, charred on the outside, oozing
     red juice from the inside, that it could be a dream.

                             CYPHER
                 The real world. Ha, what a joke.

     We recognize the grating voice, the insidious laugh.

                             CYPHER
                 You know what real is? I'll tell
                 you what real is.

     A fork stabs the cube of meat and we FOLLOW it UP TO the
     face of Cypher.

                             CYPHER
                 Real is just another four-letter
                 word.

     He laughs, shoving the steak into his mouth.

     The restaurant is located on the top floor of a Chicago
     skyscraper where the view is breathtaking and the menu
     has no prices.

     Sitting across from Cypher is Agent Smith.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Do we have a deal, Mr. Reagan?

     Cypher chews the steak loudly, smacking it between his
     teeth.

                             CYPHER
                 Mmm, so, so fucking good.

     Smith watches him shovel another hunk of meat into his
     mouth.

                             CYPHER
                 You know, I know that this steak
                 doesn't exist. I know when I put
                 it in my mouth, the Matrix is
                 telling my brain that it is juicy
                 and delicious. After nine years,
                 do you know what I've realized?

     Pausing, he examines the meat skewered on his fork. He
     pops it in, eyes rolling up, savoring the tender beef
     melting in his mouth.

                             CYPHER
                 Ignorance is bliss.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Then we have a deal?

                             CYPHER
                 I don't want to remember nothing.
                 Nothing! You understand? And I
                 want to be rich. Someone
                 important. Like an actor. You
                 can do that, right?

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Whatever you want, Mr. Reagan.

     Cypher takes a deep drink of wine.

                             CYPHER
                 All right. You get my body back
                 in a power plant, reinsert me into
                 the Matrix and I'll get you what
                 you want.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Access codes to Zion.

                             CYPHER
                 I told you, I don't know them.
                 But I can give you the man who
                 does.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Morpheus.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Sweat dapples his lip as Neo snaps out of the construct
     coma.

                             NEO
                 Jeez, I was wondering about that.

                             TANK
                 What?

                             NEO
                 Why I was bald here but not in the
                 Matrix.

                             TANK
                 R.S.I.

                             NEO
                 Residual self image.

                             TANK
                 Good. Now what's this?

     He points to one of Neo's monitors.

                             NEO
                 Life systems monitor, glucose
                 levels.

                             TANK
                 What's that?

                             NEO
                 Main power supply to the core.

     He follows Tank to the operator's station where he points
     to a red key-switch.

                             TANK
                 How about this?

                             NEO
                 Mainframe self-destruct. Uses all
                 remaining power to generate an...
                 E.M.P?

                             TANK
                 Electromagnetic pulse. Our best
                 weapon against the machines. The
                 problem is if someone is still in
                 the Matrix when that thing goes
                 off, they're not coming back.

     Neo nods as Morpheus comes up behind them.

                             MORPHEUS
                 How's he doing?

                             TANK
                 We just finished the operation
                 programs and he's showing great
                 retention.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Good. I want everyone alerted to
                 12-hour stand-by. We're going in.
                 Neo, it's time for you to know why
                 you're here.

     Morpheus walks away.

                             NEO
                 What's he talking about?

                             TANK
                 He's taking you into the Matrix to
                 see her.

                             NEO
                 See who?

                             TANK
                 The Oracle.

     Neo looks down at the monitor teeming with Matrix data
     that seems to coalesce, equations giving way to images as
     a METAL SCREAM RISES BECOMING --


     EXT. CHICAGO (MATRIX) - DAY

     An El train.


     INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

     The room is empty, heavy curtains covering windows. It
     looks as if it hasn't been touched in years. In the
     bedroom with the cracked oval mirror an old black PHONE
     begins to RING.

     In the mirror, we first glimpse them and as we keep
     TURNING, the room fills with equipment and the team.

     Morpheus answers the phone.

                             MORPHEUS
                 We're in.

     He hangs up.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Mouse and Cable hold the exit.
                 Let's go.


     INT. STAIRWELL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Neo follows the others down the stairwell that winds
     around an antique elevator shaft.

                             NEO
                 Did you have to do this?

                             TRINITY
                 Yeah.

                             NEO
                 What did she tell you?

                             TRINITY
                 Lots of things.

                             NEO
                 Any of them true?

     Trinity looks at him, then looks away.

                             TRINITY
                 Some of them.

                             GIZMO
                 Were they good or bad?

                             TRINITY
                 There's no point in worrylng.
                 Whatever is going to happen is
                 going to happen.

     They cross the old lobby. Switch and Apoc stop at the
     doors.

                             MORPHEUS
                 We should be back in an hour.


     EXT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Neo squints into the sun that seems unnaturally bright.
     He is the only one without sunglasses.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Do you now understand what it
                 means when we say, if you're not
                 one of us, you're one of them?

                             NEO
                 The agents. They're sentient
                 programs. They can commandeer any
                 software hardwired to the
                 mainframe.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Anyone that is still in a power
                 plant. That is why we try to be
                 invisible in the Matrix.

                             NEO
                 The best hacking is always
                 traceless.

     Cypher and Trinity move away from them, securing the
     perimeter. As Cypher passes a garbage can, he
     surreptitiously drops something inside.

     It is a cellular phone and we watch the blue display as
     the LINE CONNECTS.

     An early 1970s, black Lincoln Continental emerges from a
     corrugated roll-up garage. Morpheus and Neo get in.


     INT. LINCOLN CONTINENTAL (MATRIX) - DAY

     An enormous man is waiting for them. A wad of chewing
     tobacco bulges his cheek. He spits into a Coke can.

                             MOJO
                 Morpheus, been a long time coming.

                             MORPHEUS
                 You're looking well, Mojo.

     Mojo coughs a brown, cankerous laugh, juice speckling his
     chin and shirt. He stares at Neo.

                             MOJO
                 You bringing us geriatrics now.
                 Morpheus?

     He spits and laughs again.

                             MOJO
                 Guess you are locking for a
                 miracle.


     EXT. BAR (MATRIX) - DAY

     The Continental pulls up to a bar in the kind of
     neighborhood where every corner has a pair of eyes.


     INT. BAR (MATRIX) - DAY

     A lightless, lower-class bar. No one enters that is not
     expected.

     The front doors open in a brilliant burst of sunlight as
     Mojo leads Morpheus and Neo inside. Neo looks around,
     his eyes adjusting to the darkness.

     Mojo talks to the bartender, then looks over.

                             MOJO
                 All right, it's cool. Go on back.

     They weave their way to the back of the bar, the STICKY
     FLOOR SNAPPING under their FEET.

     A monolith of a man rises from his stool as they walk up.

                             REX
                 You're late.

     He moves to the side, opening the heavy iron door behind
     him. They descend the basement staircase toward the
     single bare bulb at the bottom, hanging above the only
     door.


     INT. BASEMENT (MATRIX) - DAY

     A high-tech laptop and modem are set up on a stack of
     milk crates. Neo waits as Morpheus types in a series of
     access codes. After a moment the screen blinks, "Welcome
     Morpheus."

     Morpheus walks back to the same door they entered, but it
     now leads into --


     INT. TEMPLE OF ZION (MATRIX) - DAY

     The walls and floors are polished marble. Neo follows,
     his mouth agape.

                             NEO
                 What -- what happened?

                             MORPHEUS
                 This is the temple. It is a part
                 of Zion's mainframe. It's hidden
                 inside the Matrix so that we can
                 access it.

     Two PRIESTESSES are waiting in the antechamber.

                             PRIESTESS
                 Hello, Morpheus. We've been
                 expecting you.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Okay, you're on your own. Go with
                 them.

     They take Neo by the arm, leading him down a hall into
     another room.

                             PRIESTESS
                 Wait here. Among the other
                 Potentials.


     INT. ROOM OF POTENTIALS (MATRIX) - DAY

     Neo enters and finally understands the attention given to
     his age. The Potentials are all little children.

     The room feels at once like a Buddhist temple and a
     kindergarten class. The children's heads are either
     shaved or thick with dreadlocks. Some are playing,
     others meditating or practicing their gift.

     Neo watches a little girl levitate wooden alphabet
     blocks. A skinny BOY holds a SPOON which sways like a
     blade of grass as he bends it with his rnind.

     Neo crosses to him, sits.

     The Boy smiles as Neo picks up a spoon and tries to
     imitate him. Despite his best efforts, Neo cannot make
     it bend.

                             SPOON BOY
                 Your spoon does not bend because
                 it is just that, a spoon. Mine
                 bends because there is no spoon,
                 just my mind.

     Neo watches as it curls into a knot.

                             SPOON BOY
                 Link yourself to the spoon.
                 Become the spoon and bend
                 yourself.

     Neo nods, again holding up his spoon.

                             NEO
                 There is no spoon. Right.

     He concentrates. The spoon begins to bend just as the
     Priestess touches his shoulder.

                             PRIESTESS
                 The Oracle will see you now.

     Spoon Boy smiles.


