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Actually having a cast member's name in the credits and having them not appearing in the movie isn't all too uncommon. Many times an actor actually shoots scenes for the movie and later when they edit the film, his part may have been cut out for various reasons (ie. time limitations, no real effect on the plot, scene ends up not really "fitting in"). So quite possibly "Cypher" did shoot a scene or something for Reloaded but it just hit the editing room floor in post-production.
As for the building exploding...
In the elevator on the way to see Merovingian, Neo says that the floors are wired with explosives. This is also the reason that the two ships sent teams in to the matrix to cut the power grids for those 5 minutes and 14 seconds... so that Morpheus, Neo, and the keymaker could get into the "backdoor hallway" without the respective floor detonating when the door opened setting off the "alarm".
When Neo took the right door leading from the architect, he went back into the Matrix, taking him back to the floor they were on when they entered, when he opened that door the explosives were triggered. Neo just "turned on the speed" and got out of the building before the explosion could kill him.
For what it is worth, here is my synopsis .........
(with the aid of some other forum posts)
When the Architect says that Neo is an "eventuality of an anomaly which despite my sincerest efforts, I have been unable to eliminate" he's letting Neo know that he is not wanted—in fact never wanted or intended, and most of all, not needed. Think about that assumption—that Neo is needed by the machines to reload the program, the potential problems with this theory are obvious (eg. "Why spend 2 movies trying to kill him?"). Consider this: "the anomaly is systemic, creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations." No anomaly == no fluctuations in the simplistic equations—and the Matrix would function properly, or at least for the better. The very existence of the anomaly is a major problem; it creates disruptions in equations. The anomaly that cannot be eliminated before it exists, needs to be within a “measure of control”, so: How to handle, the One?
Killing him is plan A, that's why Agents try to kill him, why sentinels try to kill him--Plan B -the prophecy of "the One" and being led to the source (the Oracle tells us returning to the source is what happens to programs about to be deleted) for all of humanity. Plan C could be shutting down the Matrix entirely and dealing with those "levels of survival we are prepared to accept." as the Architect states.
Something as powerful as Neo couldn't be forced into much of anything, so it’s all a clever plan created to control the anomaly. Lesser anomaly's were killed off by plan A, five anomaly's managed to get to plan B but were led into the Source trap, and now version "Neo 6.0" resisting all other controls has the potential to be "the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself."
The problem is choice—
He chose to hope, and he made that decision before he even met with the Oracle. (Hope that he could return and save Trinity AND save Zion)
The situation present in Neo's dreams shows what most people would have thought to be Trinity's death. But when the Oracle asks if she dies, Neo says he doesnt know. Why? Because he cant accept her dying. The Oracle senses Neo's inability to accept it- that he has hope. Thats why she claims he is able to "make a believer out of her". It seems to indicate that maybe before, the previos Neo "Ones" said Trinity dies in the dream... since obviously Trinity would have died, because the five previous Neos that made it to the Architect chose the Left door. The Architect even says to Neo that Neo was the first "one" to experience love.
The way the One interprets this dream is critical to what door is selected. The choice offered the One at the end is this: your friend is falling to her death. But all of mankind will die if you dont choose the other door, and whats more, your friend will end up dying anyway.
Neo cant accept this lose-lose compromise. He cant accept that Zion will fall and he cant accept that mankind will die and he cant accept that Trinity will die. Its totally illogical given the circumstances. Except, NEO HAS HOPE..
Free will; free irrational, wonderful choice.
The One is a remainder—not a probability, I think that's a very important distinction. This remainder gets created by all these multitudes of calculations required for the Matrix to function. So some equation—related to the choice equations because that's what first introduced the anomaly, "choice"—isn't precise and it’s responsible for the anomaly. Once that equation gets executed in the code—or series of equations, whatever—the anomaly occurs. The anomaly is inherent to the programming because of an imperfect calculation (or imperfect calculations) regarding choice. Think of it as: "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of [choice]".
