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Guion Original de "The Matrix"

2007-07-18T04:32:00.001-07:00
THE MATRIX
     Written by

   Larry and Andy Wachowski

          April 8, 1996


 FADE IN ON:

 COMPUTER SCREEN

So close it has no boundaries.

A blinking cursor pulses in the electric darkness like a
heart coursing with phosphorous light, burning beneath
the derma of black-neon glass.

A PHONE begins to RING, we hear it as though we were
making the call.  The cursor continues to throb,
relentlessly patient, until --

     MAN (V.O.)
   Hello?

Data now slashes across the screen, information flashing
faster than we read.

     SCREEN
   Call trans opt:  received.
  2-19-96  13:24:18  REC:Log>

     WOMAN (V.O.)
   I'm inside.  Anything to report?

We listen to the phone conversation as though we were on
a third line.  The man's name is CYPHER.  The woman,
 TRINITY.

     CYPHER (V.O.)
   Let's see.  Target left work at
   5:01 PM.

     SCREEN
   Trace program:  running.

The entire screen fills with racing columns of numbers.
Shimmering like green-electric rivets, they rush at a 10-
digit phone number in the top corner.

     CYPHER (V.O.)
   He caught the northbound Howard
  line. Got off at Sheridan.
  Stopped at 7-11.  Purchased six-
  pack of beer and a box of Captain
  Crunch.  Returned home.

The area code is identified.  The first three numbers
suddenly fixed, leaving only seven flowing columns.

We begin MOVING TOWARD the screen, CLOSING IN as each
digit is matched, one by one, snapping into place like
the wheels of a slot machine.

     TRINITY (V.O.)
   All right, you're relieved.  Use
  the usual exit.

     CYPHER (V.O.)
   Do you know when we're going to
  make contact?

     TRINITY
   Soon.

Only two thin digits left.

     CYPHER (V.O.)
   Just between you and me, you don't
  believe it, do you?  You don't
  believe this guy is the one?

     TRINITY (V.O.)
   I think Morpheus believes he is.

     CYPHER (V.O.)
   I know.  But what about you?

     TRINITY (V.O.)
   I think Morpheus knows things that
  I don't.

     CYPHER (V.O.)
   Yeah, but if he's wrong --

The final number pops into place --

     TRINITY (V.O.)
   Did you hear that?

     CYPHER (V.O.)
   Hear what?

     SCREEN
   Trace complete.  Call origin:
   #312-555-0690

     TRINITY (V.O.)
   Are you sure this line is clean?

     CYPHER (V.O.)
   Yeah, course I'm sure.

We MOVE STILL CLOSER, the ELECTRIC HUM of the green
numbers GROWING INTO an OMINOUS ROAR.

     TRINITY (V.O.)
   I better go.

     CYPHER (V.O.)
   Yeah.  Right.  See you on the other side.

She hangs up as we PASS THROUGH the numbers, entering the
netherworld of the computer screen.

Where gradually the sound of a police radio grows around
us.

     RADIO (V.O.)
   Attention all units.  Attention
  all units.

Suddenly, a flashlight cuts open the darkness and we find
ourselves in --


 INT.  CHASE HOTEL - NIGHT

The hotel was abandoned after a fire licked its way
across the polyester carpeting, destroying several rooms
as it spooled soot up the walls and ceiling leaving
patterns of permanent shadow.

We FOLLOW four armed POLICE officers using flashlights as
they creep down the blackened hall and ready themselves
on either side of room 303.

The biggest of them violently kicks in the door --

The other cops pour in behind him, guns thrust before
them.

     BIG COP
   Police!  Freeze!

The room is almost devoid of furniture.  There is a fold-
up table and chair with a phone, a modern, and a powerbook
computer.  The only light in the room is the glow of the
computer.

Sitting there, her hands still on the keyboard, is
TRINITY; a woman in black leather.

     BIG COP
   Get your hands behind your head!

Trinity rises.

     BIG COP
   Hands behind your head!  Now!  Do
  it!

She slowly puts her hands behind her head.


 EXT.  CHASE HOTEL - NIGHT

A black sedan with tinted windows glides in through the
police cruisers.

AGENT SMITH and AGENT BROWN get out of the car.

They wear dark suits and sunglasses even at night.  They
are also always hardwired; small Secret Service earphones
in one ear, its cord coiling back into their shirt
collars.

     AGENT SMITH
   Lieutenant?

     LIEUTENANT
   Oh shit.

     AGENT SMITH
   Lieutenant, you were given
  specific orders --

     LIEUTENANT
   I'm just doing my job.  You gimme
  that Juris-my dick-tion and you
  can cran it up your ass.

     AGENT SMITH
   The orders were for your protection.

The Lieutenant laughs.

     LIEUTENANT
   I think we can handle one little
  girl.

Agent Smith nods to Agent Brown as they start toward the
hotel.

     LIEUTENANT
   I sent two units.  They're
  bringing her down now.

     AGENT SMITH
   No, Lieutenant, your men are dead.


 INT.  CHASE HOTEL

The Big Cop flicks out his cuffs, the other cops holding
a bead.  They've done this a hundred times, they know
they've got her, until the Big Cop reaches with the cuff
and Trinity moves --

It almost doesn't register, so smooth and fast, inhumanly
fast.

The eye blinks and Trinity's palm. snaps up and the nose
explodes, blood erupting.  The cop is dead before he
begins to fall.

And Trinity is moving again --

Seizing a wrist, misdirecting a gun, as a startled cop
 FIRES --

A head explodes.

In blind panic, another airs his gun, the barrel, a fixed
black hole --

And FIRES --

Trinity twists out of the way, the bullet missing as she
reverses into a roundhouse kick, knocking the gun away.

The cop begins to scream when a jump kick crushes his
windpipe, killing the scream as he falls to the ground.

She looks at the four bodies.

     TRINITY
   Shit.


 EXT.  CHASE HOTEL

Agent Brown enters the hotel, while Agent Smith heads for
the alley.


 INT.  CHASE HOTEL

Trinity is on the phone, pacing.  The other end is
answered.

     MAN (V.O.)
   Operator.

     TRINITY
   Morpheus!  The link was traced!  I
  don't know how.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   I know.  Stay calm.

     TRINITY
   Are there any agents?

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   Yes.

     TRINITY
   Goddamnit!

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   You have to focus.  There is a
  phone.  Wells and Laxe.  You can
  make it.

She takes a deep breath, centering herself.

     TRINITY
   All right --

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   Go.

She drops the phone.


 INT.  HALL

She bursts out of the room as Agent Brown enters the hall,
leading another unit of police.  Trinity races to the
opposite end, exiting through a broken window onto the
fire escape.


 EXT.  FIRE E5CAPE

In the alley below, Trinity sees Agent Smith staring at
her.  She can only go up.


 EXT.  ROOF

On the roof, Trinity is running as Agent Brown rises over
the parapet, leading the cops in pursuit.

Trinity begins to jump from one roof to the next, her
moverents so clean, gliding in and out of each jump,
contrasted to the wild jumps of the cops.

Agent Brown, however, has the same unnatural grace.

The METAL SCREAM of an EL TRAIN is heard and Trinity
turns to it, racing for the back of the building.

The edge falls away into a wide back alley.  The next
building is over 40 feet away, but Trinity's face is
perfectly calm, staring at some point beyond the other
roof.

The cops slow, realizing they are about to see something
ugly as Trinity drives at the edge, launching herself
into the air.

From above, the ground seems to flow beneath her as she
hangs in flight

Then hitting, somersaulting up, still running hard.

     COP
   Motherfucker -- that's impossible!

They stare, slack-jawed, as Agent Brown duplicates the
move exactly, landing, rolling over a shoulder, up onto
one knee.

Just below the building are the runbling tracks of
riveted steel.  The TRAIN SCREECHES beneath her, a
rattling blur of gray metal.  Trinity junps, landing
easily.

She looks back just as Agent Brown hurls through the air
barely reaching the last car

Agent Brown stands, yanking out a gun.

Trinity is running hard as BULLETS WHISTLE past her head.

Ahead she sees her only chance, 50 feet beyond the point
where the train has begun to turn, there is --

A window; a yellow glow in the midst of a dark brick
building.

Trinity zeroes in on it, running as hard as she can, her
speed compounded by the train.  The SCREAM of the STEEL
rises as she nears the edge where the train rocks into the
turn.

Trinity hurtles into the empty night space, her body
leveling into a dive.  She falls, arms covering her head
as --

The whole world seems to spin on its axis --

And she crashes with an EXPLOSION of GLASS and WOOD, then
falls onto a back stairwell, tumbling, bouncing down
stairs bleeding, broken --

But still alive.

Through the smashed window, she glimpses Agent Brown,
still on the train, his tie and coat whipping in the
wind; stone-faced, he touches his ear piece as the train
slides him past the window.

Trinity tries to move.  Everything hurts.

     TRINITY
   Get up, Trinity.  You're fine.
  Get up -- just get up!

She stands and limps down the rest of the stairs.


 EXT.  STREET

Trinity emerges from the shadows of an alley and, at the
end of the block, in a pool of white street light, she
sees it.

The telephone booth.

Obviously hurt, she starts down the concrete walk,
focusing in completely, her pace quickening, as the PHONE
begins to RING.

Across the street, a garbage truck suddenly u-turns, its
TIRES SCREAMING as it accelerates.

Trinity sees the headlights on the truck arcing at the
telephone booth as if taking aim.

Gritting through the pain, she races the truck --

Slamming into the booth, the headlights blindingly
bright, bearing down on the box of Plexiglas just as --

She answers the phone.

There is a frozen instant of silence before the hulking
mass of dark metal lurches up onto the sidewalk --

Barreling through the booth, bulldozing it into a brick
wall, smashing it to Plexiglas pulp.

After a moment, a black loafer steps down from the cab of
the garbage truck.  Agent Smith inspects the wreckage.
There is no body.  Trinity is gone.

His jaw sets as he grinds his molars in frustration.
AGENT JONES walks up behind him.

     AGENT SMITH
   Did you get anything from the
  room?

     AGENT JONES
   Their next target.  The name is
  Neo.

The handset of the pay phone lays on the ground,
separated in the crash like a severed limb.

     AGENT SMITH
   We'll need a search running.

     AGENT JONES
   It's already begun.

We are SUCKED TOWARDS the mouthpiece of the phone, CLOSER
and CLOSER, UNTIL the smooth gray plastic spreads out
like a horizon and the small HOLES WIDEN until we fall
through one --

Swallowed by the darkness that becomes --

A computer screen.

We are on-line, inside a chat room called "The Matrix."
It is an exklusive web-site where hackers hang out.

     SCREEN
   JACKON:  I heard Morpheus has been
  on this board.
  SUPERASTIC:  Morpheus doesn't even
  exist and the Matrix is nothing
  but an advertising gimmick 4 a new
  game.
  TIMAXE:  All I want to know is
  Trinity really a girl?
  LODIII:  87% of all women on line
  are really men.
  QUARK:  The Matrix is a euphemism
  for the government.
  SUPERASTIC:  No, The Matrix is the
  system controlling our lives.
  TIMAXE:  You mean MTV.
  SUPERASTIC:  I mean Sega.
   FOS4:  ALL HAIL SEGA!!!

We drift back from the electric conversation entering --


 INT.  NEO'S APARTMENT

It is a studio apartirent that seems overgrown with
technology.

Weed-like cables coil everywhere, duct-taped into
thickets that wind up and around the legs of several
desks.

Tabletops are filled with cannibalized equipment that lay
open like an autopsied corpse.

We turn towards the center of this rat-nest of
technology, following the slurping and crunching of
cereal.  We pass an open box of Capln Crunch as we find --

NEO, a younger man who knows more about living inside a
computer than living outside one.

     NEO
   Fuckin' idiots don't know shit.

He finishes his cereal and is about to disconnect when an
anonynous message slices onto the screen.

     SCREEN
   Do you want to know what the
  Matrix is, Neo?

Neo is frozen when he reads his name.

     SCREEN
   SUPERASTIC:  Who said that?
  JACKON:  Who's Neo?
  GIBSON:  This is a private board.

  If you want to know, follow the
  white rabbit.

     NEO
   What the hell...

     SCREEN
   TIMAXE:  Someone is hacking the
  hackers!
  FOS4:  It's Morpheus!!!!!
  JACKON:  Identify yourself.

  Knock, knock, Neo.

A chill runs down his spine and when someone KNOCKS on
his door he almost jumps out of his chair.

He looks at the door, then back at the computer but the
message is gone.

He shakes his head, not completely sure what happened.
Again, someone knocks.

Cautiously, Neo approaches the door.

     VOICE (O.S.)
   Hey, Tommy-boy!  You in there?

Recognizing the voice, he relaxes and opens it.  ANTHONY,
who lives down the hall, is standing outside with a group
of friends.

     NEO
   What do you want, Anthony?

     ANTHONY
   I need your help, man.  Desperate.
  They got me, man.  The shackles of
  fascism.

He holds up the red notice that accompanies the Denver
boot.

     NEO
   You got the money this time?

He holds up two hundred dollars and Neo opens the door.
Anthony's girlfriend, DUJOUR, stops in front of Neo.

     DUJOUR
   You can really get that thing off,
  right now?

     ANTHONY
   I told you, honey, he may look
  like just another geek but this
  here is all we got left standing
  between Big Brother and the New
  World Order.


 EXT.  STREET

A police officer unlocks a yellow metal boot from the
wheel of an enormous oldsmobile.


 INT.  NEO'S APARTMENT

They watch from the window as the cops, silently,
robotically, climb into their van.

     ANTHONY
   Look at 'em.  Automatons.  Don't
  think about what they're- doing or
  why.  Computer tells 'em what to
  do and they do it.

    FRIEND #l
  Thc banality of evil.

He slaps the money in Neo's hand.

     ANTHONY
   Thanks, neighbor.

     DUJOUR
   Why don't you come to the party
  with us?

     NEO
   I don't know.  I have to work
  tomorrow.

     DUJOUR
   Come on.  It'll be fun.

He looks up at her and suddenly notices on her black
leather motorcycle jacket dozens of pins:  bands,
symbols, slogans, military medals and --

A small white rabbit.

The ROOM TILTS.

     NEO
   Yeah, yeah.  Sure, I'll go.


 INT.  APARTMENT

An older Chicago apartment; a series of halls connects a
chain of small high-ceilinged rooms lined with heavy
casements.

Smoke hangs like a veil, blurring the few lights there
are.

Dressed predominantly in black, people are everywhere,
gathered in cliques around pieces of furniture like
jungle cats around a tree.

Neo stands against a wall, alone, sipping from a bottle
of beer, feeling completely out of place, he is about to
leave when he notices a woman staring at him.

The woman is Trinity.  She walks straight up to him.

In the nearest room, shadow-like figures grind against
each other to the pneumatic beat of INDUSTRIAL MUSIC.

     TRINITY
   Hello, Neo.

     NEO
   How did you know that --

     TRINITY
   I know a lot about you.  I've been
  wanting to meet you for some time.

     NEO
   Who are you?

     TRINITY
   My name is Trinity.

     NEO
   Trinity?  The Trinity?  The
  Trinity that cracked the I.R.S.
  Kansas City D-Base?

     TRINITY
   That was a long time ago.

     NEO
   Gee-zus.

     TRINITY
   What?

     NEO
   I just thought... you were a guy.

     TRINITY
   Most guys do.

Neo is a little embarrassed.

     NEO
   Do you want to go sorewhere and
  talk?

     TRINITY
   No.  It's safe here and I don't
  have much time.

The MUSIC is so loud they must stand very close, talking
directly into each other's ear.

     NEO
   That was you on the board tonight.
  That was your note, wasn't it?

     TRINITY
   I had to gamble that you would see
  and they wouldn't.

     NEO
   Who wouldn't?

     TRINITY
   I can't explain everything to you.
  I'm sure that it's all going to
  seem very strange, but I brought
  you here to warn you, Neo.  You
  are in a lot of danger.

     NEO
   What?  Why?

     TRINITY
   They're watching you.  Something
  happened and they found out about
  you.  Normally, if our target is
  exposed we let it go.  But this
  time, we can't do that.

     NEO
   I don't understand --

     TRINITY
   You came here because you wanted
  to know the answer to a hacker's
  question.

     NEO
   The Matrix.  What is the Matrix?

     TRINITY
   Twelve years ago I met a man, a
  great man, who said that no one
  could be told the answer to that
  question.  That they had to see
  it, to believe it.

Her body is against his; her lips very close to his ear.

     TRINITY
   He told me that no one should look
  for the answer unless they have to
  because once you see it,
  everything changes.  Your life and
  the world you live in will never
  be the same.  It's as if you wake
  up one morning and the sky is
  falling.

There is a hypnotic quality to her voice and Neo feels
the words like a drug, seeping into him.

     TRINITY
   The truth is out there, Neo.  It's
  looking for you and it will find
  you, if you want it to.

She takes hold of him with her eyes.

     TRINITY
   That's all I can tell you right
  now.  Good-bye, Neo.  And good
  luck.

     NEO
   Wait.  Who was it?  Who was the
  man?

She leans close, her lips alrost touching his ear as she
whispers.

     TRINITY
   You know who.

She turns and he watches her melt into the shifting wall
of bodies.

A SOUND RISES steadily, growing out of the music,
pressing in on Neo until it is all he can hear as we --

       CUT TO:


 INT.  NEO'S APARTMENT

The sound is an ALARM CLOCK, slowly dragging Neo to
consciousness.  He strains to read the clock face:
 9:15 A.M.

     NEO
   Shitshitshit.


 EXT.  SKYSCRAPER

The downtown office of CorTechs, a software development
company.


 INT.  CORTECHS OFFICE

The main offices are along each wall, the windows
overlooking downtown Chicago.

RHINEHEART, the ultimate company man, lectures Neo
without looking at him, typing at his computer
continuously.

Neo stares at two window cleaners on a scaffolding
outside, dragging their rubber squeegees down across the
surface of the glass.

     RHINEHEART
   You have a problem, Mr. Anderson.
  You think that you're special.
  You believe that somehow the rules
  do not apply to you.