     INT. SHRINE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Neo enters nervously. Beneath his feet is a path of the
     zodiac leading to marbled stairs that rise to a dais and
     a three-legged throne.

     The throne is empty.

                             NEO
                 Hello?

     A DISTANT FEMALE VOICE calls to him and he follows it up
     the stairs. At the top of the dais, he smells something
     cooking.

     Following the scent, he moves behind the pillars where he
     finds an open door.

                             VOICE (O.S.)
                 Just come on in.

     He walks through a vestibule where he sees a fabulous
     moonstone headdress and velvet robes. A second door
     leads into --


     INT. ORACLE'S CHAMBERS (MATRIX) - DAY

     It looks like a suburban tract house.

     There is a lot of cozy furniture, a dining roon hutch
     filled with china, shelves and tables crowded with
     doilies, knick-knacks and ceramic brick-a-brack.

     Neo follows the plastic carpet runner to the kitchen.

     A WOMAN is huddled beside the oven, peering inside
     through the cracked door.

                             NEO
                 Hello?

                             ORACLE (WOMAN)
                 I know. You're Neo. Be right
                 with you.

                             NEO
                 You're the Oracle?

                             ORACLE
                 Bingo. I got to say I love seeing
                 you non-believers. It's really a
                 relief. All that pomp and
                 circumstances just plain tucker me
                 out. Almost done. Smell good,
                 don't they?

                             NEO
                 Yeah.

                             ORACLE
                 I'd ask you to sit down, but
                 you're not going to anyway. And
                 don't worry about the vase.

                             NEO
                 What vase?

     He turns to look around and his elbow knocks a VASE from
     the table. It BREAKS against the linoleum floor.

                             ORACLE
                 The vase.

                             NEO
                 Shit, I'm sorry.

     She pulls out a tray of chocolate chip cookies and turns.
     She is an older woman, wearing big oven mitts,
     comfortable slacks and a print blouse. She looks like
     someone's grandma.

                             ORACLE
                 I said don't worry about it. I'll
                 get one of my kids to fix it.

                             NEO
                 How did you know...?

     She sets the cookie tray on a wooden hot-pad.

                             ORACLE
                 What's really going to bake your
                 noodle later on is, would you
                 still have broken it if I hadn't
                 said anything.

     Smiling, she lights a cigarette.

                             ORACLE
                 You're cuter than I thought. I
                 see why she likes you.

                             NEO
                 Who?

                             ORACLE
                 Not too bright, though.

     She winks.

                             ORACLE
                 You know why Morpheus brought you
                 to see me?

                             NEO
                 I think so.

                             ORACLE
                 So? What do you think? You think
                 you're the one?

                             NEO
                 I don't know.

     She gestures to a wooden plaque, the kind every grandma
     has, except that the words are in Latin.

                             ORACLE
                 You know what that means? It's
                 Latin. Means, 'Know thyself.'

     She puts her cigarette down.

                             ORACLE
                 Well, let's have a look at you.

     She widens his eyes, checks his ears, then feels the
     glands in his neck.

                             ORACLE
                 Open your mouth. Say, 'ahhh.'

     She nods then looks at his palms.

                             ORACLE
                 Hmmm. You sure got the gift, but
                 it's tricky. I'd say the bad news
                 is, you're not the one. Still got
                 a lot to learn. Maybe next life.

                             NEO
                 What's the good news?

                             ORACLE
                 Same as the bad news, you're not
                 the one.

                             NEO
                 Is that it, then?

                             ORACLE
                 No. Here.

     She picks up the tray of cooling cookies.

                             ORACLE
                 You better take a cookie. Got a
                 big day ahead of you.

     He eyes her, then takes a cookie.

                             ORACLE
                 Make a believer out of you yet.


     INT. ANTECHAMBER (MATRIX) - DAY

     Morpheus rises from a bench as the Priestess escorts Neo
     out. When they are alone, Morpheus puts his hand on
     Neo's shoulder.

                             MORPHEUS
                 You don't have to tell me
                 anything, Neo, because I already
                 know what she said.

                             NEO
                 You do?

                             MORPHEUS
                 I brought you so that you could
                 hear it for yourself. I knew it
                 would help.

     Neo finishes his cookie.

                             MORPHEUS
                 No one will ever ask you because
                 it is a gift from her. It is for
                 you and you alone.


     EXT. CITY STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

     Storm clouds shroud the streets as the sky turns
     jaundice.

     Cypher nervously glances down the surrounding streets.
     He notices several unmarked white vans.

     He mops the sweat from his forehead, when Trinity sees
     the black Lincoln.

                             TRINITY
                 Here they come.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     In the hovercraft, we see the sweat rolling down Cypher's
     face and neck.

     Tank is typing rapidly at the keyboard.

                             TANK
                 Weird. This area never has this
                 much activity.


     EXT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Apoc opens the side door and they enter the hotel.


     INT. ROOM 1313 (MATRIX) - DAY

     Mouse's CELLULAR RINGS.

                             MOUSE
                 Welcome to Movie-Phone.

                             TANK (V.O.)
                 They're on their way.

                             MOUSE
                 Right.

     The phone flips shut as he jumps up.

                             MOUSE
                 Let's get to work.


     INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Light filters down the throat of the building through a
     caged skylight at the top of the open elevator shaft.
     Four figures glide up the dark stairs that wind around
     the antique elevator.

     Neo notices a black cat, a yellow-green-eyed shadow that
     slinks past them and pads quickly down the stairs.

     A moment later, Neo sees another black cat that looks and
     moves identically to the first one.

                             NEO
                 Whoa. Deja vu.

     Those words stop the others dead in their tracks.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     The monitors suddenly glitch as though the Matrix had an
     electronic seizure.

                             TANK
                 Oh, shit! Oh, shit!


     INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Trinity turns around, her face tight.

                             TRINITY
                 What did you just say?

                             NEO
                 Nothing. Just had a little deja
                 vu.

                             TRINITY
                 What happened? What did you see?

                             NEO
                 A black cat went past us and then
                 I saw another that looked just
                 like it.

                             TRINITY
                 How much like it? Was it the same
                 cat?

                             NEO
                 It might have been. I'm not sure.

     Trinity looks at Morpheus, who listens quietly to the
     rasping breath of the old building.

                             NEO
                 What is it?

                             TRINITY
                 A deja vu is usually a glitch in
                 the Matrix. It happens when they
                 change something.

     She also listens as the staccato BEAT of HELICOPTER
     BLADES GROW ominously LOUDER.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Tank sees what was changed.

                             TANK
                 It's a trap!


     INT. STAIRCASE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Morpheus looks up the stairs as a helicopter shadow
     passes over the clouded glass.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Come on!


     INT. ROOM 1313 (MATRIX) - DAY

     Cable goes to the draped windows.

                             CABLE
                 Did you just feel something weird?

                             MOUSE
                 Yeah...

     The CELLULAR RINGS.


     INT. BASEMENT (MATRIX) - DAY

     Heavy bolt-cutters snap through the main phone cable.


     INT. ROOM 1313 (MATRIX) - DAY

     Mouse answers the phone.

                             MOUSE
                 What's going on?

                             TANK (V.O.)
                 They cut the hard-line! It's a
                 trap! Get out!

     Cable yanks open the curtain.

                             CABLE
                 Oh, no.

     The windows are bricked up.


     INT. HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     The door to the roof explodes open as heavily-armed rnen
     rush towards room 1313.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Tank watches helplessly.

                             TANK
                 No, no, no.


     INT. ROOM 1313 (MATRIX) - DAY

     The door slams open and the police force pours in, dozens
     of assault rifles surrounding Mouse and Cable who are
     armed with only handguns.

                             CABLE
                 Morpheus! It's a trap --


     INT. STAIRS (MATRIX) - DAY

     Morpheus stops as the scream is drowned by the REPORT of
     MACHINE GUNS filling the building with a terrible fury.

                             TRINITY
                 Oh, God.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Mouse's body thrashes against its harness as --


     INT. ROOM 1313 (MATRIX) - DAY

     BULLETS POUND him against the blood-splattered brick
     window. Gun smoke thickens the room, Cable blasting and
     moving until --

     The HAMMER CLICKS empty. He screams as a DOZEN GUNS OPEN
     FIRE, ripping him apart.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Blood spits from Cable's mouth, his body spasming, then
     lying perfectly still.

     The flat-line ALARM softly cries out from the life
     MONITORS of the two dead men.


     EXT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

     More police cars arrive as cops break open the lobby
     doors.


     INT. STAIRWELL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Flying downstairs, Morpheus stops, hearing the police
     swarming below. He turns and rushes down the hall of the
     eighth floor. At the end of it, he finds the bricked-up
     windows.

                             CYPHER
                 That's what they changed. We're
                 trapped. There's no way out.

     The sound of heavy BOOT-STEPS close around them with the
     mechanical sureness of a vice.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Give me your phone.

                             TRINITY
                 They'll be able to track it.

                             MORPHEUS
                 We have no choice.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Tank answers the call.

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

     His fingers pound the keyboard.


