- The Architect: You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated.
- Neo: Bullshit.
- [the monitors respond the same]
- The Architect: Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
- Merovingian: I love French wine, like I love the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère. It's like wiping your arse with silk. I love it.
- Commander Lock: Dammit, Morpheus. Not everyone believes what you believe.
- Morpheus: My beliefs do not require them to.
- The Architect: Hello, Neo.
- Neo: Who are you?
- The Architect: I am the Architect. I created the Matrix. I've been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
- Neo: Why am I here?
- The Architect: Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.
- Neo: You haven't answered my question.
- The Architect: Quite right. Interesting. That was quicker than the others.
- The Architect: Humph. Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.
- Agent Smith: I killed you, Mr. Anderson. I watched you die... with a certain satisfaction, I might add. Then something happened. something that I knew was impossible, but it happened anyway. You destroyed me, Mr. Anderson. After that, I understood the rules, I knew what I was supposed to do, but I didn't. I couldn't. I was compelled to stay, compelled to disobey. And now, here I stand because of you, Mr. Anderson. Because of you, I'm no longer an Agent of this system. Because of you, I've changed. I'm unplugged. A new man, so to speak. Like you, apparently, free.
- Neo: Congratulations.
- Agent Smith: Thank you.
- Agent Smith: But, as you well know, appearances can be deceiving, which brings me back to the reason why we're here. We're not here because we're free. We're here because we're not free. There is no escaping reason; no denying purpose. Because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist.
- [Several Agent Smith Clones walk in]
- Agent Smith Clone 1: It is purpose that created us.
- Agent Smith Clone 2: Purpose that connects us.
- Agent Smith Clone 3: Purpose that pulls us.
- Agent Smith Clone 4: That guides us.
- Agent Smith Clone 5: That drives us.
- Agent Smith Clone 6: It is purpose that defines us.
- Agent Smith Clone 7: Purpose that binds us.
- Agent Smith: We are here because of you, Mr Anderson. We're here to take from you what you tried to take from us.
- [Attempts to copy himself into Neo]
- Agent Smith: Purpose.
- Neo: But if you already know, how can I make a choice?
- The Oracle: Because you didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand *why* you made it. I thought you'd have figured that out by now.
- Councillor Hamann: Down here, sometimes I think about all those people still plugged into the Matrix and when I look at these machines I... I can't help thinking that in a way... we are plugged into them.
- Neo: But we control these machines; they don't control us.
- Councillor Hamann: Of course not. How could they? The idea is pure nonsense. But... it does make one wonder... just... what is control?
- Neo: If we wanted, we could shut these machines down.
- Councillor Hamann: [Of] course. That's it. You hit it. That's control, isn't it? If we wanted we could smash them to bits. Although, if we did, we'd have to consider what would happen to our lights, our heat, our air...
- Neo: So we need machines and they need us, is that your point, Councilor?
- Councillor Hamann: No. No point. Old men like me don't bother with making points. There's no point.
- Neo: Is that why there are no young men on the council?
- Councillor Hamann: Good point.
- The Oracle: Candy?
- Neo: Do you already know if I'm going to take it?
- The Oracle: Wouldn't be much of an Oracle if I didn't.
- Morpheus: [Morpheus addresses the people of Zion] Zion, hear me! It is true, what many of you have heard. The machines have gathered an army and as I speak, that army is drawing nearer to our home.
- [the Zion crowd becomes louder]
- Morpheus: Believe me when I say we have a difficult time ahead of us. But if we are to be prepared for it, we must first shed our fear of it. I stand here, before you now, truthfully unafraid. Why? Because I believe something you do not? No, I stand here without fear because I remember. I remember that I am here not because of the path that lies before me but because of the path that lies behind me. I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines. I remember that for 100 years they have sent their armies to destroy us, and after a century of war I remember that which matters most... We are still here! Today, let us send a message to that army. TOnight, let us shake this cave. Tonight, let us tremble these halls of earth, steel, and stone, let us be heard from red core to black sky. Tonight, let us make them remember, THIS IS ZION AND WE ARE NOT AFRAID!
- Neo: Are there other programs like you?
- The Oracle: Oh, well, not like me. But... look, see those birds? At some point a program was written to govern them. A program was written to watch over the trees, and the wind, the sunrise, and sunset. There are programs running all over the place. The ones doing their job, doing what they were meant to do, are invisible. You'd never even know they were here. But the other ones, well, we hear about them all the time.
- Neo: I've never heard of them.
- The Oracle: Oh, of course you have. Every time you've heard someone say they saw a ghost, or an angel. Every story you've ever heard about vampires, werewolves, or aliens, is the system assimilating some program that's doing something they're not supposed to be doing.
- The Architect: The function of the One is now to return to the source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry, reinserting the prime program. After which you will be required to select from the matrix 23 individuals, 16 female, 7 male, to rebuild Zion. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix, which coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race.
- Neo: You won't let it happen, you can't. You need human beings to survive.
