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Minority Report (2002)

by Scott Frank.
Based on the short story by Philip K. Dick.
Revised draft, May 16, 2001.

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FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY


BLACK

We hear a woman WHISPER:

		WOMAN'S VOICE
	Murderer.

FADE IN: A SERIES OF IMAGES

Some coming at us fast and furious, some slowed down, and
some still as photographs, none making sense to us yet:

A HAND picks up a PAIR OF SCISSORS... THE FACE OF ABRAHAM
LINCOLN.  The SCISSORS POKE THROUGH THE EYE.  A NEWSPAPER BOY
rides by on a recumbent bike.  A NEWS PAPER HITS THE GROUND.
SNIP go the scissors and now we see...

A MAN'S face watching us -- muscular, handsome -- with a
KID'S FACE beside his own.  The same man's face with the
kid's face on the other side of him, now facing backwards.
SNIP go the scissors and we now see...

A WOMAN admires herself in a mirror.  WATER runs into a
BATHTUB.  A HAND REACHES FOR A DOORKNOB.  WE MOVE THROUGH IT,
leaving the DOOR OPEN BEHIND US.  A FLIGHT OF STAIRS.  SNIP
go the scissors and we now see...

The woman UNBUTTONS HER BLOUSE as THE MAN -- now half-nude,
WATCHES from a doorway.  We START UP THE STAIRS.  A DOOR at
the top, slightly ajar.  SNIP go the scissors and we see...

The WOMAN at the mirror.  The MAN comes up behind her and
enfolds her in his arms.  SNIP and we see...

A KISS on the NECK.  SNIP.  SNIP.  And we CONTINUE ON UP THE
STAIRS.  We're at the door now.  SNIP.  A HAND now dips into
the rush of WATER from the spout, testing it.  SNIP SNIP SNIP
and we see...

THE WOMAN smiling into the MIRROR, pleased with her
reflection.  SNIP SNIP and we see...

The WOMAN and the MAN on the bed making love.  ANOTHER MAN'S
face rising over the bed now as he watches.  The WOMAN looks
over her lover's shoulder, sees the face and sits up...

The man by the bed is smaller than the lover, older, but
ENRAGED as he now raises THE SCISSORS and we PULL AWAY TO
REVEAL:

That we're looking at the image as it plays out inside the
dark pupil of a HUMAN EYE.  The eye BLINKS and now we go...

WIDER, we're looking now at A FEMALE FACE staring up at us --
eyes blue as gas flames -- floating in some sort of WHITE
LIQUID as she looks up at us and speaks:

		FEMALE FACE
	Howard --

PULLING BACK STILL FURTHER we see A MALE FACE next to her:

		MALE FACE
	I forgot my glasses.

THE SCISSORS SNIP.

		MALE FACE
	You know how blind I am without
	them.

WE SEE THE WOMAN IN THE BEDROOM

As she SCREAMS and the man stabs her in the throat with the
scissors as now the MUSCULAR MAN gets out of the bed, tries
to run for the safety of the bathroom, gets stabbed in the
back.  QUICK FLASHES of the scissors as the muscular man goes
down.

The bloody scissors bounce open onto the bathroom floor.

Now BLOOD-RED water begins to overflow onto the floor.  We
follow the water through the cracks and lines in the tile, to
an OUTSTRETCHED HAND, still, striped with blood.  We then...

					DISSOLVE TO:

THE THREE FACES

As they shut their eyes, begin to slowly sink back down into
the white liquid as they all whisper together:

		THE THREE OF THEM
	Murderer.

As their faces disappear into the milky void, we HEAR A SIREN
ALARM and now see...

A RED BALL - ANALYTICAL ROOM

Rolling fast down a chute from the top right CORNER OF FRAME.
And now another RED BALL rolls down from the top left corner.
The motion is slowed for an instant so that we can see NAMES
etched into it: SARAH MARKS.  And then: DONALD DOOBIN.

It rolls past and now A SECOND RED BALL rolls right at us
from the top left.  The motion on this one is slowed for an
instant so that we can read the name etched into the side:
"HOWARD MARKS".  Just as it rolls over to us, we now see...

INSIDE PRECRIME HEADQUARTERS - MAIN FLOOR

Slides open, revealing senior detective JOHN ANDERTON.  Mid
thirties, military haircut.  He pushes through a second,
pressurized door, leading us past a series of glassed-in
offices and viewbicles.

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

		ANDERTON
	Okay, Jad, what's coming?

		JAD
	Red Ball -- double homicide: one
	male, one female.  Killer's male,
	white, 40's.

JAD (28, African- American), the main dispatcher, one of six
TEAM MEMBERS crowded around the computer display.  They back
off so Anderton can take a look.

		JAD
	We need confirmation on the time
	frame.  Location still uncertain.
	Remote witnesses are hooked in...

		ANDERTON
	Case #1108, previsualized by the
	Precogs and recorded on holoshpere
	by Precrime's q-stacks.
		(to a screen)
	My fellow witnesses for case #1108
	are Dr. Katherine James and Chief
	Justice Frank Pollard.

ON A VIDEO SCREEN

As a split-image emerges of James and Pollard in their
respective offices.

		ANDERTON
	Have the witnesses previewed and
	validated #1108?

INT.  POLLARD'S OFFICE - MORNING

As an elderly man, retired CHIEF JUSTICE FRANK POLLARD stares
at a video monitor showing the Prevision.

		POLLARD
	Affirmative.  Validated.

INT.  DR. JAMES' OFFICE - MORNING

As KATHERINE JAMES, a bespectacled, middle-aged criminal
psychologist yawns, a big cup of coffee in one hand.

		JAMES
	Go get him.

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

As Anderton pulls a small disc from his pocket.

		ANDERTON
	Stand by...

The men all share knowing glances as he inserts the disc into
a player and we now hear a STRAUSS SYMPHONY OVER...

Anderton slips on an eyepiece and special finger gloves, then
moves his hands over the huge PREVISION SCREEN, "conducting"
the array of images we saw during the opening.  The screen
responds to wherever he looks, or whatever he touches...

		ANDERTON
	Alright, Howard, where are you...

INT.  SUBURBAN D.C. KITCHEN - MORNING

We HEAR BIRDS CHIRPING, someone HUMMING softly, then...

		A WOMEN'S VOICE
	Breakfast!

SARAH, the woman we just saw murdered, cooks breakfast,
bathed in a halo of bright sunshine that streams in from a
window.  She looks up, smiles.  A beautiful day outside.

		VOICE
	For score and seven years ago our
	fathers brought forth on this,
	um...

She sets two plates of scrambled eggs down on the table where
her SON -- 10 -- sits reciting the Gettysburg Address as he
cuts out A CARDBOARD MASK with a pair of SCISSORS, poking
through Lincoln's eyes to make holes he can see through.

		SARAH
	Continent...

		SON
	Continent.  A new nation, conceived
	in liberty...

		SARAH
	Howard?!  Breakfast!

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

Everybody in the room working on the vision.  A team of
researchers study the buildings.  The trees in the area.

		JAD
	I show eight "Howard Marks" inside
	the District.  Sorting by race and
	age.

On another screen, Driver's license photos now begin to FLASH
PAST.

		ANDERTON
	Let's see if we can get lucky...

He ZOOMS IN on the image of a NEWSPAPER.  The headline reads
PRESIDENT SUPPORTS PRECRIME AMENDMENT...

		ANDERTON
	Come on...

EXT.  BROWNSTONE IN GEORGETOWN - MORNING

As the SPRINKLERS COME ON just as HOWARD MARKS, the older man
we saw stab his wife, steps out of the house.

		VOICE
	Morning, Mr. Marks.

He looks over as A PAPERBOY waves from a recumbent bicycle
and tosses A NEWSPAPER.  As it flies at us...

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

The image auto-enhances as we zoom in closer to the newspaper
sitting on the KITCHEN TABLE.  We see AN ADDRESS LABEL with
the name HOWARD MARKS...

EXT.  BROWNSTONE - MORNING

As the paper lands on the lawn, starts to get soaked by the
sprinklers.  Howard frowns at the kid, reaches through the
water to grab it...

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

As Anderton sees that the INK ON THE WET ADDRESS LABEL has
run, blurring the information.  Jad shakes his head.

		JAD
	We can't grab it...

		ANDERTON
	Run the subscription list...

EXT.  BROWNSTONE - MORNING

As A MOUNTED POLICEMAN rides by.  Howard smiles, turns and
starts to head back inside when he notices something across
the street...

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

As Anderton focuses now on the "murder room".  He ZOOMS IN on
a blurry nightstand clock.  A stack of books blocks it... He
ZOOMS OUT THE WINDOW...

		ANDERTON
	I've got north facing shadows out
	the window of the building behind.
	I need trig and image analysis...

VECTORS from the shadows appear on the screen now.

		JAD
	Workin' it.

Anderton turns and looks at THREE SCREENS showing the male
faces and the female face floating in the liquid we saw in
the beginning.

		ANDERTON
	Morning, detectives.

The faces don't respond.  Just stare into the void.  Anderton
touches the screen and now the FEMALE seems to turn and look
at him.

EXT.  BROWNSTONE - MORNING

Howard Marks pauses, notices A MAN -- handsome, muscular,
practically bursting out of a nice suit -- loitering in front
of the small park across the street.  Howard studies the man
a moment as Sarah appears in the doorway behind him, sees him
looking at the man.

		SARAH
	Breakfast, honey.

And now the Man across the street looks this way, sees
Howard, sees Sarah right behind him and quickly moves off.

		HOWARD
	He looks familiar.

		SARAH
	Who?

		HOWARD
	The man across the street.  I've
	seen him before...

		SARAH
	How can you even tell?  You know
	how blind you are without your
	glasses.

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

As Jad looks at an array of Driver's License Photos... We see
ONE FOR HOWARD MARKS.  Then ANOTHER FOR SARAH MARKS.  Same
address.

		JAD
	Got him in the Foxhall.  4421
	Gainsborough.

		ANDERTON
	Send a DCPD blue & white out there,
	set up a perimeter and tell 'em
	we're en route.  What's our
	confirmed time?

		JAD
	From solar position, Trig & Image
	confirms it at approximately eight
	oh-four a.m.

The whole team looks up at the clock on the wall.  7:47.
Anderton sets THE TIMER ON HIS WATCH.

		FLETCHER
	Seventeen minutes.

		ANDERTON
	Armor up -- sick-sticks and
	concussion guns -- this is gonna be
	close.

INT.  PRECRIME READY ROOM - MORNING

Like a firehouse, everybody slipping into uniform, riding up
poles on chairs.  A flurry of activity as weapons, helmets,
and other newfangled gear are pulled from wall racks.

KNOTT, a big redhead, thick of neck and thicker of head,
hands out the gear.  He takes what looks like A BILLY CLUB
and points it at a HEAVYSET COP who wolfs down the last of a
Danish...

		KNOTT
	Hey, Steadman, wanna lose those ten
	ugly pounds like right now?

The cop reacts, pushes the stick away...

		PETROTTA
	Touch me with that puke-pole,
	asshole, you're gonna wear the
	fuckin' risoto I had for dinner
	last night along with the two
	chilidogs I had for breakfast.

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

As Jad spins around in his chair...

		JAD
	Chief, we got a problem with our
	location --

Anderton looks at him.

		JAD
	It's no longer there.

Jad indicates a video screen showing VIDEO BOT VIEW OF A FIRE
CHARRED HOME.  Only one wall is left standing...

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

As Anderton looks at the Prevision, begins manipulating the
images... He glances at the PRECOG MONITOR.  The female face
writhes in the screen and Anderton looks at her.

		ANDERTON
	Where we going, Agatha?  Talk to
	me.

Anderton turns away as FLETCHER (30), second in command
approaches Anderton.  The FEMALE FACE turns and seems to look
at Anderton through the screen.

		FLETCHER
	Chief, the investigator from the
	Fed is here.

		ANDERTON
		(distracted)
	You're kidding, that's today?

		FLETCHER
	I wrote it down in your calendar,
	then left a message at your house --

		ANDERTON
		(working)
	All I need, some twink from the Fed
	poking around right now.
		(then, to Jad)
	Check again with the paper, they
	had it forwarded.  See if the
	neighbors know where they went,
	check all relations --

		FLETCHER
	Uh, sir...

		ANDERTON
	Get him some coffee and tell him to
	wait outside.

		VOICE
	I've got coffee, thank you.

Anderton turns to see DANNY WITWER.  Mid-twenties, quietly
looking at everything and everyone.  He extends his hand.

		WITWER
	Danny Witwer.
		(then)
	The "Twink from the Fed".  Gum?

Anderton gives him a look, Witwer offers Anderton a stick of
GUM.

		JAD
	The Marks moved two weeks ago.  No
	one knows where.  Still searching
	for family and employer.

		MECHANICAL VOICE
	Time horizon: 12 minutes...

Anderton looks at his watch: COUNTING DOWN, 12 MINUTES.

		ANDERTON
	I'm sorry Danny, but I'll have to
	give you the full tour later on.

		WITWER
	Your secretaries were all kind
	enough to give me a look around the
	office...

Anderton looks through the glass doors where A HALF DOZEN
FEMALE PRECRIME OFFICE WORKERS ogle Witwer, even one that's
pregnant (a moving image of her baby on the front of her
maternity T-shirt).  They ALL CHEW GUM.

Witwer watches as Anderton moves his fingers across the
display, "flying through" the precrime scene, moving forward
and back in time.  ARCHITECTURAL REFERENCE SCREENS run side
by-side with the Prevision Screen...

		ANDERTON
	Original running bond brick
	pattern, streamlined early Georgian
	Details...

Fletcher begins pointing out the equipment to Witwer who just
listens quietly... asks no questions.

		FLETCHER
	What he's doing now, we call
	"scrubbing the image", looking for
	clues as to where the murder's
	going to happen.

		ANDERTON
	The brick has been repointed, the
	glass is original with new glazing
	bars.  I show composite mouldings
	with dentils.
		(then)
	Someone took care in the
	renovation.  Let's find the
	architect...

		FLETCHER
	Victims are pronounced here.
	Killers here.  We never touch
	anything.

		ANDERTON
	I show a cop on horseback.

		JAD
	Somewhere near the capital?

		ANDERTON
	No maglev system.

		JAD
	The mall?

		ANDERTON
	Georgetown.

Fletcher introduces Witwer to a female member of the team.

		FLETCHER
	This is Evanna, the team pilot.

		WITWER
	Nice to meet you.  Gum?

She gives him a once over, takes a piece of gum.

