Warner Bros. in association with
Village Roadshow Pictures and Grouch II Film Partnership
Produced by Joel Silver
Written and Directed by the Wachowski Brothers
136 minutes
1999

Cast of Characters:
Neo
Morpheus
Trinity
Cypher
Tank
Apoc
Mouse
Switch
Dozer
Oracle
Agent Smith
Agent Brown
Agent Jones
Troy
Dejour

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Phone rings.
Cypher:Yea.
Trinity: Is everything in place?
Cypher: You aren't supposed to relieve me.
Trinity: I know but I felt like taking a shift.
Cypher: You like him, don't you. You like watching him.
Trinity: Don't be ridiculous.
Cypher: We're going to kill him, you understand that.
Trinity: Morpheus believes that he is the one.
Cypher: Do you?
Trinity: It doesn't matter what I believe.
Cypher: You don't, do you.
Trinity: Did you hear that?
Cypher: Hear what?
Trinity: Are you sure this line is clean?
Cypher: Yea, of course I am sure.
Trinity: I had better go.

Policeman 1: Freeze, Police.
Policeman 2: Hands on your head. Do it. Do it now.
Trinity sits in front of a laptop. Slowly raises her hands over her head with her back to the policemen.

Scan down the side of the outside of the hotel and down onto the street below. The hotel is named, Heart O' the City Hotel.

Three agents drive up in a black car and get out all dressed in black suits, wearing black sunshades.

Agent Smith: Lieutenant.
Police Lieutenant mutters: Oh shit!
Agent Smith: Lieutenant, you were given specific orders.
Police Lieutenant: Hey, I'm just doing my job. You give me that juris-my-dick-tion crap, you can cram it up your ass.
Agent Smith: Lieutenant, the orders were for your protection.
Police Lieutenant guffaws: I think we can handle one little girl. I sent two units. They're bringing her down now.
Agent Smith, over his shoulder walking toward hotel: No, Lieutenant, your men are already dead.

Trinity kills five policemen, in the process using martial arts and running up the wall to avoid bullets.
Trinity, surveying the dead men on the floor: Shit!

Scene of 3 agents and policemen walking into the entrance of the hotel.

Trinity picks up phone.
Trinity: Morpheus, the line was traced. I don't know how.
Morpheus: I know. They cut the hardline. There's no time. You're going to have to get to another exit.
Trinity: Are there any agents?
Morpheus, crisply: Yes.
Trinity: God damn it!
Morpheus: You have to focus, Trinity. There's a phone at Wells and Lake. You can make it.
Trinity: Alright.
Morpheus: Go!

Trinity hurries out the door to be confronted by the agents and police entering the hallway from the elevator. She stares in horror, then turns and sprints away.

Sprints over roofs and leaps over a street from one building top to the next.
Policeman: That's impossible.

Dives through a window, rolls down a stairs, hits the floor and whips out to pistols, ready to fire on her pursuers.
Trinity, to herself: Get up Trinity. Just get up.
Trinity, with truculence: Get up!

Agent 2: She got out.
Agent Smith: It doesn't matter.
Agent 2: The informant is real.
Agent Smith: Yes.
Agent 3, has a slightly boxier face and deeper voice: We have the name of their next target.
Agent 2: The name is Neo.
Agent Smith: We'll need a search running.
Agent 3: It has already begun.

Music playing: "I am thinking...Still the one"

On Neo's computer screen: Wake up, Neo.
Neo: What?
Screen: The matrix has you...
Neo: What the hell!
Presses control X, trying to exit the program.
Screen: Follow the white rabbit.
Neo: Follow the white rabbit
Presses Esc key to no avail.
Screen: Knock, knock, Neo.
Knock, knock on the door.
Neo: Who is it?
Trinity: It's Troy.
Neo: Yea, yea.
Neo opens the door, which is chained, showing his fear.
Neo: You're two hours late.
Trinity: I know. It's her fault.
Neo: You got the money.
Trinity: Two grand.
Neo: Hold on.
Neo goes to get the illicit disk stored in a textbook, Simulacra or Simulation
The door number is 101, representing that Neo is still in the beginning class and has much yet to learn.
Trinity: Hallelujah, You're my savior, man. My own personal Jesus Christ.
Neo: You get caught using that...
Trinity: Yea, I know, this never happened. You don't exist.
Neo: Right.
Trinity: Something wrong, man? You look a little whiter than usual.
Neo: My computer, it... You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming?
Trinity: All the time. It's called mescaline. It's the only way to fly.
Trinity: Hey, this sounds to me like you might need to unplug, man. You know, get some R and R. Hey, what do you think Dejure? Should we take him with us?
Dejure: Definitely.
Neo: I can't I have uh...work tomorrow.
Dejure: Come on, it will be fun. I promise.
Neo, seeing the white rabbit tattoo on her shoulder: Yea, sure. I'll go.