He stops, glancing over his glasses at Neo, who turns in
time.

     RHINEHEART
   Obviously, you are mistaken.

His long, bony fingers resume clicking the keyboard.

     RHINEHEART
   This company is one of the top
  software companies in the world
  because every single employee
  understands that they are a part
  of a whole.  Thus, if an employee
  has a problem, the company has a
  problem.

He turns again.

     RHINEHEART
   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 yourself another job.  Do
  I make myself clear?

     NEO
   Yes, Mr. Rhineheart.  Perfectly
  clear.

 INT.  NEO'S CUBICLE

The entire floor looks like a human honeycomb, with a
labyrinth of cubicles structured around a core of
elevators.

Neo slumps down into his chair.  A TALL EMPLOYEE stands
up in the adjacent cubicle, leaning over the partition.

     TALL EMPLOYEE
   What did he say?

     NEO
   If I was late again, I'm going to
  be fired.

He smirks.

     TALL EMPLOYEE
   Well, it was nice working with
  you.

Neo glares at him, as he sinks down.

     VOICE (O.S.)
   Thomas Anderson?

Neo turns and finds a FEDERAL EXPRESS MAN at his cubicle
door.

     NEO
   Yeah.  That's me.

Neo signs the electronic pad and the Fedex guy hands him
the softpak.

     FEDEX
   Have a nice day.

He opens the bag.  Inside is a CELLULAR PHONE.  It seems
the instant it is in his hand, it RINGS.  Unnerved, he
flips it open.

     NEO
   Hello?

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   Hello, Neo.  This is Morpheus.

Neo's knees give and he falls into his chair.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   I had hoped for this conversation
  to take place under less adverse
  conditions, but you can never
  count on hope, can you, Neo?

     NEO
   ... no.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   I've been watching you, Neo, and I
  want to meet you.  I don't know if
  you're ready to see what I want to
  show you, but unfortunately, we
  have run out of time.  They're
  coming for you, Neo.  And I'm not
  sure what they're going to do.

     NEO
   Who's coming for me?

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   Stand up and see for yourself.

     NEO
   Right now?

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   Yes.  Now.

Neo starts to stand.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   Do it slowly.  Slowly.  The elevator.

His head slowly peeks up over the partition.

At the elevator, he sees Agent Brown and Agent Jones
leading a group of cops.  A female employee turns and
points out Neo's cubicle.

Neo ducks.

     NEO
   Holy fuckin' shit!

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   Yes.

One cop stays at the elevator, the others follow the
agents.

     NEO
   What the fuck do they want with
  me?!

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   I'm not sure.  But, if you don't
  want to find out, you better get
  out of there.

     NEO
   How?!

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   I can guide you out, but you have
  to do exactly what I say.

The agents are moving quickly towards the cubicle.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   The cubicle across from you is
  empty.

     NEO
   But what if...?

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   Go!  Now!

Neo lunges across the hall, diving into the other cubicle
just as the agents turn into his row.

Neo crams himself into a dark corner, clutching the phone
tightly to him.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   Stay here for a moment.

The agents enter Neo's empty cubicle.  A cop is sent to
search the bathroom.

Morpheus' voice is a whisper in Neo's ear.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   A little longer...

Brown is talking to the tall employee.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   When I tell you, go to the end of
  the row to the first office on the
  left, stay.as low as you can.

Sweat trickles down his forehead.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   Now.

Neo rolls out of the cubicle, his eyes popping as he
freezes right behind a cop who has just turned around.

Staying crouched, he sneaks away, down the row, SHOOTING
across the opening to the first office on the left.

The room is empty.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   Good.  Now there is a window.
  Open it.

     NEO
   How do you know all this?

Morpheus laughs quietly.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   The answer is coming, Neo.

He opens the window.  The window howls into the room.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   Outside, there's a scaffold.  You
  can use it to get to the roof.

Leaning out the window, he sees that the scaffold is
several offices away.

     NEO
   No! It's too far away.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   There's a small ledge.  It's a
  short climb.  You can make it.

Neo looks down; the building's glass wall vertigos into a
concrete chasm.

     NEO
   No way, no way, this is crazy.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   Don't be controlled by your fear,
  Neo.  There are only 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.

CLICK.  He hangs up.  Neo looks at the door, then back at
the scaffold.

     NEO
   This is insane!  Why is this
  happening to me?  What did I do?
  I'm nobody.  I didn't do anything.
  Fuck! Fuck!  Fuck!

He climbs up onto the window ledge.  Hanging onto the
frame, he steps onto the small ledge.

The scaffold seems even farther away.

     NEO
   I'm going to die.

The WIND suddenly BLASTS up the face of the building,
knocking Neo off balance.  Recoiling, he clings harder to
the frame, and the phone falls out of his hand.

He watches as it is swallowed by the distance beneath him.

     NEO
   This is insane.  I can't do this!
  Forget it!

He climbs back into the office just as a cop opens the
door.

     NEO
   I didn't do anything!


 EXT.  SKYSCRAPER

The agents lead a handcuffed Neo out of the revolving
doors, forcing his head down as they push him into the
dark sedan.

Trinity watches in the rear view mirror of her
motorcycle.

     TRINITY
   Shit.

 INT.  INTERROGATION ROOM - CLOSE ON CAMERA MONITOR

A wide angle view of a white roon, where Neo is sitting at
a table alone.

We MOVE INTO the monitor, ENTERING the room as if the
monitor were a window.

At the same moment, the door opens and the agents enter.

Smith sits down across from Neo.  A thick manila envelope
slaps down on the table between them.

Neo glances at the name on the file: "Anderson, Thomas
 A."

     AGENT SMITH
   As you can see, we've had our eye
  on you for some time now, Mr.
  Anderson.

He opens the file.  Paper rattle marks the silence as he
flips several pages.  Neo cannot tell if he is looking at
the file or at him.

     AGENT SMITH
   It seems that you have been living
  two lives.  In one life, you are
  Thomas A. Anderson, program writer
  for a respectable software
  company.  You have a social
  security number, you pay your
  taxes and you help your land lady
  carry out her garbage.

The pages continue to turn.

     AGENT SMITH
   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, including the
  unauthorized use of the D.M.V.
  system for the removal of
  automobile boots.

Neo feels himself sinking into a pit of shit.

     AGENT SMITH
   One of these,lives has a future.
  One of them does not.

He closes the file.

     AGENT SMITH
   I'm going to be as forthcoming as
  I can be, Mr. Anderson.  You are
  here because we need your help.

He removes his sunglasses; his eyes are an unnatural ice-
blue.

     AGENT SMITH
   We know that you have been
  contacted by a certain individual.
  A man who calls himself Morpheus.
  Whatever you think you know about
  this man is irrelevant to the fact
  that he is wanted for acts of
  terrorism in more countries than
  any other man in the world.  He is
  considered by many authorities to
  be the most dangerous man alive.

He leans closer.

     AGENT SMITH
   My colleagues believe that I am
  wasting my time with you, but I
  believe you want to do the right
  thing.  It is obvious that you are
  an intelligent man, Mr. Anderson,
  and that you are interested in the
  future.  That is why I believe you
  are ready to put your past
  mistakes behind you and get on
  with your life.

Neo tries to match his stare.

     AGENT SMITH
   We are willing to wipe the slate
  clean, to give you a fresh start
  and all we are asking in return is
  your cooperation in bringing a
  known terrorist to justice.

Neo nods to himself.

     NEO
   Yeah.  Wow.  That sounds like a
  real good deal.  But I think I
  have a better one.  How about I
  give you the finger --

He does.

     NEO
   And you can cram that file up your
  Secret Service sphincter.

Agent Smith puts his glasses back on.

     AGENT SMITH
   You disappoint me, Mr. Anderson.

     NEO
   You ain't seen nothing yet.

     AGENT SMITH
   The irony of your situation is
  that you have no choice.

     NEO
   You can't scare me with this
  gestapo crap.  I know my rights.
  I want my phone call.

Agent Smith smiles.

     AGENT SMITH
   And tell me, Mr. Anderson, what
  good is a phone call iy you are
  unable to speak?

The question unnerves Neo and strangely, he begins to
feel the muscles in his jaw tighten.

The standing agents snicker, watching Neo's confusion
grow into panic.

Neo feels his lips grow soft and sticky as they slowly
seal shut, melding into each other until all trace of his
mouth is gone.

Wild with fear, he lunges for the door but the agents
restrain him holding him in the chair.

     AGENT SMITH
   You are going to help us, Mr.
  Anderson, whether you want to or
  not.

Smith nods and the other two rip open his shirt.

From a case taken out of his suit coat, Smith removes a
long, fiber-optic wire tap.

Neo struggles helplessly as Smith dangles the wire over
his exposed abdomen.  Horrified, he watches as the
electronic device animates, become an organic creature
that resembles a hybrid of an insect and a fluke worm.

Thin, whisker-like tendrils reach out and probe into
Neo's navel.  He bucks wildly as Smith drops the creature
which looks for a moment like an uncut umbilical cord --

Before it begins to burrow its, tail thrashing as it
worms its way inside.


 INT.  NEO'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

Screaming, Neo bolts upright in bed.

He realizes that he is home.  Was it a dream?  His mouth
is normal.  His stomach looks fine.  He starts to take a
deep, everything-is-okay breath, when --

The PHONE RINGS.

It almost stops his heart.  It CONTINUES RINGING,
building pressure in the room, forcing him up out of bed,
sucking him in with an almost gravitational force.

He answers it, saying nothing.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.).
   This line is tapped, so I must be
  brief.

     NEO
   The agents --

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   They got to you first, but they've
  underestimated how important you
  are.  If they knew what I know,
  you would probably be dead.

Neo feels sick.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   I don't know what you are thinking
  right now but I want you to
  understand that I will not give up
  on you until you give up on me.

Neo's throat cracks, dry as the Sahara.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   Do you still want to meet?

     NEO
   ... Yes.

     MORPHEUS (V.O.)
   Take the Howard line south.

CLICK.  He closes his eyes, unsure of what he has done.


 EXT.  EL TRAIN

An EL TRAIN RAGES against its metal rails.


 INT.  TRAIN

It is three a.m., and the train carries the usual urban
night crawlers.  Neo sits alone, eyes shifting, watching
everything nervously.

There is a METAL BANG and TRAIN CLATTER fills the car as
the door is opened.

Neo turns and sees a large man enter.  He is wearing
sunglasses and a black leather jacket.  His name is APOC
and he walks straight at Neo.

     APOC
   Come with me.

Neo stands just as the door at the opposite end opens and
two police officers rush in, drawing their guns.

Apoc grabs Neo, muscling him to the nearest exit.  There
is no upcoming station.

Apoc yanks the emergency brake and the train buckles
against its own speed.  The cops are thrown back.  Neo
slams against the metal rail.

The doors open onto nothing and just when Neo regains his
balance, Apoc shoves him backwards --

He flies out from the train, arms windrilling as he falls
from, the raised tracks --

Hurtling towards a busy city street when, out of nowhere,
a truck races under him and --

He crashes into a large dumpster-bed filled with empty
boxes.


 INT.  TRUCK BED

Still shaking his head, Neo realizes he is not alone.  A
man named Cabie is aiming a big gun at him.  Trinity is
next to him, talking into a cellular phone.

     TRINITY
   We got him.  Call the chop-shop.

She hangs up.

     TRINITY
   Listen to me, Neo.  You have to,
  trust us.

She tears off a long strip of black duct-tape and reaches
for his face.

     NEO
   What are you doing?

     TRINITY
   This has to be done for your
  protection and ours.

She seals his eyes shut with the tape.

     TRINITY
   You can't understand right now,
  but if you're not one of us,
  you're one of them.


 EXT.  LOWER WACKER

A featureless black van glides up to a staircase that
curls down from the city's surface.

trinity guides the blind Neo down the steps.  The back of
the van slaps open, revealing a young, skinny man who
looks to be still in his teens, wearing an outfit that is
a cross between a surgeon and a telephone repair man.

His name is GIZMO and he smiles lewdly at Trinity,
exposing his teeth that are wired with weird-looking
braces.

     GIZMO
   Va va va voom.  Still the hottest
  software around.

     TRINITY
   Hello, Gizmo.

Neo hears the voices around him.

     GIZMO
   This is really the guy?  The guy
  that Morpheus thinks --

     TRINITY
   Yeah.

     GIZMO
   But he's so old.

     TRINITY
   Are you going to help us or aren't
  you?

     GIZMO
   Hacksaw.  Load up the copper-top
  and let's get the hell outta here.

Hacksaw is a huge man in a leather welder's apron.  He
shoulders Neo and hauls him into the van.

A moment later the green lights of Lower Wacker curve
over the tinted windshield as the van rushes through the
underworld.


 INT.  VAN

The chop-shop is filled with electronic gadgets, wired to
meters and monitors.  There are shelves lined with
medical supplies and rows of hanging tools, knives,
cleavers, and stainless steel clamps.

Neo is strapped down to an ambulance cart, listening
nervously as Gizmo gets to work.

     GIZMO
   Okay, first we take a little look
  under the hood.

He pulls up the goggles hanging at his neck and they
blink to life with tiny halogen lights and lenses irising
to varying levels of magnification.

     GIZMO
   You're going to feel a little
  prick.

He inserts acupuncture-like needles into Neo's lower
abdomen.  The needles are wired to video monitors.
Hacksaw pilots the fiber-optic lens.

     NEO
   What are you doing?

     TRINITY
   We think you're bugged.  We can't
  take you to Morpheus until you're
  clean.

     GIZMO
   There it is.

On a monitor, we see the bug nestled in among Neols large
intestines.

     GIZMO
   Hit him with 10 ccs of local.

Hacksaw loads a hypodermic needle and pumps an anesthetic
around Neols navel.

Using a device that looks like a miniature speculum,
Gizmo inserts a knuckled dental pick.  Typing into a
calculator keypad wired to the pick, he automates the
tip.

On the monitor, we watch it telescope out and the end
separate into a tiny hooked, metal claw.

     GIZMO
   Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.

The claw snags hold of the bug.

     GIZMO
   Gotcha!

But the bug reacts violently.  Neo screams as it wraps
itself around the soft tissue web of intestine.

     GIZMO
   Shit.

     TRINITY
   What's happening?

     GIZMO
   I don't know.  They've never done
  that before.

Neo writhes in pain.

     GIZMO
   Hold him down.

     NEO
   Jesus!  God!

     TRINITY
   Do something!

     GIZMO
   I got it!  Maybe we can stun it.

     TRINITY
   Are you crazy?  That will kill
  him.

We watch Neo, who can't see what they are talking about.

     GIZMO
   It'll work.  Come on, do it or
  Hacksaw will.

     NEO
   Do what?

The instant he hears the word, he knows.

     TRINITY
   Clear.

     NEO
   Oh, shit --

The cry is frozen in his mouth as the paddles hit his
chest.  Gizmo wrestles with the bug.

     GIZMO
   Hit him again!

Again, the electricity convulses through him as Gizmo
yanks the speculum out.

     GIZMO
   Got it!

Trinity touches Neo, who is just beginning to breathe.
She eases the tape off his eyes.

     TRINITY
   Neo, are you okay?

He nods.

     TRINITY
   It's over.  We got it.

Hanging from the claw pick is the inanimate metal wire-
tap.

     GIZMO
   Nasty little bugger, ain't it?


 INT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE

The van stops in a deserted alley behind a forgotten
hotel.  The doors open and Trinity helps Neo get out.

     TRINITY
   Thanks for your help, Gizmo.

     GIZMO
   I just hope the man knows what
  he's doing.

She nods then climbs out of the van.  Gizmo ogles the
tight leather pants.

     GIZMO
   Goddamn, what I wouldn't give for
  a copy of that software.

Trinity turns around.

     TRINITY
   Gizmo, you don't have the hardware
  to handle this software.

He howls with adolescent laughter as the van pulls away.
Trinity turns to Neo.

     TRINITY
   Let's go.  He's waiting.


 INT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE

It is a place of putrefying elegance, a rotting host of
urban maggotry.

Trinity leads Neo from the stairwell down the hall of the
thirteenth floor.  They stop outside room 1313.

     TRINITY
   This is it.

Neo can hear his own heart pounding.

     TRINITY
   Let me give one piece of advice.
  Be honest.  He knows more than you
  can possibly imagine.


 INT.  ROOM 1313

Across the room, a dark figure stares out the tall
windows veiled with decaying lace.  He turns and his
smile lights up the room.

     MORPHEUS
   At last.

He wears a long black coat and his eyes are invisible
behind circular mirrored glasses.

He strides to Neo and they shake hands.

     MORPHEUS
   Welcome, Neo.  As you no doubt
  have guessed, I am Morpheus.

     NEO
   It's an honor.

     MORPHEUS
   Please.  Come.  Sit.

He nods to Trinity.

     MORPHEUS
   Thank you, Trinity.

She bows her head sharply and exits through a door to an
adjacent room.

They sit across from one another in cracked, burgundy-
leather chairs.

     MORPHEUS
   I imagine, right now, you must be
  feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling
  down the rabbit hole?

     NEO
   You could say that.

     MORPHEUS
   I can see it in your eyes.  You
  have the look of a man who accepts
  what he sees because he is
  expecting to wake up.

A smile, razor-thin, curls the corner of his lips.

     MORPHEUS
   Ironically, this is not far from
  the truth.  But I'm getting ahead
  of myself.  Can you tell me, Neo,
  why are you here?

     NEO
   You're Morpheus, you're a legend.
  Most hackers would die to meet
  you.

     MORPHEUS
   Yes.  Thank you.  But I think we
  both know there's more to it than
  that.  Do you believe in fate, Neo?

     NEO
   No.

     MORPHEUS
   Why not?

     NEO
   Because I don't like the idea that
  I'm not in control of my life.

     MORPHEUS
   I know exactly what you mean.

Again, that smile that could cut glass.

     MORPHEUS
   Let me tell you why you are here.
  You are here because you have the
  gift.

     NEO
   What gift?

     MORPHEUS
   I've watched you, Neo.  You do not
  use a computer like a tool.  You
  use it like it was part of
  yourself.  What you can do inside
  a computer is not normal.  I know.
  I've seen it.  What you do is
  magic.

