T H E M A T R I X
Cypher: Hear what?
Trinity: Are you sure this line is clean?
Cypher: Yeah, of course I'm sure.
Trinity: I better go.
(Hotel room)
Cop: Freeze, Police. Hands on your head. Do it. Do it now.
(Street)
Agent Smith: Lieutenant...
Lieutenant: Oh shit.
Agent Smith: Lieutenant, you were given specific orders.
Lieutenant: Hey, I'm just doing my job. You give me juris- my diction crap, you cancram it up your ass.
Agent Smith: Your orders were for your protection.
Lieutenant: I think we can handle one little girl.... I sent two units. They're bringingher down now.
Agent Smith: No Lieutenant, your men are already dead.
(Hotel room)
Trinity: Morpheus, the line was traced, I don't know how.
Morpheus: I know, they cut the hard line. There's no time, you're going to have toget to another exit.
Trinity: Are there any agents?
Morpheus: Yes.
Trinity: God-dammit.
Morpheus: You have to focus, Trinity. There's a phone at Wells and Lake. Youcan make it.
Trinity: All right.
Morpheus: Go.
(Rooftop)Cop: That's impossible.
(Building)
Trinity: Get up Trinity. Just get up. Get up.
(Street)
Agent Brown: She got out.
Agent Smith: It doesn't matter.
Agent Jones: The informant is real.
Agent Smith: Yes.
Agent Jones: We have the name of their next target.
Agent Brown: The name is Neo.
Agent Smith: We'll need a search running.
Agent Jones: It has already begun.
(Neo's apartment)
Neo: What? What the hell?... Follow the white rabbit?... Who is it?
Choi: It's Choi.
Neo: Yeah. Yeah. You're two hours late.
Choi: I know, it's her fault.
Neo: Got the money?
Choi: Two grand.
Neo: Hold on.
Choi: Hallelujah. You're my savior, man. My own personal Jesus Christ.
Neo: You get caught using that...
Choi: Yeah, I know. This never happened. You don't exist.
Neo: Right.
Choi: Something wrong, man? You look a little whiter than usual.
Neo: My computer, it... You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you'reawake or still dreaming?
Choi: Mm, all the time. It's called Mescaline. It's the only way to fly. Hey, it just sounds to me like you need to unplug, man. You know, get some R and R. Whatdo you think, DuJour? Shall we take him with us?
DuJour: Definitely.
Neo: I can't, I have work tomorrow.
DuJour: Come on, It'll be fun. I promise.
Neo: Yeah, sure, I'll go.
(Club)
Trinity: Hello Neo.
Neo: How do you know that name?
Trinity: I know a lot about you.
Neo: Who are you?
Trinity: My name is Trinity.
Neo: Trinity. The Trinity? That cracked the IRS d-base?
Trinity: That was a long time ago.
Neo: Jesus.
Trinity: What?
Neo: I just thought, um...you were a guy.
Trinity: Most guys do.
Neo: It you on my computer. How did you do that?
Trinity: Right now all I can tell you is that you're in danger. I brought you here towarn you.
Neo: Of what?
Trinity: They're watching you, Neo.
Neo: Who is?
Trinity: Please just listen. I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've beendoing. I know why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after nightyou sit at your computer. You're looking for him. I know, because I was oncelooking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't reallylooking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us mad.It's the question that brought you here. You know the question just as I did.
Neo: What is the Matrix.
Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo. It's looking for you. And it will find you, ifyou want it to.
(Neo's apartment)
Neo: Oh shit. Oh shit shit.
(Office)
Mr. Rhineheart: You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson. You believethat you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you. Obviously you are mistaken. This company is one of the top software companies in the worldbecause every single employee understands that they are part of a whole. Thus ifan employee has a problem, the company has a problem. The time has come tomake a choice, Mr. Anderson. Either you choose to be at your desk on time fromthis day forward or you choose to find yourself another job. Do I make myselfclear?
Neo: Yes, Mr. Rhineheart, perfectly clear.
FedEx man: Thomas Anderson?