		EVANNA
	Oh, thank you...

He pops a piece in his own mouth, cuts a look back at her...

		WITWER
	She's cute.

Witwer now notices the three faces on screen, can't take his
eyes off them.  Witwer looks at the images on the screen.
These three faces writhing in agony.

		FLETCHER
	Filtered, the Precogs can see
	outward up to four days with a
	sensory range of 200 miles.

Witwer stares at them, blowing a bubble.

		WITWER
	So if you wanna kill someone, you
	take him to Miami.

		FLETCHER
	Not after the vote next week.  Once
	the Amendment passes, we go
	national, there's gonna be nowhere
	to run.

Anderton cuts a look at him as Jad indicates a 3D map full of
BLUE DOTS...

		JAD
	Two Howard Markses EYEdented in the
	sprawl.  Neither show married --

Anderton looks at THE REFERENCE SCREENS AS THEY SCROLL
THROUGH ARCHITECTURAL IMAGERY...

		ANDERTON
	I show a match for Dwight Kingsley.
	Nineteenth century architect.  He
	did two dozen houses in D.C....

		MECHANICAL VOICE
	Time Horizon, ten minutes...

Witwer reacts to the incessant RINGING OF THE ALARM BELL.

		WITWER
	Can't they shut that off?

		FLETCHER
	That's the Red Ball Alarm.

Witwer looks at him.

		FLETCHER
	Crime of passion.  No
	premeditation.  They show up late.
	Most of our scrambles are flash
	events like this one.  We rarely
	see anything with premeditation
	anymore.

		WITWER
	People have gotten the message.
		(to Fletcher)
	Gum?

INT.  MARKS KITCHEN - MORNING

As Howard sits down with his son who keeps cutting the piece
of cardboard while reciting the address.

		SON
	... the world will little note, nor
	long remember what we say here...

		HOWARD
		(looks at Sarah)
	I was thinking, maybe I'd play
	hooky, stay home today.

Her back to him, Sarah pauses for just a second.

		SARAH
	What about your meeting?

		HOWARD
	I'll reschedule.  I've been working
	too much anyway.

The boy holds up what WE NOW SEE IS A LINCOLN MASK to his
face...

		SON
	... that these honored dead we take
	increased devotion to that cause
	for which they gave us they gave
	the last full measure of
	devotion...

He looks at the back of his wife as he pokes at his
breakfast.

		HOWARD
	We could have lunch together.

		SARAH
	I'd love to, but I've got an open
	house today at the Ressler place.

		HOWARD
	Ah.  That must be why you look so
	nice.

As Sarah turns and smiles at Howard.

		SARAH
	Raincheck?

		HOWARD
	Sure.  Raincheck.

		SON
	... that we here highly resolve
	that these dead shall not have died
	in vain...

We hear a HORN HONK O.S.  Sarah looks at her son.

		SARAH
	Your ride's here.  Get your stuff.

The boy gets up, setting THE SCISSORS down on the table.

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

Two men act as "dressers", getting Anderton into gear while
he works.  They help him on with a jacket, the word PRECRIME
emblazoned on the back.

		JAD
	Director.  Line three.

And now we see an IMAGE OF LAMAR BURGESS, DIRECTOR OF
PRECRIME in one corner.

		BURGESS
	Tell me not to worry, John.

		ANDERTON
	Don't worry, Lamar.

		BURGESS
	The nation votes this week...

Anderton notices something on the prevision screen, brushes
off the "dressers".

		BURGESS
	Which makes this the worst possible
	time to show that we're only human.

		ANDERTON
		(working)
	Uh-huh...

		BURGESS
	Has the observer from Justice shown
	up yet?

		ANDERTON
	Hang on, Lamar --

Anderton mutes the director, looks at AN IMAGE OF THE
MUSCULAR MAN IN THE SUIT.  There's a CHILD'S FACE to the left
of his own.

INT.  MARKS KITCHEN - MORNING

Howard takes his jacket and leaves.  Sarah watches after him
for a beat, a little out of sorts.

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

As Anderton indicates the screen to Jad.  Witwer watches.

		ANDERTON
	Look at the kid.  In this one, he's
	on the left of the man in the suit.

		JAD
	Yeah?  So?

		ANDERTON
	Now look at him...

Anderton moves his hand so the image changes and the kid is
now to the right of the man, but FACING BACKWARDS.  He now
moves back and forth between the images...

		ANDERTON
	It's a park.

He runs the image and we see the kid back on the left facing
front, then on the other side facing back...

EXT.  PARK ACROSS FROM THE MARKS BROWNSTONE - MORNING

The HANDSOME MAN IN THE SUIT watches the house.  Behind him,
we see A KID ON A PUSH MERRY-GO-ROUND, as he goes by we see
him facing one way, then the other...

The man glances about, then crosses the street.  He climbs
the steps to the front door.  Doesn't even get to knock
before Sarah opens it.

		SARAH
	Come on...

The man follows her inside.  A beat later, Howard steps into
FRAME.  He never really left for work.

INT.  PRECRIME - MORNING

As Anderton runs with his team -- five in all.  Witwer trails
behind them.

		FLETCHER
	There's only sixteen of those old
	merry-go-rounds left in the city.
	Two of which are in Georgetown.
	One in Barnaby woods, the other
	Woodley.

Anderton looks at the readout Fletcher hands him.

		ANDERTON
	Woodley's all Victorian.  It's
	gotta be Barnaby Woods.
		(keeps moving)
	I want two cameras: one Spyder, one
	floater.

Witwer watches as Anderton pulls a .45 from his waistband.
Jacks the clip and checks it.

		WITWER
	As I recall, they outlawed
	compression firearms in the
	District ten years ago.

		ANDERTON
		(replacing the clip)
	They did.  Make yourself
	comfortable.  We'll be back in an
	hour.

		WITWER
	You mind if I tag along?

Some looks amid the team.  They know Anderton doesn't want
him here.

		ANDERTON
	I'd love to take you along,
	Inspector, but there's no room on
	the ship.

EXT.  DEPARTMENT OF PRECRIME - ROOF - MORNING

Anderton and his team head for a HOVERSHIP.  Anderton climbs
in beside EVANNA, the female pilot.  Even with everyone
onboard, one seat is conspicuously vacant.  KASI, an African
American cop, sets some equipment on it, smiles at Anderton.

		EVANNA
	Time Horizon six minutes.

As the hovership lifts off.

EXT.  MARKS HOUSE - GEORGETOWN - MORNING

Howard walks up the steps to his house, takes out his key.
His hand shaking, he inserts the key into the lock.  A long
beat.  He makes a decision and he finally turns it.

INT.  MARKS HOUSE - KITCHEN - MORNING

We hear LAUGHING from the second floor.  Howard picks up the
scissors from the table.

INT.  HOVERSHIP - MORNING

As Anderton looks at his watch.  COUNTING DOWN 5:38...
5:37...

INT.  MARKS HOUSE - MORNING

As we HEAR FOOTSTEPS and Howard steps behind a door, watches
as the Lover, wrapped only in a towel, comes WHISTLING into
the kitchen, grabs a couple of sodas from the refrigerator,
then heads back out.

EXT.  D.C. - MORNING

Overhead, the precrime Hovership ROARS past.  In the
distance, we see familiar Washington buildings, along with
some new ones.

INT.  MARKS HOUSE - MORNING

Howard starts up the stairs.  We hear the sound of WATER
RUNNING.

INT.  MARKS HOUSE - MORNING

Howard gets to the door, slowly pushes it open with the point
of the SCISSORS.

INT.  BEDROOM - MORNING

As we see Sarah's reflection in the bathroom mirror as she
wraps her arms around her lover, kicks the door closed with
her foot.

We now see HOWARD MARKS standing there, reflected in the full
length mirror on the other side.

EXT.  PARK - MORNING

The only sound, the SQUEAK OF THE MERRY-GO-ROUND as the kid
goes round and round.  All of a sudden several PRECOPS drop
down on DESCENDERS.  The kid looks off at them, confused as
to why it's now raining cops... he slowly looks UP and sees
THE HOVERSHIP floating above him...

INT.  BEDROOM - MORNING

We hear GIGGLING O.S. as Howard Marks sits down on the bed,
and starts to weep, he slides onto the floor...

EXT.  PARK - MORNING

As Anderton studies his portable screen, the image of the kid
with the house behind him.  He looks up and realizes that the
PARK IS SURROUNDED ON FOUR SIDES BY HOUSES.  And THEY ALL
LOOK ALIKE...

INT.  PRECRIME HOVERSHIP - MORNING

As Evanna watches the image, watches Howard Marks kill his
wife over and over.  The rest of the team is anxious.

		MECHANICAL VOICE
	Time Horizon.  One minute.

		EVANNA
	Chief, we're catching up to the
	future.

EXT.  PARK - MORNING

As Anderton calmly looks around at the surrounding houses,
all we hear is the SQUEAK of the merry-go-round.

		ANDERTON
	Jad?

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

As Jad answers the call.  Witwer is right there watching.

		JAD
	Go ahead.

		ANDERTON (PHONE)
	Did he close the front door?

		JAD
	What?

		ANDERTON (PHONE)
	Did Marks close the front door?!

Jad looks over the prevision a moment.  He sees the image of
the front door... the stairs just beyond it...

		JAD
	Negative -- front door is open!
	The front door is open!!

EXT.  PARK - MORNING

As Anderton scans the houses, sees one across the park with
the door open --

INT.  BEDROOM - MORNING

As the two lovers now stumble wet from the bathroom onto the
bed, neither of them see Howard sitting there on the floor on
the other side of the bed, his head in his hands.  They start
to make love.  Howard doesn't move.

EXT.  PARK - MORNING

As Anderton makes a headlong dash for the house.  The other
cops right behind him...

INT.  PRECRIME HOVERSHIP - MORNING

As Evanna takes off...

		MECHANICAL VOICE
	Time Horizon, thirty seconds --

		EVANNA
	Hold on!

The craft pitches as she heads over the park now...

INT.  BEDROOM - MORNING

As the motion of the two lovers now begins to rock Howard
back and forth.  He looks at the SCISSORS in his lap, also
rocking back and forth to the rhythm of the two in the bed.

EXT.  HOUSE - MORNING

As Anderton blows through the open front door...

INT.  BEDROOM - MORNING

As Howard now stands up, looks down at the bed, his face
turning from disgrace to rage as he raises the scissors over
his head.

INT.  HOUSE - MORNING

As Anderton sprints up the stairs, the other cops behind him.

INSERT - HIS WATCH COUNTING DOWN the last few seconds...

INT.  BEDROOM - MORNING

As Sarah opens her eyes, sees Howard standing there over the
shoulder of her lover and gasps.

		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.

Anderton reaches into his sock and takes out some CASH.
Lycon takes out his own, much filthier sock and reaches
inside.  He pulls out a handful of tiny BLACK INHALERS and
holds a few of them out to Anderton who hesitates, then takes
them.

		LYCON
	Sweet dreams, Chief.

"Chief".  Anderton turns and looks at the Dealer.

		LYCON
	Oh, don't worry none, your secret's
	safe with me.
	After all, you gonna be The Big
	Boss soon enough, be nice to have a
	little juice on my side.

		ANDERTON
	What makes you say I'm gonna be the
	boss?

		LYCON
	You're the perfect man for the job.
	It's like my Daddy used to say, "In
	the land of the blind..."

Lycon leans forward and the moonlight catches his face, and
we see that BOTH OF HIS EYES ARE GONE FROM THEIR SOCKETS.

		LYCON
	"The one eyed-man is King".

Lycon starts to laugh.  Anderton watches him a moment, then
turns and jogs off into the wet night.

INT.  ANDERTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

Dark.  Rain falls on the towers and pavilions of the inner
city that fill the large windows.  The front door opens and
Anderton comes inside.  When he turns on a light, we see the
place is a complete mess.

Trash and black INHALERS litter the floor.  Clothing is
strewn about.  In the kitchen, cupboards, even the
refrigerator door have been left open.  You might think the
place has been burglarized, but it's just the way he left it.

Anderton walks past a bedroom -- an airplane bed and toys on
the floor tell us this was once a kid's room.  He continues
on to...

HIS BEDROOM

Where he peels off his sweatshirt, then moves to the bed and
sticks the old .45 back under the pillow it came from.

On the nightstand, are piles of NEWS CLIPPINGS, all of them
with headlines like "BOY MISSING ELEVEN YEARS RETURNS HOME!"
Or "FAMILY FIGHTS TO CLONE DEAD CHILD" or "GIRL RESCUED FROM
KIDNAPPERS AFTER TWO YEAR ORDEAL".

Anderton grabs a BLACK INHALER from atop one of the clippings
and shakes it, sees that there's still something in it.  He
takes it, goes into...

THE SOLARIUM

Anderton moves to a COMPUTER and types in an entry.  All at
once, the room begins to fill with HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGES of his
son, SEAN.  The images are ghostlike, not solid; created by a
dozen LASER PROJECTORS placed around the room.

The scenes themselves are "stolen" from birthday parties,
outings and vacations from a life that's somehow no more.

In one of them, his son Sean (age 2), playing with toys on
the floor with LARA, Anderton's ex-wife.  Anderton looks at
Lara a moment, reaching out to her when we hear...

		SEAN
	Daddy!

Anderton looks to a HOLOGRAM where Sean (age 4) is throwing a
Frisbee on a beach.  The hologram-Sean looks up in Anderton's
general direction as he throws...

		SEAN
	Catch!

And the Frisbee sails right through Anderton.  He takes a
deep hit off the inhaler and then looks around the room.

ANDERTON'S POV

As the images GRADUALLY BEGIN TO FILL IN.  LOOK REAL.

		SEAN
	Hi, Daddy...

Anderton moves to one of the images in the middle of the room
and crouches down in front of it.

		ANDERTON
	Hi, Sean.  How was your day?

And then the image cuts to Sean (age 6) holding a soccer
ball...

		SEAN
	I scored a goal!

		ANDERTON
	That's great.

And now the IMAGE JUMPS and we see Sean (age 4) at a younger
age...

		SEAN
	I raced mommy!

And we see LARA, smiling beside him on a beach.  Anderton
looks at Lara a moment, then...

		SEAN
	I won!

		ANDERTON
	What a big boy.  How old are you?

The image JUMPS and we see Sean (age 6)...

		SEAN
	I want pizza!

Wrong answer.  Anderton frowns, goes over to the computer,
starts searching through the images.  He stops when he sees
one of Sean at age 4, at a birthday party, holding up four
fingers.  He then walks back to the image...