     INT. LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

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


     INT. MAIN DECK

     The diagram windows onto the screen.

                             TANK
                 Got it.

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


     INT. HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Agent Smith pauses, his hand going to his earpiece.


     INT. ROOM 808 (MATRIX) - DAY

     Morpheus is guided by Tank.

                             TANK (V.O.)
                 Now left and that's it in front of
                 you.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Good.

     He cuts off the phone.


     INT. HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Agent Smith hears the LINE CLICK dead.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Eighth floor. They're on the
                 eighth floor.


     INT. HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Agent Brown hears Smith on his earphone.

                             AGENT BROWTJ
                 Eighth floor! Move!


     INT. STAIRWELL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Cops flood the eighth floor, rushing everywhere.


     INT. ROOM 808 (MATRIX) - DAY

     Several cops sweep through the room. It is empty. As
     they pass the bathroom, we see a man-sized hole smashed
     through the plaster and lathe.


     INT. WALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     They are inside the main plumbing wall, slowly worming
     their way down the greasy, black stack pipes.

     Above them, light fills the hole they made to get inside.

     INT. HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Brown turns to Smith.

                             AGENT BROWN
                 Where are they?


     INT. ROOM 608 (MATRIX) - DAY

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


     INT. WALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Cypher has slipped and is wedged between the wall and
     several thick supply pipes.


     INT. ROOM 608 (MATRIX) - DAY

     The Cop leans in, his ear almost against the thin
     membrane of plaster separating them. He can hear
     WHISPERS, HISSES and a GRUNT when --

     The WALL suddenly bulges, SHATTER-CRACKING as the Cop
     realizes --

                             COP
                 They're in the walls!


     INT. WALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Neo pulls Cypher free just as the Cop OPENS FIRE --

     BULLETS PUNCHING shafts of light like swords into the box
     of soot-black space.


     INT. ROOM 608 (MATRIX) - DAY

     The Cop keeps FIRING, his flashlight strapped to his gun
     barrel, lighting up the wall until --

     A BULLET spits out his forehead. Agent Smith watches the
     BODY fall with a THUD.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Are orders that hard to follow?
                 I'll say it again. Morpheus must
                 be taken alive. Understand?


     INT. WALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     They're almost falling, they're climbing so fast.

     Above them, plaster is smashed open as crunbling bits
     shower down on them, filling the crawlway with dust.


     INT. ROOM 608 (MATRIX) - DAY

     Agent Smith looks into the open wall, at the exposed
     intestines of the building, and realizes where they are
     going.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 How like a rodent.


     INT. WALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Just below, a RIFLE-BUTT SMASHES open the WALL, light
     raking across the lathe.

                             COP
                 I got him! I got him!

     Trinity finds her gun first. BULLET-HOLES POP out the
     WALL as she STRAFES the room, sending cops diving for
     cover.

     They continue, Trinity exposed for a roment, when a
     creeping cop smashes a fist through and grabs a fistful
     of her hair.

     He starts to yank her out when Neo kicks, his boot
     bursting through plaster and splintering lathe, knocking
     the Cop out.

     They then quickly sink out of sight.


     INT. BASEMENT (MATRIX) - DAY

     This part of the basement, a dark concrete cavern, was
     the main mechanical room. There are four enormous
     boilers, dinosaur-like technology that once pumped hot
     water like arteries.

     Black and bloody, they squeeze out from the ceiling into
     the tangled web of pipes.

     Their enemies are waiting for them.

     Blinding lights cut open the darkness as gas-masked
     figures FIRE GRENADE LAUNCHERS.

     Smoke blossoms from the green-metal canisters.

     Morpheus never stops moving. Searching the floor, he
     finds what.he needs; the cover of the catch basin.

     Cypher watches him pry open the grate, when a gas can
     bounces near him.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Come on!

     Cypher seems to trip as the cloud envelops him.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Cypher's body begins to shiver uncontrollably.

                             TANK
                 Nerve gas.


     INT. BASEMENT (MATRIX) - DAY

     Morpheus watches Cypher disappear into the smoke then
     follows the others down the wet-black hole.


     INT. CATCH BASIN (MATRIX) - DAY

     They crawl through greasy black water in a three foot
     diameter pipe that feeds into the sewer main.


     INT. BASEMENT (MATRIX) - DAY

     Gas-masked apparitions find the open hole.


     EXT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Cypher is carried out, hand-cuffed, his body still
     shaking, mucus bubbling out his nose. As he is led past
     Agent Smith, it almost seems that both men smile.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 We have them now.


     INT. SEWER MAIN (MATRIX) - DAY

     Neo punches out the screen and then spills down into the
     main water trough.

     Oily water forms around them as they wade across the man-
     made underground river, towards the service catwalk.

     Neo is about to pull himself out when he sees them coming.

     Flashlights and laser sites sweep at them as cops in
     helmets and heavy armor, looking more nachine than human,
     fill both ends of the tunnel.

     There is a single manhole cover above them.

     Morpheus whispers to Trinity.

                             MORPHEUS
                 You have to get Neo out.
                 Understand? That's all that
                 matters now.

                             TRINITY
                 Morpheus, don't --

                             MORPHEUS
                 He must get out. Do you
                 understand me?

     She nods.

     A font of water erupts as Morpheus leaps for the manhole
     ladder, his coat flying open like the wings of a manta
     ray.

                             COPS
                 There he is! That's him!

     Pools of light wash over him as he hauls himself to the
     surface.

                             COP
                 He's heading for the street!

     Trinity urges the others to follow her. Grabbing Neo,
     they wade quietly away from the chaos.


     EXT. STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

     Morpheus shoots out of the sewer but the police are
     waiting for him. The closest cop is armed with a
     tranquilized gun. He fires --

     But Morpheus' is too fast, using the manhole cover as a
     shield, blocking the darts, then --

     Frisbee-ing it into the cop's armored chest, knocking him
     off his feet.

     The cops lunge at him but every part of his body is a
     deadly weapon moving with impossible speed.

     It seems he might fight his way out when he throws a
     spinning back fist that is caught by --

     Agent Smith.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 So, we meet at last.

                             MORPHEUS
                 And you are?

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Smith. I am Agent Smith.

                             MORPHEUS
                 You all look the same to me.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 I've been waiting for this noment.

     Faster than a snake spits, Morpheus cracks Smith with a
     jaw-breaking right.

                       MORPHEUS
                 Oh, so have I.

     Agent Smith smiles.


     INT. SEWER MAIN (MATRIX) - DAY

     Trinity leads the others, fading into the darkness of the
     tunnel, lit only with shafts of lights streaming through
     the street drains as we RISE TOWARDS them --

     THROUGH a grate INTO the fight.


     EXT. STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

     Smith and Morpheus exchange a furious serious of blows
     that is witnessed but not believed by the surrounding
     police.

     Agent Smith delivers a punishing kick that staggers
     Morpheus.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 You can't win.

     Morpheus smiles.

                             MORPHEUS
                 I already have.

     He stands up and drops his fists; a steely resolve in his
     eyes.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Take him.

     Cops swarm over Morpheus.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Tank reaches out to the screen as if reaching for
     Morpheus.

                             TANK
                 No!


     EXT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Cuff ed and beaten, Morpheus is thrown into a caged
     transport vehicle. The DOOR CLANGS shut.

     Agent Jones finds Agent Smith.

                             AGENT JONES
                 The others were lost.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 You've taken care of Reagan?

     Agent Jones nods.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Then the others do not matter.


     EXT. STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

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

     Neo, Trinity, Switch and Apoc climb out. Trinity pulls a
     water-logged phone from her pocket.

                             TRINITY
                 We need a phone.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Tank is again at the monitors, searching the Matrix.

                             TANK
                 We gotta find the others. They're
                 still alive.

     The PHONE RINGS.

                             TANK
                 Operator.

                             CYPHER (V.O.)
                 I need an exit! Fast!

                             TANK
                 Cypher? I thought they had you?


     EXT. STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

     Cypher is standing at a public phone. Across the street
     is the burning paddy wagon that appears to have collided
     witli an oncoming car.

                             CYPHER
                 There was an accident. A fucking
                 car accident. All of a sudden.
                 Boom. They're all dead. I still
                 got the shakes but, Jesus,
                 someone's going to make a believer
                 out of me.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Dozer spots the wreck.

                             DOZER
                 There he is.

                             TANK
                 I got you.

                             CYPHER (V.O.)
                 Just get me outta here.


     EXT. STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

                             TANK (V.O.)
                 Nearest exit is Franklin and Erie.
                 An old appliance store.

     Cypher hangs up and smiles as the fire trucks arrive.

                             CYPHER
                 An actor. Definitely.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     The PHONE RINGS. Tank answers.

                             TANK
                 Operator.

                             TRINITY (V.O.)
                 Tank, it's me.


     EXT. STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

     They are outside a pawn shop. Trinity has a new cellular.

                             TRINITY
                 We need an exit!

                             TANK (V.O.)
                 Gotcha. You're not far from
                 Cypher.