In a club playing Rage against the Machine. "The witches burn, in the back of my...I am the fool"
Trinity: Hello, Neo.
Neo: How do you know that name.
Trinity: I know a lot about you.
Neo: Who are you?
Trinity: My name is Trinity.
Neo: Trinity...the Trinity that cracked the IRSD base?
Trinity: That was a long time ago.
Neo: Jesus!
Trinity: What?
Neo: I just thought um... you were a guy.
Trinity: Most guys do.
Neo: That was you on my computer. How did you do that?
Trinity: Right now, all I can tell you is that you are in danger. I brought you here to warn you.
Neo: What?
Trinity: They're watching you, Neo.
Neo: Who is?
Trinity: Please just listen.
Trinity leans in close and speaks into Neo's ear in a move that is suggestive of intimacy, which contrasts with the distrustful manner Neo had been talking Trinity.
Trinity: I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you have been doing. I know why you hardly sleep. Why you live alone and why night after night you sit at your computer. You're looking for him.
Trinity: I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer.
Neo: It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.
Trinity: What is the matrix?
Neo: The answer is out there, Neo. It's looking for you and it will find you, if you want it to.

Clock alarm blares, reading 9:18.
Neo: Oh shit! Shit! Shit!

Towering view of Metacortex corporation from the view of an insignificant looking up.
The high squeak of a squeegy cleaning the office window.
Boss: You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson. You believe that you are special, that some how the rules do not apply to you. Obviously, you are mistaken. This company is one of the top software companies in the world, because every single employee understands that they are part of a whole. Thus if an employee has a problem, the company has a problem. The time has come to make a choice, Mr. Anderson. Either you choose to be at your desk on time from this day forth or you choose to find yourself another job. Do I make myself clear?
Neo: Yes, Mr. Rinehart, perfectly clear.

A FedEx delivery man approaches with an envelope: Thomas Anderson
Neo: Yea, that's me.
Delivery man, while handing Neo the envelope: Hey, great.
Delivery man, while walking away: Have a nice day.

Neo opens the envelope to find a cellular phone inside. The phone rings.
Neo: Hello.
Morpheus: Hello, Neo. Do you know who this is?
Neo: Morpheus?
Morpheus: Yes...I 've been looking for you, Neo. I don't know if you are ready to see what I want to show you, but unfortunately you and I have run out of time. They are coming for you, Neo, and I don't know what they are going to do.
Neo: Who's coming for me?
Morpheus: Stand up and see for yourself.
Neo: What, right now?
Morpheus: Yes, now. Do it slowly.
Morpheus: The elevator.
Neo: Oh shit!
Morpheus: Yes...
Neo: What the hell do they want from me?
Morpheus: I don't know, but if you don't want to find out, I suggest that you get out of there.

Neo: How?
Morpheus: I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say.
Neo: OK.
Morpheus: The cubicle across from you is empty.
Neo: What, what if they...
Morpheus: Go, now!

Morpheus: Stay here for just a moment.
Neo nods, listening on the phone.
Morpheus: When I tell you, go to the end of the row, to the office at the end of the hall. Stay as low as you can.

Morpheus: Go now!

After Neo slips into the office at the end of the hall and shuts the door.
Morpheus: Good, now. Outside there is a scaffold.
Neo: How do you know all this?
Morpheus: We don't have time, Neo. To your left there is a window. Go to it. Open it.
You can use the scaffold to get to the roof.
Neo: No way! No way! This is crazy!
Morpheus: There are two ways out of this building. One is on that scaffold. The other is in their custody. You can take a chance either way. I leave it up to you.
Neo: This is insane. Why is this happening to me? What did I do? What am I doing?
Neo, as he steps out of the window: I'm going to die.

Looking down, Neo: Shit!
Drops the phone, Neo: Shit. I can't do this.

On the motorcycle, Trinity: Shit!

Agent Smith: As you can see, we have had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson. 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 landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias, Neo, and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future; one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. Anderson. You're here because we need your help. We know that you have been contacted by a certain individual. A man who calls himself Morpheus. Now whatever you think that you know about this man is irrelevant. He is considered by many authorities to be the most dangerous man alive. My colleagues believe that I am wasting my time with you, but I believe that you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start.
All that we are asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice.
Neo: Well, that sounds like a really good deal. But I think that I have a better one. How about I give you the finger and you give me my phone call.

Agent Smith: Mr. Anderson, you disappoint me.
Neo: You can't scare me with this Gestapo crap. I know my rights. I want my phone call.
Agent Smith: Tell me, Mr. Anderson. What good is a phone call if you're unable to speak.
Agent Smith smiles at Neo's expression of horror as he realizes that his lips are melded together.
Agent Smith: You're going to help us Mr. Anderson whether you want to or not.

Waking up in bed screaming, Neo is relieved that it must have all been a nightmare.
The phone rings.
Morpheus: This line is tapped, so I must be brief. They got to you first, but they've underestimated how important you are. If they knew what I know, you would probably be dead.
Neo: What are you talking about? What is happening to me?
Morpheus: You are the one, Neo. You see you may have spent the last few years looking for me, but I have spent my entire life looking for you. Now do you still want to meet?
Neo: Yes.
Morpheus: Then go to the Adams Street bridge.

