Fade in--
On the Matrix at code level, where we are traveling with the speed of thought--
Rushing through streaks of coded light before pausing to survey an area from above, as a god might.
We glide down for a slightly closer look at the encoded metropolis, effortlessly moving through the walls and rooms of a skyscraper, until we again accelerate beyond the speed of light to search--
As the code forms the familiar drips and we pull out onto the monitors of the Mjolnir's operator's station.
AK, Link's counterpart on this ship, beats his keyboard.
The crew of the Mjolnir are gathered on the main deck.
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Neo lies unconscious. Trinity is at his bedside.
The door opens and Maggie, the ship's medic, enters with a small plate of food.
Trinity takes the plate from her.
She shakes her head.
Maggie starts to check Neo's monitors when Bane groans. She steps over to his bed which is a reverse of Neo's position.
Bane becomes silent and still.
Trinity nods.
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Morpheus and Link have remained at the perimeter of the meeting. Now Morpheus steps out of the shadows.
Maggie re-reads Neo's life monitors.
Trinity rises to see the display.
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The Matrix drips down the window of the monitor. '
Morpheus stares at the monitor not willing to accept it.
Colt slides down the ladder from the cockpit • •
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He pulls off his headset jumping free of his operator's station.
Suddenly Link notices something.
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Everyone stops and looks.
Link jumps into the seat, throwing on the headsets.
Link hands Morpheus the headset.
Seraph is in a phone booth.
Neo slowly, painfully, wakes up.
His face is mashed against a grey concrete slab. Every part of him hurts. A hot-wire migraine sears through both hemispheres of his brain.
He peels open his eyes and sees a tiny pair of shoes.
Into the glare of fluorescent light, he looks up at a beautiful little Indian girl.
She smiles at him.
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For a moment he sees her as a program of pure radiant energy . Bathed in the shimmering aura of 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 of the station; Mobil Ave.
She whispers as if afraid the Trainman was listening.
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Seraph leads Morpheus and Trinity into the Oracle's old apartment.
Morpheus and Trinity enter the old apartment. An Older Woman sits alone in the church-like silence.
They look at one another, unable to recognize this woman.
The Older Woman sighs.
Neither believes it.
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make the same choice again, knowing full well what it might cost, I guess I feel pretty good about that choice 'cause here I am, at it again.
, through this world.
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Morpheus remains unsure, unable to step neither forward or backward.
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All I can do is tell you that your friend is in trouble and he needs your help.
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She turns to Trinity.
Neo sits rubbing his temples, trying to piece together what happened.
She runs to a middle-aged Indian man who is sitting on a bench beside his beautiful wife. Several suitcases stand in a line next to the bench.
Neo recognizes the man.
He smiles.
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• He stands.
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He lays his hand on Sati's head.
Kamala looks away.
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Neo struggles with the idea of a Machine loving another Machine.
•
He reads Neo's code.
Neo feels awkwardly exposed.
Rama smiles.
A wild-eyed derelict sits in the front car of a subway train.
The train clatters and screeches down the urban throat where fluorescent lights hang like broken teeth, glowing against the darkness. It is late at night and the train is virtually empty.
The rear door is shoved open with a sudden rush of wind and noise. The derelict turns and sees Seraph leading Morpheus and Trinity into the car.
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The wild eyes widen.
The Trainman leaps up, the burnished blue metal of a .38 special flashing free from his layers of clothes.
The few passengers react, while Seraph continues calmly toward him.
The train passes through a station and the Trainman yanks the emergency lever--
Throwing the train into a lurching stop.
He dives out the open door. Seraph, Morpheus and Trinity lunge after him.
Like a panicked antelope that breaks from the pack, directionless, bolting with a kind of awkward grace--
He bounds up the stairwell, and zig-zags through the mostly deserted tunnels that lead up to inter-connecting stations.
Checking a wrist full of watches, he veers off towards another staircase. Almost flying he hurls himself down the stairs to the train platform below.
He turns and fires at the three pursuing figures.
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Weaving behind the steel and concrete columns, he continues to fire forcing them to take cover until--
The station begins to rumble and the Trainman smiles.
He whirls out from his column firing, emptying the gun, waiting for the train to blast into the station.
Seraph sees the train that is not going to stop and realizes what the Trainman is about to do.
He spins out into the line of fire, bullets burying in pillars with plumes of concrete colored dust.
The Trainman turns, sprinting towards the train tracks and jumps. For a flashing instant, a perfect silhouette in the blaring train-light, his wild clothes like the broken wings of a bat as--
He leaps from one platform to another disappearing behind the rushing train.
And when it finally passes, he is gone, leaving the three alone in the silence that slowly swallows the dopplering train.
Rama is looking at his watch.
He eyes Neo for a moment.
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He looks at his daughter.
The station begins to rumble.
Rama pauses.
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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 curl of his lips is more like a scythe than a smile.
He hits Neo and sends him flying, smashing into the ceramic and concrete wall.
He scowls at Rama and his family.
Rama drops his eyes and gets on the train.
Seraph is driving the big Lincoln. Trinity stares out the window alone in the back seat.
Morpheus turns to her.
Morpheus can see the answer reflected in her eyes.
Cradling his broken ribs, Neo jumps down onto the tracks.
They disappear into darkness. He starts running in the same direction as the train went.
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we watch for a nocnent, then pan back to look :en t.he opposite direct.i..on ...,,here we see him r.,::y;:.,_1 running towards us ..
He stops as he enters the station: "1-':obil Ave." He .looks back the way he came.
He runs that way or.ly to end up exactly where he star1:ed.
A corral of exqu.Lsite cars and linousines are parked near a single met.al door. The B:..g Bald Mar. and two of the lupine killers from the Merovingian's gang, guard the ::Joor.
Footsteps begin t.o ri,1g softly against the tor:ib--gray concrete as a sha::low moves toward ,:;hem.
KILLE:< Holy shit! It's wingless!
Seraph, Trinity, and Morpheus step into the small pool of l:..ght.
SER.l\Vil We need to speak with hiD.
The Big Man yanks back: the lever o:: his machine g·.1n.
'l'r ini ty moves and the machine gur: erupt,i, breathing fire and spi.tting lead as we enter--
Bullet Time. We see 'Ir:.r.ity weaving :.mpossi.bly fror:i a diving crouc~ i.nto a cartwieel, even as every inch of space is pur.ct~red by a storm of mi~dless missiles.
'I'o the eye, sh(?. is a flash, a.lmost a ghost a;3 s:--1E~ spir.s into a coil and then lau~ches herself into the air--
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Rising in Bullet Time, bullets chasing her in the fanning arc of a ticking second hand until--
A savage kick bounces the huge man against the steel door back into Trinity who slices him with the precision of a sushi-master, dropping him to the floor.
Before the other two can react, Seraph and Morpheus attack, leaping out from behind the nearest vehicles--
Catching the killers off balance as they deliver their blows with lethal fury.
It is over quickly, three dark heaps laying crumpled in the pool of white light.
Without hesitation, Trinity opens the metal door. Seraph and Morpheus follow.
A small brick room with only a gated elevator. Trinity opens it and they climb in.
There are only two buttons. The lower button is slightly red with the word, "hel" written on it.
Ka-chung. The elevator stops. Trinity slides open the gate.
They are very unlucky. Five men turn as the beautiful coat check girl steps between them.
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The me0 1 -::urn to look as SEerapi grabs the coat check 9ic::l, pushing her down behind a counter while every hand grabs the nearest gLln.
~lorpheus and 'l'rinity oharge into tie roorr. behi:1d the cacophony of emptying olips and spray and pray gunfire.
Bodies dive, spinnin9, flying off the walls, passing each other like p:anes in a dog:'ight as--
The entire room is sl:redded, bullets rippi.ng 1:hrough everything, tearing -::he wa::_ls and furniture apart like termites chewing wood to dust.
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It is a dark alternative club filled with both prcgrac."Ils and humans. Several people react to the :wise which can barely be heard above the po,.md2-ng music.
A final blcody exchange and the last of the guards sL1mp -r:.o the ground amidst the falling snow-globe debris.
Immediately they anr. themselves frorr. the mass of weapons in the weapons check.
They push througi the heavy doors like b:ood-soaked divers slipping into shark-filled waters. :nstan::ly they are recognized.
Forming a Laager, back to back, their guns constan::ly sl'.i:'ting frorr. hard stare tc clenched jaw, they move into the crowd that clinc:-tes arcund :..he.m, probing, looking :fer an. opening.
On a raised platfcrm, at the far end o:' the club, the :-1erovingian rises fro:n his seat.
MEROVINGI.~ Wr.at in the hell •..
Grabbir.9 the railing, he sees the three, comp::.etely surrour:ded, tc::yi:ig to push through the dance floor.
Y!E?OVINGIAN ( crn,·r' D: I dcn'L believe this--
He begins to laugh.
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The music is killed, plunging the catacombed chamber into silence.
He laughs again as the crowd contracts around them.
The Merovingian glances back at the Trainman surrounded by the eternally young and beautiful.
Seraph checks with Morpheus and Trinity.
Slowly they lower their guns. The point of no return passes as their weapons clatter to the floor.
Immediately they are snatched up by the surrounding crowd, who smile now, teeth flashing the way a knife does as it is being sharpened.
The Merovingian giggles as they climb the stairs followed bJ the newly armed men and women.
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He sits beside his gorgeous wife who is riveted with anticipation.
