The Matrix Page #11

CYPHER:

You know, I know that this steak

doesn't exist. I know when I put

it in my mouth, the Matrix is

telling my brain that it is juicy

and delicious. After nine years,

do you know what I've realized?

He shoves it in, eyes rolling up, savoring the tenderbeef melting in his mouth.

CYPHER:

Ignorance is bliss.

Agent Smith watches him chew the steak loudly, smackingit between his teeth.

CYPHER:

Mmm so, so goddamn good.

AGENT SMITH:

Then we have a deal?

CYPHER:

I don't want to remember nothing.

Nothing! You understand? And I

want to be rich. Someone

important. Like an actor. You

can do that, right?

AGENT SMITH:

Whatever you want, Mr. Reagan.

Cypher takes a deep drink of wine.

CYPHER:

All right. You get my body back

in a power plant, reinsert me into

the Matrix and I'll get you what

you want.

AGENT SMITH:

Access codes to the Zion

mainframe.

CYPHER:

I told you I don't know them. But

I can give you the man who does.

AGENT SMITH:

Morpheus.

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CLOSE ON breakfast, a substance with a consistencysomewhere between yogurt and cellulite.

TANK:

Here you go, buddy. Breakfast of

champions.

Tank slides it in front of Neo and takes a seat with the

other crew members enjoying breakfast.

APOC:

You mean the breakfast, lunch, and

dinner of champions.

MOUSE:

If you close your eyes, it almostfeels like you're eating runny

eggs.

APOC:

Or a bowl of snot.

MOUSE:

But you know what it reallyreminds me of? Cream of Wheat.

Did you ever eat Cream of Wheat?

SWITCH:

No, but technically neither did

you.

MOUSE:

Exactly my point, because you haveto wonder, how do the machines

know what Cream of Wheat reallytasted like? Maybe they got itwrong, maybe what I think Cream ofWheat tasted like actually tastedlike oatmeal, or tuna fish. It

makes you wonder about a lot ofthings. Take chicken for example.

Maybe they couldn't figure outwhat to make chicken taste like

which is why chicken tastes likeeverything. And maybe -

APOC:

Shut up, Mouse.

Neo scoops up a spoonful.

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DOZER:

It's a single-celled proteincombined with synthetic aminos,

vitamins, and minerals.

Everything your body needs. We

grow it in a vat.

MOUSE:

Oh no, it doesn't have everythingthe body needs.

He sidles up to Neo.

MOUSE:

So I understand you've runthrough the Agent trainingprogram? You know, I wrote that

program.

APOC:

Here it comes.

MOUSE:

So what did you think of her?

NEO:

Of who?

MOUSE:

The woman in the red dress. I

designed her. She doesn't talk

much but if you'd like to, youknow, meet her, I could arrangea more personalized milieu.

SWITCH:

The digital pimp hard at work.

MOUSE:

Pay no attention to thesehypocrites, Neo. To deny ourimpulses is to deny the verything that makes us human.

Morpheus enters.

MORPHEUS:

I want everyone on twelve-hourstandby. We're going in. I'm

taking Neo to see her.

With that he turns and leaves.

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See who?

NEO:

The Oracle.

TANK:

A72 INT. MAIN DECK A72

Everyone is strapped into their chairs. Tank is at the

operator's station.

TANK:

All right, everyone please observethat the no smoking and fastenseat belt signs have been turned

on. Sit back and enjoy yourflight.

He strikes the enter key and we RUSH CLOCKWISE OVER thechairs, each body reacting as we...

CUT TO:

B72 INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE - ROOM 1313 B72

SPINNING COUNTER-CLOCKWISE AROUND an old PHONE that RINGS

inside the empty room until we SPIN FULL CIRCLE and FINDeveryone now standing there.

Morpheus answers the phone.

MORPHEUS:

We're in.

73 EXT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE - DAY 73

The door opens and for the first time since his release,

Neo steps back into the Matrix. He squints at the sunwhich seems unnaturally bright. He is the only onewithout sunglasses.

Apoc and Switch remain at the door as the others enterthe alley.

MORPHEUS:

We should be back in an hour.

Cypher opens the driver's door of an old car as Trinity,

Morpheus and Neo cross to the car, Cypher glances aboutquickly, then drops something inside a garbage can.

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It is a cellular phone and we see its blue display as theline connects.

74 INT. CAR 74

Neo sits beside Trinity in the back. He cannot stopstaring as the simple images of the urban street blurpast his window like an endless stream of data rushingdown a computer screen.

MORPHEUS:

Almost unbelievable, isn't it?

Neo nods as the car continues to wind through the crowdedcity.

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NEO:

God...

TRINITY:

What?

NEO:

I used to eat there... Really goodnoodles...

He is speaking in a whisper, almost as if talking tohimself.

NEO:

I have these memories, from myentire life but... none of them

really happened.

He turns to her.

NEO:

What does that mean?

TRINITY:

That the Matrix cannot tell youwho you are.

NEO:

But an Oracle can.

TRINITY:

That's different.

NEO:

Obviously.

He turns to the window for a moment and then turns back.

NEO:

Did you go to her?

TRINITY:

Yes.

NEO:

What did she tell you?

TRINITY:

She told me...

She looks at him and suddenly she is unable to speak oreven breathe.

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What?

NEO:

The car suddenly jerks to a stop.

We're here.

MORPHEUS:

Neo, come with me.

Neo and Morpheus get out of the car.

the rearview mirror at Trinity.

Cypher looks into

CYPHER:

Here we go again, eh, Trin?

He smiles as she turns to the window.

75 EXT. BUILDING 75

Tenement-like and vast, it is the kind of place wherepeople can disappear.

76 INT. BUILDING 76

Morpheus nods to a blind man who nods back.

opens and Neo follows Morpheus inside.

An elevator

77 INT. ELEVATOR 77

The idea of learning one's fate begins to weigh upon Neowith a steadily growing unease.

NEO:

So is this the same oracle that

made the, uh, prophecy?

MORPHEUS:

Yes. She's very old. She's been

with us since the beginning.

NEO:

The beginning?

MORPHEUS:

Of the Resistance.

NEO:

And she knows what? Everything?

MORPHEUS:

She would say she knows enough.

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NEO:

And she's never wrong.

MORPHEUS:

Don't think of it in terms of

right and wrong. She is a guide,

Neo. She can help you find thepath.

NEO:

She helped you?

Yes.

MORPHEUS:

NEO:

What did she tell you?

MORPHEUS:

That I would find the One.

DING. The ELEVATOR opens.

78 INT. HALL 78

The long dark hall beckons. Neo follows Morpheus out ofthe elevator and the DOORS RATTLE shut behind him. With

every step, a disturbing sense of inevitability closes inaround him.

At the end of the hall, Morpheus steps to the side of adoor.

MORPHEUS:

I told you that I can only showyou the door. You have to stepthrough it.

Neo blows out a breath. His hand reaches but stops,

hovering over the spherical handle. He backs away.

NEO:

Morpheus, I don't think this is agood idea.

Why?

MORPHEUS:

NEO:

I told you I don't believe in thisstuff. No matter what she saysI'm not going to believe it, sowhat's the point?

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