Minority Report Page #12

CLOSE ON MARGIS:

MARGIS (TV)

When's the last time you actually

said those words?

ANDERTON:

Mutes the set, stares back at her when we hear --

ANDERTON'S VOICE

What are you looking at?

Anderton turns and sees A HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGE OF LARA, his ex

wife, standing at the window, looking out at the rain.

LARA:

Just the rain.

She turns and looks off to a spot in the room where Anderton

would have been standing all those years ago with the camera,

LARA:

Why don't you put that camera down

and watch it with me?

Now Anderton puts down the bowl of cereal, gets up and walks

over to her, but THE IMAGE BLINKS OUT, then STARTS ALL OVER

AGAIN...

Anderton turns and walks across the room. We now see A DOZEN

HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGES from his old life playing around the room.

He sits down in an armchair and watches them play out.

He holds a black inhaler to his lips, sucks in the drug, then

looks about at the images as, gradually, the holographs begin

to fill in, become real. To him anyway.

Sean (age 6) walks up beside him dressed in A YELLOW RAIN

SLICKER. Anderton looks over at him, standing there silent.

He says something, but there's no audio, or at least we don't

hear it. The image jumps, then repeats, the boy walking up

in the slicker, his mouth moving silent. Then again...

Anderton reaches out for his son, but the boy DISAPPEARS. In

his place, floating green letters read:

END OF FILE:

Anderton sits up and rubs his face. He starts to get up,

then pauses, looks down at the floor beside the chair.

A PUDDLE OF WATER has formed. He stares at it a moment, A

DROP OF WATER FALLS FROM ABOVE and Anderton slowly looks up

at...

THE GLASS CEILING OF THE SOLARIUM

A long CRACK in the glass up there. Rain pelts it. Water

drips down and forms a puddle on the floor.

Anderton looks around the room and we see a half dozen END OF

FILE's all over the room now.

INT. PRECRIME HEADQUATERS - ANDERTON'S OFFICE - DAY

As Anderton comes in, takes his coat off. Something drops on

the floor. He bends down and picks up the DATA CARD with the

image of ANNE LIVELY drowning. He looks at it when...

We hear LAUGHTER O.S. and he looks down through the glass,

sees a GROUP OF SECRETARIES having a baby shower for the

pregnant woman. He notices Fletcher, some of his guys down

there...

And then he sees Witwer. His hand on the pregnant

secretary's belly, cracking a joke they all laugh at.

Suddenly he's the most popular guy on campus. The guys see

Anderton who motions them to stay, it's okay. Witwer looks

up at him curiously. Anderton POCKETS THE DATA CARD, turns

away and goes into...

INT. PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - DAY

As Anderton comes in, Jad sits at the big screen, looking at

something.

ANDERTON:

Jad. How come you're not out there

with Father Witwer?

JAD:

We're in motion on something.

Anderton comes over now.

JAD:

From what I can see, we got a white

male, about five-eight,

approximately one-forty, takes a

round in the ten ring, and goes out

a window.

Anderton starts to put on his eyepiece and finger gloves.

ANDERTON:

Red Ball?

JAD:

Nope. Somebody's thinking about

this one.

ANDERTON:

Amazing there's someone within two

hundred miles actually dumb enough

to still do that.

Jad watches as Anderton sticks a disc into a slot and we hear

CLASSICAL MUSIC OVER.

JAD:

I love this part.

Anderton starts "conducting" the prevision, organizing the

images, moving some up, others back...

FEMALE PRECOG:

Wait! Don't --

Anderton looks at the PRECOG SCREEN, sees the three of them

writhing about.

ANDERTON:

Here we go...

And now we see the screen, various images, all of them

grainy, visual non-sequiters like A FACE WEARING

SUNGLASSES... THE NUMBER 9 TURNING INTO THE NUMBER 6... THE

INSIDE OF A SMALL APARTMENT... A FIGURE BACKLIT BY A

WINDOW... A CRACKED MIRROR... A SMALL MAN... A PAIR OF DARK

EYES...

ANDERTON:

Shunt all cycles to a full vis

correlation at my mark by the

windows.

And now the image starts to resolve, showing TWO MEN, one

with a gun, his image still blurred. The other clearer...

ON THE CHUTE:
A BALL

Rolls down. Jad moves into read the name:

JAD:

The victim's name is Leo Crow.

ANDERTON:

(into the computer)

Start a location run and a contact

search for future victim Leo Crow.

(to Jad)

And, Jad, I'll need a Last Known

Sheet when you get it.

JAD:

I've got no address -- last known

or otherwise -- no tax returns for

the last five years.

ANDERTON:

Check NCIC, maybe he's got a

record. Then send a protection

team as soon as we lock the

location.

Anderton turns to another part of the screen...

ANDERTON:

Case #1109, previsualized by the

Precogs and recorded on holosphere

by Precrime's q-stacks.

(to a screen)

My fellow witnesses for case #1109

are Dr. Katherine James and Chief

Justice Frank Pollard.

AND NOW THE SPLIT-IMAGE emerges of James and Pollard in the

respective offices.

ANDERTON:

Are the witnesses ready to preview

and validate #1109?

POLLARD:

(a mouthful of dinner)

Ready when you are, John.

JAMES:

Standing by.

On the screen in front of Jad we see MUGSHOTS ROLLING BY.

DRIVERS LICENSE PHOTOS... A mass of photo ID data... Anderton

ZOOMS INTO A CLOCK IN THE ROOM. 3:06 p.m. Fri.

ANDERTON:

I show time of occurrence, Friday

at fifteen-zero-six hours.

JAD:

That was easy.

Anderton sets his timer for 28 HOURS, THIRTY-ONE MINUTES.

ANDERTON:

Confirm with trig and image.

JAD:

Any ID on the shooter yet?

ANDERTON:

Still scrubbing... looks like

there's a third party, somebody

wearing shades just out the

window...

Anderton ZOOMS IN on the FACE WITH THE SUNGLASSES, then PANS

OVER and tries to get a clearer picture of the gunman.

His image starting to come into focus as he turns. It's

slow, jerky, so they don't immediately recognize the face

as...

ANDERTON:

Jesus...

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