The Trainman smiles at Seraph.
The Merovingian picks up his martini.
He sucks at an olive.
He pops the olive into his mouth chewing it with obvious relish.
He smiles.
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He slides the last olive from its silver toothpick with his teeth. •
There is a faint smile as he chews.
Seraph doesn't react while several of the armed goons chuckle.
He drops the metal toothpick into the empty martini glass.
His smile is MepbistopbeJeau as he lifts the glass to Seraph.
Seraph doesn't move.
The empty glass hovers between them as they stare at one another with the kind of intensity that is only possible after years of deep felt hatred.
She attacks, every blow breaking some kind of bone.
Seraph and Morpheus scramble at the surrounding guards, barely able to stop them from shooting her as--
She cuts a path between her and the Merovingian.
Seraph kicks one of the guns, spinning up into the air as dozens of heavily armed men storm up the platform.
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The gun floats above the frozen chaos of inter-locked bodies • until--
Trinity snatches it out of the air and whirls around--
Jamming it against the Merovingian's head. Everyone freezes; guns check-mating every move.
He looks at her, reading the bio-chemistry in her code.
She thumbs back the hammer.
Persephone stares at her like a junkie about to be given a fix.
Her eyes flash with the memory of it.
Neo is sitting cross-legged, concentrating trying to re- connect his mind to his body .
•
in here, you can get yourself out.
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He centers his mind, focusing, drawing closer and closer until he begins to feel something--
Something that frightens him.
A single image suddenly slashes across his minds eye: three black lines across a brimstone desert. His mind rushes forward, following the lines as if following a path as the entire world begins to rumble.
He opens his eyes as the train thunders into the station.
When Trinity steps out of the doors, he almost can't believe it. She runs to him, throwing her arms around him.
She kisses him and he smiles.
The Matrix is crowded with people rushing through the routine of their lives as the black-green Lincoln is swept into the flow of traffic.
Neo and Trinity are in the back seat. Morpheus dials his cell phone.
Link is wearing the headset, pacing behind AK who is typing furiously.
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LINK
• Almost sir. They got some pretty ancient
hacks here. We're working on it. But you found Neo?
Neo stares out the window. There is something familiar about the moment, but he is unsure if he is remembering something he has done or something he has to do.
Morpheus turns back to him.
A small pair of hands dig into a mound of cookie dough, kneading a cascade of chocolate chips and broken candy bars.
The Oracle is making cookies with Sati.
Neo again slips through the beaded entrance.
• SATI
Neo!
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The Oracle seems surprised.
She turns to Sati, picking up the bowl.
She scoops up the big bowl with her cookie dough covered fingers.
The Oracle goes to the sink to wash her hands.
Neo reads her code.
She offers Neo a piece.
She pops a piece in her mouth.
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She smiles. •
She smiles almost as a parent might.
She takes out a cigarette .
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She lights it.
She points to the sign behind him. He turns and reads it once again.
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NEO
• I did.
Her familiar Chesire smile.
She rolls 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, Bane opens his eyes •
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Neo opens his eyes. Beside him are Morpheus and Trinity, both obviously relieved.
He nods.
She slides the needle from his head and he hauls himself out of the chair.
Everyone is gathered around him, staring at him, expecting him to know what they must do.
He turns and leaves. Roland shakes his head.
Roland grabs the handset.
He shoots Morpheus a look.
The front door slides open and a pair of men's gleaming black leather shoes pass through. They are followed by an identical pair.
Followed by another.
And another.
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• The Oracle and Sati are near the oven, baking the cookies. The Oracle cracks the door and takes a good whiff.
Seraph rushes into the room.
She gathers up her cookies.
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Seraph remains as rooted as a golem.
She touches his face for the last time.
She smiles.
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Seraph hits the elevator button. He stands with Sati at the end of the hall.
Suddenly the elevator light goes out.
One by one the fl 11orescents flicker off; darkness creeping towards them, slowly swallowing them.
He picks her up and rushes for the stairs.
They start down the stairwell but Seraph hears footsteps below. Peeking over the railing edge, he sees dozens of Smiths climbing towards them.
Quickly they exit onto another floor.
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Still carrying Sati, Seraph rushes down the corridor, looking
through walls and doors, searching for an empty apartment.
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541 IN':'. EMPT'Y APARTMENT 541
He moves towards t:,e farthest bedroom w:'1:cle Sati stares back over his shoulder.
He s,2,ts her down staring at something beyond -::he cracked blar.k walls.
':'hev can hear his footsteos in the roorr. outside. The door cri~s as it is opened, revealing the silhouetted Smit:,s, their sunglasses starir.g, emp:.y of express:.on like the lidless, eyeless sockets of a sku~l.
A single Smith steps into t'.le roorr .•
He bends down to Sati.
':'he Srr..itr.s beg:.n spreading into th," room.
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• She sits in the darkened kitchen, smoking her last cigarette.
Smith pushes through the beaded entrance.
He enters the kitchen, while his gang of Smiths cluster at the entrance.
He suddenly grabs the plate of cookies and hurls it, smashing it against the wall.
She doesn't flinch.
She is the Sphinx.
One of the Smiths standing at the door wiggles his fingers at her.
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The Smiths chuckle.
She crushes out her cigarette.
He takes hold of her arm and presses two of his fingers into her.
The moment he does, we see an explosion of light and energy as the lines of code that make up the entire room break apart, code flying frantically, caught in the violent winds of a digital tornado.
The kitchen-in-itself looks as if a cyclone were tearing it apart as the Smiths gathered at the door, glance about like nervous chickens.
The wind dies, the kitchen now destroyed and sitting where the Oracle was, is another Smith.
He stands, dizzy, overwhelmed by the experience. The other Smith steps away from him.
The Oracle/Smith removes his sunglasses as he looks for a moment beyond the room, beyond the code. For a moment he looks into the future.
And what he sees, makes him laugh.
Bane sits silently, a small twitch in his eye as the crews of both ships stare at him.
If there was a sound being made by anyone, it would be the grinding of Roland's teeth.
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•
don't remember any of it.
Bane stares into the cut across his palm.
Bane continues to stare at the scabbing cut.
Frustrated, Roland gets up, whispering to Maggie.
She nods.
Neo is alone, sitting on the bunk, looking for his own answer.
Again he focuses and sees something that is there, but not there: the Desert of the Real. A dark scorched plane of earth marked by the three black lines that pull us closer and closer until--
He blinks and the image is gone .
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Excited, Mauser slides down the ladder as Roland steps out of the mess hall.
The Logos lies hidden; its hull a lifeless shadow obscured by rubble and debris. It appears that a massive bomb exploded near the mouth of the small pipeline.
Search-lights sweep over the Logos as the Mjolnir glides overhead carefully maneuvering through the damaged opening.
Morpheus, Roland, Mauser and AK are in the cockpit.
AK points as the lights sweep over the still metal carcasses of several Sentinels.
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•
There is a bright burst of electricity as current arcs out from the lower pads to the metal of the pipeline.
The ship bangs down, Morpheus already up and heading for the ladder.
The hull doors open and Colt is the first out, a high beamed flashlight attached to his lightning gun.
Morpheus quickly follows, scanning the 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 dead Sentinels.
Cautiously, Link steps over to it and kicks it when there is a loud bang.
The light sweeps towards another loud bang and finds--
Niobe.
,ii1,,,....• needs is a jump. I ;
1,1
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Ghost and Sparks crawl down from their hiding spot, up in the tangled briar of debris.
He seems, for a moment, caught between what he should do and what he wants to do.
She smiles at his awkwardness.
He's surprised by the question.
She heads off for the ramp.
Lock addresses the council.
I
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The room is crowded but quiet, everyone intently following the logic of Lock.
He speaks like a coroner, describing a cause of death, precise and without emotion.
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The catwalks and platforms are alive with activity, its inhabitants preparing for the impending siege.
·· 555 INT. ZION - LINK'S HOME - DAY 555
Zee is alone folding a powdery mixture in a large teflon bowl. The table is strewn with strange tools as if she were baking a cake or fixing an engine.
She sets the bowl next to a set of scales, looking up as Cas enters, carrying several bags. The children are behind her.
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• go.
Cas drops her bag.
She closes the door and goes to the table.
She looks down considering what she would do to have Dozer alive again. There is only one answer to the question.
Zee hugs her.
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The kid shoves a wheelbarrow with two crates of ammo from the APU support bunker. The front wheel bumps over a tangle of power lines and the kid loses control, tumbling forward as the bin tips over.
The boxes smash open with the bright metal chatter of endless strings of bullets spilling out around the kid.
Mifune scoffs.
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The Captains and Seconds of each ship are gathered arour.d the table.
There is an i:1tricate map cf the sewer lines spread OJt on the table.
He leans back.
Niobe's been sitting back until now.
~OLAND That's a mecha:1ical line. It's i.mpo:3si:::ile. No one can pil:it mechanical.
)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 a moment trying to figure out if they heard him right • •
•
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Trinity stares at hi:n and he i.s unable to hide his thou9hU; frcm her. Somet'1in9 unspoken ::,asses between t'-lem.
Roland b:.irsts into l.au9hte:::-.
?..OLAND Ycu'll never make it. In a hundred years nc ship has been within a hundred kilometers of it. You'll never make it.
c-10?..PEEUS Is this what the Oracle told you?
?..oland almost spits out his ton9ue.
