The Matrix Unloaded I

Oracle: My goodness, look at you.
You turned out all right, didn’t you? How do you feel?

Neo: I, uh…

Oracle: I know you’re not sleeping.
We’ll get to that. Why don’t you come and have a sit this time?

Neo: Maybe I’ll stand.

Oracle: Well, suit yourself.

(Neo sits)

Neo: I felt like sitting.

Oracle: I know.

Oracle: So… let’s get the obvious
stuff out of the way.

Neo: You’re not human, are you?

Oracle: It’s tough to get any
more obvious than that.

Neo: If I had to guess, I’d say
you were a program from the machine world.

(Neo gestures to Seraph)

Neo: So is he.

Oracle: So far, so good.

Neo: But if that’s true, that could
mean you’re a part of this system. Another kind of control.

Oracle: Keep going.

Neo: I suppose the most obvious
question is… how can I trust you?

Oracle: Bingo.

Oracle: It is a pickle, no doubt
about it.

Oracle: Bad news is there’s no
way that you can really know whether I’m going to help you or not. So
it’s really up to you. (You’ll) just have to make up your own damn mind…
do you accept what I’m going to tell you, or reject it.

Oracle: Can you?

Neo: You already know if I’m going
to take it?

Oracle: Wouldn’t be much of an
oracle if I didn’t.

Neo: But if you already know, how
can I make a choice?

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.

Oracle: I thought you’d have figured
that out by now.

Neo: Why are you here?

Oracle: Same reason.

Oracle: I love candy.

Neo: But why help us?

Oracle: We’re all here to do what
we’re all here to do. I’m interested in one thing, Neo. The future. And
believe me, I know… the only way to get there, is together.

Neo: Are there other programs like
you?

Oracle: Oh, well not like me,
but…

Oracle: 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 winds, sunrise and sunset. There are
programs running all over the place. The ones doing their jobs, doing
what they were meant to do, are invisible. You’d never even know they
were here. But the other ones… you hear about them all the time.

Neo: I’ve never heard of them.

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.

Neo: Programs hacking programs.
Why?

Oracle: They’ve their reasons,
but… usually a program chooses exile when it faces deletion.

Neo: And why would a program be
deleted?

Oracle: Maybe it breaks down.
Maybe a better program is created to replace it, happens all the time.
And when it does, a program can choose either to hide here, or return
to the source.

Neo: The machine mainframe.

Oracle: Yes. (unintelligible).
Where the path of The One ends. You’ve seen it? In your deams, haven’t
you? The door made of light? What happens when you look through the door?

Neo: I see Trinity. And something
happens. Something bad. She starts to fall… and I wake up.

Oracle: Do you see her die?

Neo: No.

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?

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?

Oracle: No. You’ve already made
the choice. Now you have to understand it.

Neo: No. I can’t do that. I won’t.

Oracle: You have to.

Neo: Why?

Oracle: Because you’re The One.

Neo: What if I can’t? What happens
if I fail?

Oracle: Then Zion will fall.