Trinity: Get in.
Switch points turns around in the front seat and points a gun at N.
Neo: What the hell is this?
Trinity: It's necessary, Neo, for our protection.
Neo: From what?
Trinity: From you.
Switch: Take off your shirt.
Neo: What?
To Apoc, Switch: Stop the car.
Turning back to Neo, Switch: Listen to me Coppertop. We don't have time for twenty questions. Right now there is only one rule: our way or the highway.
Neo: Fine.
Neo, starts to get out of the car, when Trinity reaches to halt him.
Trinity: Please, Neo, you have to trust me.
Neo: Why?
Trinity: Because you have been down there, Neo. You know that road. You know exactly where it ends; and I know that's not where you want to be.
Trinity: Apoc, lights.
Trinity: Lie back. Lift up your shirt.
Neo: What is that thing?
Trinity: We think that you're bugged.
As she positions a large extractor over Neo's belly, Trinity: Try and relax.
muttering, Trinity: Come on. Come on.
Switch: It's on the move.
Trinity: Oh, shoot!
Switch: You're going to loose it.
Trinity: No, I'm not.
Trinity: Clear.
Neo: Ahh! God! Jesus Christ, that thing's real!

Pausing in front of the door in the hotel.
Trinity: This is it. Let me give you one piece of advice. Be honest. He knows more than you can imagine.

Morpheus turns and smiles as Neo and Trinity enter the room.
Morpheus: At last. Welcome, Neo. As you no doubt have guessed, I am Morpheus.
Neo: It's an honor to meet you.
Morpheus: No, the honor is mine. Please, come. Sit.
Trinity leaves and Morpheus shuts the door.
Morpheus: I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole. Hum?
Neo: You can 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. Ironically this is not far from the truth. 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. Let me tell you why you are here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there is something wrong in the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like as splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Neo: The matrix.
Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is? The matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now in this very room, you can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you can not smell, or taste, or touch. A prison for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill. The story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill. You stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

As Neo reaches for the red pill, Morpheus cautions: Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.
Morpheus: Follow me.
Morpheus: Apoc, are we online?
Apoc: Almost.
Morpheus: Time is always against us. Please, take a seat there.
Neo: You did all this?
Trinity: Umhuh.
Morpheus: The pill you took is part of a trace program. It's designed to interrupt you input/output carrier signals so we can pinpoint your location.
Neo: What does that mean?
Cypher: It means buckle your seat belt, Dorothy, because Kansas is going bye-bye.

Looking over at the mirror, Neo: Did you...?
Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real. What if you were unable to wake from that dream. How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
Neo: This can't be...
Morpheus: Be what? Be real.
Switch: It's going into replication.
Morpheus: Apoc?
Apoc: Still nothing.
Whispering in horror, Neo: It's gone! It's gone!
Morpheus: Tank, we're going to need a signal soon.
Trinity: We've got a fibrillation.
Morpheus: Apoc, location?
Apoc: Targeting almost there.
Trinity: He's going into arrest.
Apoc: Lock. I got him.
Morpheus: Now, Tank, now.

Morpheus: Welcome to the real world.

Morpheus: We've done it, Trinity. We've found him.
Trinity: I hope you're right.
Morpheus: You don't have to hope, I know it.

Neo: Am I dead?
Morpheus: Far from it.

Tank: He still needs a lot of work.
Neo: What are you doing?
Morpheus: Your muscles have atrophied. We're rebuilding them.
Neo: Why do my eyes hurt?
Morpheus: You've never used them before. Rest Neo. The answers are coming.

Pulling needle from his arm, Neo: Ah.

Neo: Morpheus, what's happened to me. What is this place?
Morpheus: More important than what is when.
Neo: When?
Morpheus: You believe it's the year 1999, when in fact it's closer to 2199. I can't tell you exactly what year it is, because we honestly don't know. There's nothing I can say that will explain it for you, Neo. Come with me. See for it, yourself.

Morpheus: This is my ship, the Nebuchadnezzar. It's a hovercraft.
Morpheus: This is the main deck. This is the core where we broadcast our pirate signal and hack into the matrix.
Morpheus: Most of my crew, you already know. This is Apoc, Switch, and Cypher. The ones that you don't know: Tank and his big brother Dozer. The little one behind you is Mouse. You wanted to know what the Matrix is, Neo? Trinity.
Morpheus: Try to relax. This will feel a little weird.

Morpheus: This is the construct. It's our loading program. We can load anything from clothing, to equipment, weapons, training simulations. Anything we need.
Neo: Right now we're inside a computer program?
Morpheus: Is it really so hard to believe? Your clothes are different. The plugs in your arms and head are gone. Your hair has changed. Your appearance now is what we call your residual self image. It is the mental projection of your digital self.
Neo: This...this isn't real?
Morpheus: What is real? How do you define real? If you talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. This is the world that you know. The world as it was at the end of the twentieth century. It exists now only as part of a neural interactive simulation that we call the matrix. You've been living in a dream world, Neo. This is the world as it exists today.
Morpheus: Welcome to the desert of the real. We have only bits and pieces of information, but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early twenty-first century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI.
Neo: AI, you mean artificial intelligence.
Morpheus: A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. We don't know who struck first. Us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power; and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun. Through out human history we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate it seems is not without a sense of irony. The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120 volt battery and over 25 thousand BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields of them, endless fields where human beings are no longer born. We are grown. For the longest time I wouldn't believe it, and then I saw the fields with my own eyes. Watched them liquify the dead, so they could be fed intravenously to the living. And standing there facing the pure horrifying precision, I came to realize the obviousness of the truth. What is the matrix? Control. The matrix is a computer generated dreamworld. Build to keep us under control, in order to change a human being into this.
Neo: No. I don't believe it. It's impossible.
Morpheus: I didn't say it would be easy, Neo. I just said that it would be the truth.
Neo: Stop. Let me out. Let me out. I want out.
Trinity: Easy, Neo.
Neo: Don't touch me. Stay away from me. I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I don't believe it. Cypher: He's gonna pop.
Morpheus: Breath, Neo. Just breath.

