"THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS" (2003)

THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS

tarry andAndy Wachowski

October27, 20-00

GOLDENRODREVISIONS JUNE 27, 2002 1.

Fade in--

On the Matrix at code level,where we are traveling with the speed of thought--

Rushing through streaks of coded lightbefore pausing to survey an area from above, as a godmight.

We glide down for a slightly closer lookat the encoded metropolis, effortlessly movingthrough the walls and rooms of a skyscraper, until we again acceleratebeyond the speed of light to search--

As the code forms the familiar dripsand we pull out onto the monitors of the Mjolnir's operator'sstation.

AK, Link's counterpart on this ship,beats his keyboard.

The crew of the Mjolnir are gatheredon the main deck.

GOLDENRODREVISIONS JUNE27, 2002 2.

Neo lies unconscious.Trinity is at his bedside.

The door opens andMaggie, the ship's medic, enters with a small plate of food.

Trinity takes the plate fromher.

She shakes her head.

Maggie starts to check Neo'smonitors when Bane groans. She steps over to his bed whichis a reverse of Neo's position.

Bane becomes silent and still.

Trinity nods.

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Morpheus and Link have remainedat the perimeter of the meeting. Now Morpheus steps outof the shadows.

Maggie re-reads Neo's lifemonitors.

Trinity rises to see the display.

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The Matrix drips down thewindow of the monitor. '

Morpheus stares at the monitornot willing to accept it.

Colt slides down the ladder fromthe cockpit• •

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He pulls off his headset jumping free ofhis operator's station.

SuddenlyLink notices something.

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Everyone stops andlooks.

Link jumps intothe seat, throwing on the headsets.

Link handsMorpheus the headset.

Seraph is ina phone booth.

Neo slowly,painfully, wakes up.

His faceis mashed against a grey concrete slab.Every part ofhim hurts. A hot-wire migraine sears throughboth hemispheresof his brain.

He peels open his eyes and sees a tinypair of shoes.

Intothe glare of fluorescent light, he looksup at a beautiful little Indian girl.

Shesmiles at him.

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For a moment he sees her asa program of pure radiant energy. Bathed in the shimmering auraof her light he feels his pain melting away. •

NEO

•

Where am I?

He pushes himself up to look around.The ceramic tiles have been painted with the name ofthe station; Mobil Ave.

She whispers as if afraid the Trainmanwas listening.

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GOLDENRODREVISIONS JUNE 27, 2002 7.

Seraph leadsMorpheus and Trinity into the Oracle'sold apartment.

Morpheus and Trinityenter the old apartment. An OlderWoman sits alone in thechurch-like silence.

They look at oneanother, unable to recognize thiswoman.

The Older Woman sighs.

Neither believesit.

TRINITY

What happened?

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make the same choiceagain, knowing full well what itmight cost, I guess I feel pretty good aboutthat choice 'cause here I am, at it again.

, through this world.

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Morpheus remains unsure, unable to stepneither forward or backward.

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All I can dois tell you that your friend is in troubleand he needs your help.

GOLDENRODREVISIONS JUNE 27, 2002 9.

Sheturns to Trinity.

Neo sitsrubbing his temples, trying to piecetogether what happened.

She runsto a middle-aged Indian man who is sittingon a benchbeside his beautiful wife. Several suitcasesstand in a linenext to the bench.

Neo recognizesthe man.

He smiles.

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• He stands.

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He lays his handon Sati's head.

Kamala looks away.

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Neo struggles with the ideaof a Machine loving another Machine.

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He reads Neo's code.

Neo feels awkwardly exposed.

Rama smiles.

A wild-eyed derelict sits inthe frontcar of a subway train.

The train clatters and screechesdown the urban throat where fluorescent lights hang like brokenteeth, glowing against the darkness. It is late at nightand the train is virtually empty.

The rear door is shoved openwith a sudden rush of wind and noise. The derelict turns and seesSeraph leading Morpheus and Trinity into the car.

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The wild eyes widen.

The Trainman leapsup, the burnished blue metal of a .38 special flashing free fromhis layers of clothes.

The few passengersreact, while Seraph continues calmly toward him.

The train passesthrough a station and the Trainmanyanks the emergency lever--

Throwing the traininto a lurching stop.

He dives out theopen door. Seraph, Morpheus and Trinity lunge after him.

Like a panicked antelopethat breaks from the pack, directionless,bolting with a kind of awkward grace--

He bounds up thestairwell, and zig-zags through themostly deserted tunnelsthat lead up to inter-connecting stations.

Checking a wristfull of watches, he veers off towards another staircase.Almost flying he hurls himself downthe stairs to thetrain platform below.

He turns and firesat the three pursuing figures.

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Weaving behind the steel andconcrete columns, he continues to fire forcing them totake cover until--

The station begins to rumble andthe Trainman smiles.

He whirls out from hiscolumn firing, emptying the gun, waiting for the train toblast into the station.

Seraph sees the train thatis not going to stop and realizes what the Trainman is aboutto do.

He spins out into the lineof fire, bullets burying in pillars with plumes ofconcrete colored dust.

The Trainman turns, sprintingtowards the train tracks and jumps. For a flashinginstant, a perfect silhouette in the blaring train-light,his wild clothes like the broken wings of a bat as--

He leaps from oneplatform to another disappearing behindthe rushing train.

And when it finallypasses, he is gone, leaving the three alone in the silencethat slowly swallows the dopplering train.

Rama is lookingat his watch.

He eyes Neo fora moment.

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He looks athis daughter.

The stationbegins to rumble.

Ramapauses.

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He hands Neo one of the bags.

The train is only one car long.It screams to a stop and the doors clamber open.

The Trainman steps out.

They start to get on board,but suddenly the Trainman grabs Neo.

His eyes widen.

His smile is yellow and crooked.

He starts to laugh.

The joke gets better.

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The curlof his lips is more like a scythe thana smile.

He hitsNeo and sends him flying, smashing intothe ceramic and concretewall.

He scowlsat Rama and his family.

Ramadrops his eyes and gets on the train.

Seraphis driving the big Lincoln. Trinitystares out the window alone in the back seat.

Morpheusturns to her.

Morpheus can see the answer reflected inher eyes.

Cradlinghis broken ribs, Neo jumps downonto the tracks.

Theydisappear into darkness. He startsrunning in the same directionas the train went.

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we watch fora nocnent,then pan back to look :ent.heopposite direct.i..on...,,hereweseehimr.,::y;:.,_1runningtowardsus ..

He stops ashe enters the station: "1-':obilAve."He.looksback the way hecame.

He runs thatway or.lyto end up exactly where he star1:ed.

A corral ofexqu.Lsitecars and linousines are parkednear a single met.aldoor.The B:..gBaldMar.and two of the lupine killers fromthe Merovingian's gang, guard the ::Joor.

Footsteps begint.ori,1gsoftly against the tor:ib--grayconcrete as a sha::lowmovestoward,:;hem.

KILLE:< Holy shit! It'swingless!

Seraph, Trinity,and Morpheus step into the smallpool of l:..ght.

BIG I/JIN I get it. Yo·.1 must:Oereadytodie.

SER.l\Vil We need to speakwith hiD.

The Big Manyanks back:the lever o::his machine g·.1n.

'l'rinitymovesandthe machine gur:erupt,i,breathingfire and spi.ttingleadas we enter--

Bullet Time.We see 'Ir:.r.ityweaving:.mpossi.blyfror:iadiving crouc~ i.ntoacartwieel, even as every inch of spaceis pur.ct~redbya storm of mi~dless missiles.

'I'otheeye, sh(?.isaflash, a.lmosta ghost a;3s:--1E~spir.sinto a coil andthen lau~ches herself into the air--

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Rising inBullet Time, bullets chasing her inthe fanning arc of a tickingsecond hand until--

A savagekick bounces the huge man against thesteel door back intoTrinity who slices him with the precisionof a sushi-master,dropping him to the floor.

Before theother two can react, Seraph andMorpheus attack, leapingout from behind the nearest vehicles--

Catchingthe killers off balance as they delivertheir blows with lethalfury.

It isover quickly, three dark heaps layingcrumpled in the pool ofwhite light.

Without hesitation, Trinity opens the metaldoor. Seraph and Morpheus follow.

A smallbrick room with only a gated elevator.Trinity opens it andthey climb in.

Thereare only two buttons. The lower buttonis slightly red with the word, "hel" written on it.

Ka-chung. The elevator stops. Trinityslides open the gate.

They are very unlucky. Five men turn asthe beautiful coat check girl steps between them.

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The me01-::urntolook as SEerapigrabsthe coat check 9ic::l, pushing her down behind a counterwhile every hand grabs the nearest gLln.

~lorpheusand 'l'rinityohargeintotie roorr.behi:1dthe cacophony of emptying olips and sprayand pray gunfire.

Bodies dive, spinnin9, flying offthe walls, passing each other like p:anes in a dog:'ightas--

The entire room is sl:redded,bulletsrippi.ng1:hrough everything, tearing -::hewa::_lsandfurnitureapartlike termites chewing wood to dust.

523 I!,T.HEL NIGHT CLUB - KIG:lT 523

It is a dark alternative club filledwith both prcgrac."Ilsand humans. Several people react to the:wise which can barely be heard above the po,.md2-ngmusic.

A final blcody exchange and the lastof the guards sL1mp -r:.o the ground amidst the falling snow-globedebris.

Immediately they anr.themselves frorr.themassof weapons in the weapons check.

They push througi the heavy doorslike b:ood-soaked divers slipping into shark-filledwaters. :nstan::lythey are recognized.

Forming a Laager, back to back,their guns constan::ly sl'.i:'tingfrorr.hardstaretcclenched jaw,they move into the crowd that clinc:-tesarcund:..he.m,probing,looking:feran. opening.

On a raised platfcrm, at the farend o:'the club, the :-1erovingianrisesfro:nhisseat.

MEROVINGI.~ Wr.atin the hell•..

Grabbir.9the railing, he seesthe three, comp::.etely surrour:ded,tc::yi:igtopushthroughthe dance floor.

Y!E?OVINGIAN(crn,·r'D: I dcn'L believe this--

He begins to laugh.

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Themusic is killed, plunging the catacombedchamber into silence.

He laughsagain as the crowd contracts aroundthem.

TheMerovingian glances back at the Trainmansurrounded by the eternallyyoung and beautiful.

Seraph checkswith Morpheus and Trinity.

Slowlythey lower their guns. The point ofno return passes as theirweapons clatter to the floor.

Immediatelythey are snatched up by the surroundingcrowd, who smilenow, teeth flashing the way a knifedoes as it is being sharpened.