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•
can and can't do with my ship after that 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 the monitors all flicker to life. •
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There is something wrong with 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 at the same thing.
Bane is sitting on the table. Maggie is drawing a serum into a hypodermic needle.
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If I did that, then it wouldn't be very safe for me here, would it?
• He smiles~
Maggie sees something behind his eyes that frightens her.
She tries to stab him with the needle, but he's ready for it. He catches her and leaps off the table, driving her back against the wall.
With snake-bite speed, he whips a hidden scalpel from his sleeve and jams it into her heart.
Neo grabs his tools and shoulders his bag. When he turns, Trinity is standing in the door with her bag.
He drops his bag.
She waits.
He is unable to find the words, so she does.
He nods, surprised as always by her.
•
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I saw it in your face, just like you knew the moment you looked at me, that I was coming with you.
She drops her bag and steps close to him.
She kisses him and in the kiss there is a vow.
They are preparing for take off. Roland is on the radio.
Several crew members haul the last few boxes of ammunition.
Niobe is in the pilot's seat.
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•
Morpheus and Link are saying goodbye to Neo and Trinity. Link locks a bear-hug on her.
He hides his tears as he turns away. Morpheus isn't sure what to say to Neo.
Neo offers his hand, as he did when they first met.
Morpheus smiles as he shakes it.
Hauling their bags, Neo and Trinity head down the ramp, disappearing into the darkness of Lhe pipe.
Niobe, Ghost and Roland prepare for take-off.
He looks at Niobe .
• Captain, and hit it hard.
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Niobe looks out one last time at her ship.
Spastic strings of electricity leap from the pads, as the Mjolnir lifts off the ground, spins and glides by leaving the Logos behind.
Neo climbs into the seat beside Trinity.
He looks out as the lights from the Mjolnir disappear around the corner of intersecting pipe.
He nods.
She takes hold of the stick when suddenly the lights in the cockpit die. Checking several gauges, she listens to the ship's engine.
The hatch slaps open and Trinity climbs down the ladder, her fluorescent torch the only source of light.
The room looks like a dozen old basements were crarrn:ned into a crawl-space. Trinity searches the fuse boxes that line the walls and finds a series of disconnected fuses when--
Bane attacks.
Her light clatters to the floor as he grabs her from behind, pressing the scalpel 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 eyes fire with the intensity of a lion guarding its cubs.
She grabs the knife hand, fighting it with all her strength as she screams throwing them both backward crashing to the floor.
The two bodies writhe and twist, knotting and unknotting until Trinity slips free--
Grabbing the light as he grabs her.
Twisting back, she smashes it into his face, pitching the room into darkness except for the light that falls through the hatch.
She lunges for the ladder, scrambling up it as a shadow leaps after her.
She climbs out the hatch just as Bane snatches her foot, tripping her.
She slams to the floor, but as he rises up through the hatch, she kicks him in the face--
Breaking his nose, the treads on her boot ripping open his upper lip.
Clambering to her feet, she rushes for the intercom.
The intercom spits out her voice.
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She's cut off, shooting Neo from his seat.
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Bane bangs Trinity against the metal wall. Stunned, she falls to the floor and before she can recover, he kicks her savagely in the ribs, almost flipping her over.
Pain explodes through her body, black spots bursting in her vision.
Bane wipes the back of his hand across his shattered nose.
The Mjolnir leaves a wake of static electricity like a race car laying down smoke and burnt rubber.
Ghost studies the monitors.
Niobe nods as the intercom crackles on.
He throws the handset down, jumping up from his seat .
A sheet is pulled over the bloody body of Maggie.
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goddamn mind! He fired that EMP! Goddamnit, I should have beaten it out of him!
Colt hurries into the room.
Link turns to Morpheus, but Morpheus knows Roland is right.
Neo climbs down the ladder, sweeping the barrel of the lightning gun from shadow to shadow.
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He hears him forcing her quiet.
He runs through the heavy cabled passageways that wind around the base of the core leading to the engineering hatch.
Bane stands just beyond the open floor hatch holding Trinity, whose hands are tied behind her back.
Neo charges forward, but stops when he sees the scalpel point puncture the white skin of her exposed throat.
A rush of something familiar floods Neo's mind.
The scalpel bites 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 unable to 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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Neo does.
With one quick shove, Bane throws Trinity down the hatch as Neo spins back, catching a glimpse of her--
Falling, screaming as she crashes to the metal floor below.
Both men dive for the gun, Bane getting there first, but Neo manages to grab the barrel.
Bane yanks Neo off-balance, ramming his knee into his gut, then swings the gun around and clubs Neo over the head.
Neo drops to his hands and knees, shaking off the blow, but when he looks up, he finds himself staring down the barrel of a gun.
Trinity tries to move; everything hurts. She can hear their voices above her and as she rolls over she sees the scalpel glinting in the light.
Bane stands over Neo, blood still dripping from his ruined face.
Mucus bubbles out of his mangled nose.
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pathetically fragile it is. Any excuse and it begins to spew.
He spits a clot of blood.
Trinity saws through the wire binding her wrists. Closing her mind to the pain, she pushes herself up and steps towards the ladder, but as she does--
A piece of glass from the broken light crunches under her boot.
She looks up as Bane looks down.
Leaping for the ladder, she sees Bane kick the hatch shut and as she is buried in darkness, she hears the wheel-lock snap into place.
Neo starts for 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 absolute darkness, Trinity gropes her way along the fuse board, feeling each one as if reading braille.
Neo doesn't want to believe it.
Bane smiles, with his blood-slick teeth.
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 onto a single fuse.
She yanks the fuse.
The lights go out.
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There is a window between the moment Bane understands what happened and the moment he fires the gun. It is a window that • is only a fraction of a second wide--
But that is wide enough.
The lightning bolt slashes open the darkness, a sizzling ball of electricity that bursts against the ground where Neo had been, but is no longer.
In the strobing light of the gun, Neo lunges for Bane, diving into him, colliding with the gun that continues to fire--
Raking up the walls, severing cables that 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 single writhing shadow, limbs flailing wildly as they fight to separate.
Gone is the grace and precision of fighting in the Matrix; Neo swings his fist like a club, bludgeoning it against Bane's skull--
Each blow laying open the flesh covering his knuckles, while sending shivers of pain shooting up his forearm.
The fight is violent and chaotic; two dogs searching for the other's neck--
Neo finds it first, his hands clamping like jaws onto Bane's throat. He leans into it, with all his might, trying to crush his windpipe.
Bane thrashes madly, eyes bulging, until--
His hand seizes hold of a snaking black cable, its end hissing, spitting embers like a roman candle.
He jams it straight into Neo's face, sending him screaming backwards.
The terrifying scream almost stops her heart .
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Neo is badly burned, a slash of white blistered flesh across both eyes.
Bane scurries away, grabbing the nearest weapon he sees: a thick piece of pipe
Neo spins toward the sound and Bane freezes, realizing two things at once: the gun is at Neo's feet, but he can't see it.
Neo is blind.
Bane laughs as Neo tries to find his bearings, stepping away from the gun.
Bane leads Neo further away, his voice luring him into the main chamber.
BANE {CONT'D) A blind messiah.
He slowly feels his way towards him, but as Bane moves Neo seems to lose him for a moment.
Bane circles back, his grip tightening on the pipe.
Raising the pipe, he swings it like a bat, but just as it's about to cave in Neo's head--
Neo ducks.
Bane blinks in disbelief, immediately swinging again, but Neo catches hold of his wrist. Bane is again surprised as Neo leans in, his ruined eyes looking at Bane or more accurately, looking into him as--
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We see what Neo sees: a world of total darkness, except for the pale glowing specter of Agent Smith, like a ghost made of • phosphorescent light, his sunglasses like the dark sockets of a skull.
Smith's face slackens with fear as Neo attacks--
Twisting Bane's arm, snapping it violently as Bane howls.
Neo spins the pipe, jamming the end into Bane's gut, dropping him to the ground.
Bane looks up, the white of his eyes bright against his blood- wet face.
The ghost of Smith also looks up at him.
Neo brings the pipe down, bashing in Bane's skull as--
The ghost head explodes, the entire skein of Smith bursting apart like a balloon, particles of light rushing up and away as if a fierce wind blew through a bonfire.
In one world, Neo stands over Bane's lifeless body.
In another world, Neo stands alone, in total darkness.
The wheel-lock snaps open and light streams into the darkness as Neo opens the hatch.
She rushes up the ladder.
Immediately she sees the wound, realizing as she does that he can't see her .
TRINIIY
• Oh no ... 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 his cheek.
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, the network of caves is vibrating, duet drizzling down onto the officers and their equipment.
Commander Lock sits gravely at the helm.
LIEUTENAN'.c Seismic is projecting twenty-two minutes to breach.
Lock studies the screens.
LIEUl'ENANT YE~S sir.
The cli.:fs sides of Zion shudder, the abandoned hovels an::! cat.walks ringing under the approachin-:, storm.
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• Casis leading her children into the Temple.
Huddled in the defense duct, a group of ground troops wait, eyes wide, the tiny passage filled with white noise.
Amongst the soldiers, Zee crouches, the pounding in her heart rising with the sound of the digger. Charra, her artillery partner, is checking the handmade bazooka.
Shit yeah. But I'll make you a deal; you keep loading, I'll keep shooting.
She holds out her hand and Zee takes it.
