Why?
Cookies need love like everything does.
Neo!
I was hoping to have these done before you got here. Oh well. Sati, honey, I think it’s time for a tasting. Take the bowl to Seraph and find out if they’re ready.
Okay. [to Neo] I’m glad you got out.
Me too.
So, do you recognize me?
A part of you.
Yeah, that’s how it works. Some bits you lose, some bits you keep. I don’t yet recognize my face in the mirror, but… I still love candy. [Offers Neo a piece of red candy]
No, thank you.
Remember what you were like when you first walked through my door, jittery as a junebug? And now just look at you. You sure did surprise me, Neo, and you still do.
You gave me a few surprises, too.
I hope I helped.
You helped me to get here, but my question is: why? Where does this go? Where does it end?
I don’t know.
You don’t know, or you won’t tell me?
I told you before. No one can see beyond a choice they don’t understand, and I mean no one.
What choice?
It doesn’t matter. It’s my choice. I have mine to make, same as you have yours.
Does that include what things to tell me and what not to tell me?
Of course not.
Then why didn’t you tell me about the Architect? Why didn’t you tell me about Zion and the Ones before me? Why didn’t you tell me the truth?
Because it wasn’t time for you to know.
Who decided it wasn’t time?
You know who. [Points at the Temet Nosce sign above the door]
I did. [Oracle nods] Then I think it’s time for me to know a few more things.
So do I.
Tell me how I separated my mind from my body without jacking in. Tell me how I stopped four Sentinels by thinking it. Tell me just what the hell is happening to me.
The power of the One extends beyond this world. It reaches from here all the way back to where it came from.
Where?
The Source. That’s what you felt when you touched those Sentinels. But you weren’t ready for it. You should be dead, but apparently you weren’t ready for that, either.
The Architect told me that if I didn’t return to the Source, Zion would be destroyed by midnight tonight.
Please… You and I may not be able to see beyond our own choices, but that man can’t see past any choice.
Why not?
He doesn’t understand them – he can’t. To him, they are variables in an equation. One at a time, each variable must be solved and counted. That’s his purpose: to balance the equation.
What’s your purpose?
To unbalance it.
Why? What do you want?
I want the same thing you want, Neo. And I'm willing to go as far as you are to get it.
The end of the war. [Oracle nods] Is it going to end?
One way or another.
Can Zion be saved?
I’m sorry, I don’t have the answer to that question, but if there is an answer, there’s only one place you’re going to find it.
Where?
You know where. And if you can’t find the answer, then I’m afraid there may be no tomorrow for any of us.
What does that mean?
Everything that has a beginning has an end. I see the end coming. I see the darkness spreading. I see death. And you are all that stands in his way.
Smith.
Very soon he’s going to have the power to destroy this world, but I believe he won’t stop there; he can’t. He won’t stop until there’s nothing left at all.
What is he?
He is you. Your opposite, your negative, the result of the equation trying to balance itself out.
What if I can’t stop him?
One way or another, Neo, this war is going to end. Tonight, the future of both worlds will be in your hands… or in his.
