a high-tech laptop and modem are set up on a stack of milk crates. neo waits as morpheus types in a series of access codes. after a moment the screen blinks, "welcome morpheus."
heavy bolt-cutters snap through the main phone cable.
this part of the basement, a dark concrete cavern, was the main mechanical room. there are four enormous boilers, dinosaur-like technology that once pumped hot water like arteries.
morpheus watches cypher disappear into the smoke then follows the others down the wet-black hole.
gas-masked apparitions find the open hole.