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THE
MATRIX
1
THE MATRIX
TRINITY
Soon. Only two thin digits left.
Written by
CYPHER (V.O.)
Larry &
Andy
Wachowski
Just
between you
and
m
e, 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?
April 8, 1996
FADE IN ON:
COMPUTER
SCREEN
So close it has no
boundaries.
A blinking cursor pulses in
the electric darkness like a
TRINITY
(V.O.)
heart
coursing
with
phosphorous
light,
burning
I
think Morpheus knows things that I don't.
beneath the derma of black-neon glass.
CYPHER (V.O.)
A PHONE begins
to RING, we hear it as though we
Yeah,
but if he's wrong --
were
m
aking the call. The cursor continues
to throb,
The final number pops into
place --
relentlessly patient, until --
MAN (V.O.)
Hello?
TRINITY (V.O.)
Did you hear
that?
CYPHER (V.O.)
Data
now
slashes
across
the
screen,
information
Hear what?
flashing faster
than we read.
SCREEN
SCREEN
Call trans opt: received.
2-19-96 13:24:18 REC:Log>
Trace complete. Call
origin:#312-555-0690
TRINITY (V.O.)
Are you sure this line is clean?
WOMA
N (V.O.)
CYPHER (V.O.)
I'
m
inside.
Anything to report?
Yeah, course
I'm
sure.
We
listen
to
the
phone
conversation
as
though
we
We MOVE STILL CLOSER, the ELECTRIC HUM
of the
were
on
a
third
line.
The
m
an's
nam
e
is
CYPHER.
green
num
bers GROWING INTO an OMINOUS ROAR.
The wom
an, TRINITY.
CYPHER (V.O.)
Let's see.
Target left work at 5:01 PM.
SCREEN
TRINITY (V.O.)
I better go.
CYPHER (V.O.)
Yeah. Right.
See you on the other side.
Trace
program: running.
She hangs up as we
PASS THROUGH the num
bers,
The
entire
screen
fills
with
racing
colum
ns
of
entering the netherworld of the
com
puter screen.
num
bers.
Where
gradually the sound of a police radio grows
Shimmering like green-electric rivets,
they rush at a
around us.
10-digit phone num
ber in the
top corner.
RADIO (V.O.)
CYPHER (V.O.)
Attention all
units. Attention all units.
He
caught
the
northbound
Howard
line.
Got off
at
Suddenly,
a
flashlight
cuts
open
the
darkness
and
Sheridan.
we
find ourselves in --
Stopped at 7-11.
Purchased six- pack of beer and a
box of Captain Crunch.
Returned hom
e.
INT. CHASE
H
OTEL - NIGHT
The area code
is identified. The first three num
bers
The hotel was abandoned after a fire
licked its way
suddenly fixed, leaving
only seven flowing colum
ns.
across
the
polyester
carpeting,
destroying
several
We begin MOVING TOWARD the screen,
CLOSING IN
room
s
as
it
spooled
soot
up
the
walls
and
ceiling
as each digit is m
atched,
one by one, snapping into
leaving
patterns of permanent shadow.
place
like the wheels of a slot m
achine.
TRINITY (V.O.)
All right,
you're relieved. Use the usual exit.
CYPHER (V.O.)
Do you know
when we're going to m
ake
contact?
We
FOLLOW
f
our
arm
ed
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
THE
MATRIX
2
before them.
BIG COP
Police! Freeze!
The
room
is
alm
ost
devoid
of
furniture.
There
is
a
fold-up table and chair with a phone, a
m
odern, and
a
bead.
They've
done
this
a
hundred
tim
es,
they
know they've got her,
until the Big Cop reaches with
the cuff
and Trinity m
oves --
It
alm
ost
doesn't
register,
so
sm
ooth
and
fast,
inhum
anly
fast.
a powerbook com
puter.
The only light in the room
is
The eye blinks and Trinity's palm.
snaps up and the
the glow of the
computer.
nose
explodes,
blood
erupting.
The
cop
is
dead
Sitting there, her
hands still on the keyboard, is
TRINITY; a wom
an 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.
before he begins
to fall.
And Trinity is
m
oving again --
Seizing a
wrist, m
isdirecting 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 m
issing as
she
reverses
into
a
roundhouse
kick,
knocking
the
gun
II
EXT. CHASE HOTEL - NIGHT
away.
A black sedan with
tinted windows glides in through
The
cop begins to scream when a jump kick crushes
the police cruisers.
car.
his
windpipe,
killing
the
scream
as
he
falls
to
the
She looks at the four bodies.
AGENT
SMITH
and
AGENT
BROWN
get
out of
the
ground.
They wear dark suits and sunglasses
even at night.
TRINITY
They
are also always hardwired; small Secret Service
Shit.
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
EXT.
CHASE HOTEL
Agent
Brown
enters
the
hotel,
while
Agent
S
m
ith
heads for the alley.
INT. CHASE HOTEL
Trinity
is
on
the
phone,
pacing.
The
other
end
is
answered.
I'
m
just
doing
m
y
job.
You
grim
e
that
Juris-m
y
MAN (V.O.) Operator.
dick-
tion and you can cram
it up your ass.
TRINITY
AGENT SMITH
The orders were for your protection.
The Lieutenant laughs.
LIEUTENANT
I think we can
handle one little girl.
Morpheus! The
link was traced! I don't know how.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
I know. Stay
calm
.
TRINITY
Are
there any agents?
Agent
Smith
nods
to
Agent
Brown
as
they
start
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
toward the
hotel.
Yes.
LIEUTENANT
I sent two units. They're bringing her
down now.
AGENT SMITH
No,
Lieutenant, your m
en are dead.
TRINITY
God
dam
n it!
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
You have to focus. There is a phone.
Wells and Laxer.
You can
m
ake it.
INT. CHASE HOTEL
She takes a deep breath, centering
herself.
The
Big
Cop
flicks
out
his
cuffs,
the
other
cops
TRINITY
holding
All right --
THE
MATRIX
3
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Go.
She drops the phone.
INT. HALL
point where the
train has begun to turn, there is --A
window; a yellow glow in the
m
idst 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
She bursts out of the room
as
Agent Brown enters
the
STEEL
rises
as
she
nears
the
edge
where
the
the hall, leading another unit of
police. Trinity races
train rocks into
the turn.
to the opposite end, exiting
through a broken window
Trinity hurtles
into the empty night space, her body
onto the fire escape.
leveling
into
a
dive.
She
falls,
arms
covering
her
III
EXT. FIRE E5CAPE
head as --
The whole world
seem
s to spin on its axis --
And she crashes with an EXPLOSION of
GLASS and
In the alley below, Trinity
sees Agent Smith staring at
WOOD,
then
falls
onto
a
back
stairwell,
tumbling,
her. She can only
go up.
bouncing
down
stairs
bleeding,
broken
--But
still
EXT. ROOF
alive.
Through the
sm
ashed window, she glimpses
Agent
On the roof, Trinity
is running as Agent Brown rises
Brown,
still on the train, his tie and coat whipping in
over the parapet, leading the cops in
pursuit.
the wind; stone-faced, he
touches his ear piece as
Trinity begins
to jum
p from
one roof to the
next, her
the train slides
him
past the window.
m
overents
so
clean,
gliding
in
and
out
of
each
Trinity tries to
m
ove. Everything hurts.
jum
p,contrasted to the wild
jum
ps of the cops.
TRINITY
Agent
Brown,
however,
has
the
sam
e
unnatural
Get up, Trinity. You're fine.
grace.
Get up -- just get
up!
The METAL SCREAM of an EL TRAIN is
heard
and
She stands and
limps down the rest of the stairs.
Trinity turns to it, racing for the
back of the building.
The
edge falls away into a wide back alley. The next
EXT. STREET
building
is
over 40
feet
away,
but
Trinity's
face
is
perfectly
calm
,
staring
at
som
e
point
beyond
the
other
roof.
The
cops
slow,
realizing
they
are
about
to
see
Trinity
em
erges 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.
som
ething
ugly
as
Trinity
drives
at
the
edge,
Obviously hurt, she starts
down the concrete walk,
launching herself into the air.
focusing in completely, her pace
quickening, as the
From
above, the ground seem
s to flow beneath
her
PHONE begins to RING.
as
she hangs in flight
Across the street,
a garbage truck suddenly u-turns,
Then
hitting, som
ersaulting up, still
running hard.
its TIRES SCREAMING as it
accelerates.
COP Motherfucker -- that's
impossible!
Trinity sees the headlights
on the truck arcing at the
They stare, slack-jawed, as Agent Brown
duplicates
telephone booth as if taking
aim.
the m
ove exactly,
landing, rolling over a shoulder, up
Gritting through the pain, she races
the truck --
onto one knee.