Neo: I can't go back, can I?
Morpheus: No, but if you could, would you really want to? I feel I owe you an apology. We have a rule. We never free a mind once it's reached a certain age. It's dangerous. The mind has trouble letting go. I've seen it before and I'm sorry. I did what I did, because I had to. When the matrix was first built there was a man born inside who had the ability to change whatever he wanted, to remake the matrix as he saw fit. It was he who freed the first of us, taught us the truth. As long as the matrix exists, the human race will never be free. After he died, the oracle prophecized his return and that his coming would hail the destruction of the matrix, end the war, bring freedom to our people. That is why there are those of us who have spent our entire lives searching the matrix, looking for him. I did what I did, because I believe that search is over. Get some rest. You're going to need it.
Neo: For what?
Morpheus: Your training.

Tank: Morning. Did you sleep?
Tank: You will tonight. I guarantee it.
Neo: I'm Tank. I'll be your operator.
Neo: You don't...you don't have any...
Tank: holes? Nope. Me and my brother Dozer we're both one hundred percent pure old fashioned home grown human, born free right here in the real world. A genuine child of Zion.
Neo: Zion?
Tank: If the war was over tomorrow, Zion's where the party would be.
Neo: It's a city?
Tank: The last human city. The only place we have left.
Neo: Where is it?
Tank: Deep under ground near the Earth's core where it's still warm. If you live long enough, you might even see it. God damn, I gotta tell you I'm fairly excited to see what you're capable of, if Morpheus is right and all. I'm not supposed to talk about this, but if you are, um...a very exciting time. We've got a lot to do it. We gotta get to it.

Tank: Now, we're supposed to start with these operation programs first. [A major bummer and shed.]* Let's do something a little more fun. How about combat training.
*Uncertain what exactly was said.
Neo: Jujitsu. I'm going to learn jujitsu?

Gasping, Neo: Oh shit!
Tank: Mikey, I think he likes it. How about some more?
Neo: Hell, yes.

Morpheus: How is he?
Tank: Ten hours straight. He's some machine.
Neo: I know kung-fu.
Morpheus: Show me.

Morpheus: This is a sparing program, similar to the programmed reality of the matrix. I has the same basic rules, rules like gravity. What you must learn is that these rules are no different than rules of any computer system. Some of them can be bent. Others can be broken. Understand? Then hit me, if you can.

Morpheus: Good, adaptation, improvisation, but your weakness is not your technique.

Mouse to the other crew members: Morpheus is fighting Neo.

Morpheus: How did I beat you?
Neo: You're too fast.
Morpheus: Do you believe that my being stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place? You think that's air you're breathing now? Again.

Mouse: Jesus Christ, he's fast. Take a look at his neuro-kinetics, they're way above normal.

Morpheus: What are you waiting for. You're faster than this. Don't think you are. Know you are.
Morpheus: Come on, stop trying to hit me, and hit me.

Mouse: I don't believe it.

Neo: I know what you are trying to do.
Morpheus: I'm trying to free your mind, Neo, but I can only show you the door. You're the one who has to walk through it.
Morpheus: Tank, load the jump program.

Morpheus: You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.
Neo: Whoa!
Morpheus: Okey-dokey. Free my mind. Free my mind.

Mouse: What if he makes it?
Tank: No one has ever made the first jump.
Mouse: I know, I know, but what if he does.
Apoc: He won't
Trinity whispering: Come on.

Neo: Right, no problem. Free my mind. Free my mind. No problem. Right!
Neo: Whoa! God! God!
Mouse: What does that mean?

Switch: It doesn't mean anything.
Cypher: Everybody falls the first time. Right, Trin?

Neo: Ow...I thought it wasn't real
Morpheus: Your mind makes it real.
Neo: If you're killed in the matrix, you die here?
Morpheus: The body can not live without the mind.

Cypher: I don't remember you ever bringing me dinner. There is something about him, isn't there?
Trinity: Don't tell me you're a believer now.
Cypher: I just keep wondering if Morpheus is so sure, why isn't he taking him to see the Oracle?
Trinity: Morpheus will take him when he's ready.

Morpheus: The matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. When you are inside. You look around. What do you see? Business men, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand. Most of these people are not ready to be unplugged, and many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it. Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
Neo: I was...
Morpheus: Look again. Freeze it.
Neo: This...this isn't the matrix?
Morpheus: No, it is another training program designed to teach you one thing. If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
Neo: What are they?
Morpheus: Sentient programs. They can move in and out of any software still hard wired to their system. That means that anyone that we haven't unplugged is potentially an agent. Inside the matrix, they are everyone and they are no one. We have survived by hiding from them and by running from them, but they are the gatekeepers. They are guarding all the doors. They are holding all the keys, which means that sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them.
Neo: Someone?
Morpheus: I won't lie to you, Neo. Every single man or woman who has stood their ground, everyone who has fought an agent has died. But where they have failed, you will succeed.
Neo: Why?
Morpheus: I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall. Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air. Yet their strength and their speed is still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be.
Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?
Morpheus: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you are ready, you won't have to.
The phone rings.
Tank: We've got trouble.

