The Matrix Online: Death of Morpheus

Update (late August 2020): Lots of people are assuming that this cutscene is the reason why Laurence Fishburne isn't returning to the Matrix 4 as Morpheus. I think this assumption is premature and overconfident, and that actually the evidence is quite ambiguous! I think the current evidence is compatible with mutiple possibilities. See my pinned comment for more of my thoughts on this question. --- This is Cinematic 1.3 of The Matrix Online, an MMORPG set after the Matrix trilogy. It lasted from 2005 to 2009 before closing down. Early in the story, Morpheus decided to pressure the machines into giving Neo's body back to Zion, suspicious as to why they kept it but claimed not to have recycled it. Morpheus went about planting “code bombs“ disrupting the Matrix's code in an effort to coerce the machines into action, but to no avail. For reasons I don't remember, the Merovingian hired the masked man seen in the cutscene, known as the Assassin, to kill Morpheus or at least make him unable to jack into the Matrix