Minority Report Page #32

ANDERTON:

Someplace safe.

AGATHA:

I have to go back.

ANDERTON:

Why?

AGATHA:

The other two will die without me.

ANDERTON:

You want to spend the rest of your

life in the temple?

She looks back out the window.

AGATHA:

I always wondered what the world

would be like. But now that I've

seen it, I don't need to see any

more.

(then)

It's all right. Once I'm in the

tank, I won't remember any of this.

ANDERTON:

Agatha, you're never going back

there.

AGATHA:

I am going back. I see myself

there.

He reacts to this. She touches his arm.

AGATHA:

It's best, Anderton, if you don't

think of me as human.

He looks at her, but she closes her eyes.

INT. BURGESS' HOUSE - DAY

A sad Burgess sits with a drink in his hand watching the CNN

coverage of the Crow "murder".

Burgess shakes his head, as his WIFE comes in.

WIFE:

Danny Witwer's on the phone. He

says it's important.

Burgess mutes the set, watches as the Attorney General,

looking like sh*t right now, talks to the reporter.

BURGESS:

(into the phone)

What?

We see the image of Witwer in one corner of the TV screen.

WITWER:

Lamar, I found something.

BURGESS:

What?

WITWER:

I don't wanna say over the phone,

but I think we may be chasing the

wrong man.

BURGESS:

(beat)

Where are you?

INT. ANDERTON'S APARTMENT - DAY

As Anne Lively is drowned by an assailant in black in the

middle of the room. Witwer sits at Anderton's holo-computer

watching the image. It finishes just as Burgess comes into

the room.

BURGESS:

Good God. What was that?

WITWER:

Wait, just a second...

Witwer works the machine a moment while Burgess looks around

the apartment, takes in the mess, the open cupboards in the

kitchen. He kicks at the inhalers on the floor and sits

down. He see ANDERTON'S .45 sitting by the chair and picks

it up and examines it.

WITWER:

We recovered that from Crow's hotel

room.

Burgess looks sadly at the gun a moment.

BURGESS:

I remember when I gave this to him.

Back in Baltimore. He was one of

those cops, still thought he could

make a dent in all the bad there

was in the world.

Burgess looks around the apartment now.

BURGESS:

The irony is, sometimes it's the

very vision that makes you want to

make the world a better place that

turns you into something you can't

even recognize anymore.

He sighs, looks at Witwer.

BURGESS:

Tell me what you have.

Witwer nods, starts the image once more.

WITWER:

This is the murder of a woman named

Anne Lively.

Burgess sits forward, watches as The Man in black shoves her

face under the water.

BURGESS:

He told me about this. You got

this from Containment?

WITWER:

Yes. This is from the twins,

Arthur and Dashiel. Agatha's

stream was missing. Now this one

is from the cyberparlor. Anderton

downloaded it directly from Agatha.

Watch...

We see the fragments of A MAN DONNING GLOVES, DROPPING AN

OVERCOAT and then once more we see the Man in black drowning

her...

BURGESS:

It's the same prevision.

WITWER:

Not quite.

Witwer gets up, moves to the image...

WITWER:

Look at the surface wind across the

water. Watch the ripples... moving

away from shore.

We see they're all moving right to left. We watch the silent

murder of Anne Lively. The image finishes. A blank. We see

the fragmented images of the gloves. And now we see the

second image of Anne Lively being murdered...

WITWER:

Now the second image. Watch the

water. The wind's changed. The

ripples are going the other way.

BURGESS:

I don't understand --

WITWER:

This murder is happening at two

different times.

Burgess stares at the image. Watches again as it repeats.

Witwer hits the remote and the image of Anne Lively freezes.

WITWER:

According to the Sentry, Anderton

was watching this at Containment

right before he was tagged.

BURGESS:

I know. He came to me, told me

about the missing data stream.

(then)

He was concerned that you might

find it.

WITWER:

I did find it. It was inside of

Agatha all this time. So the

question is, why would someone want

this erased from the data file?

BURGESS:

(intrigued)

Danny, tell me what you're

thinking.

WITWER:

I'm thinking someone got away with

murder.

BURGESS:

How?

Witwer moves around the frozen image of Anne Lively.

WITWER:

By fooling the system. All someone

would have to do is wait for

Precrime to stop the murder from

taking place, then, a few minutes

later, commit the crime in exactly

the same way.

BURGESS:

(nods)

Yes... It's called an echo. The

act of murder is such a violent

disturbance in the future continuum

that it sometimes repeats to the

Precogs.

WITWER:

(beat, remembering)

Precog Deja Vu...

BURGESS:

We teach the tech's to identify

them and disregard...

Witwer looks at him.

WITWER:

So there is a way to fool the

system?

BURGESS:

Yes.

Witwer looks at the image.

WITWER:

Of course, it would have to be

someone with access to the

Prevision in the first place,

someone fairly high up --

BURGESS:

(finger to his lips)

Shhh. You know what I hear?

WITWER:

What?

BURGESS:

Nothing. No footsteps coming up

the stairs. No hovercraft out the

window. No clickity click of

little spyders. No one crashing

through that door. And do you know

why I don't hear any of those

things, Danny? Because right now,

the Precogs can't see.

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