पाण्याखालचे जग... (The Judgment Day)
13 years ago
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Moon Hoax... answered!!!
Taken from some site....
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I am writing to argue that NASA really did put men on the moon. Hereare my 9 responses to your nine "space oddities".
1. "Apollo 14 astronaut Allen Shepard played golf on the Moon. In frontof a worldwide TV audience, Mission Control teased him about slicing theball to the right. Yet a slice is caused by uneven air flow over theball. The Moon has no atmosphere and no air."
=> The functional word here is "teased". Mission control was, as you said,merely teasing him. There is no way for anyone to be able to tellexactly which way the ball went. And even if you could, maybe he wasn'tholding the club straight, so the head hit the ball on an angle.
2. "A camera panned upwards to catch Apollo 16's Lunar Landerlifting offthe Moon. Who did the filming?"
=> Mission Control. If you watched the miniseries "From the Earth to theMoon", you would know that there was a guy in mission control,controlling the pan/tilt functions on the tv camera tripod. If you wantto bring up the 7 second radio delay due to distance, he actually sentthe command to tilt up with the ascending lander 7 seconds before ithappened, and it all worked out.
3. "One NASA picture from Apollo 11 is looking up at Neil Armstrongabout to take his giant step for mankind. The photographer must havebeen lying on the planet surface. If Armstrong was the first man on theMoon, then who took the shot?"
=> You really ought to learn more about the missions before you startattacking them like this. There was an arm attached to the lander thatwas deployed just before Neil Armstrong opened the hatch. This arm hada television and a still camera mounted to it.
4. "The pressure inside a space suit was greater than inside a football.The astronauts should have been puffed out like the Michelin Man, butwere seen freely bending their joints."
=> Did you really think that they just sent them up there in an airtightjumper? OK. I'm gonna make this real easy for you. Here is a quote fromthe NASA KIDS website. so you should be able to understand it. "Thespace suit is made of hard materials with jointed sections to allowmovement. The upper and lower torso sections are put on separately. Thetwo pieces are connected at the waist to allow the flow of water and gaslines. Gloves and helmet create a sealed protection against meteoroidsand radiation. On Earth, the space suit weighs about 100 pounds. Inspace, the suit weighs much less. Under normal conditions, a space suitshould last about 8 years." So. assuming you can read. you have justlearnt about an American space suit. There is a hard layer of plastic,among many other things, protecting the astronauts from the vacuum ofspace.
5. "The Moon landings took place during the Cold War. Why didn't Americamake a signal on the moon that could be seen from earth? The PR wouldhave been phenomenal and it could have been easily done with magnesiumflares."
=> That's like saying 'Why don't the ISS astronauts light up the sky withmillions and millions of flares?' CAUSE THERE'S NO POINT!!!! Whatyou're saying is. because they didn't put a massive flare on the moon.they never actually went. (Oh.. and by the way. have fun igniting amagnesium flare without oxygen).
6. "Text from pictures in the article said that only two men walked onthe Moon during the Apollo 12 mission. Yet the astronaut reflected inthe visor has no camera. Who took the shot?"
=> As you can see from this photo of Pete Conrad on Apollo 12, astronautsdidn't hold cameras like you do whn you're taking a picture of yourgrandmother, the camera was attached to their suit at the chest. Mostsmall tools used by astronauts were attached to their suits, so theywould not be lost.
7&8. "The flags shadow goes behind the rock so doesn't match the darkline in the foreground, which looks like a line cord. So the shadow tothe lower right of the spaceman must be the flag. Where is his shadow?And why is the flag fluttering if there is no air or wind on the moon? &How can the flag be brightly lit when its side is to the light? Andwhere, in all of these shots, are the stars?"
=> Do you honsetly mean to tell me that you believe that this photo hasn'tbeen played with? Somebody (no.. NOT NASA) has doctored this photoreally badly to make people like YOU think that you have a stronger caseagainst NASA. That astronaut was copied and pasted into that photo.And as for the flag.. that shadow goes to the side with the face clearlylit because it's not exactly parallel to the sun's rays! It's on a bitof an angle, which anybody will tell you, is enough to clearly light theflag. And as for the fluttering.. less drugs for you, man. it's notmoving at all. Do you know what happens when a flag is stowed forseveral weeks, all folded up? You guessed it.. It gets wrinkled! Lookat getting some better glasses. As for the stars. in photography, toprevent an over-exposure (phonetically: Ovur-ekspojur) you must closethe iris a bit, or in this case, a lot. The sun is much brighter herethan the brightest day on earth. Whith the iris down far enough toprevent over-exposure, there is no way you would ever, EVER see ANYTHINGin the sky other than the sun and the earth.
9. "The Lander weighed 17 tons yet the astronauts feet seem to have madea bigger dent in the dust. The powerful booster rocket at the base ofthe Lunar Lander was fired to slow descent to the moons service. Yet ithas left no traces of blasting on the dust underneath. It should havecreated a small crater, yet the booster looks like it's never beenfired."
=> A few things you're forgetting.. It's mas was 17 tonnes, yes, howeversince weight is relative to gravity, and the moon has 1/6th the earth'sgravity, the WEIGHTof the lunar lander was only 17/6 tonnes (2.833tonnes). Now I'm not saying that this is light, there was dust stirredup when it landed, but no more that when a chopper landes here on earth.
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I am writing to argue that NASA really did put men on the moon. Hereare my 9 responses to your nine "space oddities".
1. "Apollo 14 astronaut Allen Shepard played golf on the Moon. In frontof a worldwide TV audience, Mission Control teased him about slicing theball to the right. Yet a slice is caused by uneven air flow over theball. The Moon has no atmosphere and no air."
=> The functional word here is "teased". Mission control was, as you said,merely teasing him. There is no way for anyone to be able to tellexactly which way the ball went. And even if you could, maybe he wasn'tholding the club straight, so the head hit the ball on an angle.
2. "A camera panned upwards to catch Apollo 16's Lunar Landerlifting offthe Moon. Who did the filming?"
=> Mission Control. If you watched the miniseries "From the Earth to theMoon", you would know that there was a guy in mission control,controlling the pan/tilt functions on the tv camera tripod. If you wantto bring up the 7 second radio delay due to distance, he actually sentthe command to tilt up with the ascending lander 7 seconds before ithappened, and it all worked out.
3. "One NASA picture from Apollo 11 is looking up at Neil Armstrongabout to take his giant step for mankind. The photographer must havebeen lying on the planet surface. If Armstrong was the first man on theMoon, then who took the shot?"
=> You really ought to learn more about the missions before you startattacking them like this. There was an arm attached to the lander thatwas deployed just before Neil Armstrong opened the hatch. This arm hada television and a still camera mounted to it.
4. "The pressure inside a space suit was greater than inside a football.The astronauts should have been puffed out like the Michelin Man, butwere seen freely bending their joints."
=> Did you really think that they just sent them up there in an airtightjumper? OK. I'm gonna make this real easy for you. Here is a quote fromthe NASA KIDS website. so you should be able to understand it. "Thespace suit is made of hard materials with jointed sections to allowmovement. The upper and lower torso sections are put on separately. Thetwo pieces are connected at the waist to allow the flow of water and gaslines. Gloves and helmet create a sealed protection against meteoroidsand radiation. On Earth, the space suit weighs about 100 pounds. Inspace, the suit weighs much less. Under normal conditions, a space suitshould last about 8 years." So. assuming you can read. you have justlearnt about an American space suit. There is a hard layer of plastic,among many other things, protecting the astronauts from the vacuum ofspace.
5. "The Moon landings took place during the Cold War. Why didn't Americamake a signal on the moon that could be seen from earth? The PR wouldhave been phenomenal and it could have been easily done with magnesiumflares."
=> That's like saying 'Why don't the ISS astronauts light up the sky withmillions and millions of flares?' CAUSE THERE'S NO POINT!!!! Whatyou're saying is. because they didn't put a massive flare on the moon.they never actually went. (Oh.. and by the way. have fun igniting amagnesium flare without oxygen).
6. "Text from pictures in the article said that only two men walked onthe Moon during the Apollo 12 mission. Yet the astronaut reflected inthe visor has no camera. Who took the shot?"
=> As you can see from this photo of Pete Conrad on Apollo 12, astronautsdidn't hold cameras like you do whn you're taking a picture of yourgrandmother, the camera was attached to their suit at the chest. Mostsmall tools used by astronauts were attached to their suits, so theywould not be lost.
7&8. "The flags shadow goes behind the rock so doesn't match the darkline in the foreground, which looks like a line cord. So the shadow tothe lower right of the spaceman must be the flag. Where is his shadow?And why is the flag fluttering if there is no air or wind on the moon? &How can the flag be brightly lit when its side is to the light? Andwhere, in all of these shots, are the stars?"
=> Do you honsetly mean to tell me that you believe that this photo hasn'tbeen played with? Somebody (no.. NOT NASA) has doctored this photoreally badly to make people like YOU think that you have a stronger caseagainst NASA. That astronaut was copied and pasted into that photo.And as for the flag.. that shadow goes to the side with the face clearlylit because it's not exactly parallel to the sun's rays! It's on a bitof an angle, which anybody will tell you, is enough to clearly light theflag. And as for the fluttering.. less drugs for you, man. it's notmoving at all. Do you know what happens when a flag is stowed forseveral weeks, all folded up? You guessed it.. It gets wrinkled! Lookat getting some better glasses. As for the stars. in photography, toprevent an over-exposure (phonetically: Ovur-ekspojur) you must closethe iris a bit, or in this case, a lot. The sun is much brighter herethan the brightest day on earth. Whith the iris down far enough toprevent over-exposure, there is no way you would ever, EVER see ANYTHINGin the sky other than the sun and the earth.
9. "The Lander weighed 17 tons yet the astronauts feet seem to have madea bigger dent in the dust. The powerful booster rocket at the base ofthe Lunar Lander was fired to slow descent to the moons service. Yet ithas left no traces of blasting on the dust underneath. It should havecreated a small crater, yet the booster looks like it's never beenfired."
=> A few things you're forgetting.. It's mas was 17 tonnes, yes, howeversince weight is relative to gravity, and the moon has 1/6th the earth'sgravity, the WEIGHTof the lunar lander was only 17/6 tonnes (2.833tonnes). Now I'm not saying that this is light, there was dust stirredup when it landed, but no more that when a chopper landes here on earth.
The Matrix - Do you know Matrix?
Subject: You though you understood The Matrix - Try This ...
This could be complete baloney but here is a take on this movie...Zion is a program, just like the Matrix. How is Neo able to figure out that he is able to stop the sentinels in Zion near the end of the film? The spoon given to him earlier. It had obviously been bent loads, but how outside the Matrix?? This gave Neo the inspiration and the understanding that Zion is still a matrix.
The One explained
"The One" is a program, but has to be "attached" to someone in the Matrix. So Mr. Anderson got it in the 6th version of the Matrix. Then "The One" program's purpose is to allow Zion to be destroyed then to rebuild it. The reason for this is because of anomalies - the 1% of humans that don't accept the Matrix. These are all brought out of the Matrix program and into the Zion program by the "Morpheus" program and other similar "ship captain" programs. Then once all the anomalies are out of the Matrix (and in Zion), that is the time for Zion to be destroyed, thus killing all the anomalies off. The Matrix is then upgraded, thus creating the next version of the Matrix, but Zion must be rebuilt so that the next lot of anomalies can be brought out again so that they can be destroyed. This is the feedback-loop, and is the reason to retain a handful of people so that Zion can be rebuilt. So this is why Neo said the prophecy was a lie – the One's purpose was not to end the war as the prophecy stated. Unfortunately, "The One" program must be re-used each time, or copied, so it can be "attached" to a new anomaly inside the Matrix. So what happens to the old "The One" program? It faces deletion, and as the Oracle explained, it goes into exile instead, just like the French bloke (the Merovingian) did. He was the first One (probably from the second version of the Matrix), and once he fulfilled his duty, he became an exile program and "abdicated" his "Oneness" by choosing Persephone and power. This is evident in the bogs when Persephone asks Neo to kiss her. She says she wants him to kiss her so she can feel what it is like again to be kissed by something close to human, just like the Merovingian used to be. Then she says to Trinity that she envies her, but that these things are not meant to last. So the Merovingian used to be just like Neo - a One - thus proving further the feedback-loop explained earlier.
The correct door in the Architect's room
Now there are two possibilities here:
1. All the previous One's chose the right door allowing a "temporary dissemination" of their code into the Matrix (i.e., the code they "carry" thus indicating Neo is indeed human), then he must select (unplug) 23 people from the Matrix to rebuild Zion. This takes away the possibility that stories from previous rebuilds of Zion will be carried through. But Morpheus indicated in the first Matrix that this is the case anyway. He said, "there was a man born inside, able to change things, it was he who freed the first of us," - basically the One previous to Neo. And this proves that the previous One chose the right door also. Neo's purpose is also to choose the right door, but he does not because he faces deletion afterwards and has the choice of going into exile - programschoosing to go into exile is the one thing that can't be accounted for in program parameters. Thus, he chooses the left door instead this time. How was Neo able to choose the other door? Because of his extreme willpower? - Even the Architect indicated that he'd noticed this - "Interesting. That was quicker than the others." Or more likely, because the Oracle upgradedhis coding with the candy on the park bench. The candy/cookie was a method to change the One's program. She said he has made a believer out of her - this is quite human-like and perhaps the previous One's didn't accept the upgrade candy, now she has hope... hope that Neo will finally choose the other door.
2. All the previous One's chose the left door, saving Trinity and letting Zion fall. So this time is no different. But the Architect does say, "You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated," and also, "this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it," - assuming the architect isn't lying, then they have already destroyed Zion (i.e., Zion has fallen) five times -i.e., the result of going through the left door.
Morpheus and Trinity are programs.
Morpheus's purpose was to find the One and deliver him to the Architect.Trinity's purpose is to control the One by getting in love with him.Trinity is supposed to be the mother of the new One every time the Matrix is Reloaded. That's why the sex scene was so important and why she was named Trinity.
The Architect says, "she is going to die, and there is nothing that you can do to stop it." He was correct though because she did die just like Neo did in the first Matrix (Oracle said he or Morpheus would, and she didn't lie, but he came back to life). Trinity dies, but comes back to life (we are using medical definition of death in all this of course!).
The Architect has already laid down an ultimatum for Neo choosing the left door: The Architect - "Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix, which coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in theextinction of the entire human race."
Neo - "You won't let it happen, you can't. You need human beings to survive."
The Architect - "There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. However, the relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility for the death of every human being in this world."
Looking at this further, the Architect does say "coupled" with the extermination of Zion will the human race be exterminated. So he says everyone connected to the Matrix will die, but if Zion is not=exterminated, the human race will not necessarily die. Also, there is likely to be a time-window between not going through the right door, and the cataclysmic crash, thus allowing Neo to unplug as many as possible from the Matrix, then those people won't die. This will be the start of the next Zion. As for the Matrix, a cataclysmic crash doesn't mean the end of the Matrix - just needs rebooting or reloading!
Agent Smith explained
Agent Smith is the only "human" in this world. He's the one spreading himself like a virus replicating himself over and over until the Matrix will finally get overloaded and fail. Smith is the one who wants to get out of the Matrix for good. He said so in the first Matrix, "I must get out of here, I must get free! And in this mind, is the key," squeezing Morpheus's temples, "my key! Once Zion is destroyed, there is no need for me to be here!" Smith knows that by killing Neo he can escape the Matrix because Neo is the key to resetting the Matrix, or to shut it off. It was originally killing Neo (in the first Matrix) that allowed Smith to become powerful (cloning ability) - so killing Neo again will allow him to gain Neo's powers completely, and thus gain the power to shut down the Matrix.So where the hell did Smith come from if he wants to destroy the Matrix?He's obviously not meant to be there - he's a computer virus as he has every characteristic of a virus - he multiplies and spreads and infects (and emulates) other programs like one. He is exactly as he described humans at the end of the first Matrix - "You move to an area and youmultiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus." But who put him there? This will only be revealed inRevolutions (Revelations?) I guess - but I'm betting on humans in the real world, i.e., outside of
Zion and the Matrix.
They're at war with the machines and trying to destroy them by infecting them with this virus - Agent Smith. So the irony with this theory is that Agent Smith represents the human race!! Neo represents the machines! Agent Smith says to Neo just after he's seen the Oracle that he became free when Neo destroyed him in the first Matrix (remember when Neo entered his body and exploded him from inside out) – as a virus, Smith has the ability to "inherit" other programs' abilities and thus inherited some of Neo's.
The anomaly explained
The anomaly is all the humans that do not accept the Matrix. The Architect says "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control." This includes Neo, but Neo's Matrix avatar is attached with the One program so that he can follow his purpose as explained earlier under "The One explained". However, he is also supposed to protect himself and destroy anything that gets in his way - i.e., Agent Smith - so that he may fulfil his purpose. Further proving Neo - and other non-accepters of the Matrix - are the anomaly, theArchitect says, "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix." The clue here is Neo's program name - "The One". Take one-third for example. 1 over 3 is 0.33333 recurring. A computer cannot deal with recurring numbers, so must accept a limit, let's say 0.33333 for argument's sake. Multiply by 3, you get 0.99999 - never 1.00000, where has the "remainder" 0.00001 (One) gone? This is the limitation of computers, this is the mathematical imprecision inherent in programming (of the Matrix) and the eventuality of the One anomaly unable to be eliminated.
What is the equation then?
Not sure, but it definitely involves pi. The Keymaker refers to the window of time to open the door to the mainframe as 314 seconds. 3.14 is pi to three sig. figs., or the number of radians in half a circle. Half a circle is like the cross-section of a womb, similar to the alcove of Neo and Trinity's love scene - conceiving the next One? "NEO", incidently, is an anagram of "ONE". Trinity and Neo - one on one; a choice - one or one. Leads us to 101. "101" is mentioned numerous times in Matrix 1 and Reloaded. Neo's room at the beginning, Merovingian is on the 101st floor, the 101 freeway of the car chase in Reloaded, then when Trinity is hacking into the power plant system, she resets the password to Z10N0101. Freaky. Indicates that she is a program because that's not some random password she's put in. 101 is binary for 5, which in zero-based binary counting:000 is 1, 001, is 2, 010 is 3, 011 is 4, 100 is 5, 101 is 6 - And this is the 6th version of the Matrix! Then there's 303. 303 is the room Neo got shot in Matrix 1, the Oracle lives in room 303, it's also the hotel room number Trinity is in in Matrix 1 and it's seen at the end when Neo fights the Agents and Smith and begins to literally see the code that makes up the Matrix. 101 x 3 =3D 303, a trilogy, 3 + 0 + 3 = 6 = the 6th Matrix. Trinity means 3.
Who is the "mother" that the Architect refers to?
The Architect says, "Please," in an almost disapproving sense when Neo suggests the Oracle, but does not reveal who it really is or even directly that Neo is wrong. The architect was the one who created the Matrix; the co-creator is neither Persephone nor the Oracle. Both of them are only programs that have a purpose in the matrix, just like the rest. The Architect is in charge of the Matrix world and the co-creator is in charge of Zion. She has almost the same age as the Architect. Therefore, that woman is the Head Counsellor, the only woman of importance that lives in Zion and the one who asked for the two captains to volunteer at the council meeting. She's the one who knew all along about the Matrix. She was the one who told Zion's Defence Minister to cool off and to let Morpheus do his work so things could go as planned. Or alternatively, it could indeed be the Oracle. She is the only program that truly wants humans to have a free choice... at the same time, she sees the future, because she knows the program code - she is like God - which is why Seraph protects her - see "Who is Seraph?" below.
What's so special about Neo's avatar?
