The screen is filled with green, cascading code which gives way to the title, The Matrix.

A phone rings and text appears on the screen: “Call trans opt: received. 2-19-98 13:24:18 REC: Log>” As a conversation takes place between Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Cypher (Joe Pantoliano), two free humans, a table of random green numbers are being scanned and individual numbers selected, creating a series of digits not unlike an ordinary phone number, as if a code is being deciphered or a call is being traced.

Trinity discusses some unknown person. Cypher accuses Trinity of enjoying watching him. Trinity counters that “Morpheus [(Laurence Fishburne)] says he may be ‘the One’,” just as the sound of a number being selected alerts Trinity that someone may be tracing their call. She ends the call.