The Merovingiangiggles as they climb the stairsfollowed bJ the newlyarmed men and women.

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He sits besidehis gorgeous wife who is rivetedwith anticipation.

The Trainmansmiles at Seraph.

TheMerovingian picks up his martini.

He sucks at an olive.

He pops the olive into hismouth chewingit with obvious relish.

He smiles.

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He slidesthe last olive from its silver toothpickwith his teeth. •

There isa faint smile as he chews.

Seraphdoesn't react while several of the armedgoons chuckle.

Hedrops the metal toothpick into the emptymartini glass.

Hissmile is MepbistopbeJeau as he liftsthe glass to Seraph.

Seraphdoesn't move.

Theempty glass hovers between them as theystare at one anotherwith the kind of intensity that isonly possible afteryears of deep felt hatred.

She attacks,every blow breaking some kind ofbone.

Seraphand Morpheus scramble at the surroundingguards, barelyable to stop them from shootingher as--

Shecuts a path between her and the Merovingian.

Seraphkicks one of the guns, spinning up intothe air as dozensof heavily armed men storm up theplatform.

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The gunfloats above the frozen chaos ofinter-locked bodies • until--

Trinity snatches it out of the air andwhirls around--

Jamming it against the Merovingian'shead. Everyone freezes; gunscheck-mating every move.

He looks at her, reading the bio-chemistryin her code.

She thumbs back the hammer.

Persephone stares at her like a junkieabout to be given a fix.

Her eyes flash with the memory ofit.

Neo is sitting cross-legged, concentratingtrying to re- connect his mind to his body.

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in here, you can get yourselfout.

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He centershis mind, focusing, drawing closerand closer untilhe begins to feel something--

Somethingthat frightens him.

A singleimage suddenly slashes across hisminds eye: three black linesacross a brimstone desert. Hismind rushes forward,following the lines as if following apath as the entireworld begins to rumble.

He openshis eyes as the train thunders intothe station.

When Trinitysteps out of the doors, he almostcan't believe it. Sheruns to him, throwing her arms aroundhim.

She kisseshim and he smiles.

The Matrix is crowdedwith people rushing throughthe routine of their lives asthe black-green Lincoln is sweptinto the flow of traffic.

Neo and Trinity arein the back seat. Morpheus dialshis cell phone.

Link is wearing theheadset, pacing behind AK who istyping furiously.

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LINK

• Almost sir. They got some prettyancient

hacks here. We're working onit. But you found Neo?

Neo stares out thewindow. There is something familiar about the moment, but he isunsure if he is remembering something he has done or somethinghe has to do.

Morpheus turns back tohim.

A small pair of handsdig into a mound of cookie dough, kneading a cascadeof chocolate chips and broken candybars.

The Oracle ismaking cookies with Sati.

Neo again slipsthrough the beaded entrance.

• SATI

Neo!

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The Oracleseems surprised.

She turnsto Sati, picking up the bowl.

She scoopsup the big bowl with her cookie doughcovered fingers.

The Oraclegoes to the sink to wash her hands.

Neo readsher code.

She offersNeo apiece.

She pops a piecein her mouth.

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She smiles. •

She smiles almost as aparent might.

She takes out a cigarette.

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She lights it.

Shepoints to the sign behind him. Heturns and reads it once again.

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NEO

• I did.

Herfamiliar Chesire smile.

Sherolls her eyes.

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purpose.To balance the equation.

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She nods.

Neo's jaw tightens.

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She stabs the cigarette out. •

Her eyes bore into him.

She nods.

As if hearing his name called, Baneopens his eyes•

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L..

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Neo opens his eyes. Besidehim are Morpheus and Trinity,both obviously relieved.

He nods.

She slides the needlefrom his head and he hauls himselfout of the chair.

Everyone is gathered aroundhim, staring at him, expecting him to know what theymust do.

He turns and leaves.Roland shakes his head.

Roland grabs the handset.

He shoots Morpheus alook.

The front door slidesopen and a pair of men's gleamingblack leather shoes passthrough. They are followed by an identical pair.

Followed by another.

And another.

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• The Oracle and Sati are near theoven, baking the cookies. The Oracle cracks the door and takesa good whiff.

Seraph rushes into the room.

Shegathers up her cookies.

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Seraph remains as rooted as a golem.

She touches his face for the lasttime.

She smiles.

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Seraph hits the elevator button. He standswith Sati at the end of the hall.

Suddenlythe elevator light goes out.

One by one the fl11orescentsflicker off;darkness creeping towards them, slowly swallowing them.

Hepicks her up and rushes for the stairs.

They startdown the stairwell but Seraphhears footsteps below.Peeking over the railing edge, he seesdozens of Smithsclimbing towards them.

Quicklythey exit onto another floor.

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Still carrying Sati, Seraphrushes down the corridor, looking

through walls and doors, searchingfor an empty apartment.

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541 IN':'.EMPT'YAPARTMENT 541

He movestowards t:,efarthest bedroom w:'1:cleSatistaresback over his shoulder.

He s,2,tsherdownstaring at something beyond -::hecracked blar.kwalls.

':'hevcanhearhis footsteos in the roorr.outside.The door cri~s as itis opened, revealing the silhouettedSmit:,s, their sunglassesstarir.g,emp:.yof express:.onlikethe lidless, eyelesssockets of a sku~l.

A single Smithsteps into t'.leroorr.•

He bendsdown to Sati.

':'heSrr..itr.sbeg:.nspreadingintoth,"room.

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• She sits in the darkened kitchen,smoking her last cigarette.

Smith pushes through the beadedentrance.

He enters the kitchen, while hisgang of Smiths cluster at the entrance.

He suddenly grabs the plate of cookiesand hurls it, smashing it against the wall.

She doesn't flinch.

She is the Sphinx.

One of the Smiths standing at thedoor wiggles his fingers at her.

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SMITH/SATI Cookiesneed love, like everything does.

The Smithschuckle.

She crushesout her cigarette.

Hetakes hold of her arm and pressestwo of his fingers into her.

Themoment he does, we see an explosionof light and energy asthe lines of code that make up the entireroom break apart,code flying frantically, caughtin the violent winds of adigital tornado.

Thekitchen-in-itself looks as if a cyclonewere tearing it apartas the Smiths gathered at the door,glance about like nervouschickens.

Thewind dies, the kitchen now destroyedand sitting where theOracle was, is another Smith.

He stands,dizzy, overwhelmed by the experience.The other Smithsteps away from him.

TheOracle/Smith removes his sunglassesas he looks for a moment beyond the room, beyond the code.For a moment he looksinto the future.

Andwhat he sees, makes him laugh.

Banesits silently, a small twitch inhis eye as the crews of both ships stare at him.

Ifthere was a sound being made by anyone,it would be the grindingof Roland's teeth.

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don't remember anyof it.

Bane stares into thecut across his palm.

Bane continuesto stare at the scabbing cut.

Frustrated, Rolandgets up, whispering to Maggie.

She nods.

Neo is alone, sittingon the bunk, looking for hisown answer.

Again he focusesand sees something that is there,but not there: the Desertof the Real. A dark scorchedplane of earth marked by thethree black lines that pull us closerand closer until--

He blinks andthe image is gone.

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Excited,Mauser slides down the ladder as Rolandsteps out of the messhall.

The Logos lieshidden; its hull a lifeless shadowobscured by rubble anddebris. It appears that a massivebomb exploded near themouth of the small pipeline.

Search-lightssweep over the Logos as theMjolnir glides overheadcarefully maneuvering through thedamaged opening.

Morpheus,Roland, Mauser and AK are inthe cockpit.

AK pointsas the lights sweep over the stillmetal carcasses of severalSentinels.

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There is a bright burst of electricity ascurrent arcs out fromthe lower pads to the metal of thepipeline.

The ship bangs down, Morpheus alreadyup and heading for the ladder.

The hull doors open and Colt is the firstout, a high beamed flashlight attached to his lightning gun.

Morpheus quickly follows, scanningthe dark skeletal remains of the bomb blast.

Morpheus nods, but is not listening.AK and Mauser begin unloading various pieces of equipment.

" Link hurries out with a lightning gun,trying to guard '

Morpheus. They pass one of the deadSentinels.

Cautiously, Link steps over to it andkicks it when there is aloud bang.

The light sweeps towards anotherloud bang and finds--

Niobe.

,ii1,,,....• needs is a jump. I;

1,1

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Ghost and Sparkscrawl down from their hiding spot,up in the tangled briarof debris.

He seems,for a moment, caught between whathe should do and what hewants to do.

She smiles athis awkwardness.

He's surprisedby the question.

She heads off for theramp.

Lock addresses the council.

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Theroom is crowded but quiet, everyoneintently following the logic of Lock.

He speaks like a coroner, describinga cause of death, precise and without emotion.

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The catwalks andplatforms are alive with activity,its inhabitantspreparing for the impending siege.

··555 INT. ZION -LINK'S HOME - DAY 555

Zee is alone foldinga powdery mixture in a large teflon bowl. The table isstrewn with strange tools as if shewere baking a cake or fixingan engine.

She sets the bowlnext to a set of scales, lookingup as Cas enters, carryingseveral bags. The children are behindher.

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• go.

Cas drops herbag.

She closes thedoor and goes to the table.

She looks downconsidering what she would doto have Dozer alive again.There is only one answer to the question.

Zee hugs her.

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The kid shovesa wheelbarrow with two crates of ammo fromthe APU supportbunker. The front wheel bumps over a tangleof power lines andthe kid loses control, tumbling forwardas the bin tips over.

The boxes smashopen with the bright metal chatter ofendless strings of bulletsspilling out around the kid.

Mifune scoffs.

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TheCaptains and Seconds of each ship aregathered arour.dthe table.

Thereis an i:1tricatemap cf the sewer linesspread OJt on thetable.

He leansback.

Niobe'sbeen sitting back until now.

~OLAND That's a mecha:1icalline.It's i.mpo:3si:::ile.No onecanpil:itmechanical.

)lIOBE I can.

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•

nowhere near this long a run.

The door suddenly ratchets open.They all turn to find Neo standing in the doorway.

They wait for him to speak.

He looks at Morpheus.

Everyone is stunned for amoment trying to figure out if they heard him right• •

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Trinity staresat hi:nand he i.sunable to hide histhou9hU; frcm her. Somet'1in9unspoken::,assesbetweent'-lem.

Roland b:.irstsintol.au9hte:::-.