Neo is a skilled hacker, and his avatar in the Matrix is based on the person that founded the AI of the original machines that eventually took over the world... How? Take a look at the disc he gave to the bloke at the door at the beginning of Matrix 1. It said "DISC AI" on it. The hollowed book Neo takes the disc out of is "Simulacra and Simulation" – a collection of essays by the French postmodernist philosopher Jean Baudrillard. He opens it to the section "on Nihilism" (meaning nothing is truly known, etc.). "Baudrillard's concept of simulation is the creation of the real through conceptual or 'mythological' models which have no connection or origin in reality. The model becomes the determinant of our perception of reality--the real." And Morpheus says, "Welcome to the desert of the real," in Matrix 1. I'd say this book describes The Matrix to a tee. So this disc contains the key to the AI, and thus how to destroy the machines, so I think they'll use this info in Revolutions to ultimately destroy the machines, which means he'll have to go back to the nightclub and find the guy he gave it to.
Who is Seraph?
The reason Seraph (the *beep* guy Neo meets before meeting the Oracle) had golden code and was so spectacular is that he came from the first incarnation of the matrix, which was heaven. "Seraph" is singular for the plural "seraphim". The seraphim are the highest choir of angels andincluded amongst others: Lucifer, Gabriele, Raziel and Malaciah, and they sit on the 8th level of Heaven just one below God. So Seraph will obviously have a big part in Revolutions, but whose side will he be on - the machines or the humans?? That is the question.
The Twins
They are exiled programs that emulate the human myth of ghosts as the Oracle explained. They are programs behaving badly. Persephone killed one of the Merovingian's bodyguards with a silver bullet because he was emulating a werewolf. So if the Twins could phase into ghost form, why didn't he when his arm was trapped in the door of the garage? Was it because he was wounded or because he can't phase when his arm is trapped? No of course not. The doors of that building, when shut, always led somewhere else (usually in the mountains) when opened again without the Keymaker's key. So if it were slammed shut due to the Twin phasing into ghost form, the Twin's arm would've ended up god knows where, but certainly not attached to the Twin's body.
This could be complete baloney but here is a take on this movie...Zion is a program, just like the Matrix. How is Neo able to figure out that he is able to stop the sentinels in Zion near the end of the film? The spoon given to him earlier. It had obviously been bent loads, but how outside the Matrix?? This gave Neo the inspiration and the understanding that Zion is still a matrix.
The One explained
"The One" is a program, but has to be "attached" to someone in the Matrix. So Mr. Anderson got it in the 6th version of the Matrix. Then "The One" program's purpose is to allow Zion to be destroyed then to rebuild it. The reason for this is because of anomalies - the 1% of humans that don't accept the Matrix. These are all brought out of the Matrix program and into the Zion program by the "Morpheus" program and other similar "ship captain" programs. Then once all the anomalies are out of the Matrix (and in Zion), that is the time for Zion to be destroyed, thus killing all the anomalies off. The Matrix is then upgraded, thus creating the next version of the Matrix, but Zion must be rebuilt so that the next lot of anomalies can be brought out again so that they can be destroyed. This is the feedback-loop, and is the reason to retain a handful of people so that Zion can be rebuilt. So this is why Neo said the prophecy was a lie – the One's purpose was not to end the war as the prophecy stated. Unfortunately, "The One" program must be re-used each time, or copied, so it can be "attached" to a new anomaly inside the Matrix. So what happens to the old "The One" program? It faces deletion, and as the Oracle explained, it goes into exile instead, just like the French bloke (the Merovingian) did. He was the first One (probably from the second version of the Matrix), and once he fulfilled his duty, he became an exile program and "abdicated" his "Oneness" by choosing Persephone and power. This is evident in the bogs when Persephone asks Neo to kiss her. She says she wants him to kiss her so she can feel what it is like again to be kissed by something close to human, just like the Merovingian used to be. Then she says to Trinity that she envies her, but that these things are not meant to last. So the Merovingian used to be just like Neo - a One - thus proving further the feedback-loop explained earlier.
The correct door in the Architect's room
Now there are two possibilities here:
1. All the previous One's chose the right door allowing a "temporary dissemination" of their code into the Matrix (i.e., the code they "carry" thus indicating Neo is indeed human), then he must select (unplug) 23 people from the Matrix to rebuild Zion. This takes away the possibility that stories from previous rebuilds of Zion will be carried through. But Morpheus indicated in the first Matrix that this is the case anyway. He said, "there was a man born inside, able to change things, it was he who freed the first of us," - basically the One previous to Neo. And this proves that the previous One chose the right door also. Neo's purpose is also to choose the right door, but he does not because he faces deletion afterwards and has the choice of going into exile - programschoosing to go into exile is the one thing that can't be accounted for in program parameters. Thus, he chooses the left door instead this time. How was Neo able to choose the other door? Because of his extreme willpower? - Even the Architect indicated that he'd noticed this - "Interesting. That was quicker than the others." Or more likely, because the Oracle upgradedhis coding with the candy on the park bench. The candy/cookie was a method to change the One's program. She said he has made a believer out of her - this is quite human-like and perhaps the previous One's didn't accept the upgrade candy, now she has hope... hope that Neo will finally choose the other door.
2. All the previous One's chose the left door, saving Trinity and letting Zion fall. So this time is no different. But the Architect does say, "You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated," and also, "this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it," - assuming the architect isn't lying, then they have already destroyed Zion (i.e., Zion has fallen) five times -i.e., the result of going through the left door.
Morpheus and Trinity are programs.
Morpheus's purpose was to find the One and deliver him to the Architect.Trinity's purpose is to control the One by getting in love with him.Trinity is supposed to be the mother of the new One every time the Matrix is Reloaded. That's why the sex scene was so important and why she was named Trinity.
The Architect says, "she is going to die, and there is nothing that you can do to stop it." He was correct though because she did die just like Neo did in the first Matrix (Oracle said he or Morpheus would, and she didn't lie, but he came back to life). Trinity dies, but comes back to life (we are using medical definition of death in all this of course!).
The Architect has already laid down an ultimatum for Neo choosing the left door: The Architect - "Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix, which coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in theextinction of the entire human race."
Neo - "You won't let it happen, you can't. You need human beings to survive."
The Architect - "There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. However, the relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility for the death of every human being in this world."
Looking at this further, the Architect does say "coupled" with the extermination of Zion will the human race be exterminated. So he says everyone connected to the Matrix will die, but if Zion is not=exterminated, the human race will not necessarily die. Also, there is likely to be a time-window between not going through the right door, and the cataclysmic crash, thus allowing Neo to unplug as many as possible from the Matrix, then those people won't die. This will be the start of the next Zion. As for the Matrix, a cataclysmic crash doesn't mean the end of the Matrix - just needs rebooting or reloading!
Agent Smith explained
Agent Smith is the only "human" in this world. He's the one spreading himself like a virus replicating himself over and over until the Matrix will finally get overloaded and fail. Smith is the one who wants to get out of the Matrix for good. He said so in the first Matrix, "I must get out of here, I must get free! And in this mind, is the key," squeezing Morpheus's temples, "my key! Once Zion is destroyed, there is no need for me to be here!" Smith knows that by killing Neo he can escape the Matrix because Neo is the key to resetting the Matrix, or to shut it off. It was originally killing Neo (in the first Matrix) that allowed Smith to become powerful (cloning ability) - so killing Neo again will allow him to gain Neo's powers completely, and thus gain the power to shut down the Matrix.So where the hell did Smith come from if he wants to destroy the Matrix?He's obviously not meant to be there - he's a computer virus as he has every characteristic of a virus - he multiplies and spreads and infects (and emulates) other programs like one. He is exactly as he described humans at the end of the first Matrix - "You move to an area and youmultiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus." But who put him there? This will only be revealed inRevolutions (Revelations?) I guess - but I'm betting on humans in the real world, i.e., outside of
Zion and the Matrix.
They're at war with the machines and trying to destroy them by infecting them with this virus - Agent Smith. So the irony with this theory is that Agent Smith represents the human race!! Neo represents the machines! Agent Smith says to Neo just after he's seen the Oracle that he became free when Neo destroyed him in the first Matrix (remember when Neo entered his body and exploded him from inside out) – as a virus, Smith has the ability to "inherit" other programs' abilities and thus inherited some of Neo's.
The anomaly explained
The anomaly is all the humans that do not accept the Matrix. The Architect says "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control." This includes Neo, but Neo's Matrix avatar is attached with the One program so that he can follow his purpose as explained earlier under "The One explained". However, he is also supposed to protect himself and destroy anything that gets in his way - i.e., Agent Smith - so that he may fulfil his purpose. Further proving Neo - and other non-accepters of the Matrix - are the anomaly, theArchitect says, "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix." The clue here is Neo's program name - "The One". Take one-third for example. 1 over 3 is 0.33333 recurring. A computer cannot deal with recurring numbers, so must accept a limit, let's say 0.33333 for argument's sake. Multiply by 3, you get 0.99999 - never 1.00000, where has the "remainder" 0.00001 (One) gone? This is the limitation of computers, this is the mathematical imprecision inherent in programming (of the Matrix) and the eventuality of the One anomaly unable to be eliminated.
What is the equation then?
Not sure, but it definitely involves pi. The Keymaker refers to the window of time to open the door to the mainframe as 314 seconds. 3.14 is pi to three sig. figs., or the number of radians in half a circle. Half a circle is like the cross-section of a womb, similar to the alcove of Neo and Trinity's love scene - conceiving the next One? "NEO", incidently, is an anagram of "ONE". Trinity and Neo - one on one; a choice - one or one. Leads us to 101. "101" is mentioned numerous times in Matrix 1 and Reloaded. Neo's room at the beginning, Merovingian is on the 101st floor, the 101 freeway of the car chase in Reloaded, then when Trinity is hacking into the power plant system, she resets the password to Z10N0101. Freaky. Indicates that she is a program because that's not some random password she's put in. 101 is binary for 5, which in zero-based binary counting:000 is 1, 001, is 2, 010 is 3, 011 is 4, 100 is 5, 101 is 6 - And this is the 6th version of the Matrix! Then there's 303. 303 is the room Neo got shot in Matrix 1, the Oracle lives in room 303, it's also the hotel room number Trinity is in in Matrix 1 and it's seen at the end when Neo fights the Agents and Smith and begins to literally see the code that makes up the Matrix. 101 x 3 =3D 303, a trilogy, 3 + 0 + 3 = 6 = the 6th Matrix. Trinity means 3.
Who is the "mother" that the Architect refers to?
The Architect says, "Please," in an almost disapproving sense when Neo suggests the Oracle, but does not reveal who it really is or even directly that Neo is wrong. The architect was the one who created the Matrix; the co-creator is neither Persephone nor the Oracle. Both of them are only programs that have a purpose in the matrix, just like the rest. The Architect is in charge of the Matrix world and the co-creator is in charge of Zion. She has almost the same age as the Architect. Therefore, that woman is the Head Counsellor, the only woman of importance that lives in Zion and the one who asked for the two captains to volunteer at the council meeting. She's the one who knew all along about the Matrix. She was the one who told Zion's Defence Minister to cool off and to let Morpheus do his work so things could go as planned. Or alternatively, it could indeed be the Oracle. She is the only program that truly wants humans to have a free choice... at the same time, she sees the future, because she knows the program code - she is like God - which is why Seraph protects her - see "Who is Seraph?" below.
What's so special about Neo's avatar?
Neo is a skilled hacker, and his avatar in the Matrix is based on the person that founded the AI of the original machines that eventually took over the world... How? Take a look at the disc he gave to the bloke at the door at the beginning of Matrix 1. It said "DISC AI" on it. The hollowed book Neo takes the disc out of is "Simulacra and Simulation" – a collection of essays by the French postmodernist philosopher Jean Baudrillard. He opens it to the section "on Nihilism" (meaning nothing is truly known, etc.). "Baudrillard's concept of simulation is the creation of the real through conceptual or 'mythological' models which have no connection or origin in reality. The model becomes the determinant of our perception of reality--the real." And Morpheus says, "Welcome to the desert of the real," in Matrix 1. I'd say this book describes The Matrix to a tee. So this disc contains the key to the AI, and thus how to destroy the machines, so I think they'll use this info in Revolutions to ultimately destroy the machines, which means he'll have to go back to the nightclub and find the guy he gave it to.
Who is Seraph?
The reason Seraph (the *beep* guy Neo meets before meeting the Oracle) had golden code and was so spectacular is that he came from the first incarnation of the matrix, which was heaven. "Seraph" is singular for the plural "seraphim". The seraphim are the highest choir of angels andincluded amongst others: Lucifer, Gabriele, Raziel and Malaciah, and they sit on the 8th level of Heaven just one below God. So Seraph will obviously have a big part in Revolutions, but whose side will he be on - the machines or the humans?? That is the question.
The Twins
They are exiled programs that emulate the human myth of ghosts as the Oracle explained. They are programs behaving badly. Persephone killed one of the Merovingian's bodyguards with a silver bullet because he was emulating a werewolf. So if the Twins could phase into ghost form, why didn't he when his arm was trapped in the door of the garage? Was it because he was wounded or because he can't phase when his arm is trapped? No of course not. The doors of that building, when shut, always led somewhere else (usually in the mountains) when opened again without the Keymaker's key. So if it were slammed shut due to the Twin phasing into ghost form, the Twin's arm would've ended up god knows where, but certainly not attached to the Twin's body.
The Matrix - Quotes
Meanings:
Trinity : The union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead.
- Three people considered as a unit
Neo : New, revised new version
Morpheus : (Ovid) the Roman god of sleep and dreams
Seraph : An angel of the first order; usually portrayed as the winged head of a child
The Oracle : An authoritative person who divines the future
Cypher : A person of no influence.
- A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number.
- A quantity of no importance
Nebuchadnezzar:
(Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC)
Zion :
1. Originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites); above it was built a temple and later the name extended to the whole hill; finally it became a synonym for the city of Jerusalem.
2. An imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
déjà vu : The experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before
sentinels: A person employed to watch for something to happen
MATRIX
Morpheus: Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
Morpheus: Don't think you are, know you are....
Morpheus: I'm trying to free your mind, Neo, but I can only show you the door, you're the one that has to walk through it.
Morpheus: You have to let it all go, Neo, fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.
Cypher: After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.
Mouse: To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
Spoon boy: The truth is that there is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
The Oracle: Being the one is just like being in love. No one can tell you your in love, you just know it.
Agent Smith: But I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering.
Trinity: Neo, no one has ever done anything like this.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
Morpheus: There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
Morpheus: He's beginning to believe.
MATRIX – II
Neo: I just wish... I wish I knew what I'm supposed to do.
Seraph: You do not truly know someone until you fight them.
The Oracle: Because you didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand why you made it.
The Oracle: We can never see past the choices we don't understand.
Agent Smith: because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist.
Merovingian: You see, there is only one constant, one universal, it is the only real truth: causality. Action and reaction. Cause and effect.
Merovingian: No. Wrong. Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.
Agent Smith: I'm sorry, this is a dead end.
Agent Smith: Oh you haven't figured that out? Still using all the muscles except the one that matters.
Agent Smith: If you can't beat us, join us.
The Architect: Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.
MATRIX – III
Merovingian: Where some see coincidence, I see consequence. Where others see chance, I see cost.
Merovingian: It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.
Oracle: Everything that has a beginning has an end.
Trinity : The union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead.
- Three people considered as a unit
Neo : New, revised new version
Morpheus : (Ovid) the Roman god of sleep and dreams
Seraph : An angel of the first order; usually portrayed as the winged head of a child
The Oracle : An authoritative person who divines the future
Cypher : A person of no influence.
- A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number.
- A quantity of no importance
Nebuchadnezzar:
(Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC)
Zion :
1. Originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites); above it was built a temple and later the name extended to the whole hill; finally it became a synonym for the city of Jerusalem.
2. An imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
déjà vu : The experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before
sentinels: A person employed to watch for something to happen
MATRIX
Morpheus: Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
Morpheus: Don't think you are, know you are....
Morpheus: I'm trying to free your mind, Neo, but I can only show you the door, you're the one that has to walk through it.
Morpheus: You have to let it all go, Neo, fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.
Cypher: After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.
Mouse: To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
Spoon boy: The truth is that there is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
The Oracle: Being the one is just like being in love. No one can tell you your in love, you just know it.
Agent Smith: But I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering.
Trinity: Neo, no one has ever done anything like this.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
Morpheus: There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
Morpheus: He's beginning to believe.
MATRIX – II
Neo: I just wish... I wish I knew what I'm supposed to do.
Seraph: You do not truly know someone until you fight them.
The Oracle: Because you didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand why you made it.
The Oracle: We can never see past the choices we don't understand.
Agent Smith: because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist.
Merovingian: You see, there is only one constant, one universal, it is the only real truth: causality. Action and reaction. Cause and effect.
Merovingian: No. Wrong. Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.
Agent Smith: I'm sorry, this is a dead end.
Agent Smith: Oh you haven't figured that out? Still using all the muscles except the one that matters.
Agent Smith: If you can't beat us, join us.
The Architect: Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.
MATRIX – III
Merovingian: Where some see coincidence, I see consequence. Where others see chance, I see cost.
Merovingian: It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.
Oracle: Everything that has a beginning has an end.
The Matrix Revolutions - Script
TRINITY: Do you know what happened to Neo?ORACLE: Yes. He's trapped in a place between this world and the machine world. The link is controlled by a program called the Trainman. He uses it to smuggle programs in and out of the Matrix. If he finds out where Neo is before you get to him, then I'm afraid our choices are going to become difficult.TRINITY: Why?ORACLE: Because of who the Trainman works for.MORPHEUS: The Merovingian.NEO: You're programs.RAMA-KANDRA: Oh, yes. I'm the power plant systems manager for recycling operations. My wife is an interactive software programmer, she is highly creative.KAMALA: What are you doing here? You do not belong here.RAMA-KANDRA: Kamala! Goodness, I apologize. My wife can be very direct.NEO: It's okay. I don't have an answer. I don't even know where 'here' is.RAMA-KANDRA: This place is nowhere. It is between your world and our world.NEO: Who's the Trainman?RAMA-KANDRA: He works for the Frenchman.NEO: Why'd I know you were going to say that?RAMA-KANDRA: The Frenchman does not forget and he does not forgive.NEO: You know him?RAMA-KANDRA: I know only what I need to know. I know that if you want to take something from our world into your world that does not belong there, you must go to the Frenchman.NEO: Is that what you're doing here?KAMALA: Rama, please!RAMA-KANDRA: I do not want to be cruel, Kamala. He may never see another face for the rest of his life.NEO: I'm sorry. You don't have to answer that question.RAMA-KANDRA: No. I don't mind. The answer is simple. I love my daughter very much. I find her to be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. But where we are from, that is not enough. Every program that is created must have a purpose; if it does not, it is deleted. I went to the Frenchman to save my daughter. You do not understand.NEO: I just have never...RAMA-KANDRA: ...heard a program speak of love?NEO: It's a... human emotion.RAMA-KANDRA: No, it is a word. What matters is the connection the word implies. I see that you are in love. Can you tell me what you would give to hold on to that connection?NEO: Anything.RAMA-KANDRA: Then perhaps the reason you're here is not so different from the reason I'm here.NEO: You know the Oracle?RAMA-KANDRA: Everyone knows the Oracle. I consulted with her before I met with the Frenchman. She promised she would look after Sati after we said goodbye.NEO: Goodbye? You're not staying with her?RAMA-KANDRA: It is not possible. Our arrangement with the Frenchman was for our daughter only. My wife and I must return to our world.NEO: Why?RAMA-KANDRA: That is our karma.NEO: You believe in karma?RAMA-KANDRA: Karma's a word. Like 'love'. A way of saying, ‘what I am here to do’. I do not resent my karma - I'm grateful for it. Grateful for my wonderful wife, for my beautiful daughter. They are gifts. And so I do what I must do to honor them.NEO: One way or another I'm getting on this trainTRAINMAN: Oh, no, no, no. You're gonna stay right here until the Merovingian says different. If I know him, you're gonna be here for a long long time.NEO: I don't want to hurt you.TRAINMAN: You don't get it. I built this place. Down here I make the rules. Down here I make the threats. Down here, I'm God.SERAPH: There are no weapons allowed in the club. At the bottom of this elevator, there is a coat check girl. And if we're lucky, one man for checking guns.TRINITY: And if we're unlucky?SERAPH: There will be many men.MEROVINGIAN: The prodigal child returns. L'ange sans ailes [The angel without wings]. Are you here for the bounty, Seraph? Tell me, how many bullets are there in those guns?
