Minority Report Page #15

He spots a UNIFORMED COP headed his way. The cop hasn't

spotted Anderton yet who now transfers to the fast lane on

the moving walkway and gets off at the New Metro station.

INT. NEW METRO - DAY

Reaching the bottom of the escalators, Anderton spots two

METRO COPS talking to a HOMELESS MAN. He veers around them,

making it across the platform to the train, which is just

arriving.

He pushes his way on with the other passengers. As the doors

close, an EYE-DENT SCANNER sweeps through the cabin -- that's

how the system bills citizens for using the train. Anderton

tries to look away, but it's impossible to avoid.

INT. PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - DAY

Witwer watches as Jad works the display, watching the

movement of BLUE DOTS that represent EYEscanned citizens. A

BEEP and Jad sits up.

JAD:

I got him on the Metro!

(indicates the map)

The train makes two stops, at 20th

and then 33rd.

WITWER:

Split the units, go to both.

FLETCHER:

We'll never make 20th.

Witwer looks at Fletcher. Gives him an odd smile.

WITWER:

Have faith.

INT. PRECRIME READY ROOM - DAY

As Fletcher and the other Precops strap into HOVERSUITS.

INT. SUBWAY - DAY

Anderton rides the train, avoiding the eyes of other

passengers. A nearby PASSENGER is flipping pages in the

digital Post, where the headline changes to "Precrime Hunts

Its Own".

INT. SUBWAY - METRO STATION - DAY

As Anderton gets off the train, stops cold when he sees...

NINE PRECRIME COPS IN HOVERSUITS stand waiting for him.

Fletcher steps forward...

FLETCHER:

We know there's been a mistake,

Chief. Come on back with us so we

can talk, get this thing

straightened out.

Anderton takes off running. He barges through a NEWSSTAND,

knocking it over, momentarily slowing the cops behind him.

EXT. SUBWAY STATION - DUPONT CIRCLE - DAY

As Anderton explodes onto street level and takes off running.

He runs close to a wall, the ADVERTISEMENTS FLASHING AT HIM.

He dodges people left and right, but doesn't slow down...

Anderton runs faster and faster, it's starting to sink in

that his life has changed forever... that he's now and

forever a hunted man.

Anderton turns down an alley. One of the Hover Cops is now

behind him... gets ahead of him, swings around and cuts him

off. Anderton stops, sees the others landing at the other

end of the alley. WE HEAR A DOG BARKING O.S.

FLETCHER:

Don't run, Chief. You know we'll

catch you. You trained us.

ANDERTON:

Everybody runs.

FLETCHER:

You don't have to do this, Chief.

ANDERTON:

You don't have to chase me,

Fletcher.

He stares at Fletcher. The DOG GOES QUIET.

FLETCHER:

Chief, please...

Anderton sees Knott reaching behind his back, coming out with

the HALO. The cop BEHIND ANDERTON takes out his sick-

stick... All of them begin moving in forcing Anderton back

against the wall, A WINDOW BEHIND HIM...

KNOTT:

Easy does it, Chief.

Anderton keeps one eye on the sick-stick, the other on the

halo. When SUDDENLY A HUGE DOG HITS THE GLASS.

Anderton grabs the sick-stick and shoves it at Knott, then

ducks as Knott pukes on the other cop. Anderton starts up

the fire escape...

The Hover Cops blast up after him, one of them hitting the

floor grating on the landing as Anderton climbs through...

On the landing a Hover Cop floats up, just off the landing

and draws his sick-stick. Anderton reaches out and hits the

hoverpacks quick release and the PACK ROCKETS UP AND AWAY as

the cop now falls.

Several other Hover Cops fly up the building. One of them

jumps Anderton on the fire escape. Anderton slams him into

the window. The cop kicks back and Anderton swings out,

hanging onto the ladder... dangling... he looks down...

The other cops are now jetting up towards him... a moment...

then ANDERTON LETS GO... FALLS... going DOWN towards the

other cops coming UP... One of them looks up, it's KNOTT...

He gasps as ANDERTON falls onto him. Hangs on. The other

cops BLURRING PAST as they fly up... they turn and look at

Anderton and Knott now plummeting... the ground coming up

fast... when...

Anderton GRABS THE THROTTLE and HITS THE GAS and the

hoverpack slows down, Anderton and Knott hovering just above

the ground as the other cops now once more descend...

Knott tries to fight back and Anderton hits the throttle and

smacks Knott back-first into the wall... and then UP ALONG

THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING, taking out planter boxes as they

go... hitting a WINDOW AWNING which CATCHES FIRE from the

THRUSTERS.

The rest of the cops fly up as Anderton now knocks away the

burning awning, sees the ascending cops and sweeps Knott and

the hoverpack down and hits the thrusters... blasting the

cops...

Anderton (still hanging onto Knott) drops and hovers, then

races along the building, scraping KNOTT AGAINST THE BRICK.

They head for the wall of another building when Anderton

veers them off...

Anderton and Knott head up A CONSTRUCTION TUBE, it catches

fire behind them. They race up, the fire racing right behind

them. At the end of the tube we see HOVER COPS waiting...

But Anderton and Knott thrust through, head right into a

hanging scaffolding, scattering debris down onto the cops.

Anderton and Knott race around the corner.

INT. TENEMENT - DAY

As a FAMILY sits down to dinner. Calm. Anderton and Knott

burst through the window and zoom around the room before then

crashing up into the ceiling, the hoverpack thrusters

torching the dinner on the stove directly below.

The other cops now fly in through the windows as Anderton and

Knott fly up into the next floor through the hole, the other

cops following, the thrusters catching everything in their

wake on fire, the FAMILY ducking as the hover cops fly past

overhead...

EXT. ALLEY - DAY - LOOKING UP

As Anderton and Knott burst out of one apartment, cross the

alley and burst into another...

INT. APARTMENT - A KID'S BEDROOM - DAY

A KID looks up from his homework as the Hoverpack fizzes out

and Knott and Anderton go at it on the floor, Anderton taking

Knott out with the kid's hockey stick.

The other cops come flying in and Anderton takes off running.

The cops in their hoverpacks get stuck in the door. A dazed

Knott is the last one to get up, while behind him, we see the

kid shove Knott's abandoned hoverpack under his bed...

INT. HALLWAY - DAY

As Anderton crashes into an adjoining apartment an instant

before the cops begin deploying in the hallway. Tenants are

roused as Anderton changes rooms across the hall, always one

beat ahead of the cops.

A cop goes into a room a beat after Anderton. We HEAR THE

SOUNDS OF A STRUGGLE, then a moment later, Anderton emerges

wearing the cop's hoverpack and rockets down the hall. He

crashes out the window, catching the carpet on fire. THE

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