The Matrix: Chapter Nineteen: Dealing for Bliss

INT. MAIN DECK

The core glows with monitor light.
Cypher is in the operator's chair as
Neo comes up behind him.

CYPHER
Whoa! Shit, Neo, you
scared the Bejeezus out of
me.

NEO
Sorry.

CYPHER
No, it's all right.

Neo's eyes light up as he steps closer
to the screens that seem alive with a
constant flow of data.

NEO
Is that...?

CYPHER
The Matrix? Yeah.

Neo stares at the endlessly shifting
river of information, bizarre codes
and equations flowing across the face
of the monitor.

NEO
Do you always look at it
encoded?

CYPHER
Have to. The image
translators sort of work
for the construct programs
but there's way too much
information to decode the
Matrix. You get used to
it, though. Your brain
does the translating. I
don't even see the code.
All I see is blonde,
brunette, and redhead. You
want a drink?

Neo nods and he pours a clear alcohol
from a plastic jug.

CYPHER
You know, I know what
you're thinking 'cause
right now I'm thinking the
same thing. Actually, to
tell you the truth, I've
been thinking the same
thing ever since I got
here.

He raises the glass.

CYPHER
Why, oh why, didn't I take
that blue pill!?

He throws the shot down his throat.
Neo does the same and it almost kills
him. Smiling, Cypher slaps him on the
back.

CYPHER
Good shit, eh? Dozer makes
it. It's good for two
things: degreasing engines
and killing brain cells.

Red-faced, Neo finally stops coughing.
Cypher pours him another.

CYPHER
Can I ask you something?
Did he happen to tell you
why he did it?

Neo looks up, unsure.

CYPHER
Why you're here?

NEO
...yeah.

CYPHER
Gee-zus! What a mindjob.
You're here to save the
world.
You gotta be shitting me.
What do you say to
something like that?

Neo looks down at his drink.

CYPHER
I'm going to let you in on
a little secret here. Now
don't tell him I told you
this, but this ain't the
first time Morpheus
thought he found the One.

NEO
Really?

CYPHER
You bet your ass. It keeps
him going. Maybe it keeps
all of us going.

NEO
How many were there?

CYPHER
Five. Since I've been
here.

NEO
What happened to them?

CYPHER
Dead. All dead.

NEO
How?

CYPHER
Honestly? Morpheus. He got
them all amped up
believing in bullshit. I
watched each of them take
on an Agent and I watched
each of them die. Little
piece of advice: you see
an Agent, you do what we
do; run. Run your ass off.

Neo gulps down another shot.

NEO
Thanks... for the drink.

CYPHER
Any time.

Cypher nods as Neo heads for the
ladder.

CYPHER
Sweet dreams.

INT. RESTAURANT - NIGHT

Chamber music and the ambiance of
wealth soak the restaurant around us
as we watch a serrated knife saw
through a thick, gorgeous steak. The
meat is so perfect, charred on the
outside, oozing red juice on the
inside, that it could be a dream.

We hear a voice that we recognize
immediately.

AGENT SMITH
Do we have a deal, Mr.
Reagan?

A fork stabs the cube of meat and we
follow it up to the face of Cypher.

CYPHER
You know, I know that 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, do you
know what I've realized?

He shoves it in, eyes rolling up,
savoring the tender beef melting in
his mouth.

CYPHER
Ignorance is bliss.

Agent Smith watches him chew the steak
loudly, smacking it between his teeth.

CYPHER
Mmm so, so goddamn good.

AGENT SMITH
Then we have a deal?

CYPHER
I don't want to remember
nothing. Nothing! You
understand? And I want to
be rich. Someone
important. Like an actor.
You can do that, right?

AGENT SMITH
Whatever you want, Mr.
Reagan.

Cypher takes a deep drink of wine.

CYPHER
All right. You get my body
back in a Power Plant,
reinsert me into the
Matrix and I'll get you
what you want.

AGENT SMITH
Access codes to the Zion
mainframe.

CYPHER
I told you I don't know
them. But I can give you
the man who does.

AGENT SMITH
Morpheus.

The Matrix: Chapter Twenty: Off to See the Oracle

INT. MESS HALL

Close on breakfast, a substance with a
consistency somewhere between yogurt
and cellulite.

