Matrix Story Timelines

• This would make the Matrix and human (fake) history several thousands years old. Including the creation of the machines.
• This would make (a) god out of the Architect ('The Great Architect' is the freemasonic name/description for God).
• The Merovingians supposed themselves as descendants of Jesus Christ. If Jesus was a former One, then the Merovingian might also be a former One, at least his descendant. 
• This would make it possible that Persephone's 'Cain and Abel' are really the biblical Cain (also known as Kain) and Abel: Adam's and Eve's first and second son.
• Maybe Eve or the Snake was a former 'One' giving Adam the red pill (red apple). However there are no blue apples, which weakens this theory a little bit. 
• One of the next Matrix failures could have been the biblical Flood. Thus Noah could be a former 'One' saving a handful humans.
  Please note that on Noah's ark there have been only 8 humans (1 Noah +3 sons +their wives) in contrast to the 7th (future) Zion with 24 humans (=1 Neo +16 women +7 men =16 women +8 men. In other words exactly twice as many women as men). However 24=8*3, thus Zion could be said to be 3 times as large as the arc.
• It also may be that Matrix 6 is the 6th day of God's (=the Architects) creation. And now on the 7th 'day' a special break is coming.
• Sodom and Gomorrha (aka. Gomorra, Gomorrah) could be another instance where the system had to intervene and only a few survived. However this was only a local catastrophe and not a global cataclysm.

However, a counter-point to '1st Zion=Garden Eden' is that Smith continues:
Smith: "The first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world. Where none suffered. Where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost."
Since only Adam and Eve were in Garden Eden and there haven't been any crops then this makes no sense.

• There is a counter-idea to this however: By "crops" Smith could mean human bodies (= the fields of human bodies). Because humans wouldn't accept the code, they woke up, therefore ruining the machine's crops, not their own.

Marginal note about old testament mythology (has nothing to do with the Matrix, just my 5 cents):
Since all creatures have been created by god on Sunday to Friday (days 1-6) AND no creature has been created later AND SINCE there was no death in Garden Eden before Adam's sin, it means, that a) dinosaurs lived together with humans b) dinosaurs and humans were eating fruits only and c) nobody stomped on ants.

Marginal note about bible mythology #2: The 'Garden Eden' is not 'Paradise'. Garden Eden was created a long time ago, while paradise is the place we go after we die (or after this whole planet earth is turned into a 'paradise').

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The ship Nebuchadnezzar (Captain Morpheus) is on its way to save the world. The council asks for 2 volunteering ships to help Morpheus. The first volunteering ship is the Vigilant with the male Captain Soren. The second ship is the Logos with the female Captain Niobe Both ships leave Zion. Both ships find Morpheus. The Keymaker instructs the crews to put out of operation 2 power plants. Captain Niobe does her job (=blows up the power station)... ...and returns from the Matrix to her ship Logos and says... Niobe [Enter the Matrix]: "I can't believe it." Ghost: "We did it." ...and has a role in the forthcoming movie Matrix Revolutions. Captain Soren's ship Vigilant is hit by a bomb from the sentinels... Axel (onboard the Vigilant): "Incoming. Incoming! Incoming!" ...and his crew dies onboard the ship and inside the Matrix (in the second power station). Both death scenes (within the ship and within the Matrix) are shown in Matrix 2. Now Trinity (on the Nebuchadnezzar) has to help out, goes into the second power station and completes Soren's job. Neo returns from the Architect just right in time before the Nebuchadnezzar, too, is bombed by the sentinels. During these scenes something happens somewhere else: Some sentinels stop to tunnel and go inside the pipelines that go in and out Zion. As Commander Lock said: Lock: "The machines are tunnelling to avoid our defense system. But I believe that they're going to intersect certain [main] pipelines [in and out Zion] in order to control them. These points of intersection are crucial because I believe they're vulnerable to counterattack." Six(?) hovercrafts from Zion (Icarus, Novalis, Caduceus, Hammer and other ships) try to get in position to fire an EMP (electromagnetic pulse). Because an EMP also affects other ships at close range (including the very ship that fires it) all ships must be out of range and have landed. Now something unwanted happens. Bane (who is possessed by Agent Smith) seems to have killed the whole crew of the ship he's on (as seen in Enter the Matrix) and triggers the EMP (his own EMP like Neo or the ship's EMP?). The ship Hammer (with Captain Roland) is the only ship out of range. Roland (onboard the Hammer) [Enter the Matrix]: "What was that?" Mauser: "I think it was an EMP." Roland: "How?" Mauser: "No idea, but right now we can't reach 11, 4, or 7." Operator (in Zion) [Enter the Matrix]: "Sir! We've just lost contact with the Icarus!" Commander Lock: "What?" Operator: "...and the Novalis, and the Caduceus!" Commander Lock: "How is that possible?" Man: "I don't understand it, sir, but the line is broken." Commander Lock: "God damn it, what the hell is happening?" Colt (at the end of Matrix 2): "Someone screwed it up: An EMP was triggered before we could get in position." Mauser: "5 ships were instantly down." Colt: "When the machines broke through, it wasn't a battle, it was a slaughter." Roland: "Once the machines were done with us, they started digging again. We made a quick pass to look for survivors." Link: "You found one?" Roland: "Only [Bane]" Interesting sideswipe "Someone screwed it up" if you consider that the bridge in Soren's ship probably collapsed because a broken screw.