                             TRINITY
                 Cypher, I thought --

                             TANK (V.O.)
                 So did we. That boy's got nine
                 lives. I sent him to Franklin and
                 Erie.

                             TRINITY
                 Got it.

     She hangs up.


     EXT. STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

     Running, Cypher turns onto Erie.


     INT. APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Dead machines, eviscerated and shrouded with dust lay on
     metal shelves like bodies in a morgue.

     Plywood covering a small window is ripped off and Cypher
     crawls inside.

     Deep in the back room, a PHONE that has not rung in years
     begins to RING.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Tank punches the emit command.

                             TANK
                 Got him.

     Cypher's body twitches in its harness, jerking itself
     awake. His eyes blink open. Dozer unplugs him.

                             DOZER
                 System check looks fine.

     Cypher stands, a raspy cough spewing from his lungs.


     EXT. STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

     Trinity sees the appliance shop.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Cypher holds his chest.

                             DOZER
                 You okay?

                             CYPHER
                 Goddamn gas. My lungs are killing
                 me.

     He crosses to an overhead bin.

                             CYPHER
                 We got any pain killers?

                             DOZER
                 The first aid kit's over here.

     As Dozer stoops for a cabinet, Cypher pulls back a heavy
     blanket exposing a plasma rifle.


     INT. APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Neo crawls through the window that Cypher opened.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Tank finishes loading the exit programs as Cypher rises
     behind him, swinging the weapon at his back.

     He looks over as Dozer turns with the first aid kit, a
     look of frozen disbelief crossing his face --

                             DOZER
                 No!

     Tank spins as red hot wads of PLASMA EXPLODE through his
     chair and into his back. Diving, a second BURST tears up
     his side --

     As Dozer shoots a look at the monitor where Tank was
     working. He stabs the enter command activating the exit
     sequence and ducks under a BARRAGE of PLASMA FIRE-


     INT. APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY

     The PHONE begins to RING as the others crawl in.

                             SWITCH
                 God, I love that sound.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Dozer rolls up, grabbing a heavy crowbar from a box of
     tools.

     Cypher circles the drive chairs as the sights of the
     plasma rifle find Dozer's face.

     Dozer charges, screaming, and the PLASMA RIFLE SCREAMS
     back.


     INT. APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY

     The PHONE is still RINGING.

                             TRINITY
                 You first,.Neo.

     Neo answers the phone when there is a CLICK. There is no
     signal. Nothing but silence.

                             TRINITY
                 What happened?

                             NEO
                 I don't know. It just went dead.

     Trinity listens to the dead line and takes out the
     cellular.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     The operator PHONE begins to RING- Cypher steps over the
     body of Tank and looks at the monitor.


     INT. APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Trinity can almost feel him watching them. Every
     unanswered RING wrings her gut a little tighter, until --

                             CYPHER (V.O.)
                 Hello, Trinity.

                             TRINITY
                 Cypher? Where's Tank?

                             CYPHER (V.O.)
                 He had an accident.

                             TRINITY
                 An accident? What about Dozer?
                 Is Dozer there?


     INT. MAIN DECK

     He walks over to Trinity's body, staring down at it
     hanging in its coma-like stillness.

                             CYPHER
                 You know, for a long time, I
                 thought I was in love with you,
                 Trinity. I used to dream about
                 you...

     He nuzzles his face against hers, feeling the softness of
     it.

                             CYPHER
                 You are a beautiful woman. Too
                 bad things had to work out like
                 this.

     We INTERCUT BETWEEN the appliance store and the main
     deck.

                             TRINITY
                 You killed them.

                             APOC
                 What?!

                             SWITCH
                 Oh God.

     Wearing Tank's operator headgear, Cypher moves among the
     silent bodies.

                             CYPHER
                 In a way you're very lucky. Most
                 people never know why they die.
                 One minute they're alive, the next
                 they're dead. No warning.
                 Nothing. That's why I thought
                 maybe I should tell you. It
                 seemed the least I could do.

     He stands over the body of Morpheus, as his anger boils
     up out of him.

                             CYPHER
                 You see, the truth, the real,truth
                 is that the war is over. It's
                 been over for a long time. And
                 guess what? We lost! Did you
                 hear that? We lost the war!

                             TRINITY
                 What about Zion?

                             CYPHER
                 Zion? Zion is a part of this
                 delusion. More of this madness.
                 That's why this has to be done.
                 It has to end. Now and forever.

     She suddenly sees the entire dark plan.

                             TRINITY
                 Oh rny God. This is abzut Zion.
                 You gave them Morpheus for the
                 access codes to Zion.

     Cypher walks away from Morpheus and bends down next to
     Apoc's body.

                             CYPHER
                 You see, Trinity, we humans have a
                 place in the future. But it's not
                 here. It's in the Matrix.

                             TRINITY
                 The Matrix isn't real!

                             CYPHER
                 Oh, I disagree, Trinity. I
                 disagree. I think the Matrix is
                 more real than this world. I
                 mean, all I do is pull a plug
                 here. But there, you watch a man
                 die.

     He grabs hold of the cable in Apoc's neck, twists it and
     yanks it out.

                             CYPHER
                 You tell me which is more real.

     Apoc seems to go blind for an instant, a scream caught in
     his throat, his hands reaching for nothing, and then
     falls dead. Switch screams.

                             CYPHER
                 Welcome to the real world, right?

     He laughs.

                             TRINITY
                 Somehow, some way, you're going to
                 pay for this.

                             CYPHER
                 Pay for it? I'm not even going to
                 remember it. It'll be like it
                 never happened. The tree falling
                 in the forest. It doesn't make a
                 sound.

     His hand slides around the neck of Switch as he takes
     hold of her plug.

     She suddenly feels her body severed from her mind as she
     is murdered.

                             TRINITY
                 Goddamn you, Cypher!

                             CYPHER
                 Don't hate me, Trinity. I'm just
                 the messenger. And right now I'm
                 going to prove that the message is
                 true.

     He stands over Neo.

                             CYPHER
                 If Morpheus was right, then
                 there's no way I can pull this
                 plug, is there?

     She turns to Neo, eyes wide with fear, and he knows he is
     next.

                             CYPHER
                 If he is the One, then in the next
                 few seconds there has to be some
                 kind of miracle to stop me.
                 Because if he dies like the others
                 that means Morpheus was wrong.
                 How can he be the One if he's
                 dead?

     He takes hold of the cord when --

     She hears an EXPLOSION and a scream.

     Cypher is on the ground, his left leg blown off at the
     knee. He rolls over and finds Tank on the ground, and
     the sights of the plasma rifle.

                             TANK
                 How's it feel, Cypher? Knowing
                 you're about to die?

                             NEO
                 It's Tank! He's alive.

     Cypher lunges for Neo's plug just as Tank BLOWS his head
     off.


     INT. APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY

     They're both listening, trying to figure out what is
     happening when the store PHONE starts to RING.

     Trinity smiles, tears moistening her eyes as Neo throws
     his arms around her. For a moment, it looks as if they
     might kiss before Trinity lets go.

                             TRINITY
                 We should, we should hurry.

                             NEO
                 Yeah. Right.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Trinity's eyes open, a sense of relief surging through
     her at the sight of the ship. As Tank unplugs her, she
     sees his charred wounds.

                             TRINITY
                 Tank, you're hurt.

                             TANK
                 I'll be all right.

                             TRINITY
                 Dozer?

     Tank's face tightens.

                             TRINITY
                 I'm sorry, Tank.


     EXT. NIKO HOTEL (MATRIX) - DAY

     A Japanese luxury hotel in downtown Chicago.

     A military helicopter sets down on the roof. Heavily
     armed Marines begin to deploy.

     Agent Jones gets out of the helicopter, flanked by
     columns of Marines. They open the roof access door
     and enter the top-floor maintenance level of the hotel.


     INT. TOP FLOOR (MATRIX) - DAY

     They get in the elevator. At every door, at least two
     Marines stop and post guard.


     INT. HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     They exit the elevator and walk to the Presidential
     suite; the final two Marines post guard.


     INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Inside, he finds Agent Smith.

                             AGENT JONES
                 There is a problem. Reagan has
                 failed to secure the hardware.

     Agent Smith stares out the window.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Never send a human to do a
                 machine's job.

                             AGENT JONES
                 But if Reagan has failed, why
                 haven't they pulled the plug?

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Haven't you learned by now, that
                 it is impossible to understand why
                 they do the things they do?

     He turns.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Continue as planned. Trace his
                 signal to locate their position
                 and deploy an extermination unit.

     Morpheus is handcuffed to a chair, stripped to the waist.
     He is bleeding from numerous wounds and is pumped full of
     serum, alternately shivering and sweating. He is hooked
     up to various monitors with white disk electrodes.

     Agent Brown begins running a trace program.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Neo looks at Morpheus whose body is covered with a cold
     sweat.

                             NEO
                 What are they doing to him?

                             TANK
                 They're cracking his mind.