TANK
Here you go, buddy.
Breakfast of champions.

Tank slides it in front of Neo and
takes a seat with the other crew
members enjoying breakfast.


MOUSE
If you close your eyes, it
almost feels like you're
eating runny eggs.

APOC
Or a bowl of snot.

MOUSE
But you know what it
really reminds me of?
Tastee Wheat. Did you ever
eat Tastee Wheat?

SWITCH
No, but technically
neither did you.

MOUSE
Exactly my point, because
you have to wonder, how do
the machines know what
Tastee Wheat really tasted
like? Maybe they got it
wrong, maybe what I think
Tastee Wheat tasted like
actually tasted like
oatmeal, or tuna fish. It
makes you wonder about a
lot of things. Take
chicken for example. Maybe
they couldn't figure out
what to make chicken taste
like which is why chicken
tastes like everything.
And maybe--

APOC
Shut up, Mouse.

Neo scoops up a spoonful.

DOZER
It's a single celled
protein combined with
synthetic aminos,
vitamins, and minerals.
Everything your body
needs. We grow it in a
vat.

MOUSE
Oh no, it doesn't have
everything the body needs.

He sidles up to Neo.

MOUSE
So I understand you've run
through the Agent training
program? You know, I wrote
that program.

APOC
Here it comes.

MOUSE
So what did you think of
her?

NEO
Of who?

MOUSE
The woman in the red
dress. I designed her. She
doesn't talk much but if
you'd like to, you know,
meet her, I could arrange
a more personalized
milieu.

SWITCH
The digital pimp hard at
work.

MOUSE
Pay no attention to these
hypocrites, Neo. To deny
our impulses is to deny
the very thing that makes
us human.

Morpheus enters.

MORPHEUS
I want everyone on twelve-
hour standby. We're going
in. I'm taking Neo to see
her.

With that he turns and leaves.

NEO
See who?

TANK
The Oracle.

INT. MAIN DECK

Everyone is strapped into their
chairs. Tank is at the operator's
station.

TANK
All right, everyone please
observe that the no
smoking and fasten seat
belt signs have been
turned on. Sit back and
enjoy your flight.

He strikes the enter key and we rush
clockwise over the chairs, each body
reacting as we cut--

INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE - ROOM 1313

Spinning counter clockwise around an
old phone that rings inside the empty
room until we spin full circle and
find everyone now standing there.

Morpheus answers the phone.

MORPHEUS
We're in.

The Matrix: Chapter Twenty-One: There Is No Spoon

EXT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE - DAY

The door opens and for the first time
since his release, Neo steps back into
the Matrix. He squints at the sun
which seems unnaturally bright. He is
the only one without sunglasses.

Apoc and Switch remain at the door as
the others enter the alley.

MORPHEUS
We should be back in an
hour.

Cypher opens the driver's door of an
old car.
As Trinity, Morpheus and Neo cross to
the car, Cypher glances about quickly,
then drops something inside a garbage
can.

It is a cellular phone and we see its
blue display as the line connects.

INT. CAR

Neo sits beside Trinity in the back.
He cannot stop staring as the simple
images of the urban street blur past
his window like an endless stream of
data rushing down a computer screen.

MORPHEUS
Almost unbelievable, isn't
it?

Neo nods as the car continues to wind
through the crowded city.

NEO
God...

TRINITY
What?

NEO
I used to eat there...
Really good noodles...

He is speaking in a whisper, almost as
if talking to himself.

NEO
I have these memories,
from my entire life but...
none of them really
happened.

He turns to her.

NEO
What does that mean?

TRINITY
That the Matrix cannot
tell you who you are.

NEO
But an Oracle can.

TRINITY
That's different.

NEO
Obviously.

He turns to the window for a moment
and then turns back.

NEO
Did you go to her?

TRINITY
Yes.

NEO
What did she tell you?

TRINITY
She told me...

She looks at him and suddenly she is
unable to speak or even breathe.

NEO
What?

The car suddenly jerks to a stop.

MORPHEUS
We're here. Neo, come with
me.

Neo and Morpheus get out of the car.
Cypher looks into the rearview mirror
at Trinity.

CYPHER
Here we go again, eh,
Trin?

He smiles as she turns to the window.

