Ok, try to follow me here… I tested this theory on Kabell the other night and he seemed to follow me, somewhat, so I’m bringing it to the community.
Now, we know that the two programs were looking for a safe haven for their daughter, Sati. We know that they were waiting for the Trainman, who works for the Merovingian, and that the Merovingian was assisting them, to help protect their daughter from deletion.
The next time we see Sati, however, she is with the Oracle making cookies. This thought suddenly hit me as I was drifting off to sleep the other night. If the Oracle and the Merovingian are enemies, how did Sati end up with her? My conclusion? They are not enemies. In fact, I think they are much closer than we realize.
In my opinion The Oracle floats somewhere in between the machine world and the human world. She was created as a system of control for the humans that chose not to be a part of the Matrix, even if that choice was at a subconscious level. She seems to be her own entity, though, with her own thoughts and decisions that do not always go specifically along the lines of what the Architect may intend, which makes her somewhere between the Machine world and the Exile world, as well. What if her design to be somewhat sympathetic to humans who choose not to be simply fed upon by the Matrix somehow overflowed to those programs who did not want to simply be deleted when their time had come, as well?
I propose that The Oracle actually created the Merovingian. That they are not enemies at all, but instead have a closer connection than they would let on out in the open. Why does he ask for the eyes of the Oracle, then, when Trinity comes to him for help? Because he is close to the Oracle, because he already knows what is going to happen. Because he knows it does not matter what outrageous demand for compensation for his assistance in retrieving Neo he makes, and he will make a request for compensation as it is his way, because in a few more seconds he’s going to have Trinity’s gun pointed at his head. He does still have that image to maintain for the rest of the exiles, but he already knows what will happen.
The Architect commented that if he were the father of the Matrix, she would undoubtedly be considered its mother. With that programming in mind, a mother would be concerned for the well being of all her children, which would be any programs created to help run the Matrix. Why not create a new program as a means of protecting some of those children instead of allowing them to be deleted by the father when they no longer served a specific purpose? Sati’s parents spoke of love, even though they are machines. I think The Oracle holds this same sense of love for the programs she has created, and created the Merovingian out of this love for her children, even though due to her programming and closeness to The Architect she could not directly intervene in the affairs of such programs meant for deletion.
Thoughts?