Neo shrugs.

     NEO
   It's not magic.

     MORPHEUS
   But it is, Neo.  It is.  How else
  would you describe what has been
  happening to you?

He leans forward.

     MORPHEUS
   We are trained in this world to
  accept only what is rational and
  logical.  Have you ever wondered
  why?

Neo shakes his head.

     MORPHEUS
   As children, we do not separate
  the possible from the impossible
  which is why the younger a mind is
  the easier it is to free while a
  mind like yours can be very
  difficult.

     NEO
   Free from what?

     MORPHEUS
   From the Matrix.

Neo locks at his eyes but only sees a reflection of
himself.

     MORPHEUS
   Do you want to know what it is,
  Neo?

Neo swallows and nods his head.

     MORPHEUS
   It's that feeling you have had all
  your life.  That feeling that
  something was wrong with the
  world.  You don't know what it is
  but it's there, like a splinter in
  your mind, driving you mad,
  driving you to me.  But what is
  it?

The LEATHER CREAKS as he leans back.

     MORPHEUS
   The Matrix is everywhere, it's all
  around us, here even in this room.
  You can see it out your window, or
  on your television.  You feel it
  when you go to work, or go to
  church or pay your taxes.  It is
  the world that has been pulled
  over your eyes to blind you from
  the truth.

     NEO
   What truth?

     MORPHEUS
   That you are a slave, Neo.  That
  you, like everyone else, was born
  into bondage...
  ... kept inside a prison that you
  cannot smell, taste, or touch.  A
  prison for your mind.

Outside, the WIND BATTERS a loose PANE of glass.

     MORPHEUS
   Unfortunately, no one can be told
  what the Matrix is.  You have to
  see it for yourself.

     NEO
   How?

     MORPHEUS
   Hold out your hands.

In Neo's right hand, Morpheus drops a red pill.

     MORPHEUS
   This is your last chance.  After
  this, there is no going back.

In his left, a blue pill.

     MORPHEUS
   You take the blue pill and the
  story ends.  You wake in your bed
  and you believe whatever you want
  to believe.

The pills in his open hands are reflected in the glasses.

     MORPHEUS
   You take the red pill and you stay
  in Wonderland and I show you how
  deep the rabbit-hole goes.

Neo feels the smooth skin of the capsules, with the
moisture growing in his palms.

     MORPHEUS
   Remember that all I am offering is
  the truth.  Nothing more.

Neo opens his mouth and swallows the red pill.  The
Cheshire smile returns.

     MORPHEUS
   Follow me.

He leads Neo into the other room, which is cramped with
high-tech equipment, glowing ash-bliie and electric green
from the racks of monitors.

Trinity, Apoc and Cypher look up as they enter.

     CYPHER
   Shit.

     TRINITY
   I knew he would.

Cypher saddles up to Morpheus, talking in a hushed tone
away from, Neo.

     CYPHER
   Morpheus, I know what you believe
  but I think this is a mistake.
  We're rushing him.  He's old.  I'm
  afraid he might pop.

     MORPHEUS
   Haven't I always told you, Cypher,
  not to let fear control your life.
  Apoc, are we on-line?

Neo recognizes the large man from the El train.

     APOC
   Almost.

He and Trinity are working quickly, hardwiring a complex
system of monitors, modules and drives.

     NEO
   Apoc?  You wrote the Four Horsemen
  Virus.

     APOC
   That's right.

     MORPHEUS
   Neo, time is always against us.
  Will you take a seat there?

In the center of the room sits a chair.  Near the chair
is an old oval dressing mirror that is cracked.

     MORPHEUS
   I imagine you know sonething about
  virtual reality.

Neo sits and Trinity begins gently fixing white electrode
disks to his head, arns, and the back of his neck.

     NEO
   A little.

     MORPHEUS
   Tell me about it.

     NEO
   Essentially, it's a hardware
  system that uses an apparatus;
  headgear, gloves and whatever to
  make you feel that you are in a
  computer program.

     MORPHEUS
   If the virtual reality apparatus,
  as you called it, was wired to all
  of your senses and controlled them
  completely, would you be able to
  tell the difference between the
  virtual world and the real world?

     NEO
   You might not, no.

     MORPHEUS
   No, you wouldn't.

Neo whispers to Trinity.

     NEO
   You did all this?

She nods, placing a set of headphones over his ears.
They are wired to an old hotel phone.

     MORPHEUS
   The pill you took is part of a
  trace program.  It's going to make
  things feel a bit strange.

Distantly, through the ear phones, he hears Apoc POUNDING
on a KEYBOARD.  Sweat beads his face.  His eyes blink and
twitch when he notices the mirror.

Wide-eyed he stares as it begins to heal itself, a
webwork of cracks that slowly run together as though the
mirror were becoming liquid.

     NEO
   Shit...

Cypher works with Apoc checking reams of phosphorescent
data.  Trinity monitors Neo's electric vital signs.

Neo reaches out to touch the mirror and his fingers
disappear beneath the rippling surface.

Quickly, he tries to pull his fingers out but the mirror
stretches in long rubbery strands like mirrored-taffy
stuck to his fingertips.

     NEO
   What is this?  Mescaline?

     MORPHEUS
   Just relax, Neo.

The strands thin like rubber cement as he pulls away,
until the fragile wisps of mirror thread break.

With the TINKLING of GLASS, shimmering snowflakes
of electric-blinking mercury fall, hit the ground, and
fade.

He looks at his hand; fingers distended into mirrored
icicles that begin to melt rapidly, dripping, running
like wax down his fingers, spreading across his palms
where he sees his face reflected.

     NEO
   Uh-oh...

     TRINITY
   It's going into replication.

     MORPHEUS
   Apoc?

     APOC
   Still nothing.

Morpheus takes out a cellular phone and dials a number.

     MORPHEUS
   Tank, we're going to need the
  signal soon.  Stay calm, Neo.

The mirror gel seems to come to life, racing, crawling up
his arns like hundreds of insects.

     NEO
   It's cold.

The mirror creeps up his neck as Neo begins to panic,
tipping his head as though he were sinking into the
mirror, trying to keep his mouth up.

     NEO
   It's all over me --

Morpheus is right next to him, with the phone.

     TRINITY
   I got a fibrillation!

     CYPHER
   I knew it, I knew it...

     MORPHEUS
   Shit!  Apoc?

Streams of mercury run from Neo's nose.

     APOC
   Targeting... almost there.

An ALARM, on Trinity's monitor ERUPTS.

     TRINITY
   He's going into arrest!

     CYPHER
   He's gonna pop!

     APOC
   Lock!  I got him!

     MORPHEUS
   Now, Tank now!

His eyes tear with mirror, rolling up and closing as a
high-pitched ELECTRIC SCREAM ERUPTS in the headphones --

It is a piercing SHRIEK like a computer calling to
another computer --

Neo's body arches in agony and we are pulled like we were
pulled into the holes of the phone

Sucked into his SCREAM and swallowed by darkness.


 INT.  POWER PLANT - CLOSE ON MAN'S BODY

Floating in a womb-red amnion.

His body spasms, fighting against the thick gelatin.

Metal tubes, surreal versions of hospital tubes, obscure
his face.  Other lines like IVs are connected to limbs
and cover his genitals.

He is struggling desperately now.  Air bubbles into the
Jell-O but does not break the surface.

Pressing up, the surface distends, stretching like a red
rubber coccon.

Unable to breathe, he fights wildly to stand, clawing at
the thinning elastic shroud --

Until it ruptures, a hole widening around his mouth as he
sucks for air.  Tearing himself free, he emerges from the
cell.

It is Neo.

He is bald and naked, his body slick with gelatin.
Dizzy, nauseous, he waits for his vision to focus.

He is standing in an oval capsule of clear alloy filled
with red gelatin, the surface of which has solidified
like curdled milk.

The IVs in his arms are plugged into outlets that appear
to be grafted to his flesh.

He feels the weight of another cable and reaches to the
back of his head where he finds an enormous coaxial
plugged and locked into the base of his skull.

He tries to pull it out but it would be easier to pull
off a finger.

To either side he sees other tube-shaped pods filled with
red gelatin; beneath the wax-like surface, pale and
motionless, he sees other human beings.

Fanning out in a circle, there are more.  All connected
to a center core, each capsule like a red, dimly glowing
petal attached to a black metal stem.

Above him, level after, level, the stem rises seemingly
forever.  He moves to the foot of the capsule and looks
out.

The image assaults his mind.

Towers of glowing petals spiral up to incomprehensible
heights, disappearing down into a dim murk like an
underwater abyss.

His sight is blurred and warped, exaggerating the
intensity of the vision.  The sound of the PLANT is like
the sound of the ocean heard from inside the belly of
Leviathan.

Below Neo, a petal detaches from the stem, bearing away
the body of an old man like an automated barge even as a
new pod rises up and plugs itself into the empty space.

Inside the new capsule, its surface more translucent and
pinkish in color, Neo sees a small baby.

From above, a machine drops directly in front of Neo.

He swallows his scream as it seems to stare at him.

It is almost insect-like in its design; beautiful
housings of alloyed metal covering organic-like systems
of hard and soft polymers.

A black particle beam washes over Neo, he reacts in pain
as the scanner seems to expose the nervous system wired
to the coaxial cable at his cerebral cortex.

At the back of the neck, the cable lock spins and opens,
disengaging.

The cable pulls itself free, a long clear plastic needle
and cerebrum-chip slides from the anterior of Neols skull
with an ooze of blood and spinal fluid.  The other
connective hoses snap free and snake away as --

The back of the unit opens and a tremendous vacuum, like
an airplane door opening, sucks the gelatin and then Neo
into a black hole.


 INT.  WASTE LINE

The pipe is a waste disposal system and Neo falls,
sliding with the clot of gelatin.

Banking through pipe spirals and elbows, flushing up
through grease traps clogged with cily clunps of
cellulite.

Neo begins to drown when he is suddenly snatched from the
flow of waste.

The metallic cable then lifts, pulling him up into the
belly of the futuristic flying nachine, hovering inside
the sewer main line.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

The metal harness opens and drops the half-conscious Neo
onto the floor.

Human hands and arms help him up as he finds himself
looking straight at Morpheus.

Trinity and Apoc.  And others, dressed in bizarre, high-
tech combat gear.

Morpheus smiles.

     MORPHEUS
   Welcome to the real world, Neo.

Neo passes out.

         FADE TO BLACK.

We have no sense of time.  We hear VOICES whispering.

     MAN (O.S.)
   Do you think Morpheus is right?
  Do you think he could be the One?

     WOMAN (O.S.)
   It doesn't matter now.  But if
  he's wrong...

 FADE IN:

 NEO'S POV

Neo's eyes flutter open.  We see Trinity's face above us,
angelic in the fluorescent glow of a light stick.


 ANGLE ON NEO

     NEO
   ... am I dead?

     TRINITY
   Far from it.

         FADE TO BLACK.


 FADE IN:


 ANGLE ON NEO

He opens his eyes again, something tingling through him.
He focuses and sees his body pierced with dozens of
acupuncture-like needles wired to a strange device.

     DOZER
   He needs a lot of work.

     MORPHEUS
   I know.

Dozer and Morpheus are operating on Neo.

     NEO
   What are you doing?

     MORPHEUS
   Your muscles have atrophied.
  We're rebuilding them.

Fluorescent light sticks burn unnaturally bright.

     NEO
   Why do my eyes hurt?

     MORPHEUS
   You've never used them before.

Morpheus takes his sunglasses off and puts them on Neo.
Neo lays back.

     MORPHEUS
   Rest, Neo.  The answers are
  coming.


 INT.  NEO'S ROOM

Neo wakes up from a deep sleep, feeling better.  He is
wearing a black tank top and shorts.

He begins to examine himself.  There is a futuristic IV
plugged into the jack in his forearm.  He pulls it out,
staring at the grafted outlet.

He feels his bald head.  His fingers find and explore the
large outlet in the base of his skull.

Just as he starts to come unglued, Morpheus opens the
door.

     NEO
   Morpheus, what's happened to me?
  What is this place?

     MORPHEUS
   More important than what is when?

     NEO
   When?

     MORPHEUS
   You believe the year is 1997 when
  in fact it is much closer to 2197.
  I can't say for certain what year
  it is because we honestly do not
  know.

The wind is knocked from Neo's chest.

     NEO
   That's not possible.

     MORPHEUS
   I promised you the truth, Neo, and
  the truth is that the world you
  were living in was a lie.

     NEO
   How?

     MORPHEUS
   I'll show you.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

Like a sleepwalker, Neo follows Morpheus through the ship.

     MORPHEUS
   This is my ship, the
  Nebuchadnezzar.  It's a
  hovercraft.  Small like a
  submarine.  It's dark.  It's
  cramped and cold.  But it's home.

They climb a ladder up to the main deck.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Everyone is there.

     MORPHEUS
   This is the main deck.  You know
  most of my crew.

Trinity smiles and nods.

     MORPHEUS
   The ones you don't know.  That's
  Mouse and Switch.  The two big
  guys are Tank and Dozer.

The names and faces wash meaninglessly over Neo.

     MORPHEUS
   And this, this is the Core.  This
  is where we broadcast our pirate
  signal and hack into the Matrix.

It is a swamp of bizarre electronic equipment.  Vines of
coaxial hang and snake to and from huge monolithic
battery slabs, a black portable satellite dish and banks
of little systems and computer monitors.

At the center of the web, there are six ectoskeleton
chairs made of a poly-alloy frame and suspension harness.

Near the circle of chairs is the control console and
operator's station where the network is monitored.

     MORPHEUS
   Help him, Trinity.

Neo allows himself to be helped into one of the chairs.

     MORPHEUS
   Do you remember when I asked you
  about an apparatus that could turn
  a virtual reality into reality?

Neo nods.

     MORPHEUS
   It's right here.

He touches Neo's head.

     MORPHEUS
   And it's accessed here.

Neo feels Morpheus guiding a coaxial line into the jack
at the back of his neck.  The cable has the same kind of
cerebellum chip we saw inside the plant.

     MORPHEUS
   This will feel a little weird.

There are several disturbing NOISES as he works the
needle in.

We MOVE IN as Neo's shoulders bunch and his face tightens
into a grimace until a loud CLICK fires and his ears pop
like when you equalize them underwater.

He relaxes, opening his eyes as we pull back to a feeling
of weightlessness inside another place --


 INT.  CONSTRUCT

Neo is standing in an empty, blank-white space.

     MORPHEUS
   This is the Construct.

Startled, Neo whips around and finds Morpheus now in the
room with him.

     MORPHEUS
   It is our loading program.  We can
  load anything from clothes, to
  weapons, to training simulations.
  Anything we need.

Morpheus walks past Neo and when Neo turns he sees the
two leather chairs from the hotel set up in front of a
large-screen television.

     MORPHEUS
   Sit down.

Neo stands at the back of the chair as Morpheus sits.

     NEO
   Right now, we're inside a computer
  program?

     MORPHEUS
   Wild, isn't it?

Neo's hands run over the cracked leather.

     NEO
   This isn't real?

     MORPHEUS
   What is real?  How do you define
  real?  If you're talking about
  your senses, what you feel, taste,
  smell, or see, then all you're
  talking about are electrical
  signals interpreted by your brain.

He picks up a remote control and clicks ON the
TELEVISION.  We drift through the Windy City circa 1996.

     MORPHEUS
   This is the Chicago you know.
  Chicago as it was at the end of
  the twentieth century.  This
  Chicago exists only as part of a
  neural-interactive simulation that
  we call the Matrix.

We GLIDE AT the television as he changes the channel.

     MORPHEUS
   You have been living inside
  Baulliaurd's vision, inside the
  map, not the territory.  This is
  Chicago as it exists today.

The sky is an endless sea of black and green bile.  The
earth, scorched and split like burnt flesh, spreads out
beneath us as we ENTER the television.

     MORPHEUS
   'The desert of the real.'

In the distance, we see the ruins of a future Chicago
protruding from the wasteland like the blackened ribs of
a long-dead corpse.

     MORPHEUS
   We are, right now, miles below the
  earth's surface.  The only place
  humans can survive outside the
  Matrix is underground.

Still MOVING, we TURN and find Neo and Morpheus; the
chairs now sitting in the middle of the black desert.
Dizzy, Neo holds onto the chair.

     NEO
   What happened?

     MORPHEUS
   It started early in the twenty-
  first century, with the birth of
  artificial intelligence, a
  singular consciousness that
  spawned an entire race of
  machines.

In his sunglasses, we see storm clouds gather.

     MORPHEUS
   At first all they wanted was to be
  treated as equals, entitled to the
  same human inalienable rights.
  Whatever they were given, it was
  not enough.

In the circular window of the glasses, EXPLOSIONS light
up a bloody battle field.

     MORPHEUS
   We don't know who struck first.
  Us or them.  But sometime at the
  end of the twenty-first century
  the battle was joined.

We MOVE INTO his glasses and the war surrounds us.

     MORPHEUS
   The war raged for generations and
  turned the face of our planet from
  green and blue to black and red.

At last we see the Sentinels; killing machines that are
at once terrifying and beautiful.  They have an organic
architecture like a microbiotic organism, that is
perpetually in motion.

The Sentinel cracks the body armor of a soldier,
splitting open the soft, stearing meat inside.

     MORPHEUS
   It scorched and burned the sky.
  Without the sun, the machines
  sought out a new energy source to
  survive.

The Sentinel locks up, as heat lightning of black ink
bursts against the sky, spreading into a permanent cloud
of stain.

     MORPHEUS
   They discovered a new form of
  fusion.  All that was required to
  initiate the reaction was a small
  electric charge.  Throughout human
  history we have been dependent on
  machines to survive.  Fate, it
  seems, is not without a sense of
  irony.

We return to the power plant that Neo escaped from where
we see human beings looking almost blissful in their
gelatin cocoons.

     MORPHEUS
   The human body generates more bio-
  electricity than a 120-volt
  battery and over 25,000 B.T.U.'s
  of body heat.

Outside, spreading all around the power plant, beneath a
breathing greenhouse, are the growing fields.