		ANDERTON
		(tries again)
	How old are you, Sean?

And now the holo-image JUMPS so that it's the same as the one
we just saw on the computer.  SEAN HOLDS UP FOUR FINGERS.

		ANDERTON
	Four.  Wow.  What a big boy.
		(then)
	I love you, Sean.

		SEAN
		(age 2)
	I love you, too!
		(age 4)
	I love you daddy.
		(age 6)
	Love ya, dad.

Anderton sits down on the floor beside the image and takes
another hit off the inhaler.  He then lies back and watches
his "son" as we now...

FADE OUT.

		VINCENT NASH (V.O.)
	On the eve of a national referendum
	that will make all of our citizens
	safe from violent crime...

FADE IN:

INT.  ANDERTON'S APARTMENT - MORNING

As Anderton opens an eye, looks off AT A CLOCK TV that shows
the image of L. VINCENT NASH, U.S. Attorney General as he
addresses a press conference at Precrime...

		NASH
	... it's the responsibility of the
	Justice Department to fully review
	and inspect the Precrime system.

Anderton sits up, looks at the screen.  To his horror, he
sees WITWER sitting at a long table beside Nash with LAMAR
BURGESS sitting on the other side.  The chair next to Burgess
EMPTY...

		ANDERTON
	Shit --

Anderton jumps to his feet, begins ripping off his sweats and
getting dressed as fast as he can.  He grabs his shirt off
the answering machine...

		SYNTH VOICE
	You have twelve messages.

		BURGESS' VOICE
	John?  Where the hell are you?

Anderton sits on the bed and starts pulling on his boots.

		BURGESS
	Speaking on behalf of Precrime, I'd
	just like to say that we welcome
	any review by Attorney General Nash
	and his team, although I must say
	I'm somewhat baffled by their
	timing.

Anderton grabs his coat, pulls his .45 out from under the
pillow and tucks it away behind his back.

		BURGESS
	In the six years we've been
	conducting our little experiment
	there hasn't been a single murder
	in the District.

Anderton opens the door and gets RIGHT INTO HIS VEHICLE.
It's there IN THE WALL.  He sits down, closes the door and
the VEHICLE DROPS FROM SIGHT.

EXT.  PRECRIME - DAY

As Anderton runs across the busy quad to the entrance of the
building.

		BURGESS (V.O.)
	So I'm sure I speak for Chief
	Anderton who's on assignment, that
	we plan to do everything we can to
	help our good friends and
	colleagues at the Justice
	Department...

He lowers his sunglasses and two ultraviolet lights STROBE on
the retinal scanner as Anderton is EYEdentiscanned and
cleared to enter.

INT.  PRECRIME HEADQUATERS - MAIN FLOOR - DAY

As Anderton enters, is immediately cut off by Burgess.

		BURGESS
	Those bastards at Justice want to
	take it all away from us.

Anderton stops, faces Burgess who looks at his watch, then
stares back at Anderton.

		BURGESS
	And this is exactly the kind of
	behavior that will give them an
	excuse to do it.

		ANDERTON
	Lamar, I'm sorry.  I don't know
	what --

		BURGESS
	Don't apologize, John.

His tone stops Anderton.

		BURGESS
	You understand that a week from now
	people are going to vote on whether
	or not what we've been doing down
	here has been some noble-minded
	enterprise or a chance to change
	the way this country fights crime.

		ANDERTON
	I understand.  Sir.

Burgess stares at Anderton.

		BURGESS
	I need you to do two things for me.
	One, watch Danny Witwer.

		ANDERTON
	Yes, sir.

		BURGESS
	You can let him look around, answer
	his questions, but watch him.  If
	there's any problems, make sure we
	know about it first.

		ANDERTON
	I understand.  What's the other
	thing?

		BURGESS
	Tuck in your shirt.

Burgess gives him a look, then turns and walks away.
Anderton looks down, tucks in his shirt, then hurries off...

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - DAY

As Jad, Fletcher and Knott show Witwer one of the wooden
"eggs".  All of them now chewing gum, friendly with Witwer.

		FLETCHER
	The information we need is embedded
	in the grain of wood.  And since
	each piece is unique, the shape and
	grain is impossible to duplicate.

		WITWER
		(returns the sphere to
		 Fletcher)
	I'm sure you've all grasped the
	legalistic drawback to precrime
	methodology.

		KNOTT
	Here we go again...

		WITWER
	Look, I'm not with the ACLU on this
	Jeff.  But let's not kid ourselves,
	we are arresting individuals who've
	broken no law.

		JAD
	But they will.

		FLETCHER
	The commission of the crime itself
	is absolute metaphysics.  The
	Precogs see the future.  And
	they're never wrong.

		WITWER
	But it's not the future if you stop
	it.  Isn't that a fundamental
	paradox?

		ANDERTON (O.S.)
	Yes, it is.

They all turn and look at Anderton as he comes into the room,
takes the sphere from Fletcher.

		ANDERTON
	You're talking about
	predetermination, which happens all
	the time.

Suddenly, Anderton rolls the ball towards Witwer who catches
it just as it's about to go off the table.

		ANDERTON
	Why did you catch that?

		WITWER
	Because it was going to fall.

		ANDERTON
	You're certain?

		WITWER
	Yes.

		ANDERTON
	But it didn't fall.  You caught it.

Witwer looks at the ball in his hand.

		ANDERTON
	The fact that you prevented it from
	happening doesn't change the fact
	that it was going to happen.

		WITWER
	You ever get any false positives?
	Someone intends to kill his boss or
	his wife, but they never go through
	with it.  How do the precogs tell
	the difference?

		ANDERTON
	The Precogs don't see what you
	intend to do, only what you will
	do.

		WITWER
	Then why can't they see rapes, or
	assaults... or suicides?

		FLETCHER
	Because of the nature of murder.
		(quoting)
	"There's nothing more destructive
	to the metaphysical fabric that
	binds us than the untimely murder
	of one human being by another".

		WITWER
	Somehow, I don't think that was
	Walt Whitman.

Anderton looks at Witwer.  The man knows more than he
thought.

		ANDERTON
		(looking at Witwer)
	It was Iris Hineman.  She developed
	the Precogs, designed the system
	and pioneered the interface.

		WITWER
	Speaking of interfacing, I'd love
	to say hello.

		ANDERTON
	To Hineman?

Witwer looks at the screens showing THE PRECOGS.

		WITWER
	To them.

		ANDERTON
	Cops aren't allowed inside the
	temple.

		WITWER
	Really?  You've never been inside?

		ANDERTON
	We keep a strict separation so that
	no one can accuse us of tampering.

		WITWER
	So I'll be the first one to go in
	then?

		ANDERTON
	Maybe you didn't hear me.

		WITWER
	If it's a question of authority.

		ANDERTON
	There's no question.  You don't
	have any.

		WITWER
	I have a warrant in my pocket that
	says different.

The other men don't move, don't blink.

		ANDERTON
	Show it to me.

Witwer pulls out a piece of paper from his pocket folded
several times and hands it to him.  As Anderton unfolds it...

		WITWER
	Contrary to what you might think,
	this experiment is being conducted
	under the supervision and with the
	express permission of the Attorney
	General of the United States.  I'm
	here as his representative.  Which
	means... you're now operating under
	my supervision.

Anderton looks up from the paper, at his men, at Witwer.
He's lost and he knows it.  Witwer takes the paper back.

		WITWER
	It seems you've been left out of
	the loop, John.

INSIDE THE TEMPLE

AS WALLY, the caretaker, an odd little guy who doesn't get a
lot of sun looks over as Witwer and Anderton walk through A
LASER DECONTAMINATION BOOTH...

		WALLY
	No no no no no...

Witwer smiles, extends his hand.  Wally backs away.

		WALLY
	I can't touch you!  And John, you
	can't be in here!  You'll confuse
	them!

		ANDERTON
	Wally.  This is Danny Witwer.  He's
	from Justice and we're to give him
	a full run of the farm.

		WITWER
	Nice to meet you, Wally.

		WALLY
	Shhh!  They're sleeping.

		WITWER
		(whispers)
	Tell me how all this works.

AND NOW WE SEE: THE TANK

As a RIPPLE APPEARS in the white liquid.

		WITWER (O.S.)
	The photon milk acts as both a
	nutrient supply and a liquid
	conductor.  It makes the images
	that each of them receive strong.

And now a MAN'S FACE slowly breaks the surface, then ANOTHER
MAN'S FACE, followed by A FEMALE FACE...

PULL BACK TO REVEAL: THE THREE PRECOGS

Three nude bodies -- TWO MALE, ONE FEMALE.  As they writhe
about in the liquid, we can see that their bodies are thin,
nearly translucent.

The precogs appear to be in suspended animation or in comas.
They are absolutely still and limp, except for their faces
which are in constant motion, reacting to murders only they
can see.

		WALLY
	We call the female Agatha.  The
	twins are Arthur and Dashiell.

REVEAL: THE PRECOG TANK

Egg-like in shape, it's filled with the milky-looking liquid
the three Precogs are suspended in.

		WALLY
	We scan by way of optical
	tomography, white light pinpoints
	pulse along the entire length of
	the headgear and are re-read after
	absorption through their brain
	tissue.

Witwer looks at him, has no idea what he just said.

		WALLY
	In other words, we see what they
	see.

Wally lifts one of the Male Precogs into a harness and hoists
him up for exercise and cleaning.  Wally starts to trim his
nails and the Precog begins convulsing...

		WALLY
	They're not in any pain.  We keep
	their heads pretty well stocked
	with dopamine and endorphins.
	Plus, we maintain careful control
	over their serotonin levels --
	don't want 'em to drift off to
	sleep, but they can't be kept too
	awake either.

		ANDERTON
	It helps if you don't think of them
	as human.

		WITWER
		(staring at them)
	No... they're much more than that.

Witwer nods, looks up at THE SCREENS ABOVE THE TANK, a series
of screens tapped into each Precog.  We can see all sorts of
images, but none of them clear right now.  He's mesmerized by
all of them.

		WITWER
	Science has stolen most of our
	miracles.  In a way...
		(indicates the tank)
	... they give us hope... hope of
	the existence of the divine.

He sees Anderton and Wally looking at him.

		WITWER
	I find it interesting that some
	people have begun to deify the
	precogs.

		ANDERTON
	The precogs are pattern recognition
	filters, nothing more.

		WITWER
	But you call this room the
	"temple".

		ANDERTON
	Just a nickname.

		WITWER
		(nods, then)
	The oracle isn't where the power is
	anyway.  The power's always been
	with the priests.
		(looks at the Precogs)
	Even if they had to invent the
	oracle.

Anderton looks to where Fletcher, Jad and Knott stand near
the entrance, nodding their heads.

		ANDERTON
	You guys are nodding your heads
	like you actually know what the
	hell he's talking about.

		JAD
	Come on, Chief, you think about it,
	the way we work -- changing destiny
	and all -- we're more like clergy
	than cops.

		ANDERTON
	Uh-huh.  Jad?

		JAD
	Sir?

		ANDERTON
	Go back to work.  All of you.

The others give him a look and walk out.  Anderton turns back
to Witwer who smiles at him.

		WITWER
	Sorry.  Old habit.  I spent three
	years at Fuller Seminary before I
	became a cop.  My father was a
	minister.  Lutheran.

		ANDERTON
	What does he think of your chosen
	line of work?

		WITWER
	I don't know.  He was shot and
	killed when I was fourteen on the
	steps of his church in Bethesda.

He looks at Anderton.

		WITWER
	I know what it's like to lose
	someone close, John.  Of course,
	nothing is like the loss of a
	child.

Agatha rolls over now, seems to be looking at Anderton.

		WITWER
	I don't have any children of my
	own, so I can only imagine what
	that must have been like, to lose
	your son in a public place like
	that.

Anderton says nothing.  Hates the man all over again.

		WITWER
	At least now you -- and I -- have
	the chance to make sure that kind
	of thing doesn't happen to anyone
	ever again.

		ANDERTON
		(beat)
	Why don't you cut the cute act,
	Danny, and tell me exactly what it
	is you're looking for?

		WITWER
	Flaws.

		ANDERTON
	There hasn't been a murder in six
	years.  There's nothing wrong with
	the system.  It's perfect.

		WITWER
	I agree.  The system is perfect.
	If there's a flaw, it's human.  It
	always is.
		(then)
	Thank you for the tour, Wally.

Anderton watches him walk out, shakes his head, then
notices...

The FEMALE PRECOG'S ARM is resting on the edge of the tank.
He looks down at her a moment.  She's looking at him, but her
eyes seem somewhere else.

Anderton looks around for Wally, doesn't see him.  He doesn't
want to touch her.  He finally reaches down and gently takes
her arm, sets it back into the tank.

As it submerges, she takes hold of ANDERTON'S FINGER and
hangs on.  He stares back at her.  She holds on tight...

		ANDERTON
	Uh, Wally --

He tries to pull his hand away, but she holds on, grabs onto
Anderton's shirt, and STARTS TRYING TO PULL HERSELF OUT OF
THE WATER...

		ANDERTON
	Wally!

		AGATHA
		(whisper)
	Can you see?

And now she's clinging to Anderton, looking up.  He looks up
at the SCREEN above her and sees...

A FLASH OF A WOMAN'S FACE.  Silent.  Eyes and mouth wide
open.  A shock of red hair all around her.  Her face is a
white mask of terror.  She seems to be beckoning Anderton
with her arm...

He looks at Agatha, who continues to cling to him, HER OWN
FACE HOLDS THE SAME EXPRESSION as the woman on the screen.
She finally lets go of Anderton and falls back into the tank.

		WALLY
	John?!

Anderton, shaken, looks up and THE IMAGE FADES, replaced with
the blurry flood of images we saw earlier.

		WALLY
	What the hell just happened?  Her
	ACTH levels just shot through the
	roof!

Anderton turns and looks at the Precog writhing about.

		WALLY
	Her pituitary dumped a week's worth
	into her system... What did you do
	to her?

		ANDERTON
	Nothing... she grabbed me, and then
	there was an image on the screen...

		WALLY
	She grabbed you?  Impossible.  The
	Precogs aren't even aware of us.
	In the milk all they see is the
	future.

Anderton shoots a look down the hall as WITWER WALKS THROUGH
THE LASER DECONTAMINATOR, unaware of what just happened.  He
turns to Wally and lowers his voice...

		ANDERTON
	She was looking right at me.

		WALLY
	It could have been a nightmare...
	Sometimes they dream about the old
	murders.

