Part 8
INT. MAIN DECK
He walks over to Trinity's body, staring down at it
hanging in its coma-like stillness.
CYPHER
You know, for a long time, I
thought I was in love with you,
Trinity. I used to dream about
you...
He nuzzles his face against hers, feeling the softness of
it.
CYPHER
You are a beautiful woman. Too
bad things had to work out like
this.
We INTERCUT BETWEEN the appliance store and the main
deck.
TRINITY
You killed them.
APOC
What?!
SWITCH
Oh God.
Wearing Tank's operator headgear, Cypher moves among the
silent bodies.
CYPHER
In a way you're very lucky. Most
people never know why they die.
One minute they're alive, the next
they're dead. No warning.
Nothing. That's why I thought
maybe I should tell you. It
seemed the least I could do.
He stands over the body of Morpheus, as his anger boils
up out of him.
CYPHER
You see, the truth, the real,truth
is that the war is over. It's
been over for a long time. And
guess what? We lost! Did you
hear that? We lost the war!
TRINITY
What about Zion?
CYPHER
Zion? Zion is a part of this
delusion. More of this madness.
That's why this has to be done.
It has to end. Now and forever.
She suddenly sees the entire dark plan.
TRINITY
Oh rny God. This is abzut Zion.
You gave them Morpheus for the
access codes to Zion.
Cypher walks away from Morpheus and bends down next to
Apoc's body.
CYPHER
You see, Trinity, we humans have a
place in the future. But it's not
here. It's in the Matrix.
TRINITY
The Matrix isn't real!
CYPHER
Oh, I disagree, Trinity. I
disagree. I think the Matrix is
more real than this world. I
mean, all I do is pull a plug
here. But there, you watch a man
die.
He grabs hold of the cable in Apoc's neck, twists it and
yanks it out.
CYPHER
You tell me which is more real.
Apoc seems to go blind for an instant, a scream caught in
his throat, his hands reaching for nothing, and then
falls dead. Switch screams.
CYPHER
Welcome to the real world, right?
He laughs.
TRINITY
Somehow, some way, you're going to
pay for this.
CYPHER
Pay for it? I'm not even going to
remember it. It'll be like it
never happened. The tree falling
in the forest. It doesn't make a
sound.
His hand slides around the neck of Switch as he takes
hold of her plug.
She suddenly feels her body severed from her mind as she
is murdered.
TRINITY
Goddamn you, Cypher!
CYPHER
Don't hate me, Trinity. I'm just
the messenger. And right now I'm
going to prove that the message is
true.
He stands over Neo.
CYPHER
If Morpheus was right, then
there's no way I can pull this
plug, is there?
She turns to Neo, eyes wide with fear, and he knows he is
next.
CYPHER
If he is the One, then in the next
few seconds there has to be some
kind of miracle to stop me.
Because if he dies like the others
that means Morpheus was wrong.
How can he be the One if he's
dead?
He takes hold of the cord when --
She hears an EXPLOSION and a scream.
Cypher is on the ground, his left leg blown off at the
knee. He rolls over and finds Tank on the ground, and
the sights of the plasma rifle.
TANK
How's it feel, Cypher? Knowing
you're about to die?
NEO
It's Tank! He's alive.
Cypher lunges for Neo's plug just as Tank BLOWS his head
off.
INT. APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY
They're both listening, trying to figure out what is
happening when the store PHONE starts to RING.
Trinity smiles, tears moistening her eyes as Neo throws
his arms around her. For a moment, it looks as if they
might kiss before Trinity lets go.
TRINITY
We should, we should hurry.
NEO
Yeah. Right.
INT. MAIN DECK
Trinity's eyes open, a sense of relief surging through
her at the sight of the ship. As Tank unplugs her, she
sees his charred wounds.
TRINITY
Tank, you're hurt.
TANK
I'll be all right.
TRINITY
Dozer?
Tank's face tightens.
TRINITY
I'm sorry, Tank.