Morpheus: Did Zion send anyone?
Dozer: No, another ship. The squidee is sweeping in quick.
Neo: Squidee?
Trinity: A sentinel. A killing machine designed for one thing...
Dozer: Search and destroy.
Morpheus to Dozer: Set her down right over there.

Morpheus: How are we doing, Tank?
Tank: Power offline. EMP armed and ready.

Neo: EMP?
Trinity: Electro-magnetic pulse. It disables any electrical signal in the blast radius. It's the only weapon we have against the machines.
Neo: Where are we?
Trinity: Their old surface and waste system.
Neo: Sewers?
Trinity: They used to be cities which spanned hundreds of miles. Now these sewers are all that's left of them.
Morpheus: Quiet.

Cypher: Whoa! Neo, you scared the Bee-Jesus out of me.
Neo: Sorry.
Cypher: It's OK.
Neo: Is that...?
Cypher: The matrix. Yea.
Neo: Do you always look at it encoded?
Cypher: Well you have to. The image translators work for the construct program, but there's way too much information to decode the matrix. You get used to it. I...I don't even see the code. All I see is blond, brunette, redhead. Hey, you uh...want a drink.
Neo: Sure.
Cypher: You know, I know what you're thinking. Because right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually I've been thinking it ever since I got here. Why, oh why didn't I take the blue pill?
Neo gasps and coughs after taking a drink.
Cypher: Good shit, huh? Dozer makes it. Good for two things: degreasing engines and killing brain cells. So can I ask you something? Did he tell you why he did it? Why you're here? Jesus, what a mind job! So you're here to save the world. What do you say to something like that? A little piece of advice. You see an agent, you do what we do. Run, run your ass off.
Neo: Thanks for the drink.
Cypher: Sweet dreams.

Agent Smith: Do we have a deal, Mr. Reagan?
Cypher: You know I know that this steak does not exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize: oh, ignorance is bliss!
Agent Smith: Then we have a deal.
Cypher: I don't wanna remember nothing. Nothing. You understand. And I wanna be rich. You know someone important, like an actor.
Agent Smith: Whatever you want, Mr Reagan.
Cypher: OK, you get my body back in a power plant. Reinsert me into the matrix. I'll get you what you want.
Agent Smith: Access codes to the Zion mainframe.
Cypher: No, I told you. I don't know them. I'll get you the man who does.
Smith: Morpheus.

Tank: Here you go, buddy. Breakfast of champions.
Mouse: If you close your eyes, it almost feels like you're eating runny eggs.
Apoc: Yea, a bowl of snot.
Mouse: You know what it really reminds me of...Tasty Wheat. Did you ever eat Tasty Wheat?
Switch: No, but technically neither did you.
Mouse: That's exactly my point. Exactly. Because you have to wonder now. How did the machines really know what Tasty Wheat tasted like. Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken for example. Maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything. And maybe they couldn't figure out...
Apoc: Shut up, Mouse.
Dozer: It's a single cell protein combined with synthetic aminos, vitamins, and minerals. Everything the body needs.
Mouse: It doesn't have everything the body needs. So I understand that you've run through the agent training program. You know that I wrote that program.
Apoc: Here it comes.
Mouse: So what did you think of her?
Neo: Of who?
Mouse: The woman in the red dress. I designed her. She um...well she doesn't talk much, but if you'd like to meet her, I can arrange a much more personalized milieu.
Switch: A digital pimp hard at work.
Mouse: Pay no attention to these hypocrites, Neo. To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
Morpheus: Dozer, when you're done, bring the ship up to broadcast depth. We're going in. We're taking Neo to see her.
Neo: To see who?
Tank: The Oracle.

Tank: Everyone please observe the fasten your seatbelt and no smoking signs have been turned on. Sit back and enjoy the ride.

Picking up the phone, Morpheus: We're in.

Morpheus to Apoc: We'll be back in an hour.

Morpheus, in the car speaking to Neo: Unbelievable, isn't it.
Neo: God!
Trinity: What?
Neo: I used to eat there. Really good noodles. I have these memories from my life, none of them happened. What does that mean?
Trinity: The matrix can not tell you who you are?
Neo: But an oracle can?
Trinity: That's different.
Neo: Did you go to her?
Trinity: Yes.
Neo: What did she tell you...?
Trinity: She told me...
Neo: What?
Trinity smiles, mysteriously.
Morpheus: We're here. Neo, come with me.

In the elevator.
Neo: So is this the same oracle that made the uh...prophecy?
Morpheus: Yes, she is very old. She has been with us since the beginning.
Neo: The beginning?
Morpheus: Of the resistence.
Neo: And she knows what? Everything?
Morpheus: She would say that she knows enough.
Neo: And she is never wrong?
Morpheus: Try not to think of it in terms of right and wrong. She is a guide, Neo. She can help you find the path.
Neo: She helped you?
Morpheus: Yes.
Neo: What did she tell you?
Morpheus: That I would find the one.

Morpheus in front of the door the apartment of the Oracle: I told you that I can only show you the door. You have to walk through it.
Receptionist opens the door: Hello, Neo. You're right on time. Make yourself at home, Morpheus. Neo, come with me.