?..OLAND Ycu'll nevermake it. In a hundred years nc ship hasbeen within a hundred kilometersof it. You'll never make it.

c-10?..PEEUS Is thiswhat the Oracle told you?

?..olandalmostspitsout his ton9ue.

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can and can't do with my ship afterthat little speech.

Roland gets up, leaving in disgust.

Morpheus is staring at Niobe.

Neo isn't sure how to respond.

Sparks is at the operator's station.All the monitors are blank.

He Lifts a main switch and themonitors all flicker to life. •

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There is something wrongwith the three central monitors where the Matrix is viewed.The Matrix code is glitching uncontrollably.

He pounds on the monitor.It doesn't help.

AK and Link are staring atthe same thing.

Bane is sitting onthe table. Maggie is drawing a seruminto a hypodermic needle.

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If I didthat, then it wouldn't be very safe forme here, would it?

• He smiles~

Maggie sees somethingbehind his eyes that frightensher.

She tries to stabhim with the needle, but he's readyfor it. He catches herand leaps off the table, drivingher back against thewall.

With snake-bitespeed, he whips a hidden scalpel fromhis sleeve and jamsit into her heart.

Neo grabs histools and shoulders his bag. Whenhe turns, Trinity is standingin the door with her bag.

He drops hisbag.

She waits.

He is unable to findthe words, so she does.

He nods, surprisedas always by her.

•

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I sawit in your face, just like you knew themoment you looked at me, that I was comingwith you.

She dropsher bag and steps close to him.

She kisseshim and in the kiss there is avow.

They arepreparing for take off. Roland is onthe radio.

Several crewmembers haul the last few boxes ofammunition.

Niobe is inthe pilot's seat.

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•

Morpheus andLink are saying goodbye toNeo and Trinity. Link locks a bear-hugon her.

He hides histears as he turns away. Morpheusisn't sure what to say toNeo.

Neo offershis hand, as he did when they firstmet.

Morpheus smilesas he shakes it.

Hauling theirbags, Neo and Trinity head down theramp, disappearinginto the darkness of Lhe pipe.

Niobe, Ghost andRoland prepare for take-off.

He looks atNiobe .

• Captain, andhit it hard.

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Niobelooks out one last time at hership.

Spasticstrings of electricity leap fromthe pads, as the Mjolnirlifts off the ground, spins andglides by leaving the Logosbehind.

Neoclimbs into the seat beside Trinity.

He looksout as the lights from theMjolnir disappear around thecorner of intersecting pipe.

He nods.

She takeshold of the stick when suddenlythe lights in the cockpitdie. Checking several gauges, shelistens to the ship'sengine.

The hatchslaps open and Trinity climbs downthe ladder, her fluorescenttorch the only source of light.

The room lookslike a dozen old basementswere crarrn:nedintoa crawl-space.Trinity searches the fuse boxesthat line the walls andfinds a series of disconnected fuseswhen--

Bane attacks.

Her lightclatters to the floor as he grabsher from behind, pressing thescalpel against her throat.

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He digs the blade up under her jawbone,forcing her head back.

At the mention of Neo, her eyesfire with the intensity of a lion guarding its cubs.

She grabs the knife hand, fightingit with all her strength as she screams throwing themboth backward crashing to the floor.

The two bodies writhe andtwist, knotting and unknotting until Trinity slips free--

Grabbing the light as he grabsher.

Twisting back, she smashes itinto his face, pitching the room into darkness except forthe light that falls through the hatch.

She lunges for the ladder, scramblingup it as a shadow leaps after her.

She climbs out the hatch justas Bane snatches her foot, tripping her.

She slams to the floor, butas he rises up through the hatch, she kicks him in the face--

Breaking his nose, the treadson her boot ripping open his upper lip.

Clambering to her feet, sherushes for the intercom.

The intercom spits out hervoice.

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She's cutoff, shooting Neo from his seat.

:577 INT. LOGOS- LOWER DEC:K- DAY 577

Bane bangsTrinity against the metal wall. Stunned,she falls to the floorand before she can recover, he kicksher savagely inthe ribs, almost flipping her over.

Pain explodesthrough her body, black spotsbursting in her vision.

Banewipes the back of his hand across his shatterednose.

TheMjolnir leaves a wake of static electricitylike a race car layingdown smoke and burnt rubber.

Ghost studiesthe monitors.

Niobenods as the intercom crackles on.

He throwsthe handset down, jumpingup from his seat.

A sheet is pulled over the bloody bodyof Maggie.

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goddamn mind! He firedthat EMP! Goddamnit, I should havebeaten it out of him!

Colt hurries into the room.

Link turns to Morpheus,but Morpheus knows Roland is right.

Neo climbs downthe ladder, sweeping the barrel of the lightning gun fromshadow to shadow.

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He hears him forcingher quiet.

He runs throughthe heavy cabled passageways thatwind around the base of the coreleading to the engineering hatch.

Bane stands justbeyond the open floor hatch holding Trinity, whose hands aretied behind her back.

Neo charges forward,but stops when he sees the scalpelpoint puncture the white skinof her exposed throat.

A rush of somethingfamiliar floods Neo'smind.

The scalpelbites deeper.

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Neo is frozen~

Neo raises the gun.

Neo braces himself to fire.

He knows what he should do.

But he can't.

He closes his eyes unableto kill the woman he loves and throws down the gun.

Bane srniles,blood cove:ring like some feasting carnivore.

He drops it and it bounces,clattering down through the open hatch.

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Neodoes.

Withone quick shove, Bane throws Trinitydown the hatch as Neo spinsback, catching a glimpse of her--

Falling,screaming as she crashes tothe metal floor below.

Bothmen dive for the gun, Bane gettingthere first, but Neo managesto grab the barrel.

Baneyanks Neo off-balance, ramming hisknee into his gut, thenswings the gun around and clubs Neo overthe head.

Neodrops to his hands and knees, shakingoff the blow, but when he looks up, he finds himself staringdown the barrel of a gun.

Trinitytries to move; everything hurts.She can hear their voicesabove her and as she rolls overshe sees the scalpel glintingin the light.

Banestands over Neo, blood still drippingfrom his ruined face.

Mucusbubbles out of his mangled nose.

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patheticallyfragile it is. Any excuse and itbegins to spew.

He spitsa clot of blood.

Trinity sawsthrough the wire binding herwrists. Closing her mindto the pain, she pushes herself up and stepstowards the ladder,but as she does--

A pieceof glass from the broken light crunchesunder her boot.

She looksup as Bane looks down.

Leapingfor the ladder, she sees Bane kick thehatch shut and as sheis buried in darkness, she hears thewheel-lock snap intoplace.

Neo startsfor him, but Bane is too far,the gun holding him in check.

Neo can almost hear the voice of Smith.

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In absolutedarkness, Trinity gropesher way along the fuse board,feeling each one as if readingbraille.

Neodoesn't want to believe it.

Banesmiles, with his blood-slickteeth.

The word is like ice down his spine.

Bane raises the gun to fire as--

'588 INT. LOGOS - ENGINEERING ROOM -DAY 588

Desperate, her fingers lock ontoa single fuse.

She yanks the fuse.

The lights go out.

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There is a window between the momentBane understands what happened and the moment he fires thegun. It is a window that • is only a fraction of a secondwide--

But that is wide enough.

The lightning bolt slashes open the darkness,a sizzling ball of electricity that bursts against theground where Neo had been, but is no longer.

In the strobing light of the gun, Neolunges for Bane, diving into him, colliding with the gun thatcontinues to fire--

Raking up the walls, severing cablesthat shower the darkness with star-bursting spark light.

Neo tackles Bane, driving into him,toppling him backward, until they both crash to the ground--

The gun bouncing free.

The two men merge into a singlewrithing shadow, limbs flailing wildly as they fight to separate.

Gone is the grace and precision of fightingin the Matrix; Neo swings his fist like a club,bludgeoning it against Bane's skull--

Each blow laying open the fleshcovering his knuckles, while sending shivers of pain shootingup his forearm.

The fight is violent and chaotic;two dogs searching for the other's neck--

Neo finds it first, his hands clampinglike jaws onto Bane's throat. He leans into it,with allhis might, trying to crush his windpipe.

Bane thrashes madly, eyes bulging,until--

His hand seizes hold of a snakingblack cable, its end hissing, spitting embers like aroman candle.

He jams it straight into Neo's face,sending him screaming backwards.

The terrifying scream almost stopsher heart.

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Neo is badlyburned, a slash of white blistered fleshacross both eyes.

Bane scurries away,grabbing the nearest weapon he sees:a thick pieceof pipe

Neo spins towardthe sound and Bane freezes, realizingtwo things at once:the gun is at Neo's feet, but he can'tsee it.

Neo is blind.

Bane laughsas Neo tries to find his bearings, steppingaway from thegun.

Bane leadsNeo further away, his voice luringhim into the main chamber.

BANE {CONT'D) A blindmessiah.

He slowlyfeels his way towards him, but asBane moves Neo seemsto lose him for a moment.

Bane circlesback, his grip tightening onthe pipe.

Raisingthe pipe, he swings it like abat, but just as it's aboutto cave in Neo's head--

Neo ducks.

Baneblinks in disbelief, immediatelyswinging again, but Neo catcheshold of his wrist. Bane is againsurprised as Neo leansin, his ruined eyes looking atBane or more accurately, lookinginto him as--

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We see what Neo sees: a world oftotal darkness, except for the pale glowing specter of AgentSmith, like a ghost made of • phosphorescent light, his sunglasseslike the dark sockets of a skull.

Smith's face slackens with fear asNeo attacks--

Twisting Bane's arm, snapping itviolently as Bane howls.

Neo spins the pipe, jamming the endinto Bane's gut, dropping him to the ground.

Bane looks up, the white of his eyesbright against his blood- wet face.

The ghost of Smith also looks up athim.

Neo brings the pipe down, bashingin Bane's skull as--

The ghost head explodes, the entireskein of Smith bursting apart like a balloon, particles of lightrushing up and away as if a fierce wind blew through abonfire.

In one world, Neo stands over Bane's lifelessbody.

In another world, Neo stands alone, intotal darkness.

The wheel-lock snaps open and lightstreams into the darkness asNeo opens the hatch.

Sherushes up the ladder.

Immediatelyshe sees the wound, realizingas she does that he can't see her.

TRINIIY

• Ohno ...Neo ...

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He feels her fingers on his face.

TRINIT:: Neo ..•

She shuts her eyes holding him.

He feels her smile against hischeek.

t94 INT. ZION - COMMAND CENTER -:!-IIGHT 59,

In the world of the monitor,the diggers steadily blip, inching their way towards Zion.

