Cypher

Cypher (played by Joe Pantoliano) is a character in The Matrix.  He is referred to as “Mr. Reagan” by Agent Smith. In the first film of the Matrix trilogy, Cypher is one of the rebels from Morpheus’ hovercraft, the Nebuchadnezzar. Cypher has grown tired of the Man/Machine war within the Matrix. Harshly disillusioned with the grim existence of living on a hovercraft and tired of following Morpheus and his blind faith in the Prophecy, he has begun to wish that he had never learned the truth and left the Matrix in the first place. This prompts him to strike a deal with the Agents. At the beginning of the movie, he nearly has Trinity killed by allowing Agent Smith to trace one of their phone calls, proving to the Agents that he, “the informant”, was legitimate. Cypher secretly meets with Agent Smith once more, agreeing to turn Morpheus over to them if the Agents will return Cypher, rich and famous, to the Matrix power plant with no remembrance of the Matrix’s true nature. Cypher was able to contact the Agents to help them mount an ambush at the crew’s safe location, as seen briefly that just after Neo enters a car to be taken to The Oracle, he drops a Nokia 8110 phone into a waste container. This way, he gets Mouse killed and then murders Apoc, Switch and Dozer after wounding Tank. Before he can kill Neo or Trinity, however, Tank recovers and kills Cypher.  It is then revealed that Agent Smith had no intention of returning Cypher to the Matrix, as he tells his fellow agents that they will continue as planned and proceed to deploy sentinels to destroy the Nebuchadnezzar.