The kid is threading a massive bandolier into one of the guns on an Armored Personal Unit; a walking anti-aircraft machine, its twin bipedal guns jutting from hulking shoulders. He slaps down the lid on one of the APU's now full ammo bins and looks up at Mifune.
Mifune nods and the kid jumps down hefting one end of a huge wheelbarrow and pushes it quickly away down a heavy catwalk.
Mifune addresses the Corps, their faces aglow in the blue light of their APU's instrument panels.
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The :'-ljolnir creeps along, its pads at a minimam, dropping like a feather into the mainline.
Almost everyone is squeezed into the cockpit. The hologram shows the massive artery clogged entirely by the Machine army.
;: Ghost I s fingers fly over the console, as the lights die in the cockpit, almost every monitor blinking off.
:-All but four pads shut down as the Mjolnir sinks gliding like :·a flounder over the sewer bottom.
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They can see the dark opening, but a section of the tunnel roof has collapsed in front of it.
Niobe's grip tightens and she banks the ship trying to slip over the fallen debris, but it scrapes against a jagged, metal outcropping creating a terrible noise.
Several Sentinels react to the sound, dishes snapping open.
Ghost sees a group of Sentinels on his monitor breaking from the main army.
The seismic roar has reached a fevered pitch.
Mifune is strapped into the war machine. He taps the safety and his two cannons whir then lock into a boxer's defensive pose, the other machines snapping into the same position in • unison.
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At the top o:: thE:: :l.0:112 a. ~3piderweb fracture bE:gin:.: to form~
cne of the f.i_ssi..:.res begins to w:iden and wr~: racf! along it as it zig-zags over the super hardened steel-crete, puzzle piece shards pLmmet.:..ng tc the dock flocr.
Suddenly the nose o:: the digger punctures the roo::, a wh.:..rling white-ho-: t.or:1ad:, of teeth.
The roof seizures as tne earth is cleaved open and with a lightning clap the ci.:'.. tanker-sized Machi:1e b:::-eaks through raini.nq strands o:: gabby magma--
Free falling in the open space above the docks--
Lancing .in a deafening metal rer.di.ng co:net crash.
IN~. ZION ·- COMMANDCENTER -· NIGHT 606
Alarms scream while ::.,ock stands agair.st a ti.de of rising panic.
FIRST OPE~TOR Breach! The dock .is breached!
A scout turns, half of hi.s face masked by a faceplate of monitors and moti.o:1S to a cluster of soldiers. ·
The soldiers he::'t their weap.::,ns rac.ing up .inclined access branches.
The M.:..fune and the other APU' s look down at Digger 1 then ·-1p ;, to t:-i.e Digger hole . They kno~..., what's ccming. ·k
Smoke hisses off of the cone of the ciigger, as i.t. sits half * embedded i.n the crinkled d::ick floor like an undetonated * miss.llE::. *
Mifune estab~ishes l1urnan contra~ over the AFU and t~e prelude * to guns up position. *
Duck an:i GcOS(?- arE eitl:":::::r side of Mi::une,m:>vi.n9 :into gur::s ·~1F -;; Position in anticipat~on of the Sentinel swarrr. *
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?.ENUMBER - NOW SC 618M 611 *
The Fi:!:-st Operator spins ::ram the mass c,f oncorr.ing white b~ips.
?IRST OPERATOR Eight ·seconds to firs~ wave.
The APUs are strategically placec. to crossL:_re i.nto tr ..e opening.
Each Corpsmen fires :.heir AP:J's metal support claws, which gouge into -:.he ground to brace against :.he guns' incredi::i:..e recoil.
A rushing Sen:.inel P.O.V., :.he black glass shaft fli.ckering psychedelically. At the e:,d .o:: the tunnel the en:.rance :.o Zion's docking bay is a wideni.ng pinprick.
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• An deep ancestral war cry wells up from Mifune's gut.
The other Corpsmen scream with him as the first wave hits.
A biblical black swarm.
Gouts of flame flash instantly from the APUs, lines of hot armor piecing tracer rounds snaking and snapping through the air like huge metal whips.
Stray bullets tear puge trenches in the walls and ceiling, causing an avalanche of debris to rain onto the dock floor.
The cloud of Sentinels spread like an unending oil slick, but a trickle of them slip past the crossfire and begin to attack.
Under the fire fight, the digger rises into the air like a guillotine and slowly it begins to turn.
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The air is thick with Machines as they continue to pour in, red laser lines dissecting the air into a patchwork pattern of stained glass.
The gun-barrels of the APUs glow like hot ulcers, as they throw a pulverizing barrage against the Machine army.
Fat rounds crush dents in the Sentinel armor cleaving through their tentacles spread like talons but--
They are everywhere.
A pair of ground troopers are cut down as they run from a pouncing Sentinel, its laser slicing through them like a band saw.
Grinding back to life, hulking crane legs unfold from the * Machine's abdomen and it slowly begins to lift itself from
its crater, nose down.
Under the fire fight, the digger rises into the air like a
guillotine and slowly it begins to turn •• Debris falls from
the hole overhead like snow.
It's legs expand outward.
Bazooka TEAM #3 get into position. They load and fire the
bazooka's
Bazooka TEA.~ #2 load & fire
As the Digger rises .Bazooka TEAM 1 enters fg to prepare
firing the bazooka.Sentinels swarming around close to the
Digger,protecting it ,intercepting rockets
The Digger rises and plants all four legs.Sentinels swarming * around close to the Digger,protecting it ,intercepting * rockets. Artillery exploding all around it. *
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• A hatch flips up and Zee and Charra roll out, as a steady
barrage of artillery is hurled against the Machine by the
entrenched infantry.
Charra shoulders the fat double barreled bazooka aiming it at * one of the digger's kneecaps, *
Digger l's drill begins to spin. The cone is starting to * rotate.It begins to tear through tunnel pipes. *
Several soldiers scatter as the point of the digger bores
into the duct shredding through it like paper. *
Zee loads two oil-can rounds and hits Charra on the shoulder. *
She fires. The two heavy projectiles streak toward their * mark, cotton candy strands of heat and smoke in their wake-- *
Charra's & Zee's rocket hits the Digger l's knee. It breaks . * but the Digger begins to rebalance. *
Zee starts to reload but stops, looking up as the metal * ,,, cavern is filled with the rising mechanized locust scream of * the Sentinel army. *
Zee pats Charra again and she fires, the two shells this time *· exploding uselessly against the armored plate of the digger. *
They climb back down into the duct.
Lock studies the data flowing across the monitor windows.
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LOCK * Countermeasures! Release countermeasures! *
The air is thick with Machines as they continue to pour in, * red laser lines dissecting the air into a patchwork pattern * of stained glass. *
MIFUNE * Back to back! *
Goose and Duck spin firing in all directions. *
The gun-barrels of the APUs glow like hot ulcers, as they * throw a pulverizing barrage against the Machine army. *
Fat rounds crush dents in the Sentinel armor cleaving through * their tentacles spread like talons but-- *
They are everywhere.
A pair of ground troopers are cut down as they run from a * pouncing Sentinel, its laser slicing through them like a band * saw. *
The kid waits at his wheelbarrow, the sound of the battle ringing against the walls of the bunker when the huge reinforced metal doors open, another reloading team hurrying back inside. One of them is cradling his bloody, laser- lacerated shoulder. *
A Sentinel leaps at the open door before the bunker sentry can close it. As it pounces to the opening, the nearest APU rings out and cuts the Machine in two.
The kid swallows hard as the door slams shut.
Flanked by a gunnery escort, the kid runs, pushing his ammo bin out onto the dock floor, red laser-lightning crackling above him. *
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Sentinels fly around the dock,towards Mifune, Duck and * Goose.Hero Sentinel dives taking out Goose ,wrapping it's * tentacles around him,dragging him over the edge of the * catwalk. Goose falls to his death. *
A small group of soldiers run in a half crouch along the * duct, shock-waves shaking the alloy walls. *
A scout points down a branching duct. *
SCOUT * Keep moving. Don't let them lock down * your position. *
As Zee and Charra split off, the roof caves in behind them, a * falling Sentinel carcass and Gooses 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 swirling chromium particle cloud that begins to engulf the dock.
A Sentinel unit swoops down through the cloud for another pass at the APUs. But as their lasers light up--
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They are suddenly refracted off of the dust, splintering into chaotic vectored tangles. • The stray beams cut through the armored bellies and limbs of the Machines some even reflected back into the laser's source, resulting in overload explosions.
The digger, now at full boring speed, lowers itself into the dock floor, its teeth-covered cone whirring like a turbine, chewing into the ground with the shriek of tortured metal.
Lock can hear the digger above them.
Sentinels form a "mini-snake" around the Tower.The tower gun * destroys it. *
Hand of God curls back and under itself.It approaches the * Tower - ramming directly into Gate Control.The crane is * ripped from the roof, toppling down through the Dock ... *
THE LIGHTS GO OUT!!!(board ZUS0683) *
The crane *
Zee and Charra race along shaking tunnel towards the hatch.
Charra pops up from one of the sub defense ducts, Zee feeding the bazooka.
Sentinels react to them and rush to defend the digger, as Charra shoulders and aims her weapon.
She fires; her aim is true and the rocket explodes against the leg of the digger. •
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The joint shatters, the Machine twisting loose, unable to support itself as it spins from its mooring, toppling like a great crippled beast--
Landing with a deafening crunch.
A small cheer passes through Control, Lock clenching his fist, until the Seismic Alarm sounds.
