Minority Report Page #22

ANDERTON:

All right, I'll try...

Sean hauls himself up onto the side, lets his feet dangle in

the water. Anderton takes his WATCH off, hands it to him.

ANDERTON:

You better take this.

The kid takes it, delighted to be holding his father's watch.

SEAN:

Okay -- Ready? Set... Go!

And now WE GO UNDER WITH ANDERTON as he sinks down to the

bottom of the pool, shuts his eyes to all of the activity and

muffled sound around him.

And now we wait. Five seconds... Ten seconds... Twenty

seconds... And then A SHINY GLINT as...

WE SEE HIS WATCH sink past his face and now he opens his

eyes. He snatches it, and Anderton now pushes up to...

THE SURFACE. Where Anderton, squinting against the sun's

glare, looks to the side of the pool. HIS SON IS GONE.

ANDERTON:

Sean?

He moves to the side and pulls himself out of the pool.

ANDERTON:

Sean Anderton? Where are you?

He looks around at all the faces, the other kids, parents, a

dull panic setting in now as we...

CRANE UP and away from a frantic Anderton now pushing his way

through the crowd. Shouting for his son...

ANDERTON:

SEAN!!

INT. TENEMENT ROOM - NIGHT

As Anderton's SHOUT ECHOES and then FADES. He sits there a

moment, listening to the sounds all around him. He CRUSHES

THE BLACK INHALER and throws the pieces on the floor.

He then takes a breath and feels around for THE ROPE and

starts for the kitchen, unaware of THE PRECRIME SHIP now

moving past the window IN THE OTHER DIRECTION...

INT. PRECRIME HOVERSHIP - NIGHT

As Evanna, unaware that Anderton is in the building moves

into position over the building.

EVANNA:

Jad, we're now in position and

ready to begin thermal scan on 931

Powell.

INT. TENEMENT ROOM - NIGHT

As Anderton follows the rope to the refrigerator and opens

it.

Inside, among plates of ROTTING FOOD we see ONE GOOD

SANDWICH. Anderton reaches in, runs his hand over the

molding month-old goodies, passing the good sandwich and,

instead, grabbing hold of a slimy, green piece of meat.

Much to our disgust, he shoves that in his mouth, immediately

spits it out, then washes his mouth out with the old, ruined

milk that sits next to the new stuff. He spits that out now,

too...

ANDERTON:

Sh*t!

He reaches gingerly into the refrigerator, locates the good

sandwich, sniffs it carefully, then wolfs it down. He grabs

a pitcher of water and drinks that down as well.

Anderton sits down in a chair. The muffled VOICES next door

get louder.

He's sweating. He keeps reaching for his dressings to

scratch, then forces himself not to by clinging tightly to

the armrests on the chair as the PEOPLE NEXT DOOR move on to

breaking things...

EXT. TENEMENT - NIGHT

As Fletcher and Knott exit the Precrime Ship. Fletcher does

a thermal reading on the building while they talk.

KNOTT:

I'm thinking you must really like

me, don't you, Fletcher?

Fletcher looks at him.

KNOTT:

That's why you asked to partner

with me on this little sortie,

isn't it?

FLETCHER:

I think you're swell company,

Knott.

KNOTT:

It's not at all that you don't

trust me to be alone with the

Chief. That you think I might, you

know, f*** with him, if I had the

chance...

Knott grins at him now. Pleased with himself.

FLETCHER:

No, I just wanna watch him use your

body to sandblast another building.

That's all. Jeff.

And the grin goes away as Fletcher looks through the scan

lens on his helmet doing the thermal reading on the building.

INT. HOVERSHIP - NIGHT

As Evanna looks at the thermal read on the building.

EVANNA:

I show twenty-seven warm bodies.

FLETCHER (RADIO)

What do you think, four spyders?

KNOTT (RADIO)

Let's do eight. I'm hungry.

EXT. TENEMENT - NIGHT

As Knott and Fletcher each unhook A ROUND BALL -- black, the

size of billiard balls -- from their belts.

Fletcher rolls his towards the building. Knott does the

same. Then they take SIX MORE and roll these as well.

THE BALLS:

Roll a few feet, then begin to open up like daisies --

daisies with legs. Robotic SPYDERS, each the size of a fist,

with an EYEdentiscan antenna on their head, begin to click

their way into the building.

ONE OF THE SPYDERS

Pauses in front of a closed door. It FLATTENS ITSELF, then

creeps under the door.

INT. A ROOM - NIGHT

Where AN OLD WOMAN sits eating a bowl of soup. She looks up

as the Spyder comes CLICKING across the floor towards her.

She knows the drill, keeps a calm eye on the spyder as she

eats her dinner, holding out a leg for the spyder to climb

up.

OLD WOMAN:

Nice to have some company...

The Spyder climbs up the woman, up her arm and across her

shoulder. It grips her cheek lightly as the EYEdentiscan

reads her eyes...

OLD WOMAN:

See my new earrings? My grandson

gave them to me. He's in beauty

school --

The spyder BEEPS as it reads her --

INT. HOVERSHIP - NIGHT

Fletcher gets a reading and checks off something on his

clipboard with a laser pen.

INT. ANDERTON'S ROOM - NIGHT

Anderton sits in the chair, listening now to the MUFFLED

ARGUING NEXT DOOR. Suddenly, THE VOICES STOP. Anderton

turns his face toward the wall...

SILENCE. Then we hear BOUNCING BEDSPRINGS as the couple next

door starts to go at it. He shakes his head.

INT. HALLWAY - NIGHT

Two spyders exit the stairwell and move to the nearest doors.

EXT. TENEMENT - NIGHT

Knott checks off another tenant. He looks at the thermal

scanner, sees the double reading.

KNOTT:

Hey, Fletcher. Check out the

double reading.

(showing him)

Coitus interuptus.

EVANNA (RADIO)

Do you even know what that means?

INT. ANDERTON'S ROOM - NIGHT

We hear the bedsprings in the next room SQUEAK FASTER AND

FASTER, the woman's MOANING now getting louder and louder.

INT. HALLWAY - NIGHT

One of the spyders flattens itself and goes under the door.

INT. ANDERTON'S ROOM - NIGHT

He sits in the chair, drumming his fingers on the arm rest as

the couple gets ready to blast off. Then, abruptly, they

stop. A MAN'S VOICE, SHOUTING:

MAN'S VOICE

Oh -- man -- come on! You can't

just barge in here!

WOMAN'S VOICE

This is private property! You

can't --

She cries out in pain. Anderton turns his head towards the

wall.

EXT. TENEMENT - NIGHT

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