SERAPH: I don't know, but I don't think you have enough.MORPHEUS: We want to make a deal.MEROVINGIAN: Always straight to business, huh, Morpheus? Okay. I have something you want. To make a deal, you must have something I want, yes? And it so happens there is something I want. Something I've wanted ever since I first came here. It is said they cannot be taken, they can only be given.MORPHEUS: What?MEROVINGIAN: The eyes of the Oracle.
MEROVINGIAN: I have told you before, there's no escaping the nature of the universe. It is that nature that has again brought you to me. Where some see coincidence, I see consequence. Where others see chance, I see cost. Bring me the eyes of the Oracle, and I will give you back your savior. That seems a particularly fair and reasonable deal to me. Yes, no?TRINITY: I don't have time for this shit.TRINITY: You want to make a deal, how about this? You give me Neo, or we all die right here, right now.MEROVINGIAN: Interesting deal. You are really ready to die for this man?TRINITY: Believe it.PERSEPHONE: She'll do it. If she has to, she'll kill every one of us. She's in love.MEROVINGIAN: It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.ORACLE: That's it. That's the secret. You've got to use your hands.SATI: Why?ORACLE: Cookies need love like everything does.NEO: You helped me to get here, but my question is why? Where does this go? Where does it end?ORACLE: I don't know.NEO: You don't know or you won't tell me?ORACLE: I told you before. No one can see beyond a choice they don't understand, and I mean no one.NEO: Tell me how I separated my mind from my body without jacking in. Tell me how I stopped four sentinels by thinking it. Tell me just what the hell is happening to me.ORACLE: The power of the One extends beyond this world. It reaches from here all the way back to where it came from.NEO: Where?ORACLE: The Source. That's what you felt when you touched those Sentinels. But you weren't ready for it. You should be dead, but apparently you weren't ready for that, either.NEO: The Architect told me that if I didn't return to the Source, Zion would be destroyed by midnight tonight.ORACLE: Please... You and I may not be able to see beyond our own choices, but that man can't see past any choices.NEO: Why not?ORACLE: He doesn't understand them - he can't. To him they are variables in an equation. One at a time each variable must be solved and countered. That's his purpose: to balance an equation.NEO: What's your purpose?ORACLE: To unbalance it.NEO: Why? What do you want?ORACLE: I want the same thing you want, Neo. And I am willing to go as far as you are to get it.NEO: The end of the war. Is it going to end?ORACLE: One way, or another.ORACLE: Everything that has a beginning has an end. I see the end coming. I see the darkness spreading. I see death. And you are all that stands in his way.NEO: Smith.ORACLE: Very soon he's going to have the power to destroy this world, but I believe he won't stop there; he can't. He won't stop until there's nothing left at all.NEO: What is he?ORACLE: He is you. Your opposite, your negative, the result of the equation trying to balance itself out.NEO: What if I can't stop him?ORACLE: One way or another, Neo, this war is going to end. Tonight, the future of both worlds will be in your hands... or in his.SMITH: Well, well, it's been a long time. I remember chasing you was like chasing a ghost.SERAPH: I have beaten you before.SMITH: That's true, but as you can see, things are a little different now. And you must be the last exile.SATI: The Oracle told me about you.SMITH: Really? And what did she say about me?SATI: That you're a bad man.SMITH: Oh, I'm not so bad once you get to know me.SMITH: The great and powerful Oracle. We meet at last. I suppose you've been expecting me, right? The all-knowing Oracle is never surprised. How can she be, she knows everything. But if that's true, then why is she here? If she knew I was coming, why didn't she leave? [sweeps plate of cookies off table] Maybe you knew I was going to do that, maybe you didn't. If you did, that means you baked those cookies and set that plate right there deliberately, purposefully. Which means you're sitting there also deliberately, purposefully.ORACLE: What did you do with Sati?SMITH/SATI: Cookies need love like everything does.ORACLE: You are a bastard.SMITH: You would know, Mom.ORACLE: Do what you're here to do.SMITH: Yes, ma'am.LOCK: In less than 12 hours, the machines will breach the dock walls. Every simulation we've run, we've seen that once the machines are inside the city the odds of our survival decrease dramatically. Thus our primary objective must be to destroy or disable the diggers inside the dock. If we can dothat, perhaps we can prevent them from ever reaching the city. If not, the only place we'll be able to mount an effective defense will be at the entrance of the Temple. It is small enough that it will force them into a bottleneck, allowing us to concentrate the remainder of our defense.COUNCILLOR DILLARD: We understand that you've requested additional volunteers.LOCK: That is correct.COUNCILLOR WEST: Precisely what size of force are you planning to commit to the primary dock objective?LOCK: Right now, the entire APU core and half the infantry.COUNCILLOR WEST: Half the infantry?LOCK: If it were up to me, Councillor, I'd take every man, woman, and child, put a gun in their hands and march them straight into that dock.COUNCILLOR HAMANN: Commander, just one more question. Has there been word from the Nebuchadnezzar?LOCK: None, and at this point there's no reason to expect that there ever will be.COUNCILLOR HAMANN: Perhaps. But we can hope.LOCK: I'm afraid hope is an indulgence I don't have time for.CAS: Zee, what are you doing?Zee: Making shells.CAS: They're evacuating our level. We have to go.Zee: I'm not going with you.CAS: What?Zee: They've called for volunteers to hold the dock.CAS: I know how you feel, Zee, but you can't do that.Zee: I have to.CAS: Why?Zee: Because I love him. I love him the same as he loves me. And if I were out there and he were here, I know what he'd do.CAS: But you're gonna get yourself killed. It's crazy, Zee.Zee: Maybe it is. But ask yourself, if it were Dozer, and you knew the only chance you had to see him again was to hold the dock, what would you do?CAS: Make shells.MIFUNE: How old are you, kid?KID: Eighteen.MIFUNE: Shoulda said sixteen, I mighta believed that!KID: OK, I'm sixteen.MIFUNE: Minimal age for the corps is eighteen, sixteen's too young!KID: The machines won't care how old I am. They'll kill me just the same.MIFUNE: Ain't that the goddamned truth.KID: Give me a chance, sir. I won't let you down.MIFUNE: You do... you'll find me and the machines have something in common.NEO: Trinity... There's something I have to say. Something you need to understand. I know I'm supposed to go. But beyond that - I don't know...TRINITY: I know. You don't think you're coming back. I knew it the moment you said you had to leave. I could see it in your face. Just like you knew the moment you looked at me that I was coming with you.NEO: I'm scared, Trin.TRINITY: So am I. Took me ten minutes to buckle up one boot. But I'll tell you something. Six hours ago I told the Merovingian that I was ready to give anything and everything for you. Do you know what's changed in the past 6 hours?NEO: No.TRINITY: Nothing.MORPHEUS: I can only hope you know what you're doing.NEO: Me, too. It was an honor, sir.MORPHEUS: No, the honor’s still mine.NEO: Who are you?BANE: Still don't recognize me? I admit, it is difficult to think, encased in this rotting piece of meat. The stink of it filling every breath, a suffocating cloud you can't escape. Disgusting! Look at how pathetically fragile it is. Nothing this weak is meant to survive.MIFUNE: All right, this is it. Now, you all know me, so I'll just say this as simple as I can. If it's our time to die, it's our time. All I ask is: If we have to give these bastards our lives, we give 'em hell before we do!OPERATIONS OFFICER MATTIS: Sir, holographic confirms. It's the Hammer, sir.LOCK: How can that be?OPERATIONS OFFICER MATTIS: The ship is under attack, sustaining heavydamage. But at its present velocity, it'll reach Gate 3 in twelve minutes.LOCK'S LIEUTENANT: Sir, their EMP could take out every sentinel up there.LOCK: It'd take out more than that. It'd wipe out our entire defense system. We blow an EMP in there, we will lose the dock!LOCK'S LIEUTENANT: Sir, we've already lost the dock.LOCK: Three captains, one ship. I assume the other ships were lost under equally pointless circumstances?NIOBE: Good to see you too, Jason.LOCK: Council is waiting to hear an explanation. You'll forgive me for not attending, but I have to try to salvage this debacle.ROLAND: Did I miss something, Commander? I thought we just saved the dock.LOCK: That's the problem with you people. You can't think for five minutes in front of your face. That EMP knocked out almost every piece of hardware and every APU. If I were the machines, I would send every Sentinel I had here right now. Saved the dock, captain? You've just handed it to them on a silver platter.COUNCILLOR DILLARD: So you gave them your ship?NIOBE: That is correct, Councilor, I did.COUNCILLOR GRACE: Knowing what he planned to do with it?COUNCILLOR HAMANN: And the Oracle said nothing of this?NIOBE: She told me Neo would need my help, and when the time came I would choose to help him or not.COUNCILLOR WEST: But what hope can a single vessel have against their entire defense system?ROLAND: None, it's completely impossible, but he wouldn't listen. He wouldn't even take any ammunition. He was totally out of his goddamn mind.MORPHEUS: No, he wasn't. Neo is doing what he believes he must do. I don't know if what he's doing is right, and I don't know if he'll reach the machine city. And if he does, I don't know what he can do to save us. But I do know that as long as there's a single breath in his body, he will not give up. And neither can we.LOCK: It is now a matter of time. The machines will breach the walls of the city. I recommend that the Council join the rest of the non-military personnel inside the Temple.COUNCILLOR GRACE: How long do we have?LOCK: Two hours. Maybe less. My men have begun fortifying the entrance with enough artillery to make our last stand. Beyond that, there isn't anything more I can do.COUNCILLOR DILLARD: Commander, do you think that we have any chance of surviving?LOCK: If I were you, Councilor, I wouldn't ask me that question. I would ask him.COUNCILLOR DILLARD: Why?LOCK: Because he's the one who believes in miracles.NEO: I only ask to say what I've come to say, after that, do what you want and I won't try to stop you.DEUS EX MACHINA: Speak.NEO: The program 'Smith' has grown beyond your control. Soon he will spread through this city as he spread through the Matrix. You cannot stop him, but I can.DEUS EX MACHINA: We don't need you. We need nothing.NEO: If that's true, then I've made a mistake and you should kill me now.DEUS EX MACHINA: What do you want?NEO: Peace.SMITH/ORACLE: Mr. Anderson, welcome back. We missed you. You like what I've done with the place?NEO: It ends tonight.SMITH/ORACLE: Can you feel it, Mr. Anderson, closing in on you? Well, I can. I really should thank you for it, after all, it was your life that taught me the purpose of all life. The purpose of life is to end.SMITH/ORACLE: Why, Mr. Anderson, why? Why, why do you do it? Why, why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something, for more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is, do you even know? Is it freedom or truth, perhaps peace - could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson, vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself. Although, only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson, you must know it by now! You can't win, it's pointless to keep fighting! Why, Mr. Anderson, why, why do you persist?NEO: Because I choose to.ORACLE: Well, now, ain't this a surprise.ARCHITECT: You've played a very dangerous game.ORACLE: Change always is.ARCHITECT: Just how long do you think this peace is going to last?ORACLE: As long as it can. What about the others?ARCHITECT: What others?ORACLE: The ones that want out.ARCHITECT: Obviously, they will be freed.ORACLE: I have your word?ARCHITECT: What do you think I am? Human?SATI: Oracle! We were afraid we might not find you.ORACLE: Everything's okay now.SATI: Look, look!ORACLE: Just look at that! Beautiful! Did you do that?SATI: For Neo.ORACLE: That's nice. I know he'd love it.SATI: Will we ever see him again?ORACLE: I suspect so. Someday.SERAPH: Did you always know?ORACLE: Oh no. No, I didn't. But I believed. I believed.
SERAPH: I don't know, but I don't think you have enough.MORPHEUS: We want to make a deal.MEROVINGIAN: Always straight to business, huh, Morpheus? Okay. I have something you want. To make a deal, you must have something I want, yes? And it so happens there is something I want. Something I've wanted ever since I first came here. It is said they cannot be taken, they can only be given.MORPHEUS: What?MEROVINGIAN: The eyes of the Oracle.
MEROVINGIAN: I have told you before, there's no escaping the nature of the universe. It is that nature that has again brought you to me. Where some see coincidence, I see consequence. Where others see chance, I see cost. Bring me the eyes of the Oracle, and I will give you back your savior. That seems a particularly fair and reasonable deal to me. Yes, no?TRINITY: I don't have time for this shit.TRINITY: You want to make a deal, how about this? You give me Neo, or we all die right here, right now.MEROVINGIAN: Interesting deal. You are really ready to die for this man?TRINITY: Believe it.PERSEPHONE: She'll do it. If she has to, she'll kill every one of us. She's in love.MEROVINGIAN: It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.ORACLE: That's it. That's the secret. You've got to use your hands.SATI: Why?ORACLE: Cookies need love like everything does.NEO: You helped me to get here, but my question is why? Where does this go? Where does it end?ORACLE: I don't know.NEO: You don't know or you won't tell me?ORACLE: I told you before. No one can see beyond a choice they don't understand, and I mean no one.NEO: Tell me how I separated my mind from my body without jacking in. Tell me how I stopped four sentinels by thinking it. Tell me just what the hell is happening to me.ORACLE: The power of the One extends beyond this world. It reaches from here all the way back to where it came from.NEO: Where?ORACLE: The Source. That's what you felt when you touched those Sentinels. But you weren't ready for it. You should be dead, but apparently you weren't ready for that, either.NEO: The Architect told me that if I didn't return to the Source, Zion would be destroyed by midnight tonight.ORACLE: Please... You and I may not be able to see beyond our own choices, but that man can't see past any choices.NEO: Why not?ORACLE: He doesn't understand them - he can't. To him they are variables in an equation. One at a time each variable must be solved and countered. That's his purpose: to balance an equation.NEO: What's your purpose?ORACLE: To unbalance it.NEO: Why? What do you want?ORACLE: I want the same thing you want, Neo. And I am willing to go as far as you are to get it.NEO: The end of the war. Is it going to end?ORACLE: One way, or another.ORACLE: Everything that has a beginning has an end. I see the end coming. I see the darkness spreading. I see death. And you are all that stands in his way.NEO: Smith.ORACLE: Very soon he's going to have the power to destroy this world, but I believe he won't stop there; he can't. He won't stop until there's nothing left at all.NEO: What is he?ORACLE: He is you. Your opposite, your negative, the result of the equation trying to balance itself out.NEO: What if I can't stop him?ORACLE: One way or another, Neo, this war is going to end. Tonight, the future of both worlds will be in your hands... or in his.SMITH: Well, well, it's been a long time. I remember chasing you was like chasing a ghost.SERAPH: I have beaten you before.SMITH: That's true, but as you can see, things are a little different now. And you must be the last exile.SATI: The Oracle told me about you.SMITH: Really? And what did she say about me?SATI: That you're a bad man.SMITH: Oh, I'm not so bad once you get to know me.SMITH: The great and powerful Oracle. We meet at last. I suppose you've been expecting me, right? The all-knowing Oracle is never surprised. How can she be, she knows everything. But if that's true, then why is she here? If she knew I was coming, why didn't she leave? [sweeps plate of cookies off table] Maybe you knew I was going to do that, maybe you didn't. If you did, that means you baked those cookies and set that plate right there deliberately, purposefully. Which means you're sitting there also deliberately, purposefully.ORACLE: What did you do with Sati?SMITH/SATI: Cookies need love like everything does.ORACLE: You are a bastard.SMITH: You would know, Mom.ORACLE: Do what you're here to do.SMITH: Yes, ma'am.LOCK: In less than 12 hours, the machines will breach the dock walls. Every simulation we've run, we've seen that once the machines are inside the city the odds of our survival decrease dramatically. Thus our primary objective must be to destroy or disable the diggers inside the dock. If we can dothat, perhaps we can prevent them from ever reaching the city. If not, the only place we'll be able to mount an effective defense will be at the entrance of the Temple. It is small enough that it will force them into a bottleneck, allowing us to concentrate the remainder of our defense.COUNCILLOR DILLARD: We understand that you've requested additional volunteers.LOCK: That is correct.COUNCILLOR WEST: Precisely what size of force are you planning to commit to the primary dock objective?LOCK: Right now, the entire APU core and half the infantry.COUNCILLOR WEST: Half the infantry?LOCK: If it were up to me, Councillor, I'd take every man, woman, and child, put a gun in their hands and march them straight into that dock.COUNCILLOR HAMANN: Commander, just one more question. Has there been word from the Nebuchadnezzar?LOCK: None, and at this point there's no reason to expect that there ever will be.COUNCILLOR HAMANN: Perhaps. But we can hope.LOCK: I'm afraid hope is an indulgence I don't have time for.CAS: Zee, what are you doing?Zee: Making shells.CAS: They're evacuating our level. We have to go.Zee: I'm not going with you.CAS: What?Zee: They've called for volunteers to hold the dock.CAS: I know how you feel, Zee, but you can't do that.Zee: I have to.CAS: Why?Zee: Because I love him. I love him the same as he loves me. And if I were out there and he were here, I know what he'd do.CAS: But you're gonna get yourself killed. It's crazy, Zee.Zee: Maybe it is. But ask yourself, if it were Dozer, and you knew the only chance you had to see him again was to hold the dock, what would you do?CAS: Make shells.MIFUNE: How old are you, kid?KID: Eighteen.MIFUNE: Shoulda said sixteen, I mighta believed that!KID: OK, I'm sixteen.MIFUNE: Minimal age for the corps is eighteen, sixteen's too young!KID: The machines won't care how old I am. They'll kill me just the same.MIFUNE: Ain't that the goddamned truth.KID: Give me a chance, sir. I won't let you down.MIFUNE: You do... you'll find me and the machines have something in common.NEO: Trinity... There's something I have to say. Something you need to understand. I know I'm supposed to go. But beyond that - I don't know...TRINITY: I know. You don't think you're coming back. I knew it the moment you said you had to leave. I could see it in your face. Just like you knew the moment you looked at me that I was coming with you.NEO: I'm scared, Trin.TRINITY: So am I. Took me ten minutes to buckle up one boot. But I'll tell you something. Six hours ago I told the Merovingian that I was ready to give anything and everything for you. Do you know what's changed in the past 6 hours?NEO: No.TRINITY: Nothing.MORPHEUS: I can only hope you know what you're doing.NEO: Me, too. It was an honor, sir.MORPHEUS: No, the honor’s still mine.NEO: Who are you?BANE: Still don't recognize me? I admit, it is difficult to think, encased in this rotting piece of meat. The stink of it filling every breath, a suffocating cloud you can't escape. Disgusting! Look at how pathetically fragile it is. Nothing this weak is meant to survive.MIFUNE: All right, this is it. Now, you all know me, so I'll just say this as simple as I can. If it's our time to die, it's our time. All I ask is: If we have to give these bastards our lives, we give 'em hell before we do!OPERATIONS OFFICER MATTIS: Sir, holographic confirms. It's the Hammer, sir.LOCK: How can that be?OPERATIONS OFFICER MATTIS: The ship is under attack, sustaining heavydamage. But at its present velocity, it'll reach Gate 3 in twelve minutes.LOCK'S LIEUTENANT: Sir, their EMP could take out every sentinel up there.LOCK: It'd take out more than that. It'd wipe out our entire defense system. We blow an EMP in there, we will lose the dock!LOCK'S LIEUTENANT: Sir, we've already lost the dock.LOCK: Three captains, one ship. I assume the other ships were lost under equally pointless circumstances?NIOBE: Good to see you too, Jason.LOCK: Council is waiting to hear an explanation. You'll forgive me for not attending, but I have to try to salvage this debacle.ROLAND: Did I miss something, Commander? I thought we just saved the dock.LOCK: That's the problem with you people. You can't think for five minutes in front of your face. That EMP knocked out almost every piece of hardware and every APU. If I were the machines, I would send every Sentinel I had here right now. Saved the dock, captain? You've just handed it to them on a silver platter.COUNCILLOR DILLARD: So you gave them your ship?NIOBE: That is correct, Councilor, I did.COUNCILLOR GRACE: Knowing what he planned to do with it?COUNCILLOR HAMANN: And the Oracle said nothing of this?NIOBE: She told me Neo would need my help, and when the time came I would choose to help him or not.COUNCILLOR WEST: But what hope can a single vessel have against their entire defense system?ROLAND: None, it's completely impossible, but he wouldn't listen. He wouldn't even take any ammunition. He was totally out of his goddamn mind.MORPHEUS: No, he wasn't. Neo is doing what he believes he must do. I don't know if what he's doing is right, and I don't know if he'll reach the machine city. And if he does, I don't know what he can do to save us. But I do know that as long as there's a single breath in his body, he will not give up. And neither can we.LOCK: It is now a matter of time. The machines will breach the walls of the city. I recommend that the Council join the rest of the non-military personnel inside the Temple.COUNCILLOR GRACE: How long do we have?LOCK: Two hours. Maybe less. My men have begun fortifying the entrance with enough artillery to make our last stand. Beyond that, there isn't anything more I can do.COUNCILLOR DILLARD: Commander, do you think that we have any chance of surviving?LOCK: If I were you, Councilor, I wouldn't ask me that question. I would ask him.COUNCILLOR DILLARD: Why?LOCK: Because he's the one who believes in miracles.NEO: I only ask to say what I've come to say, after that, do what you want and I won't try to stop you.DEUS EX MACHINA: Speak.NEO: The program 'Smith' has grown beyond your control. Soon he will spread through this city as he spread through the Matrix. You cannot stop him, but I can.DEUS EX MACHINA: We don't need you. We need nothing.NEO: If that's true, then I've made a mistake and you should kill me now.DEUS EX MACHINA: What do you want?NEO: Peace.SMITH/ORACLE: Mr. Anderson, welcome back. We missed you. You like what I've done with the place?NEO: It ends tonight.SMITH/ORACLE: Can you feel it, Mr. Anderson, closing in on you? Well, I can. I really should thank you for it, after all, it was your life that taught me the purpose of all life. The purpose of life is to end.SMITH/ORACLE: Why, Mr. Anderson, why? Why, why do you do it? Why, why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something, for more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is, do you even know? Is it freedom or truth, perhaps peace - could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson, vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself. Although, only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson, you must know it by now! You can't win, it's pointless to keep fighting! Why, Mr. Anderson, why, why do you persist?NEO: Because I choose to.ORACLE: Well, now, ain't this a surprise.ARCHITECT: You've played a very dangerous game.ORACLE: Change always is.ARCHITECT: Just how long do you think this peace is going to last?ORACLE: As long as it can. What about the others?ARCHITECT: What others?ORACLE: The ones that want out.ARCHITECT: Obviously, they will be freed.ORACLE: I have your word?ARCHITECT: What do you think I am? Human?SATI: Oracle! We were afraid we might not find you.ORACLE: Everything's okay now.SATI: Look, look!ORACLE: Just look at that! Beautiful! Did you do that?SATI: For Neo.ORACLE: That's nice. I know he'd love it.SATI: Will we ever see him again?ORACLE: I suspect so. Someday.SERAPH: Did you always know?ORACLE: Oh no. No, I didn't. But I believed. I believed.