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• The dock trerr0les, the entire domed ceiling shattering like tempered glass as it tears open, giving birth to not one, but two diggers.
Mifune can only watch as the monster lands with a morale- * squashing crash.
Niobe pounds down the pedal as the Mjolnir reaches full power.
A swarm of Sentinels fill the end of the tunnel like the spray of a twelve gauge.
The crew of the Mjolnir scrarr0le to their battle stations, Colt motioning Link into one of the stern underside gunpits.
Link's fingers fly over the controls, the heads up displays quickly coming online.
He takes Zee's necklace, wraps it around his trigger hand then kisses it.
The opening of the mechanical line widens directly in between them.
The charging Sentinels open fire, lasers skewering the darkness.
Roland sees how close the mechanical intersection is.
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Niobe increases their speed.
Fifty meters ...
The ship lurches up, cur~ing into the air, rolling over into a back-dive, even as the Sentinel lasers carve into its armored underbelly.
Roland is almost dropped onto his head.
The "Hammer" explodes thro·.igh a veil of 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 ~nleash a fury of heavy metal filling their wake with anti-aircraft fire.
Ahead, there are several collapsed cross-pipes wedged in their path like fallen tree trunks.
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out with an explosion of sparks and arcing electricity.
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The Sentinels nip at the hind quarters of the Mjolnir like a • pack of hungry wolves. A laser licks the edge of one of the rear pads and the Mjolnir fishtails scraping against the conduit-lined walls.
The muscles in Niobe's forearms are a bulge of thick cables as she fights to steady the ship.
A Sentinel leaps onto the back of the hull.
He swings his gun spray at it, cutting through its tentacles. The severed limb is a flash of mangled circuitry and silicon gristle as the Sentinel cartwheels into oblivion.
Link saws his turrets back and forth carving through the attack and growls.
A Sentinel leads a chain of them, swooping onto the ship clustering around a large antenna.
Maciser sees them first.
Ghost has the best angle, swinging his turret around, targeting the Sentinels as they sink their lasers into the scaled metal flesh, feasting on the exposed electrical innards .
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He fires just as they slice through the supports beneath the antenna.
A heavy barrage of bullets batters the lead Sentinel but before it dies, it rips the antenna like a tooth being torn root and all from a bloody gum.
Digger 2 breaks through the bridge and continues it's fall. * It crashes onto the dock floor. *
A small circular hatch door opens with a cough of smoke as Charra and Zee climb up into a long thin channel running between the pipelines.
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On hands and knees, they move forward towards the thin gap created by the two major pipes running overhead. The pipes elbow down creating the edge of a "waterfall" that flows from • the upper level to the lower dock floor.
Zee holds Charra by the belt as Charra squeezes out between the two major pipes and peers over the edge. Below her, the Digger that has crashed through one of the bridges that stood beneath her, folds in its legs as it begins to drill into the dock floor.
The protective school of Sentinels seems to open for a moment and she fires, the twin shells slipping through, finding the bulls-eye of the molten center of the digger's core exhaust.
The missiles hit starting a chain-reaction that ends with the sunken digger exploding--
Concrete and metal shrapnel erupting like a volcano as a section of the dock floor is demolished.
The Sentinels scream as though they were hit, immediately swarming after Zee and Charra who scurry back into the tight channel--
Sentinels swarm above them, landing with the crashing din of metal to metal as they jam their tentacles into the thin running channels between the pipes.
Zee and Charra race for the open hatch, dodging and diving between the stabbing tentacles with a mounting sense of impossibility that rises until--
A claw cleaves the calf of Churra,
She screams just as Zee reaches the open hatch. Zee can only watch as another tentacle stabs through Charra's stomach, impaling/eucserting her.
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On the periphery of a radar screen, a missile shaped cone appears trailed by a series of hot glowing dots.
Lock moves behind the operator.
Lock studies the white blip.
Like hell.
The Mjolnir plummets through the macaroni corkscrews, bouncing against its magnetic cushion as it banks into ninety degree elbows.
Niobe is in a trance, the zone, hands and feet operating independently, her body perched like a jockey, moving in perfect unison with the thundering thoroughbred between her legs.
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at twenty percent.
Morpheus flies over the pad controls as he tries to keep up.
The ship swerves, its back end fishtailing into the curved wall of conduit with the spark-lit screech of metal on metal.
As the over-sized hovercraft weaves with incongruous agility, a Sentinel rears up from pursuit. It hangs in the air as the rest of the pack rockets past.
One of its limbs whips forward and its satellite dish snaps open.
Up in the shattered dome 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 turbines which control Gate One. *
The First Operator receives the report from the virtual system.
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But at its present velocity, it will reach Gate One in twelve minutes.
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Lock analyzes the probable chain-reaction like someone trying to avoid an inevitable checkmate.
The Sentinels have torn into the mechanical guts at the base of the gate, steam gushing from crippling wounds.
The surrounding Sentinels, including those attacking Mifune, join the frenzy.
Mifune realises the Sentinels plan. *
The controller shouts into his headset, sentinels clumped around the tower like flies on a corpse.
Gate Operations' voice crackles over the intercom.
Huge clumps of Sentinels cling to the Mjolnir chewing through its armor, trying to cripple its propulsion system.
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The ship blasts forward like a mad dying animal, banking and rolling through the intestine tangle of service tunnel.
For every Sentinel the Mjolnir's gun turrets knock down, two more take its place.
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Zee's necklace cuts deep into Link's fist as he squeezes the • gun turret controls, a whirling fury.
Mauser swings the turrets in a frantic circle.
On his monitors we see a Sentinel break through the crossfire leaping at Mauser's turrets.
Fire and sparks suddenly ejaculate from 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 is deafening. The APU Corps have been broken and are now fighting for their lives in scattered locations.
Mifune's recoil supports release as he retreats from the unrelenting swell of Sentinels above him. His left gun whirs empty and he screams into his headset.
APU Support throws open the door.
The kid hefts the wheelbarrow loaded with two ammo crates and shoves it forward. Two soldiers flank him, guarding him with lightning guns as they race across the catwalks toward Mifune.
Lock surveys the screens, his mind scrambling. •
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- Mainline.
Niobe is drenched in sweat. Every muscle as taught as a violin string vibrating under the sawing strain of the fast- twitch chase.
Morpheus sees the opening of the mechanical tributary leading into· the Mainline.
• degrees to lower left starboard.
The ship dive's down toward the intersection, as the swarm of Sentinels attack with desperation, several of them sacrificing themselves to the hailstorm of bullets.
The opening widens, as the ship spits through, nose-diving straight down--
Morpheus cranks back on the pad controls and the ship seems to bounce against a cushion of lightning--
Arcing waves of electrical overflow washing out from the front pads--
Pitching the ship into a shuddering spiral.
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• Every nut and bolt vibrates under the strain as the ship seems ready to burst apart, skimming up and around the walls of the Mainline--
Until finally it buoys up and rockets forward.
Lock clutches the radio handset.
There is a hissing burst of static.
The rest of his response is drowned by the report of his APU's massive guns.
Mifune fires straight into the face of an attacking Sentinel. He is unable to hear his radio as a deluge of Sentinels pour down onto him and his Support Unit.
The crackle of lightning guns white out the ringing clatter of heavy caliber weapons being loaded.
Cords of muscle bulge in Mifune's neck, his face twisted in a snarl as an inverted sea of black metal churns above him .
His dual repeating cannons chop at the sky whirring as-- •
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A Sentinel snake circles above him. *
Mifune ejects the empty ammo cartridge. *
The Kid stands by to reload *
Sentinels are poised to attack the Kid, he is protected by * his gunnery escort until one of them is taken out. *
The Kid reloads,but the ammo cartridge gets stuck *
The Kid-climbs the back of the APU and kicks it into * positi=. *
Mifune looks up to see the Sentinel snake screaming towards * him. He fires at the "snake" hammerhead but he is no match * against the raging Sentinels *
Blasting straight into the warrior's chest, the force of the Sentinel "snake" rips the support claws from the catwalk, * toppling the APU onto its back, hurling the Kid onto the * catwalk. *
Mifune screams as the Sentinel mauls him, tentacles ripping apart 'his flesh like meat being gouged from a lobster tail.
The kid scrambles to his feet *
The Sentinel whirls around, covered in the Captain's gore, its metal mandibles slick with blood.
The kid fires, the bolt like a jagged spear of light, puncturing the Sentinel's armor, tearing out its back in an Eggerton apple-burst.
The kid rushes to his Captain.
Mifune spits a clump of wadded blood, as the kid helps him from his harness.
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He grabs the kid's collar, the last of his life seeping out of him.
Mifune smiles, his teeth bright with his own blood.
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A pad ignites in a blowout, spitting electric fire and spewing streams of black smoke, as the ship slides side to side--
Bottoming out, throwing a plume of sparks like a car with only three wheels.
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Roland's targeting monitors are cross-cut with lines of • static.
Niobe strains at the wheel, fighting the teeth rattling turbulence for control.
Morpheus looks at Niobe.
Close on the leg of an APU as its recoil supports stab into the ground.
The kid punches a command and the left leg supports also dig into the dock floor.
The kid manipulates the controls as if by memory, fingers flying over buttons that cause the APU's monitors and exoskeleton to close in around him, like a luxury car seat adjusting.
He mutters the operating instrnctions ingrained in his mind from thousands of virtual hours of combat drills.
In one motion the APU groans from its indented resting place and is on its feet.
