The Matrix Page #9

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50 INT. MESS HALL 50

MOUSE bursts into the room, interrupting dinner.

MOUSE:

Morpheus is fighting Neo!

All at once, everyone bolts for the door.

51 INT. DOJO 51

Neo's face is knotted, teeth clenched, as he hurls

himself at Morpheus.

MORPHEUS:

Good. Adaptation. Improvisation.

But your weakness isn't yourtechnique.

Morpheus attacks him and it is like nothing we have seen.

His feet and fists are everywhere, taking Neo apart. For

every blow Neo blocks, five more hit their marks until --

Neo falls.

Panting, on his hands and knees, blood spits from hismouth, speckling the white floor of the dojo.

MORPHEUS:

How did I beat you?

NEO:

You -- You're too fast.

MORPHEUS:

Do you think my being faster,

stronger has anything to do withmy muscles in this place?

Neo is frustrated, still unable to catch his breath.

MORPHEUS:

Do you believe that's air you arebreathing now?

Neo stands, nodding slowly.

Again.

MORPHEUS:

Their fists fly with pneumatic speed.

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52 INT. MAIN DECK 52

Everyone is gathered behind Tank, watching the fight,

like watching a game of Mortal Kombat.

MOUSE:

Jeezus Keeerist! He's fast! Look

at his neural-kinetics! They'reway above normal!

53 INT. DOJO 53

Morpheus begins to press Neo, countering blows whileslipping in several stinging slaps.

MORPHEUS:

Come on, Neo. What are youwaiting for? You're faster than

this. Don't think you are. Know

you are.

Whack, Morpheus cracks Neo again. Neo's face twists with

rage as the speed of the blows rises like a drum solo.

MORPHEUS:

Come on! Stop trying to hit meand just hit me.

Wham. A single blow catches Morpheus on the side of thehead, knocking off his glasses.

54 INT. MAIN DECK 54

There are several gasps.

MOUSE:

I don't believe it!

55 INT. DOJO 55

Morpheus rubs his face, then smiles.

NEO:

I know what you're trying to do -MORPHEUS

I'm trying to free your mind, Neo,

but all I can do is show you thedoor. You're the one that has to

step through. Tank, load the jump

program.

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56 INT. HOVERCRAFT 56

Apoc and Switch exchange looks as Tank grabs for thedisk.

57 INT. CONSTRUCT - ROOFTOP - DAY 57

Morpheus and Neo are again in the white space of theConstruct. Beneath their feet, we see the jump programrush up at them until they are standing on a rooftop in acity skyline.

MORPHEUS:

Let it all go, Neo. Fear.

Disbelief. Free your mind.

Doubt.

Morpheus spins, running hard at the edge of the rooftop.

And jumps. He sails through the air, his coat billowingout behind him like a cape as he lands on the rooftopacross the street.

Sh*t.

NEO:

Neo looks down at the street twenty floor below, then atMorpheus an impossible fifty feet away.

Okie dokie.

No problem.

NEO:

Free my mind. Right.

He takes a deep breath. And starts to run.

58 INT. MAIN DECK 58

They are transfixed.

MOUSE:

What if he makes it?

No way.

APOC:

Not possible.

TANK:

No one's ever made their first

jump.

MOUSE:

I know, but what if he does?

He won't.

APOC:

(CONTINUED)

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Trinity stares at the screen, her fists clenching as shewhispers.

TRINITY:

Come on.

59 EXT. ROOFTOP 59

Summoning every ounce of strength in his legs, Neolaunches himself into the air in a single maniacalshriek!-

-- but comes up drastically short.

His eyes widen as he plummets. Stories fly by, theground rushing up at him, but as he hits, the ground givesway, stretching like a trapeze net. He bounces and flips,

slowly coming to a rest, flat on his back.

He laughs, a bit unsure, wiping the windblown tears fromhis face. Morpheus exits the building and helps him tohis feet.

MORPHEUS:

Do you know why you didn't make

it?

NEO:

Because... I didn't think I would?

Morpheus smiles and nods.

60 INT. MAIN DECK 60

They break up.

MOUSE:

What does it mean?

SWITCH:

It doesn't mean anything.

CYPHER:

Everyone falls the first time,

right, Trinity?

But Trinity has already left.

Neo's eyes open as Tank eases the plug out. He tries to

move and groans, cradling his ribs. While Tank helpsMorpheus, Neo spits blood into his hand.

(CONTINUED)

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NEO:

I thought it wasn't real.

MORPHEUS:

Your mind makes it real.

Neo stares at the blood.

NEO:

If you are killed in the Matrix,

do you die here?

MORPHEUS:

The body cannot live without themind.

61 INT. NEO'S ROOM 61

Trinity enters from the hall, carrying a tray of food.

TRINITY:

Neo, I saved you some dinner -She

sees him passed out on the bed. She sets the traydown and pulls the blanket over him.

She pauses, her face close to his, then inhales lightly,

breathing in the scent of him before slowly pulling away.

62 INT. HALL 62

Trinity steps out of Neo's room to find Cypher watchingher.

CYPHER:

I don't remember you ever bringingme dinner.

Trinity says nothing.

CYPHER:

There's something about him, isn'tthere?

TRINITY:

Don't tell me you're a believernow?

(CONTINUED)

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CYPHER:

I just keep wondering if Morpheusis so sure, why doesn't he takehim to the Oracle? She would

know.

TRINITY:

Morpheus will take him when he'sready.

She turns and he watches her walk away.

63 EXT. CITY STREET - TRAINING PROGRAM - DAY 63

Morpheus moves effortlessly through a crowded downtownstreet while Neo struggles to keep up, constantly bumpedand shouldered off the path.

MORPHEUS:

The Matrix is a system, Neo, andthat system is our enemy. But

when you are inside and you lookaround, what do you see;

businessmen, lawyers, teachers,

carpenters. The minds of the verypeople we are trying to save. But

until we do, these people arestill a part of the system andthat makes them our enemy.

A cop writing a parking ticket stares at Neo from behindhis sunglasses.

MORPHEUS:

You have to understand that most

of these people are not ready tobe unplugged and many of them areso inured, so hopelessly dependenton the system that they will fightto protect it.

A beautiful woman in a red dress smiles at Neo as she

passes by.

MORPHEUS:

Were you listening to me, Neo? Or

were you looking at the woman inthe red dress?

I was...

NEO:

(CONTINUED)

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MORPHEUS:

Look again.

Neo turns just as Agent Smith levels a gun at his face.

Neo screams.

MORPHEUS:

Freeze it.

Everything except Morpheus and Neo freezes.

NEO:

This -- this isn't the Matrix?

MORPHEUS:

No, it's another training program

designed to teach you one thing;

if you are not one of us, you're

one of them.

NEO:

What are they?

MORPHEUS:

Sentient programs. They can move

in and out of any software still

hardwired to their system. That

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