The Power Plant Systems Manager for Recycling Operations

(Limbo Ave. train station)

Sati: 

Are you from the Matrix?

Neo: 

Yes. No. 

I mean, I was.

Sati: 

Why did you leave?

Neo: 

I had to.

Sati: 

I had to leave my home too.

Rama-Kandra: 

Sati! Come here, darling. 

Leave the poor man in peace.

Sati: 

Yes, papa.

Rama-Kandra: 

I’m sorry, she is still very curious.

Neo: 

I know you.

Rama-Kandra: 

Yes, in the restaurant of the Frenchman. I am Rama-Kandra. 

This is my wife Kamala, my daughter Sati. 

We are most honoured to meet you.

Neo: 

You’re programs.

Rama-Kandra: 

Oh, yes. 

I’m the power plant systems manager for recycling operations. 

My wife is an interactive software programmer, she is highly creative.

Kamala: 

What are you doing here? You do not belong here.

Rama-Kandra: 

Kamala! Goodness, I apologize. 

My wife can be very direct.

Neo: 

It’s okay. I don’t have an answer. 

I don’t even know where ‘here’ is.

Rama-Kandra: 

This place is nowhere. 

It is between your world and our world.

Neo: 

Who’s the Trainman?

Rama-Kandra: 

He works for the Frenchman.

Neo: 

Why’d I know you were going to say that?

Rama-Kandra: 

The Frenchman does not forget 

and he does not forgive.

Neo: 

You know him?

Rama-Kandra: 

I know only what I need to know. 

I know that if you want to take something from our world into your world that does not belong there, you must go to the Frenchman.

Neo: 

Is that what you’re doing here?

Kamala: Rama, please!

Rama-Kandra: 

I do not want to be cruel, Kamala. 

He may never see another face for the rest of his life.

Neo: 

I’m sorry. 

You don’t have to answer that question.

Rama-Kandra: 

No. I don’t mind. 

The answer is simple. 

I love my daughter very much. 

I find her to be the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. 

But where we are from, that is not enough. 

Every program that is created must have a purpose; if it does not, it is deleted. 

I went to the Frenchman to save my daughter. 

You do not understand.

Neo: 

I just have never…

Rama-Kandra: 

…heard a program speak of love?

Neo: 

It’s a… human emotion.

Rama-Kandra: 

No, it is a word. 

What matters is the connection the word implies. 

I see that you are in love. 

Can you tell me what you would give to hold on to that connection?

Neo: 

Anything.

Rama-Kandra: 

Then perhaps the reason you’re Here is not so different from the reason I’m Here.