The anchors retract, snapping out of the ground.
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He sees the heavy cable twice as thick as his head, attached to two stories of counterweights
The mechanized behemoth sprints up the incline toward the gate, a hulking gazelle.
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The Systems Analyst sees the Hammer falling.
New hope.
A group of Sentinels race down to the kid, the leader crashing down in front of him.
A fury shoots from the APU cannons mutilating the Sentinel hide like tinfoil.
Lock stands between the onrushing forces.
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Lock grabs the transmitter .
LOCK
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Captain Mifune, do you copy?
, 668B INT~ TUNNELS 668B
Bodies are strewn throughout the tunnel. The sounds of clattering Sentinels and the screams of men and women are heard echoing throughout the pipes.
A pair of boots stop beside a dead man's radio.
Zee picks up the radio.
She looks up and a part of her can feel him coming.
Zee grabs a lightning gun and sprints away.
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Link climbs from the smoke that oozes from the lower gunpits, coughing and guarding his ribs, while Ghost pulls a wounded Roland from his seat.
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The kid with a clean line of sight at the weighted cable takes.aim just as--
Another Sentinel wraps up his APU from behind, its tentacles snaking around its legs squeezing like a boa constrictor causing--
The APU to pitch forward crashing to the ground in a thundering belly-flop.
The Sentinel rises up, like an animal poised to sink its teeth into the exposed jugular of its prey, when--
The white hot bolt of a lightning gun blasts through its back.
The Sentinel, wounded, spins in time to see Zee level the gun and fire again--
The bolt, brilliantly white in the dark dock, jabs into the Sentinel like a meat hook and drives the spastic, flailing machine up until its eyes burst open and it dies.
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The shattered Main Deck is aglow in a raging electrical fire. Link sits in the operator's chair.
The kid sees the cable still in his fritzing target monitor.
With a mighty heave, he lifts aiming the APU's cannon.
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• He fires.
The burst cleaves through the braided alloy, the counterweight falling--
Towing the right half of the gate along its steel channel, grinding as it opens .
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The First Operator spins from his monitor.
The left side of the door creeps open.
Niobe wrestles the steering collum with all her might--
She pitches the ship shoulder downward, driving it into the sewer bottom, pouring on the thrusters.
The Mjolnir shudders venerably as it bounces against the tunnel, twisting sideways as it--
Aims at the cracked gate.
Link sits at the operator's chair gripping the necklace.
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The cockpit shakes spastically, as Morpheus hits the collision alarm.
All at once, the Sentinels begin to flee en masse--
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A bottleneck of black, forming at the digger tunnels, while--
The virtual soldiers scramble to jack out of their system.
The Mjolnir plows through the opening gate--
Armor plating and landing gear shearing from its hull as it arcs into the docks.
Morpheus screams.
Link cranks the detonator.
The docking bay is filled with a wave a white, EMF light--
Even as the Mjolnir crashes into the bay platforms in a cacophonous roar--
All electrical systems dying. And as the Mjolnir shrieks to a skidding stop--
Another sound begins to rise; the thundering downpour of dead Sentinels.
They flow from the jet glass tunnels like water from a spigot, until--
At last it is over.
As the echoing rolls away like a fading storm, the soldiers of Zion begin to crawl from the defense labyrinth and fallen APUs, their bloody faces frozen in disbelief.
The control room walls ring with jubilation.
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Morpheus lowers himself down from his now perpendicular hanging chair, offering a hand down to Niobe.
He smiles.
She smiles.
In the silence, a door falls from its hinges along the ship's back, the crew of the Mjolnir climbing out.
As Colt helps Roland from the opening, Link staggers past them onto the dock floor.
They push through the soldiers gathered on the catwalks surrounding the crashed ship, until they fall into each other's arms .
He kisses her and she sees the charm hanging around his neck.
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The Logos banks along a pipe thick with steam that is breathed from a series of openings caked with human grease and machine rust, like a scab that continues to leak.
Trinity feels the cold wind whistling down the throat of the pipe. Neo's eyes are bandaged with gauze.
She weaves the ship into a worm hole through the debris until she can see the dim light streaming into the opening.
The opening appears to have been made by an earthquake; the pipeline cracked and separated, one side wrenched from the other.
The ship shoots into the deep jagged fissure before banking straight up, revealing--
The surface of the Earth.
The fetus fields run right up to the edge of the ravine. The pickers continue their work like grazing 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 high towers of the Power Plant are visible.
Neo stares out, as if able to see where they are .
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NEO
- We're over the fields, aren't we?
We move closer to him and we suddenly glimpse the fields as he does--
A night sky filled with stars, though pressed flat as if into a circuit board, wired into the distant towers that vibrate with violent flashing light.
He points out across the charred desert that surrounds the fields.
.. lines .
Three enormous cables, each several hundred feet thick snake from the Power Plant out across the scorched earth.
She swallows down her fear and steers the ship along the path of the giant umbilicus.
The elevator bangs down and the metal gate ratchets open as Morpheus, Roland and Niobe get out.
Lock is waiting for them.
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• LOCK
The council is waiting to hear your explanation. You'll forgive me for not attending, but I have to try to salvage this debacle.
Soldiers are scrambling to unload the ammunition from the Mjolnir.
It is the kid that hears them first.
He turns with the kid towards the rent gate. Afteor A rnnrnent he hears it; the sound of air being forced out through a pipe, like a distant trumpet or a scream heard from far away.
Lock's Second Operator is lugging a heavy battery powered radio.
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They're already running for the elevator.
The wind that signaled the first onslaught of the Sentinels is nothing compared to the howl that rises to fill the entire dock.
The elevator is packed with the last batch of soldiers who slowly lower into the shaft as--
The Sentinel army pours into the concrete concourse from every hole, spilling into the empty dock like sand.
• The Second Operator receives the call.
A lever is thrown inside a barricaded bunker.
Explosions fire one by one as though shattering a spinal column, one disc at a time.
The Sentinels react as the explosions erupt from the shaft.
Rock and earth bury the entrance.
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A thick cloud of earth is coughed from the opening near the • top of Zion.
The rumble from the explosion slowly fades. Lock stares up at the dark cave ceiling, talking to his enemy as one might talk to God.
The monstrous cables lay beneath us like giant black worms as the Logos roars past us following the lines that stretch beyond the dark horizon.
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The council is crowded into the private quarters, questioning the three Captains .
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She nods.
Morpheus has sat as silent as a stoic until now.
The council turns to him.
What he says, he says as much for himself as for them.
He stands.
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A large spool of black cable bangs against the metal floor as a new line is uncoiled out from a large portable power supply.
The control room is a frenzy as they work to bring the defense systems back online.
Operations Officers Mattis and Wirtz study the hologram of the dock as a ring of Sentinels circle the silent digger.
A single Sentinel has attached itself to the abdomen of the digger, tentacles and feelers merging with heavy machinery.
Its red eyes throb hypnotically as its brethren glide ritual- like around it in a steady inciting circle.
A crowd has now gathered around the screen, including Commander Lock. They watch as it floats above the digger.
Electricity crackles from the Sentinel, wrapping the digger in a gossamer web of blue light. The flashing bolts light up the dock like a giant arc welder.
There is a small explosion inside the gut of the digger, a burst of combustion as it is jolted back to life. And the Sentinel falls lifelessly to the dock floor.
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Its enormous arms crank open, a crane unfolding as it begins to lift itself.
The grinders roar to life, getting up to speed before it lowers itself back down.
Immediately Sentinels swarm around it, gliding in tight circles; so many of them that it feels as though a wall were being built to protect it.
The rumble of the digger returning to its job shakes the room.
Lock doesn't have an answer.
Neo looks out at the distapt horizon that breaks against the jagged edge of a mountain range.
He is able to see a powerful source of light, glowing like a sun about to rise, hidden behind a horizon of seething darkness.
He reaches out for her hand. She takes it.
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Through the window of the cockpit we see what's coming; a massive force of huge, heavy war Machines led by a swarm of Sentinels.
Lock addresses the Council and military heads.
The council reacts with obvious dismay.
He gestures towards Hamman and Morpheus.
The Logos flies into the jaws of the Armada, Machines forming rows of jagged shark-teeth.
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They attack in a frenzy; red lasers stabbing into the Logos as the larger armored crab-like machines spit bolts of energy that break against the hull sending a shiver of sizzling electricity through the entire ship.
Trinity has to let go of the stick as hot arcing voltage surges through the controls.
Neo clings to her hand as he wades into battle, hurling his mind at them with ballistic force.
Three spinning Sentinels release three tow-bombs that open up as they rocket towards the ship.
Neo reacts quickly, exploding the first immediately, the second, just before it hits, the fire washing over the windshield as the Logos shoots through.
But the third he grabs hold of, straining against its force and direction, bending it to his will as he once bent a spoon.
The device sails up over the cockpit, before turning and hurtling back at the Machines.
The Sentinels dodge out of the way, but the armored crustacean is too slow and--
The device slams into it, unleashing a violent orange rage of destruction.
The dog-fight continues as the Sentinels now reach the Logos, leaping onto its back, sticking their lasers through its hide like toreadors thrusting swords into the back of a charging bull.
Sweat covers Neo's body as he reacts more and more violently.
A Sentinel dives like a kamikaze straight at the cockpit as Neo reaches out 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's bulk as-- • We experience what Neo experiences; a meteor of light that blasts through his body--
Wrenching free his grip from Trinity.