Slamming
into
the
booth,
the
headlights
blindingly
Just
below
the
building
are
the
rumbling
tracks
of
bright, bearing down on
the box of Plexiglas just as
riveted
steel. The TRAIN SCREECHES beneath her, a
--
rattling
blur
of
gray
m
etal.
Trinity
jum
ps,
landing
She answers the phone.
easily.
There is a frozen
instant of silence before the hulking
She looks back just as Agent Brown
hurls through the
mass
of
dark
m
etal
lurches
up
onto
the
sidewalk
air
barely reaching the last car
Agent
Brown stands, yanking out a gun.
--Barreling
through
the
booth,
bulldozing
it
into
a
brick
wall, smashing it to Plexiglas pulp.
Trinity is running hard as BULLETS
WHISTLE past her
After a
m
om
ent, a black loafer steps
down from
the
head.
cab of the garbage truck.
Agent Sm
ith inspects the
Ahead she sees her only chance, 50 feet
beyond the
wreckage.
THE MATRIX
4
There is no body. Trinity
is gone.
His jaw sets as he grinds his
m
olars in frustration.
AGENT
JONES walks up behind him.
AGENT SMITH
Did you get anything from
the room
?
AGENT JONES
Their next target. The nam
e
is Neo.
cereal. We pass an open box of
Capln Crunch as we
find --
NEO, a younger m
an who knows
m
ore 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
The handset of
the pay phone lays on the ground,
when
an
anonym
ous
m
essage
slices
onto
the
separated in the crash like a severed
lim
b.
screen.
AGENT SMITH
We'll need a
search running.
AGENT J
ONES
SCREEN
Do you want to know
what the Matrix is, Neo?
Neo is frozen
when he reads his nam
e.
It's
already begun.
SCREEN
We are
SUCKED TOWARDS the m
outhpiece of the
SUPERASTIC: Who said that?
phone,
CLOSER
and
CLOSER,
UNTIL
the
sm
ooth
JACKON:
Who's Neo?
gray plastic spreads out
like a horizon and the small
GIBSON:
This is a private board.
HOLES
WIDEN until we fall through one
--Swallowed
If you want to know, follow
the white rabbit.
by
the
darkness
that
becom
es
--A
computer
NEO
screen.
What the hell...
We
are
on-line,
inside
a
chat
room
called
SCREEN
Matrix.
It is an exclusive
web-site where hackers hang out.
TIMAXE: Som
eone is hacking
the hackers!
FOS4: It's Morpheus!!!!!
SCREEN
JACKON: Identify
yourself.
JACKON: I heard Morpheus has
been on this board.
Knock, knock, Neo.
SUPERASTIC: Morpheus doesn't even exist
and the
A
chill
runs
down
his
spine
and
when
som
eone
Matrix is
nothing but an advertising gimmick 4 a new
KNOCKS
on
his
door
he
alm
ost
jumps
out
of
his
gam
e.
TIMAXE: All
I want to know is Trinity really a girl?
LODIII: 87
%
of
all wom
en on line are really
m
en.
QUARK:
The
Matrix
is
a
euphem
ism
for
the
chair.
He
looks at the door, then back at the computer but
the m
essage is gone.
He
shakes
his
head,
not
completely
sure
what
governm
ent.
happened.
UPERASTIC: No, The
Matrix is the system
controlling
Again, som
eone knocks.
our lives.
TIMAXE: You
m
ean MTV.
SUPERASTIC: I
m
ean Sega.
Cautiously, Neo
approaches the door.
VOICE (O.S.)
Hey, Tomm
y-boy! You in
there?
FOS4: ALL HAIL SEGA!!!
Recognizing
the
voice,
he
relaxes
and
opens
it.
We drift back from
the
electric conversation entering
ANTHONY,
who
lives
down
the
hall,
is
standing
--
outside with a group of friends.
NEO
INT. NEO'S APARTMENT
What do you want, Anthony?
It is a studio apart rent that seems
overgrown with
ANTH
ONY
technology.
I
need
your
help,
man.
Desperate.
They
got
m
e,
Weed-like
cables
coil
everywhere,
duct-taped
into
man. The shackles of
fascism.
thickets that wind up and
around the legs of several
He
holds
up
the
red
notice
that
accom
panies
the
desks.
Denver boot.
Tabletops are filled with cannibalized
equipment that
NEO
lay open
like an autopsied corpse.
You got the
m
oney this tim
e?
We
turn
towards
the
center
of
this
rat-nest
of
He holds up two hundred dollars and Neo
opens the
technology, following the
slurping and crunching of
door.
THE MATRIX
5
Anthony's
girlfriend, DUJOUR, stops in front of Neo.
about to leave when he notices a
wom
an staring at
DUJ
OUR
You can
really get that thing off, right now?
ANTH
ONY
I told
you, honey, he m
ay look like just
another geek
him
.
The wom
an is Trinity. She
walks straight up to him
.
In
the
nearest
room
,
shadow-like
figures
grind
against
each
other
to
the
pneumatic
beat
of
but this here is all we got left
standing between Big
INDUSTRIAL MUSIC.
Brother and the New World Order.
TRINITY
IV
EXT.
STREET
Hello, Neo.
NEO
How did you know that --
A
police officer unlocks a yellow m
etal
boot from
the
TRINITY
wheel of an
enorm
ous Oldsm
obile.
I know a lot about you. I've been
wanting to m
eet you
INT. NEO'S APARTMENT
for
som
e time.
NEO
They
watch
from
the
window
as
the
cops,
silently,
Who are you?
robotically, climb into their van.
TRINITY
ANTH
ONY
My nam
e is Trinity.
Look
at
'em
.
Autom
atons.
Don't
think
about
what
NEO
they're- doing or why.
Com
puter tells 'em
what to
do
Trinity?
The
Trinity?
The
Trinity
that
cracked
the
and
they do it. FRIEND #l
The banality of
evil.
He slaps the m
oney in
Neo's hand.
ANTH
ONY
Thanks, neighbor.
DUJ
OUR
Why don't
you com
e to the party with us?
NEO
I don't know. I have to
work tom
orrow.
DUJ
OUR
Com
e on. It'll be fun.
I.R.S.
Kansas City D-Base?
TRINITY
That was a long
tim
e ago.
NEO
Gee-zus.
TRINITY
What?
NEO
I just
thought... you were a guy.
TRINITY
He looks up at her and suddenly notices
on her black
Most guys do.
leather
m
otorcycle
jacket
dozens
of
pins:
bands,
Neo is a little
embarrassed.
sym
bols,
slogans,
m
ilitary
m
edals
and
--A
small
NEO
white rabbit.
Do you want to
go som
ewhere and talk?
The
ROOM TILTS.
NEO
Yeah, yeah.
Sure, I'll go.
INT.
APARTMENT
TRINITY
No. It's
safe here and I don't have m
uch
tim
e.
The MUSIC
is
so
loud
they
m
ust
stand
very
close,
talking directly into each other's ear.
NEO
An
older
Chicago
apartment;
a
series
of
halls
That
was
you on
the
board
tonight.
That
was
your
connects
a
chain
of
sm
all
high-
ceilinged
room
s
note, wasn't it?
lined with
heavy casem
ents.
TRINITY
Sm
oke hangs like a veil,
blurring the few lights there
I
had
to
gamble
that
you
would
see
and
they
are.
wouldn't.
Dressed
predom
inantly
in
black,
people
are
NEO
everywhere,
gathered
in
cliques
around
pieces
of
Who
wouldn't?
furniture like jungle cats
around a tree.
TRINITY
Neo
stands
against
a
wall,
alone,
sipping
from
a
I can't explain everything
to you. I'm
sure that it's all
bottle of beer, feeling
com
pletely out of place, he is
going to seem
very strange,
but I brought you here to
THE
MATRIX
6
warn you, Neo. You are in a lot of
danger.
face:
NEO
9:15 A.M.
What? Why?
NEO
TRINITY
Shit
shit shit.
They're
watching
you.
Som
ething
happened
and
they
found out about you. Normally, if our target is
exposed we let it go. But this
tim
e, we can't do that.
EXT.
SK
YSCRAPER
NEO
I
don't understand --
TRINITY
The
downtown
office
of
CorTechs,
a
software
developm
ent
com
pany.
V
You
cam
e
here
because
you
wanted
to
know
the
INT. CORTECHS OFFICE
answer to a hacker's question.
The m
ain offices are along
each wall, the windows
NEO
The Matrix. What is the Matrix?
overlooking downtown Chicago.