EXT. NIKO HOTEL (MATRIX) - DAY
A Japanese luxury hotel in downtown Chicago.
A military helicopter sets down on the roof. Heavily
armed Marines begin to deploy.
Agent Jones gets out of the helicopter, flanked by
columns of Marines. They open the roof access door
and enter the top-floor maintenance level of the hotel.
INT. TOP FLOOR (MATRIX) - DAY
They get in the elevator. At every door, at least two
Marines stop and post guard.
INT. HALL (MATRIX) - DAY
They exit the elevator and walk to the Presidential
suite; the final two Marines post guard.
INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY
Inside, he finds Agent Smith.
AGENT JONES
There is a problem. Reagan has
failed to secure the hardware.
Agent Smith stares out the window.
AGENT SMITH
Never send a human to do a
machine's job.
AGENT JONES
But if Reagan has failed, why
haven't they pulled the plug?
AGENT SMITH
Haven't you learned by now, that
it is impossible to understand why
they do the things they do?
He turns.
AGENT SMITH
Continue as planned. Trace his
signal to locate their position
and deploy an extermination unit.
Morpheus is handcuffed to a chair, stripped to the waist.
He is bleeding from numerous wounds and is pumped full of
serum, alternately shivering and sweating. He is hooked
up to various monitors with white disk electrodes.
Agent Brown begins running a trace program.
INT. MAIN DECK
Neo looks at Morpheus whose body is covered with a cold
sweat.
NEO
What are they doing to him?
TANK
They're cracking his mind.
NEO
How?
TANK
They inject virus-like serums to
break down the system. It's like
cracking a computer. All it takes
is time.
NEO
How much time?
TANK
Depends on the mind. But
eventually, it will crack and his
alpha pattern will change from
this to this.
Tank punches several commands on Morpheus' personal unit.
The monitor waves change from a chaotic pattern to an
orderly symmetrical one.
TANK
When it does, Morpheus will tell
them anything they want to know.
NEO
The access codes to Zion.
TANK
If an agent got inside Zion's
mainframe he could do anything.
Disable the defense system. It
would be the end of us.
He looks up at Trinity who is pacing relentlessly.
TANK
We can't let that happen. We have
to do it, Trinity. Zion has to be
protected.
Trinity sees Cypher's dead body. Rage overtakes her and
she starts kicking hin.
TRINITY
Goddamnit! Goddamnit!
TANK
We have to pull the plug.
TRINITY
No!
TANK
We don't have any other choice.
Those words are like using gasoline to put out a fire and
we watch the pain in her eyes burn into a blaze. She
walks past him and gets into her chair.
TANK
Trinity, what are you doing?
TRINITY
I'm going in after him.
TANK
Morpheus could conform at any
minute --
TRINITY
If he does I'm sure you'll do what
has to be done.
TANK
You saw that place. It's suicide.
She glares at him.
TANK
I know what Morpheus means to
you --
TRINITY
No. No, I don't think you do. If
you did, then you would know that
I'm not letting him go. Not
without a fight, Tank.
She yanks her harness tight.
TRINITY
Not without a fight.
INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY
Agent Smith stands in the bedroon of the enormous suite,
staring out the windows at the city, below, shimmering
with brilliant sunlight.
AGENT SMITH
Have you ever stood and stared at
it, Morpheus? Marveled at its
beauty. Its genius. Billions of
people just living out their
lives... oblivious.
Agent Brown sucks a serum from a glass vial, filling a
hypodermic needle.
AGENT SMITH
Did you know that the first Matrix
was designed to be a perfect human
world? Where none suffered, where
everyone would be happy. It was a
disaster. No one would accept the
program. Entire crops were lost.
Agent Brown jams the needle into Morpheus' shoulder, and
plunges down.
AGENT SMITH
Some believed we lacked the
programming language to describe
your perfect world. But I believe
that, as a species, human beings
define their reality through
suffering and misery.
Agent Brown studies the screens as the life signs react
violently to the injection.