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Architect: "The Matrix is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the 6th version."
TV Neos: "5 Ones before me? 4-3-2 What are you talking about?"

Please also note that at this point of the conversation between Neo and the Architect it is not clear whether every "integral anomaly" is manifested as 'a One' who comes thru to the Architect. Therefore it is unknown how many 'Ones' existed before Neo. Thus the reaction "4-3-2".
It is only later that the Architect mentions: "Your 5 predecessors".

Why do I bring this up?

It has been speculated, that the TV Neos represent former 'Ones', because they say "4-3-2". However, I believe the TVs do not represent previous 'Ones', because of these facts mainly:

• Neo and all TV Neos take the left door and all Neos say
  Neo: "If I were you, I would hope that we don't meet again."
• There are more screens than previous 'Ones'.
• Behind every TV Neo there are also TV screens. Thus a TV Neo cannot represents an older 'One' showing the reactions of the older older 'Ones'.
• All TV Neos look alike. Since the Oracle lived a long time she maybe would have recognize the similarity, instead she states:
  Oracle: "You're cuter than I expected"
• The last 'One' who started Zion should be still known amongst the Zion residents.
• In Matrix 1 you see the same TVs just before Smith's interrogation of Neo. It would mean that previous 'Ones' sat in the same room the same way.
• When the Architect finishes talking about Neo's life
  Architect: "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation... Which has led you... here"
  as he speaks the word "here" all TV monitors all of a sudden show Neo.
• After the Architect has spoken Neo says...
  Neo :"You haven't answered my question"
  ...and the Architect replies...
  Architect: "That was quicker than the others."
  ...and all monitors show Neo making his statement...
  Neo: "You haven't answered my question"
  ...in the same moment.
• The camera moves around and picks a monitor with a TV Neo as the final statement of the real Neo.

Thus the TV monitors can represent:

• All possible reactions of Neo
• The Architect's calculations (=weather forecasts) of possible reactions.
  That is pretty much the same as 'all possible reactions', BUT introduces two more things:
  • The TV monitors wouldn't show any reactions if the Architect did not make any calculations. And in fact: A lot of responses of the real Neo are not accompanied by the TV Neos. For example, Neo says...
    Neo: "You need human beings to survive"
    ...while the TV Neos show no reaction.
    This is also a counter-proof against the theory that Neo did not make a choice by his own (but had to choose the left door), because all monitors show him to do that (and thus there wouldn't be any other possibility). 
    Since it seems the monitors would be only calculations when calculations are calculated, then "all-screens-show-left" proofs nothing. It could simply mean, that there is no calculation actually made.
  • but more importantly: The calculations might be flawed. You see from some TV reactions, that 'real Neo', behaves sometimes very differently from the 'TV Neos'. While all TV Neos shout "I'll fuckin' kill you" or are upset, the 'real Neo' stays calm. Thus 'real Neo' may differ a lot from how the Architect sees him. (Because of the clash with Smith? Because of Persephone's kiss? Because of the Oracle's red candy?)
• Please note that when the camera does one of these 'pan into a screen' moves, the slate is wiped clean. That could mean, that now all future calculations are based on this last decision.

Could there have been more than 5 previous 'Ones'?

Theoretically yes, since the Architect states merely that Neo's 5 predecessors were similar to him:
Architect: "Your 5 predecessors were... based on a similar predication"
That could mean that there have been, say, 20 predecessors out of which the first 15 have been based on an un-similar predication.

Furthermore you might dissect the Architect's words
Architect: "I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the sixth version."
to mean that not the emergence of an integral anomaly makes a version, but the span from one emergance to the next, which would calculate as "6th version = 7 anomalies".
As in: A crash leads to the next version which makes it "1 crash = 2 versions".

How many Zions have there been?

Architect: "This will be the 6th time we have destroyed [Zion]"
I don't believe it, but it leaves the possibility that there have been more than 6 Zions, but which weren't destroyed (but collapsed by their own, for example)
OR
that humans fleeing out of the Matrix didn't gather in Zion.

Conclusion

It could be simple: We are in Matrix 6, Neo is the 6th 'One', Zion is the 6th Zion.

But it could be very complicated. Read the special section featuring a Disturbing yet possible history of the Matrix.

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Hints at the Merovingian being a previous One (and Persephone being a previous Trinity)

• Persephone (to Neo): "[The Merovingian] was like you."
• Persephone (to Neo): "I want you to kiss me as if you were kissing [Trinity]"
  Counter-hint: Persephone states something very similar to Niobe and Ghost
  • Persephone (to Niobe) [Enter the Matrix]: "kiss me as if you were kissing your true love"
  • Persephone (to Ghost) [Enter the Matrix]: "kiss me as if you were kissing your true love"
• When you see Persephone sitting beside her husband (the Merovingian) there are 3 glasses in front of her -> 3nity.
• The Merovingian is dining on floor #101. Neo's room (Matrix 1) was #101.
• I count 5 glasses in front of the Merovingian and in front of Neo. Since 101 could be the number of a 'One', the 5 glasses could be equivalent to 5 (101 binary = 5 decimal).
• The Merovingian sits in front of Neo and Persephone sits in front of Trinity.
• The Merovingian can (re)program the Matrix (the orgasm cake, exile programs...). You could call him 'a hacker' (like Neo). He also suppresses the Oracle (whose face has changed):
  Oracle: "Two programs...sold the termination code of my original shell to the Merovingian."
• The Merovingian wears a long black coat not unlike Neo's coat.
• Neo and the Merovingian seem to be the only ones to see the Matrix code.
  Merovingian: "I have sent her dessert, a very special dessert. I wrote it myself...You can see [the code], Neo, yes?" 
• Since Persephone may have been a Trinity and Persephone may be the 'Mother' (see below) this would explain the name '3nity' if Trinity is also something like the 'Mother', 'wife' and '?'.
• When Neo fights against the Merovingian's fighters, the Merovingian himself watches quietly and doesn't flee. It could mean, that he is a very powerful fighter, who doesn't fear Neo.
• Weak argument:
  Merovingian: "Mark my words, boy"
  Could be meant as, 'I am a former One, you are just a fresh new One'

However, as a counter-thesis you could say that there is no evidence that there have been any Trinities before.
Architect: "Your...predecessors were...based on...a contingent affirmation that was meant to create a profound attachment to the rest of your species...While the others experienced this in a very general way, your experience is far more specific: vis a vis love."