The Matrix Reloaded - script
The Matrix Reloaded - Transcript
Guard 1: See you tomorrow.
Guard 2: Oh my God.
Trinity: I'm in.
Link: Sir, are you sure about this?
Morpheus: I told you, we're going to be all right.
Link: I understand, sir, it's just that... I'm scooping some serious sentinel activity up here.
Morpheus: Link.
Link: Yes sir?
Morpheus: Given your situation, I can't say I fully understand your reasons for volunteering to operate onboard my ship. However, if you wish to continue to do so, I must ask you to do one thing.
Link: What's that, sir?
Morpheus: To trust me.
Link: Yes, sir, I will, sir... I mean, I do, sir.
Morpheus: I hope so. Now re-patch the main AC to the hard drives and stand by to broadcast.
Link: Yes, sir.
Trinity: Still can't sleep? You wanna talk?
Neo: They're just dreams.
Trinity: If you're afraid of something,...
Neo: I just wish... I wish I knew what I'm supposed to do. That's all. I just wish I knew.
Trinity: She's gonna call. Don't worry.
Link: There you are.
Trinity: Are we ready to go?
Link: We're already late.
Niobe: These geotherms confirm the last transmission of the Osiris. The machines are digging. They're boring from the surface straight down to Zion.
Tirant: Mutha...
Soren: They'll avoid the entire perimeter defense.
Ice: How fast are they moving?
Niobe: Control estimates their descent at a hundred meters an hour.
[offscreen]: Shit.
[captain]: How deep are they?
Niobe: Almost two thousand meters.
Tirant: What about the scans from the Osiris?
Ajax: They can't be accurate.
Niobe: They may be.
Ice: What?
Ajax: It's not possible.
Kali: That'd mean there are a quarter of a million sentinels out there.
Niobe: That's right.
Ajax: That can't be.
Morpheus: Why not? A sentinel for every man, woman, and child in Zion. That sounds exactly like the thinking of a machine to me.
Niobe: Morpheus, glad you could join us.
Morpheus: Niobe. My apologies to all. As you are undoubtedly aware, it has become increasingly difficult to locate a secure broadcast position.
Vector: Squiddies got all our best spots.
Ice: Mainlines are crawling with them.
Ghost: And if Niobe's right, in 72 hours there's gonna be a quarter of a million more.
Ballard: What are we gonna do about it?
Niobe: We're gonna do what Commander Lock ordered us to do. We'll evacuate broadcast level and return to Zion.
Morpheus: And does the Commander have a plan for stopping 250,000 sentinels?
Niobe: A strategy is still being formulated.
Morpheus: I'm sure it is.
[offscreen]: What do you think we should do, Morpheus?
Morpheus: I think we should proceed as ordered, however...
Trinity: What is it?
Neo: I don't know.
Morpheus: I must ask one of you for help. Some of you believe as I believe. Some of you do not. But those of you that do, know we are nearing the end of our struggle. The prophecy will be fulfilled soon, but before it can be, the Oracle must be consulted.
Morpheus: If we return and recharge now, we can be back with inside 36 hours. Well before the machines have reached this depth.
Niobe: Do you understand what you're asking?
Morpheus: I am asking that one ship remain here in our place just in case that the Oracle should attempt to contact us.
Ballard: Bullshit, you're asking for one of us to disobey a direct order.
Morpheus: That's right, I am. But we well know that the reason most of us are here is because of our affinity for disobedience.
Roland: And what happens when you get back to Zion and the Commander throws you in the stockade?
Morpheus: He won't.
Ballard: Goddamn it, Morpheus, you ain't never gonna change. Shit, I'll do it, just to see what Deadbolt does to you. You got 36 hours.
Smith: I'm looking for Neo.
Corrupt: Never heard of him.
Smith: I have something for him. A gift. You see, he set me free.
Corrupt: Fine, whatever. Now piss off.
Neo: Who was that?
Wurm: How did you know someone was here?
Corrupt: He gave you this. He said you set him free.
Wurm: Is everything all right, sir?
Neo: The meeting is over, retreat to your exits. Agents are coming.
Corrupt: Agents?
Neo: Go.
Neo: Hiya, fellas.
[agent 1] It's him.
[agent 2] The Anomaly.
[agent 3] Do we proceed?
[agent 2] Yes.
[agent 3] He is still...
[agent 1]...only human.
Neo: Hmm. Upgrades.
Smith 1: That went as expected.
Smith 2: Yes.
Smith 1: It's happening exactly as before.
Smith 2: Well, not exactly.
Morpheus: What happened back there, Link?
Link: I can't figure it out, sir. Agents just came out of nowhere. And then the code got all weird. Encryption I've never seen.
Trinity: Is Neo okay?
Link: Okay? Shit, Morpheus, you should have seen him.
Morpheus: Where is he now?
Link: He's doing his Superman thing.
Neo: Where are you?
Link: This is the Nebuchadnezzar on approach, requesting access to Gate 3.
Zion Virtual Control Operator: Nebuchadnezzar, this is Zion Control. Maintain present velocity and stand by.
Link: Roger that, Control.
Zion Virtual Control Operator: This is Zion Control requesting immediate stand down of arms at Gate 3. We have the Nebuchadnezzar on approach. Let's open her up. Nebuchadnezzar, you are clear through Gate 3 to Bay 7.
Link: Roger that, Control.
Zion Virtual Control Operator: Door's open, bed's made. Welcome home.
Link: No place like it.
Zion Controller: Roger that, Control. Zion Control, stand by for Gate 3 lockdown.
Zion Virtual Control Operator: The Nebuchadnezzar is down. Bay 7.
Zion Controller: Understood.
Morpheus: Captain Mifune.
Mifune: Captain Morpheus.
Morpheus: Are you here to escort me to the stockade, Captain?
Mifune: I'm just here to keep the peace.
Lock's Lieutenant: Commander Lock demands...
Mifune: *coughs*
Lock's Lieutenant: ...requests your immediate counsel, sir.
Morpheus: Link.
Link: Sir?
Morpheus: I want the ship ready to go as soon as humanly possible.
Link: Understood, sir.
Neo: What is it between them?
Trinity: Morpheus and Lock? Niobe.
Neo: Captain Niobe?
Trinity: She used to be with Morpheus. Now she's with Lock.
Neo: What happened?
Trinity: Morpheus went to the Oracle. After that everything changed.
Neo: Yeah, she can do that.
Kid: Neo!
Neo: Oh, no.
Trinity: How does he always know?
Neo: Doesn't he have anything better to do?
Trinity: You know what they say about the life you save.
Neo: I didn't save his life.
Kid: Hiya, Neo! Trinity, Link. It's great to have you back!
Neo: Thanks. It's good to be back.
Kid: Can I carry that for you, Neo?
Neo: No, I can carry my own bag.
Kid: Trinity?
Trinity: I'm fine.
Link: You can carry these.
Kid: Yeah, sure, Link. Hey, you know, next year I'm old enough to join a crew. I've been thinking a lot about it and I've made my decision.
Link: Let me guess.
Kid: I want to join the Nebuchadnezzar. I know Morpheus hasn't filled the other crew positions except for you, Link. I'm sure he has his reasons, but the more I think about it, the more I think it's meant to be. You know, it's fate. I mean, you're the reason I'm here, Neo.
Neo: I told you, Kid, you found me, I didn't find you.
Kid: I know, but you got me out! You saved me!
Neo: You saved yourself.
Lock: Morpheus.
Morpheus: Commander Lock.
Lock: I've spoken to the other captains, and I wanted to offer you the chance to explain your actions.
Morpheus: I wasn't aware that my actions required any explanation.
Lock: You were given a direct order to return to Zion.
Morpheus: I did.
Lock: But you asked for one ship to remain behind.
Morpheus: I would have stayed, but I needed to recharge my ship.
Lock: So you admit to a direct contravention of your duty.
Morpheus: Commander, we need a presence inside the Matrix to await contact from the Oracle.
Lock: I don't want to hear that shit! I don't care about Oracles or prophecies or Messiahs. I care about one thing: stopping that army from destroying this city, and to do that I need soldiers to obey my orders.
Morpheus: With all due respect, Commander, there is only one way to save our city.
Lock: How?
Morpheus: Neo.
Lock: Goddamnit, Morpheus! Not everyone believes what you believe!
Morpheus: My beliefs do not require them to.
Kid: There's a Gathering tonight. Everyone's talking, a lot of people are scared. No one can remember the last time so many ships were docked. Something's happening, isn't it? Something big?
Link: Hey. We're not allowed to say anything, so stop asking. Goddamn, it's good to be home.
Lock: I'm going to recommend to the Council that you be removed from duty.
Morpheus: That is, of course, your prerogative, Commander.
Lock: If it were up to me, Captain, you wouldn't set foot on a ship for the rest of your life.
Morpheus: Then I am grateful that it is not up to you.
Lock: Councillor Hamann.
Councillor Hamann: Commander. Captain.
Morpheus: Councillor.
Councillor Hamann: Council's asked me to speak tonight, at the temple gathering. The presence of the fleet and the persistence of rumors must be addressed. The people must be told what is happening.
Lock: Of course, councilor. But might I advise a level of discretion concerning specific details. We do not wish to start a panic.
Councillor Hamann: Quite right. A panic is not what anyone wants. What about you, Captain, what would you advise?
Morpheus: The truth. No one will panic. Because there is nothing to fear. That army will never reach the gates of Zion.
Councillor Hamann: What makes you so sure?
Morpheus: Consider what we have seen, Councillor. Consider that in the past 6 months we have freed more minds than in 6 years. This attack is an act of desperation. I believe very soon the prophecy will be fulfilled and this war will end.
Councillor Hamann: I hope you're right, Captain.
Morpheus: I do not believe it to be a matter of hope, Councillor. It is simply a matter of time.
Link: My stop. See you soon, hopefully not too soon. Let's go, Kid. These two got things to do.
Neo: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Trinity: I am if you're thinking this elevator's too damn slow.
Neo: How long to recharge the Neb?
Trinity: 24, maybe 30 hours.
Neo: Some people go their entire lives without hearing news that good.
Old Woman at Zion: Neo, please. I have a son, Jacob, aboard the Gnosis. Please, watch over him.
Neo: I'll try.
Another Old Woman at Zion: I have a daughter on the Icarus.
Neo: No, wait.
Trinity: It's all right. They need you.
Neo: I need you.
Trinity: I know. There's time.
Link: Where's my puss... Hey!
Link's Niece and Nephew: Uncle Link!
Link: God! Oh my God, you're so huge, you should be picking me up!
Link's Niece and Nephew: No!
Link: Yeah!
Link's Niece and Nephew: Okay!
Link: Okay? All right. Now, we're gonna have to work together here, okay? One, two, three, lift! Oh, my God! What are you feedin' these two?
Cas: Come on, kids! It's time to go.
Link: Hey, Cas.
Cas: Hey. Good to have you home, Link.
Link: Good to be home.
Cas: You be careful with her, huh?
Zee: Don't worry about me, he's the one that's gonna get it.
Link: Hmm?
Cas: Out the door! Both of you, march!
Link: Bye!
Cas: Bye!
Link: I'm gonna get what?
Zee: Every ship out there has been home two, even three times more than the Nebuchadnezzar.
Link: Come on, Zee! I thought we were past this!
Zee: We'll get past this when you start operating another ship.
Link: I can't do that!
Zee: Why?
Link: You know why.
Zee: If Dozer knew how I felt, he wouldn't have asked you to do this.
Link: Maybe. But it's too late now. I made a promise, and some promises can't be unmade.
Zee: It's not fair.
Link: Nobody said it was gonna be. You think Cas thinks it's fair that I'm here and Dozer's not?
Zee: I lost two brothers to that ship, Link. Afraid of it. Afraid it's gonna take you too.
Link: It won't.
Zee: How can you say that to me?
Link: Because of Morpheus, because of what he's told me. He said that this is it. That it will be over soon.
Zee: Link, Morpheus is crazy.
Link: No doubt, but Tank and Dozer believed him, and I'll tell you what - soon after being on that ship and seeing Neo do the things he can do, I gotta say - I'm starting to believe him too.
Zee: Be careful, Link. Please be careful.
Kid: They started yet?
Priestess: Only Councillor Hamann's opening prayer.
Councillor Hamann: Tonight, let us honour these men and women. These are our soldiers, our warriors. These are our husbands and wives, our brothers and sisters, our children. Let us remember those that have been lost. And let us give thanks for those that have been found and who stand here beside us. Now I would like someone else to close this prayer. Someone who hasn't spoken here in a long time, but who I believe has something to say that we all need to hear. I give you Morpheus.
Morpheus: Zion! Hear me! It is true, what many of you have heard. The machines have gathered an army, and as I speak that army is drawing nearer to our home.
Crowd: [whispers]
Believe me when I say we have a difficult time ahead of us. But if we are to be prepared for it, we must first shed our fear of it! I stand here before you now, truthfully unafraid. Why? Because I believe something you do not? No! I stand here without fear because I remember. I remember that I am here not because of the path that lies before me, but because of the path that lies behind me! I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines. I remember that for 100 years they have sent their armies to destroy us. And after a century of war, I remember that which matters most. We are still here!
Crowd: [cheers and applause]
Tonight let us send a message to that army. Tonight let us shake this cave! Tonight let us tremble these halls of earth, steel, and stone! Let us be heard from red core to black sky. Tonight, let us make them remember. This is Zion! And we are not afraid!
Crowd: [thunderous cheers and applause]
Niobe: I remember. I remember you used to dance. I remember you were pretty good.
Morpheus: There are some things in this world, captain Niobe, that will never change.
Lock: Niobe!
Morpheus: Some things do change.
Neo: Excuse me.
Neo: I missed you.
Trinity: I can tell.
Neo: I was thinking... Everyone is here.
Trinity: Follow me.
Trinity: Neo, what is it? What's wrong? It's okay, you can tell me.
Neo: Trinity...
Trinity: Don't be afraid.
Neo: I can't lose you.
Trinity: You're not gonna lose me. You feel this? I'm never letting go.
Morpheus: Good night, Zion. Sweet dreams.
Bane: You all right?
Malachi: I'll make it. Did you see that Agent? I've never seen anything like it.
Bane: Doesn't matter now. All that matters is this. You first.
Bane: Oh God.
Smith: Smith will suffice.
Bane-Smith: Thank you.
Smith: My pleasure.
Councillor Hamann: Care for some company?
Neo: Councillor Hamann.
Councillor Hamann: I don't want to intrude if you prefer to be alone.
Neo: No, I could probably use some company.
Councillor Hamann: Good, so could I. It's nice tonight. Very calm. Feels like everyone's sleeping very peacefully.
Neo: Not everyone.
Councillor Hamann: I hate sleeping. I never sleep more than a few hours. I figure I slept the first 11 years of my life, now I'm making up for it. What about you?
Neo: I just haven't been able to sleep much.
Councillor Hamann: It's a good sign.
Neo: Of what?
Councillor Hamann: That you are, in fact, still human. Have you ever been to the engineering level? I love to walk there at night, it's quite amazing. Would you like to see it?
Neo: Sure.
Councillor Hamann: Almost no one comes down here, unless, of course, there's a problem. That's how it is with people - nobody cares how it works as long as it works. I like it down here. I like to be reminded this city survives because of these machines. These machines are keeping us alive, while other machines are coming to kill us. Interesting, isn't it? Power to give life, and the power to end it.
Neo: We have the same power.
Councillor Hamann: I suppose we do, but down here sometimes I think about all those people still plugged into the Matrix and when I look at these machines, I.. I can't help thinking that in a way, we are plugged into them.
Neo: But we control these machines, they don't control us.
Councillor Hamann: Of course not, how could they? The idea's pure nonsense, but... it does make one wonder just... what is control?
Neo: If we wanted, we could shut these machines down.
Councillor Hamann: Of course... that's it. You hit it! That's control, isn't it? If we wanted, we could smash them to bits. Although if we did, we'd have to consider what would happen to our lights, our heat, our air.