     MORPHEUS
   We are, as an energy source,
  easily renewable and completely
  recyclable, the dead liquified and
  fed intravenously to the living.

Huge farm-like reapers are harvesting the crop.

     MORPHEUS
   All they needed to control this
  new battery was something to
  occupy our mind.

We see inside a clear tubular husk.  Floating in viscous
fluid, there is a human fetus; its soft skull already
growing around the brain-jack.

     MORPHEUS
   And so they built a prison out of
  our past, wired it to our brains
  and turned us into slaves.

We PULL BACK to find the image is now on the television
and we are again inside the white space of the Construct.

     NEO
   No!  I don't believe it!  It's not
  possible!

     MORPHEUS
   I didn't say that it would be
  easy, Neo.  I just said that it
  would be the truth.

The room without walls begins to spin.

     NEO
   Stop!  Let me out!  I want out!


 INT.  MAIN DECK

His eyes snap open and he thrashes against the chair,
trying to rip the cable from the back of his neck.

     NEO
   Get this thing out of me!

     TRINITY
   Easy, Neo.  Easy.

Dozer holds him while Trinity unlocks it.  Once it's out,
he tears away from them, falling as he trips free of the
harness.

     NEO
   Don't touch me!  Get away from me!

On his hands and knees, he reels as the world spins.
Sweat pours off him as a pressure builds inside his skull
as if his brian had been put into a centrifuge.

     CYPHER
   He's going to pop!

Vomiting violently, Neo pitches forward and blacks out.


 INT.  NEO'S ROOM

He blinks, regaining consciousness.  The room is dark.
Neo is stretched out on his bed.

     NEO
   I can't go back, can I?

Morpheus sitting like a shadow on a chair in the far
corner.

     MORPHEUS
   No.  But if you could, would you
  really want to?

Neo isn't sure of that answer.

     MORPHEUS
   I feel that I owe you an apology.
  There is a rule that we do not
  free a mind once it reaches a
  certain age.  It is dangerous.
  They have trouble letting go..
  Their mind turns against them.
  I've seen it happen.  I broke the
  rule because I had to.

He stares into the darkness, confessing as much to
himself as Neo.

     MORPHEUS
   When the Matrix was first built
  there was a man born inside that
  had the ability to change what he
  wanted, to remake the Matrix as he
  saw fit.  It was this man that
  freed the first of us and taught
  us the secret of the war; control
  the Matrix and you control the
  future.

He pauses.

     MORPHEUS
   When he died, the Oracle at the
  temple of Zion prophesied his
  return and envisioned an end to
  the war and freedom for our
  people.  That is why there are
  those of us that have spent our
  entire lives searching the Matrix,
  looking for him.

Neo can feel his eyes on him.

     MORPHEUS
   I did what I did, because I
  believe we have been brought here
  for a reason, Neo.  You are here
  to serve a purpose, just as I am
  here to serve mine.

     NEO
   I told you I don't believe in
  fate.

Morpheus smiles, leaning towards hin.

     MORPHEUS
   But I do, Neo.  I do.

He stands up.

     MORPHEUS
   Get some rest.  You're going to
  need it.

     NEO
   For what?

     MORPHEUS
   Your training.



 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

There is no morning; there is only darkness and then the
fluorescent light sticks flicker on.


 INT.  NEO'S ROOM

Neo is awake in his bed, staring up at the lights.  The
door opens and TA.NK steps inside.

     TANK
   Morning.  Did you sleep?

     NEO
   No.

     TANK
   You will tonight.  I guarantee it.
  I'm Tank.  I'll be your operator.

He offers his hand and Neo shakes it.  He notices that
Tank doesn't have any jacks.

     NEO
   You don't have...

     TANK
   Any holes?  Nope.  Me and my
  brother Dozer, we are 100 percent
  pure, old fashioned, home-grown
  human.  Born free.  Right here in
  the real world.  Genuine child of
  Zion.

     NEO
   Zion?

     TANK
   Zion is the place, man.  You'll
  see it one day.  Last human city.
  All we got left.

Tank smiles.

     TANK
   Goddamn, I got to tell you I'm
  fairly excited to see what you are
  capable of.  I mean if Morpheus is
  right and all.  We're not supposed
  to talk.about any of that, but if
  you are, well then this is an
  exciting time.  We got a lot to do
  so let's get to it.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Neo is plugged in, hanging in one of the suspension
chairs.

     TANK
   We're supposed to load all these
  operations programs first, but
  this is some major boring shit.
  Why don't we start something a
  little fun?

Tank smiles as he plops into his operator's chair.  He
begins flipping through a tall carousel loaded with micro
discs.

     TANK
   How about sore combat training?

Neo reads the label on the disk.

     NEO
   Jiujitsu?  I'm going to learn
  jujitsu?

Tank slides the disk into Neo's supplement drive.

     NEO
   No way.

Smiling, Tank punches the "load" code.

His body jumps against the harness as his eyes clamp
shut.  The monitors kick wildly as his heart pounds,
adrenaline surges, and his brain sizzles.

An instant later his eyes snap open.

     NEO
   Holy shit!

     TANK
   Hey, Mikey, he likes it!  Ready
  for more?

     NEO
   Hell yes!


 INT.  MAIN DECK - CLOSE ON COMPUTER MONITOR - LATER

as grey pixels slowly fill a small, half-empty box.  It
is a meter displaying how much download time is left.

The title bar reads:  "Combat Series 10 of 12," file
categories flashing beneath it:  Savate, Jujitsu, Ken Po,
Drunken Boxing...

Morpheus walks in.

     MORPHEUS
   How is he?

Tank looks at his watch, rubs his eyes.

     TANK
   Ten hours straight.  He's a
  machine.

Neo's body spasms and relaxes as his eyes open, breath
hissing from his lips.  He looks like he just orgasmed.

He locks at Morpheus.

     NEO
   This is incredible.  I know Kung
  Fu.

Morpheus sits in the drive chair next to hin.  He nods to
Tank.

     MORPHEUS
   Show me.


 INT.  DOJO

They are standing in a very sparse japanese-style dojo.

     MORPHEUS
   This is a sparring program,
  similar to the programmed reality
  of the Matrix.  Consider this your
  first lesson.

He assumes a fighting stance.

     MORPHEUS
   Attack me.

Neo assumes a similar stance, cautiously circling until
he gives a short cry and launches a furious attack.

It is like a Jackie Chan movie at high speed, fists and
feet striking from every angle as Neo presses his attack
 --

But each and every blow is blocked by effortless speed.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

While their minds battle in the programmed reality, the
two bodies appear quite serene, suspended in the drive
chairs.

Tank monitors their life systems noticing that Neo is
wildly and chaotically lit up as opposed to the slow and
steady rhythm of Morpheus.


 INT.  MESS HALL

Dinner is up.  Everyone is eating bowls of single-cell
protein.  It has a cottage cheese consistency.

MOUSE bursts in the room.

     MOUSE
   Morpheus is fighting Neo!

All at once they bolt for the door.


 INT.  DOJO

Neo's face is knotted, teeth clenched, as he hurls
himself at Morpheus.

     MORPHEUS
   Good.  Adaption.  Improvisation.
  But your weakness isn't your
  technique.

Morpheus attacks him and it is like nothing we have seen.
His feet and fists are everywhere taking Neo apart.  For
every blow Neo blocks, five more hit their marks until --

Neo falls.

Panting, on his hands and knees, blood spits fror, his
mouth speckling the white floor of the Dojo.

     MORPHEUS
   How did I beat you?

     NEO
   You -- You're too fast.

     MORPHEUS
   Do you think my being faster,
  stronger has anything to do with
  my muscles in this place?

Neo is frustrated, still unable to catch his breath.

     MORPHEUS
   Do you believe that's air you are
  breathing now?

Neo squints at him.

     MORPHEUS
   If you can free your mind, the
  body will follow.

Neo stands, nodding.

     MORPHEUS
   Again.

Their fists fly with  pneumatic speed.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Everyone is gathered behind Tank, watching the fight,
like watching a game of Mortal Combat.

     CABLE
   Jeezus Keerist!  That boy is fast!

     MOUSE
   You ever seen anyone that fast
  that soon, Tank?

     TANK
   Never.

     APOC
   Morpheus is right.  He's got to be
  the one.


 INT.  DOJO

The speed of the blows rises like a drum solo that seems
impossible to sustain.  Neo's face sheds its mask of calm
with a scream.

He wants to beat Morpheus bad.

Finally a single blow catches Morpheus on the side of the
head, knocking his glasses off.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

There are several gasps.

     MOUSE
   I don't believe it!


 INT.  DOJO

Morpheus rubs his face.

     MORPHEUS
   You are angry with me.

Neo pants.

     NEO
   I, uh... maybe.

     MORPHEUS
   It's all right.  It's natural.

     NEO
   I feel better.

     MORPHEUS
   Good, good.  Anger is a gift, Neo,
  but it's a heavy one.

Morpheus smiles.

     MORPHEUS
   Tank, load the jump program.

Neo straightens as the dojo DISSOLVES away like a curtain
lifting, leaving the two men now standing on a building
rooftop in a city skyline.

     MORPHEUS
   You have to learn to let go of
  that anger.  You must let go of
  everything.

A WIND HOWLS, whipping Morpheus' long coat to the side.

     MORPHEUS
   You must empty yourself to free
  your mind.

Morpheus spins, running hard at the edge of the rooftop.
And jumps.  He sails through the air, his coat billowing
out behind him like a cape --

Somersaults once and lands on the rooftop across the
street.

     NEO
   Shit.

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

     NEO
   Okie dokie.

He takes a deep breath.

     NEO
   Yeah.  Free my mind.  Right.  No
  problem.

He concentrates.  Runs.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

They are transfixed.

     CABLE
   He's gonna make it.

     APOC
   No way.  Not possible.

     MOUSE
   No one's ever made their first
  jump.

     SWITCH
   What if he does?

     APOC
   He won't.

     TANK
   It's never been done.

Trinity stares at the screen, her fists clenching as she
whispers.

     TRINITY
   Come on.


 EXT.  ROOFTOP

Summoning every ounce of strength in his legs, Neo
launches himself into the air in a single maniacal shriek
 --

But comes up drastically short.

His eyes widen as he plummets.  Stories fly by, the
ground rushing up at him, but as he hits --

The ground gives way, stretchinp like a trapeze net.

He bounces and flips, slowly coming to a rest, flat on
his back.

He laughs, a bit unsure, wiping the wind-blown tears from
his face.

Morpheus exits the building and helps him to his feet.

     MORPHEUS
   Everyone falls the first time.

Neo nods quietly.

     MORPHEUS
   If you never know failure, how can
  you know success?


 INT.  MAIN DECK

They break up.

     MOUSE
   What does it mean?

     CABLE
   It doesn't mean anything.

     CYPHER
   Everyone falls, right, Trinity?

But Trinity has left.

Neo's eyes open as Tank eases the plug out.  He tries to
move and groans, cradling his ribs.

While Tank helps Morpheus, Neo spits blood into his hand.

     NEO
   I thought it wasn't real.

Neo stares at the blood.

     NEO
   If you are killed in the Matrix,
  you die here?

     MORPHEUS
   The body cannot live without the
  mind.


 INT.  NEO'S ROOM

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

     TRINITY
   Neo, I saved you some dinner --

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

She pauses, her face close to his, then inhales lightly,
breathing in the scent of him, before slowly pulling away.

It seems the moment she closes the door, he wakes with a
start, unsure of where he is.  After a moment, he gets
out of bed.


 INT.  HALL

The ship is quiet and dark.  Everyone is asleep.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

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

     CYPHER
   Whoa!  Shit, Neo, you scared the
  bejeezus out of ne.

     NEO
   Sorry.

     CYPHER
   No, it's all right.

     NEO
   What are you doing?

     CYPHER
   Midnight watch.

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.

The monitors are packed with bizarre codes and equations.

     CYPHER
   You want a drink?

He pours Neo a drink from a large plastic jug.

     CYPHER
   I'll tell you, I feel for you,
  man.  I really do.  Most of us
  were still young, just punks, when
  Morpheus jacked us.  But you, you
  had a real life.

Neo takes a sip and it almost kills him.  Cypher pounds
on his back.

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

Red-faced, Neo finally stops coughing.

     CYPHER
   Did he tell you why he did it?

Neo nods.

     CYPHER,
   I'll be the didn't tell you that
  this wasn't the first time he
  thought he found the One.

Neo shakes his head as Cypher fills his cup and laughs.

     CYPHER
   Let me give you a piece of advice.
  Between you and me, if Morpheus
  says you can fly, I wouldn't go
  jumping out any windows to find
  out if he's right.  Understand?

Cypher raises his drink.  Neo swallows another throat-
scorching mouthful.

     CYPHER
   Welcome to the real world!


 INT.  RESTAURANT (MATRIX) - NIGHT

CHAMBER MUSIC and the ambiance of wealth soak the room as
we watch a serrated knife saw through a thick, gorgeous
steak.

     CYPHER
   That's what he said to me nine
  years ago.

The meat is so perfect, charred on the outside, oozing
red juice from the inside, that it could be a dream.

     CYPHER
   The real world.  Ha, what a joke.

We recognize the grating voice, the insidious laugh.

     CYPHER
   You know what real is?  I'll tell
  you what real is.

A fork stabs the cube of meat and we FOLLOW it UP TO the
face of Cypher.

     CYPHER
   Real is just another four-letter
  word.

He laughs, shoving the steak into his mouth.

The restaurant is located on the top floor of a Chicago
skyscraper where the view is breathtaking and the menu
has no prices.

Sitting across from Cypher is Agent Smith.

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

Cypher chews the steak loudly, smacking it between his
teeth.

     CYPHER
   Mmm, so, so fucking good.

Smith watches him shovel another hunk of meat into his
mouth.

     CYPHER
   You know, I know that this steak
  doesn't exist.  I know 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?

Pausing, he examines the meat skewered on his fork.  He
pops it in, eyes rolling up, savoring the tender beef
melting in his mouth.

     CYPHER
   Ignorance is bliss.

     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 Zion.

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

     AGENT SMITH
   Morpheus.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Sweat dapples his lip as Neo snaps out of the construct
coma.

     NEO
   Jeez, I was wondering about that.

     TANK
   What?

     NEO
   Why I was bald here but not in the
  Matrix.

     TANK
   R.S.I.

     NEO
   Residual self image.

     TANK
   Good.  Now what's this?

He points to one of Neo's monitors.

     NEO
   Life systems monitor, glucose
  levels.

     TANK
   What's that?

     NEO
   Main power supply to the core.

He follows Tank to the operator's station where he points
to a red key-switch.

     TANK
   How about this?

     NEO
   Mainframe self-destruct.  Uses all
  remaining power to generate an...
   E.M.P?

     TANK
   Electromagnetic pulse.  Our best
  weapon against the machines.  The
  problem is if someone is still in
  the Matrix when that thing goes
  off, they're not coming back.

Neo nods as Morpheus comes up behind them.

     MORPHEUS
   How's he doing?

     TANK
   We just finished the operation
  programs and he's showing great
  retention.

     MORPHEUS
   Good.  I want everyone alerted to
  12-hour stand-by.  We're going in.
  Neo, it's time for you to know why
  you're here.

Morpheus walks away.

     NEO
   What's he talking about?

     TANK
   He's taking you into the Matrix to
  see her.

     NEO
   See who?

     TANK
   The Oracle.

Neo looks down at the monitor teeming with Matrix data
that seems to coalesce, equations giving way to images as
a METAL SCREAM RISES BECOMING --


 EXT.  CHICAGO (MATRIX) - DAY

An El train.


 INT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

The room is empty, heavy curtains covering windows.  It
looks as if it hasn't been touched in years.  In the
bedroom with the cracked oval mirror an old black PHONE
begins to RING.

In the mirror, we first glimpse them and as we keep
TURNING, the room fills with equipment and the team.

Morpheus answers the phone.

     MORPHEUS
   We're in.

He hangs up.

     MORPHEUS
   Mouse and Cable hold the exit.
  Let's go.


 INT.  STAIRWELL (MATRIX) - DAY

Neo follows the others down the stairwell that winds
around an antique elevator shaft.

     NEO
   Did you have to do this?

     TRINITY
   Yeah.

     NEO
   What did she tell you?

     TRINITY
   Lots of things.

     NEO
   Any of them true?

Trinity looks at him, then looks away.

     TRINITY
   Some of them.

     GIZMO
   Were they good or bad?

     TRINITY
   There's no point in worrylng.
  Whatever is going to happen is
  going to happen.

They cross the old lobby.  Switch and Apoc stop at the
doors.

     MORPHEUS
   We should be back in an hour.


 EXT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

Neo squints into the sun that seems unnaturally bright.
He is the only one without sunglasses.

     MORPHEUS
   Do you now understand what it
  means when we say, if you're not
  one of us, you're one of them?

     NEO
   The agents.  They're sentient
  programs.  They can commandeer any
  software hardwired to the
  mainframe.

     MORPHEUS
   Anyone that is still in a power
  plant.  That is why we try to be
  invisible in the Matrix.

     NEO
   The best hacking is always
  traceless.

Cypher and Trinity move away from them, securing the
perimeter.  As Cypher passes a garbage can, he
surreptitiously drops something inside.

It is a cellular phone and we watch the blue display as
the LINE CONNECTS.

An early 1970s, black Lincoln Continental emerges from a
corrugated roll-up garage.  Morpheus and Neo get in.


 INT.  LINCOLN CONTINENTAL (MATRIX) - DAY

An enormous man is waiting for them.  A wad of chewing
tobacco bulges his cheek.  He spits into a Coke can.

     MOJO
   Morpheus, been a long time coming.

     MORPHEUS
   You're looking well, Mojo.

Mojo coughs a brown, cankerous laugh, juice speckling his
chin and shirt.  He stares at Neo.

     MOJO
   You bringing us geriatrics now.
  Morpheus?

He spits and laughs again.

     MOJO
   Guess you are locking for a
  miracle.


 EXT.  BAR (MATRIX) - DAY

The Continental pulls up to a bar in the kind of
neighborhood where every corner has a pair of eyes.