Neo: Yeah, that's me.
FedEx man: Ok, great. Have a nice day.
Neo: Hello.
Morpheus: Hello Neo. Do you know who this is?
Neo: Morpheus.
Morpheus: Yes. I've been looking for you, Neo. I don't know if you're ready to seewhat I want to show you, but unfortunately you and I have run out of time. They'recoming for you, Neo, and I don't know what they're going to do.
Neo: Who's coming for me?
Morpheus: Stand up and see for yourself.
Neo: What, right now.
Morpheus: Yes, now. Do it slowly. The elevator.
Neo: Oh shit.
Morpheus: Yes.
Neo: What the hell do they want from me?
Morpheus: I don't know, but if you don't want to find out I suggest you get out ofthere.
Neo: How?
Morpheus: I can guide you but you must do exactly as I say.
Neo: Ok.
Morpheus: The cubicle across from you is empty.
Neo: What if they...
Morpheus: Go, now...Stay here for just a moment. When I tell you, go to the endof the row, to the office at the end of the hall. Stay as low as you can.... Go,now.... Good. Now, outside there is a scaffold.
Neo: How do you know all this?
Morpheus: We don't have time, Neo. To your left there's a window. Go to it....Open it. You can use the scaffold to get to the roof.
Neo: No way. No way. This is crazy.
Morpheus: There are two ways out of this building. One is that scaffold, the otheris in their custody. You take a chance either w>Transfer interrupted!his is insane. Why is this happening to me? What did I do? I'm nobody.... Shit.... I can't do this.
(Street)
Trinity: Shit.
(Interrogation)
Agent Smith: As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr.Anderson. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Thomas A.Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company, you have a socialsecurity number, you pay your taxes, and you help your landlady carry out hergarbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker aliasNeo and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One ofthese lives has a future, and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcomingas I can be, Mr. Anderson. You're here because we need your help. We knowthat you've been contacted by a certain individual, a man who calls himselfMorpheus. Now whatever you think you know about this man is irrelevant. He isconsidered by many authorities to be the most dangerous man alive. My colleaguesbelieve that I am wasting my time with you but I believe that you wish to do theright thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start and all thatwe're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice.
Neo: Yeah. Wow, that sound like a really good deal. But I think I got a better one.How about I give you the finger... and you give me my phone call.
Agent Smith: Um, Mr. Anderson. You disappoint me.
Neo: You can't scare me with this Gestapo crap. I know my rights. I want myphone call.
Agent Smith: Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you're unable tospeak.... You're going to help us, Mr. Anderson whether you want to or not.
(Neo's apartment)
Morpheus: This line is tapped, so I must be brief. They got to you first, but they'veunderestimated how important you are. If they knew what I know, you'd probablybe dead.
Neo: What are you talking about. What...what is happening to me?
Morpheus: You are the one, Neo. You see you may have spent the last few yearslooking for me, but I've spent my entire life looking for you. Now do you still wantto meet?
Neo: Yes.
Morpheus: Then go to the Adam Street Bridge.
(Car)
Trinity: Get in.
Neo: What the hell is this?
Trinity: It's necessary, Neo. For our protection.
Neo: From what.
Trinity: From you. Take off your shirt.
Neo: What?
Switch: Stop the car. Listen to me, Copper-top. We don't have time for twentyquestions. Right now there's only one rule, our way or the highway.
Neo: Fine.
Trinity: Please, Neo. You have to trust me
Neo: Why?
Trinity: Because you have been down there, Neo. You know that road. You knowexactly where it ends. And I know that's not where you want to be.... Apoc, lights.Lie back, lift up your shirt.
Neo: What is that thing?
Trinity: We think you're bugged.... Try and relax.... Come on. Come on.
Switch: It's on the move.
Trinity: Shit.
Switch: You're going to loose it.
Trinity: No I'm not. Clear.
Neo: Jesus Christ, that thing's real?
(Lafayette Hotel)
Trinity: This is it. Let me give you one piece of advice. Be honest. He knows morethan you can imagine.