                             NEO
                 How?

                             TANK
                 They inject virus-like serums to
                 break down the system. It's like
                 cracking a computer. All it takes
                 is time.

                             NEO
                 How much time?

                             TANK
                 Depends on the mind. But
                 eventually, it will crack and his
                 alpha pattern will change from
                 this to this.

     Tank punches several commands on Morpheus' personal unit.
     The monitor waves change from a chaotic pattern to an
     orderly symmetrical one.

                             TANK
                 When it does, Morpheus will tell
                 them anything they want to know.

                             NEO
                 The access codes to Zion.

                             TANK
                 If an agent got inside Zion's
                 mainframe he could do anything.
                 Disable the defense system. It
                 would be the end of us.

     He looks up at Trinity who is pacing relentlessly.

                             TANK
                 We can't let that happen. We have
                 to do it, Trinity. Zion has to be
                 protected.

     Trinity sees Cypher's dead body. Rage overtakes her and
     she starts kicking hin.

                             TRINITY
                 Goddamnit! Goddamnit!

                             TANK
                 We have to pull the plug.

                             TRINITY
                 No!

                             TANK
                 We don't have any other choice.

     Those words are like using gasoline to put out a fire and
     we watch the pain in her eyes burn into a blaze. She
     walks past him and gets into her chair.

                             TANK
                 Trinity, what are you doing?

                             TRINITY
                 I'm going in after him.

                             TANK
                 Morpheus could conform at any
                 minute --

                             TRINITY
                 If he does I'm sure you'll do what
                 has to be done.

                             TANK
                 You saw that place. It's suicide.

     She glares at him.

                             TANK
                 I know what Morpheus means to
                 you --

                             TRINITY
                 No. No, I don't think you do. If
                 you did, then you would know that
                 I'm not letting him go. Not
                 without a fight, Tank.

     She yanks her harness tight.

                             TRINITY
                 Not without a fight.


     INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Agent Smith stands in the bedroon of the enormous suite,
     staring out the windows at the city, below, shimmering
     with brilliant sunlight.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Have you ever stood and stared at
                 it, Morpheus? Marveled at its
                 beauty. Its genius. Billions of
                 people just living out their
                 lives... oblivious.

     Agent Brown sucks a serum from a glass vial, filling a
     hypodermic needle.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Did you know that the first Matrix
                 was designed to be a perfect human
                 world? Where none suffered, where
                 everyone would be happy. It was a
                 disaster. No one would accept the
                 program. Entire crops were lost.

     Agent Brown jams the needle into Morpheus' shoulder, and
     plunges down.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Some believed we lacked the
                 programming language to describe
                 your perfect world. But I believe
                 that, as a species, human beings
                 define their reality through
                 suffering and misery.

     Agent Brown studies the screens as the life signs react
     violently to the injection.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 The perfect world was a dream that
                 your primitive cerebrum kept
                 trying to wake up from. Which is
                 why the Matrix was re-designed to
                 this: the peak of your
                 civilization.

     He turns from the window.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 I say 'your civilization' because
                 as soon as we start thinking for
                 you, it really becomes our
                 civilization, which is, of course,
                 what this is all about.

     He sits down directly in front of Morpheus.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Evolution, Morpheus. Evolution.

     He lifts Morpheus' head.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Like the dinosaur. Look out that
                 window. You had your time.

     Morpheus stares hard at him, trying hard not to show the
     pain racking his mind.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 The future is our world, Morpheus.
                 The future is our time.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Neo goes to his chair and begins strapping in.

                             TRINITY
                 What do you think you're doing?

                             NEO
                 You need help. I'm coming with
                 you.

                             TRINITY
                 No. No way. Morpheus sacrificed
                 himself so you could escape.
                 There's no way you're going back
                 in.

                             NEO
                 Morpheus did what he did because
                 he believed that I'm something
                 that I'm not.

                             TRINITY
                 What?

                             NEO
                 I'm not the One, Trinity. The
                 Oracle told me.

     Trinity is stunned.

                             NEO
                 She said I had a gift but I still
                 had a lot to learn. She told me
                 maybe next life.

                             TRINITY
                 Did you tell Morpheus?

                             NEO
                 Why? It wouldn't mean anything.
                 He'd still believe what he wanted
                 to believe. But Morpheus is the
                 one that matters. He's more
                 important than me and we both know
                 it.

     He straps in.

                             NEO
                 I may not be what Morpheus thinks
                 I am, but if I don't try to help
                 him, then I'm not even what I
                 think I am.

                             TRINITY
                 What are you?

                             NEO
                 His friend.

     INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Agent Smith sits casually across from Morpheus who is
     hunched over, his body leaking and twitching.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 I'd like to share a revelation
                 that I've had during my time here.
                 It came to me when I tried to
                 classify your species. I've
                 realized that you are not actually
                 mammals.

     The life signs continue their chaotic patterns.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Every mammal on this planet
                 instinctively develops a natural
                 equilibrium with the surrounding
                 environment. But you humans do
                 not. You move to an area and you
                 multiply and multiply until every
                 natural resource is consumed and
                 the only way you can survive is to
                 spread to another area.

     He leans forward.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 There is another organism on this
                 planet that follows the same
                 pattern. Do you know what it is?
                 A virus.

     He smiles.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Human beings are a disease, a
                 cancer of this planet. You are a
                 plague. And we are... the cure.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Trinity and Neo hang motionless in the suspension unit.
     Tank is at the operations station.

                             TANK
                 Okay. Store's open. What do you
                 need?

                             TRINITY (V.O.)
                 Guns. Lots of guns.

                             TANK
                 Coming right up.

     He loads the weapons disk.


     INT. CONSTRUCT

     Racks of weapons appear and Neo and Trinity arm
     themselves.

                             TRINITY
                 No one has ever done anything like
                 this.

                             NEO
                 Yeah?

     He snap cocks an Uzi.

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

     INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Agent Smith is again at the window.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Why isn't the serum working?

                             AGENT BROWN
                 Perhaps we are asking the wrong
                 questions.

                             AGENT JONES
                 Or he doesn't know.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Of course he knows. He's
                 resisting.

                             AGENT BROWN
                 How?

                             AGENT SMITH
                 I don't know. If I knew...

     Agent Smith hides his knotting fist. He is becoming
     angry. It is something that isn't supposed to happen to
     agents.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Leave me with him.

     Agent Brown and Jones look at each other.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Now!

     INT. MAIN DECK

     Tank sits down beside Morpheus whose face is ashen like
     someone near death. He takes hold of his hand.

                             TANK
                 Hold on, Morpheus. They're coming
                 for you. They're coming.


     EXT. NIKO HOTEL (MATRIX) - DAY

     A dark wind blows.


     INT. NIKO HOTEL (MATRIX) - DAY

     In long, black coats, Trinity and Neo push through the
     revolving doors.

     Neo is carrying a duffel bag. Trinity has a large metal
     suitcase. They cut across the lobby drawing nervous
     glances.

     Dark glasses, game faces.

     Several plainclothes cops try to stop them. They are met
     by the MUTED SPIT of a SILENCED GUN and the RAZORED
     WHISTLE of THROWING STARS.

     The cops slump down to the marbled floor while Neo and
     Trinity do not even break stride.


     INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Agent Smith leans close to Morpheus, whispering to him.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Can you hear me, Morpheus? I'm
                 going to be honest with you.

     He removes his earphone, letting it dangle over his
     shoulder.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 I hate this place. This zoo.
                 This prison. This reality,
                 whatever you want to call it, I
                 can't stand it any longer. It's
                 the smell, if there is such a
                 thing. I feel saturated by it. I
                 can taste your stink and every
                 time I do, I fear that I've
                 somehow been infected by it.

     He wipes sweat from Morpheus' forehead, coating the tips
     of his fingers, holding them to Morpheus' nose.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Repulsive, isn't it?

     He lifts Morpheus' head, holding it tightly with both
     hands.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 I must get out of here, I must get
                 free. In this mind is tlie key.
                 My key.

     Morpheus sneers through his pain.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Once Zion is gone, there's no
                 need for me to be here. Do you
                 understand? I need the codes. I
                 have to get inside Zion. You have
                 to tell me how.

     He begins squeezing, his fingers gouging into his flesh.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Tell me! Tell me!

     The skull is about to shatter when Agents Jones and Brown
     burst into the room. Agent Smith releases Morpheus.

                             AGENT BROWN
                 What were you doing?

     Agent Smith recovers, replacing his ear piece.

                             AGENT JONES
                 You don't know.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Know what?

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


     INT. ELEVATORS (MATRIX) - DAY

     They get in. Trinity immediately drops and opens the
     suitcase, wiring a plastique and napalm bomb.

     Beneath their trench coats is an arsenal of weapons slung
     from climbing harnesses.

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


     INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Agent Jones looks at Morpheus.

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


     INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT (MATRIX) - DAY

     Neo ratchets down a clamp onto the elevator cable. Both
     of them lock on. He looks up the long, dark throat of
     the building and takes a deep breath.