In the real i.•orld,thenetworkof caves is vibrating, duet drizzling down onto the officersand their equipment.

Commander Lock sits gravely atthe helm.

LIEUTENAN'.c Seismic is projecting twenty-twominutes to breach.

Lock studies the screens.

LIEUl'ENANT YE~Ssir.

The cli.:fssides of Zion shudder,the abandoned hovels an::! cat.walksringing under the approachin-:,storm.

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• Casis leading her childreninto the Temple.

Huddled in the defenseduct, a group of ground troopswait, eyes wide, the tinypassage filled with white noise.

Amongst the soldiers,Zee crouches, the pounding in herheart rising with the soundof the digger. Charra, her artillery partner, is checkingthe handmade bazooka.

Shit yeah. But I'llmake you a deal; you keep loading, I'llkeep shooting.

She holds out herhand and Zee takes it.

The kid is threadinga massive bandolier into one of theguns on an Armored PersonalUnit; a walking anti-aircraftmachine, its twin bipedal gunsjutting from hulking shoulders.He slaps down the lidon one of the APU's now full ammo binsand looks up at Mifune.

Mifune nods and thekid jumps down hefting one end of ahuge wheelbarrow and pushesit quickly away down a heavy catwalk.

Mifune addresses theCorps, their faces aglow in the blue light of their APU'sinstrument panels.

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The:'-ljolnircreepsalong,its pads at a minimam,dropping likea feather into the mainline.

Almosteveryone is squeezed into the cockpit.The hologram showsthe massive artery clogged entirelyby the Machine army.

;:GhostIsfingers fly over the console,as the lights die in thecockpit, almost everymonitor blinking off.

:-Allbut four pads shut down asthe Mjolnir sinks gliding like :·a flounderover the sewer bottom.

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They can seethe dark opening, but a section ofthe tunnel roof has collapsedin front of it.

Niobe's griptightens and she banks the shiptrying to slip over the fallendebris, but it scrapes againsta jagged, metal outcroppingcreating a terrible noise.

Several Sentinelsreact to the sound, dishes snappingopen.

Ghost seesa group of Sentinels on his monitorbreaking from themain army.

The seismicroar has reached a fevered pitch.

Mifune isstrapped into the war machine.He taps the safety and histwo cannons whir then lock into aboxer's defensive pose, theother machines snapping into thesame position in • unison.

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At the top o::thE:::l.0:112a.~3piderwebfracturebE:gin:.:toform~

cne of the f.i_ssi..:.resbeginstow:idenandwr~:racf!alongitas it zig-zagsover the super hardened steel-crete,puzzle piece shards pLmmet.:..ngtcthedock flocr.

Suddenly thenose o::the digger punctures the roo::,a wh.:..rlingwhite-ho-:t.or:1ad:,ofteeth.

The roof seizuresas tne earth is cleaved open andwith a lightningclap the ci.:'..tanker-sizedMachi:1eb:::-eaksthrough raini.nqstrandso::gabby magma--

Free fallingin the open space above the docks--

Lancing .inadeafening metal rer.di.ngco:netcrash.

IN~. ZION ·-COMMANDCENTER -· NIGHT 606

Alarms screamwhile ::.,ockstandsagair.stati.deofrising panic.

FIRST OPE~TOR Breach! Thedock .isbreached!

A scoutturns, half of hi.sface masked by a faceplateof monitors andmoti.o:1Stoa cluster of soldiers.·

The soldiershe::'ttheirweap.::,nsrac.ingup.inclinedaccess branches.

The M.:..fune andtheotherAPU' slookdown at Digger1 then ·-1p ;, to t:-i.eDiggerhole. Theykno~...,what'sccming. ·k

Smoke hissesoff of the cone of the ciigger,asi.t.sitshalf * embedded i.nthecrinkled d::ickfloorlike anundetonated * miss.llE::. *

Mifune estab~ishesl1urnancontra~over theAFU and t~e prelude * to guns upposition. *

Duck an:iGcOS(?-arEeitl:":::::rsideofMi::une,m:>vi.n9:intogur::s·~1F-;; Position inanticipat~on of the Sentinel swarrr. *

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609 RENUMBER- NOW SC 618F 609

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?.ENUMBER- NOW SC 618M 611 *

The Fi:!:-stOperatorspins::ramthemass c,foncorr.ingwhite b~ips.

?IRST OPERATOR Eight ·secondsto firs~wave.

The APUs are strategicallyplacec.to crossL:_rei.ntotr..e opening.

Each Corpsmen fires :.heirAP:J'smetalsupport claws, which gouge into -:.hegroundtobrace against :.heguns' incredi::i:..e recoil.

A rushing Sen:.inelP.O.V.,:.heblack glass shaft fli.ckering psychedelically. At thee:,d.o::thetunnel the en:.rance:.o Zion's docking bay is awideni.ngpinprick.

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• An deep ancestralwar cry wells up from Mifune's gut.

The other Corpsmen screamwith him as the first wave hits.

A biblical black swarm.

Gouts of flame flashinstantly from the APUs, lines ofhot armor piecing tracerrounds snaking and snapping throughthe air like huge metalwhips.

Stray bullets tearpuge trenches in the walls and ceiling, causing an avalanche ofdebris to rain onto the dock floor.

The cloud of Sentinelsspread like an unending oil slick,but a trickle of them slippast the crossfire and begin to attack.

Under the fire fight,the digger rises into the air like a guillotine and slowlyit begins to turn.

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The air is thick with Machinesas they continue to pour in, red laser lines dissectingthe air into a patchwork pattern of stained glass.

The gun-barrels of the APUs glowlike hot ulcers, as they throw a pulverizing barrage againstthe Machine army.

Fat rounds crush dents in theSentinel armor cleaving through their tentacles spread liketalons but--

They are everywhere.

A pair of ground troopers arecut down as they run from a pouncing Sentinel, its laserslicing through them like a band saw.

Grinding back to life,hulking crane legs unfold from the * Machine's abdomen andit slowly begins to lift itself from

its crater, nose down.

Under the fire fight,the digger rises into the air like a

guillotine and slowlyit begins to turn•• Debrisfalls from

the hole overhead likesnow.

It's legs expand outward.

Bazooka TEAM #3 get intoposition. They load and fire the

bazooka's

Bazooka TEA.~#2 load& fire

As the Digger rises .BazookaTEAM 1 enters fg to prepare

firing the bazooka.Sentinelsswarming around closeto the

Digger,protectingit ,intercepting rockets

The Digger risesand plants all four legs.Sentinelsswarming * around closeto the Digger,protecting it ,intercepting * rockets.Artillery exploding all around it. *

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• A hatch flips up and Zee andCharra roll out, as a steady

barrage of artillery ishurled against the Machine by the

entrenched infantry.

Charra shoulders the fatdouble barreled bazooka aiming itat * one of the digger's kneecaps, *

Digger l's drill beginsto spin. The cone is starting to * rotate.It begins to tearthrough tunnel pipes. *

Several soldiers scatteras the point of the digger bores

into the duct shreddingthrough it like paper. *

Zee loads two oil-can roundsand hits Charra on the shoulder. *

She fires. The two heavyprojectiles streak toward their * mark, cotton candy strandsof heat and smoke in their wake-- *

Charra's & Zee's rockethits the Digger l's knee. It breaks . * but the Digger beginsto rebalance. *

Zee starts to reloadbut stops, looking up as the metal *,,, cavern is filled with therising mechanized locust scream of * the Sentinel army. *

Zee pats Charra again andshe fires, the two shells thistime *· exploding uselessly againstthe armored plate of the digger. *

They climb back down intothe duct.

Lock studies the data flowingacross the monitor windows.

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LOCK * Countermeasures! Release countermeasures! *

The air is thick with Machines asthey continue to pour in, * red laser lines dissecting the air intoa patchwork pattern * of stained glass. *

MIFUNE * Back to back! *

Goose and Duck spin firing in alldirections. *

The gun-barrels of the APUs glow likehot ulcers, as they * throw a pulverizing barrage againstthe Machine army. *

Fat rounds crush dents in the Sentinelarmor cleaving through * their tentacles spread like talonsbut-- *

They are everywhere.

A pair of ground troopers are cutdown as they run from a * pouncing Sentinel, its laser slicingthrough them like a band * saw. *

The kid waits at his wheelbarrow,the sound of the battle ringing against the walls of thebunker when the huge reinforced metal doors open, anotherreloading team hurrying back inside. One of them is cradlinghis bloody, laser- lacerated shoulder. *

A Sentinel leaps at the open doorbefore the bunker sentry can close it. As it pounces tothe opening, the nearest APU rings out and cuts the Machine intwo.

The kid swallows hard as the doorslams shut.

Flanked by a gunnery escort, thekid runs, pushing his ammo bin out onto the dock floor, redlaser-lightning crackling above him. *

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Sentinels fly around the dock,towardsMifune, Duck and * Goose.Hero Sentinel dives taking outGoose ,wrapping it's * tentacles around him,dragging him overthe edge of the * catwalk. Goose falls to his death. *

A small group of soldiers run in ahalf crouch along the * duct, shock-waves shaking the alloywalls. *

A scout points down a branchingduct. *

SCOUT * Keep moving. Don't let them lockdown * your position. *

As Zee and Charra split off,the roof caves in behind them, a * falling Sentinel carcass andGooses APU cratering the dock * floor. *

Huge louvered vents snap open,forming a halo around the top of the dock cavern.

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As their exhaust fans begin to churn,the gust carries a swirlingchromium particle cloud thatbegins to engulf the dock.

A Sentinel unit swoops down throughthe cloud for another pass at the APUs. But as their lasers lightup--

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They aresuddenly refracted off of the dust,splintering into chaoticvectored tangles. • The straybeams cut through the armoredbellies and limbs of theMachines some even reflected back intothe laser's source,resulting in overload explosions.

Thedigger, now at full boring speed, lowersitself into the dockfloor, its teeth-covered cone whirringlike a turbine, chewinginto the ground with the shriekof tortured metal.

Lock can hear the digger above them.

Sentinels form a "mini-snake" aroundthe Tower.The tower gun * destroys it. *

Hand of God curls back and under itself.Itapproaches the * Tower - ramming directly into GateControl.The crane is * ripped from the roof, toppling downthrough the Dock ... *

THE LIGHTS GO OUT!!!(board ZUS0683) *

623CINT: DEFENSE DUCTS - NIGHT 623C *

The crane *

Zee and Charra race along shakingtunnel towards the hatch.

Charra pops up from one of the subdefense ducts, Zee feeding the bazooka.

