Unable to Speak is the sixth scene in The Matrix.
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Outside the MetaCortex building, Agents Smith, Brown, and Jones escort Neo into a waiting car. Trinity sits on a motorcycle, watching them in her rear-view mirror before driving off.
A bank of monitors shows Neo inside an interrogation room. Neo is sitting at a table opposite an empty chair as the three Agents walk in. Agent Smith sits across the table from Neo. Agent Smith opens and reads a file about Neo's double life as a black hat hacker. Agent Smith promises to wipe Neo's slate clean in exchange for his cooperation in arresting Morpheus. Neo, however, refuses the deal and asks for his phone call.
Agent Smith asks Neo, "What good is a phone call if you are unable to speak?"
Neo looks nervously at an Agent behind him before his lips meld together. Agent Smith smiles as Neo's mouth vanishes. Horrified, Neo leaps out of his chair, touching the skin covering his mouth. Agents Brown and Jones grab Neo, rip open his shirt, and throw him down onto the table, restraining him.
As he takes a small metal case out of his suit coat pocket, Agent Smith tells Neo, "You are going to help us, Mr. Anderson, whether you want to or not." From the case, Agent Smith takes out a dart-sized metal device and switches it on.
Still restrained by Agents Brown and Jones, Neo watches the device lengthen and develop a translucent shell. Neo is horrified as a bug bursts out of the shell. Neo struggles as Agent Smith drops the bug onto his exposed abdomen.
Neo bucks wildly as the bug dips its tendrils into his navel and burrows its way inside.
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