Where do Agents go?

[CoZ]LostProphet

This may be moved into Storyline, but I figured this forum might get a bit more traffic.

Simply put - where do Agents go?
They aren't needed all of the time. When they are required, they take over the body of a person nearest the disturbance, then leave it when its killed or when they've taken care of things.

But where do they go then? They can't inhabit a bluepill's body forever because people would wonder where he/she had gone to, and also when they had to move to another body to take care of something that person would be terminally confused!

**PBlade**

The source. Everything returns to the source when it has no use. I doubt they'd go for assymalation. But sort of like saving a file on a hard drive I suppose, and when you want to use it, you activate it (or copy and paste it on bluepillxxxx.exe :smileyvery-happy: )

There were some Matrix cartoon strips where the Agents gave the bluepill back their body and they were stood there, overlooking a load of dead bodies, totally confused.

The bluepill is in no danger of finding out about the Matrix, they'd simple be told they were having a mental episode, so I doubt the Agent or the protocols for that situation see it as a threat.

Treius

Actually, Agents don't return to the source when they complete a task. They return when they are killed (as rare as that is). I would suspect they just don't inhabit bluepill forms, waiting until they are needed.

ThePigeonKing · 01/12/2006 16:16:04

I think Agents go right to a construct of some kind when they're not busy inhabitting humans to deal with things in the Matrix itself. Sort of like a loading construct, I'd imagine.

There, they can do their "paper work" and classifying and information organizing, which are Agent jobs hinted in the first film.

Message Edited by ThePigeonKing on 01-12-200604:16 PM

**MxO-PhanthomZtryker**

I can tell you one thing...

Agent Jeeves goes to the forum.

(he's been very busy lately though... with the General and his thugs. Who knows what might happen?!)

FrayJack

Just thought I'd post this since someone mentioned it

http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/cmp/keron2_01.html

You can remove the /keron2_01.html and be directed to the main comics page with all 3 series of comics.

**Croyez1**

One possibility that I've thought of is that Agents inhabit the bodies of those that lead a solitary life.

Knowing The Machines that lone individual would lead that life for the sole purpose of housing Agents when they're "off-duty" if thats what you can call it.

Since they're alone, no-one would notice them missing and when they gain control of their own bodies again... The Machines could very easily make them believe some sort of cover story, for example they've just awakened from a coma.

Of course like the rest of the answers in this thread, its entirely hypothetical but given what we already know about Agents and The Matrix, it is a possibility.

[CoZ]LostProphet

I thought of the 'lone wolf' idea.
But what if an Agent isn't needed for weeks at a time? Unusual as it may be, it's entirely possible. You can only explain away so much, and weeks of missing memory would start to get to me after a while!! SMILEY

I like the construct idea though.

Peer

This is about Agent Gray, from the old Data Node One:

Even afterward, he has not been allowed to return to the Source, instead relegated to a buffer system created during the reboot—a gateway construct which acts as a Machine analog to the Merovingian's Mobil Avenue Station. In some ways he is almost an Exile, but for the fact that he believes he will eventually be able to return to the Source.

[CoZ]LostProphet

Thanks

Gray was the one I wondered about the most, totally forgot that bit.

**Foxxdie**

Think of it this way:

Your antivirus monitor is always running. However, the processes in your Anti-virus program that removes viruses is only active when the monitor has detected a virus.

In much the same way when an Agent is not needed it doesn't go anywhere, it just becomes inactive.

**Croyez1**

Foxxdie wrote:
Think of it this way:

Your antivirus monitor is always running. However, the processes in your Anti-virus program that removes viruses is only active when the monitor has detected a virus.

In much the same way when an Agent is not needed it doesn't go anywhere, it just becomes inactive.

I don't personally believe that an Agent becomes inactive and disappears when they are not needed.

Some proof I've seen that contradicts this is when Agent Smith is interrogating Morpheus in the Government Building and he makes his speech about trying to classify our species.

For Agent Smith to have time to think about what to classify our species as, he would need to be an active program who isn't currently performing any of his Agent duties and therefore have time to question such things.
If he was to become inactive, he would be non-existant until he was required as an Agent and that would therefore make this impossible.

**Foxxdie**

Ohhh good point! But how do we know how long it took Smith to think of this? Maybe he thought of it in a nanosecond right after he killed a redpill, heh.

**eyepopper**

PhanthomZtryker wrote:
I can tell you one thing...
Agent Jeeves goes to the forum.
(he's been very busy lately though... with the General and his thugs. Who knows what might happen?!)

PWNT.

**Illyria22**

Since agents can occupy any piece of software hooked into the Matrix, there may be pieces of software specifically made to 'house' the agents, when not in a human body. But I'm guessing they wouldn't be mobile, or at least, they wouldn't give the agents the mobility they'd have by taking over humans.

Illyria