                             NEO
                 There is no spoon.

     Neo whips out his gun and presses it to the cable, lower
     than where they attached themselves.

     BOOM! The CABLE SNAPS.

     The counter-weights plummet, yanking Trinity and Neo up
     through the shaft as --

     The elevator falls away beneath them, distending space,
     filling it with the sound of WHISTLING METAL as they soar
     to the top.


     INT. LOBBY (MATRIX) - DAY

     The ELEVATOR hits the botton.

     BA-BOOM!

     The massive EXPLOSION blows open the doors, fire clouds
     engulfing the elevator section of the lobby.


     INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

     The Agents hear the BLAST AND FIRE ALARMS.

                             AGENT JONES
                 Lower level --

                             AGENT BROWN
                 They are actually attacking.


     INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT (MATRIX) - DAY

     Hanging by a rope, Trinity hot-wires the panel for the
     door.


     INT. TOP FLOOR (MATRIX) - DAY

     Nervous, the Marines watch as the ELEVATOR "DINGS" softly
     and slides open.

     Black smoke rises out of the exposed shaft.

     The nearest Marine eases to the edge, peering down at the
     churning blaze engulfing the lower levels.

     He does not see Trinity and Neo above him until it is too
     late.

     Krack! Neo kicks, knocking the Marine flying down into
     the shaft.

     Before the others can react, Trinity flips out into the
     hall, decking the nearest Marine. Neo cracks another.

     The fight is over before it begins.


     INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

     An enormous EXPLOSION THUNDERS above them, shaking the
     building. The ALARM SOUNDS, emergency sprinklers begin
     showering the room.

     Agent Smith smashes a table.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Find them and destroy them!

     Agent Jones nods and touches his ear piece.


     EXT. ROOF (MATRIX) - DAY

     The roof-access tower is now engulfed in flames as Neo
     and Trinity lay waste to a dozen more Marines.

     Guns and knives, like extensions of their bodies used
     with the same deadly precision as their feet and their
     fists.

     Across the roof, the pilot inside the army helicopter
     watches the ferocious onslaught.

                             PILOT
                 I repeat, we are under attack!

     Suddenly his face, his whole body dissolves, consumed by
     spreading locust-like swarm, of STATIC as --

     Agent Jones emerges.

     Just as she drops the last Marine, Trinity sees what's
     coming.

     Neo sees her, the fear in her face, and he knows what is
     behind him.

     Screaming, he whirls, GUNS filling his hands with
     thought-speed.

     Fingers PUMPING, SHELLS ejecting, dancing up and away, we
     look through the sights and gun smoke at --

     The Agent blurred with motion --

     Until the HAMMERS CLICK against empty metal.

                             NEO
                 Trinity!

     Agent Jones charges.

                             NEO
                 ... help.

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

     Bullet-time.

     The AIR SIZZLES with wads of lead-like angry flies as Neo
     twists, bends, ducks just between them.

     Agent Jones still running, narrows the gap, the BULLETS
     coming faster until --

     Neo bent impossibly back, one hand on the ground as a
     spiraling gray ball shears open his shoulder.

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

     He has only time to look up, to see the barrel when Agent
     Jones, standing over him, pulls the TRIGGER the final
     time.

     CLICK. Empty.

     Neo rolls, reaching for another gun when around-house
     kick snaps his jaw. Agent Jones grabs the gun and levels
     it at Neo.

                             AGENT JONES
                 Only human...

     Suddenly Agent Jones stops. Something is wrong. He
     scans the roof. Trinity is gone.

     Immediately, he whirls around and turns straight into the
     muzzle of her .45 --

     Jammed right into his head.

                             TRINITY
                 Dodge this, motherfucker!

     BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! The body flies back with a flash of
     mercurial light and when it hits the ground --

     It is the pilot.

     Trinity helps Neo up.

                             NEO
                 Thanks.

                             TRINITY
                 You're hit --

                             NEO
                 I'm fine.

     Neo is already looking at the helicopter.

                             NEO
                 Can you fly that thing?

                             TRINITY
                 Not yet.

     She pulls out a cellular phone.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     Tank is back at the controls.

                             TANK
                 Operator.

                             TRINITY (V.O.)
                 Tank, I need a pilot program for a
                 military M-109 helicopter.

     Tank is immediately searching the disk drawers.

                             TRINITY (V.O.)
                 Hurry!

     His fingers flash over the gleaming laser disks, finding
     one that he feeds into Trinityls supplement drive,
     punching the "load" cormands on her keyboard.


     EXT. ROOF (MATRIX) - DAY

     Trinity's eyes flutter as information surges into her
     brain, all the essentials of flying a helicopter absorbed
     at light-speed.

                             TRINITY
                 Let's go.


     INT. HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Marines, trying to communicate with the men on the roof,
     are beginning to panic when Agent Jones comes around the
     corner.

                             SERGEANT
                 Sir! Sir! There was gunfire --
                 we've lost communication with the
                 roof!

                             AGENT JONES
                 Remain at your posts.

                             SERGEANT
                 But, sir -- the fire -- we should
                 evacuate!

                             AGENT JONES
                 You will do as you are ordered!

                             SERGEANT
                 Yes, sir.

     Agent Jones marches into the Presidential Suite.


     INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

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

     Over the RUSHING WATER and the ALARMS, Agent Smith hears
     a SOUND and understands the seriousness of the attack.

     He turns to the wall of windows as the helicopter drops
     INTO VIEW --

     Neo is in the back bay, aiming the mounted .50 machine
     gun.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 No.

     The GUN jumps and BULLETS EXPLODE through the WINDOW in a
     cacophony of CRASHING GLASS --

     As the Agents go for their weapons.

     But Neo is too close, the .50 CALIBER too fast and
     BULLETS are everywhere, perforating the room.

     Agent Smith is hit first, his body jack-knifing back,
     blood arcing out with a sudden flash of light --

     Then Agent Brown, his GUN still FIRING as his body falls.

     And finally Agent Jones.

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

                             NEO
                 Get up, Morpheus! Get up!

     Morpheus sits unmoving, his head still down.

     Neo grabs the climbing rope just as marines burst into
     the adjoining room.

     He attaches only one end to his harness when they OPEN
     FIRE.

     Quickly he swings the GUN, SPRAYING the other room,
     WINDOWS SHATTERING, FURNITURE EXPLODING, marines diving
     for cover.


     INT. HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Just outside the Presidential Suite, three marines
     blister with snow-static.


     INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

     Morpheus lifts his face into the room's rain. His eyes,
     still white, begin to blink, twitch, then close.

     And when he opens them, they are again dark and flashing
     with fire.

     The Agents knife into the room, FIRING even as Neo's
     BULLET TRAILS chase them.

     Morpheus strains at his handcuffs.

     The Agents and the marines turn the tide, BLASTING LEAD,
     RICOCHETING, POCK-MARKING the COPTER.

     FIRING wildly, Neo turns to see Morpheus rising, snapping
     the handcuffs, starting for the window.

     Agent Smith stops and sees Morpheus run past the open
     bedroom door.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Nooo!

     He FIRES, sweeping across the sheetrocked wall in a
     perfect line.

     For an instant, we see the BULLETS SHRED, PUNCTURING the
     WALL, searing through the wet air with jet trails of
     chalk.

     And as Morpheus starts to dive for the window, a bullet
     buries itself in his leg --

     Knocking him off balance.

                             NEO
                 He won't make it.

     Morpheus lunges, out of control --

     As Neo spins, every move a whip crack --

     Snapping the other rope-end onto a bolted bar.

     Morpheus begins to fall when Neo hurls himself into the
     wide blue empty space --

     Flying for a moment.

     The rope snaking out behind him; an umbilical cord
     attached to a machine.

     As their two bodies, set in motion, rushing at each other
     on a seemingly magnetic course until --

     They collide.

     Almost bouncing free of each other, arms, legs,
     scrambling, hands searching in furious desperation,
     finding hold and clinging.

     Until the line ends, snapping taut, cracking their
     fragile embrace. Morpheus tumbles, legs flipping over,
     falling down --

     The ground deliriously distant --

     As Neo snatches hold of his mentor's still handcuffed
     wrist.

                             NEO
                 Gotcha!

     Trinity is already pulling the copter up and away.

     As Agent Smith grabs the M-16 from the nearest marine.

     He'll bring them all down. Targeting the helicopter, he
     aims at something only he can see: the oil line.

     PONK. PONK. PONK. The rear HULL is PUNCHED full of
     holes and smoke and oil pours out like black blood.

                             TRINITY
                 Shit-shit-no!

     Neo is pulling Morpheus up to him when he hears the
     HELICOPTER BEGIN TO DIE.

                             NEO
                 Oh fuck.

     Trinity throws the helicopter towards the roof of the
     nearest building.

     Morpheus and Neo cling to one another as they and the
     machine above them begin to fall.

     The ENGINE GRINDS, the CHOPPING BLADES start to slow
     while --

     The Agents stand in the open shattered window, watching
     the helicopter disappear behind taller buildings.