Sentinels react to them and rushto defend the digger, as Charra shoulders and aims herweapon.

She fires; her aim is true andthe rocket explodes against the leg of the digger. •

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The jointshatters, the Machine twisting loose,unable to supportitself as it spins from its mooring,toppling like a greatcrippled beast--

Landingwith a deafening crunch.

A smallcheer passes through Control, Lock clenchinghis fist,until the Seismic Alarm sounds.

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• The dock trerr0les,theentire domed ceiling shatteringlike tempered glassas it tears open, giving birthto not one, but two diggers.

Mifune can onlywatch as the monster landswith a morale- * squashingcrash.

Niobe poundsdown the pedal as the Mjolnir reachesfull power.

A swarm ofSentinels fill the end of the tunnellike the spray of atwelve gauge.

The crew ofthe Mjolnir scrarr0leto their battlestations, Colt motioningLink into one of the stern undersidegunpits.

Link's fingersfly over the controls, the headsup displays quickly comingonline.

He takes Zee'snecklace, wraps it around histrigger hand then kissesit.

The opening ofthe mechanical line widens directlyin between them.

The charging Sentinelsopen fire, lasers skeweringthe darkness.

Roland seeshow close the mechanical intersectionis.

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Niobe increases their speed.

Fiftymeters...

The ship lurches up, cur~ing intothe air, rolling over into a back-dive, even as the Sentinel laserscarve into its armoredunderbelly.

Roland is almost dropped onto hishead.

The "Hammer" explodes thro·.ighaveilof detritus that hangs from the pipes like swamp moss.Behind them the more nimble Sentinels easily follow.

Colt screams over the intercom.

The Mjolnir gun turrets ~nleasha fury of heavy metal filling their wake with anti-aircraftfire.

Ahead, there are several collapsedcross-pipes wedged in their path like fallen treetrunks.

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,,'' 1 Niobe tries to duck downthrough them, but the ship bottoms

out with an explosion of sparksand arcing electricity.

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The Sentinelsnip at the hind quarters of theMjolnir like a • pack of hungrywolves. A laser licks the edge ofone of the rear pads andthe Mjolnir fishtails scraping againstthe conduit-linedwalls.

The muscles inNiobe's forearms are a bulge of thickcables as she fightsto steady the ship.

A Sentinel leapsonto the back of the hull.

He swings his gunspray at it, cutting through itstentacles. The severed limb isa flash of mangled circuitry andsilicon gristle as the Sentinelcartwheels into oblivion.

Link saws his turretsback and forth carving throughthe attack and growls.

A Sentinel leads achain of them, swooping onto the ship clustering around alarge antenna.

Macisersees them first.

Ghost has the best angle,swinging his turret around, targeting the Sentinelsas they sink their lasers intothe scaled metal flesh, feastingon the exposed electrical innards.

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He fires just as they slicethrough the supports beneaththe antenna.

A heavy barrage ofbullets batters the lead Sentinel but before it dies, it ripsthe antenna like a tooth being torn root and all from a bloodygum.

Digger 2 breaks throughthe bridge and continues it's fall. * It crashes onto the dockfloor. *

A small circular hatch dooropens with a cough of smoke as Charra and Zee climb up intoa long thin channel running between the pipelines.

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On hands and knees,they move forward towards thethin gap created by thetwo major pipes running overhead. The pipes elbow down creatingthe edge of a "waterfall" thatflows from • the upper level tothe lower dock floor.

Zee holds Charraby the belt as Charra squeezesout between the two major pipesand peers over the edge. Belowher, the Digger that has crashedthrough one of the bridgesthat stood beneath her, folds inits legs as it begins to drillinto the dock floor.

The protective schoolof Sentinels seems to open fora moment and she fires, the twinshells slipping through, findingthe bulls-eye of themolten center of the digger's coreexhaust.

The missiles hit startinga chain-reaction that endswith the sunken digger exploding--

Concrete and metal shrapnelerupting like a volcanoas a section of the dockfloor is demolished.

The Sentinels screamas though they were hit, immediately swarming after Zee andCharra who scurry back intothe tight channel--

Sentinels swarm abovethem, landing with the crashingdin of metal to metal asthey jam their tentacles into thethin running channelsbetween the pipes.

Zee and Charra race forthe open hatch, dodging and diving between the stabbingtentacles with a mounting senseof impossibility thatrises until--

A claw cleaves the calfof Churra,

She screams just as Zeereaches the open hatch. Zee canonly watch as anothertentacle stabs through Charra's stomach, impaling/eucsertingher.

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On the peripheryof a radar screen, a missile shapedcone appears trailedby a series of hot glowing dots.

Lock moves behindthe operator.

Lock studiesthe white blip.

Like hell.

The Mjolnirplummets through the macaroni corkscrews, bouncing againstits magnetic cushion as it banksinto ninety degree elbows.

Niobe is in atrance, the zone, hands and feetoperating independently,her body perched like a jockey,moving in perfect unisonwith the thundering thoroughbredbetween her legs.

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at twenty percent.

Morpheus flies overthe pad controls as he tries tokeep up.

The ship swerves,its back end fishtailing into thecurved wall of conduitwith the spark-lit screech of metalon metal.

As the over-sizedhovercraft weaves with incongruous agility, a Sentinel rearsup from pursuit. It hangs in the air asthe rest of the pack rocketspast.

One of its limbswhips forward and its satellite dish snaps open.

Up in the shattereddome of the dock, a series of Sentinels receive the message,their discs fanning open.

In unison, they strike,diving down past Mifune, converging on the humongous turbineswhich control Gate One. *

The First Operatorreceives the report from the virtual system.

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But at its presentvelocity, it will reach Gate One intwelve minutes.

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Lock analyzesthe probable chain-reaction like someonetrying to avoid aninevitable checkmate.

The Sentinelshave torn into the mechanical gutsat the base of the gate,steam gushing from cripplingwounds.

The surroundingSentinels, including those attackingMifune, join thefrenzy.

Mifunerealises the Sentinels plan. *

The controllershouts into his headset, sentinelsclumped aroundthe tower like flies on a corpse.

GateOperations' voice crackles over the intercom.

Huge clumps of Sentinels cling to theMjolnir chewing through itsarmor, trying to cripple its propulsionsystem.

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The ship blasts forward like a mad dyinganimal, banking and rollingthrough the intestine tangle of servicetunnel.

Forevery Sentinel the Mjolnir's gun turretsknock down, two more take its place.

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Zee's necklace cuts deep into Link'sfist as he squeezes the • gun turret controls, a whirling fury.

Mauser swings the turrets in a franticcircle.

On his monitors we see a Sentinelbreak through the crossfire leaping at Mauser's turrets.

Fire and sparks suddenly ejaculatefrom Mauser's controls arcing around the gunpit.

Mauser screams.

The dock is completely over run.The thunder of the diggers boring into the dock floor isdeafening. The APU Corps have been broken and are now fightingfor their lives in scattered locations.

Mifune's recoil supports releaseas he retreats from the unrelenting swell of Sentinelsabove him. His left gun whirs empty and he screams into hisheadset.

APU Support throws open the door.

The kid hefts the wheelbarrow loadedwith two ammo crates and shoves it forward. Two soldiers flankhim, guarding him with lightning guns as they race acrossthe catwalks toward Mifune.

Lock surveys the screens, hismind scrambling. •

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- Mainline.

Niobe isdrenched in sweat. Every muscleas taught as a violin stringvibrating under the sawingstrain of the fast- twitchchase.

Morpheussees the opening of the mechanicaltributary leading into·theMainline.

• degreesto lower left starboard.

Theship dive'sdown toward the intersection,as the swarm of Sentinelsattack with desperation, severalof them sacrificingthemselves to the hailstormof bullets.

Theopening widens, as the ship spitsthrough, nose-diving straightdown--

Morpheus cranks back on thepad controls and the ship seems tobounce against a cushionof lightning--

Arcing waves of electrical overflowwashing out from the frontpads--

Pitching the ship into a shudderingspiral.

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• Every nut and boltvibrates under the strain as the ship seems ready to burstapart, skimming up and around thewalls of the Mainline--

Until finally it buoysup and rockets forward.

Lock clutches the radiohandset.

There is a hissing burstof static.

The rest of his responseis drowned by the report of his APU's massive guns.

Mifune fires straight intothe face of an attacking Sentinel. He is unable to hear his radioas a deluge of Sentinels pour down onto him and his SupportUnit.

The crackle of lightningguns white out the ringing clatter of heavy caliber weaponsbeing loaded.

Cords of muscle bulge inMifune's neck, his face twisted in a snarl as an inverted seaof black metal churns above him .

His dual repeating cannonschop at the sky whirring as-- •

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A Sentinelsnake circles above him. *

Mifuneejects the empty ammo cartridge. *

The Kid standsby to reload *

Sentinelsare poised to attack the Kid, he is protectedby * his gunneryescort until one of them is taken out. *

The Kid reloads,butthe ammo cartridge gets stuck *

The Kid-climbsthe back of the APU and kicks it into * positi=. *

Mifune looksup to see the Sentinel snake screamingtowards * him. He fires atthe "snake" hammerhead but he is nomatch * against theraging Sentinels *

Blasting straightinto the warrior's chest, the forceof the Sentinel "snake"rips the support claws from the catwalk, * toppling theAPU onto its back, hurling the Kid ontothe * catwalk. *

Mifune screams asthe Sentinel mauls him, tentaclesripping apart'his flesh likemeat being gouged from a lobstertail.

The kid scramblesto his feet *

The Sentinel whirls around,covered in the Captain's gore, its metal mandibles slickwith blood.

The kid fires, the boltlike a jagged spear of light, puncturing the Sentinel'sarmor, tearing out its back in an Eggerton apple-burst.

The kid rushes to hisCaptain.

Mifune spits a clumpof wadded blood, as the kid helps him from his harness.

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He grabs the kid'scollar, the last of his life seepingout of him.

Mifune smiles, histeeth bright with his own blood.

SCENE 662 OMITTED

A pad ignites in ablowout, spitting electric fire and spewing streams ofblack smoke, as the ship slides sideto side--

Bottoming out, throwinga plume of sparks like a carwith only three wheels.

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Roland's targetingmonitors are cross-cut with linesof • static.

Niobe strains atthe wheel, fighting the teeth rattling turbulence forcontrol.

Morpheus looks atNiobe.

Close on the leg ofan APU as its recoil supports stab into the ground.

The kid punches a commandand the left leg supports alsodig into the dock floor.

The kid manipulatesthe controls as if by memory, fingers flying over buttonsthat cause the APU's monitors and exoskeleton to closein around him, like a luxury car seat adjusting.