EXT. BUILDING

Tenement-like and vast, it is the kind
of place where people can disappear.

INT. BUILDING

Morpheus nods to a blind man who nods
back. An elevator opens and Neo
follows Morpheus inside.

INT. ELEVATOR

The idea of learning one's fate begins
to weigh upon Neo with a steadily
growing unease.

NEO
So is this the same oracle
that made the, uh,
prophecy?

MORPHEUS
Yes. She's very old. She's
been with us since the
beginning.

NEO
The beginning?

MORPHEUS
Of the Resistance.

NEO
And she knows what?
Everything?

MORPHEUS
She would say she knows
enough.


NEO
And she's never wrong.

MORPHEUS
Don't think of it in terms
of right and wrong. She is
a guide, Neo. She can help
you find the path.

NEO
She helped you?

MORPHEUS
Yes.

NEO
What did she tell you?

MORPHEUS
That I would find the One.

Ding. The elevator opens.

INT. HALL

The long dark hall beckons. Neo
follows Morpheus out of the elevator
and the doors rattle shut behind him.
With every step, a disturbing sense of
inevitability closes in around him.

At the end of the hall, Morpheus steps
to the side of a door.

MORPHEUS
I told you that I can only
show you the door. You
have to step through it.

Neo blows out a breath. His hand
reaches but stops, hovering over the
spherical handle. He backs away.

Scene deleted

PRIESTESS (WOMAN)
Hello, Neo. You're right
on time.

INT. ORACLE'S APARTMENT

It seems particularly normal.

PRIESTESS
Make yourself at home,
Morpheus.

MORPHEUS
Thank you.

PRIESTESS
Neo, come with me.

She leads Neo down another hall and
into what appears to be a family room.

There is another woman in white
sitting on a couch watching a soap
opera. Scattered about the room are a
half dozen children. Some of them are
playing, others are deep in
meditation. All of them exude a kind
of Zen calm.

PRIESTESS
These are the other
Potentials. You can wait
here.

Neo watches a little girl levitate
wooden alphabet blocks. Closer to him,
a SKINNY BOY with a shaved head holds
a spoon which sways like a blade of
grass.

In front of him is a pile of spoons
bent and twisted into knots. Neo
crosses to him and sits. The boy
smiles and hands Neo the spoon which
is now perfectly straight.

SPOON BOY
Do not try to bend the
spoon. That is impossible.
Instead, only try to
realize the truth.

NEO
What truth?

SPOON BOY
That there is no spoon.

Neo nods, staring at the spoon.

NEO
There is no spoon.

SPOON BOY
Then you will see that it
is not the spoon that
bends. It is only
yourself.

The entire room is reflected inside
the spoon and as Neo stares into it,
it slowly begins to bend until--

A hand touches his shoulder.

PRIESTESS
The Oracle will see you
now.

Spoon Boy smiles.

