The Matrix Page #20

TRINITY:

Neo, you better get your ass back

here!

187 EXT. ALLEY 187

Agent Smith stops and takes aim.

NEO:

I'm trying, Trinity. I'm trying.

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A BULLET SHATTERS the image of Neo in a truck's rearviewMIRROR.

188 INT. MAIN DECK 188

Tank speed-reads the reams of Matrix code.

TANK:

I got a patch on an old exit.

Wabash and Lake. A hotel. Room

303.

189 OMITTED 189

190 EXT. OPEN MARKET 190

Neo spins away, turning, and finds himself in an openmarket that teems with people.

He kamikazes his way down the!little avenues lined with

vendors and shops, careening through the labyrinth, out ofcontrol. And at every turn there is an Agent; appearingfrom crowds, behind fish counters, tent flaps and crates.

191 OMITTED 191

192 EXT. ALLEY 192

He dives from the maze!down a service alley but it is a

dead end.

Neo turns back as the Agents emerge from the market.

NEO:

Uh, help! Need a little help!

193 INT. MAIN DECK 193

Tank frantically scans the monitor like a road map.

TANK:

The door.

194 EXT. ALLEY 194

Neo dives for it but!-(

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194

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It's locked.

NEO:

Kick it in!

TANK (V.O.)

Peeling back, Neo almost kicks the door from its hinges,

lunging from the Agents' BULLETS.

195 INT. APARTMENT BUILDING - STAIRCASE 195

Neo springs up the old crooked apartment building stairs.

A195 INT. APARTMENT BUILDING - HALL A195

He is halfway down the hall, running in sharp, longstrides when a door explodes open at the end.

TANK (V.O.)

Sh*t! The door on your left.

Neo lurches, kicking in an apartment door.

TANK (V.O.)

No! Other left!

He whirls back to his other left, battering through thedoor which splinters, perforated by BULLETS.

An old woman watches TV as Neo blurs past her and intoher kitchen, where another woman is chopping vegetables.

TANK (V.O.)

That window!

Neo throws it open, leaping for the fire escape just as aknife buries itself in the window casing.

TANK (V.O.)

Down! Down!

B195 EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING - FIRE ESCAPE B195

Tumbling down the RATTLING FIRE ESCAPE, Neo leaps thelast ten feet into the alley below with Agent Brown rightbehind him.

Neo scrapes himself to his feet, broken and bleeding,

charging for the end of the alley.

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196 INT. MAIN DECK 196

Finger on the monitor, Tank traces Neo's path.

TANK:

That's it! You're almost there!

That fire escape at the end of thealley!

197 EXT. HEART O' THE CITY HOTEL - DAY 197

Agent Smith suddenly pauses as if recognizing something;

the faded NEON BUZZES: Heart O' The City Hotel.

198 INT. HOVERCRAFT 198

Tank loads the exit.

TANK:

I'm going to make the call.

MORPHEUS:

Do it!

Suddenly, the lights go red.

TRINITY:

No.

Morpheus looks up.

MORPHEUS:

Here they come.

199 EXT. SEWER MAIN 199

The sentinels open and shift like killer kaleidoscopes asthey attack, slamming down on the Nebuchadnezzar.

200 INT. HOVERCRAFT 200

The hovercraft booms down as they hit. Morpheus opens

the lock on the EMP detonator.

Trinity watches him.

MORPHEUS:

He's going to make it.

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201

EXT. ALLEY - DAY 201

Neo scrambles up the fire escape, BULLETS SPARKING andRICOCHETING around him as Agents Brown and Jones closethe gap.

A201

INT. HALL - DAY A201

On the third floor, he kicks in the window, jumping intothe hall. The doors count backwards: 310... 309...

202

INT. MAIN DECK 202

Another SYSTEM ALARM SOUNDS.

TANK:

They've burned through the outerhull.

TRINITY:

Hurry, Neo.

203

INT. HALL - DAY 203

Neo can hear the PHONE RINGING. 305... 304...

Agent Brown reaches the broken window behind him just as

Neo grabs the handle of 303, throwing open the door tofind!-Agent

Smith, waiting, .45 cocked.

Neo can't move!-- can't think!-BOOM.

204

INT. MAIN DECK 204

Neo's body jerks, and everyone hears it as the LIFE

MONITORS SNAP FLATLINE.

Trinity screams. Morpheus stumbles back in disbelief.

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MORPHEUS:

No, it can't be. It can't be.

Lasers suddenly sear through the main deck as thesentinels slice open the hull.

205 INT. HALL - DAY 205

Three holes in his chest, Neo falls to the blue shagcarpeting, blood smearing down the wallpaper. AgentSmith stands over him, still aiming, taking no chances.

AGENT SMITH:

Check him.

206 INT. MAIN DECK 206

Amid the destruction raining around her, Trinity takeshold of Neo's body.

TRINITY:

Neo...

207 INT. HALL - DAY 207

Kneeling beside him, Agent Brown checks his vital signs.

AGENT BROWN:

He's gone.

Agent Smith smiles, standing over him.

AGENT SMITH:

Good-bye, Mr. Anderson.

208 INT. MAIN DECK 208

In tears, Morpheus takes hold of the EMP switch.

Trinity whispers in Neo's ear.

TRINITY:

Neo, please, listen to me. I

promised to tell you the rest.

The Oracle, she told me that I'd

fall in love and that man, the man

I loved would be the one. You

see? You can't be dead, Neo, youcan't be because I love you. You

hear me? I love you!

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Her eyes close and she kisses him, believing in all herheart that he will feel her lips and know that they speakthe truth.

209 INT. HOTEL HALL - DAY 209

He does. And they do.

His eyes snap open.

210 INT. MAIN DECK 210

Trinity screams as the monitors jump back to life. Tank

and Morpheus look at each other.

It is a miracle.

TRINITY:

Now get up!

211 INT. HALL - DAY 211

Holding his chest, Neo struggles to get up. At the end

of the hall, the Agents wait for the elevator when AgentSmith glances back. He rips off his sunglasses, lookingat Neo as if he were looking at a ghost.

Neo gets to his feet, all three Agents grabbing for their

guns. As one, they FIRE.

NEO:

No!

Neo raises his hands and the BULLETS, like a cloud of

obedient bees, slow and come to a stop. They hang frozenin space, fixed like stainless steel stars.

The Agents are unable to absorb what they are seeing.

Neo plucks one of the bullets from the air. We see him

and the hall reflected in the bright casing. We MOVE

CLOSER UNTIL the bullet fills our vision and the

distorted reflection morphs, becoming the "real" image.

He drops the bullet and the others fall to the floor.

Neo looks out, now able to see through the curtain of theMatrix. For a moment, the walls, the floor, even the

Agents become a rushing stream of code.

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212 INT. MAIN DECK 212

All three stare transfixed with awe as the scrolling codeaccelerates, faster and faster, as if the machine

language was unable to keep up or perhaps describe whatis happening.

They begin to blur into streaks, shimmering ribbons oflight that open like windows, as!-

Each screen fills with brilliant, saturated color imagesof Neo standing in the hall.

TANK:

How...?!

MORPHEUS:

He is the one. He is the one!

An EXPLOSION shakes the entire ship.

213 INT. HALL 213

Agent Smith screams, his calm machine-like expressionshredding with pure rage.

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