He mutters the operatinginstrnctions ingrained in hismind from thousands of virtualhours of combat drills.

In one motion the APU groansfrom its indented resting place and is on its feet.

The anchors retract, snappingout of the ground.

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He seesthe heavy cable twice as thick as hishead, attached to two storiesof counterweights

Themechanized behemoth sprints up the inclinetoward the gate, a hulkinggazelle.

f'

The SystemsAnalyst sees the Hammer falling.

New hope.

A groupof Sentinels race down to the kid,the leader crashingdown in front of him.

A fury shootsfrom the APU cannons mutilatingthe Sentinel hide liketinfoil.

Lock standsbetween the onrushing forces.

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Lock grabs the transmitter.

LOCK

•

Captain Mifune, do you copy?

, 668B INT~ TUNNELS 668B

Bodies are strewn throughout thetunnel. The sounds of clattering Sentinels and the screamsof men and women are heard echoing throughout the pipes.

A pair of boots stop beside a deadman's radio.

Zee picks up the radio.

She looks up and a part of her canfeel him coming.

Zee grabs a lightning gun and sprintsaway.

SCENE 669 OMITTED

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Link climbs from the smokethat oozes from the lowergunpits, coughing and guardinghis ribs, while Ghost pulls a wounded Roland from his seat.

671, INT. ZION - DOCKS -NIGHT 671

The kid with a cleanline of sight at the weightedcable takes.aim just as--

Another Sentinelwraps up his APU from behind, itstentacles snaking aroundits legs squeezing like a boa constrictor causing--

The APU topitch forward crashing to the groundin a thunderingbelly-flop.

The Sentinelrises up, like an animal poisedto sink its teeth intothe exposed jugular of its prey,when--

The whitehot bolt of a lightning gun blaststhrough its back.

The Sentinel,wounded, spins in time to seeZee level the gun and fire again--

The bolt,brilliantly white in the dark dock,jabs into the Sentinel likea meat hook and drives the spastic,flailing machineup until its eyes burst open and itdies.

672 SCENE 672OMITTED 672

Theshattered Main Deck is aglow ina raging electrical fire. Link sits in the operator's chair.

Thekid sees the cable still inhis fritzing target monitor.

With a mighty heave, he liftsaiming the APU's cannon.

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• He fires.

The burst cleavesthrough the braided alloy, the counterweightfalling--

Towing the righthalf of the gate along its steel channel, grinding as itopens .

•

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The First Operator spins fromhis monitor.

The left side of the doorcreeps open.

Niobe wrestles the steeringcollum with all her might--

She pitches the shipshoulder downward, driving itinto the sewer bottom, pouringon the thrusters.

The Mjolnir shuddersvenerably as it bounces againstthe tunnel, twisting sidewaysas it--

Aims at the crackedgate.

Link sits at the operator'schair gripping the necklace.

680 SCENE 680 OMITTED 680

The cockpit shakesspastically, as Morpheus hitsthe collision alarm.

All at once,the Sentinels begin to flee enmasse--

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A bottleneckof black, forming at the digger tunnels,while--

The virtualsoldiers scramble to jack out oftheir system.

The Mjolnirplows through the opening gate--

Armorplating and landing gear shearing from itshull as it arcs intothe docks.

Morpheus screams.

Link cranksthe detonator.

The dockingbay is filled with a wave a white,EMF light--

Even asthe Mjolnir crashes into the bay platformsin a cacophonousroar--

All electricalsystems dying. And as the Mjolnirshrieks to a skidding stop--

Another soundbegins to rise; the thunderingdownpour of dead Sentinels.

They flow fromthe jet glass tunnels likewater from a spigot,until--

At last itis over.

As the echoingrolls away like a fading storm,the soldiers of Zion beginto crawl from the defense labyrinthand fallen APUs, theirbloody faces frozen in disbelief.

The controlroom walls ring with jubilation.

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Morpheus lowers himself down fromhis now perpendicular hanging chair, offering a hand downto Niobe.

He smiles.

She smiles.

In the silence, a door falls fromits hinges along the ship's back, the crew of the Mjolnir climbingout.

As Colt helps Roland from the opening,Link staggers past them onto the dock floor.

They push through the soldiers gatheredon the catwalks surroundingthe crashed ship, untilthey fall into each other'sarms.

Hekisses her and she sees the charmhanging around his neck.

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690 69D

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The Logos banks along a pipe thick with steamthat is breathed from a series of openings cakedwith human grease and machine rust, like a scab that continuesto leak.

Trinity feels the cold wind whistlingdown the throat of the pipe. Neo's eyes are bandaged with gauze.

She weaves the ship into a worm holethrough the debris until she can see the dim light streaming intothe opening.

The opening appears to have beenmade by an earthquake; the pipeline cracked and separated, oneside wrenched from the other.

The ship shoots into the deep jaggedfissure before banking straight up, revealing--

The surface of the Earth.

The fetus fields run right upto the edge of the ravine. The pickers continue their work likegrazing animals, oblivious to the Logos.

The sky is a churning black sludge,its clotted clouds froth and leak a pale yellow light,casting a glow that is the color of dead callowed flesh.

In the distance, the mile hightowers of the Power Plant are visible.

Neo stares out, as if ableto see where they are.

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NEO

- We're overthe fields, aren't we?

We movecloser to him and we suddenly glimpsethe fields as he does--

A night sky filled with stars, though pressedflat as if into acircuit board, wired into the distanttowers that vibrate withviolent flashing light.

He pointsout across the charred desertthat surrounds the fields.

.. lines.

Threeenormous cables, each severalhundred feet thick snake fromthe Power Plant out across the scorchedearth.

Sheswallows down her fear and steersthe ship along the path of the giant umbilicus.

The elevator bangs down andthe metal gate ratchets open as Morpheus, Roland and Niobe getout.

Lock is waiting for them.

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• LOCK

Thecouncil is waiting to hear your explanation.You'll forgive me for not attending,but I have to try to salvage thisdebacle.

Soldiers are scrambling to unload theammunition from the Mjolnir.

Itis the kid that hears them first.

He turns with the kid towards therent gate. AfteorA rnnrnent he hears it; the sound of air being forcedout through a pipe, like a distant trumpet or a screamheard from far away.

Lock's Second Operator is lugging aheavy battery powered radio.

•

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They're already running forthe elevator.

The wind that signaledthe first onslaught of the Sentinels is nothing compared tothe howl that rises to fill the entire dock.

The elevator is packedwith the last batch of soldierswho slowly lower intothe shaft as--

The Sentinel armypours into the concrete concourse from every hole, spillinginto the empty dock like sand.

• The Second Operatorreceives the call.

A lever is throwninside a barricaded bunker.

Explosions fireone by one as though shatteringa spinal column, onedisc at a time.

The Sentinelsreact as the explosions eruptfrom the shaft.

Rock andearth bury the entrance.

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A thick cloud of earth is coughed fromthe opening near the • top of Zion.

The rumble from the explosion slowly fades.Lock stares up at the dark cave ceiling, talking to hisenemy as one might talk to God.

The monstrous cables lay beneathus likegiant black worms as the Logos roars past us following thelines that stretch beyond the dark horizon.

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• 718 OMITTED 718

The councilis crowded into the privatequarters, questioning thethree Captains.

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She nods.

Morpheushas sat as silent as a stoic untilnow.

The councilturns to him.

What hesays, he says as much for himselfas for them.

He stands.

r GOLDENRODREVISIONS JUNE 27, 2002 104.

A large spoolof black cable bangs against themetal floor as a new line isuncoiled out from a large portablepower supply.

The control roomis a frenzy as they work to bringthe defense systemsback online.

Operations OfficersMattis and Wirtz study the hologramof the dock as aring of Sentinels circle the silentdigger.

A single Sentinelhas attached itself to the abdomenof the digger, tentaclesand feelers merging with heavymachinery.

Its red eyes throbhypnotically as its brethren glideritual- like around it ina steady inciting circle.

A crowd has now gatheredaround the screen, including Commander Lock. Theywatch as it floats above the digger.

Electricity cracklesfrom the Sentinel, wrapping the digger in a gossamer web ofblue light. The flashing bolts lightup the dock like a giantarc welder.

There is a small explosioninside the gut of the digger, a burst of combustion asit is jolted back to life. And the Sentinel falls lifelesslyto the dock floor.

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Itsenormous arms crank open, a crane unfoldingas it begins to lift itself.

The grinders roar to life, getting up to speedbefore it lowersitself back down.

ImmediatelySentinels swarm around it,gliding in tight circles; so many of them that it feelsas though a wall were being built to protect it.

The rumble of the digger returningto its job shakes the room.

Lock doesn't have an answer.

Neo looks out at the distapt horizonthat breaks against the jaggededge of a mountain range.

He is able to see a powerful sourceof light, glowing like a sun about to rise, hidden behinda horizon of seething darkness.

He reaches out for herhand. She takes it.

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Throughthe window of the cockpit we see what'scoming; a massiveforce of huge, heavy war Machines ledby a swarm of Sentinels.

Lock addressesthe Council and military heads.

The council reactswith obvious dismay.

He gestures towardsHamman and Morpheus.

The Logos flies into the jawsof the Armada, Machines forming rows of jagged shark-teeth.

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They attack in a frenzy; redlasers stabbing into the Logos as the larger armored crab-likemachines spit bolts of energy that break against the hullsending a shiver of sizzling electricity through the entireship.

Trinity has to let go ofthe stick as hot arcing voltage surges through the controls.

Neo clings to her hand ashe wades into battle, hurlinghis mind at them with ballisticforce.

Three spinning Sentinelsrelease three tow-bombs that openup as they rocket towardsthe ship.

Neo reacts quickly, explodingthe first immediately, the second, just before ithits, the fire washing over the windshield as the Logosshoots through.

But the third he grabshold of, straining against its force and direction, bendingit to his will as he once bent a spoon.

The device sails upover the cockpit, before turning and hurtling back at theMachines.

The Sentinels dodgeout of the way, but the armored crustacean is too slowand--

The device slams intoit, unleashing a violent orange rageof destruction.

The dog-fight continuesas the Sentinels now reachthe Logos, leaping onto itsback, sticking their lasers through itshide like toreadorsthrusting swords into the back of a charging bull.

Sweat coversNeo's body as he reacts more and moreviolently.

A Sentinel diveslike a kamikaze straight at the cockpitas Neo reachesout to stop it--

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Wrestling with it.As its eyes begin to blink, it corkscrews wildly out of control,slamming against the heavy plated glass which shatters,cratering under the Machine'sbulk as-- • We experiencewhat Neo experiences; a meteor of lightthat blasts throughhis body--

Wrenching free hisgrip from Trinity.