Receptionist takes Neo to a waiting room with children: These are the other potentials. Neo, you can wait here.
Makes Neo wait with "the other potentials" because Neo, like the children, is still developing and learning and only has the potential to achieve at this point.
On the TV is a scene of rabbits running.
Boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Boy: Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends. It is only yourself.
Receptionist: The oracle will see you now.

Oracle: I know you're Neo. Be right with you.
Neo: You're the Oracle?
Oracle: Bingo. Not quite what you were expecting, right? Almost done. Smell good, don't they?
Neo: Yea.
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?
Oracle: That vase.
Neo: I'm sorry.
Oracle: I said don't worry about it. I'll get one of my kids to fix it.
Neo: How did you know?
Oracle: Oh...what's really going to bake your noodle later on is would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything. You're cuter than I though. I can see why she likes you.
Neo: Who?
Oracle: Not too bright though. You know why Morpheus brought you to see me. So what do you think? Do you think you are the one?
Neo: Honestly I don't know.
The oracle points to a sign over the entrance way reading "Temet Nosce": You know what that means? It's Latin. It means, "know thyself." I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Being the one is just like being in love. No one can tell you that you're in love. You just know it, through and through, balls to bones.
Oracle: Well, I had better have a look at you. Open your mouth. Say ah.
Neo: Ah.
Oracle: OK, now I'm supposed to say hum...that's interesting, but then you say...
Neo: But what?
Oracle: But you already know what I'm going to tell you.
Neo: I'm not the one.
Oracle: Sorry, kid. You've got the gift, but it looks like you're waiting for something.
Neo: What?
Oracle: Your next life maybe. Who knows? That's the way these things go. What's funny?
Neo: Morpheus. He uh...he almost had me convinced.
Oracle: I know. Poor Morpheus. Without him, we're lost.
Neo: What do you mean "without him?"
Oracle: Are you sure you want to hear this. Morpheus believes in you, Neo. And no one, not you, not even me, can convince him otherwise. He believes it so blindly that he's going to sacrifice his life to save yours.
Neo: What?
Oracle: You're going to have to make a choice. In the one hand, you'll have Morpheus' life, in the other hand, you'll have your own. One of you is going to die. Which one will be up to you. I'm sorry kiddo, I really am. You have a good soul, and I hate giving good people bad news. Oh, don't worry about it. As soon as you step outside that door, you'll start feeling better. You'll remember that you don't believe in any of this fate crap. You're in control of your own life. Remember. Here take a cookie. I promise by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.

Morpheus: What was said was for you, and for you alone.
Neo takes a bite of the cookie, meaning that he wants to feel "right as rain," or wash away this burden.

Tank, speaking to Mouse over the phone: They're on their way.

Tank: What is that?

Neo: Oh, deja vu.
Trinity: What did you just say?
Neo: Nothing, just had a little deja vu.
Trinity: What did you see?
Cypher: What happened?
Neo: A black cat went past us and then 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.
Morpheus: Switch, Apoc.
Neo: What is it?
Trinity: Deja vu is usually a glitch in the matrix. It happens when they change something.

Tank: Oh my God!

Morpheus, as they start running up the stairs: Let's go.

Tank, calling Mouse on the phone: They cut the hardline. It's a trap. Get out.
Mouse: Oh, no! Oh, no! Ahhhh...!

Cypher: Oh, that's what they changed. We're trapped. There is no way out.
Morpheus: Be calm, give me your phone.
Trinity: They'll be able to track it.
Morpheus: We have no choice.
M, on the phone: Tank, find a structural drawing of this building. Find it fast.
Tank: Got it.
Morpheus: I need the main wet wall.
Tank: Eighth floor

Agent Smith, listening in on the conversation on his phone, repeats: Eighth floor.

Apoc, handing a pistol to Neo: Neo, I hope the oracle gave you some good news.
Tank: Now left, that's it.
Morpheus: Good.

Agent 2: Where are they?

Cypher coughs.

Soldier: They're in the walls. They're in the walls.

Agent Smith smashes his arms through the wall and grabs Neo.
Cypher: It's an agent.

Morpheus knocks through the wall and jumps on the agent: No!
While wrestling with the agent, Morpheus: You must get Neo out. He's all that matters.
Trinity: Morpheus!
Morpheus: Trinity, Go.
Trinity: Go
Neo: We can't leave him.
Trinity: We have to.

Trinity: Cypher, Come on.

Agent Smith: The great Morpheus. We meet at last.
Morpheus: And you are?
Agent Smith: Smith, Agent Smith.
Morpheus: You all look the same to me.

After beating up Morpheus, Agent Smith commands the soldiers: Take him.

Tank moans in shock as Morpheus get pounded by the soldiers: No!

Tank: Operator,
Cypher: Yeah, I need an exit fast.
Tank: Cypher?
Cypher: Yeah, there was an accident, a goddamn car accident. All of the sudden, boom. Somebody up there still likes me.
Tank: I got ya.
Cypher: Get me out of here fast.
Tank: The nearest exit is Franklin and Erie, an old TV repair shop.
Cypher: Right.

Tank: Operator.
Trinity: Tank, it's me
Neo: Is Morpheus alive?
Trinity: Is Morpheus alive, Tank?
Tank: Yes, they're moving him, but I don't know where to yet.
Trinity to Neo: He's alive
Trinity: We need an exit.
Tank: You're not far from Cypher.
Trinity: Cypher?
Tank: I know there's one on Franklin and Erie.

