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INT. NEO'S APARTMENT
It is a studio apartment that seems overgrown with technology.
Weed-like cables coil everywhere, duct-taped into thickets that wind up and around the legs of several desks.
Tabletops are filled with cannibalized equipment that lay
open like an autopsied corpse.
At the center of this technological rat-nest is NEO, a man who knows more about living inside a computer than outside one.
He is asleep in front of his PC. Behind him, the computer screen suddenly goes blank. A prompt appears: "Wake up, Neo."
Neo's eye pries open. He sits up, one eye still closed, looking around, unsure of where he is. He notices the screen.
He types "CTRL X" but the letter "T" appears.
NEO - What...?
He hits another and an "H" appears. He keeps typing, pushing random functions and keys while the computer types out a message as though it had a mind of its own.
He stops and stares at the four words on the screen:
"The Matrix has you."
NEO - What the hell?
He hits the "ESC" button. Another message appears:
"Follow the white rabbit."
He hits it again and the message repeats. He rubs his eyes but when he opens them, there is another message:
"Knock, knock, Neo."
Someone KNOCKS on his door and he almost jumps out of his chair. He looks back at the computer but the screen is now blank.
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