His arm flailsback as he feels himself disconnect,his mind flung loose until--

She snatches holdof him again,

His head swimsas he drags himself back from the abyss.

Ahead they are approachinga perfect line of fearsome floating Machines,each like an entire division of tanks welded into one.

A tank fires justas Trinity banks left, a missileof energy chewing up theentire underbelly of the ship.

Inside the cockpitseveral monitors explode and themain lights die.

•

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Shelooks at him

Shepounds on the pedal and outside the padserupt, opening allthe way as the ship tips--

Rocketing towards the churning black sky, leavinga white-hot jettrail that cuts up from the black earthat a forty-five degreeangle.

SeveralSentinels leap from the back ofthe ship, but many remainas it barrels towards the dark roilingceiling.

• TheLogos plunges into the sky with a surrealsplash, like a plane crashing into a sea of shaving cream.

Themolecular replicators.immediately drainthe life from the Sentinelsand they fall dead--

Tearingthrough the clouds that clingto them momentarily likeshredded pieces of parachute, beforeletting them fall away.

TheLogos is engulfed by a ball of lightningas it is attackedby the sky. It shakes violently,every light blowing out,until the ship dies--

Drowningthe cockpit with darkness,where we glimpse--

Two handsstill holding tight.

Theforward momentum carries them justa little higher until suddenlythere is a spectacularexplosion of light as--

Theship breaks out the other siderevealing a perfect blue skylit by a brilliant yellow sun.

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The lightwashes over her face with a warmth she hasnever known. It is avision of the real world she has neverseen.

The ship hits its apex,hangs then slowly twists, as it begins to fal~, slippingquickly back into the billowing black silk of clouds.

..

Their stomachs pitchas the Logos is buffeted by storm and wind, spinning likea falling leaf until--

It splashes out ofthe clouds, revealing--

The Machine City.

To Trinity it looks likea massive mechanical coral reef, spreading as far asthe eye can see.

To Neo, it is anotheruniverse; a pinwheel nebula, spiraling towards him, a billionpinpricks of light strung together, swirling into clustersthat blaze beneath a veil of glowing vapor.

Their fall accelerates,the city rushing towards them as Trinity again turns toNeo.

She grabs the lever and pumps.Tries the ignition. Nothing.

She does it again, pumpingvigorously.

Calmly, methodically, she pumpsthe lever while the architecture of the city gainsdimension, its towers rising like fingers of a hand reachingup with a rushing force.

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Neo feels the energy in the ignition slowly buildingas a singletower now looms, filling the entirewindscreen.

Trinitycloses her eyes, pumping vigilantly, until--

She hits the ignition, opening her eyes to thetower that is now a wall.

The engine fires, the pads crackle with life andtheir fall slows,but not fast enough.

Theship bores into the tower, plowing throughthe nano-built structure that is a surrealist re-combiningof the organic and the mechanical; an anthill or wasps' nestbuilt from a webwork of pipes, wires and ·silicon.

The windshield explodes as Neo and Trinity areagain torn • apart.Xhe ship merges violently with thetower, grinding to a finalwrenching stop.

All becomes quiet.

Cobwebsof shimmering light drape all aroundNeo as it takes him a moment to realize that he is in factstill alive.

There is no response.

Yanking his feet free from the crushof debris, he crawls in the direction of her chair.

/ Shereaches her hand out to him.

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With her touch comes a flood of relief.

He draws closer, feeling hisway.

He smiles; unable to see her, he looksat the gossamer threads of light surrounding them.

We see her face for the first time andwe see that she is crying.

Heknows something is wrong.

Hereaches for her and immediately feelsthe wet warmth of herblood soaking through her shirt.

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~.

Long shaftsof metal are driven through herbody like needles pinning abutterfly in place.

Tears leakfrom his bandages.

He doesn'twant to believe it.

He feelsher tears on his fingertips.

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She smiles.

For the lasttime she reaches up and touches his face.

He lowers his lipsto hers and it ends as it began--

With a kiss.

He feels her lastbreath on his lips and he weeps,holding the hand thatcan no longer hold him back.

The rumbling ofthe digger shakes all of Zion. The Templeis congested withpanicked chaos. Near the entrance, Lock is organizing the defense.

The entire tower isquivering as the wall begins to crack.

The wall splits, givingbirth to a ball of metal teeth spitting rock and dust.The digger chews through, rending rock, shredding steeland shaking the entire city.

It emerges with a finalrearing thrust, then tips free and falls--

Smashing through the laceworkof catwalks, before crashing into the knotted tangleof pipe at the base of Zion, burying into the bedrock andmetal like a knife to its hilt.

The black hole breathesbrimstone as a cloud of dust settles over Zion like a shroud.

People cling to each otheras the booming crash echoes through their bodies.

Link holds Zee and lookingup at the dark ceiling of the Temple, he whispers.

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Neo climbs. Feeling hisway, rising from the wreckage along the coiled mechanical intestines.

There are sounds all aroundhim: a ratcheting clatter that rises and fades like a rattlesnakewarning, the hiss of a radiator pipe, the scrapeof a rake dragged against concrete. The sounds circle as ifpatiently watching him like vultures watching a dying man.

He heaves himself up intoa large passageway running hQrizontally through thetower. It spirals, coiling inward, woven out of shinymetal rods that are ribbed and knuckled like bones.

As Neo stands, we experiencethe passage as he does; atunnel of light, its surfaceas perfectly smooth as a mirror.

He steps forward and aripple spreads out from his foot as though he werewalking on water that had been rolled intoa • tube.

At the end of thepassage there is an opening that windows out of the tower.Neo moves towards it, until he standson the edge, awed bywhat he sees.

He sees the Machinecity, an endless sprawling metropolis built out of pureenergy. Towers of glowing spun glassrise up from crystallinestructures of radiant light.

Everywhere, hoveringlike hummingbirds, are creatures seemingly createdout of fibers of light, soldered into patterns of a threedimensional circuit board.

There is a celestialand even spiritual quality tothe image, until we revealthe city-in-itself--

A dark industrialnightmare. Underlit by angry burstsof lightning. Demons ofblack steel and chrome hang everywhere, Jcrawling alongthe walls, the springs in their limbs tightening like arat trap being loaded--

While thousandsof blood-red eyes bore into Neo.

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Suddenly those closestto him, scatter, leaping fromthe walls, flying away,clearing, as small fish run fromthe approach of amuch bigger fish.

From below, anenormous and complex Machine rises to face Neo. It is so largethat it eclipses the entire city.

Neo steadies himself,overwhelmed momentarily by itspower and brilliance.

The Deus exMachina unleashes a locust swarm of tinymachines that seem readyto envelop Neo.

The locust swarm swirlsback creating an undulating ballof mechanical bugsthat remain in constant motion.

Neo experiencesthe Deus ex Machina as a huge ball of energy, like a sun, its facein constant flux.

The bugs coalesce andan almost human face pushes itselfout from underneath.

The voice has a synthesizedquality, resonating with a sense that it is not onevoice, but every voice.

The face disappearsas quickly as it appeared.

The locusts begin vibrating,chittering and trembling like animals sensing a storm.

Rage explodes from the face,spitting bugs at Neo as it screams.

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The facefades, the storm circling Neo for amoment before slowlycollecting itself as the face re-emerges.

Neo looks up into the blinding brightness.

The Sentinel army pours from the dark gapingmouth flooding the entire city.

•

Thekid swallows hard, wiping the sweatfrom his palms as he steadiesthe grip on his gun.

The leading force descends to theTemple entrance, limbs outstretched like the talons of anattacking bird of prey.

The first Sentinel slams down ontothe metal bridge, rearing back on its haunches as its brethrensmack down behind him.

Every gun is clutched like atalisman as the Sentinel peers into the cave.

Suddenly, a circling Sentineljerks upward, its communication dish snapping open. It raisesit as if trying to hear something•

in every Sentinel.

J The lead Sentinel backsup.

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Niobe doesn'tunderstand it.

Morpheus isn't sure.

The entire passagewaycomes alive around Neo as cablesand metal rods grow likea time-lapsed plant, forming a seat under him and fillingevery jack.

A cobra-like cablerises up to the back of Neo's neck pausing, its needleprobing at the brain-jack.

The face almost smilesas it fades away.

The cable thrustsinto Neo, plunging the pistol-needleinto his brain, plugginghis couscionsuess into the Matrix.

Morpheus setshis gun down and stands up.

He steps overTho h;:.ry.j,....,adc.,:::,n/""t\r.73.lk.supthepathtothe entrance.

Lock signalsto several soldiers to cover him. Thekid lurches out justbehind Niobe.

Morpheus stopsat the edge of the pool of water.Outside the Temple, he cansee the Sentinels gliding in slowpatterns.

Three Sentinels layjust outside the opening like sleeping lions.

One of the soldiersraises his gun and a Sentinelleaps to its feet withthe sound of a dozen machine gunsbeing co,J:cked.

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The soldier drops his gun and slowlythe Sentinel lowers back down.

Morpheus nods.

A sick green-black sky vomitsa raging storm upon the urban night-scape below. Lightningspits from every cloud like the constant flicker of snaketongues.

Black boots stride down thecenter of the rain soaked street.

We follow as Neo walks, glancingleft, then right at a city of Agent Smiths. They linethe streets, their perfect

silhouettes filling thewindows of skyscrapers. rt is a city

• of dark-suited, sunglass-wearingshadows. • Lightning flash-bulbs agroup of them, staring at Neo, smiling identically.

A singular Smith entersthe street and turns towards Neo, walking at him untilthey stand, like gun fighters--

Face to face.

Rain pours offhis face as lightning pitch-forksthe sky behind him.

Another bolt strikes,this time in front of him, sowe see it reflected inhis sunglasses.

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He snapsopen his coat, his body automaticallysettling into adefensive position.

Smith'ssmile twists into a sneer and hehurls himself at his enemy.

Thefirst exchange is a squall, fast and furious,as lightningstrobes the water explodingwith every blow.

Theymirror one another, neither one gainingor losing ground untileach sees the exact same opening--

Simultaneouslydelivering a thunder packedpunch that sends both men flying backwards--

Neo flips and lands gracefully, while Smithsmashes down, concrete buckling beneath him.

Smithgrowls, cocking and loading himself,then firing out, hurtling up through the driving rain as--

Neo leaps to meet him and they collidehigh above the street.

