Part 7
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?
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