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Neo and Morpheus get in the car.

MORPHEUS:

Let's go.

Cypher looks into the rearview mirror at Neo.

CYPHER:

Well, good news or bad news?

MORPHEUS:

Not now, Cypher.

Cypher slaps the car in gear and pulls into traffic.

Trinity looks at Neo who is staring at the final bit ofcookie. He puts it in his mouth and chews.

TRINITY:

Are you all right?

NEO:

... Right as rain.

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84 INT. ROOM 1313 - DAY 84

Mouse's CELLULAR RINGS.

MOUSE:

Welcome to Movie-Phone.

TANK (V.O.)

They're on their way.

85 EXT. CITY STREET - DAY 85

As they get out of the car, Cypher smiles at Neo.

CYPHER:

Like the man says, welcome to thereal world.

Cypher, following the others into the hotel, nervouslyglances around, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

86 INT. MAIN DECK 86

Sweat rolls down Cypher's face and neck. At the

operator's station, Tank is typing rapidly.

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TANK:

What is that...?

87 INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE - DAY 87

Light filters down the throat of the building through acaged skylight at the top of the open elevator shaft.

Six figures glide up the dark stairs that wind aroundthe antique elevator.

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Neo notices a black cat, a yellow-green eyed shadow thatslinks 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.

Whoa.

NEO:

Deja vu.

Those words stop the others dead in their tracks.

88 INT. MAIN DECK 88

The monitors suddenly glitch as though the Matrix had anelectronic seizure.

Oh sh*t!

TANK:

Oh sh*t!

89 INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE - DAY 89

Trinity turns around, her face tight.

TRINITY:

What did you just say?

Nothing.

vu.

NEO:

Just had a little deja

TRINITY:

What happened? What did you see?

NEO:

A black cat went past us and thenI saw another that looked justlike 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 theRASPING breath of the old BUILDING.

What is it?

NEO:

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TRINITY:

A deja vu is usually a glitch inthe Matrix. It happens when theychange something.

She also listens as the staccato BEAT of HELICOPTER

BLADES GROWS ominously LOUD.

90 INT. MAIN DECK 90

Tank sees what was changed.

TANK:

It's a trap!

91 INT. STAIRCASE - DAY 91

Morpheus looks up the stairs as he hears a HELICOPTER.

MORPHEUS:

Come on!

Apoc slaps a gun into Neo's hand.

APOC:

Something to ward off evilspirits.

Neo nods, stuffing it into his belt.

92 INT. BASEMENT - DAY 92

Heavy bolt cutters snap through the main phone cable.

93 INT. ROOM 1313 - DAY 93

Hearing the HELICOPTER, Mouse goes to the draped windowsas his CELLULAR RINGS. He answers it.

TANK (V.O.)

They cut the hardline! It's a

trap! Get out!

Mouse yanks open the curtain.

MOUSE:

Oh no.

The windows are bricked up. Mouse spins as the RUMBLE ofcombat BOOTS BUILDS, then explodes into the room.

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Tank watches helplessly.

TANK:

No, no, no.

95 INT. STAIRS - DAY 95

Morpheus stops as Mouse's SCREAM is drowned out by thereport of MACHINE GUN FIRE.

96 INT. ROOM 1313 - DAY 96

Mouse sails backwards as BULLETS POUND him against theblood-spattered brick window.

97 INT. MAIN DECK 97

Mouse's body thrashes against its harness, blood coughingfrom his mouth in one final spasm, then lying perfectlystill. The flatline ALARM softly cries out from the lifeMONITOR.

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99 INT. STAIRWELL - DAY 99

Flying downstairs, Morpheus stops, hearing POLICESWARMING below.

A99 INT. HALL - DAY A99

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 themechanical sureness of a vice.

MORPHEUS:

Give me your phone.

TRINITY:

They'll be able to track it.

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MORPHEUS:

We have no choice.

Morpheus rips off his jacket.

100 INT. MAIN DECK 100

Tank answers the call.

MORPHEUS (V.O.)

Tank, find a structural drawing ofthis building and find it fast.

101 INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE - DAY 101

Flashlights probe the rotting darkness as the policesearch every floor.

102 INT. MAIN DECK 102

The diagram windows onto the screen.

TANK:

Got it.

MORPHEUS (V.O.)

I need the main wet-wall.

103 INT. ROOM 1313 - DAY 103

Agent Smith stands over Mouse's dead body, his hand goingto his earpiece.

104 INT. ROOM 808 - DAY 104

Morpheus is guided by Tank.

TANK (V.O.)

Now left, and that's it in front of

you.

MORPHEUS:

Good.

105 INT. ROOM 1313 - DAY 105

Agent Smith hears the LINE CLICK dead.

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AGENT SMITH:

Eighth floor. They're on theeighth floor.

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INT. STAIRWELL - DAY A105

Agent Brown listens to his earpiece.

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INT. STAIRWELL - DAY 106

Boots clatter up the marble staircase.

A106

INT. HALL - DAY A106

Cops flood the eight floor, rushing everywhere.

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INT. ROOM 808 - DAY 107

Several cops sweep through the room. It is empty. As

they pass the bathroom, we see a man-sized hole smashedthrough the plaster and lath.

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INT. WALL - DAY 108

They are inside the main plumbing wall, slowly wormingtheir way down the grease-black stack pipes. Above them,

light fills the hole they made to get inside.

109 INT. HALL - DAY 109

Agent Brown and Agent Smith stand over Morpheus's jacket.

AGENT BROWN:

Where are they?

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INT. ROOM 608 - DAY 110

The cops search in silence, straining for a clue, whenone hears SOMETHING STRANGE near the bathroom.

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INT. WALL - DAY 111

Cypher has slipped and is wedged between the wall andseveral thick supply pipes.

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112 INT. ROOM 608 - DAY 112

The COP leans in, his ear almost against the thinmembrane of plaster separating them. He can hear

WHISPERS, HISSES and a GRUNT when -

The wall suddenly bulges, shatter-cracking as the Coprealizes -

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