 INT.  BAR (MATRIX) - DAY

A lightless, lower-class bar.  No one enters that is not
expected.

The front doors open in a brilliant burst of sunlight as
Mojo leads Morpheus and Neo inside.  Neo looks around,
his eyes adjusting to the darkness.

Mojo talks to the bartender, then looks over.

     MOJO
   All right, it's cool.  Go on back.

They weave their way to the back of the bar, the STICKY
FLOOR SNAPPING under their FEET.

A monolith of a man rises from his stool as they walk up.

     REX
   You're late.

He moves to the side, opening the heavy iron door behind
him.  They descend the basement staircase toward the
single bare bulb at the bottom, hanging above the only
door.


 INT.  BASEMENT (MATRIX) - DAY

A high-tech laptop and modem are set up on a stack of
milk crates.  Neo waits as Morpheus types in a series of
access codes.  After a moment the screen blinks, "Welcome
Morpheus."

Morpheus walks back to the same door they entered, but it
now leads into --


 INT.  TEMPLE OF ZION (MATRIX) - DAY

The walls and floors are polished marble.  Neo follows,
his mouth agape.

     NEO
   What -- what happened?

     MORPHEUS
   This is the temple.  It is a part
  of Zion's mainframe.  It's hidden
  inside the Matrix so that we can
  access it.

Two PRIESTESSES are waiting in the antechamber.

     PRIESTESS
   Hello, Morpheus.  We've been
  expecting you.

     MORPHEUS
   Okay, you're on your own.  Go with
  them.

They take Neo by the arm, leading him down a hall into
another room.

     PRIESTESS
   Wait here.  Among the other
  Potentials.


 INT.  ROOM OF POTENTIALS (MATRIX) - DAY

Neo enters and finally understands the attention given to
his age.  The Potentials are all little children.

The room feels at once like a Buddhist temple and a
kindergarten class.  The children's heads are either
shaved or thick with dreadlocks.  Some are playing,
others meditating or practicing their gift.

Neo watches a little girl levitate wooden alphabet
blocks.  A skinny BOY holds a SPOON which sways like a
blade of grass as he bends it with his rnind.

Neo crosses to him, sits.

The Boy smiles as Neo picks up a spoon and tries to
imitate him.  Despite his best efforts, Neo cannot make
it bend.

     SPOON BOY
   Your spoon does not bend because
  it is just that, a spoon.  Mine
  bends because there is no spoon,
  just my mind.

Neo watches as it curls into a knot.

     SPOON BOY
   Link yourself to the spoon.
  Become the spoon and bend
  yourself.

Neo nods, again holding up his spoon.

     NEO
   There is no spoon.  Right.

He concentrates.  The spoon begins to bend just as the
Priestess touches his shoulder.

     PRIESTESS
   The Oracle will see you now.

Spoon Boy smiles.


 INT.  SHRINE (MATRIX) - DAY

Neo enters nervously.  Beneath his feet is a path of the
zodiac leading to marbled stairs that rise to a dais and
a three-legged throne.

The throne is empty.

     NEO
   Hello?

A DISTANT FEMALE VOICE calls to him and he follows it up
the stairs.  At the top of the dais, he smells something
cooking.

Following the scent, he moves behind the pillars where he
finds an open door.

     VOICE (O.S.)
   Just come on in.

He walks through a vestibule where he sees a fabulous
moonstone headdress and velvet robes.  A second door
leads into --


 INT.  ORACLE'S CHAMBERS (MATRIX) - DAY

It looks like a suburban tract house.

There is a lot of cozy furniture, a dining roon hutch
filled with china, shelves and tables crowded with
doilies, knick-knacks and ceramic brick-a-brack.

Neo follows the plastic carpet runner to the kitchen.

A WOMAN is huddled beside the oven, peering inside
through the cracked door.

     NEO
   Hello?

     ORACLE (WOMAN)
   I know.  You're Neo.  Be right
  with you.

     NEO
   You're the Oracle?

     ORACLE
   Bingo.  I got to say I love seeing
  you non-believers.  It's really a
  relief.  All that pomp and
  circumstances just plain tucker me
  out.  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
   The 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?

     NEO
   I think so.

     ORACLE
   So? What do you think?  You think
  you're the one?

     NEO
   I don't know.

She gestures to a wooden plaque, the kind every grandma
has, except that the words are in Latin.

     ORACLE
   You know what that means?  It's
  Latin.  Means, 'Know thyself.'

She puts her cigarette down.

     ORACLE
   Well, let's have a look at you.

She widens his eyes, checks his ears, then feels the
glands in his neck.

     ORACLE
   Open your mouth.  Say, 'ahhh.'

She nods then looks at his palms.

     ORACLE
   Hmmm.  You sure got the gift, but
  it's tricky.  I'd say the bad news
  is, you're not the one.  Still got
  a lot to learn.  Maybe next life.

     NEO
   What's the good news?

     ORACLE
   Same as the bad news, you're not
  the one.

     NEO
   Is that it, then?

     ORACLE
   No.  Here.

She picks up the tray of cooling cookies.

     ORACLE
   You better take a cookie.  Got a
  big day ahead of you.

He eyes her, then takes a cookie.

     ORACLE
   Make a believer out of you yet.


 INT.  ANTECHAMBER (MATRIX) - DAY

Morpheus rises from a bench 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 me
  anything, Neo, because I already
  know what she said.

     NEO
   You do?

     MORPHEUS
   I brought you so that you could
  hear it for yourself.  I knew it
  would help.

Neo finishes his cookie.

     MORPHEUS
   No one will ever ask you because
  it is a gift from her.  It is for
  you and you alone.


 EXT.  CITY STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

Storm clouds shroud the streets as the sky turns
jaundice.

Cypher nervously glances down the surrounding streets.
He notices several unmarked white vans.

He mops the sweat from his forehead, when Trinity sees
the black Lincoln.

     TRINITY
   Here they come.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

In the hovercraft, we see the sweat rolling down Cypher's
face and neck.

Tank is typing rapidly at the keyboard.

     TANK
   Weird.  This area never has this
  much activity.


 EXT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

Apoc opens the side door and they enter the hotel.


 INT.  ROOM 1313 (MATRIX) - DAY

Mouse's CELLULAR RINGS.

     MOUSE
   Welcome to Movie-Phone.

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

     MOUSE
   Right.

The phone flips shut as he jumps up.

     MOUSE
   Let's get to work.


 INT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

Light filters down the throat of the building through a
caged skylight at the top of the open elevator shaft.
Four 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 (MATRIX) - 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 GROW ominously LOUDER.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Tank sees what was changed.

     TANK
   It's a trap!


 INT.  STAIRCASE (MATRIX) - DAY

Morpheus looks up the stairs as a helicopter shadow
passes over the clouded glass.

     MORPHEUS
   Come on!


 INT.  ROOM 1313 (MATRIX) - DAY

Cable goes to the draped windows.

     CABLE
   Did you just feel something weird?

     MOUSE
   Yeah...

The CELLULAR RINGS.


 INT.  BASEMENT (MATRIX) - DAY

Heavy bolt-cutters snap through the main phone cable.


 INT.  ROOM 1313 (MATRIX) - DAY

Mouse answers the phone.

     MOUSE
   What's going on?

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

Cable yanks open the curtain.

     CABLE
   Oh, no.

The windows are bricked up.


 INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

The door to the roof explodes open as heavily-armed rnen
rush towards room 1313.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Tank watches helplessly.

     TANK
   No, no, no.


 INT.  ROOM 1313 (MATRIX) - DAY

The door slams open and the police force pours in, dozens
of assault rifles surrounding Mouse and Cable who are
armed with only handguns.

     CABLE
   Morpheus!  It's a trap --


 INT.  STAIRS (MATRIX) - DAY

Morpheus stops as the scream is drowned by the REPORT of
MACHINE GUNS filling the building with a terrible fury.

     TRINITY
   Oh, God.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Mouse's body thrashes against its harness as --


 INT.  ROOM 1313 (MATRIX) - DAY

BULLETS POUND him against the blood-splattered brick
window.  Gun smoke thickens the room, Cable blasting and
moving until --

The HAMMER CLICKS empty.  He screams as a DOZEN GUNS OPEN
FIRE, ripping him apart.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Blood spits from Cable's mouth, his body spasming, then
lying perfectly still.

The flat-line ALARM softly cries out from the life
MONITORS of the two dead men.


 EXT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

More police cars arrive as cops break open the lobby
doors.


 INT.  STAIRWELL (MATRIX) - DAY

Flying downstairs, Morpheus stops, hearing the police
swarming below.  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 BOOT-STEPS 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.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Tank answers the call.

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

His fingers pound the keyboard.


 INT.  LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - 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.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

Agent Smith pauses, his hand going to his earpiece.


 INT.  ROOM 808 (MATRIX) - DAY

Morpheus is guided by Tank.

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

     MORPHEUS
   Good.

He cuts off the phone.


 INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

Agent Smith hears the LINE CLICK dead.

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


 INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

Agent Brown hears Smith on his earphone.

     AGENT BROWTJ
   Eighth floor!  Move!


 INT.  STAIRWELL (MATRIX) - DAY

Cops flood the eighth floor, rushing everywhere.


 INT.  ROOM 808 (MATRIX) - 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 (MATRIX) - DAY

They are inside the main plumbing wall, slowly worming
their way down the greasy, black stack pipes.

Above them, light fills the hole they made to get inside.

 INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

Brown turns to Smith.

     AGENT BROWN
   Where are they?


 INT.  ROOM 608 (MATRIX) - DAY

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


 INT.  WALL (MATRIX) - DAY

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


 INT.  ROOM 608 (MATRIX) - 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 (MATRIX) - DAY

Neo pulls Cypher free just as the Cop OPENS FIRE --

BULLETS PUNCHING shafts of light like swords into the box
of soot-black space.


 INT.  ROOM 608 (MATRIX) - DAY

The Cop keeps FIRING, his flashlight strapped to his gun
barrel, lighting up the wall until --

A BULLET spits out his forehead.  Agent Smith watches the
BODY fall with a THUD.

     AGENT SMITH
   Are orders that hard to follow?
  I'll say it again.  Morpheus must
  be taken alive.  Understand?


 INT.  WALL (MATRIX) - DAY

They're almost falling, they're climbing so fast.

Above them, plaster is smashed open as crunbling bits
shower down on them, filling the crawlway with dust.


 INT.  ROOM 608 (MATRIX) - DAY

Agent Smith looks into the open wall, at the exposed
intestines of the building, and realizes where they are
going.

     AGENT SMITH
   How like a rodent.


 INT.  WALL (MATRIX) - DAY

Just below, a RIFLE-BUTT SMASHES open the WALL, light
raking across the lathe.

     COP
   I got him!  I got him!

Trinity finds her gun first.  BULLET-HOLES POP out the
WALL as she STRAFES the room, sending cops diving for
cover.

They continue, Trinity exposed for a roment, when a
creeping cop smashes a fist through and grabs a fistful
of her hair.

He starts to yank her out when Neo kicks, his boot
bursting through plaster and splintering lathe, knocking
the Cop out.

They then quickly sink out of sight.


 INT.  BASEMENT (MATRIX) - 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.

Black and bloody, they squeeze out from the ceiling into
the tangled web of pipes.

Their enemies are waiting for them.

Blinding lights cut open the darkness as gas-masked
figures FIRE GRENADE LAUNCHERS.

Smoke blossoms from the green-metal canisters.

Morpheus never stops moving.  Searching the floor, he
finds what.he needs; the cover of the catch basin.

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

     MORPHEUS
   Come on!

Cypher seems to trip as the cloud envelops him.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Cypher's body begins to shiver uncontrollably.

     TANK
   Nerve gas.


 INT.  BASEMENT (MATRIX) - DAY

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


 INT.  CATCH BASIN (MATRIX) - DAY

They crawl through greasy black water in a three foot
diameter pipe that feeds into the sewer main.


 INT.  BASEMENT (MATRIX) - DAY

Gas-masked apparitions find the open hole.


 EXT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

Cypher is carried out, hand-cuffed, his body still
shaking, mucus bubbling out his nose.  As he is led past
Agent Smith, it almost seems that both men smile.

     AGENT SMITH
   We have them now.


 INT.  SEWER MAIN (MATRIX) - DAY

Neo punches out the screen and then spills down into the
main water trough.

Oily water forms around them as they wade across the man-
made underground river, towards the service catwalk.

Neo is about to pull himself out when he sees them coming.

Flashlights and laser sites sweep at them as cops in
helmets and heavy armor, looking more nachine than human,
fill both ends of the tunnel.

There is a single manhole cover above them.

Morpheus whispers to Trinity.

     MORPHEUS
   You have to get Neo out.
  Understand?  That's all that
  matters now.

     TRINITY
   Morpheus, don't --

     MORPHEUS
   He must get out.  Do you
  understand me?

She nods.

A font of water erupts as Morpheus leaps for the manhole
ladder, his coat flying open like the wings of a manta
ray.

     COPS
   There he is!  That's him!

Pools of light wash over him as he hauls himself to the
surface.

     COP
   He's heading for the street!

Trinity urges the others to follow her.  Grabbing Neo,
they wade quietly away from the chaos.


 EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

Morpheus shoots out of the sewer but the police are
waiting for him.  The closest cop is armed with a
tranquilized gun.  He fires --

But Morpheus' is too fast, using the manhole cover as a
shield, blocking the darts, then --

Frisbee-ing it into the cop's armored chest, knocking him
off his feet.

The cops lunge at him but every part of his body is a
deadly weapon moving with impossible speed.

It seems he might fight his way out when he throws a
spinning back fist that is caught by --

Agent Smith.

     AGENT SMITH
   So, 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
   I've been waiting for this noment.

Faster than a snake spits, Morpheus cracks Smith with a
jaw-breaking right.

    MORPHEUS
   Oh, so have I.

Agent Smith smiles.


 INT.  SEWER MAIN (MATRIX) - DAY

Trinity leads the others, fading into the darkness of the
tunnel, lit only with shafts of lights streaming through
the street drains as we RISE TOWARDS them --

THROUGH a grate INTO the fight.


 EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

Smith and Morpheus exchange a furious serious of blows
that is witnessed but not believed by the surrounding
police.

Agent Smith delivers a punishing kick that staggers
Morpheus.

     AGENT SMITH
   You can't win.

Morpheus smiles.

     MORPHEUS
   I already have.

He stands up and drops his fists; a steely resolve in his
eyes.

     AGENT SMITH
   Take him.

Cops swarm over Morpheus.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

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

     TANK
   No!


 EXT.  HOTEL LAFAYETTE (MATRIX) - DAY

Cuff ed and beaten, Morpheus is thrown into a caged
transport vehicle.  The DOOR CLANGS shut.

Agent Jones finds Agent Smith.

     AGENT JONES
   The others were lost.

     AGENT SMITH
   You've taken care of Reagan?

Agent Jones nods.

     AGENT SMITH
   Then the others do not matter.


 EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

A manhole cover cracks open.  Two eyes peek out just as a
TRUCK RATTLES over it.  The THUNDER DOPPLERS AWAY and the
cover opens.

Neo, Trinity, Switch and Apoc climb out.  Trinity pulls a
water-logged phone from her pocket.

     TRINITY
   We need a phone.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Tank is again at the monitors, searching the Matrix.

     TANK
   We gotta find the others.  They're
  still alive.

The PHONE RINGS.

     TANK
   Operator.

     CYPHER (V.O.)
   I need an exit!  Fast!

     TANK
   Cypher?  I thought they had you?


 EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

Cypher is standing at a public phone.  Across the street
is the burning paddy wagon that appears to have collided
witli an oncoming car.

     CYPHER
   There was an accident.  A fucking
  car accident.  All of a sudden.
  Boom.  They're all dead.  I still
  got the shakes but, Jesus,
  someone's going to make a believer
  out of me.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Dozer spots the wreck.

     DOZER
   There he is.

     TANK
   I got you.

     CYPHER (V.O.)
   Just get me outta here.


 EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

     TANK (V.O.)
   Nearest exit is Franklin and Erie.
  An old appliance store.

Cypher hangs up and smiles as the fire trucks arrive.

     CYPHER
   An actor.  Definitely.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

The PHONE RINGS.  Tank answers.

     TANK
   Operator.

     TRINITY (V.O.)
   Tank, it's me.


 EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

They are outside a pawn shop.  Trinity has a new cellular.

     TRINITY
   We need an exit!

     TANK (V.O.)
   Gotcha.  You're not far from
  Cypher.

     TRINITY
   Cypher, I thought --

     TANK (V.O.)
   So did we.  That boy's got nine
  lives.  I sent him to Franklin and
  Erie.

     TRINITY
   Got it.

She hangs up.


 EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

Running, Cypher turns onto Erie.


 INT.  APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY

Dead machines, eviscerated and shrouded with dust lay on
metal shelves like bodies in a morgue.

Plywood covering a small window is ripped off and Cypher
crawls inside.

Deep in the back room, a PHONE that has not rung in years
begins to RING.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Tank punches the emit command.

     TANK
   Got him.

Cypher's body twitches in its harness, jerking itself
awake.  His eyes blink open.  Dozer unplugs him.

     DOZER
   System check looks fine.

Cypher stands, a raspy cough spewing from his lungs.


 EXT.  STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

Trinity sees the appliance shop.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Cypher holds his chest.

     DOZER
   You okay?

     CYPHER
   Goddamn gas.  My lungs are killing
  me.

He crosses to an overhead bin.

     CYPHER
   We got any pain killers?

     DOZER
   The first aid kit's over here.

As Dozer stoops for a cabinet, Cypher pulls back a heavy
blanket exposing a plasma rifle.


 INT.  APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY

Neo crawls through the window that Cypher opened.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Tank finishes loading the exit programs as Cypher rises
behind him, swinging the weapon at his back.

He looks over as Dozer turns with the first aid kit, a
look of frozen disbelief crossing his face --

     DOZER
   No!

Tank spins as red hot wads of PLASMA EXPLODE through his
chair and into his back.  Diving, a second BURST tears up
his side --

As Dozer shoots a look at the monitor where Tank was
working.  He stabs the enter command activating the exit
sequence and ducks under a BARRAGE of PLASMA FIRE-


 INT.  APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY

The PHONE begins to RING as the others crawl in.