Anderton looks back down at Agatha, her eyes closed now as
she sinks down into the milk and disappears, her own arm in
front of her, beckoning in the same way as the woman.

		ANDERTON
	She spoke to me.

		WALLY
		(dismissive)
	To you?  I don't think so...
		(but has to know)
	What'd she say?

		ANDERTON
	She said...

Anderton looks up at the screens...

		ANDERTON
	"Can you see?"

EXT.  THE DEPARTMENT OF CONTAINMENT - EARLY MORNING

Anderton takes off his sunglasses, looks at a screen:

		ANDERTON
	Anderton.  John.

He moves his eyes close to the screen and gets
EYEdentiscanned at the door and goes inside.

INT.  DEPARTMENT OF CONTAINMENT - EARLY MORNING

Silent.  A huge open space, a human warehouse.  Along the
floor -- ringing the entire perimeter -- are markers with
numbers on the front of them.  We now HEAR FOOTSTEPS as...

Anderton enters the building.  As he moves further into the
space, our angle changes and we now see HUMAN BODIES lying on
their backs on the other side of the markers.  Each
"prisoner" has a metal HALO-like apparatus -- spikes going
inward -- fitted onto his head.

Anderton slows his pace, eyeing the row of inert bodies along
the floor as he goes.  Above each inert prisoner is a SCREEN
that continuously plays the Precog's PREVISION OF THE MURDER
for which they've been convicted.

Suddenly we hear a blast of ORGAN MUSIC reverberating from
somewhere O.S. and he looks off towards a CURTAIN at the
back...

ON THE CURTAIN

As Anderton parts it to REVEAL:

A LIVING SPACE

A bed.  A stove.  A fridge... And A HUGE PIPE ORGAN.  A MAN
IN A WHEELCHAIR playing with his back to us.  From the sound
of it, he seems to be making it up as he goes along.
Anderton taps the guy on the shoulder, startling him --

		MAN
	HOO BOY!
		(then)
	You scared me, Chief.

He takes a breath, looks at Anderton standing there.  The
man's face is large, almost retarded in appearance.  He wears
A PRISON GUARD UNIFORM.

		ANDERTON
	You the sentry?

		GIDEON
	Yes, sir.  I'm Gideon.
		(indicates the organ)
	The music relaxes the prisoners.

Anderton looks around as Gideon quickly moves away from the
organ.

		GIDEON
	I don't ever see any of you precops
	down here, I'm not in trouble am I?

		ANDERTON
	No, you're not in trouble.  I'm
	interested in a murder.

		GIDEON
	Kill type?

		ANDERTON
	Drowning.

Gideon turns to a computer screen on his wheelchair.

		GIDEON
	Well, that narrows it down.  Not
	many in here for that one.

Gideon starts going through the files, we see different FACES
flash by.  Anderton looks over his shoulder.

		ANDERTON
	Victim's a white female.

		GIDEON
	This about the Justice Department?
		(off Anderton's look)
	They laid on a tour for tomorrow
	a.m.  Told me to wear a tie.  You
	like this one?

THE FACE OF THE DROWNING WOMAN Agatha showed Anderton flashes
on the screen.

		ANDERTON
	Stop!  Roll back... There!

Gideon looks at the screen.

		GIDEON
	That's an old one.  One of our
	first.

		ANDERTON
	This is the official composite of
	the three precogs?

		GIDEON
	That's right.  It's a combined data
	stream based on all three
	previsions.

		ANDERTON
	Show me just Agatha's data stream.

		GIDEON
	For that, we have to go for a ride.

Gideon rolls ahead of Anderton, checking his manifest on a
small display.  Anderton looks around.

		ANDERTON
	You the only sentry?

		GIDEON
	I work graveyard, swing and day all
	by my lonesome.

Gideon hits a button on his wheelchair and we hear a RUMBLING
SOUND as the "prisoners" around the perimeter all BEGIN TO
RISE.

		GIDEON
	Hey, bet you don't know where the
	term "graveyard shift" comes from?

Only half-listening, Anderton watches as now A SECOND TIER OF
MARKERS appear right below the first tier.  The video screens
playing the murder previsions over and over...

		GIDEON
	Long time ago, in merry old
	England, they discovered that some
	coffins, after they reopened 'em --
	now why they did that, I couldn't
	tell you --

And now we see a third tier, also with the video screens
showing their own horrific images.

		GIDEON
	Anyway, they discovered that some
	of the coffins had scratch marks on
	the inside, indicating that the
	person had not been dead when they
	buried them.

And now Anderton watches as a fourth tier rises up.

		GIDEON
	So they tied a string to the wrist
	of each person that lead to a bell
	above ground.

Anderton has to tilt his neck to see the top of the tiers as
a fifth tier rises up from the ground...

		GIDEON
	Someone was assigned to sit at
	night and listen for the bells.

... until the bodies and their markers are stacked nearly to
the roof of the facility and Gideon turns to Anderton and
smiles.

		GIDEON
	Hence the expression...

		ANDERTON
		(softly, staring at all
		 the prisoners)
	... Graveyard shift.

		GIDEON
	Not to mention, "Saved by the
	bell".

Gideon starts to roll off.  Anderton stands there, looking at
all of them.

		ANDERTON
	I'd forgotten there were so many.

Gideon rolls onto a PLATFORM attached to a long arm and
wheels around to face Anderton.

		GIDEON
	And to think they'd all be out
	there killing people if it wasn't
	for you.

Anderton moves onto the platform they lift up and away.

INT.  ANDERTON'S APARTMENT - DAY

Dark.  We hear someone make the lock, then the door opens and
we see Danny Witwer standing there looking in.  He closes the
door, turns on the light and takes in the total disarray.

He bends down, picks up a BLACK INHALER and examines it.  He
puts it in his pocket and starts to look around.

He moves through the dark apartment to the table where
Anderton keeps his Holo-Computer equipment.  He looks at it a
moment, then starts pressing buttons.  And now we hear...

		SEAN (O.S.)
	Hey, Daddy!

He pulls his weapon, wheels around and points it at the holo
image of SEAN (age 4) ON THE BEACH as he wings a Frisbee.

		SEAN
	Catch!

Witwer ducks as it sails by.  He looks around, notices the
LASER PROJECTORS all around the room.  And now he sees THE
IMAGES OF SEAN... everywhere.  He slowly puts away his gun.

		WITWER
	My God...

INT.  DEPARTMENT OF CONTAINMENT - DAY

As Anderton rides the platform with Gideon looking at all of
the "prisoners".

		GIDEON
	They get to spend twenty years
	asleep, somewhere between life and
	death, all the while getting their
	bodies pumped up with nutrients
	they'd never get if they were out
	on the street.
		(stops the platform)
	Okee pokee, here we go...

A video screen comes into view, we see it's showing THE
DROWNING WOMAN Anderton saw inside the temple.

		GIDEON
	John Doe drug addict was gonna put
	down a woman named Anne Lively at
	Roland Lake.

They move upward, once more gliding up to a video screen as
it comes into view, we see it's showing THE DROWNING WOMAN
Anderton saw inside the temple.

		ANDERTON
	That's her --

Anderton looks at the screen.  The PREVISION PLAYS OUT:
Daytime.  A lake.  The redheaded woman is shoved under water
by two BLACK-GLOVED HANDS, her mouth open to scream.

Anderton looks at the MAN lying there -- tall, shaved head,
nearly skeletal.

		ANDERTON
	Why's he still a John Doe?  Why
	wasn't he ever ID's from an
	EYEscan?

		GIDEON
	On account of those are not his
	eyes.  He had 'em swapped out to
	fool the scanners.

Anderton sees the dark red scar-lines around his eyes.

		GIDEON
	You get it done on the street for a
	few hundred bucks these days.

Anderton looks at the screen as the SCREAMING WOMAN appears
again, stares at her face.

		GIDEON
	Okay, so you want just the female's
	prevision.

Gideon hits a button on his remote and the VIDEO SCREEN
DIVIDES INTO THREE SECTIONS.  In the first section, we see
various angles of the woman being drowned by John Doe.  A
similar series of shots on the second screen.

But the THIRD SCREEN IS BLANK.

		GIDEON
	Huh, we don't seem to have her
	data.

		ANDERTON
	Try again.

		GIDEON
		(works the computer)
	No... we have the two previsions
	from the twins right here, but...
		(indicates the blank
		 screen)
	... I can't pull up any data from
	the female.  Probably just a
	glitch.

Anderton stares thoughtfully at the first two images of Anne
Lively being drowned.

		GIDEON
	Hey, you wanna know where the word
	came from, "glitch?"

		ANDERTON
		(looks at the face)
	Just tell me about the intended
	victim.  This Anne Lively...

Gideon works the computer.

		GIDEON
	Looks like she was a neuroin addict
	like John Doe here, but I show an
	address history that includes the
	Beaton Clinic.

		ANDERTON
	So she cleaned up.  Where is she
	now?

Gideon again works the computer, then sits back.

		GIDEON
	Huh.  How ironic...

He spins the screen so that Anderton can see one word there:
"MISSING"

		GIDEON
	You finally crawl your way out of
	one hole, only to fall into
	another.

Anderton takes a small plastic CARD from his wallet and
slides it into A SLOT on the computer.  Instantly the MOVING
IMAGE OF ANNE LIVELY downloads onto the card.

		GIDEON
	Careful, Chief...

Anderton looks at him.

		GIDEON
	You dig up the past, all you get is
	dirty.

					DISSOLVE TO:

THE WHITE LIQUID

THE FACE OF THE FEMALE PRECOG emerges from the milk, her blue
eyes suddenly blink open.  Something has begun...

INT.  BURGESS' LIVING ROOM - DAY

Burgess sits on the couch, a blanket covering his legs,
nursing a cold.  He looks at THE MOVING IMAGE OF ANNE LIVELY
on the small card.

		BURGESS
	And you say the third prevision
	was, what, a little fuzzy or
	something?

		ANDERTON
	I'm saying the third prevision
	wasn't there.  And that's not all.
	I spent a few hours down there and
	it turns out there's a dozen more
	cases with missing previsions.

Burgess sneezes, takes out his handkerchief.

		BURGESS
	You'd think we'd have found a cure
	for the common cold by now.

		WIFE (O.S.)
	It's stress.

His WIFE walks in who hands him a steaming mug.  He looks at
it.

		BURGESS
	What's this?

		WIFE
	Herbal tea with honey.

		BURGESS
	Yeah, well I hate herbal tea...
	almost as much as I hate honey.

		WIFE
	Just drink it before I pour it in
	your lap.

He reluctantly takes it.  She smiles at Anderton on her way
out.

		ANDERTON
	Danny Witwer is scheduled for a
	tour of Containment tomorrow --

		BURGESS
	So give him a tour.  He doesn't
	know enough to ask the right
	questions.

		ANDERTON
	If he's looking for a flaw in the
	system --

		BURGESS
	He's not.  He's looking for a flaw
	in us, John.

Anderton notices the change in Burgess' tone.  Burgess tosses
the CARD onto the coffee table in front of him, and considers
Anderton a moment.

		BURGESS
	Lara called me.

		ANDERTON
	What?

		BURGESS
	She's worried about you.  And,
	quite frankly, so am I.

		ANDERTON
	I'm fine.

		BURGESS
	I hear you've been spending a lot
	of time in the sprawl.

		ANDERTON
		(beat)
	I go running down there.

		BURGESS
	In the middle of the night?

Anderton doesn't have an answer for that one.

		BURGESS
	What if Danny Witwer came to you
	right now and insisted on a full
	chem run?

		ANDERTON
	I'm fine, Lamar.

Burgess gets up and sits down next to Anderton, puts a hand
on his shoulder.

		BURGESS
		(beat)
	You understand, John, that the
	minute Precrime goes national,
	they're going to take it away from
	us.

		ANDERTON
	We won't let them.

		BURGESS
	No?  How's an old man and a cop on
	the whiff ever going to stop them?

This stings Anderton.  Burgess softens.

		BURGESS
	My father once said to me that you
	don't choose the things you believe
	in, they choose you.
		(then)
	There's a reason you're here, John.
	Had Precrime been in place just six
	months earlier, the loss you and
	Lara suffered would have been
	prevented.

Anderton turns away.

		BURGESS
	Remember the eyes, John --

Burgess COUGHS, motions for a second while he gets his breath
back, then...

		BURGESS
	Remember, the eyes of the nation
	are on us right now.  We both know
	I'm not the generation anyone
	listens to.
		(then)
	People trust you, John.  When you
	speak of your absolute belief in
	Precrime, they know it's a belief
	born of pain and not politics.
	I've always understood that.  And
	in some ways, I may have even
	encouraged it, to help with the
	cause.  But now... your pain is
	hurting both of us.

Anderton nods, finally gets up, puts his hand on Burgess'
shoulder, looks the old man in the eye.

		ANDERTON
	They're not going to take it away
	from us, Lamar.
		(beat)
	I won't let them.

INT.  TELEVISION SOUND STAGE - MORNING

A talkshow.  A woman MODERATOR sits in front of a backdrop
that reads "DOUBLE EXPOSURE".  Anderton now in a suit and tie
sits with the MODERATOR and a WOMAN in a dark suit.

		MODERATOR
	A week from today conventions will
	meet in every state to vote on the
	ratification of the precrime
	amendment.  With us to discuss this
	historic decision are Chief John
	Anderton of Precrime in Washington
	D.C. and Ms. Dinola Margis,
	Director of the American Freedom
	Foundation.  Both of you, thanks
	for being here.

		ANDERTON/MARGIS
	Geraldine.  Thanks for having me.

		MODERATOR
	Ms. Margis, let me start with you.
	Last year, more people in this
	country lost their lives to murder
	than to natural causes.  Doesn't
	such unparalleled violence require
	that we protect our citizens,
	whatever it takes?

		MARGIS
	No, Geraldine, not at the price of
	giving up our most fundamental
	rights.  For almost three centuries
	now, every accused citizen has had
	the right to be presumed innocent
	until found guilty.  But, here, we
	have the beginnings of a system
	that punishes people for crimes
	that haven't even been committed.
	I feel stuck in a nightmare.

And now we see Burgess standing in the wings, watching now as
Anderton smiles, revs up the charm.

		ANDERTON
	You forget, Dinola, that the
	Supreme Court has ruled that the
	Precogs predictions as foregone,
	metaphysical conclusions.  Meaning
	what the Precogs say is going to
	happen, happens.
		(then)
	Unless we stop it.

		MARGIS
	You know, the Eutruscans used to
	read sheep livers to predict the
	future.  Maybe we should try that
	one next.