RHINEHEART, the ultimate
com
pany man, lectures
TRINITY
NEO without looking
at him
, typing at his
computer
Twelve years
ago
I
m
et
a
man,
a
great
m
an,
who
continuously.
said
that
no
one
could
be
told
the
answer
to
that
Neo
stares at two window cleaners on a scaffolding
question. That they had to see it, to
believe it.
outside,
dragging
their
rubber
squeegees
down
Her body is against
his; her lips very close to his ear.
across the surface of the glass.
TRINITY
RHINEHEART
He told
m
e
that no one should look for the answer
You have a problem
, Mr.
Anderson.
unless
they
have
to
because
once
you
see
it,
You think that you're
special.
everything changes. Your life
and the world you live
You believe that
som
ehow the rules do not apply to
in will never be the sam
e.
It's as if you wake up one
you.
m
orning and the sky is
falling.
He
stops,
glancing
over
his
glasses
at
Neo,
who
There is a hypnotic
quality to her voice and Neo feels
turns in time.
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
RHINEHEART
Obviously, you are m
istaken.
His long, bony fingers
resum
e clicking the keyboard.
RHINEHEART
This
com
pany is one of the top software
companies
in
the
world
because
every
single
em
ployee
That's
all I can tell you right now. Good-bye, Neo.
understands that they are a part of a
whole. Thus, if
And good luck.
an
em
ployee
has
a
problem
,
the
com
pany
has
a
NEO
problem.
Wait. Who was it? Who was the
m
an?
He turns again.
She leans close, her lips
alm
ost touching his ear as
RHINEHEART
she whispers.
TRINITY
The tim
e
has com
e to m
ake a choice,
Mr. Anderson.
Either you choose to be
at your desk on tim
e from
You know who.
this day
forth, or you choose to find yourself another
She turns and he watches her
m
elt into the shifting
job.
Do I m
ake m
yself clear?
wall of bodies.
NEO
A SOUND RISES steadily, growing out of
the m
usic,
Yes, Mr. Rhine
heart. Perfectly clear.
pressing in on
Neo until it is all he can hear as we --
INT. NEO'S CUBICLE
CUT TO:
The entire floor looks like
a hum
an honeycom
b, with
a
labyrinth
of
cubicles
structured
around
a
core of
INT.
NEO'S APARTMENT
elevators.
The
sound
is
an
ALARM
CLOCK,
slowly
dragging
Neo slum
ps down into his
chair. A TALL EMPLOYEE
Neo to
consciousness. He strains to read the clock
stands up in
the adjacent
cubicle, leaning over the
THE
MATRIX
7
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.)
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.
Thom
as Anderson?
One cop stays at the elevator,
the others follow the
Neo
turns and
finds a FEDERAL EXPRESS MAN
at
agents.
his cubicle door.
NEO
NEO
What the
fuck do they want with m
e?!
Yeah. That's m
e.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Neo
signs
the
electronic
pad
and
the
FedEx
guy
I'
m
not sure.
But, if you don't want to find out, you
hands him the Softbank.
FEDEX
Have a nice day.
better get out of there.
NEO
How?!
He opens the bag.
Inside is a CELLULAR PH
ONE. It
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
seem
s
the
instant
it
is
in
his
hand,
it
RINGS.
I can
guide you out, but you have to do exactly what
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 say.
The agents are
m
oving quickly towards the cubicle.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
The cubicle
across from
you is em
pty.
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.)
I've
been watching you, Neo, and I want to
m
eet you.
Stay here for a
m
om
ent.
I
don't
know
if
you're
ready
to
see
what
I
want
to
The
agents enter Neo's empty cubicle. A cop is sent
show you, but unfortunately, we have
run out of tim
e.
to search
the bathroom
.
They're
com
ing for you, Neo. And
I'
m
not sure what
Morpheus' voice is a whisper in Neo's
ear.
they're going to do.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
NEO
Who's com
ing for
m
e?
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Stand up and see for yourself.
NEO
Right now?
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Yes. Now.
Neo starts to stand.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
A little longer...
Brown is
talking to the tall em
ployee.
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
THE MATRIX
8
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 com
ing, Neo.
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!
VI
EXT. SK
YSCRAPER
He
opens
the
window.
The
window
howls
into
the
The
agents
lead
a
handcuffed
Neo
out
of
the
room
.
revolving doors, forcing his head down
as they push
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
him
into the dark sedan.
Outside, there's a scaffold. You can
use it to get to
Trinity
watches
in
the
rear
view
m
irror
of
her
the roof.
m
otorcycle.
Leaning out the window, he sees that
the scaffold is
TRINITY
several offices away.
Shit.
NEO
No! It's too far away.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
INT.
INTERROGATION ROOM - CLOSE ON CAMERA
MONITOR
A
wide
angle
view
of
a
white
room
,
where
Neo
is
There's
a
sm
all
ledge.
It's
a
short
clim
b.
You
can
sitting
at a table alone.
make it.
We MOVE INTO the m
onitor,
ENTERING the room
as
Neo
looks
down;
the
building's
glass
wall
vertigos
if
the m
onitor were a window.
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
At
the
sam
e
m
om
ent,
the
door
opens
and
the
agents
enter.
Sm
ith
sits
down
across
from
Neo.
A
thick
manila
envelope slaps down on the table
between them
.
Neo
glances
at
the
nam
e
on
the
file:
two ways out of this
building. One is that scaffold.
Thom
as A.
The
other
is
in
their
custody.
You
take
a
chance
AGENT SMITH
either way. I leave it to you.
As you can see, we've had our eye on
you for som
e
CLICK.
He
hangs
up.
Neo
looks
at
the
door,
then
tim
e now, Mr. Anderson.
back at the scaffold.
He
opens the file. Paper rattle marks the silence as
NEO
he flips several pages.
Neo cannot tell if he is looking
This
is insane! Why is this happening to
m
e? What
at the
file or at him.
did I do?
AGENT SMITH
I'
m
nobody. I
didn't do anything. Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
It seem
s that you have been
living two lives. In one
He climbs up
onto the window ledge. Hanging onto
life, you are Thom
as A.
Anderson, program writer for
the frame,
he steps onto the sm
all ledge.
a respectable software company. You
have a social
The scaffold seems even
farther away.
NEO
I'
m
going to die.
security
num
ber,
you
pay your
taxes
and you help
your land lady carry out her garbage.
The pages continue to turn.
The
WIND
suddenly
BLASTS
up
the
face
of
the
AGENT SMITH
building,
knocking
Neo
off
balance.
Recoiling,
he
The other life is lived
in com
puters where you go by
clings harder to the fram
e,
and the phone falls out of
the hacker
alias Neo, and are guilty of virtually every
his hand.
com
puter
crime
we
have
a
law
for,
including
the
He
watches
as
it
is
swallowed
by
the
distance
unauthorized
use
of
the
D.M.V.
system
for
the
THE MATRIX
9
rem
oval of
autom
obile boots.
Neo feels
him
self 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
NEO
You can't scare m
e with this
Gestapo crap.
I know
m
y rights.
I want
m
y phone call.
Agent Smith
smiles.
AGENT SMITH
And
tell
m
e,
Mr.
Anderson,
what
good
is
a
phone
I'
m
going
to
be
as
forthcom
ing
as
I
can
be,
Mr.
call iy
you are unable to speak?
Anderson. You
are here because we need your help.
The
question unnerves Neo and strangely, he begins
He
rem
oves
his
sunglasses;
his
eyes
are
an
to feel the
m
uscles in his jaw tighten.
unnatural ice- blue.
AGENT
SMITH
The
standing
agents
snicker,
watching
Neo's
confusion grow into panic.
We know that you have been contacted by
a certain
Neo feels his lips grow soft
and sticky as they slowly
individual.
seal shut,
m
elding
into each
other until all trace of
A
man
who
calls
him
self
Morpheus.
Whatever you
his m
outh is
gone.
think you know about this
m
an is irrelevant to the fact
Wild with fear, he lunges for the door
but the agents
that
he
is
wanted
for
acts
of
terrorism
in
more
restrain
him
holding him in the chair.
countries
than
any
other
m
an
in
the
world.
He
is
AGENT SMITH
considered
by
m
any
authorities
to
be
the
m
ost
You are
going to help us, Mr. Anderson, whether you
dangerous m
an alive.
He leans closer.
AGENT SMITH
want to or not.
Sm
ith nods and the other two
rip open his shirt.
From
a
case
taken
out
of
his
suit
coat,
Sm
ith
My
colleagues believe that I am
wasting
m
y time with
rem
oves a long, fiber-optic
wire tap.
you, but I believe you want
to do the right thing. It is
Neo
struggles helplessly as Sm
ith
dangles
the wire
obvious
that
you
are
an
intelligent
m
an,
Mr.
over his exposed
abdom
en. Horrified, he watches as
Anderson, and that you are interested
in the future.
the electronic device
anim
ates, becom
e an organic
That is why I believe you are ready to
put your past
mistakes behind you and
get on with your life.