AGENT SMITH
The perfect world was a dream that
your primitive cerebrum kept
trying to wake up from. Which is
why the Matrix was re-designed to
this: the peak of your
civilization.
He turns from the window.
AGENT SMITH
I say 'your civilization' because
as soon as we start thinking for
you, it really becomes our
civilization, which is, of course,
what this is all about.
He sits down directly in front of Morpheus.
AGENT SMITH
Evolution, Morpheus. Evolution.
He lifts Morpheus' head.
AGENT SMITH
Like the dinosaur. Look out that
window. You had your time.
Morpheus stares hard at him, trying hard not to show the
pain racking his mind.
AGENT SMITH
The future is our world, Morpheus.
The future is our time.
INT. MAIN DECK
Neo goes to his chair and begins strapping in.
TRINITY
What do you think you're doing?
NEO
You need help. I'm coming with
you.
TRINITY
No. No way. Morpheus sacrificed
himself so you could escape.
There's no way you're going back
in.
NEO
Morpheus did what he did because
he believed that I'm something
that I'm not.
TRINITY
What?
NEO
I'm not the One, Trinity. The
Oracle told me.
Trinity is stunned.
NEO
She said I had a gift but I still
had a lot to learn. She told me
maybe next life.
TRINITY
Did you tell Morpheus?
NEO
Why? It wouldn't mean anything.
He'd still believe what he wanted
to believe. But Morpheus is the
one that matters. He's more
important than me and we both know
it.
He straps in.
NEO
I may not be what Morpheus thinks
I am, but if I don't try to help
him, then I'm not even what I
think I am.
TRINITY
What are you?
NEO
His friend.
INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY
Agent Smith sits casually across from Morpheus who is
hunched over, his body leaking and twitching.
AGENT SMITH
I'd like to share a revelation
that I've had during my time here.
It came to me when I tried to
classify your species. I've
realized that you are not actually
mammals.
The life signs continue their chaotic patterns.
AGENT SMITH
Every mammal on this planet
instinctively develops a natural
equilibrium with the surrounding
environment. But you humans do
not. You move to an area and you
multiply and multiply until every
natural resource is consumed and
the only way you can survive is to
spread to another area.
He leans forward.
AGENT SMITH
There is another organism on this
planet that follows the same
pattern. Do you know what it is?
A virus.
He smiles.
AGENT SMITH
Human beings are a disease, a
cancer of this planet. You are a
plague. And we are... the cure.
INT. MAIN DECK
Trinity and Neo hang motionless in the suspension unit.
Tank is at the operations station.
TANK
Okay. Store's open. What do you
need?
TRINITY (V.O.)
Guns. Lots of guns.
TANK
Coming right up.
He loads the weapons disk.
INT. CONSTRUCT
Racks of weapons appear and Neo and Trinity arm
themselves.
TRINITY
No one has ever done anything like
this.
NEO
Yeah?
He snap cocks an Uzi.
NEO
That's why it's going to work.
INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY
Agent Smith is again at the window.
AGENT SMITH
Why isn't the serum working?
AGENT BROWN
Perhaps we are asking the wrong
questions.
AGENT JONES
Or he doesn't know.
AGENT SMITH
Of course he knows. He's
resisting.
AGENT BROWN
How?
AGENT SMITH
I don't know. If I knew...
Agent Smith hides his knotting fist. He is becoming
angry. It is something that isn't supposed to happen to
agents.
AGENT SMITH
Leave me with him.
Agent Brown and Jones look at each other.
AGENT SMITH
Now!
INT. MAIN DECK
Tank sits down beside Morpheus whose face is ashen like
someone near death. He takes hold of his hand.
TANK
Hold on, Morpheus. They're coming
for you. They're coming.
EXT. NIKO HOTEL (MATRIX) - DAY
A dark wind blows.
INT. NIKO HOTEL (MATRIX) - DAY
In long, black coats, Trinity and Neo push through the
revolving doors.
Neo is carrying a duffel bag. Trinity has a large metal
suitcase. They cut across the lobby drawing nervous
glances.