		ANDERTON
	That's funny.  But the truth is,
	our Constitution has always
	recognized that in times of great
	danger we may have to take actions
	that... offend certain principles
	in order to preserve the nation
	itself.

Burgess looks at Anderton and nods.  That's my boy.  Anderton
nods back, turns back to the table as we...

					DISSOLVE TO:

INT.  SOLARIUM - NIGHT

Anderton, barefoot and shirtless, still in his suitpants,
eats a bowl of cereal while the TALKSHOW he taped earlier in
the day before plays out on the TELEVISION.

		ANDERTON (TV)
	In the middle of the civil war, for
	example, Abraham Lincoln suspended
	the writ of habeas corpus observing
	that a limb may be sacrificed to
	save a life, but a life is never
	wisely given to save a limb.

Anderton doesn't watch it.  Instead, he stares stupidly at
the images of SNAP, CRACKLE and POP dancing around on the
cereal box that sits on the coffee table in front of him.

		MARGIS (TV)
	Let me ask you something, Chief?
	You're a former police officer --
	when was the last time you
	Mirandized someone?

The ON TV ANDERTON just smiles at her.

		MARGIS (TV)
	You have the right to remain
	silent?  You have the right to an
	attorney?

He turns, looks up at the set and now we go...

CLOSE ON MARGIS

		MARGIS (TV)
	When's the last time you actually
	said those words?

ANDERTON

Mutes the set, stares back at her when we hear --

		ANDERTON'S VOICE
	What are you looking at?

Anderton turns and sees A HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGE OF LARA, his ex
wife, standing at the window, looking out at the rain.

		LARA
	Just the rain.

She turns and looks off to a spot in the room where Anderton
would have been standing all those years ago with the camera,

		LARA
	Why don't you put that camera down
	and watch it with me?

Now Anderton puts down the bowl of cereal, gets up and walks
over to her, but THE IMAGE BLINKS OUT, then STARTS ALL OVER
AGAIN...

Anderton turns and walks across the room.  We now see A DOZEN
HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGES from his old life playing around the room.
He sits down in an armchair and watches them play out.

He holds a black inhaler to his lips, sucks in the drug, then
looks about at the images as, gradually, the holographs begin
to fill in, become real.  To him anyway.

Sean (age 6) walks up beside him dressed in A YELLOW RAIN
SLICKER.  Anderton looks over at him, standing there silent.
He says something, but there's no audio, or at least we don't
hear it.  The image jumps, then repeats, the boy walking up
in the slicker, his mouth moving silent.  Then again...

Anderton reaches out for his son, but the boy DISAPPEARS.  In
his place, floating green letters read:

			END OF FILE

Anderton sits up and rubs his face.  He starts to get up,
then pauses, looks down at the floor beside the chair.

A PUDDLE OF WATER has formed.  He stares at it a moment, A
DROP OF WATER FALLS FROM ABOVE and Anderton slowly looks up
at...

THE GLASS CEILING OF THE SOLARIUM

A long CRACK in the glass up there.  Rain pelts it.  Water
drips down and forms a puddle on the floor.

Anderton looks around the room and we see a half dozen END OF
FILE's all over the room now.

INT.  PRECRIME HEADQUATERS - ANDERTON'S OFFICE - DAY

As Anderton comes in, takes his coat off.  Something drops on
the floor.  He bends down and picks up the DATA CARD with the
image of ANNE LIVELY drowning.  He looks at it when...

We hear LAUGHTER O.S. and he looks down through the glass,
sees a GROUP OF SECRETARIES having a baby shower for the
pregnant woman.  He notices Fletcher, some of his guys down
there...

And then he sees Witwer.  His hand on the pregnant
secretary's belly, cracking a joke they all laugh at.
Suddenly he's the most popular guy on campus.  The guys see
Anderton who motions them to stay, it's okay.  Witwer looks
up at him curiously.  Anderton POCKETS THE DATA CARD, turns
away and goes into...

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - DAY

As Anderton comes in, Jad sits at the big screen, looking at
something.

		ANDERTON
	Jad.  How come you're not out there
	with Father Witwer?

		JAD
	We're in motion on something.

Anderton comes over now.

		JAD
	From what I can see, we got a white
	male, about five-eight,
	approximately one-forty, takes a
	round in the ten ring, and goes out
	a window.

Anderton starts to put on his eyepiece and finger gloves.

		ANDERTON
	Red Ball?

		JAD
	Nope.  Somebody's thinking about
	this one.

		ANDERTON
	Amazing there's someone within two
	hundred miles actually dumb enough
	to still do that.

Jad watches as Anderton sticks a disc into a slot and we hear
CLASSICAL MUSIC OVER.

		JAD
	I love this part.

Anderton starts "conducting" the prevision, organizing the
images, moving some up, others back...

		FEMALE PRECOG
	Wait!  Don't --

Anderton looks at the PRECOG SCREEN, sees the three of them
writhing about.

		ANDERTON
	Here we go...

And now we see the screen, various images, all of them
grainy, visual non-sequiters like A FACE WEARING
SUNGLASSES... THE NUMBER 9 TURNING INTO THE NUMBER 6... THE
INSIDE OF A SMALL APARTMENT... A FIGURE BACKLIT BY A
WINDOW... A CRACKED MIRROR... A SMALL MAN... A PAIR OF DARK
EYES...

		ANDERTON
	Shunt all cycles to a full vis
	correlation at my mark by the
	windows.

And now the image starts to resolve, showing TWO MEN, one
with a gun, his image still blurred.  The other clearer...

ON THE CHUTE: A BALL

Rolls down.  Jad moves into read the name:

		JAD
	The victim's name is Leo Crow.

		ANDERTON
		(into the computer)
	Start a location run and a contact
	search for future victim Leo Crow.
		(to Jad)
	And, Jad, I'll need a Last Known
	Sheet when you get it.

		JAD
	I've got no address -- last known
	or otherwise -- no tax returns for
	the last five years.

		ANDERTON
	Check NCIC, maybe he's got a
	record.  Then send a protection
	team as soon as we lock the
	location.

Anderton turns to another part of the screen...

		ANDERTON
	Case #1109, previsualized by the
	Precogs and recorded on holosphere
	by Precrime's q-stacks.
		(to a screen)
	My fellow witnesses for case #1109
	are Dr. Katherine James and Chief
	Justice Frank Pollard.

AND NOW THE SPLIT-IMAGE emerges of James and Pollard in the
respective offices.

		ANDERTON
	Are the witnesses ready to preview
	and validate #1109?

		POLLARD
		(a mouthful of dinner)
	Ready when you are, John.

		JAMES
	Standing by.

On the screen in front of Jad we see MUGSHOTS ROLLING BY.
DRIVERS LICENSE PHOTOS... A mass of photo ID data... Anderton
ZOOMS INTO A CLOCK IN THE ROOM.  3:06 p.m.  Fri.

		ANDERTON
	I show time of occurrence, Friday
	at fifteen-zero-six hours.

		JAD
	That was easy.

Anderton sets his timer for 28 HOURS, THIRTY-ONE MINUTES.

		ANDERTON
	Confirm with trig and image.

		JAD
	Any ID on the shooter yet?

		ANDERTON
	Still scrubbing... looks like
	there's a third party, somebody
	wearing shades just out the
	window...

Anderton ZOOMS IN on the FACE WITH THE SUNGLASSES, then PANS
OVER and tries to get a clearer picture of the gunman.
His image starting to come into focus as he turns.  It's
slow, jerky, so they don't immediately recognize the face
as...

		ANDERTON
	Jesus...

HIS OWN FACE.  And now Anderton watches horrified as on the
screen he shoots the man we now know as Leo Crow...

		ANDERTON
	Okay, very funny.

Anderton looks at Jad, absorbed in his photo ID array.  Jad
notices him, looks over.

		JAD
	You say something, Chief?

ON THE CHUTE: THE BALL

With the KILLER'S NAME ON IT: JOHN ANDERTON

Anderton stares at the ball.  WE HEAR LAUGHTER O.S.  He looks
through at the BABY SHOWER, Witwer looking his way.

		ANDERTON
		(panic rising)
	Uh, yeah, you mind getting me a
	piece of that cake they're eating
	down there?  I'm starving.

		JAD
	Sure, Chief.  I think I'll grab one
	for myself while I'm at it...

		ANDERTON
	Take your time.

Jad goes, passing behind Anderton, who quickly changes his
screen so Jad won't see his face as the killer.

Alone in the room now, Anderton begins zooming in on the odd
details of the vision once more.  THE FACE WITH THE
SUNGLASSES just outside the window.  The NUMBER 6 turning
into a NUMBER 9.  A CRACKED MIRROR.  Anderton shooting the
man...

He zooms back in on his face.  There's an air of desperation
on the Anderton he sees on screen.  It's like looking at a
stranger.

INT.  TEMPLE - DAY

Peeling off his long scrubbing gloves, Wally sits down at
his worktable.  In the tank, meanwhile...

		MALE PRECOG 1
	You're not gonna kill me.

		MALE PRECOG 2
	Good-bye, Crow.

		MALE PRECOG 1
	Anderton!

And now on the monitors, Wally sees Chief John Anderton blow
a man out a window with his .45 Wally almost laughs with
disbelief.  It can't be, but...

		WALLY
		(clicking headset)
	Jad, are you getting this?

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - DAY

Anderton looks over to the phone, hearing Wally's voice.

		WALLY (O.S.)
	Jad?

INT.  JUSTICE POLLARD'S OFFICE - DAY

As the Justice sits frozen at his desk staring at the
monitor, a buttered roll poised near his mouth.  Katherine
James hurries in now and he turns to her.

		POLLARD
	You saw that?  You saw that, didn't
	you?

		JAMES
	I saw it.

Pollard reaches for his phone.

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - DAY

As Anderton sees Wally on the screen now, looking anxious.

		WALLY
	Chief?

Anderton's too stunned to answer.

		WALLY
	I like you, Chief.

Anderton looks at Wally's face on the screen now.

		WALLY
	You've always been nice to me.
		(then)
	I'll give you two minutes before I
	hit the siren.

Anderton looks at the caretaker a second, then slowly gets up
and walks out the door...

INT.  PRECRIME HEADQUATERS - MAIN FLOOR - DAY

As a dazed Anderton moves away from the baby shower.  Doesn't
dare look at Witwer.  The LAUGHTER RECEDING BEHIND HIM.

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - DAY

As Jad comes in with a piece of cake on a paper plate...

		JAD
	Here you go, Chief...

... and stops dead when he sees the images playing over and
over on the screen.

		JAD
	Good Christ...

INT.  PRECRIME HEADQUATERS - MAIN FLOOR - DAY

Fletcher tries to wave him over, but Anderton just keeps
walking, the whole thing some surreal nightmare.

		VOICE
	Say cheese!

He bumps into the floating videobot and bats it out of the
way with the back of his hand.  Everybody looking at him now
as he gets on the elevator.

INT.  ELEVATOR - DAY

As Anderton hits a button...

		VOICE
	Hold that, please!

Anderton bangs the CLOSE button and the doors start to shut,
keeps banging it, as the doors almost get there, when A FOOT
blocks them and they part, revealing Danny Witwer.

		WITWER
	Thanks.

The doors close once more and they start down.  Witwer
smiling at Anderton.

		WITWER
	You're in a lot of trouble, John.

Anderton steps back, keeps his hand near his .45.

		ANDERTON
	You set me up...

		WITWER
	I'll write the paranoia off to the
	whiff you been doping on all night.

Witwer reaches into his coat and Anderton grabs him and
shoves him against the wall.  Anderton's pistol already out,
jammed up under Witwer's chin.  Witwer keeps his eyes on
Anderton as he slowly pulls out A BLACK INHALER.

		WITWER
	It seems I've found a flaw, John
		(then)
	You.

		ANDERTON
	You gonna tell on me?

		WITWER
	Possession alone will cost you six
	months, not to mention your badge.

Anderton doesn't say anything.

		WITWER
	I guess we won't be working
	together after all.

Witwer shakes his head.  DING.  The elevator arrives and the
doors open.

		WITWER
	Now put the gun down, John.  I
	don't hear a Red Ball.

THE PRECRIME SIREN GOES OFF.  Witwer looks at Anderton, all
of a sudden no longer so sure of himself.  Anderton smiles,
then shoves him back into the elevator and jumps off as the
DOORS CLOSE on a stunned Witwer.

EXT.  D.C. STREETS - DAY

Racing past other cars, Anderton merges into traffic.  He's
driving his personal car, not a police-issue.

INT.  ANDERTON'S CAR - DAY

Burgess appears on the windshield screen.

		ANDERTON
	Just so you know, I've overridden
	the vehicle locator.  I just wanted
	to talk to you before Justice --

		BURGESS
	Justice already knows.  Talk to me,
	John.  Tell me what's happening?

		ANDERTON
	This is all Witwer.  He's setting
	me up.

		BURGESS
	Stop.  Just wait.  Who's the
	victim?

		ANDERTON
	Somebody named Leo Crow.

		BURGESS
	And who the hell is that?

		ANDERTON
	I have no idea.  I've never heard
	of him.  But I'm supposed to kill
	him in less than thirty-six hours.

		BURGESS
	All right, John, just take a
	breath, let's think about this...

		ANDERTON
	I'm out of breath!  I'm a fucking
	fugitive!

		BURGESS
	Then come to my house.  We'll
	talk --

		ANDERTON
	I can't.  They're following me
	right now.  They'll meet me there.
	They'll halo me.

		BURGESS
	How could Witwer have accessed the
	case file?

		ANDERTON
	Can you fake the cerebral output?

		BURGESS
	We're years from that.  John, I'm
	asking you: please, come in, we'll
	shut down the system until we get
	this thing figured out.

		ANDERTON
	You know I can't do that.  You
	can't do that...
		(then)
	Lamar, I need you to talk to Wally,
	see if Witwer's gone inside the
	temple again.  Then ask Jad for any
	off hour EYEdents into the
	analytical room --

		BURGESS
	John.  Just tell me, who's Leo
	Crow?

Suddenly, Anderton's doors LOCK tight.

		COMPUTER VOICE
	Security lockdown enabled.

		ANDERTON
	Jesus, you don't believe me.

Anderton looks up at his windshield display which now shows
that his vehicle has been rerouted...

		COMPUTER VOICE
	Revised Destination: Office.

Anderton starts trying to figure a way out of the car.

		BURGESS
	John.  Please.  Listen to me --

		ANDERTON
	I'm not getting halo'd.

