The Matrix Page #15

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?!

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He walks over to Trinity's body, staring down at ithanging 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 ofit.

CYPHER:

You are a beautiful woman. Too

bad things had to work out like

this.

TRINITY:

You killed them.

APOC:

What?!

SWITCH:

Oh, God.

Wearing Tank's operator headgear, Cypher moves among thesilent bodies.

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CYPHER:

I'm tired, Trinity. I'm tired of

this war, I'm tired of fighting.

I'm tired of this ship, of being

cold, of eating the same goddamn

goop every day. But most of all,

I'm tired of this jagoff and all

of his bullshit.

Cypher leans over, talking to Morpheus.

CYPHER:

Surprise, a**hole. But you never

saw this coming, did you? God, I

wish I could be there when they

break you. I wish I could walk

in just as it happens, so right

then, you'd know it was me.

TRINITY:

My God. Morpheus. You gave them

Morpheus.

CYPHER:

He lied to us, Trinity! He

tricked us! If he would've told

us the truth, we would've told

him to shove that red pill up

his ass!

TRINITY:

That's not true, Cypher. He set

us free.

CYPHER:

Free? You call this free? All I

do is what he tells me to do. If

I have to choose between that and

the Matrix, I choose the Matrix.

TRINITY:

The Matrix isn't real!

CYPHER:

Oh, I disagree, Trinity. I

disagree. I think the Matrix can

be more real than this world. I

mean, all I do is pull a plug

here. But there, you have to

watch a man die.

She looks up at Apoc, her face going white.

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APOC:

Trinity?

He grabs hold of the cable in Apoc's neck, twists it andyanks it out.

CYPHER:

Welcome to the real world, eh

baby?

Apoc seems to go blind for an instant, a scream caught inhis throat, his hands reaching for nothing, and thenfalls dead.

SWITCH:

No!

TRINITY:

But you're out, Cypher. You can't

go back.

CYPHER:

That's what you think. They'vepromised to take me back. They'regoing to reinsert my body. I'll

go back to sleep and when I wakeup, I'll be fat and rich and Iwon't remember a goddamned thing.

It's the American dream.

He laughs, his hand sliding around the neck of Switch ashe takes hold of her plug.

CYPHER:

By the way, if you have anythingterribly important to say toSwitch, I suggest you say it now.

TRINITY:

Oh no, please don't.

Trinity eyes find Switch and she knows she's next.

SWITCH:

Not like this. Not like this.

She suddenly feels her body severed from her mind asshe is murdered.

CYPHER:

Yoo late.

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TRINITY:

Goddamn you, Cypher!

CYPHER:

Don't hate me, Trinity. I'm justthe messenger. And right now I'mgoing to prove it to you.

He stands over Neo.

CYPHER:

If Morpheus was right, thenthere's no way I can pull thisplug, is there?

She turns to Neo, eyes wide with fear and he knows he is

next.

CYPHER:

If Neo is the One, then in the

next few seconds there has to be

some kind of miracle to stop me.

Right? How can he be the One if

he's dead?

He takes hold of the cord.

CYPHER:

You never did answer me, Trinity,

when I asked you before. Did youbuy Morpheus's bullshit? Come on.

You can tell me, did you? All I

want is a little yes or no. Look

into his eyes, Trinity, those bigpretty eyes and tell me the truth.

Yes or no.

Trinity stares at Neo as a single word falls soundlesslyfrom her lips.

TRINITY:

... yes.

CYPHER:

No!

Charred and bloody, Tank levels the gun.

CYPHER:

I don't believe it!

TANK:

Believe it or not, you piece ofshit, you're still going to burn.

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He FIRES a CRACKLING BOLT of LIGHTNING that knocks Cypherflying backwards.

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137 INT. TV REPAIR SHOP 137

Trinity throws her arms around Neo and for a moment theyare alone and alive until the PHONE RINGS.

NEO:

Go. You first this time.

138 INT. MAIN DECK 138

Trinity's eyes snap open, a sense of relief surgingthrough her at the sight of the ship. As Tank unplugsher, she sees his charred wounds.

TRINITY:

Tank, you're hurt.

TANK:

I'll be all right.

TRINITY:

Dozer?

Tank's face tightens and she takes him into her arms.

139 EXT. GOVERNMENT BUILDING - DAY 139

A government highrise in the middle of downtown where amilitary helicopter sets down on the roof.

Agent Jones gets out of the helicopter, flanked bycolumns of Marines. They open the roof access door andenter the top floor maintenance level of the hotel.

140 INT. EXECUTIVE OFFICE - DAY 140

Agent Smith stands, staring out the windows at the citybelow shimmering with brilliant sunlight.

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AGENT SMITH:

Have you ever stood and stared atit, Morpheus? Marveled at its

beauty. Its genius. Billions of

people just living out theirlives... oblivious.

Morpheus is handcuffed to a chair, stripped to the waist.

He is alternately shivering and sweating, wired tovarious monitors with white disk electrodes. Beside him,

Agent Brown sucks a serum from a glass vial, filling ahypodermic needle.

AGENT SMITH:

Did you know that the first Matrixwas designed to be a perfect humanworld? 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's shoulder andplunges down.

AGENT SMITH:

Some believed we lacked the

programming language to describeyour perfect world. But I believe

that, as a species, human beingsdefine their reality throughsuffering and misery.

Agent Brown studies the screens as the life signs reactviolently to the injection.

AGENT SMITH:

The perfect world was a dream thatyour primitive cerebrum kepttrying to wake up from. Which is

why the Matrix was redesigned tothis: the peak of yourcivilization.

He turns from the window.

AGENT SMITH:

I say 'your civilization' becauseas soon as we started thinking foryou, it really became ourcivilization, which is, of course,

what this is all about.

He sits down directly in front of Morpheus.

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AGENT SMITH:

Evolution, Morpheus. Evolution.

He lifts Morpheus's head.

AGENT SMITH:

Like the dinosaur. Look out that

window. You had your time.

Morpheus stares hard at him, trying not to show the painracking his mind.

AGENT SMITH:

The future is our world, Morpheus.

The future is our time.

Agent Smith looks at Agent Brown.

AGENT SMITH:

Double the dosage.

Agent Jones suddenly enters.

AGENT JONES:

There could be a problem.

141 INT. MAIN DECK 141

Tank drapes a sheet over his dead brother.

bodies are covered.

The other

Neo looks at Morpheus, whose body is covered with a cold

sweat.

NEO:

What are they doing to him?

TANK:

They're breaking into his mind.

It's like hacking a computer. All

it takes is time.

NEO:

How much time?

TANK:

Depends on the mind. But

eventually, it will crack and hisalpha pattern will change fromthis to this.

(CONTINUED)

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