" Is everything in place?" " You weren't supposed to relieve me." "I know, but I felt like taking a shift." "You like him, don't you?" "You like watching him." " Don't be ridiculous." " We're gonna kill him." "You understand?" "Morpheus believes he is the One." "Do you?" "It doesn't matter what I believe." "You don't, do you?" " Did you hear that?" " Hear what?" "Are you sure this line is clean?" "Yeah, of course I'm sure." "I better go." " Freeze!" "Police!" " Hands on your head!" "Do it!" "Do it now!" "Lieutenant." "Oh, shit." "Lieutenant, you were given specific orders." "I'm just doing my job." "You give me that "juris-my-dick-tion" crap, you can cram it up your ass." "The orders were for your protection." "I think we can handle one little girl." "I sent two units!" "They're bringing her down now!" "No, Lieutenant, your men are already dead." "Shit." "Morpheus, the line was traced." "I don't know how." "I know." "They cut the hard line." "There's no time." "Get to another exit." "Are there any agents?" "Yes." "Goddamn it." "You have to focus, Trinity." "There's a phone at Wells and Lake." "You can make it." " All right." " Go." "That's impossible." "Get up, Trinity." "Just get up." "Get up." "She got out." "It doesn't matter." "The informant is real." "We have the name of their next target." "The name is Neo." "We'll need a search running." "It has already begun." "What?" "What the hell?" ""Follow the white rabbit. "" "Who is it?" "It's Choi." "You're two hours late." "I know. lt's her fault." "You got the money?" "Two grand." "Hold on." "Hallelujah." "You're my savior." "My own personal Jesus Christ." "You get caught using that...." "l know." "This never happened." "You don't exist." " Right." " Something wrong, man?" "You look a little whiter than usual." "My computer, it...." "Ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or dreaming?" "All the time." "It's called mescaline." "It's the only way to fly." "It just sounds like you need to unplug." "Get some R and R?" "What do you think, Dujour?" "Should we take him with us?" "Definitely." "No, I can't. I have work tomorrow." "Come on." "It'll be fun. I promise." "Yeah." "Sure. I'll go." "Hello, Neo." "How do you know that name?" "I know a lot about you." "Who are you?" "My name is Trinity." "Trinity." "The Trinity?" "That cracked the irs D-base?" "That was a long time ago." "Jesus." "What?" "I just thought you were a guy:" "Most guys do." "That was you on my computer." "How did you do that?" "Right now, all I can tell you is that you're in danger." " l brought you here to warn you." " Of what?" "They're watching you, Neo." "Who is?" "Please just listen." "I know why you're here, Neo." "I know what you've been doing." "I know why you hardly sleep why you live alone and why, night after night you sit at your computer." "You're looking for him." "I know, because I was once looking for the same thing." "And when he found me he told me I wasn't really looking for him I was looking for an answer." "It's the question that drives us, Neo." "It's the question that brought you here." "You know the question just as I did." "What is the Matrix?" "The answer is out there, Neo." "It's looking for you." "And it will find you if you want it to." "Shit." "Shit, shit." "You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson." "You believe that you are special, that the rules do not apply to you." "Obviously, you are mistaken." "This is one of the top software companies in the world because employees understand they are part of a whole." "Thus, if an employee has a problem, the company has a problem." "The time has come to make a choice, Mr. Anderson." "Either you choose to be at your desk on time from this day forth or you choose to find another job." "Do I make myself clear?" "Yes, Mr. Rhineheart." "Perfectly clear." "Thomas Anderson?" "Yeah, that's me." "Great." "Have a nice day." "Hello, Neo." "Do you know who this is?" " Morpheus." " Yes." "I've been looking for you." "I don't know if you're ready to see what I want to show you." "But unfortunately, you and I have run out of time." "They're coming for you, and I don't know what they're going to do." "Who's coming for me?" "Stand up and see for yourself." "What?" "Right now?" "Yes." "Now." "Do it slowly." "The elevator." "Oh, shit!" "What do they want?" "I don't know." "If you don't want to find out, get out of there." "How?" "I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say." "The cubicle across from you is empty." " But what if they" " Go." "Now." "Stay here for just a moment." "When I tell you, go to the end of the row  to the office at the end of the hall." "Stay as low as you can." "Go." "Now." "Good." "Now, outside there is a scaffold." " How do you know this?" " We don't have time." "To your left there's a window." "Go to it." "Open it." "Take the scaffold to the roof." "No way!" "No way!" "This is crazy!" "There are two ways out of this building." "One is that scaffold." "The other is in their custody." "You take a chance