The Matrix Page #5

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Neo stands against a wall, alone, sipping from a bottleof beer, feeling completely out of place. He is about to

leave when he notices a woman staring at him.

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

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

TRINITY:

Hello, Neo.

NEO:

How do you know that name?

TRINITY:

I know a lot about you. I've been

wanting to meet you for some time.

NEO:

Who are you?

TRINITY:

My name is Trinity.

NEO:

Trinity? The Trinity? The

Trinity that cracked the I.R.S.

D-Base?

TRINITY:

That was a long time ago.

NEO:

Gee-zus.

TRINITY:

What?

NEO:

I just thought... you were a guy.

TRINITY:

Most guys do.

Neo is a little embarrassed.

NEO:

Do you want to go somewhere andtalk?

TRINITY:

No. It's safe here and I don't

have much time.

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The MUSIC is so LOUD they must stand very close, talkingdirectly into each other's ear.

NEO:

That was you on my computer?

She nods.

NEO:

How did you do that?

TRINITY:

Right now, all I can tell you, is

that you are in danger. I brought

you here to warn you.

NEO:

Of what?

TRINITY:

They're watching you, Neo.

NEO:

Who is?

TRINITY:

Please. Just listen. I know why

you're here, Neo. I know what

you've been doing. I know why you

hardly sleep, why you live alone

and why, night after night, you

sit at your computer. You're

looking for him.

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

TRINITY:

I know because I was once looking

for the same thing, but when he

found me he told me I wasn't

really looking for him. I was

looking for an answer.

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

TRINITY:

It's the question that drives us,

the question that brought you

here. You know the question just

as I did.

NEO:

What is the Matrix?

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TRINITY:

When I asked him, he said that no

one could ever be told the answer

to that question. They have tosee it to believe it.

She leans close, her lips almost touching his ear.

TRINITY:

The answer is out there, Neo.

It's looking for you and it willfind you, if you want it to.

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

A SOUND RISES steadily, growing out of the MUSIC,

pressing in on Neo until it is all he can hear as we -CUT

TO:

14 INT. NEO'S APARTMENT 14

The sound is an ALARM CLOCK, slowly dragging Neo toconsciousness. He strains to read the clock-face:

9:
15!A.M.

Shitshitshit.

NEO:

15 EXT. SKYSCRAPER 15

The downtown office of Meta CorTechs, a software

development company.

16 INT. META CORTECHS OFFICE 16

The main offices are along each wall, the windowsoverlooking downtown. RHINEHEART, the ultimate companyman, lectures Neo without looking at him, typing at hiscomputer continuously.

Neo stares at two window cleaners on a scaffoldingoutside, dragging their rubber squeegees down the surfaceof the glass.

RHINEHEART:

You have a problem with authority,

Mr. Anderson. You believe that

you are special, that somehow therules do not apply to you.

Obviously, you are mistaken.

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