     SWITCH
   God, I love that sound.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Dozer rolls up, grabbing a heavy crowbar from a box of
tools.

Cypher circles the drive chairs as the sights of the
plasma rifle find Dozer's face.

Dozer charges, screaming, and the PLASMA RIFLE SCREAMS
back.


 INT.  APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY

The PHONE is still RINGING.

     TRINITY
   You first,.Neo.

Neo answers the phone when there is a CLICK.  There is no
signal.  Nothing but silence.

     TRINITY
   What happened?

     NEO
   I don't know.  It just went dead.

Trinity listens to the dead line and takes out the
cellular.


 INT. MAIN DECK

The operator PHONE begins to RING- Cypher steps over the
body of Tank and looks at the monitor.


 INT.  APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY

Trinity can almost feel him watching them.  Every
unanswered RING wrings her gut a little tighter, until --

     CYPHER (V.O.)
   Hello, Trinity.

     TRINITY
   Cypher?  Where's Tank?

     CYPHER (V.O.)
   He had an accident.

     TRINITY
   An accident?  What about Dozer?
  Is Dozer there?


 INT.  MAIN DECK

He walks over to Trinity's body, staring down at it
hanging in its coma-like stillness.

     CYPHER
   You know, for a long time, I
  thought I was in love with you,
  Trinity.  I used to dream about
  you...

He nuzzles his face against hers, feeling the softness of
it.

     CYPHER
   You are a beautiful woman.  Too
  bad things had to work out like
  this.

We INTERCUT BETWEEN the appliance store and the main
deck.

     TRINITY
   You killed them.

     APOC
   What?!

     SWITCH
   Oh God.

Wearing Tank's operator headgear, Cypher moves among the
silent bodies.

     CYPHER
   In a way you're very lucky.  Most
  people never know why they die.
  One minute they're alive, the next
  they're dead.  No warning.
  Nothing.  That's why I thought
  maybe I should tell you.  It
  seemed the least I could do.

He stands over the body of Morpheus, as his anger boils
up out of him.

     CYPHER
   You see, the truth, the real,truth
  is that the war is over.  It's
  been over for a long time.  And
  guess what?  We lost!  Did you
  hear that?  We lost the war!

     TRINITY
   What about Zion?

     CYPHER
   Zion?  Zion is a part of this
  delusion.  More of this madness.
  That's why this has to be done.
  It has to end.  Now and forever.

She suddenly sees the entire dark plan.

     TRINITY
   Oh rny God.  This is abzut Zion.
  You gave them Morpheus for the
  access codes to Zion.

Cypher walks away from Morpheus and bends down next to
Apoc's body.

     CYPHER
   You see, Trinity, we humans have a
  place in the future.  But it's not
  here.  It's in the Matrix.

     TRINITY
   The Matrix isn't real!

     CYPHER
   Oh, I disagree, Trinity.  I
  disagree.  I think the Matrix is
  more real than this world.  I
  mean, all I do is pull a plug
  here.  But there, you watch a man
  die.

He grabs hold of the cable in Apoc's neck, twists it and
yanks it out.

     CYPHER
   You tell me which is more real.

Apoc seems to go blind for an instant, a scream caught in
his throat, his hands reaching for nothing, and then
falls dead.  Switch screams.

     CYPHER
   Welcome to the real world, right?

He laughs.

     TRINITY
   Somehow, some way, you're going to
  pay for this.

     CYPHER
   Pay for it?  I'm not even going to
  remember it.  It'll be like it
  never happened.  The tree falling
  in the forest.  It doesn't make a
  sound.

His hand slides around the neck of Switch as he takes
hold of her plug.

She suddenly feels her body severed from her mind as she
is murdered.

     TRINITY
   Goddamn you, Cypher!

     CYPHER
   Don't hate me, Trinity.  I'm just
  the messenger.  And right now I'm
  going to prove that the message is
  true.

He stands over Neo.

     CYPHER
   If Morpheus was right, then
  there's no way I can pull this
  plug, is there?

She turns to Neo, eyes wide with fear, and he knows he is
next.

     CYPHER
   If he is the One, then in the next
  few seconds there has to be some
  kind of miracle to stop me.
  Because if he dies like the others
  that means Morpheus was wrong.
  How can he be the One if he's
  dead?

He takes hold of the cord when --

She hears an EXPLOSION and a scream.

Cypher is on the ground, his left leg blown off at the
knee.  He rolls over and finds Tank on the ground, and
the sights of the plasma rifle.

     TANK
   How's it feel, Cypher?  Knowing
  you're about to die?

     NEO
   It's Tank!  He's alive.

Cypher lunges for Neo's plug just as Tank BLOWS his head
off.


 INT.  APPLIANCE STORE (MATRIX) - DAY

They're both listening, trying to figure out what is
happening when the store PHONE starts to RING.

Trinity smiles, tears moistening her eyes as Neo throws
his arms around her.  For a moment, it looks as if they
might kiss before Trinity lets go.

     TRINITY
   We should, we should hurry.

     NEO
   Yeah.  Right.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Trinity's eyes open, a sense of relief surging through
her at the sight of the ship.  As Tank unplugs her, she
sees his charred wounds.

     TRINITY
   Tank, you're hurt.

     TANK
   I'll be all right.

     TRINITY
   Dozer?

Tank's face tightens.

     TRINITY
   I'm sorry, Tank.


 EXT.  NIKO HOTEL (MATRIX) - DAY

A Japanese luxury hotel in downtown Chicago.

A military helicopter sets down on the roof.  Heavily
armed Marines begin to deploy.

Agent Jones gets out of the helicopter, flanked by
columns of Marines.  They open the roof access door
and enter the top-floor maintenance level of the hotel.


 INT.  TOP FLOOR (MATRIX) - DAY

They get in the elevator.  At every door, at least two
Marines stop and post guard.


 INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

They exit the elevator and walk to the Presidential
suite; the final two Marines post guard.


 INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

Inside, he finds Agent Smith.

     AGENT JONES
   There is a problem.  Reagan has
  failed to secure the hardware.

Agent Smith stares out the window.

     AGENT SMITH
   Never send a human to do a
  machine's job.

     AGENT JONES
   But if Reagan has failed, why
  haven't they pulled the plug?

     AGENT SMITH
   Haven't you learned by now, that
  it is impossible to understand why
  they do the things they do?

He turns.

     AGENT SMITH
   Continue as planned.  Trace his
  signal to locate their position
  and deploy an extermination unit.

Morpheus is handcuffed to a chair, stripped to the waist.
He is bleeding from numerous wounds and is pumped full of
serum, alternately shivering and sweating.  He is hooked
up to various monitors with white disk electrodes.

Agent Brown begins running a trace program.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Neo looks at Morpheus whose body is covered with a cold
sweat.

     NEO
   What are they doing to him?

     TANK
   They're cracking his mind.

     NEO
   How?

     TANK
   They inject virus-like serums to
  break down the system.  It's like
  cracking a computer.  All it takes
  is time.

     NEO
   How much time?

     TANK
   Depends on the mind.  But
  eventually, it will crack and his
  alpha pattern will change from
  this to this.

Tank punches several commands on Morpheus' personal unit.
The monitor waves change from a chaotic pattern to an
orderly symmetrical one.

     TANK
   When it does, Morpheus will tell
  them anything they want to know.

     NEO
   The access codes to Zion.

     TANK
   If an agent got inside Zion's
  mainframe he could do anything.
  Disable the defense system. It
  would be the end of us.

He looks up at Trinity who is pacing relentlessly.

     TANK
   We can't let that happen.  We have
  to do it, Trinity.  Zion has to be
  protected.

Trinity sees Cypher's dead body.  Rage overtakes her and
she starts kicking hin.

     TRINITY
   Goddamnit!  Goddamnit!

     TANK
   We have to pull the plug.

     TRINITY
   No!

     TANK
   We don't have any other choice.

Those words are like using gasoline to put out a fire and
we watch the pain in her eyes burn into a blaze.  She
walks past him and gets into her chair.

     TANK
   Trinity, what are you doing?

     TRINITY
   I'm going in after him.

     TANK
   Morpheus could conform at any
  minute --

     TRINITY
   If he does I'm sure you'll do what
  has to be done.

     TANK
   You saw that place.  It's suicide.

She glares at him.

     TANK
   I know what Morpheus means to
  you --

     TRINITY
   No.  No, I don't think you do.  If
  you did, then you would know that
  I'm not letting him go.  Not
  without a fight, Tank.

She yanks her harness tight.

     TRINITY
   Not without a fight.


 INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

Agent Smith stands in the bedroon of the enormous suite,
staring out the windows at the city, below, shimmering
with brilliant sunlight.

     AGENT SMITH
   Have you ever stood and stared at
  it, Morpheus?  Marveled at its
  beauty.  Its genius.  Billions of
  people just living out their
  lives... oblivious.

Agent Brown sucks a serum from a glass vial, filling a
hypodermic needle.

     AGENT SMITH
   Did you know that the first Matrix
  was designed to be a perfect human
  world?  Where none suffered, where
  everyone would be happy.  It was a
  disaster.  No one would accept the
  program.  Entire crops were lost.

Agent Brown jams the needle into Morpheus' shoulder, and
plunges down.

     AGENT SMITH
   Some believed we lacked the
  programming language to describe
  your perfect world.  But I believe
  that, as a species, human beings
  define their reality through
  suffering and misery.

Agent Brown studies the screens as the life signs react
violently to the injection.

     AGENT SMITH
   The perfect world was a dream that
  your primitive cerebrum kept
  trying to wake up from.  Which is
  why the Matrix was re-designed to
  this:  the peak of your
  civilization.

He turns from the window.

     AGENT SMITH
   I say 'your civilization' because
  as soon as we start thinking for
  you, it really becomes our
  civilization, which is, of course,
  what this is all about.

He sits down directly in front of Morpheus.

     AGENT SMITH
   Evolution, Morpheus.  Evolution.

He lifts Morpheus' head.

     AGENT SMITH
   Like the dinosaur.  Look out that
  window.  You had your time.

Morpheus stares hard at him, trying hard not to show the
pain racking his mind.

     AGENT SMITH
   The future is our world, Morpheus.
  The future is our time.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Neo goes to his chair and begins strapping in.

     TRINITY
   What do you think you're doing?

     NEO
   You need help.  I'm coming with
  you.

     TRINITY
   No.  No way.  Morpheus sacrificed
  himself so you could escape.
  There's no way you're going back
  in.

     NEO
   Morpheus did what he did because
  he believed that I'm something
  that I'm not.

     TRINITY
   What?

     NEO
   I'm not the One, Trinity.  The
  Oracle told me.

Trinity is stunned.

     NEO
   She said I had a gift but I still
  had a lot to learn.  She told me
  maybe next life.

     TRINITY
   Did you tell Morpheus?

     NEO
   Why?  It wouldn't mean anything.
  He'd still believe what he wanted
  to believe.  But Morpheus is the
  one that matters.  He's more
  important than me and we both know
  it.

He straps in.

     NEO
   I may not be what Morpheus thinks
  I am, but if I don't try to help
  him, then I'm not even what I
  think I am.

     TRINITY
   What are you?

     NEO
   His friend.

 INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

Agent Smith sits casually across from Morpheus who is
hunched over, his body leaking and twitching.

     AGENT SMITH
   I'd like to share a revelation
  that I've had during my time here.
  It came to me when I tried to
  classify your species.  I've
  realized that you are not actually
  mammals.

The life signs continue their chaotic patterns.

     AGENT SMITH
   Every mammal on this planet
  instinctively develops a natural
  equilibrium with the surrounding
  environment.  But you humans do
  not.  You move to an area and you
  multiply and multiply until every
  natural resource is consumed and
  the only way you can survive is to
  spread to another area.

He leans forward.

     AGENT SMITH
   There is another organism on this
  planet that follows the same
  pattern.  Do you know what it is?
  A virus.

He smiles.

     AGENT SMITH
   Human beings are a disease, a
  cancer of this planet.  You are a
  plague.  And we are... the cure.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Trinity and Neo hang motionless in the suspension unit.
Tank is at the operations station.

     TANK
   Okay.  Store's open.  What do you
  need?

     TRINITY (V.O.)
   Guns.  Lots of guns.

     TANK
   Coming right up.

He loads the weapons disk.


 INT.  CONSTRUCT

Racks of weapons appear and Neo and Trinity arm
themselves.

     TRINITY
   No one has ever done anything like
  this.

     NEO
   Yeah?

He snap cocks an Uzi.

     NEO
   That's why it's going to work.

 INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

Agent Smith is again at the window.

     AGENT SMITH
   Why isn't the serum working?

     AGENT BROWN
   Perhaps we are asking the wrong
  questions.

     AGENT JONES
   Or he doesn't know.

     AGENT SMITH
   Of course he knows.  He's
  resisting.

     AGENT BROWN
   How?

     AGENT SMITH
   I don't know.  If I knew...

Agent Smith hides his knotting fist.  He is becoming
angry.  It is something that isn't supposed to happen to
agents.

     AGENT SMITH
   Leave me with him.

Agent Brown and Jones look at each other.

     AGENT SMITH
   Now!

 INT.  MAIN DECK

Tank sits down beside Morpheus whose face is ashen like
someone near death.  He takes hold of his hand.

     TANK
   Hold on, Morpheus.  They're coming
  for you.  They're coming.


 EXT.  NIKO HOTEL (MATRIX) - DAY

A dark wind blows.


 INT.  NIKO HOTEL (MATRIX) - DAY

In long, black coats, Trinity and Neo push through the
revolving doors.

Neo is carrying a duffel bag.  Trinity has a large metal
suitcase.  They cut across the lobby drawing nervous
glances.

Dark glasses, game faces.

Several plainclothes cops try to stop them.  They are met
by the MUTED SPIT of a SILENCED GUN and the RAZORED
WHISTLE of THROWING STARS.

The cops slump down to the marbled floor while Neo and
Trinity do not even break stride.


 INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

Agent Smith leans close to Morpheus, whispering to him.

     AGENT SMITH
   Can you hear me, Morpheus?  I'm
  going to be honest with you.

He removes his earphone, letting it dangle over his
shoulder.

     AGENT SMITH
   I hate this place.  This zoo.
  This prison.  This reality,
  whatever you want to call it, I
  can't stand it any longer.  It's
  the smell, if there is such a
  thing.  I feel saturated by it.  I
  can taste your stink and every
  time I do, I fear that I've
  somehow been infected by it.

He wipes sweat from Morpheus' forehead, coating the tips
of his fingers, holding them to Morpheus' nose.

     AGENT SMITH
   Repulsive, isn't it?

He lifts Morpheus' head, holding it tightly with both
hands.

     AGENT SMITH
   I must get out of here, I must get
  free.  In this mind is tlie key.
  My key.

Morpheus sneers through his pain.

     AGENT SMITH
   Once Zion is gone, there's no
  need for me to be here.  Do you
  understand?  I need the codes.  I
  have to get inside Zion.  You have
  to tell me how.

He begins squeezing, his fingers gouging into his flesh.

     AGENT SMITH
   Tell me!  Tell me!

The skull is about to shatter when Agents Jones and Brown
burst into the room.  Agent Smith releases Morpheus.

     AGENT BROWN
   What were you doing?

Agent Smith recovers, replacing his ear piece.

     AGENT JONES
   You don't know.

     AGENT SMITH
   Know what?

Agent Smith listens to his earphone, not believing what
he is hearing.


 INT.  ELEVATORS (MATRIX) - DAY

They get in.  Trinity immediately drops and opens the
suitcase, wiring a plastique and napalm bomb.

Beneath their trench coats is an arsenal of weapons slung
from climbing harnesses.

Neo hits the emergency stop.  He pulls down part of the
false ceiling and finds the elevator shaft access panel.


 INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

Agent Jones looks at Morpheus.

     AGENT JONES
   I think they're trying to save
  him.


 INT.  ELEVATOR SHAFT (MATRIX) - DAY

Neo ratchets down a clamp onto the elevator cable.  Both
of them lock on.  He looks up the long, dark throat of
the building and takes a deep breath.

     NEO
   There is no spoon.

Neo whips out his gun and presses it to the cable, lower
than where they attached themselves.

BOOM!  The CABLE SNAPS.

The counter-weights plummet, yanking Trinity and Neo up
through the shaft as --

The elevator falls away beneath them, distending space,
filling it with the sound of WHISTLING METAL as they soar
to the top.


 INT.  LOBBY (MATRIX) - DAY

The ELEVATOR hits the botton.

 BA-BOOM!

The massive EXPLOSION blows open the doors, fire clouds
engulfing the elevator section of the lobby.


 INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

The Agents hear the BLAST AND FIRE ALARMS.

     AGENT JONES
   Lower level --

     AGENT BROWN
   They are actually attacking.


 INT.  ELEVATOR SHAFT (MATRIX) - DAY

Hanging by a rope, Trinity hot-wires the panel for the
door.


 INT.  TOP FLOOR (MATRIX) - DAY

Nervous, the Marines watch as the ELEVATOR "DINGS" softly
and slides open.

Black smoke rises out of the exposed shaft.

The nearest Marine eases to the edge, peering down at the
churning blaze engulfing the lower levels.

He does not see Trinity and Neo above him until it is too
late.

Krack!  Neo kicks, knocking the Marine flying down into
the shaft.

Before the others can react, Trinity flips out into the
hall, decking the nearest Marine.  Neo cracks another.

The fight is over before it begins.


 INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

An enormous EXPLOSION THUNDERS above them, shaking the
building.  The ALARM SOUNDS, emergency sprinklers begin
showering the room.

Agent Smith smashes a table.

     AGENT SMITH
   Find them and destroy them!

Agent Jones nods and touches his ear piece.


 EXT.  ROOF (MATRIX) - DAY

The roof-access tower is now engulfed in flames as Neo
and Trinity lay waste to a dozen more Marines.

Guns and knives, like extensions of their bodies used
with the same deadly precision as their feet and their
fists.

Across the roof, the pilot inside the army helicopter
watches the ferocious onslaught.