either way." "I leave it to you." "This is insane!" "Why is this happening to me?" "What'd I do?" "I'm nobody." "I didn't do anything." "I'm gonna die." "Shit!" "Oh, shit!" "I can't do this." "Shit." "As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson." "It seems that you've been living two lives." "In one life, you're Thomas A. Anderson program writer for a respectable software company." "You have a social security number." "You pay your taxes." "And you help your landlady carry out her garbage." "The other life is lived in computers where you go by the hacker alias "Neo" and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for." "One of these lives has a future." "And one of them does not." "I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. Anderson." "You're here because we need your help." "We know that you've been contacted by a certain individual." "A man who calls himself "Morpheus. "" "Whatever you think you know about this man is irrelevant." "He is considered by many authorities to be the most dangerous man alive." "My colleagues believe that I am wasting my time with you." "But I believe you wish to do the right thing." "We're willing to wipe the slate clean give you a fresh start." "All we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice." "Yeah." "That sounds like a really good deal." "But I got a better one." "How about I give you the finger and you give me my phone call." "Mr. Anderson you disappoint me." "You can't scare me with this gestapo crap." "I know my rights." "I want my phone call." "Tell me, Mr. Anderson what good is a phone call if you're unable to speak?" "You're going to help us, Mr. Anderson whether you want to or not." "This line is tapped, so I must be brief." "They got to you first, but they've underestimated how important you are." "If they knew what I know  you would probably be dead." "What are you talking about?" "What is happening to me?" "You are the One, Neo." "You may have spent the last few years looking for me, but I've spent my entire life looking for you." "Now, do you still want to meet?" " Yes." " Then go to the Adams Street bridge." "Get in." "What's this?" "It's necessary, Neo." "For our protection." "From what?" "From you." "Take off your shirt." "Stop the car." "Listen, coppertop." "We don't have time for 20 Questions." "Right now, there's only one rule:" "Our way or the highway." "Fine." "Please, Neo, you have to trust me." " Why?" " Because you have been down there." "You know that road." "You know exactly where it ends." "And I know that's not where you want to be." "Apoc, lights." "Lie back." "Lift up your shirt." "What's that?" "You're bugged." "Try and relax." "Come on." "Come on." "It's on the move." "Come on, you shit." " You're gonna lose it." " No, I'm not." "Clear!" "Jesus Christ!" "That thing's real?" "!" "This is it." "Let me give you one piece of advice." "Be honest." "He knows more than you can imagine." "At last." "Welcome, Neo." "As you no doubt have guessed I am Morpheus." "It's an honor to meet you." "No the honor is mine." "Please, come." "Sit." "I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole?" "You could say that." "I can see it in your eyes." "You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he's expecting to wake up." "Ironically, this is not far from the truth." "Do you believe in fate, Neo?" "No." "Why not?" "I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life." "I know exactly what you mean." "Let me tell you why you're here." "You know something." "What you know, you can't explain." "But you feel it." "You felt it your entire life." "Something's wrong with the world." "You don't know what, but it's there." "Like a splinter in your mind driving you mad." "It is this feeling that has brought you to me." "Do you know what I'm talking about?" "The Matrix?" "Do you want to know what it is?" "The Matrix is everywhere." "It is all around us." "Even now, in this very room." "You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television." "You can feel it when you go to work when you go to church when you pay your taxes." "It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." "What truth?" "That you are a slave." "Like everyone else, you were born into bondage born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch." "A prison for your mind." "Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is." "You have to see it for yourself." "This is your last chance." "After this, there is no turning back." "You take the blue pill the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe." "You take the red pill you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." "Remember all I'm offering is the truth." "Nothing more." "Follow me." "Apoc, are we on-line?" "Almost." "Time is always against us." "Please take a seat there." "You did all this?" "The pill you took is part of a trace program." "It disrupts your carrier signals so we can pinpoint your location." "What does that mean?" "It means buckle your seat