His arm flails back as he feels himself disconnect, his mind flung loose until--
She snatches hold of him again,
His head swims as he drags himself back from the abyss.
Ahead they are approaching a perfect line of fearsome floating Machines, each like an entire division of tanks welded into one.
A tank fires just as Trinity banks left, a missile of energy chewing up the entire underbelly of the ship.
Inside the cockpit several monitors explode and the main lights die.
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She looks at him
She pounds on the pedal and outside the pads erupt, opening all the way as the ship tips--
Rocketing towards the churning black sky, leaving a white-hot jet trail that cuts up from the black earth at a forty-five degree angle.
Several Sentinels leap from the back of the ship, but many remain as it barrels towards the dark roiling ceiling.
• The Logos plunges into the sky with a surreal splash, like a plane crashing into a sea of shaving cream.
The molecular replicators.immediately drain the life from the Sentinels and they fall dead--
Tearing through the clouds that cling to them momentarily like shredded pieces of parachute, before letting them fall away.
The Logos is engulfed by a ball of lightning as it is attacked by the sky. It shakes violently, every light blowing out, until the ship dies--
Drowning the cockpit with darkness, where we glimpse--
Two hands still holding tight.
The forward momentum carries them just a little higher until suddenly there is a spectacular explosion of light as--
The ship breaks out the other side revealing a perfect blue sky lit by a brilliant yellow sun.
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The light washes over her face with a warmth she has never known. It is a vision of the real world she has never seen.
The ship hits its apex, hangs then slowly twists, as it begins to fal~, slipping quickly back into the billowing black silk of clouds .
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Their stomachs pitch as the Logos is buffeted by storm and wind, spinning like a falling leaf until--
It splashes out of the clouds, revealing--
The Machine City.
To Trinity it looks like a massive mechanical coral reef, spreading as far as the eye can see.
To Neo, it is another universe; a pinwheel nebula, spiraling towards him, a billion pinpricks of light strung together, swirling into clusters that blaze beneath a veil of glowing vapor.
Their fall accelerates, the city rushing towards them as Trinity again turns to Neo.
She grabs the lever and pumps. Tries the ignition. Nothing.
She does it again, pumping vigorously.
Calmly, methodically, she pumps the lever while the architecture of the city gains dimension, its towers rising like fingers of a hand reaching up with a rushing force.
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Neo feels the energy in the ignition slowly building as a single tower now looms, filling the entire windscreen.
Trinity closes her eyes, pumping vigilantly, until--
She hits the ignition, opening her eyes to the tower that is now a wall.
The engine fires, the pads crackle with life and their fall slows, but not fast enough.
The ship bores into the tower, plowing through the nano-built structure that is a surrealist re-combining of the organic and the mechanical; an anthill or wasps' nest built from a webwork of pipes, wires and ·silicon.
The windshield explodes as Neo and Trinity are again torn • apart. Xhe ship merges violently with the tower, grinding to a final wrenching stop.
All becomes quiet.
Cobwebs of shimmering light drape all around Neo as it takes him a moment to realize that he is in fact still alive.
There is no response.
Yanking his feet free from the crush of debris, he crawls in the direction of her chair.
/ She reaches her hand out to him.
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With her touch comes a flood of relief.
He draws closer, feeling his way.
He smiles; unable to see her, he looks at the gossamer threads of light surrounding them.
We see her face for the first time and we see that she is crying.
He knows something is wrong.
He reaches for her and immediately feels the wet warmth of her blood soaking through her shirt.
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Long shafts of metal are driven through her body like needles pinning a butterfly in place.
Tears leak from his bandages.
He doesn't want to believe it.
He feels her tears on his fingertips.
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She smiles.
For the last time she reaches up and touches his face.
He lowers his lips to hers and it ends as it began--
With a kiss.
He feels her last breath on his lips and he weeps, holding the hand that can no longer hold him back.
The rumbling of the digger shakes all of Zion. The Temple is congested with panicked chaos. Near the entrance, Lock is organizing the defense.
The entire tower is quivering as the wall begins to crack.
The wall splits, giving birth to a ball of metal teeth spitting rock and dust. The digger chews through, rending rock, shredding steel and shaking the entire city.
It emerges with a final rearing thrust, then tips free and falls--
Smashing through the lacework of catwalks, before crashing into the knotted tangle of pipe at the base of Zion, burying into the bedrock and metal like a knife to its hilt.
The black hole breathes brimstone as a cloud of dust settles over Zion like a shroud.
People cling to each other as the booming crash echoes through their bodies.
Link holds Zee and looking up at the dark ceiling of the Temple, he whispers.
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Neo climbs. Feeling his way, rising from the wreckage along the coiled mechanical intestines.
There are sounds all around him: a ratcheting clatter that rises and fades like a rattlesnake warning, the hiss of a radiator pipe, the scrape of a rake dragged against concrete. The sounds circle as if patiently watching him like vultures watching a dying man.
He heaves himself up into a large passageway running hQrizontally through the tower. It spirals, coiling inward, woven out of shiny metal rods that are ribbed and knuckled like bones.
As Neo stands, we experience the passage as he does; a tunnel of light, its surface as perfectly smooth as a mirror .
He steps forward and a ripple spreads out from his foot as though he were walking on water that had been rolled into a • tube.
At the end of the passage there is an opening that windows out of the tower. Neo moves towards it, until he stands on the edge, awed by what he sees.
He sees the Machine city, an endless sprawling metropolis built out of pure energy. Towers of glowing spun glass rise up from crystalline structures of radiant light.
Everywhere, hovering like hummingbirds, are creatures seemingly created out of fibers of light, soldered into patterns of a three dimensional circuit board.
There is a celestial and even spiritual quality to the image, until we reveal the city-in-itself--
A dark industrial nightmare. Underlit by angry bursts of lightning. Demons of black steel and chrome hang everywhere, J crawling along the walls, the springs in their limbs tightening like a rat trap being loaded--
While thousands of blood-red eyes bore into Neo.
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Suddenly those closest to him, scatter, leaping from the walls, flying away, clearing, as small fish run from the approach of a much bigger fish.
From below, an enormous and complex Machine rises to face Neo. It is so large that it eclipses the entire city.
Neo steadies himself, overwhelmed momentarily by its power and brilliance.
The Deus ex Machina unleashes a locust swarm of tiny machines that seem ready to envelop Neo.
The locust swarm swirls back creating an undulating ball of mechanical bugs that remain in constant motion.
Neo experiences the Deus ex Machina as a huge ball of energy, like a sun, its face in constant flux.
The bugs coalesce and an almost human face pushes itself out from underneath.
The voice has a synthesized quality, resonating with a sense that it is not one voice, but every voice.
The face disappears as 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 face fades, the storm circling Neo for a moment before slowly collecting itself as the face re-emerges.
Neo looks up into the blinding brightness.
The Sentinel army pours from the dark gaping mouth flooding the entire city.
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The kid swallows hard, wiping the sweat from his palms as he steadies the grip on his gun.
The leading force descends to the Temple entrance, limbs outstretched like the talons of an attacking bird of prey.
The first Sentinel slams down onto the metal bridge, rearing back on its haunches as its brethren smack down behind him.
Every gun is clutched like a talisman as the Sentinel peers into the cave.
Suddenly, a circling Sentinel jerks upward, its communication dish snapping open. It raises it as if trying to hear something •
in every Sentinel.
J The lead Sentinel backs up.
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Niobe doesn't understand it.
Morpheus isn't sure.
The entire passageway comes alive around Neo as cables and metal rods grow like a time-lapsed plant, forming a seat under him and filling every jack.
A cobra-like cable rises up to the back of Neo's neck pausing, its needle probing at the brain-jack.
The face almost smiles as it fades away.
The cable thrusts into Neo, plunging the pistol-needle into his brain, plugging his cousci onsuess into the Matrix.
Morpheus sets his gun down and stands up.
He steps over Tho h;:.ry.j ,....,adc.,:::,n/""t \r.73.lk.s up the path to the entrance.
Lock signals to several soldiers to cover him. The kid lurches out just behind Niobe.
Morpheus stops at the edge of the pool of water. Outside the Temple, he can see the Sentinels gliding in slow patterns.
Three Sentinels lay just outside the opening like sleeping lions.
One of the soldiers raises his gun and a Sentinel leaps to its feet with the sound of a dozen machine guns being co,J:cked.
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The soldier drops his gun and slowly the Sentinel lowers back down.
Morpheus nods.
A sick green-black sky vomits a raging storm upon the urban night-scape below. Lightning spits from every cloud like the constant flicker of snake tongues.
Black boots stride down the center of the rain soaked street.
We follow as Neo walks, glancing left, then right at a city of Agent Smiths. They line the streets, their perfect
silhouettes filling the windows of skyscrapers. rt is a city
• of dark-suited, sunglass-wearing shadows. • Lightning flash-bulbs a group of them, staring at Neo, smiling identically.
A singular Smith enters the street and turns towards Neo, walking at him until they stand, like gun fighters--
Face to face.
Rain pours off his face as lightning pitch-forks the sky behind him.
Another bolt strikes, this time in front of him, so we see it reflected in his sunglasses.
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He snaps open his coat, his body automatically settling into a defensive position.
Smith's smile twists into a sneer and he hurls himself at his enemy.
The first exchange is a squall, fast and furious, as lightning strobes the water exploding with every blow.