Cypher: Where are they?
Tank: They're making the call.
Cypher: Good

Trinity: You first, Neo.

Cypher: Shit.
Dozer: Tank! No!

Neo to Trinity: I don't know. It just went dead.

Cypher: Hello, Trinity.
Trinity: Cypher, where's Tank?
Cypher: You know for a long time I thought I was in love with you. I used to dream about you. You're a beautiful woman, Trinity. Too bad things had to turn out this way.
Trinity: You killed them.
Apoc: What!
Switch: Oh God!
Cypher: I'm tired, Trinity. I'm tired of this war. Tired of fighting. Tired of this ship. Being cold. Eating the same goddamn goop every day. Most of all, I'm tired of that jack-off and all his bullshit. Surprise, asshole. I bet you never saw this coming. Did you? God, I wish I could be there when they break you. I wish I could walk in just when it happens. So right then you'd know it was me.
Trinity: You gave them Morpheus
Cypher: He lied to us, Trinity. He tricked us. If you'd have told us the truth, we would have told you to shove that red pill right up your ass.
Trinity: That's not true, Cypher. He set us free.
Cypher: Free. You call this free. All I do is what he tells me to do. If I have to choose between that and the matrix, I choose the matrix.
Trinity: The matrix isn't real.
Cypher: I disagree, Trinity. I think the matrix can be more real than this world. All I do is pull the plug here, but there you have to watch Apoc die.
Apoc: Trinity!
Switch: No!
Cypher: Welcome to the real world, huh baby.
Trinity: But you're out, Cypher. you can't go back.
Cypher: Oh no, that's what you think. They're going to reinsert my body. I go back to sleep; and when I wake up, I won't remember a goddamn thing. By the way, if you have anything terribly important to say to Switch, I suggest that you say it now.
Trinity: No, please, don't.
Switch: Not like this. Not like this.
Cypher: Too late.
Trinity: Goddamn you, Cypher.
Cypher: Don't hate me, Trinity. I'm just the messenger. And right now I'm going to prove it to you. If Morpheus was right, then there is no way that I can pull this plug. If Neo is the one, then there would have to be some kind of a miracle to stop me, right? I mean how can he be the one if he's dead? You never did answer me before. You bought into Morpheus' bullshit. Come on. All I want is a little yes or no. Look into his eyes, those big, pretty eyes. Tell me yes or no.
Trinity whispers: Yes
Cypher: No, I don't believe!
Tank: Believe it or not, you piece of shit, you still gonna burn.
Tank spits in disgust at Cypher's dead body: Pooh.

Neo to Trinity as he hands her the phone: You first.

Trinity to Tank, back on the ship: You're hurt.
Tank: I'll be alright.
Trinity: Dozer?

Agent Smith: Have you ever stood and stared at it. Marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives. Oblivious. 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. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world, but I believe that as a species human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. Your perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization, because as soon as we began thinking for you, it really became our civilization. Which of course is what this is all about. Evolution, Morpheus, evolution, like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.
Agent 3: There could be a problem.

Neo: What are they doing to him?
Tank: They're breaking into his mind. It's like hacking a computer, all it takes is time.
Neo: How much time?
Tank: Depends on the mind, but eventually he'll crack and his alpha patterns will change from this to this. When it does, Morpheus will tell them anything that they want to know.
Neo: What do they want?
Tank: The leader of every ship is given codes to Zion's mainframe computer. If an agent got the codes and got into Zion's mainframe, it could destroy us. We can't let that happen. Trinity, Zion's more important than me, or you, or Morpheus.
Neo: Well, there has to be something we can do.
Tank: There is, we pull the plug.
Trinity: You're going to kill him, kill Morpheus.
Tank: We don't have any other choice.

Agent Smith: Never send a human to do a machine's job.
Agent 2: If indeed the insider has failed, then they'll sever the connection as soon as possible. Unless...
Agent 3: ...they're dead, in either case...
Agent Smith: ...we have no choice but to proceed as planned. Deploy the sentinels immediately.

Tank: Morpheus you're more than a leader to us, you are a father. We will miss you always.
Neo: Stop. I don't believe this is happening.
Tank: Neo, this has to be done.
Neo: Does it? I don't know. This can't be just coincidence. It can't be.
Tank: What are you talking about?
Neo: The Oracle, she told me this would happen. She told me that I would have to make a choice.
Trinity: What choice? What are you doing?
Neo: I'm going in.
Trinity: No, you're not.
Neo: I have to.
Trinity: Neo, Morpheus sacrificed himself, so that we could get you out. There is no way that you're going back in.
Neo: Morpheus did what he did because he believed I'm something that I'm not.
Trinity: What?
Neo: I'm not the one, Trinity. The Oracle hit me with that, too.
Trinity: No, you have to be.
Neo: I'm sorry. I'm not. I'm just another guy.
Trinity: No, Neo, that's not true. It can't be true.
Neo: Why?
Tank: Neo, this is loco. They've got Morpheus in a military controlled building. Even if you somehow got inside, those are agents holding him, three of them. I want Morpheus back too, but what you're talking about is suicide.
Neo: I know that is what it looks like, but it's not. I can't explain to you why its not. Morpheus believed something, and he was ready to give his life for what he believed. I understand that now. That's why I have to go.
Tank: Why?
Neo: Because I believe in something.
Trinity: What?
Neo: I believe I can bring him back.

