That system is our enemy.

When you're inside, you look around, what do you see?

Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters,

the very minds of the people we are trying to save.

But until we do, these people are still a part

of that system and that makes them our enemy.

You have to understand, most of these people

are not ready to be unplugged.

And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent

on the system that they will fight to protect it.

Are you listening to me, Neo?

Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?

- I was... - Look again.

(dramatic music)

Freeze it.

- This, this isn't The Matrix?

- No.

It's another training program

designed to teach you one thing.

If you are not one of us, you are one of them.

- What are they?

- Sentient programs.

They can move in and out of any software

still hardwired to their system.

That means that anyone we haven't unplugged

is potentially an agent.

Inside The Matrix, they are everyone

and they are no one.

We have survived by hiding from them,

by running from them.

But they are the gatekeepers.

They are guarding all the doors,

they are holding all the keys,

which means that sooner or later

someone is going to have to fight them.

- Someone.

- I won't lie to you, Neo.

Every single man or woman who has stood their ground,

everyone who has fought an agent has died.

But where they have failed you will succeed.

- Why?

- I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall,

men have emptied entire clips at them

and hit nothing but air.

Yet their strength and their speed

are still based in a world that is built on rules.

Because of that they will never be as strong

or as fast as you can be.

What are you trying to tell me?

That I can dodge bullets?

No Neo, I'm trying to tell you

that when you're ready you won't have to.

(phone ringing)

[Man] We got trouble.