- The Architect: There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept.
- Merovingian: You see there is only one constant. One universal. It is the only real truth. Causality. Action, reaction. Cause and effect.
- [after first meeting with The Merovingian]
- Neo: Well, that didn't go so well.
- Morpheus: Are you Certain the Oracle didn't say anything else?
- Neo: Yes.
- Trinity: Maybe we did something wrong.
- Neo: Or didn't do something.
- Morpheus: No, what happened, happened and couldn't have happened any other way.
- Neo: How do you know?
- Morpheus: We are still alive.
- The Architect: There are two doors. The door to your right leads to the Source and the salvation of Zion. The door to your left leads back to the Matrix, to her... and to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you are going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction: the chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason. An emotion that is already blinding you to the simple and obvious truth: she is going to die and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
- The Architect: The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect. It was a work of art. Flawless. Sublime. A triumph only equaled by its monumental failure.
- Persephone: Where are you going?
- Merovingian: Please, ma cherie. I have told you. We are all victims of causality. I drank too much wine, I must take a piss. Cause and effect.
- Agent Thompson: You.
- Agent Smith: Yes, me.
- [turns Thompson into another Smith]
- Agent Smith: Me... me... me...
- Agent Smith Clone: Me too.
- Seraph: You seek the Oracle.
- Neo: Who are you?
- Seraph: I am Seraph. I can take you to her. But first, I must apologize.
- Neo: For what?
- Seraph: For this.
- [fighting ensues]
- Seraph: [fighting has stopped] Good.
- Seraph: The Oracle has many enemies, I had to be sure.
- Neo: Of what?
- Seraph: That you were The One.
- Neo: You could've just asked.
- Seraph: No. You do not truly know someone until you fight them.
- The Architect: As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly ninety-nine percent of the test subjects accepted the program provided they were given a choice - even if they were only aware of it at a near-unconscious level. While this solution worked, it was fundamentally flawed, creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that, if left unchecked, might threaten the system itself. Ergo, those who refused the program, while a minority, would constitute an escalating probability of disaster.
- Neo: This is about Zion.
- The Oracle: Do you see her die?
- Neo: No.
- The Oracle: You have the sight now, Neo. You are looking at the world without time.
- Neo: Then why can't I see what happens to her?
- The Oracle: We can never see past the choices we don't understand.
- Neo: Are you saying I have to choose whether Trinity lives or dies?
- The Oracle: No, you've already made the choice. Now you have to understand it.
- Neo: No. I can't do that. I won't.
- The Oracle: Well, you have to.
- Neo: Why?
- The Oracle: Because you're the One.
- Merovingian: Oh my god Persephone, how could you do this? You betrayed me. Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de saloperie de couille de merde.
- Persephone: Cause and Effect, my love.
- Merovingian: Cause? There is no cause for this. What cause?
- Persephone: What cause? How about the lipstick you're still wearing?
- Merovingian: Lipstick? Lipstick? Heh, what craziness are you talking about woman? There is no lipstick.
- [checks his face]
- Morpheus: All of our lives, we have fought this war. Tonight I believe we can end it. Tonight is not an accident. There are no accidents. We have not come here by chance. I do not believe in chance. When I see three objectives, three captains, three ships. I do not see coincidence, I see providence. I see purpose. I believe it our fate to be here. It is our destiny. I believe this night holds for each and every one of us, the very meaning of our lives.
- Morpheus: This is a war and we are soldiers. Death can come for us at any time, in any place.
- [Scene switch to the Vigilant under attack]
- Morpheus: . Now consider the alternative. What if I am right? What if the prophecy is true? What if tomorrow the war could be over? Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for?
- Agent Smith: The best thing about being me... There are so many "me"s.
- [All the doors open, lots of Smith clones step out]
- The Oracle: So, let's get the obvious stuff out of the way.
- Neo: You're not human, are you?
- The Oracle: It's tough to get any more obvious than that.
- Neo: I suppose the most obvious question is, how can I trust you?
- The Oracle: Bingo. It is a pickle. No doubt about it. The bad news is there's no way if you can really know whether I'm here to help you or not, so it's really up to you. You just have to make up you on damned mind to either accept what I'm going to tell you, or reject it.
- Neo: Why don't you tell me what's on your mind, Councillor?
- Councillor Hamann: There is so much in this world that I do not understand. See that machine? It has something to do with recycling our water supply. I have absolutely no idea how it works. But I do understand the reason for it to work. I have absolutely no idea how you are able to do some of the things you do, but I believe there's a reason for that as well. I only hope we understand that reason before it's too late.
- The Oracle: It seems that every time we meet, I have nothing but bad news. I'm sorry about that, I surely am. But for what it's worth, you've made a believer out of me. Good luck, kiddo.
- The Keymaker: There is a building. Inside this building there is a level where no elevator can go, and no stair can reach. This level is filled with doors. These doors lead to many places. Hidden places. But one door is special. One door leads to the source.