Neo: So we need machines and they need us. Is that your point, Councillor?
Councillor Hamann: No, no point. Old men like me don't bother with making points. There's no point.
Neo: Is that why there are no young men on the Council?
Councillor Hamann: Good point.
Neo: Why don't you tell me what's on your mind, Councillor?
Councillor Hamann: There is so much in this world that I do not understand. See that machine? It has something to do with recycling our water supply. I have absolutely no idea how it works. But I do understand the reason for it to work. I have absolutely no idea how you are able to do some of the things you do, but I believe there's a reason for that as well. I only hope we understand that reason before it's too late.
Trinity: Ballard.
Ballard: Is he here? Neo. It's from the Oracle.
Neo: It's time to go.
Link: Morpheus said this is how it's gonna happen. I don't know. Maybe the prophecy is true, maybe it's not. All I know, is that ship needs an operator. Right now that operator's me.
Zee: I know.
Link: Zee...
Zee: I want you to wear it.
Link: You know I don't believe in this stuff.
Zee: But I do. It's always brought me luck. Maybe it'll bring me you.
Link: I'm coming back. I promise. No matter what it takes, I'm coming home.
Zee: Just keep it with you, please? For me.
Link: Okay.
Kid: Neo!
Link: Who the hell? Bane?
Neo: Is something wrong?
Bane/Smith: No, I'm fine. I just wanted to catch you to say good luck.
Neo: Thanks.
Bane/Smith: We'll see you.
Kid: Neo! Just in time. You're gonna see the Oracle, aren't you?
Morpheus: We don't have time.
Kid: I'm sorry, sir, I just have to give something to Neo. A gift from one of the orphans. He made me swear to get it to you before you left. He said you'd understand.
Neo: Thanks.
Lock: I was just told you cleared the Nebuchadnezzar for takeoff.
Councillor Hamann: That is correct.
Lock: Councillor, am I still in charge of our defense system?
Councillor Hamann: Of course.
Lock: I believe I need every ship we have if we're going to survive this attack!
Councillor Hamann: I understand that, Commander.
Lock: Then why did you allow the Nebuchadnezzar to leave?
Councillor Hamann: Because I believe our survival depends on more than how many ships we have.
Trinity: Be careful.
Neo: Hello.
Seraph: You seek the Oracle.
Neo: Who are you?
Seraph: I am Seraph. I can take you to her. But first, I must apologize.
Neo: Apologize for what?
Seraph: For this.
Seraph: Good. The Oracle has made enemies. I had to be sure.
Neo: Of what?
Seraph: That you are The One.
Neo: You could've just asked.
Seraph: No. You do not truly know someone until you fight them. Come, she's waiting.
Link: Where the hell'd they go?
Neo: These are back doors, aren't they? Programmer access.
Seraph: [nods]
Neo: How do they work?
Seraph: The code is hidden in tumblers. One position opens a lock. Another position opens one of these doors.
Neo: Are you a programmer?
Seraph: [shakes head]
Neo: Then what are you?
Seraph: I protect that which matters most.
The Oracle: Well, come on. I ain't gonna bite ya. Come around here, and let me have a look at ya. My goodness, look at you! You turned out all right, didn't you? How do you feel?
Neo: I, uh...
The Oracle: I know you're not sleeping. We'll get to that. Why don't you come and have a sit this time?
Neo: Maybe I'll stand.
The Oracle: Well, suit yourself.
Neo: I felt like sitting.
The Oracle: I know. So. Let's get the obvious stuff out of the way.
Neo: You're not human, are you?
The Oracle: Well it's tough to get any more obvious than that.
Neo: If I had to guess, I'd say you're a program from the machine world. So is he.
The Oracle: So far, so good.
Neo: But if that's true, that can mean you are a part of this system, another kind of control.
The Oracle: Keep going.
Neo: I suppose the most obvious question is, how can I trust you?
The Oracle: Bingo! It is a pickle, no doubt about it. The bad news is there's no way if you can really know whether I'm here to help you or not. So it's really up to you. You just have to make up your own damn mind to either accept what I'm going to tell you, or reject it. Candy?
Neo: D'you already know if I'm going to take it?
The Oracle: Wouldn't be much of an Oracle if I didn't.
Neo: But if you already know, how can I make a choice?
The Oracle: Because you didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand why you made it. I thought you'd have figured that out by now.
Neo: Why are you here?
The Oracle: Same reason. I love candy.
Neo: But why help us?
The Oracle: We're all here to do what we're all here to do. I'm interested in one thing, Neo, the future. And believe me, I know - the only way to get there is together.
Neo: Are there other programs like you?
The Oracle: Oh, well, not like me. But... Look, see those birds? At some point a program was written to govern them. A program was written to watch over the trees, and the wind, the sunrise, and sunset. There are programs running all over the place. The ones doing their job, doing what they were meant to do, are invisible. You'd never even know they were here. But the other ones, well, we hear about them all the time.
Neo: I've never heard of them.
The Oracle: Of course you have. Every time you've heard someone say they saw a ghost, or an angel. Every story you've ever heard about vampires, werewolves, or aliens is the system assimilating some program that's doing something they're not supposed to be doing.
Neo: Programs hacking programs. Why?
The Oracle: They have their reasons, but usually a program chooses exile when it faces deletion.
Neo: And why would a program be deleted?
The Oracle: Maybe it breaks down. Maybe a better program is created to replace it - happens all the time, and when it does, a program can either choose to hide here, or return to The Source.
Neo: The machine mainframe?
The Oracle: Yes. Where you must go. Where the path of The One ends. You've seen it, in your dreams, haven't you? The door made of light?
Neo: [nods]
The Oracle: What happens when you go through the door?
Neo: I see Trinity, and something happens, something bad. She starts to fall, and then I wake up.
The Oracle: Do you see her die?
Neo: No.
The Oracle: You have the sight now, Neo. You are looking at the world without time.
Neo: Then why can't I see what happens to her?
The Oracle: We can never see past the choices we don't understand.
Neo: Are you saying I have to choose whether Trinity lives or dies?
The Oracle: No. You've already made the choice, now you have to understand it.
Neo: No, I can't do that. I won't.
The Oracle: You have to.
Neo: Why?
The Oracle: Because you're The One.
Neo: What if I can't? What happens if I fail?
The Oracle: Then Zion will fall. Our time is up. Listen to me, Neo. You can save Zion if you reach The Source, but to do that you will need the Keymaker.
Neo: The Keymaker?
The Oracle: Yes, he disappeared some time ago. We did not know what happened to him until now. He's being held prisoner by a very dangerous program, one of the oldest of us. He is called the Merovingian, and he will not let him go willingly.
Neo: What does he want?
The Oracle: What do all men with power want? More power.
The Oracle: Be there, at that exact time, and you will have a chance.
Seraph: We must go.
The Oracle: Seems like every time we meet I've got nothing but bad news. I'm sorry about that, I surely am. But for what it's worth, you've made a believer out of me. Good luck, kiddo.
Smith: Mister Anderson! Did you get my package?
Neo: Yeah.
Smith: Well, good.
Morpheus: Smith.
Link: Whoever it is, he's not reading like an agent.
Smith: Surprised to see me?
Neo: No.
Smith: Then you're aware of it.
Neo: Of what?
Smith: Our connection. I don't fully understand how it happened. Perhaps some part of you imprinted onto me, something overwritten or copied. That is at this point irrelevant, what matters is that whatever happened, happened for a reason.
Neo: And what reason is that?
Smith: I killed you, Mister Anderson, I watched you die... With a certain satisfaction, I might add, and then something happened. Something that I knew was impossible, but it happened anyway. You destroyed me, Mister Anderson. Afterward, I knew the rules, I understood what I was supposed to do but I didn't. I couldn't. I was compelled to stay, compelled to disobey. And now here I stand because of you, Mister Anderson, because of you I'm no longer an agent of the system, because of you I've changed - I'm unplugged - a new man, so to speak, like you, apparently free.
Neo: Congratulations.
Smith: Thank you. But as you well know, appearances can be deceiving, which brings me back to the reason why we're here. We're not here because we're free, we're here because we're not free. There's no escaping reason, no denying purpose - because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist.
Smith 2: It is purpose that created us,
Smith 3: Purpose that connects us,
Smith 4: Purpose that pulls us,
Smith 5: That guides us,
Smith 6: That drives us,
Smith 7: It is purpose that defines,
Smith 8: Purpose that binds us.
Smith: We're here because of you, Mister Anderson, we're here to take from you what you tried to take from us. Purpose.
Trinity: What's happening to him?
Link: I don't know.
Smith: Yes, that's it, it'll be over soon.
Agent Jackson: You.
Smith: Yes me. Me, me, me!
Agent Jackson/Smith: Me too!
Smith: More.
Smiths: It is inevitable.
Trinity: Come on, get out of there.
Trinity: Are you all right?
Morpheus: It was Smith.
Neo: Yes.
Morpheus: Now there's more than one of him.
Neo: A lot more.
Link: How's that possible?
Neo: I don't know - somehow he's found a way to copy himself.
Morpheus: Is that what he was doing to you?
Neo: I don't know what he was doing, but I know what it felt like.
Trinity: What?
Neo: Felt like I was back in that hallway. Felt like dying.
Lock: The machines are tunnelling to avoid our defense system. But I believe that they're going to intersect certain pipelines in order to control them. These points of intersection are crucial because I believe they're vulnerable to counterattack. Although it has been suggested that this is the same kind of attack we have defended for years, I urge the Council to realize the truth: this is the single greatest threat we have ever faced. And if we do not act accordingly, we will not survive.
Councillor Dillard: Commander Lock, the Council is well aware of the seriousness of this attack. You have our leave to prepare our defense by any and all means necessary.
Lock: Thank you, Councillor
Councillor Dillard: However, we ask if there's been word from the Nebuchadnezzar.
Lock: No, Councillor, no word - nothing.
Councillor West: Then we request a ship be dispatched to ascertain the fate of The One.
Lock: I wish that were possible, Councillor, but I do not believe our defense can suffer the loss of another ship.
Councillor West: It will, Commander, if it must.
Lock: It could take a single ship days to find the Nebuchadnezzar.
Councillor Dillard: Then send two.
Lock: This is insane.
Councilor Hamann: Careful, Commander.
Lock: Forgive my frustration, Councillors. I wish I were able to comprehend the Council's choice in this matter.
Councillor West: Comprehension is not a requisite of cooperation.
Lock: You're asking me to order two of my captains...
Councillor Dillard: There's no need for such an order, the Captains are present - they can answer for themselves. The Council is calling for two volunteers to aid the Nebuchadnezzar. Are there two among you that would answer such a call?
Soren: Captain Soren of the Vigilant will answer the Council's call.
Councillor Dillard: You understand the situation, Captain Soren?
Soren: Yes, ma'am.
Councillor Dillard: Thank you, Captain. Is there another?
Bane/Smith: Captain, I think we should volunteer.
Malachi: What? You have gone crazy?
Ballard: Shut your hole, Bane, before I put you in one.
Councillor Dillard: Is there no other?
Lock: Be hard for any man to risk his life. Especially if he doesn't understand the reason.
Niobe: Captain Niobe of the Logos will answer the Councillor's call.
Lock: What?
Councillor Dillard: Thank you, Captain Niobe. Commander Lock, you have your orders. This Council is hereby adjourned.
Lock: Niobe, what are you doing?
Niobe: What I can.
Lock: Why?
Niobe: Because some things never change, Jason, and some things do.
Morpheus: What can you see, Neo?
Neo: It's strange, the code is somehow different.
Morpheus: Encrypted?
Neo: Maybe.
Trinity: Is that good for us or bad for us?
Neo: Well, it looks like every floor is wired with explosives.
Trinity: Bad for us.
Morpheus: Here we go.
Maitre d': Puis-je vous aider? [Trans: Can I help you?]
Morpheus: Yes, we are here to speak with the Merovingian.
Maitre d': Of course, he has been expecting you. Follow me.
Merovingian: Aha, here he is at last. Neo, the One himself, right? And the legendary Morpheus. And Trinity of course, si belle qu'elle me fait souffrir. [Trans: so beautiful she makes me suffer.] I have heard so much, you honour me. Please, sit, join us. This is my wife, Persephone. Something to eat? Drink? Hmm... of course, such things are contrivances like so much here. For the sake of appearances.
Neo: No, thank you.
Merovingian: Yes, of course, who has time? Who has time? But then if we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time? Château Haut-Brion 1959, magnificent wine, I love French wine, like I love the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favourite - fantastic language, especially to curse with. Nom de Dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère! [Trans: Name of God of prostitute of whorehouse of filth of shit of idiot of bastard of your mother!] You see, it's like wiping your arse with silk, I love it.
Morpheus: You know why we are here.
Merovingian: Hmph... I am a trafficker of information, I know everything I can. The question is, do you know why you are here?
Morpheus: We are looking for the Keymaker.
Merovingian: Oh yes, it is true. The Keymaker, of course. But this is not a reason, this is not a `why.' The Keymaker himself, his very nature, is means, it is not an end, and so, to look for him is to be looking for a means to do... what?
Neo: You know the answer to that question.
Merovingian: But do you? You think you do but you do not. You are here because you were sent here, you were told to come here and you obeyed. [Laughs] It is, of course, the way of all things. You see, there is only one constant, one universal, it is the only real truth: causality. Action. Reaction. Cause and effect.
Morpheus: Everything begins with choice.
Merovingian: No. Wrong. Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without. Look there, at that woman. My God, just look at her. Affecting everyone around her, so obvious, so bourgeois, so boring. But wait... Watch - you see, I have sent her dessert, a very special dessert. I wrote it myself. It starts so simply, each line of the program creating a new effect, just like poetry. First, a rush... heat... her heart flutters. You can see it, Neo, yes? She does not understand why - is it the wine? No. What is it then, what is the reason? And soon it does not matter, soon the why and the reason are gone, and all that matters is the feeling itself. This is the nature of the universe. We struggle against it, we fight to deny it, but it is of course pretense, it is a lie. Beneath our poised appearance, the truth is we are completely out of control. Causality. There is no escape from it, we are forever slaves to it. Our only hope, our only peace is to understand it, to understand the `why.' `Why' is what separates us from them, you from me. `Why' is the only real social power, without it you are powerless. And this is how you come to me, without `why,' without power. Another link in the chain. But fear not, since I have seen how good you are at following orders, I will tell you what to do next. Run back, and give the fortune teller this message: Her time is almost up. Now I have some real business to do, I will say adieu and goodbye.
Neo: This isn't over.
Merovingian: Oh yes, it is. The Keymaker is mine and I see no reason why I should give him up. No reason at all.
Persephone: Where are you going?
Merovingian: Please, ma chérie, I've told you, we are all victims of causality. I drink too much wine, I must take a piss. Cause and effect. Au revoir [Trans: Goodbye].
Trinity: Touch me, and that hand will never touch anything again.
Neo: Well, that didn't go so well.
Morpheus: Are you certain the Oracle didn't say anything else?
Neo: Yes.
Trinity: Maybe we did something wrong.
Neo: Or didn't do something.
Morpheus: No, what happened happened and couldn't have happened any other way.
Neo: How do you know?
Morpheus: We are still alive.
Persephone: If you want the Keymaker, follow me. [to man in washroom] Get out! I'm so sick of his bullshit. On and on, pompous prick. A long time ago, when we first came here, it was so different. He was so different. He was like you. I'll give you what you want. But you have to give me something.
Neo: What?
Persephone: A kiss.
Trinity: Excuse me?
Persephone: I want you to kiss me as if you were kissing her.
Neo: Why?
Persephone: You love her. She loves you. It's all over you both. A long time ago, I knew what that felt like. I want to remember it. I want to sample it. That's all, just a sample.
Trinity: Why don't you sample this instead?
Morpheus: Trinity.
Persephone: Such emotion over something so small. It's just a kiss.
Neo: Why should we trust you?
Persephone: If I don't deliver you to the Keymaker, she can kill me.
Neo: All right.
Persephone: But you have to make me believe I am her.
Neo: All right.
Persephone: Terrible. Forget it.
Neo: Wait. Okay.
Persephone: Ahh, yes. That's it. I envy you. But such a thing is not meant to last. Come with me.
Link: Not again!
Persephone: It's all right, boys, they're with me. These fellas work for my husband, they do his dirty work. They're very good, very loyal. Aren't you, boys?
Cain and Abel: Yes, Mistress.
Persephone: They come from a much older version of the Matrix, but like so many back then, they caused more problems than they solved. My husband saved them because they're notoriously difficult to terminate. How many people keep silver bullets in their gun? You can either run to the restaurant and tell my husband what I have done, or you can stay there and die. He's in the ladies' room... [to Neb crew] Hurry.
Neo: My name is Neo.
Keymaker: Yes, I'm the Keymaker, I've been waiting for you.
Merovingian: Oh God, my God, Persephone how could you do this, you betrayed me! Nom de Dieu de putain de bordel de saloperie de couille de merde! [Trans: Name of God of whore of brothel of filth of testicle of shit]
Persephone: Cause and effect, my love.
Merovingian: Cause? There is no cause for this, what cause?
Persephone: What cause? How about the lipstick you're still wearing?
Merovingian: Lipstick? Lipstick? What craziness you are talking about woman, there is no lipstick.
Persephone: She wasn't kissing your face, my love.
Merovingian: Ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai, woman, this is nothing, c'est rien, c'est rien du tout. [Trans: This is nothing, this is nothing at all] It's a game, it is only a game.
Persephone: So is this. Have fun.
Merovingian: All right. All right. Let us find out where this goes. You two, get the Keymaker.
Trinity: That's a nice trick.
Keymaker: I cannot go back.
Neo: I'll handle them.
Merovingian: Handle us? You'll handle us? You know, your predecessors had much more respect.
Merovingian: Okay, you have some skill. Kill him.
Merovingian: You see, he's just a man.
Merovingian: Damn it, woman, you will be the end of me. Mark my words, boy, and mark them well. I have survived your predecessors, and I will survive you!
Trinity: Where are you going?
Keymaker: Another way, always another way. Close it, quick.
Twin 1: Could we move along?
Keymaker: Run!
Twin 2: Step away from the door.
Twin 2: We owe you for that.
Twin 1: Just like new.
Twin 2: Drop your weapon.
Morpheus: Stay with him.
Trinity: What about Neo?
Morpheus: He can handle himself.
Trinity: Get in the back.
Neo: Oh shit.
Link: Operator.
Neo: Link, where am I?
Link: You're not gonna believe this, but you're all the way up in the mountains.
Neo: Really.
Link: Yeah, it's gonna take me a while to get up an exit. Oh shit.
Neo: What?
Link: Those Twin things are after Morpheus and Trinity, and I don't have a way to get them out.
Neo: Where are they?
Link: Middle of the City, 500 miles due south.
Link: Operator.
Morpheus: Get us out of here, Link.
Link: That won't be easy, sir.
Morpheus: I know. We're inside the core network.
Link: Yes sir. The only exit I got near you is the Winsor[?] overpass.
Morpheus: Off the freeway?
Link: Yes, sir.
Morpheus: Fine, we'll make it.
Link: Sir, I think I should say... oh shit, look out behind you!
Link: Incoming fire!
Morpheus: Down!
Trinity: Hold on!
Link: Oh no, this is getting real ugly real fast.
Morpheus: Are you watching this, Link?
Link: Yes sir, there's an all-points on you, I make 8 units headed your way.
Morpheus: Any suggestions?
Link: Turn right.
Morpheus: Right, now!
Link: Now straight here, go through the next branch, you'll hit a connecting tunnel to the 101.
Morpheus: Got it.
Link: Sir, are you sure about this? The freeway, I mean. It's dangerous, in 14 years of operating, I've never seen...
Morpheus: Link, what did I tell you?