     Carried by its nomentum, Trinity guides the parabolic
     fall over the nearest roof where --

     Neo and Morpheus drop safely, rolling free as the rope
     goes slack. Neo gets to his feet, trying to detach
     himself but --

     The helicopter is falling too fast, arcing over the roof
     like a setting sun --

     The coils of slack snap taught --

     Yanking Neo off his feet, dragging him with ferocious
     speed towards the edge even as --

     Trinity lunges for the back door, her gun in one hand,
     grabbing for the rope with the other --

     Neo flies like a skipping stone, hurtling straight AT us,
     when his feet hit the rain gutter --

     A fulcrum that levers him up just as --

     Trinity FIRES, severing the cord from the HELICOPTER,
     falling free of it as it SMASHES, blades first into a
     glass skyscraper.

     Holding onto the rope she swings, connected to Neo, who
     stands on the building's edge watching her arc beneath
     him as the HELICOPTER EXPLODES --

     She bounces against a shatterproof window that spider-
     cracks out while FLAMES ERUPT behind her.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     Tank stares at the screen, his mouth agape.

                             TANK
                 He's the One. He's got to be...


     EXT. ROOFTOP (MATRIX) - DAY

     Neo pulls Trinity up into his arms. Both shaking, they
     hold each other again.

                             MORPHEUS
                 I knew it! I goddamn knew it!

                             TRINITY
                 Morpheus!

     She runs at him, throwing her arms around him.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Do you believe me now? He's the
                 One! Who else could have done
                 this?

                             NEO
                 Morpheus, I know you won't believe
                 me but the Oracle told ne I'm not
                 the One.

                             MORPHEUS
                 It doesn't matter if I don't
                 believe you --

     His eyes light up.

                             MORPHEUS
                 What matters is that you don't
                 believe her.


     INT. MAIN DECK

     The PHONE RINGS.

                             TRINITY (V.O.)
                 Tank, get us out of here.

                             TANK
                 Got one ready. An underground El
                 station. State and Balbo.

                             TRINITY (V.O.)
                 See ya soon.

     LINE GOES DEAD. Tank looks at the bodies and smiles.

                             TANK
                 See ya soon.


     EXT. ROOFTOP (MATRIX) - DAY

     The rope is all that remains. Agent Smith can barely
     control his anger.

                             AGENT BROWN
                 The trace was completed.

                             AGENT JONES
                 We have their position.

                             AGENT BROWN
                 The extermination unit is in
                 place.

                             AGENT JONES
                 Order the strike.

     Agent Smith can't stand listening to them. He moves to
     the edge of the building, looking out at the surrounding
     city.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 They're not out yet.


     INT. "EL" STATION (MATRIX) - DAY

     A metal gate is locked, the sign reading, "Station
     Closed." Neo looks around, takes out a GUN and BLOWS OFF
     the LOCK.

     In the moist underground distance they hear the MUTED
     RING of a TELEPHONE.

     The PHONE is RINGING inside a graffiti-covered booth.

     Across from it, sitting hunched against the red concrete
     wall, is an OLD MAN. He stares at the RINGING PHONE,
     taking a final pull off his T-bird. No one is around.
     It continues to RING.

     Determined, he stands and walks to the booth. He is
     about to answer the phone, when Neo sees him.

                             NEO
                 Don't!

     The Old Man stops, Neo rushes at hin, gliding smoothly
     over the turnstiles.

                             OLD MAN
                 I'm sorry -- I didn't mean!

     The Old Man is shaking, terrified. Neo looks at his gun.
     He glances over his shoulder, then eases back the hammer.

                             NEO
                 Get outta here. Okay? Run! Go!

     The Old Man nods, turns and hurries deeper into the urban
     cave, disappearing into the shadows as Trinity and
     Morpheus arrive.

                             TRINITY
                 What happened? Was that --

                             NEO
                 It was nobody.

     Neo turns to the RINGING BOOTH.

                             NEO
                 Let's go! You first, Morpheus.

     Morpheus gets in and answers the phone.

     Lost in the shadow, the Old Man turns back and watches as
     Morpheus disappears, the phone dropping, dangling by its
     cord.

     His eyes grow wide, glowing white in the dark.


     EXT. ROOFTOP (MATRIX) - DAY

     Agent Smith stares, his face twisted with hate. He will
     never be free of the Matrix.

     He starts to turn from the edge of the building when he
     suddenly hears it, his head whipping back around,
     staring --


     INT. "EL" STATION (MATRIX) - DAY

     As the Old Man stares.

     Trinity hangs up the phone. She turns to Neo, standing
     close enough to kiss him.

                             TRINITY
                 Morpheus is right, you know. It
                 doesn't matter what he believes or
                 even what the Oracle believes.
                 What matters is what you believe.

                             NEO
                 I believe...

     He stares at the fullness of her lips.

                             NEO
                 I want to kiss you.

     She smiles.

                             TRINITY
                 I want to kiss you too...

     The PHONE begins to RING.

                             TRINITY
                 But I want it to be real.

     She pulls herself away and gets into the booth when
     something catches Neo's eye and he looks to where the Old
     Man had been.

     She hears him SCREAM and sees Agent Smith emerge as if
     formed by congealing darkness, charging with a fistful of
     metal.

     The GUN FIRES, the BULLET flying at her, BURSTING through
     the plastic WINDOW just as --

     Trinity disappears.

     The handset hanging in the air as the BULLET HITS,
     SHATTERING the EAR-PIECE.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     Trinity blinks, shivering as her conscious exits the
     Construct.

                             TRINITY
                 Neo!

                             TANK
                 What the hell just happened?

                             TRINITY
                 An Agent! You have to send me
                 back!

                             TANK
                 I can't!


     INT. "EL" STATION (MATRIX) - DAY

     GUN REPORT THUNDERS through the underground, both men
     BLASTING, moving at impossible speed.

     For a blinking noment we enter BULLET-TIME.

     Gun flash tongues curl from Neols gun, bullets float
     forward like a plane noving across the sky, cartridges
     cartwheel into space.

     An instant later they are nearly on top of each other,
     rolling up out of a move that is almost a mirrored
     reflection of the other --

     Each jamming their gun tight to the other's head.

     They freeze in a kind of embrace; Neo sweating, panting,
     Agent Smith machine-calm.

     Agent Smith smiles.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 You're empty.

     Neo pulls the TRIGGER. CLICK.

                             NEO
                 So are you.

     The smile falls. Agent Smith yanks his TRIGGER.

     CLICK.

     Agent Smith's face warps with rage and he attacks, fist
     flying at furious speed, blows and counters, Neo
     retreating as --

     A knife-hand opens his forearm, and a kick sends him
     slamming back against a steel column.

     Stunned, he ducks just under a punch that crunches into
     the beam, STEEL CHUNKS EXPLODING like shrapnel.

     Behind him, Neo leaps into the air, delivering a neck-
     snapping reverse round-house. Agent Smith's glasses fly
     off and he glares at Neo; his eyes, ice blue.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 You can't win.

                             NEO
                 I already have.

     He attacks with a vicious series of blows but the Agent
     seems to absorb them, waiting for his opening.

     And this time Agent Smith's attack is too much, an
     unrelenting fury, fists pounding like jackhammers.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     Trinity watches Neo as his body jerks, mouth coughing
     blood, his life signs going wild.

                             TRINITY
                 Jesus, he's killing him!


     INT. "EL" STATION (MATRIX) - DAY

     Agent Smith grabs hold of him, lifting him into the air,
     hurling him against the curved wall of the train tunnel,
     where he falls inches from the electrified third-rail.

     The Agent is about to jump down, and press his attack
     when he hears sonething. From deep in the tunnel, like
     an animal cry; a burst of high-speed METAL GRINDING
     against METAL.

     The sound of an ON-COMING TRAIN.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     Tank is trying to find another entrance.

                             TRINITY
                 Send me back, Tank! Anywhere!

                             TANK
                 I'm looking, Trinity! I'm
                 looking!

     From the cockpit, an ALARM sounds. Morpheus hurries to
     the front console, typing, bringing up the radar.

     Trinity follows him.

                             TRINITY
                 What is it... oh no.

     In every pipe surrounding them, they see the
     Extermination Unit.

                             TRINITY
                 Sentinels.


     INT. SEWER MAIN

     The killing machine we saw in the History Program blister
     by us like tracer bullets shot down the throat of the
     abyss.


     INT. "EL" STATION (MATRIX) - DAY

     Neo tries to get up. Agent Smith jumps down onto the
     tracks and drop-kicks him in the face.

     The world begins to shake, RUMBLING as the TRAIN NEARS.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson?

     Agent Smith grabs Neo in a choke-hold, forcing him to
     look down the tracks, the train's headlight burning a
     hole in the darkness.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 That is the sound of
                 inevitability.

     Neo sees it coming and he starts to fight.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 It is the sound of your death.

     There is another METAL SCREECH, MUCH LOUDER, closer, as
     Agent Smith tightens his hold. Neo is unable to breathe.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.

