The Scintillating Dialogue of Neo
With apologies to whoever thought of this first, and a nod to ix625.com for
hosting the (spell corrected) full text, I couldn't find this on the net when
I looked for it for a friend, so I recreated all 172 glorious utterances here.
N.B. Almost 40% of Neo's lines are, or end with, a question.
Neo's apartment
What? What the hell?... Follow the white rabbit?... Who is it?
Yeah. Yeah. You're two hours late.
Got the money?
Hold on.
You get caught using that...
Right.
My computer, it... You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming?
I can't, I have work tomorrow.
Yeah, sure, I'll go.
Club
How do you know that name?
Who are you?
Trinity. The Trinity? That cracked the IRS d-base?
Jesus.
I just thought, um...you were a guy.
It you on my computer. How did you do that?
Of what?
Who is?
What is the Matrix.
Neo's apartment
Oh shit. Oh shit shit.
Office
Yes, Mr. Rhineheart, perfectly clear.
Yeah, that's me.
Hello.
Morpheus.
Who's coming for me?
What, right now.
Oh shit.
What the hell do they want from me?
How?
Ok.
What if they...
How do you know all this?
No way. No way. This is crazy.
This is insane. Why is this happening to me? What did I do? I'm nobody.... Shit.... I can't do this.
Interrogation
Yeah. Wow, that sound like a really good deal. But I think I got a better one. How about I give you the finger... and you give me my phone call.
You can't scare me with this Gestapo crap. I know my rights. I want my phone call.
Neo's apartment
What are you talking about. What...what is happening to me?
Yes.
Car
What the hell is this?
From what.
What?
Fine.
Why?
What is that thing?
Jesus Christ, that thing's real?
Lafayette Hotel
It's an honor to meet you.
You could say that.
No.
Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
The Matrix?
What truth?
You did all this?
What does that mean?
Did you...
This can't be...
It's cold. It's cold.
Nebuchadnezzar
Am I dead?
What are you doing.
Why do my eyes hurt?
Morpheus, what's happened to me? What is this place?
When?
Construct
Right now we're inside a computer program?
This...this isn't real?
AI? You mean artificial intelligence?
No. I don't believe it. It's not possible.
Stop. Let me out. Let me out. I want out.
Nebuchadnezzar
Take this thing off me. Take this thing...
Don't touch me. Stay away from me. I don't want it. I don't believe it. I don't believe it.
I can't go back, can I?
For what?
You don't...you don't have any...
Zion?
It's a city?
Where is it?
Jujitsu? I'm going to learn Jujitsu?... Holy shit.
Hell yes. Hell yeah.
I know Kung Fu.
Construct
You're too fast.
I know what you're trying to do.
Whoa. Okie dokie. Free my mind.
All right, no problem. Free my mind. Free my mind. All right.
Nebuchadnezzar
I thought it wasn't real.
If you're killed in the Matrix, you die here?
Construct
I was...
This...this isn't the Matrix?
What are they?
Someone?
Why?
What are you trying to tell me, that I can dodge bullets?
Nebuchadnezzar
Squiddy?
EMP?
Where are we?
Sewers?
Sorry.
Is that...
Do you always look at it encoded?
Sure
Thanks for the drink.
Nebuchadnezzar
Of who?
See who?
Car
God.
I used to eat there. Really good noodles. I have these memories from my life. None of them happened. What does that mean?
And the Oracle can?
Did you go to her?
What did she tell you?
What?
Apartment Building
So is this the same Oracle that made the prophecy?
The beginning...?
And she knows what, everything?
And she's never wrong.
She helped you?
What did she tell you?
Oracle's place
What truth?
There is no spoon?
You're the Oracle?
Yeah.
What vase?
I'm sorry.
How did you know?
Who?
I think so.
I don't know.
Ahhh.
But what?
I'm not the one.
What?
Morpheus. He...he almost had me convinced.
What do you mean, without him?
What?
Lafayette Hotel
Whoa, deja vu.
Nothing, I just had a little deja vu.
A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it.
Might have been, I'm not sure.
What is it?
Lafayette Hotel
No. No, Morpheus. Don't.
We can't leave him.
Cellular
Is Morpheus alive?
Repair shop
I don't know, it just went dead.
You first.
Nebuchadnezzar
What are they doing to him.
How much time?
Well what do they want.
Trinity.
Well there has to be something that we can do.
Nebuchadnezzar
Stop. I don't believe this is happening.
Does it? I don't know, I... this can't be just coincidence. It can't be.
The Oracle. She told me this would happen. She told me that I would have to make a choice.
I'm going in.
I have to.
Morpheus did what he did because he believed I am something I'm not.
I'm not the one, Trinity. The Oracle hit me with that too.
Sorry, I'm not. I'm just another guy.
Why?
I know that's what it looks like, but it's not. I can't explain to you why it's not. Morpheus believed something and he was ready to give his life for what he believed. I understand that now. But that's why I have to go.
Because I believe in something.
I believe I can bring him back.... What are you doing?
No you're not.
Cellular
Guns. Lots of guns.
Construct
That's why it's going to work.
Elevator
There is no spoon.
Rooftop
Trinity. Help.
Do what?
Wasn't fast enough. Can you fly that thing.
Helicopter
Morpheus, get up. Get up, get up.... He's not going to make it.... Gotcha.
Rooftop
Trinity.
Rooftop
Morpheus. The Oracle, she told me I'm...
Subway station
You first, Morpheus.
Subway station
So are you.
My name is Neo.
Cellular
Mr. Wizard, get me the hell out of here.
Oh shit.... Help. Need a little help.
Hotel
No.
Phone
(Technically, this spoken by The One, but since it's Neo's voice)
I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you, a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.