The Matrix Page #19

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The RUMBLE RISES, drowning her voice. Neo is drawn

towards her, their lips close enough to kiss when a TRAINBLASTS into the station.

For a moment, they are frozen by the strobing lights ofthe train until Neo whispers in her ear.

NEO:

Promise me you'll tell me therest?

She nods as he closes the booth. The PHONE RINGS once

more before she lifts the receiver when, In the darkness

of the far corner, Neo sees the old man in the flashingtrain-light as he becomes -Agent

Smith, raising a fistful of black gun-metal.

No!

NEO:

The GUN FIRES, the BULLET flying at her, BURSTING throughthe PLASTIC WINDOW just as Trinity disappears.

The handset hanging in the air as the BULLET HITS,

SHATTERING the EAR-PIECE.

173 INT. HOVERCRAFT 173

Trinity blinks, shivering as her conscious exits theConstruct.

Neo!

TRINITY:

TANK:

What the hell just happened?

An Agent!

back!

TRINITY:

You have to send me

I can't!

TANK:

174 INT. SUBWAY STATION - DAY 174

The destroyed phone dangles in the empty booth. Neo

turns to Agent Smith whose gun stares at him like a third

eye.

Mr. Anderson.

AGENT SMITH:

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175 INT. MAIN DECK 175

Morpheus and Trinity stand behind Tank riveted to thescrolling code.

TRINITY:

Run, Neo. Run.

176 INT. SUBWAY STATION - DAY 176

Neo looks at the dead escalator that rises up behind him.

Slowly he turns back and in his eyes we see somethingdifferent, something fixed and hard like a gunfighter'sresolve.

There is no past or future in these eyes.

what is.

There is only

177 INT. MAIN DECK 177

Trinity is unable to understand.

TRINITY:

What is he doing?

MORPHEUS:

He's beginning to believe.

178 INT. SUBWAY STATION - DAY 178

Neo whip-draws his gun with the flashpoint speed oflightning as!-Smith

OPENS FIRE.

GUN REPORT THUNDERS through the underground, both menBLASTING, moving at impossible speed.

For a blinking moment we enter BULLET-TIME.

Gun flash tongues curl from Neo's gun, bullets floatforward like a plane moving across the sky, cartridgescartwheel into space.

An instant later they are nearly on top of each other,

rolling up out of a move that is almost a mirroredreflection of the other -Each

jamming their gun tight to the other's head.

They freeze in a kind of embrace; Neo sweating, panting,

Agent Smith machine-calm. Agent Smith smiles.

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AGENT SMITH:

You're empty.

Neo pulls the TRIGGER. CLICK.

NEO:

So are you.

The smile falls. Agent Smith yanks his TRIGGER.

CLICK.

Agent Smith's face warps with rage and he attacks, fistsflying at furious speed, blows and counters, Neoretreating as -A

knife-hand opens his forearm, and a kick sends himslamming back against a steel column. Stunned, he ducks

just under a punch that CRUNCHES into the BEAM, STEELCHUNKS EXPLODING like shrapnel.

Behind him, Neo leaps into the air, delivering a neck-

snapping reverse round-house. Agent Smith's glasses flyoff and he glares at Neo; his eyes ice blue.

AGENT SMITH:

I'm going to enjoy watching youdie, Mr. Anderson.

Agent Smith attacks with unrelenting fury, fists poundingNeo like jackhammers.

179 INT. HOVERCRAFT 179

Trinity watches Neo as his body jerks, mouth coughingblood, his life signs going wild.

TRINITY:

Jesus, he's killing him!

180 INT. SUBWAY STATION - DAY 180

Agent Smith grabs hold of him, lifting him into the air,

hurling him against the curved wall of the train tunnel,

where he falls inches from the electrified third-rail.

The Agent is about to jump down and press his attack whenhe hears something. From deep in the tunnel, like ananimal cry; a BURST of HIGH-SPEED METAL GRINDING againstMETAL.

The sound of an ONCOMING TRAIN.

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Neo tries to get up. Agent Smith jumps down onto thetracks and drop-kicks him in the face. The world againbegins to shake, RUMBLING as a TRAIN NEARS.

AGENT SMITH:

Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson?

Agent Smith grabs Neo in a choke-hold forcing him to lookdown the tracks, the train's headlight burning a hole inthe darkness.

AGENT SMITH:

That is the sound of

inevitability.

Neo sees it coming and he starts to fight.

AGENT SMITH:

It is the sound of your death.

There is another METAL SCREECH, much LOUDER, CLOSER, as

Agent Smith tightens his hold. Neo is unable to breathe.

AGENT SMITH:

Good-bye, Mr. Anderson.

The TRAIN ROARS at them, swallowing Agent's Smith'swords. The veins bulge in Neo's head, as he gritsthrough the pain.

He is not ready to die.

NEO:

My name is Neo.

Impossibly, he hurls himself straight up, smashing Smithagainst the concrete ceiling of the tunnel.

They fall as the sound and fury of the TRAIN EXPLODESinto the station. Neo backflips up off the tracks just

as!-

The train barrels over Agent Smith.

Neo stands, knees shaking, when the TRAIN SLAMS on itsemergency brake. With an ear-splitting SHRIEK oftortured RAILS, the train slows, part of it still in thestation.

Neo turns, limping, starting to run, racing for theescalator!-

As the train comes to a stop and the doors of the lastcar open; Agent Smith bursts out in furious pursuit, hisglasses again intact.

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181 INT. HOVERCRAFT 181

Tank searches the Matrix.

TRINITY:

What just happened?

I don't know.

TANK:

I lost him.

MORPHEUS:

He's on the run!-Suddenly,

a SIREN SOUNDS.

Oh sh*t!

TANK:

Morpheus bolts to the ladder.

182 INT. COCKPIT 182

Morpheus climbs into the cockpit.

he sees the sentinels.

On the hologram radar,

Oh no.

TRINITY:

Trinity is behind him.

How long?

TRINITY:

Five minutes.

MORPHEUS:

Maybe six.

Morpheus lifts the headset.

MORPHEUS:

Tank, charge the E.M.P.

Yes, sir.

TANK (V.O.)

TRINITY:

You can't use that until Neo is

out!

MORPHEUS:

I know, Trinity. Don't worry.

He's going to make it.

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183 EXT. CITY STREET - DAY 183

A BUSINESSMAN walks along the sidewalk, wheeling anddealing into his cell phone when it disappears, snatchedby Neo as he flashes by.

MAN (BUSINESSMAN)

What the sh*t!-- my phone!

The Man turns to call for help and when he turns back, itis Agent Smith.

Neo is in a full-out sprint, spinning and weaving awayfrom every pedestrian, every potential Agent. He flipsopen the cell phone and dials long distance.

184 INT. HOVERCRAFT 184

Tank answers.

TANK:

Operator.

NEO (V.O.)

Mr. Wizard, get me the hell out of

here!

185 EXT. CITY STREET - DAY 185

Neo dives down an alley, Agent Smith starting to gain.

NEO:

Hurry, Tank! I got some serious

pursuit!

186 INT. HOVERCRAFT 186

The KEYBOARD is CLICKING, Tank searches for an exit.

Trinity screams into the headset.

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