Morpheus: At last. Welcome, Neo. As you no doubt have guessed, I amMorpheus.
Neo: It's an honor to meet you.
Morpheus: No, the honor is mine. Please, come. Sit down. I imagine that right nowyou're feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole? Hm?
Neo: You could say that.
Morpheus: I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who acceptswhat he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, this is not far fromthe truth. 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. Let me tell you why you're here.You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain. Butyou feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with theworld. You don't know what it is but it's there, like a splinter in your mind drivingyou mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Neo: The Matrix?
Morpheus: Do you want to know what IT is? The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work,when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.... Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back.You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.... Remember, all I'm offering is the truth, nothing more.... Follow me.... Apoc, are we online?
Apoc: Almost.
Morpheus: Time is always against us. Please, take a seat there.
Neo: You did all this?
Trinity: Uh-huh.
Morpheus: The pill you took is part of a trace program. It's designed to disrupt yourinput/output carrier signal so we can pinpoint your location.
Neo: What does that mean?
Cypher: It means buckle your seat belt, Dorothy, because Kansas is goingbye-bye.
Neo: Did you...
Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real.What if you were unable to wake from that dream. How would you know thedifference between the dream world and the real world?
Neo: This can't be...
Morpheus: Be what? Be real?
Trinity: It's going into replication.
Morpheus: Apoc?
Apoc: Still nothing.
Neo: It's cold. It's cold.
Morpheus: Tank, we're going to need a signal soon.
Trinity: We've got fibrillation.
Morpheus: Apoc, location.
Apoc: Targeting almost there.
Trinity: It's going into arrest.
Apoc: Lock, I've got him.
Morpheus: Now, Tank. Now.
(Nebuchadnezzar)
Morpheus: Welcome to the real world. We've done it, Trinity. We've found him.
Trinity: I hope you're right.
Morpheus: I don't have to hope. I know it.
Neo: Am I dead?
Morpheus: Far from it.
Dozer: He still needs a lot of work.
Neo: What are you doing.
Morpheus: Your muscles have atrophied, we're rebuilding them.
Neo: Why do my eyes hurt?
Morpheus: You've never used them before. Rest, Neo. The answers are coming.
Neo: Morpheus, what's happened to me? What is this place?
Morpheus: More important than what is when.
Neo: When?
Morpheus: You believe it's the year 1999 when in fact it's closer to 2199. I can'ttell you exactly what year it is because we honestly don't know. There's nothing Ican say that will explain it for you, Neo. Come with me. See for yourself. This ismy ship, the Nebuchadnezzar. It's a hovercraft. This is the main deck. This is thecore where we broadcast our pirate signal and hack into the Matrix. Most of mycrew you already know. This is Apoc, Switch, and Cypher.
Cypher: Hi.
Morpheus: The one's you don't know, Tank and his big brother, Dozer. The littleone behind you is Mouse. You wanted to know what the Matrix is Neo? Trinity....Try to relax. This will feel a weird.
(Construct)
Morpheus: This is the construct. It's our loading program. We can load anythingfrom clothing, to equipment, weapons, training simulations, anything we need.
Neo: Right now we're inside a computer program?
Morpheus: Is it really so hard to believe? Your clothes are different. The plugs inyour arms and head are gone. Your hair is changed. Your appearance now is whatwe call residual self image. It is the mental projection of your digital self.
Neo: This...this isn't real?
Morpheus: What is real. How do you define real? If you're talking about what youcan feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simplyelectrical signals interpreted by your brain. This is the world that you know. Theworld as it was at the end of the twentieth century. It exists now only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Matrix. You've been living in a dreamworld, Neo. This is the world as it exists today.... Welcome to the Desert of theReal. We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain isthat at some point in the early twenty-first century all of mankind was united incelebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI.
Neo: AI? You mean artificial intelligence?