belt, Dorothy because Kansas is going bye-bye." "Did you...?" "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real?" "What if you were unable to wake from that dream?" "How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?" "This can't be." "Be what?" "Be real?" "Going into replication." "Still nothing." "It's cold." "It's cold!" "Tank, we'll need a signal soon." "I got a fibrillation." "Apoc, location." "Targeting almost there." "He's going into arrest." "Lock. I got him!" "Now, Tank, now!" "Welcome to the real world." "We've done it, Trinity." "We found him." " l hope you're right." " l don't have to hope." "I know it." "Am I dead?" "Far from it." "He still needs a lot of work." "What are you doing?" "Your muscles atrophied." "We're rebuilding them." "Why do my eyes hurt?" "You've never used them before." "Rest, Neo." "The answers are coming." "Morpheus, what's happened to me?" "What is this place?" "More important than "what" is "when. "" "When?" "You believe it's the year 1999 when in fact, it's closer to 2199." "I can't tell you exactly what year it is because we honestly don't know." "There's nothing I can say that will explain it for you." "Come with me." "See for yourself." "This is my ship." "The Nebuchadnezzar." "It's a hovercraft." "This is the main deck." "This is the core where we broadcast our pirate signal and hack into the Matrix." "Most of my crew you already know." "This is Apoc Switch and Cypher." "The ones you don't know:" "Tank and his big brother, Dozer." "The little one behind you is Mouse." "You wanted to know what the Matrix is?" "Trinity." "Try to relax." "This will feel a little weird." "This is the Construct." "It's our loading program." "We can load anything, from clothing to equipment weapons training simulations anything we need." "Right now we're inside a computer program?" "is it really so hard to believe?" "Your clothes are different." "The plugs in your body are gone." "Your hair has changed." "Your appearance now is what we call "residual self-image. "" "It is the mental projection of your digital self." "This isn't real?" "What is "real"?" "How do you define "real"?" "If you're talking about what you can feel what you can smell, taste and see then "real" is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain." "This is the world that you know." "The world as it was at the end of the 20th century." "It exists now only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Matrix." "You've been living in a dream world, Neo." "This is the world as it exists today." "Welcome to "the desert of the real. "" "We have only bits and pieces of information." "But what we know for certain is that in the early 21st century all of mankind was united in celebration." "We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to Al." "Al." "You mean artificial intelligence." "A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines." "We don't know who struck first, us or them." "But we know that it was us that scorched the sky." "They were dependent on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun." "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive." "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." "The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery." "And over 25,000 BTUs of body heat." "Combined with a form of fusion the machines had found all the energy they would ever need." "There are fields, Neo, endless fields where human beings are no longer born." "We are grown." "For the longest time, I wouldn't believe it." "And then I saw the fields with my own eyes watched them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living." "And standing there, facing the pure, horrifying precision I came to realize the obviousness of the truth." "What is the Matrix?" "Control." "The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this." "No." "I don't believe it." "It's not possible." "I didn't say it would be easy, Neo." "I just said it would be the truth." "Stop!" "Let me out!" "Let me out!" "I want out!" " Easy, Neo." "Easy." " Get this thing out of me." "Get this thing out of me!" "Don't touch me!" "Stay away from me!" "I don't believe it." "I don't believe it." "I don't believe it." " He's gonna pop." " Breathe, Neo." "Just breathe." "I can't go back, can I?" "No." "But if you could would you really want to?" "I owe you an apology." "We have a rule." "We never free a mind once it's reached a certain age." "It's dangerous." "The mind has trouble letting go." "I've seen it before, and I'm sorry." "I did what I did because I had to." "When the Matrix was first built, there was a man born inside who had the ability to change whatever he wanted to remake the Matrix as he saw fit." "It was he who freed the first of us taught us the truth." "As long as the Matrix exists the human race will never be free." "After he died the Oracle prophesied his return and that his coming would hail the destruction of the Matrix end the war bring freedom to our people." "That is why there are those