Minority Report Page #23

Knott speaks into a microphone on his collar --

KNOTT:

People, if you don't let the spyder

scan you, we'll have to come in and

arrest you.

FLETCHER:

Knott!

INT. ANDERTON'S ROOM - NIGHT

Anderton hears familiar voices O.S.

FLETCHERÕS VOICE

Please permit the spyder to scan

you --

Anderton bolts up from the chair. He quickly feels his way

over to the timer, feels the face: six more hours to go; he's

only halfway there. He stands there thinking a moment.

EXT. TENEMENT - NIGHT

Knott speaks once more into the microphone...

KNOTT:

Let's go, folks.

INT. ANDERTON'S ROOM - NIGHT

He follows the rope to the kitchen, opens the freezer and

reaches inside, feels a couple of ice trays. He grabs them.

WOMANÕS VOICE

There! Now get the hell out!

INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT

Anderton feels his way over to the filthy bathtub, turns on

the cold water, dumps the contents of the ice tray inside.

EXT. TENEMENT - NIGHT

Knott checks off another, looks up at the building.

KNOTT:

One more...

INT. ANDERTON'S ROOM - NIGHT

Anderton grabs whatever's cold from the fridge -- sodas,

fruit, water, sandwiches -- starts to carry it all into the

bathroom. On the way he trips over the guide rope and drops

all of the cold stuff onto the floor.

INT. HALLWAY - NIGHT

The spyder comes out of the apartment next door, moves down

towards Anderton's door.

INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT

Anderton dumps the stuff from the fridge into the tub. Peels

off his clothes.

INT. ANDERTON'S ROOM - NIGHT

As the Spyder flattens out and eases under the door.

INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT

As Anderton climbs into the ice cold tub, reaches over and

shuts the bathroom door as...

THE SPYDER:

Turns toward the sound of the water shutting off. As it

moves towards the bathroom door, it begins to fold its legs

and flatten itself out.

INT. BATHROOM - HIGH ANGLE - NIGHT

Anderton lowers his head under the water, just as the spyder

comes under the door and into the bathroom.

INT. HOVERSHIP - NIGHT

As Evanna looks at the thermal scanner.

EVANNA:

We lost one --

FLETCHER (RADIO)

Cat maybe, went out the window.

EVANNA:

Awful big cat...

INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT

Anderton HOLDS HIS BREATH. The Spyder finally turns to

leave. Begins to flatten itself out to go back under the

door...

INT. HOVERSHIP - NIGHT

As Evanna watches the scan, turns and looks at the building.

INT. TENEMENT - NIGHT

As Anderton lets a single bubble of air escape his lips. We

watch it rise to the surface... then burst with the tiniest

sounding:
BLIP!

THE SPYDER:

Hears it. Stops cold. Begins to EMIT A LOW BEEPING SOUND.

INT. HALLWAY - THE OTHER SPYDERS

Also begin EMITTING THE SAME SOUND, stop, turn and head off

in the same direction.

INT. HOVERSHIP - NIGHT

As Evanna starts to get a signal.

EVANNA:

Wait a minute...

INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT

Anderton continues holding his breath underwater.

A HIGH ANGLE:

As now SEVEN MORE SPYDERS come under the bathroom door.

FROM UNDER THE WATER - ANDERTON'S POV

Looking up at the lip of the bathtub, we SEE THE HEAD OF A

SPYDER SLOWLY APPEAR JUST OVER THE EDGE OF THE TUB...

THE HIGH ANGLE:

As the Spyder rises over the edge of the tub and we see not

that it has grown, but that it is ACTUALLY STANDING ON THE

BACKS OF THE OTHER SEVEN SPYDERS...

EXT. TENEMENT - NIGHT

Knott looks at the scanner.

INT. HOVERSHIP - NIGHT

As Evanna tries to read the scanner...

EVANNA:

What do you think, guys, a drunk

maybe, can't wake up?

EXT. TENEMENT - NIGHT

FLETCHER:

Or a guy who doesn't want to get

read. Stand by. We're gonna go

take a look...

They grab their helmets and go into the building.

INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT

Anderton sits up. He feels one of the spyder's legs grab

hold of his cheek and try to read his eye through the

bandages. It WHIRS and HUMS trying to adjust its antenna.

ANDERTON:

Please...

It STINGS HIM. He jumps back. Then he reaches up and

gently, slowly, pulls down the bandages over one eye while

the spyder moves in closer to read it.

INT. TENEMENT - NIGHT

As Fletcher and Knott run up the stairs...

INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT

Anderton forces his eye open and lets in the BLINDING LIGHT.

ANDERTON:

Oh, God...

The spyder takes forever. Anderton's eye starts to go milky

as the color and iris disintegrate. The pain is unbearable.

The spyder finally backs off --

INT. TENEMENT - HALLWAY - DAY

Fletcher and Knott come out of the stairwell, run up to

ANDERTON'S DOOR when they HEAR AN INDICATOR, see that the

Spyder has now gotten a reading. They stop, look down as...

All eight spyders come under the bottom of Anderton's door

and start back down the hallway...

KNOTT:

Let's eat.

DISSOLVE TO:

A BLURRY IMAGE:

We hear THE MURMUR OF VOICES. Gradually, we begin to

FOCUS... objects whizzing by us... PEOPLE all around... it's

hard to see... it's all piled on top of each other...

REVEAL:
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

Anderton wears new clothing now. He has dark sunglasses. He

waits for the subway to pull into the station. He watches

people getting on and off, all of them read by the EYEdent

scanner, the scanner light silently going from red to green

as they pass.

Anderton takes a breath, gets on, relaxes as the scanner

light turns green.

He finds an empty seat and sits down. He lowers his head,

taking off his glasses and gently massages his eyes. When he

looks up, he sees...

A MOTHER AND CHILD. Blurry. Anderton's depth perception is

all flattened out. We can't tell, though, that they're both

staring this way, the kid pointing now...

KID:

Look at his eye --

The mother hushes him up, points out the window at some sight

to distract him.

Anderton turns and now WE SEE HIS EYES. One of them is

milky. The other is deep brown.

Both are red around the sockets from Dr, Eddie's rush job.

Anderton turns and sees his blurred reflection in the window

and quickly puts his sunglasses back on.

INT. ANDERTON'S OFFICE - DAY

Witwer sits at the desk screen studying the different images

from the Prevision of Anderton murdering Leo Crow:

Anderton holding the gun. The shadowy figure of Leo Crow by

the window. The face in sunglasses outside the window.

He then pans about the room: A bed. A table. A mirror.

There's Anderton. Wait -- he goes back to the mirror. He

leans close to the screen. Pushes in. And now we see it: A

FIGURE STANDING IN THE MIRROR. Blurry. But there.

WITWER:

Fletcher!

EXT. PLAZA NEAR GOVERNMENT BUILDING - DAY

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