I’m suggesting that when the Architect says: "You are the eventuality of an anomaly" meaning: "you are one consequence of the anomaly ", he’s telling Neo that he is only an offshoot of the anomaly rather than the whole. So killing Neo might not be killing the inherent anomaly (an impossibility), but instead: killing Neo would be stopping that consequence of it. Stopping the function of the One would make great strides towards better controlling the burden of the greater anomaly: people and their illogical choices. It would also help slow the growth of Zion which "if unchecked would constitute an escalading probability of disaster". Remember this version of the One was killed by the Agents—"with a certain satisfaction I might add' to quote Smith—and the Agents were upgraded, again, hoping to kill Neo specifically. Obviously in hopes of killing Neo because the old agents outmatched anyone besides Neo already.
"Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash, killing everyone connected to the matrix, which coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race." I also believe, is a threat (unlike the reality of the destruction of Zion, which will happen anyway) designed on a bad choice calculation—the whole dialogue is meant to foster detachment from anti-reality, to get Neo to focus on all of humanity and make the logical choice of saving everyone in the Matrix rather than the illogical choice of saving one woman--who would probably die anyways given the grave possibilities set forth by the architect. The Oracle told Neo he couldn’t see beyond the choices he didn’t understand when in fact, he couldn’t see beyond the choices the Machines didn't understand.
"Which brings us at last to the moment of truth wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed and the anomaly revealed as both beginning and end." I think reads as: "Which brings us here where choice, and its related calculations, get us into trouble once more—the anomaly was born from the imprecise choice equations, and now a result of those choice calculations must make one". If you know computer programming, once an anomoly has occurred, you can't just delete the anomoly once you find it. The anomoly code has been written on the hard drive over every function of the hard drive.. like when you get an email with a virus, deleting the email won't do anything once it has been opened and the damage to your computer is done. The machines are getting the "one anaomoly" to return to the source, "the Matrix mainframe" where the whole program originated and all computer code starts, hoping the anomoly will delete itself and the Matrix will fire up again until the anomoly code is read again and the cycle starts all over. Remeber, the council members are all old, and everyone else in Zion is pretty young. Maybe the council members were among the 17 females and 7 males chosen to repopulate Zion when the previous Neo's returned to the source?
Nothing in the world is perfect. Humans are not perfect. Machines' objective is perfection, so they minimized the problem, giving a choice that 99% accepted. But this was not enough, so from time to time machines must do the 'cleaning' and remove the imperfection from both the Matrix and the Real World(I don't believe in MWM theory, too simple and predictable, and makes for a downright lame story in my opinion).
For "perfect beings" like the machines, it is really a hard job, because they cannot understand the flutuations caused by the imperfection. So they created an 'escape plan'. They used hope against the humans(the greatest strenght, but also the greatest weakness), making people believe in the prophecy, that would lead Neo(the anomaly carrier) to the source and eliminate it.
How many 'Ones' have there been? How old is the Matrix? How many Matrix restarts have there been? How many Zions have there been? This is NOT ANSWERED in the movie. It seems that is answered, but after careful re-examination of the transcript it is not said there.
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 note that the Architect's 'counting' is just his own preferred way of classifying the version (and he doesn't say anything about rebooting - For those who insist that the Matrix has to be rebooted after a 'One' comes to the Architect).
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" -when they first meet in her kitchen.
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, then the camera shot goes "into" the screen with the actual response that Neo gives.
Thus the TV monitors can represent:
Note that when the camera does one of these 'pan into a screen' moves, the slate is wiped clean. That is, once Neo has made a decision, all Neo's on the screens are now based on the last decision, not all possible decisions that could have been made in the past. In short, the pan into screen technique is basically a visual way of showing that Neo has made a choice..
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.
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 he is the first to experience love?) Note that when the camera does one of these 'pan into a screen' moves, the slate is wiped clean. That is, once Neo has made a decision, all Neo's on the screens are now based on the last decision, not all possible decisions that could have been made in the past. In short, the pan into screen technique is basically a visual way of showing that Neo has made a choice..
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There was a phone already set up so Morpheus could exit, wouldn't this mean that the Machines wanted everything to happen like that. Remember the Keymaker says "it was ment to be"