Link: Yes sir, I do, sir, Winsor[?] overpass, I'll be ready for you.
Morpheus: Good man.
Trinity: You always told me to stay off the freeway.
Morpheus: Yes, that's true.
Trinity: You said it was suicide.
Morpheus: Then let us hope that I was wrong.
Link: Operator.
Niobe: Link, it's Niobe. We've been sent to bring you in. I need to talk to Morpheus.
Link: Believe me, Niobe, he needs you.
Niobe: Where is he?
Link: Just follow the sirens.
Cop: They're approaching [...]
Agent Thompson: We have them now.
Agent Johnson: The exile is the primary target.
Morpheus: Move!
Twin 1: We are getting aggravated.
Twin 2: Yes we are.
Morpheus: Trinity! Get him out of here.
Trinity: Come on!
Twin 2: Gotcha.
Trinity: Morpheus.
Link: He's okay, keep moving.
Trinity: Let's go.
Trinity: I need a download to hotwire a motorcycle.
Link: Not a problem, one crash course in motorcycle...
Trinity: Wait. Cancel that. [to Keymaker] You are handy. Jump on.
Agent Johnson: She means nothing.
Agent Thompson: Find the exile.
Agent Johnson: We have them.
Cop from Speaker: One Adam Twelve, please respond.
Morpheus: Get down.
Niobe: Gotcha.
Link: She's good.
Agent: You are no longer necessary.
Keymaker: We do only what we're meant to do.
Agent: Then you are meant for one more thing. Deletion.
Niobe: Go kick his ass.
Morpheus: Neo, if you're out there, I could use some help.
Link: What is that?
Link: Yess!
[Zion Man] Sir. We have confirmation from the Icarus. The first two ships are in position for the counterattack.
Lock: Good. Any change?
[Zion Woman] Looks like they hit some iron ore here, slowed them down a little.
Lock: How much?
[Zion Woman]: An hour, maybe.
Lock: That'd give them a little over 9 hours.
[Zion Woman]: Yes sir.
Keymaker: There's a building. Inside this building there's a level where no elevator can go, and no stair can reach. This level is filled with doors. These doors lead to many places, hidden places, but one door is special. One door leads to the Source. This building is protected by a very secure system. Every alarm triggers the bomb.
Vector: Bomb? Did he say bomb?
Keymaker: But like all systems it has a weakness. The system is based on the rules of a building. One system built on another.
Morpheus: Electricity.
Keymaker: If one fails, so must the other.
Niobe: No electricity, no alarms.
Ghost: But you'd have to take out a whole city block to kill the power to a building like that.
Keymaker: Not one, 27.
Vector: 27 blocks?
Keymaker: There is a power station. it must be destroyed.
Niobe: There must be some kind of failsafe.
Keymaker: Yes, there is an emergency system. The core network of the grid must be accessed. The emergency system must be deactivated.
Soren: Then what do you need us for? Neo could take 'em both out easier than we could.
Keymaker: There's no time.
Niobe: Why?
Keymaker: Once the door is unprotected, the connection will be severed. But another connection must first be made.
Ghost: How long will that take?
Keymaker: Exactly 314 seconds.
Soren: Just over 5 minutes.
Keymaker: That is the length and breadth of the window. Only The One can open the door, and only during that window can the door be opened.
Niobe: How do you know all this?
Keymaker: I know because I must know. It's my purpose. It's the reason I'm here. Same reason we're all here.
Trinity: Neo, I know something's wrong. You don't have to tell me. I just want you to know that I'm here.
Keymaker: All must be done as one.
Link: Can't hurt.
Keymaker: If one fails, all fail.
Morpheus: At midnight, there's a shift change in the security of both buildings. At midnight, we will strike.
Guard 1: Hey! You count sheep at home.
Guard 2: Why, I get paid to count 'em here.
Jax: Okay, they're inside.
Axel: How much time?
Jax: 12 minutes.
Axel: Oh shit!
Morpheus: All of our lives we have fought this war. Tonight I believe we can end it. Tonight is not an accident. There are no accidents. We have not come here by chance. I do not believe in chance when I see 3 objectives, 3 captains, 3 ships. I do not see coincidence, I see providence, I see purpose. I believe it is our fate to be here. It is our destiny. I believe this night holds for each and every one of us the very meaning of our lives.
Neo: I want to ask you to do something, but I don't know how.
Trinity: I promise you, if I can, I will.
Neo: What if I asked you to stay out of this, no matter what. To stay out of the matrix?
Trinity: Why?
Neo: Please.
Trinity: All right.
Morpheus: What is it, Niobe?
Niobe: I can't help it, Morpheus, I can't help thinking - what if you're wrong. What if all this - the prophecy, everything - is bullshit.
Morpheus: Then tomorrow we may all be dead, but how would that be different from any other day? This is a war, and we are soldiers. Death can come for us at any time, in any place.
Axel: Incoming. Incoming! Incoming!
Morpheus: Now consider the alternative. What if I am right? What if the prophecy is true? What if tomorrow the war could be over. Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for?
Soren: Time?
Vector: 3 minutes.
Binary: Almost there.
Keymaker: It is time.
Trinity: Find the others.
Link: Got Niobe right there, they're already out of the station.
Trinity: What about Soren?
Link: There, they're still inside, but...
Trinity: They're not moving.
Morpheus: That's it, let's go.
Trinity: Call Neo now.
Link: Lost them. They're inside the portal.
Trinity: What about the grid?
Link: Everything's still operational. Emergency system's already rerouting power. Jesus. As soon as they open that door, it's all over.
Trinity: The hell it is.
Link: What are you... Trinity?
Trinity: I will not stand here and do nothing. I will not wait here to watch them die.
Link: Trinity, we're talking less then 5 minutes here.
Trinity: In 5 minutes, I'll tear that whole goddamn building down.
Neo: How much further?
Keymaker: Here, just here.
Smith: I'm sorry, this is a dead end.
Link: It's gotta be the ugliest hack I have ever done. That's as close as I can get ya. You better grow some wings.
Link: Operator.
Trinity: I'm in.
Link: Keep moving, 65th floor.
Smith: you look surprised to see me again, Mr. Anderson, that's the difference between us. I've been expecting you.
Neo: What do you want, Smith?
Smith: Oh you haven't figured that out? Still using all the muscles except the one that matters. I want exactly what you want. I want everything.
Morpheus: Would that include a bullet from this gun?
Smith: Go ahead, shoot. The best thing about being me - there's so many me.
Computer Room Technician: Christ, what happened in here?
Computer Room Guard: Hold it right there, little lady.
Smith: If you can't beat us, join us.
Neo: Morpheus!
Link: Still no sight of them. I don't know what they're doing, but they only got 2 minutes left.
Link: One minute!
Trinity: Come on. Come on. Please.
Smiths: Kill them.
Link: They're in. I don't believe it.
Keymaker: It was meant to be. Morpheus. That door will take you home. [to Neo] You'll know which door. Hurry, Neo.
Link: Trinity, I got some serious activity headed your way.
Link: We got a serious situation, sir.
Morpheus: Oh, no.
Architect: Hello, Neo.
Neo: Who are you?
Architect: I am the Architect. I created the Matrix. I've been waiting for you. You have many questions, and though the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
Neo: Why am I here?
Architect: Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the Matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which, despite my sincerest efforts, I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably... here.
Neo: You haven't answered my question.
Architect: Quite right. Interesting. That was quicker than the others.
TV Neos: Others? How many others? What others? Answer my question!
Architect: The Matrix is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the 6th version.
TV Neos: 5 `One's before me? 4 3 2 What are you talking about?
Neo: There are only two possible explanations, either no one told me, or no one knows.
Architect: Precisely. As you are undoubtedly gathering, the anomaly is systemic - creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations.
TV Neos: You can't control me! I'm gonna smash you to bits! I'll fuckin' kill you!
Neo: Choice. The problem is choice.
Architect: The first Matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art - flawless, sublime. A triumph equalled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being. Thus, I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another - an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother.
Neo: The Oracle.
Architect: Please. As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99% of all test subjects accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level. While this answer functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probablility of disaster.
Neo: This is about Zion.
Architect: You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed - its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated.
Neo: Bullshit.
TV Neos: Bullshit!
Architect: Denial is the most predictable of all human responses, but rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
Architect: The function of the One is now to return to the Source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry, reinserting the prime program. After which, you will be required to select from the Matrix 23 individuals - 16 female, 7 male - to rebuild Zion. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash, killing everyone connected to the Matrix, which, coupled with the extermination of Zion, will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race.
Neo: You won't let it happen. You can't. You need human beings to survive.
Architect: There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. However, the relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility of the death of every human being on this world. It is interesting, reading your reactions. Your 5 predecessors were, by design, based on a similar predication - a contingent affirmation that was meant to create a profound attachment to the rest of your species, facilitating the function of the One. While the others experienced this in a very general way, your experience is far more specific - vis a vis love.
Neo: Trinity.
Architect: Apropos, she entered the Matrix to save your life, at the cost of her own.
Neo: No.
Architect: Which brings us at last to the moment of truth, wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed, and the anomaly revealed as both beginning and end. There are two doors. The door to your right leads to the Source, and the salvation of Zion. The door to your left leads back to the Matrix, to her and to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you are going to do, don't we? Already, I can see the chain reaction - the chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason - an emotion that is already blinding you from the simple and obvious truth. She is going to die, and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
Architect: Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.
Neo: If I were you, I would hope that we don't meet again.
Architect: We won't.
Morpheus: What is that?
Link: Whatever it is, it's moving faster than anything I've ever seen.
Link: Shit, he caught her!
Trinity: Neo, I had to.
Neo: I know. The bullet is still inside.
Morpheus: Trinity, don't you quit on me now.
Trinity: I'm sorry.
Neo: Trinity. Trinity, I know you can hear me. I'm not letting go. I can't. I love you too damn much.
Link: I can't take this.
Trinity: I guess that makes us even.
Morpheus: I don't understand it. Everything was done as it was supposed to be done. Once The One reaches the Source, the war should be over.
Neo: In 24 hours it will be.
Morpheus: What?
Neo: If we don't do something in 24 hours, Zion will be destroyed.
Link: What?
Trinity: How do you know that?
Neo: I was told it would happen.
Morpheus: By whom?
Neo: It doesn't matter. I believed him.
Morpheus: That's impossible, the prophecy tells us...
Neo: It was a lie, Morpheus. The prophecy was a lie. The One was never meant to end anything. It was all another system of control.
Morpheus: I don't believe that.
Neo: But you said it yourself - how can the prophecy be true if the war isn't over? I'm sorry. I know it isn't easy to hear, but I swear to you it's the truth.
Trinity: What are we gonna do?
Neo: I don't know.
Link: Oh no.
Link: What are they doing?
Trinity: They're just out of EMP range.
Neo: It's a bomb. We have to get out of here. Now.
Morpheus: I have dreamed a dream, and now that dream has gone from me.
Link: Here they come. Let's go, Morpheus.
Neo: We won't make it.
Trinity: We have to try. Come on.
Neo: Something's different. I can feel them.
Trinity: Neo!
Morpheus: What happened?
Trinity: I don't know.
Link: It's the Hammer.
Maggie: He's in some kind of coma, but his vitals are stable. What about you?
Trinity: I'm fine.
Maggie: You could use some rest.
Trinity: No, I'm gonna stay with him.
Roland: Lock was right. He guessed that the machines would cut off the mainlines in and out of Zion. He thought a counterattck might suprise them. It sounded good, we figured we had a shot, until someone screwed it up.
Mauser: An EMP was triggered before we could get in position.
Colt: 5 ships were instantly down.
Mauser: When the machines broke through, it wasn't a battle, it was a slaughter.
Link: Was it an accident, some sort of malfunction?
AK: No one knows.
Roland: Someone does.
Morpheus: Who?
Roland: Once the machines were done with us, they started digging again. We made a quick pass to look for survivors.
Link: You found one?
Roland: Only one.
To be concluded…….
Guard 1: See you tomorrow.
Guard 2: Oh my God.
Trinity: I'm in.
Link: Sir, are you sure about this?
Morpheus: I told you, we're going to be all right.
Link: I understand, sir, it's just that... I'm scooping some serious sentinel activity up here.
Morpheus: Link.
Link: Yes sir?
Morpheus: Given your situation, I can't say I fully understand your reasons for volunteering to operate onboard my ship. However, if you wish to continue to do so, I must ask you to do one thing.
Link: What's that, sir?
Morpheus: To trust me.
Link: Yes, sir, I will, sir... I mean, I do, sir.
Morpheus: I hope so. Now re-patch the main AC to the hard drives and stand by to broadcast.
Link: Yes, sir.
Trinity: Still can't sleep? You wanna talk?
Neo: They're just dreams.
Trinity: If you're afraid of something,...
Neo: I just wish... I wish I knew what I'm supposed to do. That's all. I just wish I knew.
Trinity: She's gonna call. Don't worry.
Link: There you are.
Trinity: Are we ready to go?
Link: We're already late.
Niobe: These geotherms confirm the last transmission of the Osiris. The machines are digging. They're boring from the surface straight down to Zion.
Tirant: Mutha...
Soren: They'll avoid the entire perimeter defense.
Ice: How fast are they moving?
Niobe: Control estimates their descent at a hundred meters an hour.
[offscreen]: Shit.
[captain]: How deep are they?
Niobe: Almost two thousand meters.
Tirant: What about the scans from the Osiris?
Ajax: They can't be accurate.
Niobe: They may be.
Ice: What?
Ajax: It's not possible.
Kali: That'd mean there are a quarter of a million sentinels out there.
Niobe: That's right.
Ajax: That can't be.
Morpheus: Why not? A sentinel for every man, woman, and child in Zion. That sounds exactly like the thinking of a machine to me.
Niobe: Morpheus, glad you could join us.
Morpheus: Niobe. My apologies to all. As you are undoubtedly aware, it has become increasingly difficult to locate a secure broadcast position.
Vector: Squiddies got all our best spots.
Ice: Mainlines are crawling with them.
Ghost: And if Niobe's right, in 72 hours there's gonna be a quarter of a million more.
Ballard: What are we gonna do about it?
Niobe: We're gonna do what Commander Lock ordered us to do. We'll evacuate broadcast level and return to Zion.
Morpheus: And does the Commander have a plan for stopping 250,000 sentinels?
Niobe: A strategy is still being formulated.
Morpheus: I'm sure it is.
[offscreen]: What do you think we should do, Morpheus?
Morpheus: I think we should proceed as ordered, however...
Trinity: What is it?
Neo: I don't know.
Morpheus: I must ask one of you for help. Some of you believe as I believe. Some of you do not. But those of you that do, know we are nearing the end of our struggle. The prophecy will be fulfilled soon, but before it can be, the Oracle must be consulted.
Morpheus: If we return and recharge now, we can be back with inside 36 hours. Well before the machines have reached this depth.
Niobe: Do you understand what you're asking?
Morpheus: I am asking that one ship remain here in our place just in case that the Oracle should attempt to contact us.
Ballard: Bullshit, you're asking for one of us to disobey a direct order.
Morpheus: That's right, I am. But we well know that the reason most of us are here is because of our affinity for disobedience.
Roland: And what happens when you get back to Zion and the Commander throws you in the stockade?
Morpheus: He won't.
Ballard: Goddamn it, Morpheus, you ain't never gonna change. Shit, I'll do it, just to see what Deadbolt does to you. You got 36 hours.
Smith: I'm looking for Neo.
Corrupt: Never heard of him.
Smith: I have something for him. A gift. You see, he set me free.
Corrupt: Fine, whatever. Now piss off.
Neo: Who was that?
Wurm: How did you know someone was here?
Corrupt: He gave you this. He said you set him free.
Wurm: Is everything all right, sir?
Neo: The meeting is over, retreat to your exits. Agents are coming.
Corrupt: Agents?
Neo: Go.
Neo: Hiya, fellas.
[agent 1] It's him.
[agent 2] The Anomaly.
[agent 3] Do we proceed?
[agent 2] Yes.
[agent 3] He is still...
[agent 1]...only human.
Neo: Hmm. Upgrades.
Smith 1: That went as expected.
Smith 2: Yes.
Smith 1: It's happening exactly as before.
Smith 2: Well, not exactly.
Morpheus: What happened back there, Link?
Link: I can't figure it out, sir. Agents just came out of nowhere. And then the code got all weird. Encryption I've never seen.
Trinity: Is Neo okay?
Link: Okay? Shit, Morpheus, you should have seen him.
Morpheus: Where is he now?
Link: He's doing his Superman thing.
Neo: Where are you?
Link: This is the Nebuchadnezzar on approach, requesting access to Gate 3.
Zion Virtual Control Operator: Nebuchadnezzar, this is Zion Control. Maintain present velocity and stand by.
Link: Roger that, Control.
Zion Virtual Control Operator: This is Zion Control requesting immediate stand down of arms at Gate 3. We have the Nebuchadnezzar on approach. Let's open her up. Nebuchadnezzar, you are clear through Gate 3 to Bay 7.
Link: Roger that, Control.
Zion Virtual Control Operator: Door's open, bed's made. Welcome home.
Link: No place like it.
Zion Controller: Roger that, Control. Zion Control, stand by for Gate 3 lockdown.
Zion Virtual Control Operator: The Nebuchadnezzar is down. Bay 7.
Zion Controller: Understood.
Morpheus: Captain Mifune.
Mifune: Captain Morpheus.
Morpheus: Are you here to escort me to the stockade, Captain?
Mifune: I'm just here to keep the peace.
Lock's Lieutenant: Commander Lock demands...
Mifune: *coughs*
Lock's Lieutenant: ...requests your immediate counsel, sir.
Morpheus: Link.
Link: Sir?
Morpheus: I want the ship ready to go as soon as humanly possible.
Link: Understood, sir.
Neo: What is it between them?
Trinity: Morpheus and Lock? Niobe.
Neo: Captain Niobe?
Trinity: She used to be with Morpheus. Now she's with Lock.
Neo: What happened?
Trinity: Morpheus went to the Oracle. After that everything changed.
Neo: Yeah, she can do that.
Kid: Neo!
Neo: Oh, no.
Trinity: How does he always know?
Neo: Doesn't he have anything better to do?
Trinity: You know what they say about the life you save.
Neo: I didn't save his life.
Kid: Hiya, Neo! Trinity, Link. It's great to have you back!
Neo: Thanks. It's good to be back.
Kid: Can I carry that for you, Neo?
Neo: No, I can carry my own bag.
Kid: Trinity?
Trinity: I'm fine.
Link: You can carry these.
Kid: Yeah, sure, Link. Hey, you know, next year I'm old enough to join a crew. I've been thinking a lot about it and I've made my decision.
Link: Let me guess.
Kid: I want to join the Nebuchadnezzar. I know Morpheus hasn't filled the other crew positions except for you, Link. I'm sure he has his reasons, but the more I think about it, the more I think it's meant to be. You know, it's fate. I mean, you're the reason I'm here, Neo.
Neo: I told you, Kid, you found me, I didn't find you.
Kid: I know, but you got me out! You saved me!
Neo: You saved yourself.
Lock: Morpheus.
Morpheus: Commander Lock.
Lock: I've spoken to the other captains, and I wanted to offer you the chance to explain your actions.
Morpheus: I wasn't aware that my actions required any explanation.
Lock: You were given a direct order to return to Zion.
Morpheus: I did.
Lock: But you asked for one ship to remain behind.
Morpheus: I would have stayed, but I needed to recharge my ship.
Lock: So you admit to a direct contravention of your duty.
Morpheus: Commander, we need a presence inside the Matrix to await contact from the Oracle.
Lock: I don't want to hear that shit! I don't care about Oracles or prophecies or Messiahs. I care about one thing: stopping that army from destroying this city, and to do that I need soldiers to obey my orders.
