I don't think that is the most convenient way to find something, Wasup.
Anyway, as to the above questions:
The Agents have no physical form. The only way they can appear physically is by taking over a human jacked into the Source. So, every Agent at any time is overwritten onto a human. If you kill the Agent, the Agent simply hops to another host, leaving the dead human.
For example: There is a lady walking down the street. She is close to a Redpill that the Agents are tracking. An Agent then "hops" over to her, copying over her and leaving his previous host behind, disoriented. All the host probably remembers was living his life when he suddenly blacked out (The Agent took over his body) and is just now waking up (The Agent left his body.) The code the Agents use to overwrite him ensures he remembers nothing, thereby leaving him obviously confused as to how he got here. If an Agent "dies," say by a shot to the head, he simply "hops" to a nearby human. The original host will appear dead with a shot to the head. As a result, Agents are extremely hard to kill. The reason Agents cannot write over Redpills is that they are essentially "hackers" broadcasting from outside the Source. As they are not jacked into the Source, and instead are hacking in from a human-operated input, they cannot find the specific place the human is jacked into to obtain the code used to overwrite them.
What Agent Smith was doing is overwriting people simultaneously, a corruption of the Agent ability. He intended to overwrite himself over every human, program and Redpill. The catch was, he had to do this physically.He could write himself over Redpills since he was free of the Source, thereby not needing any authorization codes to enable him to legally hop. If the Source did let Agents copy themselves multiple times, there is a huge risk the Agents will abuse their power, turning against the Source and proceeding to dominate the Matrix with themselves, not suprisingly, as Agents have an inherent dislike for humans (Smith's dislike turned into a hate) Also, the amount of humans being overwritten might cause a sensation among the human population, creating doubt or fear. The Source designed Agents to be low profile, so their numbers are few, but they are extremely powerful. If there were too many Agents, there would be too many humans experiencing strange phenomenon, and a movement could start, exactly what the Agents don't want. As a general rule, the Agents don't body hop until they die, (and subsequently the host) so there would be nobody to tell the tale. However, if it is of a strategic benefit to the Agent, they will proceed to hop to a human before their host has died.
Morpheus explained Agents very well, saying that "They are everyone, and they are no-one." (They cannot take physical form, but any human jacked into the Source is potentially an Agent) This is why he tells Trinity to stay off the Freeway, as there are so many people around and nearby that the Agents would have ripe pickings for hosts. This fact is evidenced in The Matrix (The first film) when, near the end, Neo is running from the Agents through busy areas of the city (such as the marketplace.) The Agents were always one step behind him and coming from unexpected angles. He exclaims an expletive when he turns the corner to see dozens and dozens of humans in the market.
EDIT: Answering 27's question, the Matrix had to subdue humans in order to prevent them from rising against them again, and at the same time had an energy crisis (The UN created the storm clouds on Earth as a last ditch resort, robbing the machines of their former power source, solar energy.) The answer to the human problem and the energy crisis was simple: Use humans for power. There was only one problem. The machines could subdue the human body, but the mind was too powerful, and it was dangerous to keep humans in a coma without brain stimulation, so the Matrix was created for three purposes: 1. Subdue the human mind. 2. Keep the humans healthy. 3. Make humans not want to escape if the truth was offered. (In case such a situation arose)
To this end, they built a paradise Matrix, the first version, thinking they just needed to make the humans content. (Smith explains this to Morpheus.) They scanned the human mind for their version of paradise, implementing Angels and the archetypical view of Utopia. But the humans rejected it, saying the Machines had no capacity to envision true paradise.
Then, reasoning the other way, took visions from man's darkest creations, implementing Vampires and Werewolves (Some survived the wiping and reboot of this Matrix, and sought shelter in the Merovingians employ as "exiles," programs with no purpose but deletion.) But the humans also rejected it. So the Machines created the current Matrix at the turn of the 21st century, the "pinnacle" of human civilization as they saw it, just before the creation of A.I. (Smith explains: "I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization")
The Machines wiped the human's minds and created a false reality for them. But "The One" was the human that inherently knew how to manipulate the Matrix, and freed himself and others from it to repopulate the last resort U.N. base, (Zion) with humans that understood the Matrix and could jack in (via the Machine technology "plugs" left from their imprisonment) and therefore could free more humans from the Matrix. As more and more Redpills were created, more and more people had the plug to jack into the Matrix, and the main goal of Zion was to free all humanity from the Machines. The Architect later explains "The One" was a lie. It was a placebo given to the humans to keep them pacified, waiting for the return of it. This ensured the humans would group together, and every time they destroyed Zion it would be a clean wipe. The Architect allowed Zion because he knew that sooner or later, there would be cases of humans escaping, so he lets humans group at Zion so the Machines always know where they are. If he didn't, the humans would scatter into cracks and crevices, making it nearly impossible for the Machines to make sure they aren't secretly building up somewhere. He refers to this as the "anomaly." It is the random occurence that happens with humans, you cannot keep them completely stable.
A way to explain this is from the movie "Jurassic Park" when the Chaos Theorist says "Nature always finds a way" Referring to the Park keeping all dinosaurs female, nature would find a way to let them breed on their own, a completely random occurence that ensures survival. And they eventually "found a way" to interbreed, and populate on their own, thereby creating the ruin of the park. The point is, you can't keep nature under control.
So the humans would escape, over one year, or millions, billions or trillions, some would inevitably escape. The Architect allows Zion so they can systematically wipe the freed humans pooling at the city, thereby "balancing the equation." It is worth mentioning that time does not exist for machines, since they do not die, and would be the same 500 trillion years from now as they would at the present, so they have to make sure humans don't eventually threaten their existence. (Which they did anyway, showing the "Nature will find a way" theory)
As to building power plants, the Machines needed a stable source of energy. Inevitably, even the Sun would die, but humans could repolulate indefinitely. So they used all the Earth's resources to master controlling humans, leaving Earth the scoured ball of rock you see in the movie. If they could completely master the care of humans, there would be no anomalies and it would be an infinite power source. But as the Architect found out, (to his OCD infuriation) he could not perfect this, so allowed Zion to live so he could systematically wipe out the humans every so many hundreds of years and keep infinite harmony.
The reason the Machines do not expand is that they are simply content to exist, unlike humans.
Smith explains: I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you aren’t actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with its surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we... are the cure.
The Machines need only to exist, but the humans are driven by passion and a hunger to explore and colonise and dominate... Something the Machines despised the humans for and rebelled against, leading to The Great War of Man vs. Machine. So you see, the Machine's aren't evil, and they aren't soulless. They simply don't understand art, passion or love, and so see humans as just a cancer. They are efficient, and so their looks might not look friendly to humans, but they only build the minimum to the maximum, they have all of time to think and perfect, and are infinitely patient. Compared with the Machine's view of the world, humans are a teeming mass of fast moving insects that skitter off if left unchecked. The Machines can grow, you can argue with them, they do have personalities, they just aren't human, and don't understand us, and while we see imprisoning humans as evil, the Machines see it as existence, mutual harmony. They give us a world, we give them energy. But the humans are fickle, and want the truth no matter what the cost, so we fought against the system, inciting the need for machines to keep their weapons of war and further despise the irrational thinking of the humans. The Machine Mind at the end of the third movie, I think, came to respect humans by keeping his word, and hopefully ensuring a brighter future for both species.
Oh my God, I typed a lot.
If you want me to link you videos to any particular instances in the Matrix, I'd be happy to. The whole movie is uploaded onto YouTube, (not by me) and I'll take the time to pinpoint exact instances of events/phenomena.
Any other questions are welcome.
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