Her father patronized her for the sake of calming his disturbed daughter, so that she would fall asleep.Afterwards, he rushed off with no time for breakfast or to give Helen a ride.Carol was concerned that Michael was becoming a permanent fixture in the apartment, shattering the refuge and protection she sought with her sister:Carol: Is he going to stay here every night?Helen: I really don""t think that it""s any concern of yours!Carol: He""s married, though.They were temperamentally-different fraternal twin sons in their late teens (representing respectively the two rival and warring Biblical brothers in the Book of Genesis, the sons of Adam and Eve).until he determined that Neo was not an enemy: "I had to be sure...that you are the one...You do not truly know someone until you fight them." He was then led to a ""back-door"" hallway with many identical access doors -- Neo was invited through one of the doors to the Oracle (Gloria Foster), who was seated on a park bench in a tenement park, feeding black birds.