Twins (The Matrix)
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In The Matrix, The Twins (played by Neil and Adrian Rayment) are the two silvery henchmen of The Merovingian who can become translucent and move through solid objects.
They are also the 'ghosts' the Oracle explains about while talking to Neo before the 'Burly Brawl'. In other words, their abilities as programs (becoming translucent and moving through objects) were still usable in exile.
[edit] Story
The twins are first seen with The Merovingian smoking a hookah in his restaurant in The Matrix Reloaded. They smirk at the fact that neither Trinity, Morpheus nor Neo appear to have the same intellect as The Merovingian.
Later, when Morpheus and crew free the keymaker, the Merovingian sends the twins to kill the 'redpills' and recapture the keymaker. They catch up with Morpheus and Trinity in a parking garage, and quickly demonstrate both their skill in hand-to-hand combat (using a straight razor) and their ability to become incorporeal. The latter power not only allows bullets to pass harmlessly through them, but also heals injuries they sustain while in corporeal form. Morpheus, Trinity, and the Keymaker flee in a car, but are pursued first by the twins, then by police and by agents.
Eventually, the twins are dispatched by Morpheus when he causes their vehicle to overturn and explode. Whether or not this explosion results in the death of the twins is disputed by Matrix fans; they are shown turning incorporeal as the blast flings them away. Regardless, they are not seen for the rest of the trilogy.
In the Enter The Matrix video game, which chronicles the events leading up to The Matrix Reloaded, the twins are shown attempting to stop Niobe and Ghost from escaping the Merovingian's mansion via a car chase in the multi-leveled garage.
In The Matrix Online, cheat codes extracted from an Unlimit officer named Beirn by Merovingian-affiliated redpill operatives have allowed the Merovingian to scan the fragmented RSIs of the Twins. His operatives were tasked to find the fragmented pieces, which were recently retrieved and compiled to return the Twins to a functional state. One of them appeared at Club Noir in Edgewater and demonstrated both his skill with a razor and his ability to pass through walls. At the end of Chapter 6.1, both Twins are functional again.
[edit] Trivia
- Adrian and Neil Rayment are professional carpenters on the British DIY program Better Homes and have done stunt work on a few movies. They were cast as the Twins because the directors and producers wanted male identical twins skilled in martial arts, which the Rayments happened to be.
- The Twins, along with Zion operative Ghost, are the only recurring Matrix characters up to date to not have voice actors in The Matrix Online.