Neo: What are you doing?
Trinity: Going with you.
Neo: No, you're not.
Trinity: No. Let me tell you what I believe. I believe that Morpheus means more to me than he does to you. I believe that if you are really serious about saving him, you are going to need my help. And since I am the ranking office on this ship, if you don't like it, I believe you can go to hell, because you aren't going anywhere else. Tank, load us up.

Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. I came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. 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. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure.

Tank: OK, what do you need, besides a miracle?
Neo: Guns, lots of guns.
Trinity: Neo, no one has ever done anything like this.
Neo: That's why it's going to work

Agent Smith: Why isn't the serum working.
Agent 2: Perhaps we're asking the wrong questions.
Agent Smith: Leave me with him now.

Tank: Hold on, Morpheus. We're coming for you. We're coming.

Agent Smith: Can you hear me, Morpheus? I am going to be honest with you. 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 that I do, I fear that I have somehow been infected by it. It's repulsive, isn't it. I must get out of here. I must get free. And in this mind is the key, my key. Once Zion is destroyed, there is no need for me to be here. Don't you understand. I need the codes. I have to get inside Zion and you have to tell me how. You are going to tell me, or you are going to die.

Security Guard 1: Would you please remove any metallic items that you are carrying, keys, loose change. Holy shit!

Security Guard 2: Backup, send backup!

Soldier in the Backup Squad: Freeze!

Agent 2: What were you doing?
Agent 3: He doesn't know.
Agent Smith: Know what?

Agent 3: I think that they're trying to save him.

Neo: There is no spoon.

Agent Smith: Find them and destroy them.

Soldier in helicopter: I repeat we are under attack.

Neo: Trinity, help!
Agent 3: Only human.
Trinity: Dodge this.
Trinity: How did you do that.
Neo: Do what?
Trinity: You moved like they do. I've never seen anyone move that fast.
Neo: It wasn't fast enough. Can you fly that thing?
Trinity: Not yet.
Tank: Operator.
Trinity: Tank, I need a pilot program for a B2-12 helicopter. Hurry.
Trinity: Let's go.

Agent Smith: No.

Neo: Morpheus, get up. Get up. Get up.
Morpheus: Aahhh!
Neo: He's not going to make it!
Neo: Got ya.

Neo: Trinity!

Tank: I knew it. He's the One.

Morpheus: Do you believe it now, Trinity?
Neo: Morpheus, the Oracle, she told me, I...
Morpheus: She told you exactly what you needed to hear. That's all. Neo, sooner or later you are going to realize, just as I did, there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Tank: Operator.
Morpheus: Tank.
Tank: Goddamn, it's good to hear your voice, sir.
We need an exit.
Got one ready. Subway station, State and Valley.

Agent Smith: God damn it.
Agent 2: The trace was completed.
Agent 3: We have their position.
Agent 2: Sentinels are standing by.
Agent 3: Order the strike.
Agent Smith They're not out yet.

Neo: You first, Morpheus.
Trinity: Neo, I want to tell you something, but I'm afraid of what it could mean if I do. Everything that the Oracle has told me has come true. Everything but this.

Trinity: Neo.
Tank: What the hell just happened.
Trinity: An agent. You have to send me back.
Tank: I can't.

Agent Smith: Mr. Anderson.

Trinity: Run, Neo. Run. What is he doing?
Morpheus: He's beginning to believe.

Agent Smith: You're empty.
Neo: So are you.
Agent Smith: I'm going to enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson.

Trinity: Jesus, he's killing him.

Agent Smith: Hear that, Mr Anderson. That is the sound of inevitability. That is the sound of your death. Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.
Neo: My name...is Neo.

Morpheus: What happened?
Tank: I don't know. I lost him.

Tank: Oh shit!
Trinity: Sentinels. How long?
Morpheus: Five, maybe six minutes. Tank, charge the EMP.
Trinity: We can't use that until he's out.
Morpheus: I know, Trinity. Don't worry. He's gonna make it.

Bystander: No, just... Shit, that's my phone! That guy took my phone!

Tank: Got him. He's on the run.
Neo: Mr. wizard, get me the hell out of here.
Tank: Got a patch on an old exit. Wabash and Lake.

Neo: Oh shit!

Neo: Uh, help. Need a little help.
Tank: Door.

Tank: The door on your left. No, the other left.
Tank: The back door.

Trinity: Oh no!
Morpheus: Here they come.

Morpheus: He's going to make it.

Tank: The fire escape at the end of the alley. Room 303.

Tank: They're inside.
Trinity: Hurry, Neo.

Morpheus: Can't be!

Agent Smith: Check him.
Agent 2: He's gone.
Agent Smith: Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.

Trinity: Neo, I'm not afraid anymore. The Oracle told me that I would fall in love, and that that man, the man that I loved would be the One. So you see, you can't be dead. You can't be, because I love you. You hear me. I love you. Now get up.

Tank: How?
Morpheus: He is the One.

Agent Smith: No!

Trinity: Neo!
Trinity: No!

Neo: I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you are afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change.
The computer screen flashes the message, "System Failure."
Neo: I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone. And then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls. Without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice that I leave to you.

Closing Music:
Rage Against the Machine, "Wake Up"
Marilyn Manson, "Rock is Dead"