Morpheus: With all due respect, Commander, there is only one way to save our city.
Lock: How?
Morpheus: Neo.
Lock: Goddamnit, Morpheus! Not everyone believes what you believe!
Morpheus: My beliefs do not require them to.
Kid: There's a Gathering tonight. Everyone's talking, a lot of people are scared. No one can remember the last time so many ships were docked. Something's happening, isn't it? Something big?
Link: Hey. We're not allowed to say anything, so stop asking. Goddamn, it's good to be home.
Lock: I'm going to recommend to the Council that you be removed from duty.
Morpheus: That is, of course, your prerogative, Commander.
Lock: If it were up to me, Captain, you wouldn't set foot on a ship for the rest of your life.
Morpheus: Then I am grateful that it is not up to you.
Lock: Councillor Hamann.
Councillor Hamann: Commander. Captain.
Morpheus: Councillor.
Councillor Hamann: Council's asked me to speak tonight, at the temple gathering. The presence of the fleet and the persistence of rumors must be addressed. The people must be told what is happening.
Lock: Of course, councilor. But might I advise a level of discretion concerning specific details. We do not wish to start a panic.
Councillor Hamann: Quite right. A panic is not what anyone wants. What about you, Captain, what would you advise?
Morpheus: The truth. No one will panic. Because there is nothing to fear. That army will never reach the gates of Zion.
Councillor Hamann: What makes you so sure?
Morpheus: Consider what we have seen, Councillor. Consider that in the past 6 months we have freed more minds than in 6 years. This attack is an act of desperation. I believe very soon the prophecy will be fulfilled and this war will end.
Councillor Hamann: I hope you're right, Captain.
Morpheus: I do not believe it to be a matter of hope, Councillor. It is simply a matter of time.
Link: My stop. See you soon, hopefully not too soon. Let's go, Kid. These two got things to do.
Neo: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Trinity: I am if you're thinking this elevator's too damn slow.
Neo: How long to recharge the Neb?
Trinity: 24, maybe 30 hours.
Neo: Some people go their entire lives without hearing news that good.
Old Woman at Zion: Neo, please. I have a son, Jacob, aboard the Gnosis. Please, watch over him.
Neo: I'll try.
Another Old Woman at Zion: I have a daughter on the Icarus.
Neo: No, wait.
Trinity: It's all right. They need you.
Neo: I need you.
Trinity: I know. There's time.
Link: Where's my puss... Hey!
Link's Niece and Nephew: Uncle Link!
Link: God! Oh my God, you're so huge, you should be picking me up!
Link's Niece and Nephew: No!
Link: Yeah!
Link's Niece and Nephew: Okay!
Link: Okay? All right. Now, we're gonna have to work together here, okay? One, two, three, lift! Oh, my God! What are you feedin' these two?
Cas: Come on, kids! It's time to go.
Link: Hey, Cas.
Cas: Hey. Good to have you home, Link.
Link: Good to be home.
Cas: You be careful with her, huh?
Zee: Don't worry about me, he's the one that's gonna get it.
Link: Hmm?
Cas: Out the door! Both of you, march!
Link: Bye!
Cas: Bye!
Link: I'm gonna get what?
Zee: Every ship out there has been home two, even three times more than the Nebuchadnezzar.
Link: Come on, Zee! I thought we were past this!
Zee: We'll get past this when you start operating another ship.
Link: I can't do that!
Zee: Why?
Link: You know why.
Zee: If Dozer knew how I felt, he wouldn't have asked you to do this.
Link: Maybe. But it's too late now. I made a promise, and some promises can't be unmade.
Zee: It's not fair.
Link: Nobody said it was gonna be. You think Cas thinks it's fair that I'm here and Dozer's not?
Zee: I lost two brothers to that ship, Link. Afraid of it. Afraid it's gonna take you too.
Link: It won't.
Zee: How can you say that to me?
Link: Because of Morpheus, because of what he's told me. He said that this is it. That it will be over soon.
Zee: Link, Morpheus is crazy.
Link: No doubt, but Tank and Dozer believed him, and I'll tell you what - soon after being on that ship and seeing Neo do the things he can do, I gotta say - I'm starting to believe him too.
Zee: Be careful, Link. Please be careful.
Kid: They started yet?
Priestess: Only Councillor Hamann's opening prayer.
Councillor Hamann: Tonight, let us honour these men and women. These are our soldiers, our warriors. These are our husbands and wives, our brothers and sisters, our children. Let us remember those that have been lost. And let us give thanks for those that have been found and who stand here beside us. Now I would like someone else to close this prayer. Someone who hasn't spoken here in a long time, but who I believe has something to say that we all need to hear. I give you Morpheus.
Morpheus: Zion! Hear me! It is true, what many of you have heard. The machines have gathered an army, and as I speak that army is drawing nearer to our home.
Crowd: [whispers]
Believe me when I say we have a difficult time ahead of us. But if we are to be prepared for it, we must first shed our fear of it! I stand here before you now, truthfully unafraid. Why? Because I believe something you do not? No! I stand here without fear because I remember. I remember that I am here not because of the path that lies before me, but because of the path that lies behind me! I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines. I remember that for 100 years they have sent their armies to destroy us. And after a century of war, I remember that which matters most. We are still here!
Crowd: [cheers and applause]
Tonight let us send a message to that army. Tonight let us shake this cave! Tonight let us tremble these halls of earth, steel, and stone! Let us be heard from red core to black sky. Tonight, let us make them remember. This is Zion! And we are not afraid!
Crowd: [thunderous cheers and applause]
Niobe: I remember. I remember you used to dance. I remember you were pretty good.
Morpheus: There are some things in this world, captain Niobe, that will never change.
Lock: Niobe!
Morpheus: Some things do change.
Neo: Excuse me.
Neo: I missed you.
Trinity: I can tell.
Neo: I was thinking... Everyone is here.
Trinity: Follow me.
Trinity: Neo, what is it? What's wrong? It's okay, you can tell me.
Neo: Trinity...
Trinity: Don't be afraid.
Neo: I can't lose you.
Trinity: You're not gonna lose me. You feel this? I'm never letting go.
Morpheus: Good night, Zion. Sweet dreams.
Bane: You all right?
Malachi: I'll make it. Did you see that Agent? I've never seen anything like it.
Bane: Doesn't matter now. All that matters is this. You first.
Bane: Oh God.
Smith: Smith will suffice.
Bane-Smith: Thank you.
Smith: My pleasure.
Councillor Hamann: Care for some company?
Neo: Councillor Hamann.
Councillor Hamann: I don't want to intrude if you prefer to be alone.
Neo: No, I could probably use some company.
Councillor Hamann: Good, so could I. It's nice tonight. Very calm. Feels like everyone's sleeping very peacefully.
Neo: Not everyone.
Councillor Hamann: I hate sleeping. I never sleep more than a few hours. I figure I slept the first 11 years of my life, now I'm making up for it. What about you?
Neo: I just haven't been able to sleep much.
Councillor Hamann: It's a good sign.
Neo: Of what?
Councillor Hamann: That you are, in fact, still human. Have you ever been to the engineering level? I love to walk there at night, it's quite amazing. Would you like to see it?
Neo: Sure.
Councillor Hamann: Almost no one comes down here, unless, of course, there's a problem. That's how it is with people - nobody cares how it works as long as it works. I like it down here. I like to be reminded this city survives because of these machines. These machines are keeping us alive, while other machines are coming to kill us. Interesting, isn't it? Power to give life, and the power to end it.
Neo: We have the same power.
Councillor Hamann: I suppose we do, but down here sometimes I think about all those people still plugged into the Matrix and when I look at these machines, I.. I can't help thinking that in a way, we are plugged into them.
Neo: But we control these machines, they don't control us.
Councillor Hamann: Of course not, how could they? The idea's pure nonsense, but... it does make one wonder just... what is control?
Neo: If we wanted, we could shut these machines down.
Councillor Hamann: Of course... that's it. You hit it! That's control, isn't it? If we wanted, we could smash them to bits. Although if we did, we'd have to consider what would happen to our lights, our heat, our air.
Neo: So we need machines and they need us. Is that your point, Councillor?
Councillor Hamann: No, no point. Old men like me don't bother with making points. There's no point.
Neo: Is that why there are no young men on the Council?
Councillor Hamann: Good point.
Neo: Why don't you tell me what's on your mind, Councillor?
Councillor Hamann: There is so much in this world that I do not understand. See that machine? It has something to do with recycling our water supply. I have absolutely no idea how it works. But I do understand the reason for it to work. I have absolutely no idea how you are able to do some of the things you do, but I believe there's a reason for that as well. I only hope we understand that reason before it's too late.
Trinity: Ballard.
Ballard: Is he here? Neo. It's from the Oracle.
Neo: It's time to go.
Link: Morpheus said this is how it's gonna happen. I don't know. Maybe the prophecy is true, maybe it's not. All I know, is that ship needs an operator. Right now that operator's me.
Zee: I know.
Link: Zee...
Zee: I want you to wear it.
Link: You know I don't believe in this stuff.
Zee: But I do. It's always brought me luck. Maybe it'll bring me you.
Link: I'm coming back. I promise. No matter what it takes, I'm coming home.
Zee: Just keep it with you, please? For me.
Link: Okay.
Kid: Neo!
Link: Who the hell? Bane?
Neo: Is something wrong?
Bane/Smith: No, I'm fine. I just wanted to catch you to say good luck.
Neo: Thanks.
Bane/Smith: We'll see you.
Kid: Neo! Just in time. You're gonna see the Oracle, aren't you?
Morpheus: We don't have time.
Kid: I'm sorry, sir, I just have to give something to Neo. A gift from one of the orphans. He made me swear to get it to you before you left. He said you'd understand.
Neo: Thanks.
Lock: I was just told you cleared the Nebuchadnezzar for takeoff.
Councillor Hamann: That is correct.
Lock: Councillor, am I still in charge of our defense system?
Councillor Hamann: Of course.
Lock: I believe I need every ship we have if we're going to survive this attack!
Councillor Hamann: I understand that, Commander.
Lock: Then why did you allow the Nebuchadnezzar to leave?
Councillor Hamann: Because I believe our survival depends on more than how many ships we have.
Trinity: Be careful.
Neo: Hello.
Seraph: You seek the Oracle.
Neo: Who are you?
Seraph: I am Seraph. I can take you to her. But first, I must apologize.
Neo: Apologize for what?
Seraph: For this.
Seraph: Good. The Oracle has made enemies. I had to be sure.
Neo: Of what?
Seraph: That you are The One.
Neo: You could've just asked.
Seraph: No. You do not truly know someone until you fight them. Come, she's waiting.
Link: Where the hell'd they go?
Neo: These are back doors, aren't they? Programmer access.
Seraph: [nods]
Neo: How do they work?
Seraph: The code is hidden in tumblers. One position opens a lock. Another position opens one of these doors.
Neo: Are you a programmer?
Seraph: [shakes head]
Neo: Then what are you?
Seraph: I protect that which matters most.
The Oracle: Well, come on. I ain't gonna bite ya. Come around here, and let me have a look at ya. My goodness, look at you! You turned out all right, didn't you? How do you feel?
Neo: I, uh...
The Oracle: I know you're not sleeping. We'll get to that. Why don't you come and have a sit this time?
Neo: Maybe I'll stand.
The Oracle: Well, suit yourself.
Neo: I felt like sitting.
The Oracle: I know. So. Let's get the obvious stuff out of the way.
Neo: You're not human, are you?
The Oracle: Well it's tough to get any more obvious than that.
Neo: If I had to guess, I'd say you're a program from the machine world. So is he.
The Oracle: So far, so good.
Neo: But if that's true, that can mean you are a part of this system, another kind of control.
The Oracle: Keep going.
Neo: I suppose the most obvious question is, how can I trust you?
The Oracle: Bingo! It is a pickle, no doubt about it. The bad news is there's no way if you can really know whether I'm here to help you or not. So it's really up to you. You just have to make up your own damn mind to either accept what I'm going to tell you, or reject it. Candy?
Neo: D'you already know if I'm going to take it?
The Oracle: Wouldn't be much of an Oracle if I didn't.
Neo: But if you already know, how can I make a choice?
The Oracle: Because you didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand why you made it. I thought you'd have figured that out by now.
Neo: Why are you here?
The Oracle: Same reason. I love candy.
Neo: But why help us?
The Oracle: We're all here to do what we're all here to do. I'm interested in one thing, Neo, the future. And believe me, I know - the only way to get there is together.
Neo: Are there other programs like you?
The Oracle: Oh, well, not like me. But... Look, see those birds? At some point a program was written to govern them. A program was written to watch over the trees, and the wind, the sunrise, and sunset. There are programs running all over the place. The ones doing their job, doing what they were meant to do, are invisible. You'd never even know they were here. But the other ones, well, we hear about them all the time.
Neo: I've never heard of them.
The Oracle: Of course you have. Every time you've heard someone say they saw a ghost, or an angel. Every story you've ever heard about vampires, werewolves, or aliens is the system assimilating some program that's doing something they're not supposed to be doing.
Neo: Programs hacking programs. Why?
The Oracle: They have their reasons, but usually a program chooses exile when it faces deletion.
Neo: And why would a program be deleted?
The Oracle: Maybe it breaks down. Maybe a better program is created to replace it - happens all the time, and when it does, a program can either choose to hide here, or return to The Source.
Neo: The machine mainframe?
The Oracle: Yes. Where you must go. Where the path of The One ends. You've seen it, in your dreams, haven't you? The door made of light?
Neo: [nods]
The Oracle: What happens when you go through the door?
Neo: I see Trinity, and something happens, something bad. She starts to fall, and then I wake up.
The Oracle: Do you see her die?
Neo: No.
The Oracle: You have the sight now, Neo. You are looking at the world without time.
Neo: Then why can't I see what happens to her?
The Oracle: We can never see past the choices we don't understand.
Neo: Are you saying I have to choose whether Trinity lives or dies?
The Oracle: No. You've already made the choice, now you have to understand it.
Neo: No, I can't do that. I won't.
The Oracle: You have to.
Neo: Why?
The Oracle: Because you're The One.
Neo: What if I can't? What happens if I fail?
The Oracle: Then Zion will fall. Our time is up. Listen to me, Neo. You can save Zion if you reach The Source, but to do that you will need the Keymaker.
Neo: The Keymaker?
The Oracle: Yes, he disappeared some time ago. We did not know what happened to him until now. He's being held prisoner by a very dangerous program, one of the oldest of us. He is called the Merovingian, and he will not let him go willingly.
Neo: What does he want?
The Oracle: What do all men with power want? More power.
The Oracle: Be there, at that exact time, and you will have a chance.
Seraph: We must go.
The Oracle: Seems like every time we meet I've got nothing but bad news. I'm sorry about that, I surely am. But for what it's worth, you've made a believer out of me. Good luck, kiddo.
Smith: Mister Anderson! Did you get my package?
Neo: Yeah.
Smith: Well, good.
Morpheus: Smith.
Link: Whoever it is, he's not reading like an agent.
Smith: Surprised to see me?
Neo: No.
Smith: Then you're aware of it.
Neo: Of what?
Smith: Our connection. I don't fully understand how it happened. Perhaps some part of you imprinted onto me, something overwritten or copied. That is at this point irrelevant, what matters is that whatever happened, happened for a reason.
Neo: And what reason is that?
Smith: I killed you, Mister Anderson, I watched you die... With a certain satisfaction, I might add, and then something happened. Something that I knew was impossible, but it happened anyway. You destroyed me, Mister Anderson. Afterward, I knew the rules, I understood what I was supposed to do but I didn't. I couldn't. I was compelled to stay, compelled to disobey. And now here I stand because of you, Mister Anderson, because of you I'm no longer an agent of the system, because of you I've changed - I'm unplugged - a new man, so to speak, like you, apparently free.
Neo: Congratulations.
Smith: Thank you. But as you well know, appearances can be deceiving, which brings me back to the reason why we're here. We're not here because we're free, we're here because we're not free. There's no escaping reason, no denying purpose - because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist.
Smith 2: It is purpose that created us,
Smith 3: Purpose that connects us,
Smith 4: Purpose that pulls us,
Smith 5: That guides us,
Smith 6: That drives us,
Smith 7: It is purpose that defines,
Smith 8: Purpose that binds us.
Smith: We're here because of you, Mister Anderson, we're here to take from you what you tried to take from us. Purpose.
Trinity: What's happening to him?
Link: I don't know.
Smith: Yes, that's it, it'll be over soon.
Agent Jackson: You.
Smith: Yes me. Me, me, me!
Agent Jackson/Smith: Me too!
Smith: More.
Smiths: It is inevitable.
Trinity: Come on, get out of there.
Trinity: Are you all right?
Morpheus: It was Smith.
Neo: Yes.
Morpheus: Now there's more than one of him.
Neo: A lot more.
Link: How's that possible?
Neo: I don't know - somehow he's found a way to copy himself.
Morpheus: Is that what he was doing to you?
Neo: I don't know what he was doing, but I know what it felt like.
Trinity: What?
Neo: Felt like I was back in that hallway. Felt like dying.
Lock: The machines are tunnelling to avoid our defense system. But I believe that they're going to intersect certain pipelines in order to control them. These points of intersection are crucial because I believe they're vulnerable to counterattack. Although it has been suggested that this is the same kind of attack we have defended for years, I urge the Council to realize the truth: this is the single greatest threat we have ever faced. And if we do not act accordingly, we will not survive.
Councillor Dillard: Commander Lock, the Council is well aware of the seriousness of this attack. You have our leave to prepare our defense by any and all means necessary.
Lock: Thank you, Councillor
Councillor Dillard: However, we ask if there's been word from the Nebuchadnezzar.
Lock: No, Councillor, no word - nothing.
Councillor West: Then we request a ship be dispatched to ascertain the fate of The One.
Lock: I wish that were possible, Councillor, but I do not believe our defense can suffer the loss of another ship.
Councillor West: It will, Commander, if it must.
Lock: It could take a single ship days to find the Nebuchadnezzar.
Councillor Dillard: Then send two.
Lock: This is insane.
Councilor Hamann: Careful, Commander.
Lock: Forgive my frustration, Councillors. I wish I were able to comprehend the Council's choice in this matter.
Councillor West: Comprehension is not a requisite of cooperation.
Lock: You're asking me to order two of my captains...
Councillor Dillard: There's no need for such an order, the Captains are present - they can answer for themselves. The Council is calling for two volunteers to aid the Nebuchadnezzar. Are there two among you that would answer such a call?
Soren: Captain Soren of the Vigilant will answer the Council's call.
Councillor Dillard: You understand the situation, Captain Soren?
Soren: Yes, ma'am.
Councillor Dillard: Thank you, Captain. Is there another?
Bane/Smith: Captain, I think we should volunteer.
Malachi: What? You have gone crazy?
Ballard: Shut your hole, Bane, before I put you in one.
Councillor Dillard: Is there no other?
Lock: Be hard for any man to risk his life. Especially if he doesn't understand the reason.
Niobe: Captain Niobe of the Logos will answer the Councillor's call.
Lock: What?
Councillor Dillard: Thank you, Captain Niobe. Commander Lock, you have your orders. This Council is hereby adjourned.
Lock: Niobe, what are you doing?
Niobe: What I can.
Lock: Why?
Niobe: Because some things never change, Jason, and some things do.
Morpheus: What can you see, Neo?
Neo: It's strange, the code is somehow different.
Morpheus: Encrypted?
Neo: Maybe.
Trinity: Is that good for us or bad for us?
Neo: Well, it looks like every floor is wired with explosives.
Trinity: Bad for us.
Morpheus: Here we go.
Maitre d': Puis-je vous aider? [Trans: Can I help you?]
Morpheus: Yes, we are here to speak with the Merovingian.
Maitre d': Of course, he has been expecting you. Follow me.