     PILOT
   I repeat, we are under attack!

Suddenly his face, his whole body dissolves, consumed by
spreading locust-like swarm, of STATIC as --

Agent Jones emerges.

Just as she drops the last Marine, Trinity sees what's
coming.

Neo sees her, the fear in her face, and he knows what is
behind him.

Screaming, he whirls, GUNS filling his hands with
thought-speed.

Fingers PUMPING, SHELLS ejecting, dancing up and away, we
look through the sights and gun smoke at --

The Agent blurred with motion --

Until the HAMMERS CLICK against empty metal.

     NEO
   Trinity!

Agent Jones charges.

     NEO
   ... help.

His GUN BOOMS as we enter the liquid space of --

Bullet-time.

The AIR SIZZLES with wads of lead-like angry flies as Neo
twists, bends, ducks just between them.

Agent Jones still running, narrows the gap, the BULLETS
coming faster until --

Neo bent impossibly back, one hand on the ground as a
spiraling gray ball shears open his shoulder.

He starts to scream as another digs a red groove across
his thigh.

He has only time to look up, to see the barrel when Agent
Jones, standing over him, pulls the TRIGGER the final
time.

CLICK.  Empty.

Neo rolls, reaching for another gun when around-house
kick snaps his jaw.  Agent Jones grabs the gun and levels
it at Neo.

     AGENT JONES
   Only human...

Suddenly Agent Jones stops.  Something is wrong.  He
scans the roof.  Trinity is gone.

Immediately, he whirls around and turns straight into the
muzzle of her .45 --

Jammed right into his head.

     TRINITY
   Dodge this, motherfucker!

BOOM!  BOOM!  BOOM!  The body flies back with a flash of
mercurial light and when it hits the ground --

It is the pilot.

Trinity helps Neo up.

     NEO
   Thanks.

     TRINITY
   You're hit --

     NEO
   I'm fine.

Neo is already looking at the helicopter.

     NEO
   Can you fly that thing?

     TRINITY
   Not yet.

She pulls out a cellular phone.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

Tank is back at the controls.

     TANK
   Operator.

     TRINITY (V.O.)
   Tank, I need a pilot program for a
  military M-109 helicopter.

Tank is immediately searching the disk drawers.

     TRINITY (V.O.)
   Hurry!

His fingers flash over the gleaming laser disks, finding
one that he feeds into Trinityls supplement drive,
punching the "load" cormands on her keyboard.


 EXT.  ROOF (MATRIX) - DAY

Trinity's eyes flutter as information surges into her
brain, all the essentials of flying a helicopter absorbed
at light-speed.

     TRINITY
   Let's go.


 INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

Marines, trying to communicate with the men on the roof,
are beginning to panic when Agent Jones comes around the
corner.

     SERGEANT
   Sir!  Sir!  There was gunfire --
  we've lost communication with the
  roof!

     AGENT JONES
   Remain at your posts.

     SERGEANT
   But, sir -- the fire -- we should
  evacuate!

     AGENT JONES
   You will do as you are ordered!

     SERGEANT
   Yes, sir.

Agent Jones marches into the Presidential Suite.


 INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

Agent Jones throws open the bedroom door and enters,
walking through the puddles pooling in the carpet.

Over the RUSHING WATER and the ALARMS, Agent Smith hears
a SOUND and understands the seriousness of the attack.

He turns to the wall of windows as the helicopter drops
 INTO VIEW --

Neo is in the back bay, aiming the mounted .50 machine
gun.

     AGENT SMITH
   No.

The GUN jumps and BULLETS EXPLODE through the WINDOW in a
cacophony of CRASHING GLASS --

As the Agents go for their weapons.

But Neo is too close, the .50 CALIBER too fast and
BULLETS are everywhere, perforating the room.

Agent Smith is hit first, his body jack-knifing back,
blood arcing out with a sudden flash of light --

Then Agent Brown, his GUN still FIRING as his body falls.

And finally Agent Jones.

Neo stares at Morpheus, trying to will him into action.

     NEO
   Get up, Morpheus!  Get up!

Morpheus sits unmoving, his head still down.

Neo grabs the climbing rope just as marines burst into
the adjoining room.

He attaches only one end to his harness when they OPEN
 FIRE.

Quickly he swings the GUN, SPRAYING the other room,
WINDOWS SHATTERING, FURNITURE EXPLODING, marines diving
for cover.


 INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

Just outside the Presidential Suite, three marines
blister with snow-static.


 INT.  PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY

Morpheus lifts his face into the room's rain.  His eyes,
still white, begin to blink, twitch, then close.

And when he opens them, they are again dark and flashing
with fire.

The Agents knife into the room, FIRING even as Neo's
BULLET TRAILS chase them.

Morpheus strains at his handcuffs.

The Agents and the marines turn the tide, BLASTING LEAD,
RICOCHETING, POCK-MARKING the COPTER.

FIRING wildly, Neo turns to see Morpheus rising, snapping
the handcuffs, starting for the window.

Agent Smith stops and sees Morpheus run past the open
bedroom door.

     AGENT SMITH
   Nooo!

He FIRES, sweeping across the sheetrocked wall in a
perfect line.

For an instant, we see the BULLETS SHRED, PUNCTURING the
WALL, searing through the wet air with jet trails of
chalk.

And as Morpheus starts to dive for the window, a bullet
buries itself in his leg --

Knocking him off balance.

     NEO
   He won't make it.

Morpheus lunges, out of control --

As Neo spins, every move a whip crack --

Snapping the other rope-end onto a bolted bar.

Morpheus begins to fall when Neo hurls himself into the
wide blue empty space --

Flying for a moment.

The rope snaking out behind him; an umbilical cord
attached to a machine.

As their two bodies, set in motion, rushing at each other
on a seemingly magnetic course until --

They collide.

Almost bouncing free of each other, arms, legs,
scrambling, hands searching in furious desperation,
finding hold and clinging.

Until the line ends, snapping taut, cracking their
fragile embrace.  Morpheus tumbles, legs flipping over,
falling down --

The ground deliriously distant --

As Neo snatches hold of his mentor's still handcuffed
wrist.

     NEO
   Gotcha!

Trinity is already pulling the copter up and away.

As Agent Smith grabs the M-16 from the nearest marine.

He'll bring them all down.  Targeting the helicopter, he
aims at something only he can see: the oil line.

PONK.  PONK.  PONK.  The rear HULL is PUNCHED full of
holes and smoke and oil pours out like black blood.

     TRINITY
   Shit-shit-no!

Neo is pulling Morpheus up to him when he hears the
 HELICOPTER BEGIN TO DIE.

     NEO
   Oh fuck.

Trinity throws the helicopter towards the roof of the
nearest building.

Morpheus and Neo cling to one another as they and the
machine above them begin to fall.

The ENGINE GRINDS, the CHOPPING BLADES start to slow
while --

The Agents stand in the open shattered window, watching
the helicopter disappear behind taller buildings.

Carried by its nomentum, Trinity guides the parabolic
fall over the nearest roof where --

Neo and Morpheus drop safely, rolling free as the rope
goes slack.  Neo gets to his feet, trying to detach
himself but --

The helicopter is falling too fast, arcing over the roof
like a setting sun --

The coils of slack snap taught --

Yanking Neo off his feet, dragging him with ferocious
speed towards the edge even as --

Trinity lunges for the back door, her gun in one hand,
grabbing for the rope with the other --

Neo flies like a skipping stone, hurtling straight AT us,
when his feet hit the rain gutter --

A fulcrum that levers him up just as --

Trinity FIRES, severing the cord from the HELICOPTER,
falling free of it as it SMASHES, blades first into a
glass skyscraper.

Holding onto the rope she swings, connected to Neo, who
stands on the building's edge watching her arc beneath
him as the HELICOPTER EXPLODES --

She bounces against a shatterproof window that spider-
cracks out while FLAMES ERUPT behind her.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

Tank stares at the screen, his mouth agape.

     TANK
   He's the One.  He's got to be...


 EXT.  ROOFTOP (MATRIX) - DAY

Neo pulls Trinity up into his arms.  Both shaking, they
hold each other again.

     MORPHEUS
   I knew it!  I goddamn knew it!

     TRINITY
   Morpheus!

She runs at him, throwing her arms around him.

     MORPHEUS
   Do you believe me now?  He's the
  One!  Who else could have done
  this?

     NEO
   Morpheus, I know you won't believe
  me but the Oracle told ne I'm not
  the One.

     MORPHEUS
   It doesn't matter if I don't
  believe you --

His eyes light up.

     MORPHEUS
   What matters is that you don't
  believe her.


 INT.  MAIN DECK

The PHONE RINGS.

     TRINITY (V.O.)
   Tank, get us out of here.

     TANK
   Got one ready.  An underground El
  station.  State and Balbo.

     TRINITY (V.O.)
   See ya soon.

LINE GOES DEAD.  Tank looks at the bodies and smiles.

     TANK
   See ya soon.


 EXT.  ROOFTOP (MATRIX) - DAY

The rope is all that remains.  Agent Smith can barely
control his anger.

     AGENT BROWN
   The trace was completed.

     AGENT JONES
   We have their position.

     AGENT BROWN
   The extermination unit is in
  place.

     AGENT JONES
   Order the strike.

Agent Smith can't stand listening to them.  He moves to
the edge of the building, looking out at the surrounding
city.

     AGENT SMITH
   They're not out yet.


 INT.  "EL" STATION (MATRIX) - DAY

A metal gate is locked, the sign reading, "Station
Closed."  Neo looks around, takes out a GUN and BLOWS OFF
the LOCK.

In the moist underground distance they hear the MUTED
RING of a TELEPHONE.

The PHONE is RINGING inside a graffiti-covered booth.

Across from it, sitting hunched against the red concrete
wall, is an OLD MAN.  He stares at the RINGING PHONE,
taking a final pull off his T-bird.  No one is around.
It continues to RING.

Determined, he stands and walks to the booth.  He is
about to answer the phone, when Neo sees him.

     NEO
   Don't!

The Old Man stops, Neo rushes at hin, gliding smoothly
over the turnstiles.

     OLD MAN
   I'm sorry -- I didn't mean!

The Old Man is shaking, terrified.  Neo looks at his gun.
He glances over his shoulder, then eases back the hammer.

     NEO
   Get outta here.  Okay?  Run!  Go!

The Old Man nods, turns and hurries deeper into the urban
cave, disappearing into the shadows as Trinity and
Morpheus arrive.

     TRINITY
   What happened?  Was that --

     NEO
   It was nobody.

Neo turns to the RINGING BOOTH.

     NEO
   Let's go!  You first, Morpheus.

Morpheus gets in and answers the phone.

Lost in the shadow, the Old Man turns back and watches as
Morpheus disappears, the phone dropping, dangling by its
cord.

His eyes grow wide, glowing white in the dark.


 EXT.  ROOFTOP (MATRIX) - DAY

Agent Smith stares, his face twisted with hate.  He will
never be free of the Matrix.

He starts to turn from the edge of the building when he
suddenly hears it, his head whipping back around,
staring --


 INT.  "EL" STATION (MATRIX) - DAY

As the Old Man stares.

Trinity hangs up the phone.  She turns to Neo, standing
close enough to kiss him.

     TRINITY
   Morpheus is right, you know.  It
  doesn't matter what he believes or
  even what the Oracle believes.
  What matters is what you believe.

     NEO
   I believe...

He stares at the fullness of her lips.

     NEO
   I want to kiss you.

She smiles.

     TRINITY
   I want to kiss you too...

The PHONE begins to RING.

     TRINITY
   But I want it to be real.

She pulls herself away and gets into the booth when
something catches Neo's eye and he looks to where the Old
Man had been.

She hears him SCREAM and sees Agent Smith emerge as if
formed by congealing darkness, charging with a fistful of
metal.

The GUN FIRES, the BULLET flying at her, BURSTING through
the plastic WINDOW just as --

Trinity disappears.

The handset hanging in the air as the BULLET HITS,
SHATTERING the EAR-PIECE.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

Trinity blinks, shivering as her conscious exits the
Construct.

     TRINITY
   Neo!

     TANK
   What the hell just happened?

     TRINITY
   An Agent!  You have to send me
  back!

     TANK
   I can't!


 INT.  "EL" STATION (MATRIX) - DAY

GUN REPORT THUNDERS through the underground, both men
BLASTING, moving at impossible speed.

For a blinking noment we enter BULLET-TIME.

Gun flash tongues curl from Neols gun, bullets float
forward like a plane noving across the sky, cartridges
cartwheel into space.

An instant later they are nearly on top of each other,
rolling up out of a move that is almost a mirrored
reflection of the other --

Each jamming their gun tight to the other's head.

They freeze in a kind of embrace; Neo sweating, panting,
Agent Smith machine-calm.

Agent Smith smiles.

     AGENT SMITH
   You're empty.

Neo pulls the TRIGGER.  CLICK.

     NEO
   So are you.

The smile falls.  Agent Smith yanks his TRIGGER.

 CLICK.

Agent Smith's face warps with rage and he attacks, fist
flying at furious speed, blows and counters, Neo
retreating as --

A knife-hand opens his forearm, and a kick sends him
slamming back against a steel column.

Stunned, he ducks just under a punch that crunches into
the beam, STEEL CHUNKS EXPLODING like shrapnel.

Behind him, Neo leaps into the air, delivering a neck-
snapping reverse round-house.  Agent Smith's glasses fly
off and he glares at Neo; his eyes, ice blue.

     AGENT SMITH
   You can't win.

     NEO
   I already have.

He attacks with a vicious series of blows but the Agent
seems to absorb them, waiting for his opening.

And this time Agent Smith's attack is too much, an
unrelenting fury, fists pounding like jackhammers.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

Trinity watches Neo as his body jerks, mouth coughing
blood, his life signs going wild.

     TRINITY
   Jesus, he's killing him!


 INT.  "EL" STATION (MATRIX) - DAY

Agent Smith grabs hold of him, lifting him into the air,
hurling him against the curved wall of the train tunnel,
where he falls inches from the electrified third-rail.

The Agent is about to jump down, and press his attack
when he hears sonething.  From deep in the tunnel, like
an animal cry; a burst of high-speed METAL GRINDING
against METAL.

The sound of an ON-COMING TRAIN.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

Tank is trying to find another entrance.

     TRINITY
   Send me back, Tank!  Anywhere!

     TANK
   I'm looking, Trinity!  I'm
  looking!

From the cockpit, an ALARM sounds.  Morpheus hurries to
the front console, typing, bringing up the radar.

Trinity follows him.

     TRINITY
   What is it... oh no.

In every pipe surrounding them, they see the
Extermination Unit.

     TRINITY
   Sentinels.


 INT.  SEWER MAIN

The killing machine we saw in the History Program blister
by us like tracer bullets shot down the throat of the
abyss.


 INT.  "EL" STATION (MATRIX) - DAY

Neo tries to get up.  Agent Smith jumps down onto the
tracks and drop-kicks him in the face.

The world begins to shake, RUMBLING as the TRAIN NEARS.

     AGENT SMITH
   Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson?

Agent Smith grabs Neo in a choke-hold, forcing him to
look down the tracks, the train's headlight burning a
hole in the darkness.

     AGENT SMITH
   That is the sound of
  inevitability.

Neo sees it coming and he starts to fight.

     AGENT SMITH
   It is the sound of your death.

There is another METAL SCREECH, MUCH LOUDER, closer, as
Agent Smith tightens his hold.  Neo is unable to breathe.

     AGENT SMITH
   Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.

The TRAIN ROARS at them, swallowing Agent Smith's words.

The veins bulge in Neo's head, as he grits through the
pain.

He is not ready to die.

     NEO
   My name is Neo.

Impossibly, he hurls himself straight up, smashing Smith
against the concrete ceiling of the tunnel.

They fall as the sound and fury of the TRAIN EXPLODES
INTO the station.

Neo back-flips up off the tracks just as --

The train barrels over Agent Smith.

Neo stands, knees shaking, when the train slams on its
emergency brake.  With an ear-splitting SHRIEK of
TORTURED RAILS, the train slows, part of it still in the
station.

Neo turns, limping, starting to run, racing for the
escalator --

As the train comes to a stop and the doors of the last
car open; Agent Smith bursts out in furious pursuit, his
glasses again intact.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

Morpheus checks the ship's self destruct key.

     TRINITY
   You can't use that until Neo is
  out!

     MORPHEUS
   I know.  Don't worry, he'll make
  it.


 EXT.  CITY STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

A man sits in his Mercedes, talking on his car phone when
his door is thrown open.  Neo yanks him out and jumps in.

Further down the street, Agent Smith slows, calmly
touching his ear-piece.

Neo throws the car across traffic, rocketing down a side-
street.


 INT.  CAR (MATRIX) - DAY

Driving like a demon with one hand, he grabs the car
phone and dials long distance.

 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

Tank answers.

     TANK
   Operator.

     NEO (V.O.)
   Mr. Wizard, Get me the fuck out
  of here!


 INT.  CAR (MATRIX) - DAY

Looking over his shoulder, watching the mirrors, Neo
drives almost unconsciously.

     NEO
   Hurry, Tank!  I got some serious
  pursuit!


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

The keyboard clicking, Tank searches for an exit.
Trinity screams into the headset.

     TRINITY
   Neo, you better get your ass back
  here!


 INT.  CAR

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

     TANK (V.O.)
   I got one!

Neo glances to his right and sees Agent Brown, now
driving the car beside his.  Agent Brown swerves,
slamming into him.

     TANK (V.O.)
   Wabash and Lake.  A hotel.

Neo fights the steering wheel as Agent Brown pushes the
car up over the median.

     TANK (V.O.)
   Room 303.

Neo drops the phone as his car bucks into the opposing
lane --

Directly into the charging path of an enormous truck
driven by Agent Smith.

Neo dives from the Mercedes as the truck plows into it,
rending metal and GLASS, crushing through, totaling other
cars, as it EXPLODES.

Neo is up and running even as orange and black clouds
billow up behind hin.


 EXT.  CITY STREET (MATRIX) - DAY

Three figures silhouette by the burning wreckage become
the three agents.