The Matrix: Chapter Twenty-Two: Choices…and a Cookie

INT. KITCHEN

An OLD WOMAN is huddled beside the
oven, peering inside through a cracked
door.
NEO
Hello?
ORACLE (OLD WOMAN)
I know. You're Neo. Be
right with you.
NEO
You're the Oracle?
ORACLE
Bingo. Not quite what you
were expecting, right? I
got to say I love seeing
you non-believers. Always
a pip. Almost done. Smell
good, don't they?
NEO
Yeah.
ORACLE
I'd ask you to sit down,
but you're not going to
anyway. And don't worry
about the vase.
NEO
What vase?
He turns to look around and his elbow
knocks a vase from the table. It
breaks against the linoleum floor.
ORACLE
That vase.
NEO
Shit, I'm sorry.
She pulls out a tray of chocolate chip
cookies and turns. She is an older
woman, wearing big oven mitts,
comfortable slacks and a print blouse.
She looks like someone's grandma.
ORACLE
I said don't worry about
it. I'll get one of my
kids to fix it.
NEO
How did you know...?
She sets the cookie tray on a wooden
hot pad.
ORACLE
What's really going to
bake your noodle later on
is, would you still have
broken it if I hadn't said
anything.
Smiling, she lights a cigarette.
ORACLE
You're cuter than I
thought. I see why she
likes you.
NEO
Who?
ORACLE
Not too bright though.
She winks.
ORACLE
You know why Morpheus
brought you to see me?
He nods.
ORACLE
So? What do you think? You
think you're the One?
NEO
Honestly? I don't know.
She gestures to a wooden plaque, the
kind every kitchen has, except that
the words are in Latin.
ORACLE
You know what that means?
It's Latin. Means, 'Know
Thyself'. I'm gonna let
you in on a little secret.
Being the One is just like
being in love. Nobody can
tell you you're in love.
You just know it. Through
and through.Balls to
bones.
She puts her cigarette down.
ORACLE
Well, I better have a look
at you. Open your mouth.
Say 'ahh'.
She widens his eyes, checks his ears,
then feels the glands in his neck. She
nods then looks at his palms.
ORACLE
Okay, now I'm supposed to
say, 'Hmmm, that's
interesting but...' Then
you say--
NEO
But what?
ORACLE
But you already know what
I'm going to tell you.
NEO
I'm not the One.
ORACLE
Sorry, kid. You got the
gift but looks like you're
waiting for something.
NEO
What?
ORACLE
Your next life, maybe. Who
knows. That's how these
things go.
Neo almost has to laugh.
ORACLE
What's funny?
NEO
Morpheus. He almost had me
convinced.
ORACLE
I know. Poor Morpheus.
Without him we are lost.
NEO
What do you mean, without
him?
The Oracle takes a long drag,
regarding Neo with the eyes of a
Sphinx.
ORACLE
Are you sure you want to
hear this?
Neo nods.
ORACLE
Morpheus believes in you,
Neo and no one, not you or
even me can convince him
otherwise. He believes it
so blindly that he's going
to sacrifice his life to
save yours.
NEO
What?
ORACLE
You're going to have to
make a choice. In one
hand, you will have
Morpheus's life. In the
other hand, you will have
your own. One of you is
going to die. Which one,
will be up to you.
Neo can't breathe.
ORACLE
I'm sorry, kiddo. I really
am. You have a good soul
and I hate giving good
people bad news. But don't
worry, as soon as you walk
outside that door, you'll
start feeling better.
You'll remember that you
don't believe any of this
fate crap. You're in
control of your own life,
remember?
He tries to nod as she reaches for the
tray of cookies.
ORACLE
Here, take a cookie. I
promise by the time you're
done eating it, you'll
feel right as rain.
Neo takes a cookie, the tightness in
his chest slowly beginning to fade.
INT. SITTING ROOM - DAY
Morpheus rises from a couch as the
Priestess escorts Neo out. When they
are alone, Morpheus puts his hand on
Neo's shoulder.
MORPHEUS
You don't have to tell
anyone what she told you.
What was said was said for
you and you alone.
Neo nods and takes a bite of his
cookie.
INT. CAR
Neo and Morpheus get in the car.
MORPHEUS
Let's go.
Cypher looks into the rearview mirror
at Neo.
CYPHER
Well, good news or bad
news?
MORPHEUS
Not now, Cypher.
Cypher slaps the car in gear and pulls
into traffic. Trinity looks at Neo who
is staring at the final bit of cookie.
He puts it in his mouth and chews.
TRINITY
Are you all right?
NEO
...right as rain.
SCENE OMITTED

The Matrix: Chapter Twenty-Three: A Glitch in the Matrix

INT. ROOM 1313 - DAY

Mouse's cellular rings.

MOUSE
Welcome to Movie-Phone.

TANK (V.O.)
They're on their way.

EXT. CITY STREET - DAY

As they get out of the car, Cypher
smiles at Neo.

CYPHER
Like the man says, welcome
to the real world.

Cypher, following the others into the
hotel, nervously glances around,
wiping the sweat from his forehead.

INT. MAIN DECK

Sweat rolls down Cypher's face and
neck. At the operator's station, Tank
is typing rapidly.

TANK
What is that...?

INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE - DAY

Light filters down the throat of the
building, through a caged skylight at
the top of the open elevator shaft.
Six figures glide up the dark stairs
that wind around the antique elevator.

Neo notices a black cat, a yellow-
green eyed shadow that slinks past
them and pads quickly down the stairs.

A moment later, Neo sees another black
cat that looks and moves identically
to the first one.

