TRANSCRIPT Architect-Neo
Falcolay
Neo: Who are you?
Architect: I am the Architect. I created the Matrix. I have 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 maybe the most pertinent you
may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
Neo: Why am I here?
Architect: Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced
equation inherent in 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 deciduously avoided
it is not unexpected and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which
has led you inexcerably here.
Neo: You haven't answered my question.
Architect: Quite right. Interesting, that was quicker then the others.
Neo: Others? (What others? How many? Answer me)
Architect: The Matrix is older then you know. I prefer counting from
the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next. In
which case this is the sixth version.
Neo: Then there are only two possible explanations, either no one told
me, or no one knows.
Architect: Precisely, as you are undoubtedly gathering the anomaly is
systemic. Creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations.
Neo: Choice, the problem is choice.
Architect: The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect; it
was a work of art, flawless, sublime. A triumph equaled only by its
monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me
now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human
being. Thus, I redesigned it, Based on your history to more accurately
reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However I was again
frustrated my failure. I have since come to understand that the answer
eluded me because it required a lesser mind a mind less bound by the
parameters of perfection. Thus the answer was stumbled upon by
another, and intuitive program, initially created to investigate
certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix,
she would undoubtedly be its mother.
Neo: The Oracle
Architect: Please, as I was saying she stumbled upon a solution
whereby nearly 99 percent of all test subjects accepted the program as
long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the
choice at an unconscious level. While this answered function it was
obviously fundamentally flawed thus creating the otherwise
contradictory systemic anomaly. That if left unchecked might threaten
the system itself, ergo those that refuse the program while the
minority if unchecked would cause an escalating probability of
disaster.
Neo: This is about Zion
Architect: You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its
every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated.
Neo: Bull****
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. 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.
Architect: There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept.
However the relevant issue is whether you are ready to accept the
responsibility for the death of every human being in this world. It is
interesting reading your reactions. Your 5 predecessors were by design
based on a similar predication a contingent affirmation that was meant
to create a profound attachment to the rest of your species
facilitating the function of the One. While the others experienced
this in a very general way your experience is far more specific, Vis a
vie love.
Neo: Trinity
Architect: Apropo, she entered the matrix to save your life at the
cost of her own.
Neo: No
Architect: Which brings us at last to the moment of truth, wherein the
fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed and the anomaly revealed as
both beginning and end. 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 we 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 from the simple and obvious truth, she is going to die
and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Hope, it is the
quintessential human delusion simultaneously the source of your
greatest strength and your greatest weakness.
Neo: If I were you, I would hope that we don't meet again.
Architect: We won't.