		BURGESS
	You can't run --

		ANDERTON
	Everybody runs.

Leaning back, he KICKS THROUGH the windshield, breaking his
way out.

EXT.  VEHICLE - DAY

As it goes down a huge maglev "falls", straight down the face
of a 200 foot building.  Anderton climbs onto the nose of the
car, his only hope to jump into one of the BALCONIES that
protrude out.

As the car flies down, he tries to time his jump between the
umbrellas and flowerpots that whiz by.  He finally makes the
suicide leap, gets to a balcony and crashes through a table.
He picks himself up, goes through the door into...

AN EXERCISE STUDIO

We hear ROCK & ROLL OVER as Anderton now moves through A
CONTORTIONIST EXERCISE CLASS, people bent and bowed into
impossible positions.  Anderton looks back at the Fellini-
esque fever dream, then runs out the door.

INT.  BURGESS' OFFICE - DAY

Frustrated, Burgess turns away, emotional now and we see
Fletcher and Witwer were watching the conversation.

		FLETCHER
	Don't worry.  I'll bring him in
	unharmed.

		WITWER
	Actually, Gordon, you're not gonna
	do that.
		(to Burgess)
	I'm taking control of the team.

		FLETCHER
	What?!

		BURGESS
		(motions to Fletcher "it's
		 okay", then)
	Witwer, Fletcher is second in
	command.  It's his show to run.
	You want, you can observe.
		(to Fletcher)
	Do it.  Find him.

Fletcher cuts a look at Witwer and heads out.  Witwer remains
eerily calm, sticks a piece of gum in his mouth.

		WITWER
	He came to see you yesterday.
	Right before he got tagged.  What
	did you talk about?

		BURGESS
	The Mets.  John doesn't think
	they've got a deep enough pitching
	roster this year, and I'm inclined
	to agree.

		WITWER
	Why are you protecting him?  You
	knew he was doping, yet you did
	nothing about it.

		BURGESS
	The man lost a child, for Christ's
	sake...

		WITWER
	Six years ago.  What did you two
	talk about yesterday afternoon?

		BURGESS
		(turning away)
	None of your damn business.

		WITWER
	Oh, it's all my damn business now,
	Lamar.
		(then)
	Investigation of a supervising
	office for a capital crime falls
	under federal jurisdiction... so as
	to rule out any possibility of
	conspiracy.  He's my suspect.

		BURGESS
	He's my subordinate!

Burgess looks at him.  Hates him, but knows he can't win.

		WITWER
	Shall we call the Attorney General?
	I'm sure he'd be happy to clarify
	the issue for you.

		BURGESS
		(beat)
	I don't want John Anderton hurt.

EXT.  MALL - DAY

As Anderton seems to float through the city, BILLBOARDS and
other ADVERTISEMENTS scan his eyes and actually call to him
by name.

		ADVERTISEMENTS
		(travel)
	Stressed out John Anderton?  Need a
	vacation?  Come to Aruba!
		(sportswear)
	Challenge yourself, John!  Push
	harder, John!
		(Lexus Motor Co.)
	It's not just a car, Mr. Anderton.
	It's an environment, designed to
	soothe and caress the tired soul...

		WITWER (V.O.)
	You've all worked with him...

INT.  BRIEFING ROOM - DAY

Witwer addresses the Precrime crew.  Behind him is the frozen
video image of Anderton shooting Leo Crow.  Evanna stares up
at it in disbelief.

		WITWER
	You may consider him a friend.

He walks up the line now, looking into the eyes of each and
every one of them.

		WITWER
	But we know that John Anderton is
	going to kill Leo Crow this Friday
	at three-o-six p.m., unless we stop
	him.

He looks into Fletcher's eyes, moves on...

		WITWER
	Don't think for a minute that if
	the situation was reversed he
	wouldn't go after you.  He would be
	a cop doing his job, as I'm doing
	mine.

He stops at Evanna and looks her in the eye now.

		WITWER
	So if you're not ready and willing
	to put the halo on him, leave now.

A few looks around the room, but nobody gets up.  Not even
Fletcher.  Witwer stares another moment at Evanna, smiles,
offers her a piece of gum...

		EVANNA
	No, thank you.

He sticks it in his own mouth, then turns to the officer
beside her.

		WITWER
	You can go.

		OFFICER
	Excuse me?

		WITWER
	Go.  You're dismissed.
		(points to another)
	You, too.
		(another)
	And you.

Everybody watches as the men Witwer dismissed walk out.

		FLETCHER
	Sir, the team's gonna be light
	without those men.

		WITWER
	Yes, I know.

And now the Pressure Door opens and FOUR LARGE MEN in dark
suits enter the room.  Knott smiles at the sight of them.

		WITWER
	These gentlemen are Federal Agents
	Jucket, Paymen, Price and Foley.
	Like you, I feel more comfortable
	with people I trust.

INT.  MALL - DAY

As Anderton watches people all over the mall getting EYE
scanned...

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
SPRINKLERS ERUPT IN SEQUENCE as...

EXT.  BUILDING - DAY

The cops all fly out the window and we now PULL BACK TO
REVEAL A DUMPSTER LID in immediate f.g.  Anderton lies there
watching as the cops fly off and away...

EXT.  LEXUS FACTORY - DAY

As Anderton climbs the fence, SETS OFF AN ALARM.  He moves to
the new vehicles and tries to open the doors.  THEY'RE ALL
LOCKED.  He looks off, sees THE BLINKING LIGHTS of the Hover
Cops and runs for the cover of the factory itself.

INT.  LEXUS FACTORY - ENTRY AREA - DAY

We hear A LOW HUM as now FOUR PRECOPS enter in hoversuits.
They stop in mid-air and drop their packs in unison.

INT.  COMPUTER ROOM - DAY

Anderton hides as the precops move towards the room.  One of
them breaks through the door.  The other cops move into the
room behind him.  ANDERTON IS GONE.  They look off at...

THE FACTORY DOORWAY

As Anderton runs through it, heading inside the main
building.

INT.  MAIN FACTORY AREA - DAY

As Anderton stops a moment and takes in the entire factory.
We see that IT IS COMPLETELY AUTOMATED.

INT.  ENTRY AREA - DAY

As Witwer and his four goons now head inside.  They approach
the precops and now they all walk inside together.

A WIDER SHOT

Of the Stereo Lithographer in the f.g.  Witwer and the others
entering in the b.g.  Anderton watches the group from across
the factory, then moves off.

ON WITWER

As he looks at the CAMERAS all around the factory, then turns
to his wrist communicator...

		WITWER
	Jad.  Patch me into security.

Witwer looks at his watch, sees the different views of the
factory.  Sees Anderton running.  Witwer deploys the other
men with HAND SIGNS.  Witwer then looks at the watch, moves
off, takes a position behind a machine.

ON ANDERTON

As he moves along the assembly line.  The car door to a
vehicle is being tested: open-shut, open-shut, open...

He's suddenly jumped by Price.  Anderton takes a swing, but
Foley comes up behind him, and holds onto him while Price now
clumsily fumbles with a halo, moves towards Anderton.
Anderton struggles as the guy tries to put the halo on...

He kicks Foley, knocks him back into one of the cars as now A
ROBOT ARM swings in and a panel welds the man into the door
frame.

The arm opens and closes the door in the b.g. as Anderton
and Price fight it out in the f.g.  Anderton gets free and
climbs up a CRANE, hanging onto it as Price hangs onto him
and they rise up towards a CONVEYOR BELT full of engine
blocks.

Anderton swings Price against the blocks, the lithography
pool approaching now.  Anderton shakes loose the agent who
drops, lands on a CHASSIS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE POOL, sinks
into the lithographer surface... and SUBMERGES!

Anderton hangs from the crane as now the LASERS FIRE into the
pool.  A moment later the chassis re-emerges.  We see A HAND,
then PULL BACK TO REVEAL AGENT PRICE FROZEN ONTO THE CHASSIS
like a giant hood ornament as it's lifted from the pool by a
huge robotic arm and carried away.

Anderton jumps from the crane to a smaller one, then lands on
the CONVEYER BELT and starts running.  And now we go...

OVERHEAD - TRACKING

As Anderton runs below, Jucket on the floor below unable to
reach him as he runs by, but now we reveal PAYMEN ON A BEAM
ABOVE ANDERTON... he dives and lands on...

Anderton.  The two men begin fighting on the conveyor belt
leading to the vertical stereo lithographer.  Paymen kicks
Anderton who falls back on the belt... the lithographer
machine in b.g.

Anderton tries to get up, but Paymen hits him again.  We see
the Lithographer fabricating a car part right behind them...
Paymen pulls a weapon and lungs at Anderton who judo throws
the man over him and into the lithographer...

The curtain lasers activate and "sculpt" him as he freezes in
place.  Anderton grabs one of the passing cranes and jumps
on...

As Anderton rides the crane ACROSS FRAME, we REVEAL WITWER
WATCHING HIM.  Anderton gets off the crane and lands right in
front of Witwer who steps out and hits him in the face...

The ASSEMBLY LINE moves past as the two men fight their way
towards it.  A CAR moves past as Witwer and Anderton tumble
into the empty engine compartment.

And now the ROBOTIC ARMS GO TO WORK ON THE CAR ALL AROUND
THEM.  A crane LOWERS AN ENGINE BLOCK above them, Anderton
sees it and rolls them both out of the way as THE ENGINE
SMASHES DOWN INTO PLACE.

The two of them roll over the dash as another piece drops
into frame and smashes into place.  As the two fight, a
machine blasts in from the side and STAMPS THE DASHBOARD INTO
PLACE.

Witwer looks forward and sees the TANGLE OF ROBOTIC ARMS NOW
ENVELOPING THE CAR IN FRONT OF THEM.  Witwer grabs onto a
retracting robot arm and is lifted up and away from the car
as now...

The ROBOT ARMS BEGIN ASSEMBLING THE CAR ALL AROUND ANDERTON.
He rolls towards the rear as one machine after another stamps
pieces into the car.  A LASER GRID appears over his face as a
LASER WELDER POPS UP and now...

THE LASER begins firing welding "hits" towards him.  He jumps
to the other side of the car, tries to get out when the DOOR
PANEL IS SLAMMED INTO PLACE and now the welder comes around
and "grids" him again.  Anderton dives for the floor, just
missing getting decapitated by the steering wheel as it's
slammed into place.  But now...

METAL PARTS BOLT UP THROUGH THE FLOOR, narrowly missing his
head.  Anderton looks up and sees THE SEATS SLIDING INTO
POSITION OVER HIM.  He grabs the steering wheel and rolls out
of the way as the seat comes crashing down.

ANGLE ON RAILING

As Witwer walks up, the other men now flanking him.  They
watch as ROBOT ARMS DESCEND ON, THEN ENVELOPE THE CAR...

The car moves forward and the robot arms retract and now THE
ROOF INSTALLING MECHANISMS SLIDE INTO PLACE.  The WINDSHIELD
comes down and slams into place as WELDERS DROP DOWN and now
secure it.

Witwer watches the car, starts walking for the end of the
line.  He watches as the car enters THE PAINTING TUNNEL.
Witwer and his men walk through the adjacent hallway,
watching through the windows as the car rolls out...

The finished car emerges through smoke and lasers from the
painting tunnel.  Witwer and his men approach the driver's
side window... the car looks empty... until...

Anderton pops up into frame and STARTS THE CAR.  He turns and
looks at WITWER, HIS ANGRY REFLECTION IN THE GLASS as
Anderton now DRIVES THE CAR OUT OF THERE and we then...

					DISSOLVE TO:

INT./ EXT.  RED LEXUS - MARYLAND COUNTRYSIDE - DAY

Anderton drives away from the city on the open road, passing
a solar/wind farm.  Giant windmills and solar panels dot the
landscape for as far as the eye can see.

EXT.  FARMLAND - DAY

The surroundings become more and more rural.  Anderton's
vehicle kicks up a roostertail of dust along the dirt side
road as he passes a row of old mailboxes.

EXT.  A WALLED ESTATE - DAY

Overgrown with vines and shrubbery of every possible variety.
Anderton gets out of his vehicle and moves to a wooden gate.
A rusted NO TRESPASSING SIGN is nailed to it.

Anderton rings the BELL.  No answer.  He peers through a
crack in the gate.  We then...

BEGIN TO CRANE UP

As Anderton moves to the wall, and starts climbing the vines.
He gets to the top of the wall, looks out at...

GARDENS

Wild and out of control.  A small ivy-covered STONE HOUSE is
nestled into a corner of the property.  Smoke rises from the
chimney.  Anderton starts down the other side of the wall.

EXT.  THE GARDENS - DAY

As Anderton jumps to the ground.  His shirt is ripped; his
arms scratched from what he realizes are THORNS embedded in
the vines.

We hear RUSTLING as, behind Anderton, several of the plants
unfurl to their full dimensions of eight feet and wrap their
vines around Anderton's neck and torso.

He breaks free.  We hear CLASSICAL MUSIC O.S. and Anderton
moves through the gardens towards it.  He stops, dizzy,
touches his forehead and then looks off at...

A GREENHOUSE

Where we see A WOMAN, 50, dressed in a wide-brimmed hat and
gardening attire, attending to the plants, gently spraying,
then wiping each leaf with a small, square cloth...

Anderton staggers into the greenhouse, something now quite
wrong with him.

		ANDERTON
	Dr. Hineman --

Quick as a flash she holds up her cane and a six-inch BLADE
extends from the tip to Anderton's throat.  She looks down
the length of it at Anderton, his ripped clothing, bruised
face, and scratched arms.

		IRIS
	You're trespassing.

He starts to sway, touches his forehead.

		IRIS
	Something wrong?

		ANDERTON
	I'm a little dizzy...

She casually leans on the cane, shoving the blade back up
inside.

		IRIS
	Yes, I'm afraid that would be from
	the Doll's Eye.

		ANDERTON
	The what?

		IRIS
	The vine -- the Baneberry that
	scratched you during your illegal
	climb over my wall...

She leads Anderton over to a wooden table just inside the
greenhouse where she's got AFTERNOON TEA set up.

		IRIS
	It's not a true Doll's Eye, of
	course, but a little hybrid of my
	own design.

Anderton staggers, grabs hold of the table for support.

		IRIS
	It's quite something, once the
	poison gets into your bloodstream,
	you'll start to see what I can only
	describe as the most extraordinary
	display of blue objects.

Anderton struggles.  She watches him a moment.

		IRIS
	This just isn't your week, is it,
	Chief?

He pulls his gun.  She shakes her head...