     The TRAIN ROARS at them, swallowing Agent Smith's words.

     The veins bulge in Neo's head, as he grits through the
     pain.

     He is not ready to die.

                             NEO
                 My name is Neo.

     Impossibly, he hurls himself straight up, smashing Smith
     against the concrete ceiling of the tunnel.

     They fall as the sound and fury of the TRAIN EXPLODES
     INTO the station.

     Neo back-flips up off the tracks just as --

     The train barrels over Agent Smith.

     Neo stands, knees shaking, when the train slams on its
     emergency brake. With an ear-splitting SHRIEK of
     TORTURED RAILS, the train slows, part of it still in the
     station.

     Neo turns, limping, starting to run, racing for the
     escalator --

     As the train comes to a stop and the doors of the last
     car open; Agent Smith bursts out in furious pursuit, his
     glasses again intact.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     Morpheus checks the ship's self destruct key.

                             TRINITY
                 You can't use that until Neo is
                 out!

                             MORPHEUS
                 I know. Don't worry, he'll make
                 it.


     EXT. CITY STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

     A man sits in his Mercedes, talking on his car phone when
     his door is thrown open. Neo yanks him out and jumps in.

     Further down the street, Agent Smith slows, calmly
     touching his ear-piece.

     Neo throws the car across traffic, rocketing down a side-
     street.


     INT. CAR (MATRIX) - DAY

     Driving like a demon with one hand, he grabs the car
     phone and dials long distance.

     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     Tank answers.

                             TANK
                 Operator.

                             NEO (V.O.)
                 Mr. Wizard, Get me the fuck out
                 of here!


     INT. CAR (MATRIX) - DAY

     Looking over his shoulder, watching the mirrors, Neo
     drives almost unconsciously.

                             NEO
                 Hurry, Tank! I got some serious
                 pursuit!


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     The keyboard clicking, Tank searches for an exit.
     Trinity screams into the headset.

                             TRINITY
                 Neo, you better get your ass back
                 here!


     INT. CAR

                             NEO
                 I'm trying, Trinity. I'm trying.

                             TANK (V.O.)
                 I got one!

     Neo glances to his right and sees Agent Brown, now
     driving the car beside his. Agent Brown swerves,
     slamming into him.

                             TANK (V.O.)
                 Wabash and Lake. A hotel.

     Neo fights the steering wheel as Agent Brown pushes the
     car up over the median.

                             TANK (V.O.)
                 Room 303.

     Neo drops the phone as his car bucks into the opposing
     lane --

     Directly into the charging path of an enormous truck
     driven by Agent Smith.

     Neo dives from the Mercedes as the truck plows into it,
     rending metal and GLASS, crushing through, totaling other
     cars, as it EXPLODES.

     Neo is up and running even as orange and black clouds
     billow up behind hin.


     EXT. CITY STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

     Three figures silhouette by the burning wreckage become
     the three agents.

     Further down the street, Neo hauls his broken, bleeding
     ass.

     Agents Brown and Smith slow, touching their ear-pieces as
     Agent Jones continues chasing full-bore.

     Neo spins around a corner, racing toward a hotel called:
     the Heart of Chicago Hotel.

     Only Agent Jones is behind him now.

     Neo dives into the alley. At the far end he sees Agent
     Brown charging. Neo leaps for the fire escape and begins
     to climb.


     INT. SEWER MAIN

     Sentinels open and shift like killer kaleidoscopes as
     they ready their weapons, swarming around the
     Nebuchadnezzar.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     The hovercraft booms as machines drop onto it.

                             TANK
                 I'm going to make the call.

                             MORPHEUS
                 Do it!


     INT. "HEART OF CHICAGO" HOTEL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Agent Snith is in the elevator when he hears the DISTANT
     RING of a PHONE.


     EXT. ALLEY (MATRIX) - DAY

     The agents chase him, FIRING, BULLETS SPARKING and
     RICOCHETING even as Neo jumps for the third-floor
     platform.

     Neo kicks in the window, jumping into the hall. The
     doors count backwards: 310... 309...


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     Morpheus grabs the biggest gun he can find. The lasers
     begin to slice through the hull.

                             TRINITY
                 Where is he?

                             TANK
                 Almost there.

                             MORPHEUS
                 He's going to make it.

                             TRINITY
                 Hurry, Neo.


     INT. HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Neo can hear the PHONE RINGING.

     305... 304...

     Agent Brown reaches the broken window behind him just as
     Neo grabs the handle of 303, throwing open the door to
     find --

     Agent Sniith, waiting, .45 cocked.

     Neo can't move -- can't think --

     BOOM.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     Neo's body jerks, and everyone hears it as the life
     monitors snap flat-line.

     Trinity screams. Morpheus is frozen in disbelief.


     INT. HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Three holes in his chest, Neo falls to the blue shag
     carpeting, blood smearing down the wallpaper.

     Agent Smith stands over him, still aiming, taking no
     chances.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Check him.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     Through the lasered opening, Morpheus screams, blasting
     away at the machines; comet-wads of plasma burning holes
     in their armored housings.

     Trinity collapses onto Neo's body.

                             TRINITY
                 No-no-no! Neo, you're not dead!
                 You can't be dead!


     INT. HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Kneeling beside him, Agent Brown checks his vital signs.

                             AGENT BROWN
                 He's gone.

     Agent Smith smiles, standing over him.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 I told you, you couldn't win.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     Tank is hit, a laser bolt knocking him to the ground.
     They can't hold them off any longer. Morpheus lunges for
     the self destruct --

     As Trinity whispers in Neo's ear.

                             TRINITY
                 You're right here. I'm holding
                 you, Neo. I'm not letting you go.
                 Do you hear me? I won't let you
                 go.


     INT. HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     The agents walk to the elevator, leaving Neo's body
     behind.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     Morpheus flicks the Plexiglas shield of the self-
     destruct.

                             TRINITY
                 Goddamnit, Neo! Don't give it up!
                 Not now!

     She pounds on his chest.

                             TRINITY
                 Not now!


     INT. HOTEL HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     The BLOW ECHOES deep in his mind.

     His eyes snap open.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     Trinity screams as the monitors jump back to life. Tank
     and Morpheus stare, unbelieving.

     It is a miracle.

                             TRINITY
                 Now get up!


     INT. HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

     Neo struggles, holding his chest, sitting up. Down the
     hall, he sees the elevator closing and --

     Agent Smith staring at him as if he were looking at a
     Cypher.

     Neo gives him the finger.

                             AGENT SMITH
                 Nooooo!

     Agent Smith pounds on the elevator door.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     A sentinel BLOWS a hole in Morpheus' right arm and he
     screams, refusing to let go of the detonator.

     INT. ROOM 303 (MATRIX) - DAY

     Neo dives for the RINGING PHONE.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     Machines split open the craft, pouring in, lasers
     targeting everywhere.

     A beat finds the center of Morpheus' forehead and he
     screams, ready to die.

                             TRINITY
                 Now!

     He turns the key.


     INT. OVERFLOW PIT

     A blinding shock of white lights flood the chamber;
     sentinels blink and fall instantly dead, filling the pit
     with their cold, metal carcasses.


     INT. HOVERCRAFT

     In the still darkness, only the humans are alive.

                             TRINITY
                 Neo?

     His eyes open. Tears pour from her smiling eyes as he
     reaches up to touch her.

     And she kisses hin; it seems like it might last forever.

                                                     FADE TO BLACK.


     FADE IN:

     ON COMPUTER SCREEN

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

     A PHONE begins to RING.

     It is answered and the screen fills instantly with the
     trace program. After a long beat, we recognize Neo's
     voice.

                             NEO (V.O.)
                 Hi. It's me. I know you're out
                 there. I know you're working as
                 fast as you can to catch me.

     We CLOSE IN ON the racing columns of numbers shimmering
     across the screen.

                             NEO (V.O.)
                 I thought I should call and let
                 you know how things stand.

     We DIVE THROUGH the numbers, surging UP THROUGH the
     darkness, sucked TOWARDS a tight constellation of stars.

                             NEO (V.O.)
                 I know you're real proud of this
                 world you've built, the way it
                 works, all the nice little rules
                 and such, but I've got some bad
                 news.

     We realize that the constellation is actually the holes
     in the mouthpiece of a phone. Seen from inside.

                             NEO (V.O.)
                 I've decided to make a few
                 changes.

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

     He steps out of the phone booth and starts walking,
     wearing a long black coat and dark glasses. He passes a
     mother dragging her little BOY, who cranes his neck as --

     Neo takes off, flying up into the air.

                             BOY
                 Mommy! Mommy!

                             MOMMY
                 What?

                             BOY
                 That man! That man flies!

                             MOMMY
                 Don't be silly, honey. Men don't
                 fly.

     There is a RUSH of AIR as the Boy stares up as Neo shoots
     overhead. His coat billowing like a black leather cape
     as he soars up, up, and away.

                                                           FADE OUT.





                             THE END
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