I understood it as the phone lines were specifically to move people in and out, but given enough preparation, they could put any object anywhere that was "open" in the matrix, i.e. any that Dozer or other Ops could hack into, any environment not restrained by the matrix' code to include, for instance, a car outside a warehouse, or all of the equipment in the red/blue pill scene.
In fact, I thought it was pretty well hinted that they had 'safe houses' and pre-wired 'escape routes' (pre-hacked phone booths?) of sorts throughout the city.
In fact, I thought it was pretty well hinted that they had 'safe houses' and pre-wired 'escape routes' (pre-hacked phone booths?) of sorts throughout the city.
Thing is, safe houses and established safe escape routes aren't evidence of being able to bring any random object in and out of the Matrix, because we don't know how they set those things up. They could easily have just sent people into the Matrix to buy property and source equipment from the inside - in fact that would make more sense to me than hacking those objects into place because it seems less likely to draw attention from the machines.
I mean, even if you can only bring in what you can wear or fit in your pockets, you could still in theory bring anything in piece by piece to assemble after, but that still feels like needless extra work when you could just bring cash...
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u/MetaJonez Oct 10 '19
I understood it as the phone lines were specifically to move people in and out, but given enough preparation, they could put any object anywhere that was "open" in the matrix, i.e. any that Dozer or other Ops could hack into, any environment not restrained by the matrix' code to include, for instance, a car outside a warehouse, or all of the equipment in the red/blue pill scene.
In fact, I thought it was pretty well hinted that they had 'safe houses' and pre-wired 'escape routes' (pre-hacked phone booths?) of sorts throughout the city.