of us who spent our lives searching the Matrix looking for him." "I did what I did because I believe that search is over." "Get some rest." "You're going to need it." "For what?" "Your training." "Morning." "Did you sleep?" "You will tonight." "I guarantee it." "I'm Tank. I'll be your operator." " You don't have any" " Holes?" "Nope." "Me and my brother, Dozer, are 100@/@ pure, old-fashioned, homegrown human." "Born free right here in the real world." "Genuine child of Zion." " Zion?" " lf the war was over tomorrow Zion's where the party would be." "It's a city?" "The last human city." "The only place we have left." "Where is it?" "Deep underground near the Earth's core, where it's still warm." "You live long enough, you might see it." "Goddamn!" "I gotta tell you, I'm excited to see what you're capable of if Morpheus is right and all." "We're not supposed to talk about this, but if you are it's a very exciting time." "We got a lot to do." "We gotta get to it." "We're supposed to start with these programs first." "That's major boring shit." "Let's do something more fun." "How about..." ""Jujitsu"?" "I'm going to learn jujitsu?" "Holy shit!" ""Hey, Mikey, I think he likes it. "" "How about some more?" "Hell, yes." "Hell, yeah." "How is he?" "Ten hours straight." "He's a machine." "I know kung fu." "Show me." "This is a sparring program similar to the programmed reality of the Matrix." "It has the same basic rules." "Like gravity." "These rules are no different than those of a computer system." "Some of them can be bent." "Others can be broken." "Understand?" "Then hit me if you can." "Good!" "Adaptation." "Improvisation." "But your weakness is not your technique." "Morpheus is fighting Neo." "How did I beat you?" "You're too fast." "Do you believe that my being stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place?" "You think you're breathing air?" "Again!" "Jesus Christ, he's fast!" "His neuro-kinetics are way above normal." "What are you waiting for?" "You're faster than this." "Don't think you are." "Know you are." "Come on!" "Stop trying to hit me, and hit me!" "I don't believe it." "I know what you're trying to do." "I'm trying to free your mind, Neo." "But I can only show you the door." "You have to walk through it." "Tank, load the jump program." "You have to let it all go, Neo." "Fear doubt and disbelief." "Free your mind." "Okey-dokey." "Free my mind." "What if he makes it?" " No one's ever made their first jump." " l know." " But what if he does?" " He won't." "Come on." "All right." "No problem." "Free my mind." "Free my mind." "No problem." "Right." "What does that mean?" "It doesn't mean anything." "Everybody falls the first time." "Right, Trin?" " l thought it wasn't real." " Your mind makes it real." "If you're killed in the Matrix you die here?" "The body cannot live without the mind." "I don't remember you ever bringing me dinner." "There is something about him, isn't there?" "You're a believer now?" "I keep wondering if Morpheus is so sure, why not take him to see the Oracle?" "Morpheus will take him when he's ready." "The Matrix is a system, Neo." "That system is our enemy." "But when you're inside, what do you see?" "Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters." "The very minds of the people we are trying to save." "But until we do, these people are a part of that system and that makes them our enemy." "You have to understand most of these people are not ready to be unplugged." "And many of them are so inert so hopelessly dependent on the system so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it." "Were you listening to me or looking at the woman in the red dress?" "Look again." "Freeze it." "This isn't the Matrix?" "It's another training program designed to teach you one thing:" "If you are not one of us, you are one of them." " What are they?" " Sentient programs." "They can move in and out of any software still hardwired to their system." "That means that anyone we haven't unplugged is potentially an agent." "Inside the Matrix they are everyone and they are no one." "We have survived by hiding and running from them but they are the gatekeepers." "They're guarding all the doors and holding all the keys." "Sooner or later, someone will have to fight them." "Someone?" "I won't lie to you, Neo." "Every single man or woman who has fought an agent has died." "But where they have failed, you will succeed." "Why?" "I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall." "Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air." "Yet their strength and speed are still based in a world built on rules." "Because of that they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be." "What are you telling me?" "That I can dodge bullets?" "No, Neo." "I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready you won't have to." "We got trouble." "Did Zion send the warning?" "No, another ship." "Shit." "Squiddy's sweeping in quick." "Squiddy?" "A sentinel." "A killing machine designed for one