NEO
Whoa. Deja vu.

Those words stop the others dead in
their tracks.

INT. MAIN DECK

The monitors suddenly glitch as though
the Matrix had an electronic seizure.

TANK
Oh shit! Oh shit!

INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE - DAY

Trinity turns around, her face tight.

TRINITY
What did you just say?

NEO
Nothing. Just had a little
deja vu.

TRINITY
What happened? What did
you see?

NEO
A black cat went past us
and then I saw another
that looked just like it.

TRINITY
How much like it? Was it
the same cat?

NEO
It might have been. I'm
not sure.

Trinity looks at Morpheus who listens
quietly to the rasping breath of the
old building.

NEO
What is it?

TRINITY
A deja vu is usually a
glitch in the Matrix. It
happens when they change
something.

She also listens as the staccato beat
of helicopter blades grows ominously
loud.

INT. MAIN DECK

Tank sees what was changed.

TANK
It's a trap!

INT. STAIRCASE - DAY

Morpheus looks up the stairs as he
hears a helicopter.

MORPHEUS
Come on!

Apoc slaps a gun in Neo's hand.

APOC
I hope the Oracle gave you
some good news.

Neo nods, stuffing it into his belt.

INT. BASEMENT - DAY

Heavy bolt cutters snap through the
main phone cable.

INT. ROOM 1313 - DAY

Hearing the helicopter, Mouse goes to
the draped windows as his cellular
rings. He answers it.

TANK (V.O.)
They cut the hardline!
It's a trap! Get out!

Mouse yanks open the curtain.

MOUSE
Oh no.

The windows are bricked up. Mouse
spins as the rumble of combat boots
builds, then explodes into the room.

INT. MAIN DECK

Tank watches helplessly.

TANK
No, , no.

INT. STAIRS - DAY

Morpheus stops as Mouse's scream is
drowned out by the report of machine
gun fire.

INT. ROOM 1313 - DAY

Mouse sails backwards as bullets pound
him against the blood-spattered brick
window.

INT. MAIN DECK

Mouse's body thrashes against its
harness, blood coughing from his mouth
in one final spasm, then lying
perfectly still. The flatline alarm
softly cries out from the life
monitor.

SCENE 98 OMITTED

INT. STAIRWELL - DAY

Flying downstairs, Morpheus stops,
hearing police swarming below.

INT. HALL - DAY

He turns and rushes down the hall of
the eighth floor. At the end of it, he
finds the bricked up windows.

CYPHER
That's what they changed.
We're trapped. There's no
way out.

The sound of heavy bootsteps close
around them with the mechanical
sureness of a vice.

MORPHEUS
Give me your phone.

TRINITY
They'll be able to track
it.

MORPHEUS
We have no choice.

Morpheus rips off his jacket.

INT. MAIN DECK

Tank answers the call.

MORPHEUS (V.O.)
Tank, find a structural
drawing of this building
and find it fast.

INT. HOTEL LAFAYETTE - DAY

Flashlights probe the rotting darkness
as the police search every floor.

INT. MAIN DECK

The diagram windows onto the screen.

TANK
Got it.

MORPHEUS (V.O.)
I need the main wet-wall.

INT. ROOM 1313 - DAY

Agent Smith stands over Mouse's dead
body, his hand going to his earpiece.

INT. ROOM 808 - DAY

Morpheus is guided by Tank.

TANK (V.O.)
Now left and that's it in
front of you.

MORPHEUS
Good.

INT. ROOM 1313 - DAY

Agent Smith hears the line click dead.

AGENT SMITH
Eighth floor. They're on
the eighth floor.

INT. STAIRWELL - DAY

Agent Brown listens to his earpiece.

INT. STAIRWELL - DAY

Boots clatter up the marble staircase.

The Matrix: Chapter Twenty-Four: One Left Behind

INT. HALL - DAY

Cops flood the eighth floor, rushing
everywhere.

INT. ROOM 808 - DAY

Several cops sweep through the room.
It is empty. As they pass the
bathroom, we see a man-sized hole
smashed through the plaster and lathe.

INT. WALL - DAY

They are inside the main plumbing
wall, slowly worming their way down
the grease black stack pipes. Above
them, light fills the hole they made
to get inside.