Since the Merovingian and Persephone seem to be programs...

• Persephone: "I want to sample [your kiss]"
• Merovingian: "I have sampled every language"
• Oracle: "A very dangerous program, one of the oldest of us. He is called the Merovingian"
• Niobe (to Persephone) [Enter the Matrix]: "You're not a woman. You're not even a human."
• Keymaker [Enter the Matrix]: "an exile [program] named the Merovingian".

Counterarguments (Merovingian is not a previous One, because...)

• It has been written in forums, that the Merovingian's talk about Neo's predecessors shows he has not been a predecessor himself.
  Merovingian: "Mark my words, boy...I have survived your predecessors, and I will survive you!"
  I disagree a little:
  The 'predecessor' talk does not exclude the possibility of having been a former 'Neo':
  • 'surviving' doesn't necessarily mean 'I have met them and fought against them'
    Merovingian: "I have survived your predecessors, and I will survive you!"
    It could mean that the Merovingian has survived previous Ones, who went to the mainframe (and possible have initiated a Matrix reload, as speculated in Possible conclusion 5: Ever-Cycle)
  • 'Predecessors' could mean previous 'Ones' or Agents (who try to kill his Exile Programs):
    • Hints at 'Predecessors' = 'Agents':
      Maybe you have noticed, but the primary target in the highway chase scene is not Trinity nor Morpheus but the Keymaker:
      • Agent Johnson: "The exile is the primary target."
      • Agent Johnson: "[Trinity] means nothing."
        Agent Thompson: "Find the exile."
      • Keymaker: "We do only what we're meant to do."
        Agent: "Then you are meant for one more thing. Deletion."

      Thus agents intruding into the Merovingian's castle could be described as 'predecessors'.

    • Hints at 'Predecessors' = 'previous Ones':
      Merovingian: "Your predecessors had much more respect."
      This is a hint that the predecessors haven't been agents. Do agents ever have respect?

    But neither meaning of 'predecessors' proves that the Merovingian wasn't a 'One'.
    
    Since former 'Ones' maybe had to select 23 individuals from the Matrix, too, maybe the Merovingian did that, helped to rebuild Zion...and stayed in the Matrix afterwards.

• There is however another hint that the Merovingian was not a previous 'One':
  Architect: "While the [predecessors] experienced [the attachment to the rest of your species] in a very general way, your experience is far more specific - vis-a-vis love."
  There is no doubt that the Merovingian also prefers 'vis a vis love' (sex in the ladies' room).
  However this also doesn't exclude the possibility of the Merovingian being an older One:
  • The Architect's "5 predecessors" could differ from the Merovingian "predecessors", as suggested in the section Alernative Prophecy. In other words: 'predecessors' (Architect's definition) are former Ones, that made it to the Architect, while 'predecessors' (Merovingian's definition) might be 'a bunch of guys who tried to be a One'.
  • Moreover the Architect does not state, that there have only been 5 predecessors (see section How many Neos?). Thus the Merovingian could be a predecessor (with other preferences for love), older than the 5 'Ones' before Neo:
    Oracle (about the Merovingian): "A very dangerous program, one of the oldest of us."
• Old argument:
  Lambert Wilson (the actor of the Merovingian) isn't listed in the cast list for Matrix Revolutions (Monica Bellucci=Persephone is listed). That may be indeed the best indicator that the Merovingian was less important than one might think. However, since the movie is still a work in progress, the cast list may change.
  Update:
  In the latest cast list, Lambert Wilson is listed as the Merovingian.