Neo tries to
m
atch his stare.
AGENT SMITH
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
Sm
ith
drops
the
We are
willing to wipe the slate clean, to give you a
creature
which
looks
for
a
m
om
ent
like
an
uncut
fresh
start
and
all
we
are
asking
in
return
is
your
um
bilical cord --
cooperation in bringing a known
terrorist to justice.
Neo nods to
him
self.
NEO
Before
it
begins
to
burrow
its,
tail
thrashing
as
it
worm
s its way
inside.
Yeah. Wow. That
sounds like a real good deal. But I
INT. NEO'S APARTMENT - NIGHT
think I have a better one. How about I
give you the
Scream
ing, Neo
bolts upright in bed.
finger --
He does.
He
realizes
that
he
is
hom
e.
Was
it
a
dream
?
His
m
outh is norm
al.
His stomach looks fine. He starts
NEO
to take a deep, everything-is-okay
breath, when --
And
you
can
cram
that
file
up your
Secret Service
The PH
ONE
RINGS.
sphincter.
Agent
Smith puts his glasses back on.
AGENT
SMITH
You disappoint m
e, Mr.
Anderson.
NEO
It
alm
ost
stops
his
heart.
It
CONTINUES RINGING,
building
pressure in the room
, forcing
him
up out of
bed,
sucking
him
in
with
an
alm
ost
gravitational
force.
He answers it, saying nothing.
You ain't seen nothing yet.
MORPHEUS (V.O.).
AGENT SMITH
This line is tapped, so I
m
ust be brief.
The irony of
your situation is that you have no choice.
NEO
THE MATRIX
10
The agents --
MORPHEUS
(V.O.)
They got to
you
first, but they've underestim
ated how
im
portant
you
are.
If
they
knew
what
I
know,
you
would
probably be dead.
Neo feels sick.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
nowhere, a
truck races under him
and --
He
crashes
into
a
large
dumpster-
bed
filled
with
em
pty 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
I
don't
know
what you
are
thinking
right
now
but
I
is next to him
, talking into
a cellular phone.
want you to
understand that I will not give up on you
TRINITY
until you give up on
m
e.
Neo's throat cracks, dry
as the Sahara.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Do you still want to m
eet?
NEO
... Yes.
MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Take the
Howard line south.
We got
him
. Call the chop-shop.
She
hangs up.
TRINITY
Listen to
m
e, 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?
CLICK.
He closes his
eyes, unsure of what he has
TRINITY
done.
This has to be done
for your protection and ours.
VII
EXT. EL TRAIN
An EL TRAIN
RAGES against its
m
etal
rails.
INT. TRAIN
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.
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
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 m
an who looks to be
still
in
his
teens,
wearing
an
outfit
that
is
a
cross
It is
three a.m., and the train carries the usual urban
A featureless black van glides up to a
staircase that
Neo turns and sees a
large man enter. He is wearing
between
a surgeon and a telephone repair m
an.
sunglasses and a black leather jacket.
His nam
e is
His
nam
e is GIZMO and he smiles lewdly at
Trinity,
APOC
and
he walks straight at Neo.
APOC
Com
e with
m
e.
exposing his teeth that
are wired with weird-looking
braces.
GIZMO
Neo
stands
just
as
the
door
at
the
opposite
end
Va
va va voom
. Still the hottest software
around.
opens and two police officers
rush in, drawing their
TRINITY
guns.
Hello,
Gizm
o.
Apoc grabs Neo,
m
uscling him
to the nearest exit.
Neo
hears the voices around him
.
There
is no
upcom
ing station.
GIZMO
This is really the guy? The guy that
Morpheus thinks
Apoc
yanks
the
em
ergency
brake
and
the
train
--
buckles
against its own speed. The cops are thrown
TRINITY
back.
NEO
slam
s against
the m
etal rail.
Yeah.
The
doors
open
onto
nothing
and
just
when
Neo
GIZMO
regains his balance,
Apoc shoves him
backwards --
But he's so old.
He
flies
out
from
the
train,
arms
win
drilling
as
he
TRINITY
falls
from
, the raised tracks --
Are you going to help us or aren't you?
Hurtling
towards
a
busy
city
street
when,
out
of
GIZMO
THE MATRIX
11
Hacksaw. Load up the
copper-top and let's get the
But the
bug reacts violently. Neo screams as it wraps
hell outta here.
Hacksaw is
a huge m
an in a leather welder's apron.
He shoulders Neo and hauls
him
into the van.
A
m
oment
later
the
green
lights
of
Lower
Wackier
itself around the soft tissue web of
intestine.
GIZMO
Shit.
TRINITY
curve
over
the
tinted
windshield
as
the
van
rushes
What's
happening?
through the underworld.
GIZMO
INT. VAN
I don't know. They've never done that
before.
Neo writhes in pain.
The
chop-shop
is
filled
with
electronic
gadgets,
GIZMO
wired
to
m
eters
and
m
onitors.
There
are
shelves
Hold
him
down.
lined
with
m
edical
supplies
and
rows
of
hanging
NEO
tools, knives, cleavers, and stainless
steel clamps.
Jesus! God!
Neo
is
strapped
down
to
an
ambulance
cart,
TRINITY
listening nervously
as Gizm
o gets to work.
GIZMO
Okay, first we take a little look under
the hood.
Do som
ething!
GIZMO
I got it! Maybe we can
stun it.
He pulls up the goggles
hanging at his neck and they
TRINITY
blink to life with tiny halogen lights
and lenses irising
Are you crazy? That
will kill him
.
to varying
levels of m
agnification.
GIZMO
You're going to feel a
little prick.
We watch Neo, who can't
see what they are talking
about.
GIZMO
He inserts
acupuncture-like needles into Neo's lower
It'll work. Com
e on, do it
or Hacksaw will.
abdom
en.
The needles are wired to video
m
onitors.
NEO
Hacksaw pilots the fiber-optic lens.
Do what?
NEO
The
instant he hears the word, he knows.
What are you doing?
TRINITY
TRINITY
Clear.
We
think
you're
bugged.
We
can't
take
you
to
NEO
Morpheus until you're
clean.
Oh, shit --
GIZMO
There it is.
The cry is
frozen in his m
outh as the paddles hit
his
chest. Gizm
o
wrestles with the bug.
On
a
m
onitor,
we
see
the
bug
nestled
in
am
ong
GIZMO
Neo
’
s large
intestines.
Hit him
again!
GIZMO
Again,
the
electricity
convulses
through
him
as
Hit him
with
10 ccs of local.
GIZMO
Hacksaw loads a hypoderm
ic
needle and pumps an
yanks the
speculum
out.
anesthetic
around Neo
’
s navel.
GIZMO
Using a device that
looks like a m
iniature
speculum
,
Got it!
Gizm
o inserts a knuckled
dental pick. Typing into a
Trinity
touches Neo, who is just beginning to breathe.
calculator
keypad
wired
to
the
pick,
he
autom
ates
She
eases the tape off his eyes.
the tip.
TRINITY
On the
m
onitor, we watch it telescope out and
the en
Neo, are you okay?
separate into a tiny hooked,
m
etal claw.
He nods.
GIZMO
Here, kitty, kitty,
kitty.
The claw snags hold of the bug.
GIZMO
Gotcha!
TRINITY
It's over. We got
it.
Hanging
from the claw
pick is the inanimate
m
etal
wire-tap.
GIZMO
THE
MATRIX
12
Nasty little bugger, ain't it?
INT. H
OTEL
LAFA
YETTE
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, Gizm
o.
GIZMO
I just hope the m
an knows
what he's doing.
the tight leather
pants.
GIZMO
Goddam
n, what I wouldn't
give for
a copy of that software.
Trinity turns around.
TRINITY
NEO
It's
an honor.
MORPHEUS
Please.
Com
e. Sit.
He nods to
Trinity.
MORPHEUS
Thank you,
Trinity.
She bows her head sharply and
exits through a door
to an adjacent
room
.
burgundy- leather
chairs.
MORPHEUS
I imagine,
right now, you m
ust be
feeling a bit like
Alice,
tumbling down the rabbit hole?
NEO
You could say that.
She nods
then climbs out of the van. Gizm
o ogles
They
sit
across
from
one
another
in
cracked,
Gizm
o,
you don't have the hardware to handle this
MORPHEUS
software.
I can see it in your eyes. You have the
look of a m
an
He howls with
adolescent laughter as the van pulls
who accepts what he sees because he is
expecting
away.