INT. HALL - DAY

Agent Brown and Agent Smith stand over
Morpheus' jacket.

AGENT BROWN
Where are they?

INT. ROOM 608 - DAY

The cops search in silence, straining
for a clue, when one hears something
strange near the bathroom.

INT. WALL - DAY

Cypher has slipped and is wedged
between the wall and several thick
supply pipes.

INT. ROOM 608 - DAY

The cop leans in, his ear almost
against the thin membrane of plaster
separating them. He can hear whispers,
hisses and a grunt when--

The wall suddenly bulges, shatter-
cracking as the Cop realizes --

COP
They're in the walls!

INT. WALL - DAY

Trinity pulls Cypher free just as the
Cop opens fire, bullets punching
shafts of light like swords into the
box of soot-black space.

Neo finds his gun first and begins
blasting blindly through the plaster
and lath.

INT. ROOM 608 - DAY

The Cop spins out of the bathroom for
cover, Neo's bullets splintering the
door jamb.

About to whirl back in, he freezes as
something seems to seize hold of him.
The Cop's body starts to spasm and his
M-16 falls to the ground, long shadows
springing up from the mounted
flashlight.

INT. WALL - DAY

Neo listens for a moment, the gunfire
quiet when he hears footsteps rising
fast.

Two arms suddenly smash through the
wall, punching Neo back against the
iron stack pipe, fingers gouging into
his neck.

CYPHER
It's an Agent!

Just as Neo's throat is about to
collapse, Morpheus explodes through
the tattered plaster and lath, diving
on top of Agent Smith.

The two men crash to the wet terrazzo
floor.

Before Agent Smith can find his
weapon, Morpheus is on him, pinning
him in an iron grip.

In the crawlspace, Trinity tries to
scramble up past Cypher.

TRINITY
Morpheus!

Morpheus squeezes Agent Smith's
throat.

MORPHEUS
Trinity, you must get Neo
out. Do you understand?
He is all that matters.

Neo suddenly glimpses what is
happening but is powerless to stop it.

NEO
No. No! Morpheus! Don't!

MORPHEUS
Trinity! Go!


Trinity's fists ball in frustration.
She yells down to Apoc.

TRINITY
Go!

NEO
We can't leave him!

TRINITY
We have to!

She grabs his ankle and they begin
almost falling using the lath as a
brake, skidding down the inside of the
wall.

INT. BASEMENT - DAY

This part of the basement, a dark
concrete cavern, was the main
mechanical room. There are four
enormous boilers, dinosaur-like
technology that once pumped hot water
like arteries.

Soldiers' blinding lights cut open the
darkness as Trinity, Neo, and the
others crash through the ceiling.
Around them they hear a chorus of
short, sharp coughs of grenade
launchers from gas-masked figures.

Smoke blossoms from the green metal
canisters. Trinity never stops moving.
Searching the floor, she finds what
she needs; the cover of the catch
basin.

Cypher watches her pry open the grate,
when a gas can bounces near him.

TRINITY
Come on!

Cypher seems to trip as the cloud
envelops him.

Trinity watches Cypher disappear into
the smoke, then follows the others
down the wet-black hole.

INT. ROOM 608 - DAY

Morpheus and Agent Smith remain on the
ground, locked in each other's death
grip.

AGENT SMITH
The great Morpheus. We
meet at last.

MORPHEUS
And you are?

AGENT SMITH
Smith. I am Agent Smith.

MORPHEUS
You all look the same to
me.

Agent Smith counters Morpheus and
slowly begins to pry his hands from
his throat. Striking like a viper,
Morpheus drives a vicious head butt
into Agent Smith's face. His nose and
glasses shatter.

Agent Smith, unfazed, smiles, blood
oozing from the shattered bridge of
his nose and returns Morpheus'
headbutt with three of his own in
pneumatic succession.

Morpheus staggers back, his body going
slack when another kick buries him
deep into crunching plaster and lathe.

Morpheus turns in time to see a wall
of men in the doorway.

AGENT SMITH
Take him.

The wall of Cops rush Morpheus,
filling the tiny bathroom until he
disappears under the tide.

INT. MAIN DECK

Tank reaches out to the screen as if
reaching for Morpheus.

TANK
No!

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