Please think of that too:

• The Merovingian could have been not a former One, but a former candidate for a One.
• The Merovingian could have been not a former One, but a former agent, or even a former Smith.
  Maybe he was also chasing down canditates for the One (in the same way like Neo (as a candidate) was chased). Maybe this is what the Merovingian means by predecessors.
• The Merovingian could have been a former Architect.
• The Merovingian could be a former (male) Trinity and Persephone a former (female) One.
• The Merovingian could be a former Oracle:
  • Merovingian: "Your predecessors had much more respect."
    Maybe he meant all the candidates who go to the Oracle to be checked. I guess that these candidates really have respect.
  • Merovingian [Matrix Revolutions trailer]: "Bring me the eyes of the Oracle"
    Could mean he wants to be an Oracle again or that he hates other Oracles or that he hates this Oracle because she's a newer version and he had to face deletion.
  • Merovingian (about the Oracle): "Tell the fortune-teller her time is almost up"
    Could mean that he can forsee the future, too.

What do you think? Who is the Merovingian? Let your opinion count at the Voting Poll

It could be simple: We are in Matrix 6, Neo is the 6th 'One', Zion is the 6th Zion.

But it could be very complicated:
(OK, OK. This is so hypothetical and complicated that it is most probably untrue. However I want to make this mathematical exercise so that you won't be too surprised if somebody talks about the 13th Matrix in a future computer game or sequel)

OK, let's see:
Architect: "The first Matrix [Matrix v1] I designed was...perfect... A triumph equaled only by its monumental failure [Crash v1]... Thus, I redesigned it [Matrix v2]... However, I was again frustrated by failure [Crash v2]. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind...Thus the answer was stumbled upon by an intuitive program"
Stumbled upon in Matrix v3? In Matrix v4? In Matrix v31?

Consider the following example (hey, it is just an example and nothing but a fantasy example and it's NOT MY OPINION):

• Matrix v1 crashes.
  Matrix v2 crashes.
  Matrix v3 crashes
  ...
  Matrix v12 crashes.
• 'Mother' is inserted into Matrix v12, but she doesn't find anything, thus Matrix v12 crashes, too.
• 'Mother' still doesn't find any answer thus the Matrix keeps crashing until Matrix v31.
• The Mother finds a solution in Matrix v31. After the solution is applied, Matrix v31 doesn't crash anymore as did the ones before.
• Since the Architect could consider all the Matrix versions v1-v30 as crashing beta versions the Architect starts counting from the first final version (v31).
• Let's fantasize a little further:
    

  Let's say there are many 'Ones' in Matrix v31 but only some make it: One #1 fails By 'fails' I mean gets killed by agents gets killed by the Merovingian cannot contact the Keymaker cannot get outside of the Matrix cannot stop the system etc... One #2 fails One #3 fails One #4 fails One #5 fails One #6 fails One #7 fails One #8 fails One #9 gets out of the Matrix but fails/ dies outside One #10 fails One #11 gets out of the Matrix, frees a few people, all die outside One #12 fails One #13 gets out of the Matrix, frees a few people, they get to Zion and all die in Zion (without any intervention of the machines) One #14 fails One #15 fails One #16 gets out of the Matrix, frees a few people, they get to Zion and they start to propagate One #17 fails, while Zion propagates One #18 gets thru to the Architect (=integral anomaly 1), because Zion is large enough to be destroyed. Zion is destroyed, One 18 chooses 23 individuals and dies later. One #19 fails, while Zion propagates One #20 fails, while Zion propagates One #21 gets thru to the Architect (=integral anomaly 2), because Zion is large enough to be destroyed. Zion is destroyed, One #21 chooses 23 individuals and dies later. One #22 fails, while Zion propagates One #23 fails, while Zion propagates One #24 fails, while Zion propagates One #25 gets thru to the Architect (=integral anomaly 3), because Zion is large enough to be destroyed. Zion is destroyed, One #25 chooses 23 individuals and dies later. One #26 fails, while Zion propagates One #27 fails, while Zion propagates One #28 gets thru to the Architect (=integral anomaly 4), because Zion is large enough to be destroyed. Zion is destroyed, One #28 chooses 23 individuals and dies later. One #29 fails, while Zion propagates One #30 fails, while Zion propagates One #31 fails, while Zion propagates One #32 gets thru to the Architect (=integral anomaly 5), because Zion is large enough to be destroyed. Zion is destroyed (in 72 hours), One #32 chooses 23 individuals and dies later. One #33 (Neo) gets thru to the Architect (=integral anomaly 6), because Zion is large enough to be destroyed. Architect: "The Matrix is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the 6th version."

