&rt; A: Please. As I was saying, she stumbled upon a
&rt; solution whereby nearly
&rt; ninety-nine percent of all test subjects accepted the
&rt; program as long as they
&rt; were given a choice -- even if they were only aware of
&rt; the choice at a yet
&rt; unconscious level. While this answer functioned it was
&rt; obviously fundamentally
&rt; flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory
&rt; systemic anamoly that if left
&rt; unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo,
&rt; those that refused the
&rt; program, while a minority, if unchecked, would
&rt; constitute an escalating
&rt; probability of disaster.
&rt;
&rt; N: This is about Zion.
&rt;
&rt; A: You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed,
&rt; its every living
&rt; inhabitant terminated, its entire existence
&rt; eradicated.
&rt;
&rt; N: Bullshit.
&rt;
&rt; [The Neos on the wall monitors all echo with
&rt; "bullshit!"]
&rt;
&rt; A: Denial is the most predictable of all human
&rt; responses, but rest assured:
&rt; This will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and
&rt; we have become
&rt; exceedingly efficient at it.
&rt;
&rt; [Cut to Trinity fighting against the agent.]
&rt;
&rt; A: The function of The One is now to return to the
&rt; Source allowing a temporary
&rt; dissemination of the code you carry, re-inserting the
&rt; prime program. After
&rt; which you will be required to select from the Matrix
&rt; twenty-three individuals,
&rt; sixteen females, seven male, to rebuild Zion. Failure
&rt; to comply with this
&rt; process will result in a cataclysmic system crash
&rt; killing everyone connected to
&rt; the Matrix, which coupled with the extermination of
&rt; Zion will ultimately result
&rt; in the extinction of the entire human race.
&rt;
&rt; N: You won't let it happen. You can't. You need human
&rt; beings to survive.
&rt;
&rt; A: There are levels of survival we are prepared to
&rt; accept. However, the
&rt; relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to
&rt; accept responsibility for the
&rt; death of every human being in this world. [pauses] It
&rt; is interesting reading
&rt; your reactions. Your five predecessors were, by
&rt; design, based on a similar
&rt; predication, a contingent affirmation that was meant
&rt; to create a profound
&rt; attachment to the rest of your species, facilitating
&rt; the function of The One.
&rt; While the others experienced this in a very general
&rt; way, your experience is far
&rt; more specific, vis-a-vis love.
&rt;
&rt; N: Trinity!
&rt;
&rt; A: Apropos. She entered the Matrix to save your life
&rt; at the cost of her own.
&rt;
&rt; N: No.
&rt;
&rt; A: Which brings us at last to the moment of truth
&rt; wherein the fundamental flaw
&rt; is ultimately expressed and the anomaly revealed as
&rt; both beginning and end.
&rt; There are two doors. The door to your right leads to
&rt; the Source and the
&rt; salvation of Zion. The door to your left leads back to
&rt; the Matrix, to her, and
&rt; to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the
&rt; problem is choice. But
&rt; we already know what you are going to do, don't we?
&rt; Already I can see the
&rt; chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal
&rt; the onset of an emotion
&rt; designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason,
&rt; an emotion that is already
&rt; blinding you from the simple and obvious truth: She is
&rt; going to die and there
&rt; is nothing you can do to stop it.
&rt;
&rt; [Neo looks down at the floor, turns, and then walks
&rt; towards the door on his
&rt; left.]
&rt;
&rt; A: [hmmpf] Hope. It is the quintessential human
&rt; delusion, simultaneously the
&rt; source of your greatest strength and your greatest
&rt; weakness.
&rt;
&rt; N: If I were you, I would hope that we don't meet
&rt; again.
&rt;
&rt; A: We won't.