		IRIS
	Now now...

She easily takes it away from him, jacks the clip onto the
table, then calmly pours a cup of tea.

		IRIS
	You have three minutes to tell me
	what you're doing here before I
	feed you to a few of my more
	predacious plants.

		ANDERTON
	I'm... not... a... killer.

She studies him a moment, then tears a leaf from a plant, and
calmly begins crumpling it up into the tea...

		IRIS
	You better drink this.  Soon you
	won't be able to swallow, and then
	you'll be totally buggered.

He looks at the cup, hesitates, tries to pick it up.

		IRIS
	Drink all of it.

She pours the rest into his mouth.  He sits back, waits for
the antidote to take effect.

		IRIS
	Take a moment to right yourself.

She picks up some pruning shears and goes to work on an
orchid.

		IRIS
	Just what is it you think I can do
	for you?

		ANDERTON
	You can tell me how someone...
	could fake a prevision.

		IRIS
	And how would I know that?

He looks at her.

		ANDERTON
	You invented precrime.

She chuckles bitterly at that one.

		ANDERTON
	What's so funny?

		IRIS
	If the unintended consequences of a
	series of genetic mistakes and
	science gone haywire can be called
	invention, then yes, I invented
	precrime.

		ANDERTON
	You don't seem all that proud.

		IRIS
	I'm not.  I was trying to heal
	them, not turn them into...
	something else.

		ANDERTON
	Heal who?

		IRIS
	The innocents we now use to stop
	the guilty.

		ANDERTON
	You're talking about the precogs...

		IRIS
	You think the three in the tank
	come from a test tube?  They're
	merely the ones who survived.

She sits down, pours herself some tea.

		IRIS
	I was doing genetic research at the
	Woodhaven Clinic in Rhode Island on
	Renning's Syndrome, a neurological
	condition that affects the cerebral
	cortex of children.  Most of these
	kids were abandoned or forgotten.
	Very few of the kids lived past the
	age of twelve.

She looks away, remembering it all now...

		IRIS
	It began as play.  A guessing game
	like you play with any toddler,
	except these children always
	guessed right.
		(then)
	And then the nightmares started.
	They were all different, but all
	the same.  They were all about
	murder.  And the murders were all
	happening.

		ANDERTON
	And how did Lamar become involved?

		IRIS
	Back then, he was still a DA, and
	quite a few parents of my patients
	had passed through his courtroom.
	You have to understand, these
	people were the dregs of society.
	But once they saw their children...
	he decided he would do whatever he
	could for them.  He's that way, you
	know, paternal about certain
	things.  Precrime.  The precogs.
	You.

		ANDERTON
		(keeping her on track)
	You say some of the children died?

		IRIS
	So many of them... despite what we
	did for them.  Or maybe because of
	what we did to them.
		(then, bitter)
	It doesn't matter.  It's a perfect
	system now, isn't it?

		ANDERTON
	I'm not a murderer.  I've never
	even met the man I'm supposed to
	kill.

		IRIS
	And, yet, a chain of events has
	started.  A chain that will lead
	inexorably to his death.

		ANDERTON
	Not if I stay away from him.

		IRIS
	How can you avoid a man you've
	never met?

		ANDERTON
	So you won't help me?

		IRIS
	I can't help you.  No one can.  The
	Precogs are never wrong.

He turns away, looking lost.  She picks up her tea cup, looks
at him over the top.

		IRIS
	But, occasionally, they do
	disagree.

He turns back to her.  She casually sips her tea.

		ANDERTON
	What?

		IRIS
	Most of the time, all three
	Precognitives will see an event in
	the same way.  But once in a while,
	one of them will see things
	differently than the other two.

		ANDERTON
	Jesus Christ -- why didn't I know
	about this?

		IRIS
	Because these Minority Reports are
	destroyed the instant they occur.

		ANDERTON
	Why?

		IRIS
	Obviously, for Precrime to
	function, there can't be any
	suggestion of fallibility.  After
	all, what good is a Justice system
	that instills doubt?  It may be
	reasonable, but it's still doubt.

Anderton tries to take all of this in, looks at her.

		ANDERTON
	You're saying that I've halo'd
	innocent people?

		IRIS
	I'm saying that every so often
	those accused of a precrime might,
	just might, have an alternate
	future.

		ANDERTON
	Does Burgess know about this?
	About the Minority Report?

		IRIS
		(beat)
	I used to joke with Lamar that we
	were the mother and father of
	Precrime.  Well, in my experience,
	parents often see their children as
	they want them to be, not as they
	are.

		ANDERTON
	Answer my question.  Did Lamar
	Burgess know about the Minority
	Report?

		IRIS
	Yes, of course, he knew, but at the
	time, he felt -- we both felt their
	existence was... an insignificant
	variable.

		ANDERTON
	Insignificant to you maybe, but
	what about those people I put away
	with alternate futures?  My God, if
	the country knew there was a chance
	they might not --

		IRIS
	The system would collapse.

		ANDERTON
	I believe in that system...

		IRIS
	Do you?  Really?

He looks at her.

		ANDERTON
	You want to bring it down.

		IRIS
	But you will bring it down if you
	kill Leo Crow.
		(she relishes the thought)
	Why, that will be the most
	spectacular public display of how
	Precrime... didn't work.

		ANDERTON
	I'm not gonna kill anybody.

		IRIS
	Hold that thought.

		ANDERTON
	Why should I trust you?

		IRIS
	You shouldn't.  You shouldn't trust
	anyone... certainly not the
	Attorney General who wants it all
	for himself.  Not the young federal
	agent who wants your job.  Not even
	the old man who just wants to hang
	onto what he's created.  Don't
	trust anyone.
		(then)
	Just find the Minority Report.

		ANDERTON
	You said they're destroyed.

		IRIS
	I said the record is destroyed.
	The original report exists for all
	time.
		(then)
	I designed the system so that
	whenever a report occurred, it
	would be stored in a safe place --
	but not declared.

		ANDERTON
	What safe place is that?

		IRIS
	The safest place of all.

Anderton grabs her hand as she reaches once more for her
teacup, spilling it.

		ANDERTON
	Where?

		IRIS
	Inside the Precog who predicted it.
		(then)
	All you have to do is download it.

		ANDERTON
	That's all, huh?  Just walk right
	into Precrime, go into the Temple,
	somehow tap into the Precogs, and
	then download this Minority
	Report...

		IRIS
	If... you have one.

		ANDERTON
	-- and then walk out.

		IRIS
	Actually, I think you'll have to
	run out, but yes, that's what you
	have to do.

		ANDERTON
	You're insane or you think I am.

She shrugs.

		ANDERTON
	I'll get EYEscanned a dozen times
	before I get within ten miles of
	Precrime.  They'll pick me up...

		IRIS
		(looks at him)
	Sometimes in order to see the
	light, you have to risk the dark.

He looks back at her.

		IRIS
	As a policeman -- excuse me, a
	former policeman -- I'm sure you
	know all sorts of people who
	could... help you out in this
	regard.

Anderton sits there thinking about what she's suggesting.
She gets up, moves to one of her plants, starts feeding it
with a sprayer.  She reaches out and takes a long vine in her
hand and strokes it...

		IRIS
	It's funny how all living organisms
	are alike.  When the chips are
	down...
		(she grips the vine)
	When the pressure is on...
		(squeezes it tighter)
	... every creature on the face of
	the earth is interested in one
	thing and one thing only:

The vine suddenly whips out of her hand.

		IRIS
	It's own survival.

She looks at Anderton.

		IRIS
	Find the Minority Report.

Anderton sees that her palm is now bleeding from the vine.
She smiles, takes out a handkerchief and wraps her hand.

She then turns her back on him and faces her plants.

		ANDERTON
	How do I even know which one has
	it?

		IRIS
	It's always in the more gifted of
	the three.

		ANDERTON
	Which one is that?

		IRIS
		(isn't it obvious)
	The female.

She picks up her cane and turns the music back on, leaving
Anderton to ponder this.

						 CUT TO:

THE ANDERTON PREVISION

The series of images we saw earlier: a MAN backlit by a
window.  A FACE WEARING SUNGLASSES outside the window.  "6"
becoming "9".  A GUN GOES OFF.  A MAN FLYING THROUGH THE
WINDOW.  We're ZOOMING IN AND OUT.  PANNING THIS WAY AND THAT
now we...

REVEAL: ANDERTON'S OFFICE - PRECRIME

As Fletcher works the Prevision screen in here, Witwer looks
around the office.  He pulls open a drawer.  It's empty.

		JAD (O.S.)
	He wasn't in here much.  He
	preferred to be with the team.

Witwer looks to where Jad stands in the doorway.  Witwer
notices something above Jad's head.  A LASER PROJECTOR.
Witwer looks around, sees A JACKET COVERING A PIECE OF
EQUIPMENT ON THE BOOKSHELF.  Knott comes into the room.

		KNOTT
	You seen the latest polls?  We're
	dead even.

He sits on Anderton's desk, knocking over a photograph of
Anderton, his wife, and son.

		KNOTT
	Even since Chief America ran away,
	the numbers for Precrime have been
	goin' up.
		(looks at Fletcher)
	People feel better, they know we're
	willing to go after one of our own.

		JAD
	More likely, people just want a
	show like this every week.

Fletcher calmly rights the photograph, indicates the screen.

		FLETCHER
	Here's where we're at.  Three men
	in a room.  The victims here.
	Anderton here, and this
	unidentified male out the window.
	The exterior of the adjacent
	building suggests public housing,
	but I can't make out the location.
	Government architecture is
	modern/conformist which means --

		WITWER
	There's thousands of units like
	this one.

		FLETCHER
		(nods)
	They're everywhere.

Witwer looks at the photograph of Anderton, Sean and Lara.

		WITWER
	But he doesn't go there to kill
	Crow for another twenty-two hours.
	In the meantime, I'm betting he's
	somewhere in the sprawl.

Jad and Fletcher exchange looks.

		WITWER
	Anderton's smart enough to go where
	electronic billboards and other
	media can't ID him to pick his
	pocket.  There's fewer consumers
	down there, which means fewer
	scanners to target him.

		FLETCHER
	No offense, sir, but why wouldn't
	he just run?

		WITWER
	Because he thinks he's innocent.

Witwer pulls the jacket off and we see A HOLO-COMPUTER like
the one Anderton has at home.

		WITWER
	We concentrate on the sprawl.  We
	do overflies in ships with two
	spyder teams on the ground.  Go
	building by building.  Thermal scan
	the whole area, read anything with
	eyes and a heartbeat.

Witwer switches the computer on and we see AN IMAGE OF LARA
IN A EVENING GOWN OPENING A PRESENT...

		LARA
	John -- stop filming me.

Witwer watches as Lara, looks up at us, her face beautiful.

		WITWER
	Where is she?

EXT.  INNER CITY SLUMS - DAY

As Anderton walks up to one of the more decrepit-looking
buildings and then takes off into the night.  A giant
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM VENT blows on him from above as he
takes a hit off an inhaler, tosses it aside and walks to the
entrance.

		DR. EDDIE (V.O.)
	Have a seat, Chief...

INT.  DR. EDDIE'S "OPERATING" ROOM - DAY

A shitty little room with a single stained overstuffed chair
in the corner, a foul kitchen piled high with dirty dishes
and a grime-smeared window looking out onto another wall.

In the center of all this is a make-shift medical set-up: a
gleaming operating table, an array of lasers, scalpels and
other surgical and anesthesia equipment.

Anderton sits in a chair facing DR. SOLOMON EDDIE -- a skinny
man with a shock of hair on top, like an upended broom.  Dr.
Eddie sneezes, blows his nose hard into a handkerchief.

		DR. EDDIE
	Damn cold won't go away.

Anderton glances about uneasily as the man sneezes again.
Dr. Eddie sees he's anxious and smiles.

		DR. EDDIE
	Don't worry.  I could cut open your
	chest, sew a dead cat in there and
	you'd never get an infection.  Not
	with the spectrum of antibios I'll
	be shooting into you.

		ANDERTON
	That's comforting.

		DR. EDDIE
	You do understand I can't just give
	you new irises.  The scanners will
	read the scar tissue.  Alarms will
	go off.  Large men with guns will
	appear...

		ANDERTON
	Right.  I know --

Anderton stiffens as Dr. Eddie injects him...

		DR. EDDIE
	Anesthesia.  Try to relax, John.
		(injecting)
	I'm saying I'll have to remove your
	eyes.  Completely.

		ANDERTON
	Yeah --

		DR. EDDIE
	And replace them with new ones.

		ANDERTON
	I know that, but I wanna keep the
	old ones.

		DR. EDDIE
	Why?

		ANDERTON
	Because my mother gave them to me.
	What do you care?  They're no good
	to you on the secondary market
	anyway.

		DR. EDDIE
	Whatever you say, John.

Dr. Eddie holds out his hand and Anderton hands him a tiny
opalescent card.

		DR. EDDIE
	Greta!

Dr. Eddie yells something in SWEDISH and now into the room
walks a LARGE WOMAN in a white coat.

		DR. EDDIE
	This is Miss Van Eyck, my gorgeous
	assistant.

She turns and giggles at Anderton and we see A MOLE on her
cheek the size of Bermuda.

		ANDERTON
	Nice to meet you.

Miss Van Eyck slides the card into a small console, watches
the numbers flash up.  She says something to Dr. Eddie who
looks at the numbers then frowns at Anderton.

		DR. EDDIE
	That's not much.

		ANDERTON
	It's all I could safely move.

		DR. EDDIE
	Tell you what, since you and I go
	way back, I'll give you my Old Pal
	discount.  How's that sound?

Anderton looks at him.  "Go way back?"

		DR. EDDIE
	You don't remember me, do you?

		ANDERTON
	We know each other?

		DR. EDDIE
	Oh, yes.

Miss Van Eyck picks up a LASER SCALPEL, blows on the end to
clean it off, then hands it to Dr. Eddie who tests it on a
PIECE OF METAL.  Anderton watching as it cuts right through.

		ANDERTON
	From where?  D.C.?

		DR. EDDIE
	Baltimore.  Eastside.
		(then)
	Solomon P. Eddie M.D.  I was a
	plastic surgeon.

Anderton thinks a moment.  The name rings a bell.

		DR. EDDIE
	I specialized in burn victims.
		(then)
	Women mostly.

Boom.  Anderton looks at him.

		ANDERTON
	I put you away --

		DR. EDDIE
	Yes, you did.

		ANDERTON
	You made those tapes...

		DR. EDDIE
		(defensive)
	They were performance pieces.