Trinity
turns to Neo.
TRINITY
Let's
go. He's waiting.
INT.
H
OTEL LAFA
YETTE
urban m
aggoty.
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.
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 m
yself. Can you tell m
e,
Neo, why
are you here?
You're
Morpheus,
you're
a
legend.
Most
hackers
would die to m
eet you.
MORPHEUS
Yes.
Thank
you.
But
I
think
we
both
know
there's
m
ore to it than that. Do you
believe in fate, Neo?
NEO
It
is a place of putrefying elegance, a rotting host
of
NEO
TRINITY
No.
Let
m
e
give
one
piece
of
advice.
Be
honest.
He
MORPHEUS
knows
m
ore than you can possibly
im
agine.
Why not?
NEO
Because I don't like the
idea that I'
m
not in control
of
VIII
INT. ROOM 1313
m
y life.
Across
the
room
,
a
dark
figure
stares
out
the
tall
MORPHEUS
windows veiled with decaying lace. He
turns and his
I know exactly
what you m
ean.
sm
ile lights up the
room
.
Again, that smile that
could cut glass.
MORPHEUS
MORPHEUS
At last.
Let
m
e
tell
you
why
you
are
here.
You
are
here
He wears a long black coat and his eyes
are invisible
because you have the
gift.
behind circular mirrored glasses.
He strides to Neo and they shake hands.
NEO
What gift?
MORPHEUS
MORPHEUS
Welcom
e, Neo. As you no
doubt have guessed, I am
I've watched
you, Neo. You do not use a computer
Morpheus.
like a tool. You
use it like it was part of yourself. What
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13
you can do
inside
a com
puter is not
normal. I know. I've seen it. What
you
do is m
agic.
Neo shrugs.
NEO
It's not
m
agic.
MORPHEUS
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
But
it
is,
Neo.
It
is.
How
else
would
you
describe
Hold out your
hands.
what has been happening to you?
In Neo's right hand, Morpheus drops a
red pill.
He leans forward.
MORPHEUS
MORPHEUS
This is your last chance. After this,
there is no going
We are trained
in this
world
to
accept only what is
back. In his left,
a blue pill.
rational and logical. Have
you ever wondered why?
Neo shakes his
head.
MORPHEUS
You take the
blue pill and the story ends. You wake in
MORPHEUS
your
bed
and
you
believe
whatever
you
want
to
As
children,
we
do
not
separate
the
possible
from
believe.
the impossible
which is
why the younger a
m
ind is
The
pills
in
his
open
hands
are
reflected
in
the
the easier it is to free while a
m
ind like yours can be
glasses.
very difficult.
MORPHEUS
NEO
Free
from
what?
MORPHEUS
You take the red pill and you stay in
Wonderland and
I show you how deep the
rabbit-hole goes.
Neo feels the
sm
ooth skin of the capsules, with
the
From
the
Matrix.
m
oisture growing in
his palms.
Neo locks at his eyes but
only sees a reflection of
MORPHEUS
him
self.
Rem
ember that all I am
offering is the truth. Nothing
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
m
ore.
Neo
opens his m
outh and swallows the red
pill. The
Cheshire
sm
ile returns.
MORPHEUS
Follow m
e.
that
som
ething was wrong with the world. You
don't
He leads Neo into the other
room
, which is cramped
know
what it is but it's there, like a splinter in your
with
high-tech
equipment,
glowing
ash-bliie
and
mind, driving you m
ad,
driving you to m
e. But what
electric green from
the
racks of m
onitors.
is it?
Trinity, Apoc and Cypher look up as
they enter.
The LEATHER CREAKS as he
leans back.
CYPHER
MORPHEUS
Shit.
The Matrix is
everywhere, it's all around us, here even
TRINITY
in this room.
I knew he would.
You can see
it out
your window, or on your
television.
Cypher saddles up to
Morpheus, talking in a hushed
You feel
it when you go to work, or go to church or
tone away from
, Neo.
pay your taxes. It is the world that
has been pulled
CYPHER
over
your eyes to blind you from the truth.
NEO
What truth?
Morpheus, I know what you believe but I
think this is a
mistake.
We're
rushing
him
.
He's
old.
I'm
afraid
he
m
ight
MORPHEUS
pop.
That you are a slave,
Neo. That you, like everyone
MORPHEUS
else, was born into bondage...
Haven't
I
always
told
you,
Cypher,
not
to
let
fear
... kept inside a
prison that you cannot sm
ell, taste,
control your life.
or touch.
A prison for your mind.
Apoc, are we
on-line?
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14
Neo recognizes the large m
an
from
the El train.
APOC
Alm
ost.
He
and
Trinity
are
working
quickly,
hardwiring
a
com
plex system
of
m
onitors, m
odules and
drives.
NEO
Apoc? You wrote
the Four Horsem
en Virus.
APOC
That's right.
MORPHEUS
Wide-eyed
he
stares
as
it
begins
to
heal
itself,
a
webwork of cracks that slowly run
together as though
the
m
irror were becom
ing liquid.
NEO
Shit...
Cypher
works
with
Apoc
checking
reams
of
phosphorescent data. Trinity
m
onitors Neo's electric
vital signs.
Neo reaches out
to touch the mirror and his fingers
disappear beneath the rippling surface.
Neo, tim
e is always against
us. Will you take a seat
Quickly, he
tries to pull his fingers out but the
m
irror
there?
stretches in long rubbery strands like
mirrored-taffy
In the center of the
room
sits a chair. Near the chair
stuck to his fingertips.
is
an old oval dressing m
irror that is
cracked.
NEO
MORPHEUS
I imagine you know som
ething
about virtual reality.
What is this?
Mescaline?
MORPHEUS
Neo
sits
and
Trinity
begins
gently
fixing
white
Just
relax, Neo.
electrode disks to his
head, arm
s, and the back of
The strands thin like rubber
cem
ent as he pulls away,
his
neck.
until the fragile wisps of mirror
thread break.
NEO
A little.
MORPHEUS
With
the
TINKLING
of
GLASS,
shimmering
snowflakes
of
electric-blinking
m
ercury
fall,
hit
the
ground,
and fade.
Tell m
e about it.
He looks at his hand; fingers distended
into mirrored
NEO
icicles
that
begin
to
m
elt
rapidly,
drippin
g,
running
Essentially,
it's
a
hardware
system
that
uses
an
like
wax
down
his
fingers,
spreading
across
his
apparatus; headgear, gloves and
whatever to m
ake
palms where
he sees his face reflected.
you feel
that you are in a com
puter program.
MORPHEUS
If the virtual
reality apparatus, as you called it, was
wired
to
all
of
your
senses
and
controlled
them
NEO
Uh-oh...
TRINITY
It's going into
replication.
com
pletely,
would you be able to tell the difference
MORPHEUS
between the virtual
world and the real world?
Apoc?
NEO
You m
ight
not, no.
MORPHEUS
No, you
wouldn't.
Neo whispers to Trinity.
NEO
You did all this?
APOC
Still nothing.
Morpheus
takes
out
a
cellular
phone
and
dials
a
num
ber.
MORPHEUS
Tank,
we're
going
to
need
the
signal
soon.
Stay
calm
, Neo.
She
nods,
placing
a
set
of
headphones
over
his
The
m
irror
gel
seem
s
to
com
e
to
life,
racing,
ears.
crawling up his arms
like hundreds of insects.
They are
wired to an old hotel phone.
NEO
MORPHEUS
It's cold.
The pill you took is part of a trace
program. It's going
The
m
irror creeps up his neck as Neo begins
to panic,
to m
ake things
feel a bit strange.
tipping his head as
though he were sinking into the
Distantly,
through
the
ear
phones,
he
hears
Apoc
mirror, trying to keep his
m
outh up.
POUNDING
NEO
on
a
KEYBOARD.
Sweat
beads
his
face.
His
eyes
It's all
over m
e --
blink and twitch
when he notices the m
irror.
Morpheus is right next to
him
, with the phone.
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15
TRINITY
I got
a fibrillation!
CYPHER
I
knew it, I knew it...
MORPHEUS
Shit! Apoc?
Stream
s of
m
ercury run from
Neo's nose.
APOC
Targeting...
alm
ost there.
An ALARM, on
Trinity's m
onitor ERUPTS.
TRINITY
He's going into
arrest!
CYPHER
He's gonna pop!
APOC
Lock! I got him
!
MORPHEUS
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
enorm
ous
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 m
otionless, he sees
other hum
an beings.
Fanning
out in a circle, there are m
ore. All
connected
to
a
center
core,
each
capsule
like
a
red,
dimly
glowing petal attached to a black
m
etal stem.