Twoequal and opposite forces slammingtogether like atoms smashingas an expanding sphere of energyis unleashed from thecollision--

A globeof glass clearing away the rain swellinguntil it breaks open against the surrounding urbancliffs.

Thetwo men remain suspended in mid-air,battling, fists and feetthrown with particle-accelerator speed.

Neo fights with ultimate precision,but Smith has become overwhelminglypowerful. A blow snapsNeo's head back, sendinghis glasses flying and beforehe recovers--

Smithgrabs him, spinning like a decathletein the hammer toss, and releases--

HurlingNeo into the side of a building.

--

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He smashes into the building like a bullet, anotherseismic

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wave of damage shattering the face of thebuilding, following the initial impact, the way thunder followslightning.

Looking back through the bored opening hisbody just created, Neo barely has time to stand before Smithbarrels into him.

The battle rages through the building, Smithpummeling Neo with wrecking ball force--

Smashing him through walls of concrete,brick and steel.

Smith steps through one of the holes asNeo struggles to get back on his feet.

Once more, Neo picks himself up.

He smiles.

Neo settles into a posewe have seen before. He signals to Smith, "come get some."

Nothing frustrates Smith asmuch as that little wave.

Another fury roars throughthe building, but this one ends with Neo unloading an explosionof kicks culminating in--

Bullet Time; a final boot launchedlike a LAS rocket, blasting Smith--

Out of the building, sailingback through the sheets of rain until he slows regainingcontrol. He looks back at the opening in the buildingwhere-

,.

Neo stands, lit by flashinglightning.

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Smith grinds his teeth and launcheshimself back at him while Neo dives into the open airand--

Again they fly at each other,the impact of this collision much more powerful thanthe first as--

Waves of force shatterwindows and rip lamp posts from the concrete like a hurricaneuprooting trees.

They fight in mid-air,punching, kicking, grappling, locked together but in constantmotion like electrons chasing each other around a singlenucleus--

Oblivious to the height,they rise up beyond the city's glass towers until they areamidst the flashing electric tongues of lightning and the cityis a distant pattern of light beneath them.

Smith lands a seriesof savage blows that stun Neo and he slips down, twisting,lost for a moment, suddenly vulnerable.

Above him, Smithrises up just as twin bolts of lightning strike, haloingthe dark-suited demon with jagged broken rays of light.

With the crashingdin of thunder that follows, Smith attacks.

Diving down, he slamsinto Neo, tackling him, driving him back to the earth--

Streaking likea comet, faster than the rain, plummetingpast the mirrored towersas Neo struggles to get free, fighting, even as the inevitabilityof the ground rushes towards them and--

The unstoppableforce meets the immovable object.

The concussiveblast craters the street, buckling buildings, as a wave ofunequaled destruction rushes out over the urban chasm.

The explosionthunders away until there is only the hissing rain, as the Smithsgather along the crater's edge.

Inside the bowlof earth is the exposed viscera of the metropolis;broken pipes, sparking cables and rent sewers.

The rain onhis face slowly brings Neo's consciousnessback.

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Smith stands over him as he tries to getup.

It is an effort to even pull his armfrom the wet sucking mud.

Neo rolls over, pushing himselfto his hands and knees.

Neo glares at him withanimal-like eyes.

, Yes? No? Could it be forlove?

• He laughs.

Neo's hands clenchinto fists.

Rain streaksthe mud down Neo's face like blacktears.

Neo summons hisstrength and once more, he stands.

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Smith howls in frustration,hurling at him, but Neo absorbs the attack, catching Smithmomentarily off-balance---

Firing back a furious attackthat has Smith reeling, unable to defend himself asNeo loadsup a bomb. It is not a punch; it is a cannonball--

Shot into Bullet Time;his fist shattering through the glass- like rods of rain as ithurls at Smith--

Connecting flush, distortinghis features as the flesh of his face is knocked loose andhis eyes go blank.

He staggers, stunned,out on his feet as Neo hauls back and gathers the Tai-chi ball,summoning every last bit of his energy, his life-force,then--

Slams it into Smith,catapulting him into the wall of the crater--

Burying him from sight.

Neo sways in the rainwith barely enough strength to standas the army of Smiths lookdown from the crater edge.

A low ominous rumblebegins to shake the earth. Neo dropshis head unable towatch as the rumble rises until--

The wall of the craterexplodes like an exit wound, earth and asphalt shot-gunning -f-rryrn--~---~~-......hi~r,-r:::itro·:;1--~~~

He hangs in the air,his mud-covered face distortedwith rage.

He dives intoNeo who has nothing left and batters him,each bludgeoningblow striking in time with searing boltsof lightning.

He seizes Neoby the throat, hoisting him up like arag doll and fires a super-punchthat sends Neo flying--

Bouncing downto the earth like a crashing airplane, trenching to a stop.

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Smith is about to press his frenziedassault, but he freezes, the image of Neo laying splayed,suddenly familiar.

He looks at Neo and in a flash oflightning we see the immediate future as Smith stabshis entire fist into Neo's chest.

Smith blinks away the raindropsblurring his vision.

Another flash and we see the blackmirror begin to cover Neo's body.

Smith walks over to Neo who is desperatelyclinging to his consciopsness as if hanging from theedge of a precipice.

Again the future flashes in his eyes andhe sees Neo's hands buried beneath the gleaming blackness.

Thefamiliar words suddenly clear Neo'smind. He looks up as Smithlooks down.

Neo almostcan't believe what he just heardas--

Anotherflash reveals the liquid obsidian coveringNeo's face,but his face is calm, even serene.

In hisconfusion, he looks to Neo who now understands.

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One final time,Neo rises to his feet.

Rain pours down Smith'stortured face.

Smith's eyes fire,a scream rises up from him and in a crackling, blindingflash of lightning--

He stabs his fist intoNeo, who stands with his arms open, accepting the blow.

Exactly as in the flashingvisions, Neo is covered bythe darkness. Risingup over his face, Neo closes his eyes andis lost beneath the liquidshroud.

The whole sky continuesto weep as Smith enters him, possessing him, asthe darkness snaps into a perfect pairof sunglasses.

The mud covered Smithbacks away from the new Smith as ifnot trusting him.

The new Smith nodshis head once and the old Smith smiles. And as a giddiness spreadsthrough him, he starts to laugh.

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Neo's body hangsmotionless, supported by thepassageway as we see asNeo would, an empty husk that isbeing filled, liquid lightpouring into him from every connection.

The old Smithrealizes that he is laughingalone. There is somethingwrong with the new Smith.

The newSmith begins to tremble, a shiverthat grows into a convulsion.

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Neo's body arches, his arms pinnedwide as he tries to scream but instead of sound, a shaft of lightbeams out.

He opens his eyes and light pours outof them.

Light brightens around Smith's sunglasses,until they begin to crack and shred like wet tissues asshafts of brilliant lightburst free.

Now the old Smith begins to feel itas his body begins to shiveruncontrollably.

The new Smith continues to crackopen, light beaming out from his distended and deteriorating form,filling the entire crater as--

One by one it spreads throughto all the Smiths.

Shafts of light burst from theshells of Smith like water breaking through a dam, dissolvingaway each dark silhouette--

Until there are hundreds offaceless forms all made out of bright radiant light.

The old Smith, at the centerof the crater, fights to the last. His scream rails againstthe buildings as he bursts open and is consumed bylight.

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From high above we see the explosionof blinding light sweep through the entire city as--

A final surge rushes throughNeo, his body convulsing against his metal coils and we see the lightdrain out of him, as life slowly leaves him and hisbody falls quiet and still.

Neo dies.

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In the center of the crater liesthe body of the Oracle.

The cables and rods lower Neo's lifelessbody, as it is laid onto the floor of the mechanicalcave.

The face of the Deus ex Machina gazesonce more upon him.

The face recedes and the enormousMachine sinks away like a setting sun.

A hovering Sentinel closes up of the hole made by the digger. Oneby one the other Sentinels follow.

No one can believe what they are seeing.

Lock stands alone clutching his gun.

Morpheus walks across the stream and standsat the door of the Temple looking up at what iswithout question a miracle: theentire Sentinel army leaving Zion~

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The othersmove in behind him, their facesstaring up in awe.

The lastof the Machines glide out of sightand waves of emotionsweep through all of them.

The kidcan't hold it in and he screams,joy bursting out of him.

Hisvoice spills out into the Temple ashe follows, almost falling,caught by several soldiers.

Hamman is unable to breathe as he drinksdown the information.The kid turns and leapsonto a boulder, his voice filling the Temple.

Tears stream down both Link and Zee'sfaces as they embrace.

A huge resounding cheer surges up fromthe people of Zion as they break open with relief and joy.

Morpheus and Niobe hear the cheeringthat rolls up out of the Temple.

Morpheus unable to move, unableto embrace a moment he waited his entire life for.

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He looks at her.

She nods and he reaches out to her, tryingto feel something to make him believe it and--

Finding it in her arms.

Niobe looks up with tears brimming inher bright eyes.

Neo's body is dragged from the passagewayby a Machine that looks like a sawed-open garbage truck.

The Machine quietly and efficiently dropshim onto the open bed, then turns, gliding away as a bargemight drift out to sea.

We ~ee the Machine City once more asNeo did; dazzling crystalline structures of light and atthe center, bearing away the body of Neo, a being that appearslike an angel made from the morning sun as it glitters againstthe wide open ocean.

Rain pebbles the angelic face of Sati as ablack cat carefully pads up next to her and licksher cheek.

Ina blink the cat disappears and as itdoes--

Itstops raining.

Thecracked and broken ground is now replacedwith a perfectlysmooth sidewalk.

Satiremains in the in the same sleepingposition as the cat againsoftly pads in and licks her cheek,exactly as it just did.

Satislowly wakes up and smiles at the cat.

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The cat purrs, nudging against her.

She yawns and lifts herself up.

A pair of expensive black loafers stridedown the street.

The black shoes stop as the man findswhat he was looking for sitting on a park bench.

The Oracle smiles at him.

The Architect hides his sneer inthe corners of his mouth.

Shesmiles and he decides to leave.

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He glances back, insulted.

He smiles and walks away as Satiyells.

Carrying the cat, she leads Seraphover the hill to the bench, bolting to the Oracle.

She points to an unbelievably beautifulsunrise, rays of extraordinarily vibrant colors streakedacross the sky with the joy and ardor of a child's finger-painting.

Sati beams, as she nods her head.

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She stands up.

Seraph turns to the Oracle.

She smiles.

They head to their home,walking into the sunrise as--

Young dawn raises her rose-redfingers.

Fade out.