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Matrix Reloaded-Revolutions
Shadow Script Part 4

This time, NEO follows the others and slams back the entire glass. He coughs and sputters as his friends and bar patrons cheer him on."

EXT. MAIN STREET, ZION

The lights are dim, and only a few late night revelers stagger through the streets on their way back home. Walking straight and calmly through the stragglers are MORPHEUS and NIOBE.

MORPHEUS

"So, how do you like having your own command?"

NIOBE

"It's good. But trying. The responsibility…"

THEY stop before the entrance to the DEAD DUCK.

MORPHEUS

"You must be both mother and father to your crew."

NIOBE nods, and looks into the bar. Inside, the crews are raging drunk and loud.

NIOBE

"Who will you be now? The mother, or the father?"

MORPHEUS peers in on the scene and grins.

MORPHEUS

"As long as they don't get out of line, I'll just be a brother."

INT. DEAD DUCK

NEO is out of it, while the others are merely comfortably in the bag. He's acting like a kid who broke into his father's liquor cabinet.

CHOI

"So, you went back in, and you two pulled him out?"

TRINITY nods, herself in disbelief. NEO picks his head up off the table.

NEO

"Kicked… kicked Smith's ass."

CHOI eyes MORPHES and NIOBE coming toward them.

CHOI

"Hey, did you kick anybody else's ass, Neo? Like Morpheus?"

NEO

"Morpheus? Yeah, I smacked him around, too."

MORPHEUS arrives just in time to hear the last part. He stands and grins down at NEO.

MORPHEUS

"So, you can smack me around, Neo?"

NEO

"Oh yeah. Anytime."

MORPHEUS taps him on the forehead. NEO blinks and falls back into the booth. He stands before them.

TRINITY

"How's Tank?"

MORPHEUS

"He's on bereavement leave with his mother. Dozer was the second son she's lost in this war."

His comments set a sober tone.

MORPHEUS

"The Nebechanezzer is out of commission for at least a month. But, that's not giving us a rest."

TRINITY

"Let me guess. We've been ordered back out anyway."

MORPHEUS

"Yes. This is another special op. I'm in command, Niobe and Trinity are team leaders. Neo is our secret weapon."

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FLASH TO: NEO, passed out with his mouth open on the couch.

MORPHEUS

"We don't know exactly what he's capable of. He may be just tapping his potential, or he may have already reached it. We are to learn from him, as he does from us."

CHOI

"Why are we always getting screwed? Not only do I have to go straight back into the shit, but I lose my command, too?"

MORPHEUS

"You've been assigned to this mission because you're the best, Choi."

DUJOUR

"Yeah, and headquarters thinks you might be able to whine the agents to death."

CHOI

"Oh my God that's so funny. My point is, don't we need some r-and-r? Unwind a little? We lost two crew on the last one, you lost like five, right? Shit. I'm glad we found Mr. Invincible, here, but Jesus…"

MORPHEUS

"You don't have to go, Choi. Volunteers only."

TRINITY

"He's got a point, M. I have faith, but why so quick?"

MORPHEUS

"We have a chance, here, but the window of opportunity is brief. Our ships say the Matrix is already upgrading and re-coding to block our entry. And Neo's."

CHOI

"Fuck. Every fucking time we get another 'one,' this is what they do."

MORPHEUS

"He is the One."

DUJOUR

"You haven't lost the faith, have you Choi?"

CHOI grabs a half-filled rum glass and swigs it down.

CHOI

"Well, these are the times that try men's souls. Here's to victory."

EXT. TUNNEL

The FREEDOM hovers slowly, silently, like a submarine as it cruises through the murky depths. It suddenly comes to a quiet stop, and descends. The engines fade out, and the vessel rests, darkened, on the cave.

A quartet of SQUIDDIES slips by. We follow as they worm their ways through the twisted passageway, watching as they pass the bubble cockpit by mere feet.

FREEZE on the cockpit. Within the shadows we see Morpheus and Choi at the controls.

INT. FREEDOM COCKPIT

They watch the SQUIDDIES fade into the distance.

MORPHEUS

"Power up. Sleep mode."

CHOI

"Aye aye, capitano."

MINIMAL cockpit displays turn on, and the cabin remains dark.

INT. MAIN DECK

The ship's OPERATOR, a lean Asian kid with a gaze like a laser scan, sits behind NEO, who's sitting at the operator's console with his hands on the abbreviated keyboard. Trinity sits with them, her feet up as she observes.

NEO stares at the screen. It's a huge syllabus of Matrix code characters. He struggles to learn the complex code.

NEO

"Ka equals 9. But reverse Ka is point-nine, right?

RAZOR nods.

RAZOR

"You catch on quick, man."

NEO

"I know these symbols from the hacking trainer. But how come it's so hard to find them on the keyboard?"

TRINITY

"Your brain knows what to do. But it has to associate characters with your body."

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