Morpheus: A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. Wedon't know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorchedthe sky. At the time they were dependent on solar power and it was believed thatthey would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fateit seems is not without a sense of irony. The human body generates morebio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTU's of body heat.Combined with a form of fusion the machines have found all the energy theywould ever need. There are fields, endless fields, where human beings are nolonger born, we are grown. For the longest time I wouldn't believe it, and then Isaw the fields with my own eyes. Watch them liquefy the dead so they could befed intravenously to the living. And standing there, facing the pure horrifyingprecision, I came to realize the obviousness of the truth. What is the Matrix?Control. The Matrix is a computer generated dream world built to keep us undercontrol in order to change a human being into this.
Neo: No. I don't believe it. It's not possible.
Morpheus: I didn't say it would be easy, Neo. I just said it would be the truth.
Neo: Stop. Let me out. Let me out. I want out.
(Nebuchadnezzar)
Trinity: Easy, Neo. Easy.
Neo: Take this thing off me. Take this thing...
Morpheus: Listen to me...
Neo: Don't touch me. Stay away from me. I don't want it. I don't believe it. I don'tbelieve it.
Cypher: He's gonna pop.
Morpheus: Breathe, Neo. Just breathe.
Neo: I can't go back, can I?
Morpheus: No. But if you could, would you really want to? I feel I owe you anapology. We have a rule. We never free a mind once it's reached a certain age.It's dangerous, the mind has trouble letting go. I've seen it before and I'm sorry. Idid what I did because...I had to. When the Matrix was first built, there was a manborn inside who had the ability to change whatever he wanted, to remake theMatrix as he saw fit. It was he who freed the first of us, taught us the truth. Aslong as the Matrix exists the human race will never be free. After he died theOracle prophesied his return and that his coming would hail the destruction of theMatrix and the war, bring freedom to our people. That is why there are those of uswho have spent our entire lives searching the Matrix looking for him. I did what Idid because I believe that search is over.... Get some rest, you're going to need it.
Neo: For what?
Morpheus: Your training.
Tank: Morning, did you sleep? You will tonight, I guarantee it. I'm Tank, I'll beyour operator.
Neo: You don't...you don't have any...
Tank: Holes? Nope. Me and my brother, Dozer, we're both one hundred percentpure, old fashioned, home grown human, born free right here in the real world. Agenuine child of Zion.
Neo: Zion?
Tank: If the war was over tomorrow, Zion is where the party would be.
Neo: It's a city?
Tank: The last human city. The only place we have left.
Neo: Where is it?
Tank: Deep underground, near the earth's core where it's still warm. Live longenough you might even see it. God-damn, I...I got to tell you, I'm fairly excited tosee what you're capable of, if Morpheus is right and all...I'm not supposed to talkabout this, but if you are...a very exciting time. We got a lot to do. We got to get toit.... Now, we're supposed to start with these operation programs first, that's amajor boring shit. Let's do something more fun. How about combat training.
Neo: Jujitsu? I'm going to learn Jujitsu?... Holy shit.
Tank: Hey Mikey, I think he likes it. How about some more?
Neo: Hell yes. Hell yeah.
Morpheus: How is he?
Tank: Ten hours straight. He's a machine.
Neo: I know Kung Fu.
Morpheus: Show me.
(Construct)
Morpheus: This is a sparring program, similar to the programmed reality of the Matrix. It has the same basic rules, rules like gravity. What you must learn is that these rules are no different that the rules of a computer system. Some of them can be bent. Others can be broken. Understand? Then hit me if you can.... Good.Adaptation, improvisation. But your weakness is not your technique.
(Nebuchadnezzar)
Mouse: Morpheus is fighting Neo.
(Construct)
Morpheus: How did I beat you?
Neo: You're too fast.
Morpheus: Do you believe that my being stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place? You think that's air you're breathing now?... Again.
(Nebuchadnezzar)
Mouse: Jesus Christ, he's fast. Take a look at his neural-kinetics, they're way above normal.
(Construct)
Morpheus: What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are.... Come on. Stop trying to hit me and hit me.
(Nebuchadnezzar)
Mouse: I don't believe it.
(Construct)
Neo: I know what you're trying to do.
