Minority Report Page #5

SARAH:

Howard --

HOWARD:

I forgot my glasses.

The lover rolls off of her and sits up.

HOWARD:

You know how blind I am without

them.

She sees the scissors in his hand. SCREAMS. He's bringing

them down when, suddenly, the HAND HOLDING THE SCISSORS IS

GRABBED by Anderton...

HOWARD:

What --

TIGHT ON THEIR TWO HANDS

As Anderton's watch BEEPS as it counts down the last second

and now...

... the SKYLIGHT OVERHEAD EXPLODES, wood and glass flying

everywhere as the other Precops descend from the Hovership,

drop straight into the room.

A FLOATING CAMERA BOT pushes past Anderton to the center of

the room.

CAMERA BOT - POV

GRIDS and VECTORS place and locate everyone in the room. A

screen-within-a-screen zooms in on the SCISSORS. It films

Sarah's lover as he comes away from the bed.

ANDERTON:

Mr. Marks, you're under arrest

for --

Howard makes a run for the door...

ANDERTON:

Knott --

Knott grabs him, but the man puts up a fight.

Anderton takes a hand-held device from his belt (A SPYDER)

and scans Marks' retina.

ANDERTON:

Positive for Howard Marks --

Howard stands frozen, mouth agape as he now fully sees the

PRECRIME SHIP hovering right out the window.

ANDERTON:

By mandate of the District of

Columbia Precrime division, I'm

placing you under arrest for the

future murder of Sarah Marks and

Donald Doobin that was to take

place today, April 22, at oh-eight

hundred hours, four minutes --

SARAH:

What?

HOWARD:

I didn't do anything! Sarah!

ANDERTON:

(to Fletcher)

Give the man his hat.

And now the other team members grab hold of Howard and start

to shave his head with an electric sheer right there on the

stairs, his hair falling in clumps to the floor below.

HOWARD:

Oh, God. Don't put the halo on me!

And now Fletcher steps forward with what is essentially a

metal HALO. Fletcher places it on Howard's head while he

screams...

HOWARD:

I wasn't going to do it! I wasn't

going to hurt her! I just wanted

to scare her!

As the halo is fitted onto his head, Howard's body arches in

a convulsive shock, his eyes rolling white into his head as

he finally goes limp.

INT. PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

As Witwer watches the Prevision Screen.

WITWER:

I thought they stopped the murder --

Jad looks over as Witwer indicates an image of Howard Marks

stabbing his wife, now from a slightly different angle.

JAD:

That's just an echo.

(smiles)

Precog Deja Vu.

(looks at the screen)

Some of the really bad ones, the

Precogs see over and over again.

The stabbing happens again and Jad moves his hand across the

screen and it goes BLANK. Witwer looks at the PRECOG SCREEN,

watches as the female rolls over and sinks under the milk.

INT. MARKS HOUSE - MORNING

Anderton goes into the bathroom and SHUTS OFF THE WATER in

the bathtub just as it's about to overflow.

He stands, sees Sarah, hugging herself in the middle of the

room. She stares back at him, confused and overwhelmed as we

now...

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. INNER CITY - NIGHT

As Anderton, now in a hooded sweatshirt and sweatpants, jogs

through the rain, the neighborhood around him getting worse

and worse as he goes.

INT. A DARK ROOM - NIGHT

We can see Howard Marks' breath as he's laid out naked on a

metal table. His head has been shaved.

VOICE OVER:

Precrime:
It works!

EXT. INNER CITY - NIGHT

As Anderton runs through the city, we now hear OTHER VOICES

joining in saying the same thing, over and over, finally

overlapping one another:

VOICES:

PRECRIME:
IT WORKS!

(until we hear)

IT WORKS IT WORKS IT WORKS...

And now, PROJECTED ON THE WALL BESIDE ANDERTON, we start to

see a SERIES OF HUGE CLOSE-UPS as he runs by:

AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN

I used to worry about my children

going to the playground...

POLICEMAN:

My partner was murdered...

VARIOUS PEOPLE:

My sister was murdered... My

brother was killed... I was

attacked in the stairwell... My

teacher was stabbed... My neighbor

was shot... My child was

murdered...

And now we see a series of shocking murder scenes, as the

above testimonials continue in the b.g.

INT. DARK ROOM - NIGHT

A LARGER METAL HALO, spikes pointing inward, is fitted onto

Howard Marks' head. He starts to SCREAM...

A DEEP VOICE:

In a world where we look to science

for answers, they were a gift...

EXT. INNER CITY - NIGHT

As Anderton runs along the wall, the PROJECTIONS CONTINUE:

the images are of different people on the street now. WE

BEGIN PULLING BACK...

VARIOUS PEOPLE:

I was going to be killed in my

apartment... He was going to rape

me and then stab me... It was going

to happen in a parking lot... We

were having marital problems, I had

no idea he would try and...

So that now we see we're looking at some sort of SCREEN ON

THE SIDE OF THE BUILDINGS. On it, we see a shot of the

Precrime building, a statue of the precogs out front.

THE DEEP VOICE:

And now, Precrime is coming to your

state, allowing you to sleep as

well as we do in the District of

Columbia.

Anderton, runs past the HUGE PROJECTION...

THE DEEP VOICE:

On April 30, vote Yes on the

National Precrime Referendum and

make murder a thing of the past.

On the screen we see a SCHOOLYARD FULL OF KIDS...

CHILDREN:

Precrime:
It works!

Above Anderton, in the middle of the projection, some MENTAL

CASE sticks his head out a window and SCREAMS at the night.

EXT. INNER CITY - DARK

As Anderton slows down, turns up a DARK ALLEY. He pauses,

looks around.

ANDERTON:

Lycon?

A VOICE:

What's the matter, can't sleep?

Anderton turns and we see a dark FIGURE in a black coat

sitting in a doorway. LYCON.

ANDERTON:

I just need a little clarity.

LYCON:

True that. You want the customary,

or the new and improved?

ANDERTON:

I'll try the new stuff.

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