They mirror one another, neither one gaining or losing ground until each sees the exact same opening--
Simultaneously delivering a thunder packed punch that sends both men flying backwards--
Neo flips and lands gracefully, while Smith smashes down, concrete buckling beneath him.
Smith growls, cocking and loading himself, then firing out, hurtling up through the driving rain as--
Neo leaps to meet him and they collide high above the street.
Two equal and opposite forces slamming together like atoms smashing as an expanding sphere of energy is unleashed from the collision--
A globe of glass clearing away the rain swelling until it breaks open against the surrounding urban cliffs.
The two men remain suspended in mid-air, battling, fists and feet thrown with particle-accelerator speed.
Neo fights with ultimate precision, but Smith has become overwhelmingly powerful. A blow snaps Neo's head back, sending his glasses flying and before he recovers--
Smith grabs him, spinning like a decathlete in the hammer toss, and releases--
Hurling Neo into the side of a building.
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He smashes into the building like a bullet, another seismic
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wave of damage shattering the face of the building, following the initial impact, the way thunder follows lightning.
Looking back through the bored opening his body just created, Neo barely has time to stand before Smith barrels into him.
The battle rages through the building, Smith pummeling Neo with wrecking ball force--
Smashing him through walls of concrete, brick and steel.
Smith steps through one of the holes as Neo struggles to get back on his feet.
Once more, Neo picks himself up.
He smiles.
Neo settles into a pose we have seen before. He signals to Smith, "come get some."
Nothing frustrates Smith as much as that little wave.
Another fury roars through the building, but this one ends with Neo unloading an explosion of kicks culminating in--
Bullet Time; a final boot launched like a LAS rocket, blasting Smith--
Out of the building, sailing back through the sheets of rain until he slows regaining control. He looks back at the opening in the building where-
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Neo stands, lit by flashing lightning.
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Smith grinds his teeth and launches himself back at him while Neo dives into the open air and--
Again they fly at each other, the impact of this collision much more powerful than the first as--
Waves of force shatter windows and rip lamp posts from the concrete like a hurricane uprooting trees.
They fight in mid-air, punching, kicking, grappling, locked together but in constant motion like electrons chasing each other around a single nucleus--
Oblivious to the height, they rise up beyond the city's glass towers until they are amidst the flashing electric tongues of lightning and the city is a distant pattern of light beneath them.
Smith lands a series of savage blows that stun Neo and he slips down, twisting, lost for a moment, suddenly vulnerable.
Above him, Smith rises up just as twin bolts of lightning strike, haloing the dark-suited demon with jagged broken rays of light.
With the crashing din of thunder that follows, Smith attacks.
Diving down, he slams into Neo, tackling him, driving him back to the earth--
Streaking like a comet, faster than the rain, plummeting past the mirrored towers as Neo struggles to get free, fighting, even as the inevitability of the ground rushes towards them and--
The unstoppable force meets the immovable object.
The concussive blast craters the street, buckling buildings, as a wave of unequaled destruction rushes out over the urban chasm.
The explosion thunders away until there is only the hissing rain, as the Smiths gather along the crater's edge.
Inside the bowl of earth is the exposed viscera of the metropolis; broken pipes, sparking cables and rent sewers.
The rain on his face slowly brings Neo's consciousness back.
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Smith stands over him as he tries to get up.
It is an effort to even pull his arm from the wet sucking mud.
Neo rolls over, pushing himself to his hands and knees.
Neo glares at him with animal-like eyes.
, Yes? No? Could it be for love?
• He laughs.
Neo's hands clench into fists.
Rain streaks the mud down Neo's face like black tears.
Neo summons his strength and once more, he stands.
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Smith howls in frustration, hurling at him, but Neo absorbs the attack, catching Smith momentarily off-balance---
Firing back a furious attack that has Smith reeling, unable to defend himself as Neo loads up 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 it hurls at Smith--
Connecting flush, distorting his features as the flesh of his face is knocked loose and his 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 rain with barely enough strength to stand as the army of Smiths look down from the crater edge.
A low ominous rumble begins to shake the earth. Neo drops his head unable to watch as the rumble rises until--
The wall of the crater explodes 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 distorted with rage.
He dives into Neo who has nothing left and batters him, each bludgeoning blow striking in time with searing bolts of lightning.
He seizes Neo by the throat, hoisting him up like a rag doll and fires a super-punch that sends Neo flying--
Bouncing down to the earth like a crashing airplane, trenching to a stop.
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Smith is about to press his frenzied assault, but he freezes, the image of Neo laying splayed, suddenly familiar.
He looks at Neo and in a flash of lightning we see the immediate future as Smith stabs his entire fist into Neo's chest.
Smith blinks away the raindrops blurring his vision.
Another flash and we see the black mirror begin to cover Neo's body.
Smith walks over to Neo who is desperately clinging to his consciopsness as if hanging from the edge of a precipice.
Again the future flashes in his eyes and he sees Neo's hands buried beneath the gleaming blackness.
The familiar words suddenly clear Neo's mind. He looks up as Smith looks down.
Neo almost can't believe what he just heard as--
Another flash reveals the liquid obsidian covering Neo's face, but his face is calm, even serene.
In his confusion, he looks to Neo who now understands.
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One final time, Neo rises to his feet.
Rain pours down Smith's tortured face.
Smith's eyes fire, a scream rises up from him and in a crackling, blinding flash of lightning--
He stabs his fist into Neo, who stands with his arms open, accepting the blow.
Exactly as in the flashing visions, Neo is covered by the darkness. Rising up over his face, Neo closes his eyes and is lost beneath the liquid shroud.
The whole sky continues to weep as Smith enters him, possessing him, as the darkness snaps into a perfect pair of sunglasses.
The mud covered Smith backs away from the new Smith as if not trusting him.
The new Smith nods his head once and the old Smith smiles. And as a giddiness spreads through him, he starts to laugh.
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Neo's body hangs motionless, supported by the passageway as we see as Neo would, an empty husk that is being filled, liquid light pouring into him from every connection.
The old Smith realizes that he is laughing alone. There is something wrong with the new Smith.
The new Smith begins to tremble, a shiver that grows into a convulsion.
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Neo's body arches, his arms pinned wide as he tries to scream but instead of sound, a shaft of light beams out.
He opens his eyes and light pours out of them.
Light brightens around Smith's sunglasses, until they begin to crack and shred like wet tissues as shafts of brilliant light burst free.
Now the old Smith begins to feel it as his body begins to shiver uncontrollably.
The new Smith continues to crack open, light beaming out from his distended and deteriorating form, filling the entire crater as--
One by one it spreads through to all the Smiths.
Shafts of light burst from the shells of Smith like water breaking through a dam, dissolving away each dark silhouette--
Until there are hundreds of faceless forms all made out of bright radiant light.
The old Smith, at the center of the crater, fights to the last. His scream rails against the buildings as he bursts open and is consumed by light.
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From high above we see the explosion of blinding light sweep through the entire city as--
A final surge rushes through Neo, his body convulsing against his metal coils and we see the light drain out of him, as life slowly leaves him and his body falls quiet and still.
Neo dies.
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In the center of the crater lies the body of the Oracle.
The cables and rods lower Neo's lifeless body, as it is laid onto the floor of the mechanical cave.
The face of the Deus ex Machina gazes once more upon him.
The face recedes and the enormous Machine sinks away like a setting sun.
A hovering Sentinel closes up of the hole made by the digger. One by 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 stands at the door of the Temple looking up at what is without question a miracle: the entire Sentinel army leaving Zion~
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The others move in behind him, their faces staring up in awe.
The last of the Machines glide out of sight and waves of emotion sweep through all of them.
The kid can't hold it in and he screams, joy bursting out of him.
His voice spills out into the Temple as he follows, almost falling, caught by several soldiers.
Hamman is unable to breathe as he drinks down the information. The kid turns and leaps onto a boulder, his voice filling the Temple.
Tears stream down both Link and Zee's faces as they embrace.
A huge resounding cheer surges up from the people of Zion as they break open with relief and joy.
Morpheus and Niobe hear the cheering that rolls up out of the Temple.
Morpheus unable to move, unable to 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, trying to feel something to make him believe it and--
Finding it in her arms.
Niobe looks up with tears brimming in her bright eyes.
Neo's body is dragged from the passageway by a Machine that looks like a sawed-open garbage truck.
The Machine quietly and efficiently drops him onto the open bed, then turns, gliding away as a barge might drift out to sea.
We ~ee the Machine City once more as Neo did; dazzling crystalline structures of light and at the center, bearing away the body of Neo, a being that appears like an angel made from the morning sun as it glitters against the wide open ocean.
Rain pebbles the angelic face of Sati as a black cat carefully pads up next to her and licks her cheek.
In a blink the cat disappears and as it does--
It stops raining.
The cracked and broken ground is now replaced with a perfectly smooth sidewalk.
Sati remains in the in the same sleeping position as the cat again softly pads in and licks her cheek, exactly as it just did.
Sati slowly 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 stride down the street.
The black shoes stop as the man finds what he was looking for sitting on a park bench.
The Oracle smiles at him.
The Architect hides his sneer in the corners of his mouth.
She smiles and he decides to leave.
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He glances back, insulted.
He smiles and walks away as Sati yells.
Carrying the cat, she leads Seraph over the hill to the bench, bolting to the Oracle.
She points to an unbelievably beautiful sunrise, rays of extraordinarily vibrant colors streaked across 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-red fingers.
Fade out.