My question was; Why did the robot not just throw Neo over the edge or something and kill him? Humans that have escaped are useless to the machines, and if the agents know that Morpheus is trying to use Neo wouldn't they take this opportunity to foil Morpheus's plans? Haven't they caught on by now that people who are freed end up coming back to fight against them? In response to Kevin, Neo has to be rescued as quickly as possible, in part because they can't risk the agents getting to him again, and also because the longer someone has been in the Matrix the more attached to it they become, (they try to rescue everyone at as young an age as they can). In response to Dominique; I never really thought much about the Alice reference, as far as I can remember there are no mentions of it, other than what we have already seen, good question, I'll have to look for that now.