  To sum it up for the above example:

  • 31 Matrix versions
  • 33 'Ones' in total
  • 12 'Ones' who never got out of the Matrix
  • 6 special 'Ones' (= 6 integral anomalies =Neos who got to the Architect)
  • Zion has been populated 7 times
  • Zion has been destroyed 6 times (5 times+ this time).

Phew, this seems to be consistent with what the Architect told us, but it makes the timeline squeak...

Marginal note: It could get a little more confusing than this. From the original screenplay we learn, that Neo is Morpheus' sixth candidate:
Cypher: "I'm going to let you in on a little secret here. Now don't tell him I told you this, but this ain't the first time Morpheus thought he found the One."
Neo: "Really?...How many were there?"
Cypher: "Five. Since I've been here...All dead."
Neo: "How?"
Cypher: "Honestly. Morpheus. He got them all amped up believing in bullshit. I watched each of them take on an agent and I watched each of them die."

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1. A 'One' arises (=is born within the Matrix)
2. frees a couple of people
3. wants the Keymaker (or a former Keymaker) but dies/ fails/ gets killed (by the Merovingian?)
   • Merovingian: "If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?"
     Maybe the Merovingian talks about prolonging a Matrix restart?
   • Merovingian: "I have survived your predecessors, and I will survive you!"
4. Oracle predicts: 'Once there will be someone born....'
   Morpheus: "After [the previous One] died the Oracle prophesied his return and that his coming would hail the destruction of the Matrix"
5. If the next 'One' fails again, then the Oracle makes the prophecy again.
6. From time to time Zion is about to be destroyed (because it has grown large enough) and then the 'System' let's a 'One' thru to the mainframe as explained in the  section Why goes Neo to the Architect?

This timeline also takes into consideration, that 1% of unsatisfied people is a HUGE number. Thus maybe many 'Ones' arise and fail.

This timeline also explains why the Merovingian's "your [Neo's] predecessors" could differ from the Architect's "your 5 predecessors".

Please also read section How many Neos existed?

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1. Zion is easier to punish/ control/ manage. Keeping anomalies busy with a few boring robots is easy.
2. Voluntary choice is needed:
   • That would explain why the Architect offers two doors.
   • That would explain, why Neo's conversation with the Architect is needed at all. Why the heck doesn't Neo meet the Source directly? Because Neo has to make a choice voluntarily.
   • And that would maybe explain, why the former One freeing the first people of Zion (as mentioned by Morpheus) didn't tell anything what happened inside the mainframe, because he chose to forget.
     This is one of the most important unexplained riddles of the Matrix: 'Why didn't any previous One ever tell the truth?' Either
     • they (voluntarily) forget it
     • they are corrupted by the system (=reprogrammed to act for the system or reprogrammed to lose all powers).

     This would also explain why Neo himself (with his Matrix-shaking powers) is allowed

     • to select 23 individuals
     • rebuild a new Zion
     • BUT still keep his Matrix-shaking abilities and to free more people from the Matrix

     To let such a powerful being as Neo return to the Matrix means that within the 'Source' he would have to forget
     AND/ OR
     to lose his powers
     AND/ OR
     to be corrupted.

3. There is however another explanation why the former 'One' (mentioned by Morpheus) didn't tell anything

   • He wasn't told the truth when he went to the mainframe
   • He didn't go to the mainframe at all. See the section Alternative Prophecy. Important point.
   • He chose 23 people but didn't return himself to Zion and the Matrix.