Above
him,
level
after,
level,
the
stem
rises
seem
ingly
forever.
He
m
oves
to
the
foot
of
the
capsule and looks out.
spiral
up
to
Now, Tank now!
The
im
age assaults his mind.
His
eyes tear with m
irror, rolling up and
closing as a
Towers
of
glowing
petals
headphones --
high-pitched
ELECTRIC
SCREAM
ERUPTS
in
the
incomprehensible heights, disappearing
down into a
dim
murk like an
underwater abyss.
It
is
a
piercing
SHRIEK
like
a
com
puter
calling
to
His
sight
is
blurred
and
warped,
exaggerating
the
another
com
puter --
intensity of the
vision. The sound of the PLANT is like
Neo's body arches in agony and we are
pulled like
the sound of the ocean
heard from
inside the belly of
we were pulled into the holes of the
phone
Leviathan.
Sucked
into
his
SCREAM
and
swallowed
by
Below Neo, a petal detaches
from
the stem, bearing
darkness.
away
the
body
of
an
old
man
like
an
autom
ated
barge
even as a new pod rises up and
plugs
itself
into the em
pty space.
Inside the new capsule, its surface
m
ore translucent
IX
INT. POWER PLANT - CLOSE ON MAN'S BODY
Floating in a womb-red amnion. His body
spasms,
and pinkish in color, Neo sees
a small baby.
fighting against the
thick gelatin.
From
above,
a
m
achine
drops
directly
in
front
of
Metal
tubes,
surreal
versions
of
hospital
tubes,
Neo.
obscure his face. Other lines like IVs
are connected
He swallows his
scream
as it seems to stare at
him
.
to lim
bs and
cover his genitals.
It
is
alm
ost
insect-
like
in
its
design;
beautiful
He is struggling desperately now. Air
bubbles into the
housings
of
alloyed
m
etal
covering
organic-like
Jell-O but does not break the surface.
system
s of hard and soft
polym
ers.
Pressing up, the
surface distends, stretching like a
A
black particle beam washes over Neo, he reacts in
red rubber cocoon.
pain
as
the
scanner
seems
to
expose
the
nervous
Unable to breathe, he fights wildly to
stand, clawing
system
wired
to
the
coaxial
cable
at
his
cerebral
at
the thinning elastic shroud --
cortex.
Until it ruptures, a hole widening
around his m
outh as
At
the
back
of
the
neck,
the
cable
lock
spins
and
he
sucks
for
air.
Tearing
him
self
free,
he em
erges
opens,
disengaging.
from
the cell.
The cable pulls itself free, a long
clear plastic needle
It is
Neo.
He is bald and naked, his body
slick with gelatin.
and cerebrum-chip
slides from
the anterior of Neols
skull
with
an
ooze
of
blood
and
spinal
fluid.
The
Dizzy, nauseous, he
waits for his vision to focus.
other
connective hoses snap free and snake away as
He is standing in an oval capsule of
clear alloy filled
--
with
red gelatin, the surface of which has solidified
The
back
of
the
unit
opens
and
a
trem
endous
THE MATRIX
16
vacuum
,
like
an
airplane
door
opening,
sucks
the
He
opens his eyes again, som
ething
tingling through
gelatin and then NEO
into a black hole.
INT.
WASTE LINE
The pipe is a waste disposal
system
and Neo falls,
him
.
He focuses
and sees his body pierced with dozens
of
acupuncture-like needles
wired to a strange device.
DOZER
sliding with the clot of gelatin.
He needs a lot of work.
Banking through pipe spirals and
elbows, flushing up
MORPHEUS
through
grease
traps
clogged
with
cily
clunps
of
I know.
cellulite.
Dozer and
Morpheus are operating on Neo.
Neo
begins to drown when he is suddenly snatched
NEO
from
the flow
of waste.
What are you doing?
The m
etallic cable then
lifts, pulling him
up into the
MORPHEUS
belly of the
futuristic flying m
achine, hovering
inside
Your m
uscles have
atrophied. We're rebuilding them.
the
sewer m
ain line.
Fluorescent
light sticks burn unnaturally bright.
INT. H
OVERCRAFT
NEO
Why do m
y
eyes hurt?
The
m
etal
harness
opens
and
drops
the
MORPHEUS
half-conscious NEO
onto the floor.
You've never used them
before.
Human
hands
and
arm
s
help
him
up
as
he
finds
Morpheus takes his
sunglasses off and puts them on
him
self looking straight at
Morpheus.
high-tech combat gear.
Morpheus sm
iles.
MORPHEUS
Welcom
e
to the real world, Neo.
Neo passes out.
Neo.
MORPHEUS
Rest, Neo. The answers are
com
ing.
Trinity
and
Apoc.
And
others,
dressed
in
bizarre,
Neo
lays back.
X
INT. NEO'S ROOM
FADE TO BLACK.
Neo wakes up
from
a deep sleep, feeling better. He
We
have
no
sense
of
tim
e.
We
hear
VOICES
is
wearing a black tank top and shorts.
whispering.
He begins to
examine himself. There is a futuristic IV
MAN (O.S.)
plugged into the
jack in his forearm. He pulls it out,
Do you think Morpheus is right?
Do you think he could be the One?
WOMA
N (O.S.)
It
doesn't m
atter now. But if he's
wrong...
FADE IN:
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 com
e
unglued, Morpheus opens
the door.
NEO'S POV
NEO
Neo's eyes flutter open. We see
Trinity's face above
Morpheus, what's
happened to m
e?
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
What is this place?
MORPHEUS
More im
portant than what is
when?
NEO
When?
MORPHEUS
You believe the
year is 1997 when in fact it is m
uch
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
THE
MATRIX
17
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. H
OVERCRAFT
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
Like
a
sleepwalker,
Neo
follows
Morpheus
through
needle in.
the ship.
We MOVE IN as Neo's shoulders bunch and
his face
MORPHEUS
tightens
into a grim
ace until a loud CLICK fires
and
This
is
m
y
ship,
the
Nebuchadnezzar.
It's
a
his
ears
pop
like
when
you
equalize
them
hovercraft.
Sm
all
like
a
subm
arine.
It's
dark.
It's
underwater.
cramped and
cold. But it's hom
e.
He
relaxes, opening
his
eyes
as
we
pull
back
to
a
They climb a ladder up to
the main deck.
I
NT. MAIN DECK
Everyone is there.
MORPHEUS
This is the m
ain deck. You
know m
ost of m
y crew.
feeling of weightlessness inside
another place --
INT.
CONSTRUCT
Neo is standing in an empty,
blank-white space.
MORPHEUS
This is the Construct.
Trinity sm
iles and nods.
Startled, Neo whips around and finds
Morpheus now
MORPHEUS
in the
room
with him.
The ones you
don't know. That's Mouse and Switch.
MORPHEUS
The two big guys
are Tank and Dozer.
The
nam
es 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 our loading program. We
can load anything from
clothes,
to
weapons,
to
training
sim
ulations.
Anything we need.
Morpheus
walks
past
Neo
and
when
Neo
turns
he
sees the
two leather chairs from
the hotel set
up in
It is a swamp of bizarre
electronic equipm
ent. Vines
front of a large-screen television.
of
coaxial
hang
and
snake
to
and
from
huge
MORPHEUS
m
onolithic
battery
slabs,
a
black
portable
satellite
Sit down.
dish
and
banks
of
little
systems
and
computer
Neo
stands
at
the
back
of
the
chair
as
Morpheus
m
onitors.
sits.
At the center of the web,
there are six
exoskeleton
NEO
chairs
made
of a poly-alloy frame and suspension
Right now, we're inside a
com
puter program?
harness.
MORPHEUS
Near the circle of
chairs is the control console and
Wild,
isn't it?
operator's station where the
network is m
onitored.
MORPHEUS
Help
him
, Trinity.
Neo's hands
run over the cracked leather.
NEO
This isn't real?
Neo
allows
him
self
to
be
helped
into
one
of
the
MORPHEUS
chairs.
What
is
real?
How
do
you
define
real?
If
you're
MORPHEUS
talking
about
your
senses,
what
you
feel,
taste,
Do
you
rem
ember
when
I
asked
you
about
an
sm
ell,
or
see,
then
all
you're
talking
about
are
apparatus that could turn a virtual
reality into reality?
electrical
signals interpreted by your brain.
Neo
nods.
He
picks
up
a
rem
ote
control
and
clicks
ON
the
MORPHEUS
TELEVISION. We
drift
through
the
Windy
City
circa
THE MATRIX
18
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
sim
ulation
that
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
m
achines that are
at
once
terrifying
and
beautiful.