Morpheus: I'm trying to free your mind, Neo, but I can only show you the door,you're the one that has to walk through it. Tank, load the jump program.... Youhave to let it all go, Neo, fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.
Neo: Whoa. Okie dokie. Free my mind.
(Nebuchadnezzar)
Mouse: So what if he makes it?
Apoc: No one's ever made the first jump.
Mouse: I know, I know. But what if he does?
Apoc: He won't.
Mouse: Come on.
Trinity: Come on.
(Construct)
Neo: All right, no problem. Free my mind. Free my mind. All right.
(Nebuchadnezzar)
Mouse: Wha...what does that mean?
Switch: It doesn't mean anything.
Cypher: Everybody falls the first time. Right, Trin?
(Nebuchadnezzar)
Neo: I thought it wasn't real.
Morpheus: Your mind makes it real.
Neo: If you're killed in the Matrix, you die here?
Morpheus: Your body cannot live without the mind.
Cypher: I don't remember you bringing me dinner. There is something about him,isn't there?
Trinity: Don't tell me you're a believer now?
Cypher: I just keep wondering, if Morpheus is so sure, why doesn't he take him tosee the Oracle?
Trinity: Morpheus will take him when he's ready.
(Construct)
Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around. What do you see. Business men, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. Youhave to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And manyof them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight toprotect it. Were you listening to me Neo, or were you looking at the woman in thered dress?
Neo: I was...
Morpheus: Look again. Freeze it.
Neo: This...this isn't the Matrix?
Morpheus: No. It's another training program designed to teach you one thing. If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
Neo: What are they?
Morpheus: Sentient programs. They can move in and out of any software still hardwired to their system. That means that anyone we haven't unplugged is potentiallyan agent. Inside the Matrix, they are everyone and they are no one. We aresurvived by hiding from them, by running from them. But they are the gatekeepers.They are guarding all the doors. They are holding all the keys, which means thatsooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them.
Neo: Someone?
Morpheus: I won't lie to you, Neo. Every single man or woman who has stood theirground, everyone who has fought an agent has died. But where they have failed,you will succeed.
Neo: Why?
Morpheus: I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall. Men have emptiedentire clips at them and hit nothing but air. Yet their strength and their speed arestill based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be asstrong or as fast as you can be.
Neo: What are you trying to tell me, that I can dodge bullets?
Morpheus: No Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't haveto.
(Nebuchadnezzar)
Tank: We've got trouble.
Morpheus: Did Zion send word?
Dozer: No, another ship. Shit. Squiddies. We've been in crick.
Neo: Squiddy?
Trinity: A sentinel. A killing machine designed for one thing.
Dozer: Search and destroy.
Morpheus: Set her down right over there.... How're we doing, Tank?
Tank: Power off line. EMP armed and ready.
Neo: EMP?
Trinity: Electromagnetic pulse. Disables any electrical system in the blast radius.It's the only weapon we have against the machines.
Neo: Where are we?
Trinity: There old service and waste systems.
Neo: Sewers?
Trinity: They used to be cities that spanned hundreds of miles. Now these sewersare all that's left of them.
Morpheus: Quiet.
Cypher: Whoa, Neo. You scared the bejeezus out of me.
Neo: Sorry.
Cypher: It's okay.
Neo: Is that...
Cypher: The Matrix? Yeah.
Neo: Do you always look at it encoded?
Cypher: Well you have to. The image translators work for the construct program.But there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it.I...I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head. Hey, you a...want a drink?
Neo: Sure
Cypher: You know, I know what you're thinking, because right now I'm thinkingthe same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here. Why, oh whydidn't I take the blue pill?... Good shit, huh. Dozer makes it. It's good for twothings, degreasing engines and killing brain cells. So, can I ask you something? Didhe tell you why he did it, why you're here? Jesus. What a mind job. So you're here to save the world. What do you say to something like that? A little piece of advice.You see an agent, you do what we do. Run. Run your ass off.
Neo: Thanks for the drink.
Cypher: Sweet dreams.
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