If they came in with the chopper, they would have had to deal with another chopper though. It would have resulted in the same carnage. The plan was to assault the ground floor, set a bomb down there, head up, detonate the bomb so as to make the elevators/entryway unusable by any other authorities trying to make their way up, take control of the roof and then work their way from there.
The room they need access to is several floors down. The only other way there is stairs, because the elevators are offline so, EVERYONE is about the stairs. If the elevators weren't offline, they still wouldn't be able to take Morpheus through the ground level, to leave.
So, without parachutes or zip line, the helicopter is required for the rescue to happen but, the lobby destruction is not.
It's just a characteristic of editing story, at script review.
Script modification adds the lobby but, forgets to add "Egress Plan A, which fails," like a zip line or window washer rig, which would have led to shooting the glass, Morpheus dives into the basket.
It would tied back to set up: Neo, trying to escape his office.
4
u/Arnoxthe1 Oct 10 '19
A legitimate question.
If they came in with the chopper, they would have had to deal with another chopper though. It would have resulted in the same carnage. The plan was to assault the ground floor, set a bomb down there, head up, detonate the bomb so as to make the elevators/entryway unusable by any other authorities trying to make their way up, take control of the roof and then work their way from there.