They
have
an
organic
architecture
like
a
m
icro
biotic
organism,
we call the Matrix.
that is
perpetually in motion.
We
GLIDE
AT
the
television
as
he
changes
the
The
Sentinel
cracks
the
body
arm
or
of
a
soldier,
channel.
MORPHEUS
splitting open the soft, searing
m
eat inside.
MORPHEUS
You
have
been
living
inside
Bullard’s
vision,
inside
It scorched and
burned the sky. Without the sun, the
the m
ap, not the territory.
This is Chicago as it exists
machines
sought out a new energy source to survive.
today.
The Sentinel locks
up, as heat lightning of black ink
The
sky is an endless sea of black and green bile.
bursts against the sky, spreading into
a permanent
The
earth,
scorched
and
split
like
burnt
flesh,
cloud of stain.
spreads out beneath us as we ENTER the
television.
MORPHEUS
MORPHEUS
They discovered a
new form
of fusion. All that was
'The desert of the real.'
required to initiate the reaction was a
sm
all electric
In the
distance, we see the ruins of a future Chicago
charge.
Throughout
hum
an
history
we
have
been
protruding from
the
wasteland like the blackened ribs
dependent on machines to survive. Fate,
it seems, is
of a long-dead corpse.
MORPHEUS
not without a sense
of irony.
We return to the power plant
that Neo escaped from
We are, right
now, m
iles below the earth's surface.
where we see hum
an beings
looking alm
ost blissful
The
only place hum
ans can survive outside
the Matrix
in their gelatin cocoons.
is underground.
MORPHEUS
Still MOVING, we TURN and find Neo and
Morpheus;
The
hum
an
body
generates
m
ore
bio-
electricity
the
chairs
now
sitting
in
the
middle
of
the
black
than a 120-volt
battery and over 25,000 B.T.U.'s of
desert.
Dizzy, Neo holds
onto the chair.
NEO
What
happened?
body heat.
Outside,
spreading
all
around
the
power
plant,
beneath
a
breathing
greenhouse,
are
the
growing
fields.
MORPHEUS
MORPHEUS
It started early in
the twenty
- first century, with the
We are, as an energy source, easily
renewable and
birth
of
artificial
intelligence,
a
singular
com
pletely
recyclable,
the
dead
liquefied
and
fed
consciousness
that
spawned
an
entire
race
of
intravenously to the living.
machines.
In his sunglasses,
we see storm
clouds gather.
MORPHEUS
Huge farm-like
reapers are harvesting the crop.
MORPHEUS
All
they
needed
to
control
this
new
battery
was
At first all they wanted
was to be treated as equals,
som
ething to occupy our
m
ind.
entitled
to
the
sam
e
hum
an
inalienable
rights.
We
see
inside
a
clear
tubular
husk.
Floating
in
Whatever they were given, it was not
enough.
viscous
fluid,
there
is
a
human
fetus;
its
soft
skull
In the
circular window of the glasses, EXPLOSIONS
already growing around the brain-jack.
light up a bloody battle field.
MORPHEUS
MORPHEUS
And so they built a prison out of our
past, wired it to
We
don't
know
who
struck
first.
Us
or
them
.
But
our brains and turned us into slaves.
som
etime at the end of the
twenty-first century the
We
PULL
BACK
to
find
the
im
age
is
now
on
the
battle was joined.
television and we are again inside the
white space of
We MOVE INTO his glasses
and
the war surrounds
the
Construct.
us.
NEO
MORPHEUS
No! I don't believe
it! It's not possible!
THE
MATRIX
19
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 m
e
out! I want out!
MORPHEUS
When the Matrix was first built there
was a m
an born
inside that
had the ability to change what he wanted,
to remake the Matrix as he saw fit. It
was this
m
an
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
X I
I
NT. MAIN DECK
His
eyes
snap
open
and
he
thrashes
against
the
prophesied his return
and envisioned an end to the
chair,
trying
to
rip
the
cable
from
the
back
of
his
war and
freedom
for our people. That is why there
neck.
are
those
of
us
that
have
spent
our
entire
lives
NEO
Get this thing out of
m
e!
TRINITY
Easy, Neo. Easy.
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
Dozer holds
him
while Trinity unlocks it. Once it's
out,
brought here for a reason, Neo.
You are here to serve
he tears away
from
them
, falling as he
trips free of
a purpose, just as I am
here to serve m
ine.
the
harness.
NEO
NEO
Don't touch m
e! Get away
from
me!
I told you I don't
believe in fate.
Morpheus
sm
iles, leaning towards him.
On his hands and knees, he reels as the
world spins.
MORPHEUS
Sweat
pours off him
as a pressure builds
inside his
But I do, Neo. I do.
skull as if his brain had been put into
a centrifuge.
He stands up.
CYPHER
MORPHEUS
He's going to pop!
Vom
iting
violently,
Neo
pitches
forward
and
blacks
out.
INT. NEO'S ROOM
Get som
e rest. You're going
to need it.
NEO
For what?
MORPHEUS
Your training.
He
blinks,
regaining
consciousness.
The
room
is
dark.
INT. H
OVERCRAFT
Neo is stretched out on his bed.
NEO
I can't go back, can I?
There is no m
orning; there
is only darkness and then
the
fluorescent light sticks flicker on.
Morpheus sitting like a shadow on a
chair in the far
INT. NEO'S ROOM
corner.
Neo is awake in his
bed, staring up at the lights. The
MORPHEUS
No. But if you
could, would you really want to?
Neo
isn't sure of that answer.
MORPHEUS
door opens and steps inside.
TANK
Morning. Did you sleep?
NEO
I feel that I owe you an
apology. There is a rule that
No.
we do not free a mind once it reaches a
certain age.
TANK
It is
dangerous.
You will tonight. I
guarantee it. I'
m
Tank. I'll
be your
They
have
trouble
letting
go..
Their
mind
turns
operator.
against them
.
He
offers
his
hand
and
Neo
shakes
it.
He
notices
I've seen it happen. I broke the rule
because I had to.
that Tank doesn't
have any jacks.
He stares into the
darkness, confessing as much to
NEO
him
self as Neo.
You don't have...
THE MATRIX
20
TANK
Any
holes? Nope. Me and m
y brother Dozer,
we are
100
percent
pure,
old
fashioned,
hom
e-grown
human.
Born
free.
Right
here
in
the
real
world.
Genuine child of Zion.
NEO
Zion?
INT. MAIN DECK - CLOSE
ON COMPUTER MONITOR
- LATER
as grey pixels slowly fill a
sm
all, half-empty box. It
is
a
m
eter
displaying
how
m
uch
download
tim
e
is
left.
The
title
bar
reads:
bat
Series 10 of
12,
file
categories flashing
beneath it: Savate, Jujitsu,
Ken
TANK
Po,
Drunken Boxing...
Zion is the place,
man. You'll see it one day. Last
Morpheus walks in.
human
city.
All we got left.
Tank
sm
iles.
MORPHEUS
How is he?
Tank looks at his
watch, rubs his eyes.
TANK
TANK
Goddam
n, I
got to tell you I'm
fairly excited to
see
Ten hours straight. He's a
m
achine.
what you are
capable of. I m
ean if Morpheus is right
Neo's body spasm
s and
relaxes as his eyes open,
and
all.
We're
not
supposed
to
talk.
about
any of
breath
hissing
from
his
lips.
He
looks
like
he
just
that, but if you are, well then this is
an exciting tim
e.
orgasm
ed.
We got
a lot to do so let's get to it.
I
NT. MAIN DECK
chairs.
He locks at
Morpheus.
NEO
This is
incredible. I know Kung Fu.
to Tank.
Neo is plugged in, hanging in one of
the suspension
Morpheus sits in the
drive chair next to hin. He nods
TANK
MORPHEUS
We're
supposed
to
load
all
these
operations
Show
m
e.
programs
first,
but
this
is
som
e
m
ajor
boring
shit.
Why don't
we start som
ething 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
com
bat training?
Neo reads
the label on the disk.
NEO
Jujitsu? I'
m
going to learn jujitsu?
Tank slides the
disk into Neo's supplem
ent drive.
NEO
No way.
INT.
DOJ
O
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
assum
es
a
sim
ilar
stance,
cautiously
circling
until
he
gives
a
short
cry
and
launches
a
furious
Sm
iling, Tank punches the
attack.
His
body
jum
ps
against
the
harness
as
his
eyes
It is
like a Jackie Chan m
ovie at high speed,
fists and
clam
p
shut.
The
m
onitors
kick
wildly
as
his
heart
feet
striking
from
every
angle
as
Neo
presses
his
pounds, adrenaline surges, and his
brain sizzles.
attack--
An
instant later his eyes snap open.
NEO
Holy shit!
