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To: Dave Kiernan who wrote (1544)	1/3/2001 12:51:49 AM
From: Spytrdr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2110

INT. PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (MATRIX) - DAY Agent Smith stands in the bedroom of the enormous suite, staring out the windows at the city, below, shimmering with brilliant sunlight. AGENT SMITH Have you ever stood and stared at it, Morpheus? Marveled at its beauty. Its genius. Billions of people just living out their lives... oblivious. Agent Brown sucks a serum from a glass vial, filling a hypodermic needle. AGENT SMITH Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Agent Brown jams the needle into Morpheus' shoulder, and plunges down. AGENT SMITH Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. Agent Brown studies the screens as the life signs react violently to the injection. AGENT SMITH The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was re-designed to this: the peak of your civilization. He turns from the window. AGENT SMITH I say 'your civilization' because as soon as we start thinking for you, it really becomes our civilization, which is, of course, what this is all about. He sits down directly in front of Morpheus. AGENT SMITH Evolution, Morpheus. Evolution. He lifts Morpheus' head. AGENT SMITH Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. Morpheus stares hard at him, trying hard not to show the pain racking his mind. AGENT SMITH The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.