after neo enters the source and returns from the matrix with new information, he tells morpheus that the prophecy was a system of control that would bring the one to the source to disseminate the programming inside neo into the matrix to allow a reload of the matrix while zion is destroyed by the machines and rebuilt by the one and red pills. a sudden sentinel attack destroys the "nebuchadnezzar", further damaging morpheus' belief in the outcome of the war. upon witnessing the destruction of his ship, he quotes the biblical nebuchadnezzar; "i have dreamed a dream... but now that dream has gone from me."