TANK
Hey, Mikey, he likes it! Ready for
m
ore?
NEO
Hell
yes!
But
each
and
every
blow
is
blocked
by
effortless
speed.
I
NT. MAIN DECK
While their
m
inds
battle in
the programmed reality,
the
two
bodies
appear
quite
serene,
suspended
in
the drive chairs.
Tank m
onitors their life
systems noticing that Neo is
THE
MATRIX
21
wildly and chaotically lit up as
opposed to the slow
MOUSE
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. DOJ
O
You ever seen anyone that fast that
soon, Tank?
TANK
Never.
APOC
Morpheus is right. He's
got to be the one.
INT.
DOJ
O
The speed of the blows
rises like a drum solo that
seem
s impossible
to sustain. Neo's face sheds its
mask of calm with a scream.
He wants to beat Morpheus bad.
Neo's
face
is
knotted,
teeth
clenched,
as
he
hurls
Finally a single blow
catches Morpheus on the side
him
self at Morpheus.
of the head, knocking his glasses off.
MORPHEUS
Good.
Adaption. Improvisation. But your weakness
I
NT. MAIN DECK
isn't your technique.
There
are several gasps.
Morpheus attacks
him
and it is like nothing we have
MOUSE
seen.
I
don't believe it!
His feet and
fists are everywhere taking Neo apart.
For every blow Neo blocks,
five m
ore hit their m
arks
INT. DOJ
O
until
--
Morpheus rubs his face.
Neo falls.
MORPHEUS
Panting, on his hands and knees,
blood spits fror,
You are
angry with m
e.
his
m
outh speckling the white floor of the
Dojo.
Neo pants.
MORPHEUS
How did I beat you?
NEO
You -- You're too fast.
MORPHEUS
NEO
I,
uh... maybe.
MORPHEUS
It's
all right. It's natural.
NEO
Do you think m
y being
faster, stronger has anything
I feel
better.
to do with m
y
m
uscles in this place?
MORPHEUS
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 m
ind,
the body will follow.
Neo stands,
nodding.
MORPHEUS
Again.
Their fists fly with
pneum
atic speed.
Good, good.
Anger is
a gift, Neo, but it's a heavy
one.
Morpheus
sm
iles.
MORPHEUS
Tank, load the jum
p program.
Neo straightens as the dojo DISSOLVES
away like a
curtain lifting, leaving
the two m
en now standing on
a building rooftop in a city skyline.
MORPHEUS
You have to learn
to let go of that anger. You m
ust let
go of everything.
A
WIND
HOWLS,
whipping
Morpheus'
long
coat
to
X II
I
NT. MAIN
DECK
the side.
Everyone is
gathered behind Tank, watching the fight,
MORPHEUS
like watching a
game of Mortal Combat.
CABLE
Jeezus Keerist! That boy is fast!
You m
ust empty
yourself to free your m
ind.
Morpheus
spins,
running
hard
at
the
edge
of
the
rooftop.
THE
MATRIX
22
And
jumps.
He
sails
through
the
air,
his
coat
Everyone falls the first
tim
e.
billowing
out behind him
like a cape
--
Som
ersaults once and
lands on the rooftop across
the street.
NEO
Shit.
Neo
nods quietly.
MORPHEUS
If
you
never
know
failure,
how
can
you
know
success?
I
NT. MAIN DECK
Neo
looks
down
at
the
street
twenty
floors
below,
They break up.
then at Morpheus an
im
possible fifty feet away.
MOUSE
NEO
Okie
dokie.
He takes a deep breath.
NEO
Yeah. Free m
y
m
ind. Right. No problem.
He
concentrates. Runs.
I
NT. MAIN DECK
They are transfixed.
CABLE
He's gonna m
ake it.
APOC
No way. Not possible.
MOUSE
No one's ever
m
ade their first jump.
SWITCH
What if he does?
APOC
He won't.
TANK
It's never been done.
What does it mean?
CABLE
It doesn't m
ean anything.
CYPHER
Everyone falls,
right, Trinity?
But Trinity has left.
Neo's eyes open as Tank eases the plug
out. He tries
to m
ove 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 m
ind.
INT. NEO'S ROOM
Trinity
enters from
the hall, carrying a try of
food.
TRINITY
Trinity stares
at the screen, her fists clenching as she
Neo, I saved you som
e dinner
--
whispers.
She sees
him
passed out on the bed. She sets the
TRINITY
Com
e on.
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
EXT. ROOFTOP
away.
Summ
oning
every ounce of strength in his legs,
NEO
It seem
s the
m
oment she closes the door, he wakes
launches
him
self
into
the
air
in
a
single
m
aniacal
with a
start, unsure of where he is. After a
m
om
ent,
shriek--
he gets out of bed.
But
com
es up drastically short.
His eyes widen as he plummets. Stories
fly by, the
INT. HALL
ground
rushing up at him, but as he hits --
The ship is quiet and dark. Everyone is
asleep.
The ground gives way,
stretching like a trapeze net.
He bounces and flips, slowly
com
ing to a rest, flat
I
NT. MAIN DECK
on
his back.
The core glows with
m
onitor
light.
Cypher is in the
He laughs,
a bit unsure, wiping the wind-blown tears
operator's chair as Neo cones up behind
him
.
from
his
face.
CYPHER
Morpheus exits
the building and helps him
to his feet.
Whoa! Shit, Neo, you scared the
bejeezus out of ne.
MORPHEUS
NEO
THE MATRIX
23
Sorry.
CYPHER
No,
it's all right.
NEO
What are
you doing?
CYPHER
Midnight
watch.
thick, gorgeous steak.
CYPHER
That's what he said
to m
e nine years ago.
The
m
eat
is
so
perfect,
charred
on
the
outside,
oozing red juice
from
the inside, that it could be a
dream.
CYPHER
Neo's eyes light up as he steps closer
to the screens
The real world. Ha, what
a joke.
that seem
alive with
a constant flow of data.
We recognize
the grating voice, the insidious laugh.
NEO
Is that... ?
CYPHER
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
The Matrix? Yeah.
TO the face of Cypher.
The
m
onitors
are
packed
with
bizarre
codes
and
CYPHER
equations.
CYPHER
You want a drink?
He pours Neo a drink from
a
large plastic jug.
CYPHER
Real is just another four-letter word.
He laughs, shoving the steak into his
m
outh.
The
restaurant
is
located
on
the
top
floor
of
a
Chicago
skyscraper
where
the view
is
breathtaking
and the
m
enu has no prices.
I'll
tell you, I feel for you, m
an. I really
do. Most of us
Sitting across
from
Cypher is Agent
S
m
ith.
were still
young, just punks, when Morpheus jacked
AGENT SMITH
us. But you, you
had a real life.
Do we have a deal, Mr.
Reagan?
Neo
takes
a
sip
and
it
alm
ost
kills
him.
Cypher
Cypher chews the steak loudly,
sm
acking it between
pounds
on his back.
his
CYPHER
teeth.
Good
shit,
huh?
Dozer
m
akes
it.
It's
good
for
two
CYPHER
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,
Mmm, so, so fucking
good.
Sm
ith watches him
shovel another hunk of m
eat into
his m
outh.
CYPHER
You know, I know that this steak
doesn't exist. I know
when
I
put
it
in
m
y
m
outh,
the
Matrix
is
telling
m
y
I'll be the
didn't tell you that this wasn't the first time
brain that it is juicy and delicious.
After nine years,
he thought he found
the One.
do you know what I've
realized?
Neo
shakes
his
head
as
Cypher
fills
his
cup
and
Pausing,
he exam
ines the meat skewered on his
fork.
laughs.
CYPHER
He
pops
it
in,
eyes
rolling
up,
savoring
the
tender
beef
m
elting in his m
outh.
Let m
e give you a piece of
advice. Between you and
CYPHER
me,
if
Morpheus
says
you
can
fly,
I
wouldn't
go
Ignorance is bliss.
jum
ping
out
any
windows
to
find
out
if
he's
right.
AGENT
SMITH
Understand?
Then we
have a deal?
Cypher
raises
his
drink.
Neo
swallows
another
CYPHER
throat- scorching
m
outhful.
CYPHER
Welcom
e to the real world!
I
don't
want
to
rem
ember
nothing.
Nothing!
You
understand?
And
I
want
to
be
rich.
Som
eone
im
portant. Like an actor.
You can do that, right?
AGENT SMITH
INT. RESTAURANT (MATRIX) - NIGHT
Whatever you want, Mr. Reagan.
CHAMBER MUSIC and the ambiance of
wealth soak
Cypher takes a deep drink
of wine.
the room
as we
watch a serrated knife saw through a
CYPHER