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This is the timeline from the movie Matrix 1:

19.Feb.1998 Matrix 1 starts with Trinity making a phone call to Cypher In the original Matrix 1 shooting script it was even "19.Feb.1996" However as a counter-evidence, it seems that all dates in the original script have been decreased by 2 years: Morpheus [Original Matrix 1 shooting script]: "You believe the year is 1997 when in fact it is much closer to 2197." and in the final Matrix 1 movie: Morpheus: "You believe it's the year 1999 when in fact it's closer to 2199." Neo gets out of the Matrix and is bald (= has no hairs) Neo dies, rises from the dead, wakes up from the Matrix onboard the Nebuchadnezzar - and still has very short hair on the head. 18.Sep.1999 Neo speaks to the Matrix System (phone booth), hangs up and flies away Marginal note: 18.Sep is the birthday of Andy Wachowski's wife Alisa Blasingame.

As you can calculate with my Date Calculator, the first scene in Matrix 1 is exactly 1 year and 7 months (19 months) before the last scene. Since head hair grows about 1 cm/month Neo's hair could be about 19 cm long.

Now there could be flaws in this calculation, since we don't know for example, how many time has passed from the opening scene with Trinity and the freeing of Neo from the Matrix. We also don't know whether Neo shaves his hair.

But considering that Neo doesn't shave his head and Neo was freed not long after the opening scene, this raises the question: When does the return of Morpheus's hovercraft to Zion take place (in Matrix 2)? Is it before the 19 months? Or after?

If it is before 19 months of Neo's freeing, then the ending of Matrix 1 was most probably after Matrix 3.

• Morpheus states in Matrix 2 (in Zion):
  Morpheus: "In the past 6 months we have freed more minds than in 6 years."
  This tells us, that Neo probably became the 'One' six months ago. Thus the ending scene of Matrix 1 can indeed play at the end of Matrix Revolutions.
• Neo at the end of Matrix Reloaded (about the incoming machines).
  Neo: "I can feel them"
  ...and it seems that Neo continues this in Matrix 1
  Neo: "I know you're out there. I can feel you now."
• Neo [Matrix 2]: "I just wish... I wish I knew what I'm supposed to do. That's all. I just wish I knew."
  And in Matrix 1 he sounds very confident, as if knew exactly what to so:
  Neo: "I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you, a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible."

Counter-arguments:

• Neo dies in Revolutions thus it cannot be him in the phone booth
  • Counter-argument: In forums people discuss whether Neo is really dead.
• A very strong counter-argument against it:
  When Neo goes to the Architect and the Architect shows Neo's life's scenes on the TVs you can see the Matrix 1 ending scene. Since all other scenes are from the past it most probably means, that this scene also already happened.
  • Counter-Argument #1: You also see Trinity falling (something that hasn't happened before, too)
    • Counter-argument: This is the very near future and all things lead to it: Trinity came into the Matrix because the system bombed a hovercraft. Trinity fell out of the windows because the agent chased her.
    • It could also be, that the screens show Neo's thoughts. And because he has seen her falling in his dreams the Architect is able to show it.
    • It could also be, that the matrix is restarted from time to time and the screens show what already happened before. 
  • Counter-argument #2: It could be, that the system again can calculate (="forsee") the future as the Oracle does.
    • Counter-argument: This collides with what Neo says...
      Neo: "I'm going to show them a world without you, a world without rules and controls"
      ...which means, that he is not longer controlled by the system and thus unforseeable.
  • Counter-argument #3: If the Architect would see such a future (= Neo has won and can start to destroy the matrix) the system would kill him right away instead of letting it happen.

• There is also another counter-argument (a weak one):
  If(!) Zion is a part of the Matrix then each of cocoons (with the humans inside) doesn't necessarily represent a human being outside of the Matrix. Thus there are maybe much less humans than billions. Thus is could be very easy to free all humans (if there are only little). Thus Neo's telephone talk to the system...
  Neo: "I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you, a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."
  ...is a bit too theatrical for little humans.

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