Further down the street, Neo hauls his broken, bleeding
ass.

Agents Brown and Smith slow, touching their ear-pieces as
Agent Jones continues chasing full-bore.

Neo spins around a corner, racing toward a hotel called:
the Heart of Chicago Hotel.

Only Agent Jones is behind him now.

Neo dives into the alley.  At the far end he sees Agent
Brown charging.  Neo leaps for the fire escape and begins
to climb.


 INT.  SEWER MAIN

Sentinels open and shift like killer kaleidoscopes as
they ready their weapons, swarming around the
Nebuchadnezzar.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

The hovercraft booms as machines drop onto it.

     TANK
   I'm going to make the call.

     MORPHEUS
   Do it!


 INT.  "HEART OF CHICAGO" HOTEL (MATRIX) - DAY

Agent Snith is in the elevator when he hears the DISTANT
RING of a PHONE.


 EXT.  ALLEY (MATRIX) - DAY

The agents chase him, FIRING, BULLETS SPARKING and
RICOCHETING even as Neo jumps for the third-floor
platform.

Neo kicks in the window, jumping into the hall.  The
doors count backwards:  310...  309...


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

Morpheus grabs the biggest gun he can find.  The lasers
begin to slice through the hull.

     TRINITY
   Where is he?

     TANK
   Almost there.

     MORPHEUS
   He's going to make it.

     TRINITY
   Hurry, Neo.


 INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

Neo can hear the PHONE RINGING.

 305...  304...

Agent Brown reaches the broken window behind him just as
Neo grabs the handle of 303, throwing open the door to
find --

Agent Sniith, waiting, .45 cocked.

Neo can't move -- can't think --

 BOOM.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

Neo's body jerks, and everyone hears it as the life
monitors snap flat-line.

Trinity screams.  Morpheus is frozen in disbelief.


 INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

Three holes in his chest, Neo falls to the blue shag
carpeting, blood smearing down the wallpaper.

Agent Smith stands over him, still aiming, taking no
chances.

     AGENT SMITH
   Check him.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

Through the lasered opening, Morpheus screams, blasting
away at the machines; comet-wads of plasma burning holes
in their armored housings.

Trinity collapses onto Neo's body.

     TRINITY
   No-no-no!  Neo, you're not dead!
  You can't be dead!


 INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

Kneeling beside him, Agent Brown checks his vital signs.

     AGENT BROWN
   He's gone.

Agent Smith smiles, standing over him.

     AGENT SMITH
   I told you, you couldn't win.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

Tank is hit, a laser bolt knocking him to the ground.
They can't hold them off any longer.  Morpheus lunges for
the self destruct --

As Trinity whispers in Neo's ear.

     TRINITY
   You're right here.  I'm holding
  you, Neo.  I'm not letting you go.
  Do you hear me?  I won't let you
  go.


 INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

The agents walk to the elevator, leaving Neo's body
behind.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

Morpheus flicks the Plexiglas shield of the self-
destruct.

     TRINITY
   Goddamnit, Neo!  Don't give it up!
  Not now!

She pounds on his chest.

     TRINITY
   Not now!


 INT.  HOTEL HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

The BLOW ECHOES deep in his mind.

His eyes snap open.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

Trinity screams as the monitors jump back to life.  Tank
and Morpheus stare, unbelieving.

It is a miracle.

     TRINITY
   Now get up!


 INT.  HALL (MATRIX) - DAY

Neo struggles, holding his chest, sitting up.  Down the
hall, he sees the elevator closing and --

Agent Smith staring at him as if he were looking at a
Cypher.

Neo gives him the finger.

     AGENT SMITH
   Nooooo!

Agent Smith pounds on the elevator door.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

A sentinel BLOWS a hole in Morpheus' right arm and he
screams, refusing to let go of the detonator.

 INT.  ROOM 303 (MATRIX) - DAY

Neo dives for the RINGING PHONE.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

Machines split open the craft, pouring in, lasers
targeting everywhere.

A beat finds the center of Morpheus' forehead and he
screams, ready to die.

     TRINITY
   Now!

He turns the key.


 INT.  OVERFLOW PIT

A blinding shock of white lights flood the chamber;
sentinels blink and fall instantly dead, filling the pit
with their cold, metal carcasses.


 INT.  HOVERCRAFT

In the still darkness, only the humans are alive.

     TRINITY
   Neo?

His eyes open.  Tears pour from her smiling eyes as he
reaches up to touch her.

And she kisses hin; it seems like it might last forever.

         FADE TO BLACK.


 FADE IN:

 ON COMPUTER SCREEN

as in the opening.  The cursor beating steadily, waiting.

A PHONE begins to RING.

It is answered and the screen fills instantly with the
trace program.  After a long beat, we recognize Neo's
voice.

     NEO (V.O.)
   Hi.  It's me.  I know you're out
  there.  I know you're working as
  fast as you can to catch me.

We CLOSE IN ON the racing columns of numbers shimmering
across the screen.

     NEO (V.O.)
   I thought I should call and let
  you know how things stand.

We DIVE THROUGH the numbers, surging UP THROUGH the
darkness, sucked TOWARDS a tight constellation of stars.

     NEO (V.O.)
   I know you're real proud of this
  world you've built, the way it
  works, all the nice little rules
  and such, but I've got some bad
  news.

We realize that the constellation is actually the holes
in the mouthpiece of a phone.  Seen from inside.

     NEO (V.O.)
   I've decided to make a few
  changes.

We SHOOT THROUGH the holes as Neo hangs up the phone.

He steps out of the phone booth and starts walking,
wearing a long black coat and dark glasses.  He passes a
mother dragging her little BOY, who cranes his neck as --

Neo takes off, flying up into the air.

     BOY
   Mommy!  Mommy!

     MOMMY
   What?

     BOY
   That man!  That man flies!

     MOMMY
   Don't be silly, honey.  Men don't
  fly.

There is a RUSH of AIR as the Boy stares up as Neo shoots
overhead.  His coat billowing like a black leather cape
as he soars up, up, and away.

 FADE OUT.





     THE END
Downgrade 2.8 [placa TA-082]

2007-03-10T08:34:00.000-08:00
1.-Como primer paso verificaremos que nuestra Psp tenga una placa TA-082 y no
la dejemos como pisapapeles por usar un Downgrade Inadecuado para nuestra placa.
Para saber si nuestra Psp tiene una placa TA-082 tenemos que abrir la tapa del UMD y fijarnos si en la parte de la derecha aparecen unos numeritos, en concreto , IC1003.
en esta foto, podemos ver como reconocer este tipo de placas.
Si nuestra Consola Psp tiene esa placa TA-082 o IC1003 podemos continuar con el Downgrade.

2.- Conectar la Consola Psp al Alimentador de Corriente es
obligatorio que lo hagamos ahora, porque actualizaciones
de firmware y downgrades comprueban que tengamos la batería completa o una
conexión a corriente, que es lo más adecuado.

3.-Conectar la Psp al cable USB, y en la Psp entrar al Modo USB.
Ejecutar el "Pack Downgrade Todos Los Firmwares" y selecciona la opcion
Downgrader Psp Version 2.80 TA-082...despues elegir la unidad de nuestro Psp para que el Pack instale los archivos dentro de la memory stick(La unidad de la Psp aparece cuando
conectas la psp al ordenador en Modo Usb puede salir como H,G,etc...)

4.- Al terminar de Instalar los Archivos del Pack en la Memory Stick...
desconecta tu Psp del ordenador y el Modo Usb.

5.-Vamos al menú FOTO. Abrimos la carpeta llamada HEN_280, que tiene como icono el dibujo de un gallo. Pulsamos X, y si nos ha salido a la primera nos saldrá una pantalla AZUL...nos reiniciara la psp y nos regresara al menu...para comprobar que se haya activado de manera correcta el HEN vamos a Ajustes del Sistema e Informacion del Sistema y verificamos que nuestra version sea 2.80 HEN.
NOTA: Esta versión del HEN es muy inestable y rara vez se instala a la primera. No desespereis si teneis que reintentarlo 15 ó 20 veces. Es normal. Si se os queda pillada la consola o no veis la pantalla azul, reintentadlo hasta que se instale. No desesperéis, al final se instala.

6.-Vamos a Juego Memory stick y ejecutamos la aplicacion 2.80 IDStorageChange...el programa nos hara unos procesos rapidos y nos regresara al menu de la psp.
7.-Volvemos al menu de la Psp y vamos nuevamente a Juego Memory stick y ahora Ejecutamos la aplicacion que nos aparece UPDATE XYZ...nos saldra una pantalla negra pidiendonos que presiones X para iniciar el downgrade...lo hacemos y dejamos que el programa nos haga el downgrade.
8.-Al terminar nos dira que presionemos X para reiniciar la Psp y cuando Reinicie nos saldra una pantalla azul en varios idiomas en la cual debemos presionar O para arreglar los datos dañados...lo hacemos y reiniciara nuestra nueva flamante 1.50 Disfrutala.
Downgrade 2.71 [placa TA-082]

2007-03-10T08:32:00.000-08:00
Si nuestra Consola Psp tiene esa placa TA-082 o IC1003 podemos continuar con el Downgrade.

2.- Conectar la Consola Psp al Alimentador de Corriente es
obligatorio que lo hagamos ahora, porque actualizaciones
de firmware y downgrades comprueban que tengamos la batería completa o una
conexión a corriente, que es lo más adecuado.

3.-Conectar la Psp al cable USB, y en la Psp entrar al Modo USB.
Ejecutar el "Pack Downgrade Todos Los Firmwares" y selecciona la opcion
Downgrader Psp Version 2.71 TA-082...despues elegir la unidad de nuestro Psp para que el Pack instale los archivos dentro de la memory stick(La unidad de la Psp aparece cuando
conectas la psp al ordenador en Modo Usb puede salir como H,G,etc...)

4.- Al terminar de Instalar los Archivos del Pack en la Memory Stick...
desconecta tu Psp del ordenador y el Modo Usb.

5.- Vamos al menú de fotos y abrimos la carpeta HEN-D y abrimos la foto HEN
despues de esto pueden ocurrir dos casos diferentes

a) Veras una pantalla Azul por uno o 2 segundos y despues cambiara a color verde
para finalmente reiniciarse la psp sola sin tocar un solo boton....esto significara que el
Hen se ah activado de manera correcta y podras proseguir con el downgrade
b) Veras una pantalla Roja y no pasara nada con la Psp...eso significa que no se
ah actibado el HEN y deberas apagar la consola y volver a intentarlo hasta que haga
el proceso correcto.(Esto aveces pasa porque el Hen es un poco inestable pero solo
es cuestion de ser peciente y si no funciona a la primera intentarlo las veces necesarias)
6.-Despues de haber hecho el paso 4 de manera correcta activando el Hen deberas
ir al menu de juego..memory stick y aparecera una aplicacion llamada idstoragechange
la ejecutamos y nos hara unos procesos muy rapidos y nos regresara al menu de la psp.
(Es importante no saltarse este paso)

7.-Despues nuevamente vamos a Juego...Memory stick y ejecutamos la aplicacion UPDATE XYZ la ejecutamos y nos saldra una informacion en letras rosas las cuales indican si queremos proseguir con el downgrade presionando X...lo hacemos y nos empezara a downgradear la Psp.
8.- Al final del Downgrade La psp nos pedira que presionemos X o Circulo para reiniciar...y finalmente al reiniciar nos aparecera una imagen en varios idiomas indicando datos dañados con la opcion de presionar Circulo o X para repararlos...lo hacemos y nos reiniciara corrigiendolos con nuestra nueva 1.50... Disfrutala!!!
Downgrade 3.03

2007-03-10T08:28:00.000-08:00
NOTA: Este Downgrade Se puede Hacer en Cualquier tipo de Placa.
REQUISITOS: UMD GTA Liberty City Stories Version Vieja no Parchada (version con Actualizacion a 2.0)

1.- Conectar la Consola Psp al Alimentador de Corriente es
obligatorio que lo hagamos ahora, porque actualizaciones
de firmware y downgrades comprueban que tengamos la batería completa o una
conexión a corriente, que es lo más adecuado.

2.-Conectar la Psp al cable USB, y en la Psp entrar al Modo USB.
Ejecutar el "Pack Downgrade Todos Los Firmwares" y selecciona la opcion
Downgrader Psp Version 3.03...despues elegir la unidad de nuestro Psp para que el Pack instale los archivos dentro de la memory stick(La unidad de la Psp aparece cuando
conectas la psp al ordenador en Modo Usb puede salir como H,G,etc...)

3.- Al terminar de Instalar los Archivos del Pack en la Memory Stick...
desconecta tu Psp del ordenador y el Modo Usb.

4.-Inicia el UMD GTA Liberty City Stories en la Psp

5.-Despues de iniciarlo dejar que Cargue automaticamente una partida y te aparecerá una pantalla en negro, luego una azul, y finalmente se reiniciará tu PSP.
6.-Ahora ve a Ajustes/Ajustes del sistema/Información del sistema, y deberás observar que tu versión diga: "3.03 HEN". Si no aparece esto, no sigas, y repite de nuevo el anterior paso hasta conseguirlo.

7.-Ahora entra en el menú juego y metete en tu Memory Stick, y ejecuta la aplicación "Update x.yz". Deberás aceptar el contrato de licencia para seguir con el proceso; para ello, pulsa X.

8.- Luego presiona X y Se iniciara el Downgrade...en caso de que tengas una placa TA-082 aparecera un mensaje diciendo que si quieres que se parche tu placa...acepta el parcheo de tu placa y continua con el downgrade...

9.-Esperas a que el proceso del Downgrade Finalize y te pedira que presiones X para reiniciar la Consola...lo haces y te reiniciara mostrandote un mensaje en varios idiomas ahi presionas O y te reiniciara tu consola con la flamante 1.50..ya solo configura el idioma y lo demas.
Downgrade 2.8

2007-03-10T08:25:00.000-08:00
1.-Como primer paso verificaremos que nuestra Psp no sea placa TA-082 y no
la dejemos como pisapapeles por usar un Downgrade Inadecuado para nuestra placa.
Para saber si nuestra Psp no tiene una placa TA-082 tenemos que abrir la tapa del UMD y fijarnos si en la parte de la derecha aparecen unos numeritos, en concreto , IC1003.
en esta foto, podemos ver como reconocer este tipo de placas.
Si nuestra Consola Psp no tiene esa placa TA-082 podemos continuar con el Downgrade.

2.- Conectar la Consola Psp al Alimentador de Corriente es
obligatorio que lo hagamos ahora, porque actualizaciones
de firmware y downgrades comprueban que tengamos la batería completa o una
conexión a corriente, que es lo más adecuado.

3.-Conectar la Psp al cable USB, y en la Psp entrar al Modo USB.
Ejecutar el "Pack Downgrade Todos Los Firmwares" y selecciona la opcion
Downgrader Psp Version 2.80...despues elegir la unidad de nuestro Psp para que el Pack instale los archivos dentro de la memory stick(La unidad de la Psp aparece cuando
conectas la psp al ordenador en Modo Usb puede salir como H,G,etc...)

4.- Ve al menú Foto...Entra en la carpeta xLoader 280, , y visualiza las fotos solo visualizalas no las abras, una de ellas aparecerá como datos dañados.
5.-Ve al menú Juegos...Memory stick y ejecuta el 1.50DDforTA-079~081FW2.80PSP que aparecerá ahroa como nueva aplicación. cuando inicie la aplicacion presionamos O
6.-Ahora en la pantalla de PSP informará que se está haciendo el downgrade. NO APAGAR, NO QUITAR LA BATERÍA Y NO QUITAR LA MS. Tranquilo que esto llevará sus minutos. (Es posible que se nos informe de que nuestra PSP no es una TA-079, si estamos seguros de que eso no es cierto volver a reintentar)
7.- Al final del Downgrade nos aparecera una le¡yenda diciendo que reiniciemos el Psp Manualmente..lo hacemos y nos aparecera una Pantalla azul,en varios idiomas...presionamos O y nos reiniciara la psp ya con nuestra flamante 1.50...configuras el idioma y lo demas y ya puedes disfrutar de tu 1.50.
Downgrade 2.71

2007-03-10T08:13:00.000-08:00
Si nuestra Consola Psp no tiene esa placa TA-082 podemos continuar con el Downgrade.

2.- Conectar la Consola Psp al Alimentador de Corriente es
obligatorio que lo hagamos ahora, porque actualizaciones
de firmware y downgrades comprueban que tengamos la batería completa o una
conexión a corriente, que es lo más adecuado.

3.-Conectar la Psp al cable USB, y en la Psp entrar al Modo USB.
Ejecutar el "Pack Downgrade Todos Los Firmwares" y selecciona la opcion
Downgrader Psp Version 2.71...despues elegir la unidad de nuestro Psp para que el Pack instale los archivos dentro de la memory stick(La unidad de la Psp aparece cuando
conectas la psp al ordenador en Modo Usb puede salir como H,G,etc...)

4.- Al terminar de Instalar los Archivos del Pack en la Memory Stick...
desconecta tu Psp del ordenador y el Modo Usb.

5.- Vamos al menú de fotos y abrimos la carpeta HEN-D y abrimos la foto HEN
despues de esto pueden ocurrir dos casos diferentes

a) Veras una pantalla Azul por uno o 2 segundos y despues cambiara a color verde
para finalmente reiniciarse la psp sola sin tocar un solo boton....esto significara que el
Hen se ah activado de manera correcta y podras proseguir con el downgrade
6.-Despues de haber hecho el paso 4 de manera correcta activando el Hen deberas
ir al menu de juego..memory stick y aparecera una aplicacion llamada UPDATE XYZ.

7.-La ejecutamos y nos saldra una informacion en letras rosas las cuales indican si queremos proseguir con el downgrade presionando X...lo hacemos y nos empezara a downgradear la Psp.
8.- Al final del Downgrade La psp nos pedira que presionemos X o Circulo para reiniciar...y finalmente al reiniciar nos aparecera una imagen en varios idiomas indicando datos dañados con la opcion de presionar Circulo para repararlos...lo hacemos y nos reiniciara corrigiendolos con nuestra nueva 1.50.