Dark glasses, game faces.
Several plainclothes cops try to stop them. They are met
by the MUTED SPIT of a SILENCED GUN and the RAZORED
WHISTLE of THROWING STARS.
The cops slump down to the marbled floor while Neo and
Trinity do not even break stride.
INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY
Agent Smith leans close to Morpheus, whispering to him.
AGENT SMITH
Can you hear me, Morpheus? I'm
going to be honest with you.
He removes his earphone, letting it dangle over his
shoulder.
AGENT SMITH
I hate this place. This zoo.
This prison. This reality,
whatever you want to call it, I
can't stand it any longer. It's
the smell, if there is such a
thing. I feel saturated by it. I
can taste your stink and every
time I do, I fear that I've
somehow been infected by it.
He wipes sweat from Morpheus' forehead, coating the tips
of his fingers, holding them to Morpheus' nose.
AGENT SMITH
Repulsive, isn't it?
He lifts Morpheus' head, holding it tightly with both
hands.
AGENT SMITH
I must get out of here, I must get
free. In this mind is tlie key.
My key.
Morpheus sneers through his pain.
AGENT SMITH
Once Zion is gone, there's no
need for me to be here. Do you
understand? I need the codes. I
have to get inside Zion. You have
to tell me how.
He begins squeezing, his fingers gouging into his flesh.
AGENT SMITH
Tell me! Tell me!
The skull is about to shatter when Agents Jones and Brown
burst into the room. Agent Smith releases Morpheus.
AGENT BROWN
What were you doing?
Agent Smith recovers, replacing his ear piece.
AGENT JONES
You don't know.
AGENT SMITH
Know what?
Agent Smith listens to his earphone, not believing what
he is hearing.
INT. ELEVATORS (MATRIX) - DAY
They get in. Trinity immediately drops and opens the
suitcase, wiring a plastique and napalm bomb.
Beneath their trench coats is an arsenal of weapons slung
from climbing harnesses.
Neo hits the emergency stop. He pulls down part of the
false ceiling and finds the elevator shaft access panel.
INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY
Agent Jones looks at Morpheus.
AGENT JONES
I think they're trying to save
him.
INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT (MATRIX) - DAY
Neo ratchets down a clamp onto the elevator cable. Both
of them lock on. He looks up the long, dark throat of
the building and takes a deep breath.
NEO
There is no spoon.
Neo whips out his gun and presses it to the cable, lower
than where they attached themselves.
BOOM! The CABLE SNAPS.
The counter-weights plummet, yanking Trinity and Neo up
through the shaft as --
The elevator falls away beneath them, distending space,
filling it with the sound of WHISTLING METAL as they soar
to the top.
INT. LOBBY (MATRIX) - DAY
The ELEVATOR hits the botton.
BA-BOOM!
The massive EXPLOSION blows open the doors, fire clouds
engulfing the elevator section of the lobby.
INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY
The Agents hear the BLAST AND FIRE ALARMS.
AGENT JONES
Lower level --
AGENT BROWN
They are actually attacking.
INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT (MATRIX) - DAY
Hanging by a rope, Trinity hot-wires the panel for the
door.
INT. TOP FLOOR (MATRIX) - DAY
Nervous, the Marines watch as the ELEVATOR "DINGS" softly
and slides open.
Black smoke rises out of the exposed shaft.
The nearest Marine eases to the edge, peering down at the
churning blaze engulfing the lower levels.
He does not see Trinity and Neo above him until it is too
late.
Krack! Neo kicks, knocking the Marine flying down into
the shaft.
Before the others can react, Trinity flips out into the
hall, decking the nearest Marine. Neo cracks another.
The fight is over before it begins.
INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY
An enormous EXPLOSION THUNDERS above them, shaking the
building. The ALARM SOUNDS, emergency sprinklers begin
showering the room.
Agent Smith smashes a table.
AGENT SMITH
Find them and destroy them!
Agent Jones nods and touches his ear piece.
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