thing." "Search and destroy." "Set her down there." "How are we doing, Tank?" "Power off-line." "EMP armed and ready." "Electromagnetic pulse." "Disables any electrical system in the blast radius." "It's the only weapon we have against the machines." "Where are we?" "Their old service and waste systems." "Sewers." "There used to be cities that spanned hundreds of miles." "Now these sewers are all that's left." "Quiet." "You scared the bejesus out of me." " Sorry." " lt's okay." "is that...?" "The Matrix?" " Do you always look at it encoded?" " Well, you have to." "The image translators work for the construct program." "But there's way too much information to decode the Matrix." "You get used to it." "I don't even see the code." "All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead." "Do you want a drink?" "Sure." "You know I know what you're thinking." "Because right now I'm thinking the same thing." "Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here." "Why, oh, why didn't I take the blue pill?" "Good shit, huh?" "Dozer makes it." "It's good for two things:" "Degreasing engines and killing brain cells." "So can I ask you something?" "Did he tell you why he did it?" "Why you're here?" "Jesus!" "What a mind job." "So you're here to save the world." "What do you say to something like that?" "A little piece of advice." "You see an agent you do what we do:" "Run." "You run your ass off." "Thanks for the drink." "Sweet dreams." "Do we have a deal, Mr. Reagan?" "You know I know this steak doesn't exist." "I know that when I put it in my mouth the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious." "After nine years you know what I realize?" "Ignorance is bliss." "Then we have a deal." "I don't want to remember nothing." "Nothing." "You understand?" "And I want to be rich." "You know, someone important." "Like an actor." "Whatever you want, Mr. Reagan." "Okay." "You get my body back in a power plant reinsert me into the Matrix I'll get you what you want." "Access codes to the Zion mainframe." "No. I told you, I don't know them." "I can get you the man who does." "Morpheus." "Here you go, buddy." "Breakfast of champions." "Close your eyes, it feels like you're eating runny eggs." "Or a bowl of snot." "You know what it reminds me of?" "Tastee Wheat." "Did you ever eat Tastee Wheat?" "No, but technically, neither did you." "That's exactly my point." "Exactly." "Because you have to wonder how do the machines really know what Tastee Wheat tasted like?" "Maybe they got it wrong." "Maybe what I think Tastee Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal or tuna fish." "That makes you wonder." "Take chicken, for example." "Maybe they didn't know what to make it taste like which is why it tastes like everything." " And maybe they" " Shut up." "It's a single-celled protein..." "Everything the body needs." "It doesn't have everything the body needs." "I understand you've run through the agent training program." "You know, I wrote that program." "Here it comes." " What did you think of her?" " Of who?" "The woman in the red dress." "I designed her." "She doesn't talk very much but if you'd like to meet her, I can arrange a more personal milieu." "The digital pimp hard at work." "Pay no attention to these hypocrites, Neo." "To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human." "Dozer, when you're done bring the ship up to broadcast depth." "We're going in." "I'm taking Neo to see her." "See who?" "The Oracle." "Everyone, please observe the "fasten seat belt" and "no smoking" signs are on." "Sit back and enjoy your flight." "We're in." "We'll be back in an hour." "Unbelievable isn't it?" " God!" " What?" "I used to eat there." "Really good noodles." "I have these memories from my life." "None of them happened." "What does that mean?" "That the Matrix cannot tell you who you are." "But an oracle can?" "That's different." "Did you go to her?" "Yes." "What did she tell you?" "She told me...." "What?" "We're here." "Come with me." "So is this the same oracle that made the prophecy?" "Yes." "She's very old." "She's been with us since the beginning." "The beginning?" "Of the Resistance." "And she knows what?" "Everything?" "She would say she knows enough." "And she's never wrong." "Try not to think of it in terms of right and wrong." "She is a guide, Neo." "She can help you to find the path." "She helped you?" "What did she tell you?" "That I would find the One." "I told you I can only show you the door." "You have to walk through it." "Hello, Neo." "You're right on time." "Make yourself at home, Morpheus." "Neo, come with me." "These are the other Potentials." "You can wait here." "Do not try and bend the spoon." "That's impossible." "Instead, only try to realize the truth." "What truth?" "There is no spoon." "There is no spoon?" "Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends. lt is only yourself." "The Oracle will you see now." "I know you're Neo." "Be right with you." "You're the Oracle?" "Bingo." "Not quite what you w"