Merovingian: Aha, here he is at last. Neo, the One himself, right? And the legendary Morpheus. And Trinity of course, si belle qu'elle me fait souffrir. [Trans: so beautiful she makes me suffer.] I have heard so much, you honour me. Please, sit, join us. This is my wife, Persephone. Something to eat? Drink? Hmm... of course, such things are contrivances like so much here. For the sake of appearances.
Neo: No, thank you.
Merovingian: Yes, of course, who has time? Who has time? But then if we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time? Château Haut-Brion 1959, magnificent wine, I love French wine, like I love the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favourite - fantastic language, especially to curse with. Nom de Dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère! [Trans: Name of God of prostitute of whorehouse of filth of shit of idiot of bastard of your mother!] You see, it's like wiping your arse with silk, I love it.
Morpheus: You know why we are here.
Merovingian: Hmph... I am a trafficker of information, I know everything I can. The question is, do you know why you are here?
Morpheus: We are looking for the Keymaker.
Merovingian: Oh yes, it is true. The Keymaker, of course. But this is not a reason, this is not a `why.' The Keymaker himself, his very nature, is means, it is not an end, and so, to look for him is to be looking for a means to do... what?
Neo: You know the answer to that question.
Merovingian: But do you? You think you do but you do not. You are here because you were sent here, you were told to come here and you obeyed. [Laughs] It is, of course, the way of all things. You see, there is only one constant, one universal, it is the only real truth: causality. Action. Reaction. Cause and effect.
Morpheus: Everything begins with choice.
Merovingian: No. Wrong. Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without. Look there, at that woman. My God, just look at her. Affecting everyone around her, so obvious, so bourgeois, so boring. But wait... Watch - you see, I have sent her dessert, a very special dessert. I wrote it myself. It starts so simply, each line of the program creating a new effect, just like poetry. First, a rush... heat... her heart flutters. You can see it, Neo, yes? She does not understand why - is it the wine? No. What is it then, what is the reason? And soon it does not matter, soon the why and the reason are gone, and all that matters is the feeling itself. This is the nature of the universe. We struggle against it, we fight to deny it, but it is of course pretense, it is a lie. Beneath our poised appearance, the truth is we are completely out of control. Causality. There is no escape from it, we are forever slaves to it. Our only hope, our only peace is to understand it, to understand the `why.' `Why' is what separates us from them, you from me. `Why' is the only real social power, without it you are powerless. And this is how you come to me, without `why,' without power. Another link in the chain. But fear not, since I have seen how good you are at following orders, I will tell you what to do next. Run back, and give the fortune teller this message: Her time is almost up. Now I have some real business to do, I will say adieu and goodbye.
Neo: This isn't over.
Merovingian: Oh yes, it is. The Keymaker is mine and I see no reason why I should give him up. No reason at all.
Persephone: Where are you going?
Merovingian: Please, ma chérie, I've told you, we are all victims of causality. I drink too much wine, I must take a piss. Cause and effect. Au revoir [Trans: Goodbye].
Trinity: Touch me, and that hand will never touch anything again.
Neo: Well, that didn't go so well.
Morpheus: Are you certain the Oracle didn't say anything else?
Neo: Yes.
Trinity: Maybe we did something wrong.
Neo: Or didn't do something.
Morpheus: No, what happened happened and couldn't have happened any other way.
Neo: How do you know?
Morpheus: We are still alive.
Persephone: If you want the Keymaker, follow me. [to man in washroom] Get out! I'm so sick of his bullshit. On and on, pompous prick. A long time ago, when we first came here, it was so different. He was so different. He was like you. I'll give you what you want. But you have to give me something.
Neo: What?
Persephone: A kiss.
Trinity: Excuse me?
Persephone: I want you to kiss me as if you were kissing her.
Neo: Why?
Persephone: You love her. She loves you. It's all over you both. A long time ago, I knew what that felt like. I want to remember it. I want to sample it. That's all, just a sample.
Trinity: Why don't you sample this instead?
Morpheus: Trinity.
Persephone: Such emotion over something so small. It's just a kiss.
Neo: Why should we trust you?
Persephone: If I don't deliver you to the Keymaker, she can kill me.
Neo: All right.
Persephone: But you have to make me believe I am her.
Neo: All right.
Persephone: Terrible. Forget it.
Neo: Wait. Okay.
Persephone: Ahh, yes. That's it. I envy you. But such a thing is not meant to last. Come with me.
Link: Not again!
Persephone: It's all right, boys, they're with me. These fellas work for my husband, they do his dirty work. They're very good, very loyal. Aren't you, boys?
Cain and Abel: Yes, Mistress.
Persephone: They come from a much older version of the Matrix, but like so many back then, they caused more problems than they solved. My husband saved them because they're notoriously difficult to terminate. How many people keep silver bullets in their gun? You can either run to the restaurant and tell my husband what I have done, or you can stay there and die. He's in the ladies' room... [to Neb crew] Hurry.
Neo: My name is Neo.
Keymaker: Yes, I'm the Keymaker, I've been waiting for you.
Merovingian: Oh God, my God, Persephone how could you do this, you betrayed me! Nom de Dieu de putain de bordel de saloperie de couille de merde! [Trans: Name of God of whore of brothel of filth of testicle of shit]
Persephone: Cause and effect, my love.
Merovingian: Cause? There is no cause for this, what cause?
Persephone: What cause? How about the lipstick you're still wearing?
Merovingian: Lipstick? Lipstick? What craziness you are talking about woman, there is no lipstick.
Persephone: She wasn't kissing your face, my love.
Merovingian: Ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai, woman, this is nothing, c'est rien, c'est rien du tout. [Trans: This is nothing, this is nothing at all] It's a game, it is only a game.
Persephone: So is this. Have fun.
Merovingian: All right. All right. Let us find out where this goes. You two, get the Keymaker.
Trinity: That's a nice trick.
Keymaker: I cannot go back.
Neo: I'll handle them.
Merovingian: Handle us? You'll handle us? You know, your predecessors had much more respect.
Merovingian: Okay, you have some skill. Kill him.
Merovingian: You see, he's just a man.
Merovingian: Damn it, woman, you will be the end of me. Mark my words, boy, and mark them well. I have survived your predecessors, and I will survive you!
Trinity: Where are you going?
Keymaker: Another way, always another way. Close it, quick.
Twin 1: Could we move along?
Keymaker: Run!
Twin 2: Step away from the door.
Twin 2: We owe you for that.
Twin 1: Just like new.
Twin 2: Drop your weapon.
Morpheus: Stay with him.
Trinity: What about Neo?
Morpheus: He can handle himself.
Trinity: Get in the back.
Neo: Oh shit.
Link: Operator.
Neo: Link, where am I?
Link: You're not gonna believe this, but you're all the way up in the mountains.
Neo: Really.
Link: Yeah, it's gonna take me a while to get up an exit. Oh shit.
Neo: What?
Link: Those Twin things are after Morpheus and Trinity, and I don't have a way to get them out.
Neo: Where are they?
Link: Middle of the City, 500 miles due south.
Link: Operator.
Morpheus: Get us out of here, Link.
Link: That won't be easy, sir.
Morpheus: I know. We're inside the core network.
Link: Yes sir. The only exit I got near you is the Winsor[?] overpass.
Morpheus: Off the freeway?
Link: Yes, sir.
Morpheus: Fine, we'll make it.
Link: Sir, I think I should say... oh shit, look out behind you!
Link: Incoming fire!
Morpheus: Down!
Trinity: Hold on!
Link: Oh no, this is getting real ugly real fast.
Morpheus: Are you watching this, Link?
Link: Yes sir, there's an all-points on you, I make 8 units headed your way.
Morpheus: Any suggestions?
Link: Turn right.
Morpheus: Right, now!
Link: Now straight here, go through the next branch, you'll hit a connecting tunnel to the 101.
Morpheus: Got it.
Link: Sir, are you sure about this? The freeway, I mean. It's dangerous, in 14 years of operating, I've never seen...
Morpheus: Link, what did I tell you?
Link: Yes sir, I do, sir, Winsor[?] overpass, I'll be ready for you.
Morpheus: Good man.
Trinity: You always told me to stay off the freeway.
Morpheus: Yes, that's true.
Trinity: You said it was suicide.
Morpheus: Then let us hope that I was wrong.
Link: Operator.
Niobe: Link, it's Niobe. We've been sent to bring you in. I need to talk to Morpheus.
Link: Believe me, Niobe, he needs you.
Niobe: Where is he?
Link: Just follow the sirens.
Cop: They're approaching [...]
Agent Thompson: We have them now.
Agent Johnson: The exile is the primary target.
Morpheus: Move!
Twin 1: We are getting aggravated.
Twin 2: Yes we are.
Morpheus: Trinity! Get him out of here.
Trinity: Come on!
Twin 2: Gotcha.
Trinity: Morpheus.
Link: He's okay, keep moving.
Trinity: Let's go.
Trinity: I need a download to hotwire a motorcycle.
Link: Not a problem, one crash course in motorcycle...
Trinity: Wait. Cancel that. [to Keymaker] You are handy. Jump on.
Agent Johnson: She means nothing.
Agent Thompson: Find the exile.
Agent Johnson: We have them.
Cop from Speaker: One Adam Twelve, please respond.
Morpheus: Get down.
Niobe: Gotcha.
Link: She's good.
Agent: You are no longer necessary.
Keymaker: We do only what we're meant to do.
Agent: Then you are meant for one more thing. Deletion.
Niobe: Go kick his ass.
Morpheus: Neo, if you're out there, I could use some help.
Link: What is that?
Link: Yess!
[Zion Man] Sir. We have confirmation from the Icarus. The first two ships are in position for the counterattack.
Lock: Good. Any change?
[Zion Woman] Looks like they hit some iron ore here, slowed them down a little.
Lock: How much?
[Zion Woman]: An hour, maybe.
Lock: That'd give them a little over 9 hours.
[Zion Woman]: Yes sir.
Keymaker: There's a building. Inside this building there's a level where no elevator can go, and no stair can reach. This level is filled with doors. These doors lead to many places, hidden places, but one door is special. One door leads to the Source. This building is protected by a very secure system. Every alarm triggers the bomb.
Vector: Bomb? Did he say bomb?
Keymaker: But like all systems it has a weakness. The system is based on the rules of a building. One system built on another.
Morpheus: Electricity.
Keymaker: If one fails, so must the other.
Niobe: No electricity, no alarms.
Ghost: But you'd have to take out a whole city block to kill the power to a building like that.
Keymaker: Not one, 27.
Vector: 27 blocks?
Keymaker: There is a power station. it must be destroyed.
Niobe: There must be some kind of failsafe.
Keymaker: Yes, there is an emergency system. The core network of the grid must be accessed. The emergency system must be deactivated.
Soren: Then what do you need us for? Neo could take 'em both out easier than we could.
Keymaker: There's no time.
Niobe: Why?
Keymaker: Once the door is unprotected, the connection will be severed. But another connection must first be made.
Ghost: How long will that take?
Keymaker: Exactly 314 seconds.
Soren: Just over 5 minutes.
Keymaker: That is the length and breadth of the window. Only The One can open the door, and only during that window can the door be opened.
Niobe: How do you know all this?
Keymaker: I know because I must know. It's my purpose. It's the reason I'm here. Same reason we're all here.
Trinity: Neo, I know something's wrong. You don't have to tell me. I just want you to know that I'm here.
Keymaker: All must be done as one.
Link: Can't hurt.
Keymaker: If one fails, all fail.
Morpheus: At midnight, there's a shift change in the security of both buildings. At midnight, we will strike.
Guard 1: Hey! You count sheep at home.
Guard 2: Why, I get paid to count 'em here.
Jax: Okay, they're inside.
Axel: How much time?
Jax: 12 minutes.
Axel: Oh shit!
Morpheus: All of our lives we have fought this war. Tonight I believe we can end it. Tonight is not an accident. There are no accidents. We have not come here by chance. I do not believe in chance when I see 3 objectives, 3 captains, 3 ships. I do not see coincidence, I see providence, I see purpose. I believe it is our fate to be here. It is our destiny. I believe this night holds for each and every one of us the very meaning of our lives.
Neo: I want to ask you to do something, but I don't know how.
Trinity: I promise you, if I can, I will.
Neo: What if I asked you to stay out of this, no matter what. To stay out of the matrix?
Trinity: Why?
Neo: Please.
Trinity: All right.
Morpheus: What is it, Niobe?
Niobe: I can't help it, Morpheus, I can't help thinking - what if you're wrong. What if all this - the prophecy, everything - is bullshit.
Morpheus: Then tomorrow we may all be dead, but how would that be different from any other day? This is a war, and we are soldiers. Death can come for us at any time, in any place.
Axel: Incoming. Incoming! Incoming!
Morpheus: Now consider the alternative. What if I am right? What if the prophecy is true? What if tomorrow the war could be over. Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for?
Soren: Time?
Vector: 3 minutes.
Binary: Almost there.
Keymaker: It is time.
Trinity: Find the others.
Link: Got Niobe right there, they're already out of the station.
Trinity: What about Soren?
Link: There, they're still inside, but...
Trinity: They're not moving.
Morpheus: That's it, let's go.
Trinity: Call Neo now.
Link: Lost them. They're inside the portal.
Trinity: What about the grid?
Link: Everything's still operational. Emergency system's already rerouting power. Jesus. As soon as they open that door, it's all over.
Trinity: The hell it is.
Link: What are you... Trinity?
Trinity: I will not stand here and do nothing. I will not wait here to watch them die.
Link: Trinity, we're talking less then 5 minutes here.
Trinity: In 5 minutes, I'll tear that whole goddamn building down.
Neo: How much further?
Keymaker: Here, just here.
Smith: I'm sorry, this is a dead end.
Link: It's gotta be the ugliest hack I have ever done. That's as close as I can get ya. You better grow some wings.
Link: Operator.
Trinity: I'm in.
Link: Keep moving, 65th floor.
Smith: you look surprised to see me again, Mr. Anderson, that's the difference between us. I've been expecting you.
Neo: What do you want, Smith?
Smith: Oh you haven't figured that out? Still using all the muscles except the one that matters. I want exactly what you want. I want everything.
Morpheus: Would that include a bullet from this gun?
Smith: Go ahead, shoot. The best thing about being me - there's so many me.
Computer Room Technician: Christ, what happened in here?
Computer Room Guard: Hold it right there, little lady.
Smith: If you can't beat us, join us.
Neo: Morpheus!
Link: Still no sight of them. I don't know what they're doing, but they only got 2 minutes left.
Link: One minute!
Trinity: Come on. Come on. Please.
Smiths: Kill them.
Link: They're in. I don't believe it.
Keymaker: It was meant to be. Morpheus. That door will take you home. [to Neo] You'll know which door. Hurry, Neo.
Link: Trinity, I got some serious activity headed your way.
Link: We got a serious situation, sir.
Morpheus: Oh, no.
Architect: Hello, Neo.
Neo: Who are you?
Architect: I am the Architect. I created the Matrix. I've been waiting for you. You have many questions, and though the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
Neo: Why am I here?
Architect: Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the Matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which, despite my sincerest efforts, I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably... here.
Neo: You haven't answered my question.
Architect: Quite right. Interesting. That was quicker than the others.
TV Neos: Others? How many others? What others? Answer my question!
Architect: The Matrix is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the 6th version.
TV Neos: 5 `One's before me? 4 3 2 What are you talking about?
Neo: There are only two possible explanations, either no one told me, or no one knows.
Architect: Precisely. As you are undoubtedly gathering, the anomaly is systemic - creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations.
TV Neos: You can't control me! I'm gonna smash you to bits! I'll fuckin' kill you!
Neo: Choice. The problem is choice.
Architect: The first Matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art - flawless, sublime. A triumph equalled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being. Thus, I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another - an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother.
Neo: The Oracle.
Architect: Please. As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99% of all test subjects accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level. While this answer functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probablility of disaster.
Neo: This is about Zion.
Architect: You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed - its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated.
Neo: Bullshit.
TV Neos: Bullshit!
Architect: Denial is the most predictable of all human responses, but rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
Architect: The function of the One is now to return to the Source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry, reinserting the prime program. After which, you will be required to select from the Matrix 23 individuals - 16 female, 7 male - to rebuild Zion. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash, killing everyone connected to the Matrix, which, coupled with the extermination of Zion, will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race.
Neo: You won't let it happen. You can't. You need human beings to survive.
Architect: There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. However, the relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility of the death of every human being on this world. It is interesting, reading your reactions. Your 5 predecessors were, by design, based on a similar predication - a contingent affirmation that was meant to create a profound attachment to the rest of your species, facilitating the function of the One. While the others experienced this in a very general way, your experience is far more specific - vis a vis love.
Neo: Trinity.
Architect: Apropos, she entered the Matrix to save your life, at the cost of her own.
Neo: No.
Architect: Which brings us at last to the moment of truth, wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed, and the anomaly revealed as both beginning and end. There are two doors. The door to your right leads to the Source, and the salvation of Zion. The door to your left leads back to the Matrix, to her and to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you are going to do, don't we? Already, I can see the chain reaction - the chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason - an emotion that is already blinding you from the simple and obvious truth. She is going to die, and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
Architect: Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.
Neo: If I were you, I would hope that we don't meet again.
Architect: We won't.
Morpheus: What is that?
Link: Whatever it is, it's moving faster than anything I've ever seen.
Link: Shit, he caught her!
Trinity: Neo, I had to.
Neo: I know. The bullet is still inside.
Morpheus: Trinity, don't you quit on me now.
Trinity: I'm sorry.
Neo: Trinity. Trinity, I know you can hear me. I'm not letting go. I can't. I love you too damn much.
Link: I can't take this.
Trinity: I guess that makes us even.
Morpheus: I don't understand it. Everything was done as it was supposed to be done. Once The One reaches the Source, the war should be over.
Neo: In 24 hours it will be.
Morpheus: What?
Neo: If we don't do something in 24 hours, Zion will be destroyed.
Link: What?
Trinity: How do you know that?
Neo: I was told it would happen.
Morpheus: By whom?
Neo: It doesn't matter. I believed him.
Morpheus: That's impossible, the prophecy tells us...
Neo: It was a lie, Morpheus. The prophecy was a lie. The One was never meant to end anything. It was all another system of control.
Morpheus: I don't believe that.
Neo: But you said it yourself - how can the prophecy be true if the war isn't over? I'm sorry. I know it isn't easy to hear, but I swear to you it's the truth.
Trinity: What are we gonna do?
Neo: I don't know.
Link: Oh no.
Link: What are they doing?
Trinity: They're just out of EMP range.
Neo: It's a bomb. We have to get out of here. Now.
Morpheus: I have dreamed a dream, and now that dream has gone from me.
Link: Here they come. Let's go, Morpheus.
Neo: We won't make it.
Trinity: We have to try. Come on.
Neo: Something's different. I can feel them.
Trinity: Neo!
Morpheus: What happened?
Trinity: I don't know.
Link: It's the Hammer.
Maggie: He's in some kind of coma, but his vitals are stable. What about you?
Trinity: I'm fine.
Maggie: You could use some rest.
Trinity: No, I'm gonna stay with him.
Roland: Lock was right. He guessed that the machines would cut off the mainlines in and out of Zion. He thought a counterattck might suprise them. It sounded good, we figured we had a shot, until someone screwed it up.
Mauser: An EMP was triggered before we could get in position.
Colt: 5 ships were instantly down.
Mauser: When the machines broke through, it wasn't a battle, it was a slaughter.
Link: Was it an accident, some sort of malfunction?
AK: No one knows.
Roland: Someone does.
Morpheus: Who?
Roland: Once the machines were done with us, they started digging again. We made a quick pass to look for survivors.
Link: You found one?
Roland: Only one.
To be concluded…….
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