		ANDERTON
	You set your patients on fire!

		DR. EDDIE
	And put them out.  Some not as
	quickly as others, but let's change
	the subject, shall we?  The future
	is much more interesting than the
	past.  Don't you think?

Dr. Eddie walks over to a large medical cabinet and opens the
door.  It's full of EYES and PARTS OF EYES -- all in cryo
jars.  Anderton turns away.  It's the last thing he wants to
see.  Dr. Eddie studies them a moment, then...

Anderton watches as he and Miss Van Eyck confer in Swedish
and she starts giggling at whatever it is he said.  The doc
himself has a smile on his face as he turns back around.

		DR. EDDIE
	Lie down, John.

Anderton hesitates, finally complies.  Next thing he knows
Miss Van Eyck is smiling down on him, her big face hovering
above his like a planet.  She smiles, then...

		MISS VAN EYCK
		(the only English she
		 knows)
	Hello.

		ANDERTON
	Uh, hi --

		DR. EDDIE
	Try to relax, Chief.

Anderton counts to himself, listens to Dr. Eddie preparing
instrument trays, sharing another joke in Swedish with his
assistant.  MORE GIGGLING O.S.  Anderton looks over...

		ANDERTON
	So uh, if you were a plastic
	surgeon before...

		DR. EDDIE
	How can I do what I do now?  Let's
	just say I spent a lot of time in
	the prison library.

Anderton turns and casts a groggy eye at Dr. Eddie to see if
he's serious, but the good doctor has his back to him as he
does his prep work.

		DR. EDDIE
	It was a great way to avoid some of
	the more unpleasant aspects of
	prison life.
		(then)
	Yes, confinement was a real
	education, a real eye opener if you
	will.

Anderton tries to get up, but Miss Van Eyck gently pushes him
down again.

		MISS VAN EYCK
	No no no...

		DR. EDDIE
	I mean, for true enlightenment,
	John, there's nothing quite like
	the experience of, say, taking a
	shower while a large felon with a
	hard-on you can't knock down with a
	hammer whispers in your --

		ANDERTON
		(tries to sit up)
	Uh, okay, you know what?  I think
	maybe I'll just --

But Anderton can't raise himself up: The drug is starting to
take effect.  Dr. Eddie approaches with the LASER SCALPEL...

		DR. EDDIE
	Yes, it was a lot of fun.  Thank
	you so much, John, for putting me
	there.  For giving me the
	opportunity to get to know myself
	better.  And now...

He clicks on the LASER, right in front of one of Anderton's
eyes...

		DR. EDDIE
	To return the favor...

And just as the LIGHT-BLADE is about to touch the eye, we go
to...

EXT.  BEACH COTTAGE - CHESAPEAKE BAY - DAY

We see LARA, Anderton's ex-wife, standing on a ladder,
painting a weatherbeaten shutter.  She looks older now.  More
tired than in the images we've seen.

		VOICE
	Lara?

She turns and we see Danny Witwer approaching.  She watches
him come, climbs down the ladder.

		WITWER
	My name is Danny Witwer.  I'm --

		LARA
	I know who you are.

She walks past him, goes into the cottage.  He looks out at
the ocean a moment, then follows.

INT.  COTTAGE - DAY

Simple, comfortable with an endless view of the sea.  DOZENS
OF BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS line the floor, hang from the
walls.  Lara pours Witwer and herself a cup of coffee.

		WITWER
	This your work?

		LARA
	Yes.

We see that the photographs are all reportage shots of
CHILDREN.

		WITWER
	I like it.

		LARA
	Thanks.  You take anything in your
	coffee?

		WITWER
	Cream and sugar.

		LARA
	I don't have any cream.  Sorry.

		WITWER
	Just sugar then.  You and John ever
	come here?

		LARA
	We used to, every summer.

		WITWER
	He's not here now, is he?

She looks at him.

		WITWER
	I had to ask.

She hands him his coffee.

		LARA
	I don't have any sugar either.

		WITWER
		(smiles)
	Thank you.
		(then)
	He hasn't tried to contact you?

		LARA
	No.

		WITWER
	You ever heard him mention the name
	Leo Crow?

		LARA
	No, but then I don't talk to John
	that much anymore.

		WITWER
	So you haven't seen his apartment?

		LARA
	That was our apartment.

		WITWER
	Have you been there recently?

He takes A BLACK INHALER from his pocket...

		WITWER
	It's full of these.

She stares at it.

		WITWER
	How long's he been doping?

She turns away, takes a moment, then...

		LARA
	Since right after we lost our son.

		WITWER
	You mean after he lost your son.

		LARA
	It was nobody's fault.

		WITWER
	But John was with him at the pool?

		LARA
	Yes.

Witwer watches her a moment, then...

		WITWER
	You said in your divorce papers
	that he tried to kill himself.

		LARA
	It wasn't a suicide attempt.  I
	regret ever saying that.

		WITWER
	What was it then?

		LARA
	The FBI found something that
	belonged to my son.
		(hard for her)
	A sandal... Anyway, John was upset.
	He... he...

		WITWER
	He took out his gun and sat down to
	watch his home movies.  This is all
	in your statement, Lara...

		LARA
	He shot a hole in the damn ceiling.
	So what?  You lose your son, let's
	see how well you handle it.

		WITWER
	Not very well, I'm sure.  I'd
	probably start doping myself.  Or
	maybe I'd...

He looks at her photographs of children, but doesn't finish
his thought.  She turns and looks at him.  He meets her gaze.

		WITWER
	Lamar Burgess thinks that you left
	John because he lost himself in
	Precrime instead of you.

		LARA
	I left him because every time I
	looked at him, I saw my son.  Every
	time I got close to him, I smelled
	my little boy.  That's why I left
	him.
		(then)
	And now you can leave.

He puts down his coffee and looks at her.

		WITWER
	You know I need to use you.

		LARA
	To what?  Trap him?

		WITWER
	To prevent a murder.  Sooner or
	later, he's going to contact you.

		LARA
	I haven't seen him in two years.

		WITWER
	But I've seen the three hundred
	hours of your image he's got stored
	away.

She reacts to his as he moves up close to her.

		WITWER
	He's still living with you.
		(then)
	And your son.
		(then)
	You have to choose, Lara.  You have
	to choose sides now.

INT.  TENEMENT ROOM - DAY

A strange, near Zoetrope-like lighting effect on the walls
and ceiling as, outside, the MAGLEV cars go whizzing by.  As
Dr. Eddie looks down at us...

		DR. EDDIE
	Don't take the bandages off for
	twelve hours.  If you take them off
	before then, you'll go blind.  Do
	you understand?

Anderton lies on a caved-in bed, his face swathed in a white
bandage.

		DR. EDDIE
	There's food in the refrigerator.
	Make sure you drink a lot of water.

		ANDERTON
	How do I find the --

		DR. EDDIE
	Here --

He takes Anderton's hand and places it on a ROPE that's tied
from the bedpost to the bathroom and the kitchen --

		DR. EDDIE
	It goes from the bathroom to the
	kitchen.

		ANDERTON
		(tries to sit up)
	I can't even stand up --

		DR. EDDIE
	I know you're in a hurry, so I
	juiced up the nano-reconstruction
	around your new eyes.

		ANDERTON
	The nano... what?

		DR. EDDIE
	Organic microbots that reconstruct
	the nerves and blood vessels.
	It'll feel like fleas chewing on
	your eyeballs.  But whatever you
	do, don't scratch.

Anderton is already reaching his hands up to his bandages.
Dr. Eddie forces them away.

		DR. EDDIE
	Seeing as we're old pals and all,
	I'm giving you a bonus, might come
	in handy.  Feel this.

Dr. Eddie takes an air-syringe from his pocket and touches it
to Anderton's hand.

		DR. EDDIE
	It's a temporary paralytic enzyme.
	Shoot this baby under your chin.
	Right here...

Dr. Eddie presses the tip into the soft underpart of
Anderton's chin.  Anderton recoils.

		DR. EDDIE
	The enzyme turns your facial
	muscles to mush.  You won't look
	like the same man.  You tighten up
	again in about thirty minutes.
	Hurts like nothing you ever felt.
		(drops it in a bag)
	I'll just drop it in your goodie
	bag along with the uh...

He holds up the bag with Anderton's OLD EYES.

		DR. EDDIE
	... leftovers.

Next Dr. Eddie takes a small clock from his pocket and places
it on a dresser beside Anderton's bed.

		DR. EDDIE
	I'm setting up a timer.  When it
	goes off tomorrow, take off your
	bandages and get the hell out of
	here.  But not before then, or
	you'll --

		ANDERTON
	-- go blind.  I know.

He takes something from his pocket, puts it into Anderton's
hand.  A BLACK INHALER.

		DR. EDDIE
	A little something from our mutual
	friend.

		VOICE
	That you, Chief?

Anderton turns towards the voice and we see LYCON standing in
the doorway, clutching his dirty sock full of inhalers, HIS
MANGY SEEING EYE DOG at his heel.

		DR. EDDIE
	I believe you know Lycon.  I
	purchase my more hard to get
	pharmaceuticals from him.  And, of
	course, once upon a time he was
	also a patient of mine.  Like you.

		LYCON
	Good luck, Chief.

And they start out of there, Lycon's dog bumping into the
wall on the way out.  We hear the DOOR CLOSE O.S.  Anderton
lies there, gripping the bed, listening to the TICK TICK TICK
of the timer.  We now...

					DISSOLVE TO:

EXT.  TENEMENT CITY - DAY

As a Precrime ship cruises past the tenement.

INT.  TENEMENT - DAY

It's only been a few hours.  Anderton, still blindfolded by
his dressings, is unaware of the Precrime Ship that passes by
the open window, grimy curtains blowing in the breeze.

He takes the inhaler Dr. Eddie had left him from his pocket.
He feels it in his hand a moment, then takes a long hit.

He listens to the MUFFLED VOICES that float in through the
paper-thin walls; a cacophony of HUMAN SOUND above, below,
and all around him.  TICK... TICK... TICK...

		SEAN (V.O.)
	How much time, Dad?

Now, gradually, LIGHT BEGINS TO FILL THE ROOM as we...

					DISSOLVE TO:

A PUBLIC POOL - DAY

Crowded.  Laughing kids.  Yelling Parents.  Anderton stands
in the shallow end looking at his WATCH as his six-year-old
son breaks the surface of the water.

		ANDERTON
	Twelve seconds.  A new record.

The boy smiles, clings to the side.

		SEAN
	Okay... now let me time you.

		ANDERTON
	Are you kidding?  There's
	absolutely positively no way, on my
	best day, I could ever beat twelve
	seconds!

		SEAN
	Come on!

		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
	Shit!

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, fuck 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

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

A TOUR GROUP -- mostly kids, a smattering of adults --
gathers in front of the statue of the three Precogs, who look
nothing like the creatures we've seen floating in the tank.

		TOUR GUIDE
	The Precrime program began with a
	Federal grant in 2036, and today,
	six years later, the District of
	Columbia is now the safest city in
	America.  Why?  Because Precrime
	Works.

We move OFF THE TOUR GUIDE to a shady spot beneath a tree
where we see Anderton hidden in a shadow, wearing an
overcoat.

		TOUR GUIDE
	Precrime has eliminated the need
	for traditional detectives, so that
	most of the work done here is about
	the verification of motive and the
	protection of the future victim...

Anderton pulls out the AIR SYRINGE that Dr. Eddie gave him
and stares at it.  He touches it to the underside of his chin
and takes a deep breath...

		ANDERTON
	Okay, one... two -- shit.

He lowers the syringe.  Can't do it.  He looks around.

INT.  ANDERTON'S OFFICE - DAY

As Witwer works the equipment tries to enhance the FACE IN
THE MIRROR.  It looks ephemeral, like the face of a ghost...

EXT.  PLAZA - DAY

As Anderton takes another breath.  This time counts
quickly --

		ANDERTON
	One two three...

		KID
	Can we see the precogs?

And injects himself as we then PAN BACK to the Tour Guide...

		TOUR GUIDE
	The three precogs have such a
	powerful gift, they have to be kept
	in peaceful seclusion so as not to
	be distracted from the outside
	world.  This display should give
	you some idea of their daily
	life...

The guide gestures to a DIARAMA like they have in Natural
History Museums.  But instead of seeing a clan of cavemen
hunting a woolly mammoth with spears, the scene depicted here
is supposedly of the "three precogs" performing their daily
tasks.

But what we're looking at, however, is three healthy-looking
silhouettes dressed in loose-fitting pajamas and sitting in
overstuffed chairs in the middle of a beautiful living room,
surrounded by people in white coats attending to their every
need, while images of bloodless murders appear on a small TV
screen in one corner.

Not at all the image of three frail, nearly translucent souls
writhing about in a milk tank.

ON ANDERTON

In agony, his head ducked as he now pulls out the syringe
from under his chin.  He stumbles to the PRECOG DIARAMA and
slowly looks up.

And now, in front of this display of lies, HIS ENTIRE FACE
BEGINS TO SAG as all of his facial muscles essentially let
go, changing his appearance from youthful to geriatric in a
matter of seconds.

Anderton stumbles over to and then falls in behind the group
as it follows the guide into the building.

		TOUR GUIDE
	The precogs get over eight million
	pieces of mail each year.  That's
	more mail than Santa gets...

Jucket and Paymen walk out of the building, barely glance at
Anderton as he passes.

INT.  PRECRIME TEMPLE - DAY

As Wally hoists out one of the male precogs, begins
"grooming" him.  He hits an ORANGE LEVER and flushes the old
milk from the tank.

EXT.  PRECRIME BUILDING - DAY

As Anderton moves away from the group to a side entrance
where Precrime Personnel enter.  He pulls off the overcoat as
he goes so that we now read the word MAINTENANCE on the back
of his coveralls.  He goes inside the building, into...

A MAINTENANCE AREA

Anderton emerges pushing an ultrasonic scrubber.  He turns up
one corridor, then another.  He walks to a door marked
NUTRIENT ROOM and looks both ways.  He pulls a SMALL, BLACK
ZIPLOC-LIKE BAG from his pocket and opens it.

And now, wincing, he very gingerly removes his TWO OLD EYES
from the bag.  One of the eyes slips from his hands...

		ANDERTON
	Oh, no...

Then the other one slips.

		ANDERTON
	No... no... no...

He carefully avoids stepping on them as he awkwardly scoops
them up off the floor.

He then glances about, and now, holding one eye in each hand,
he very very very carefully holds them up to the EYEDENTISCAN
and prays...

After the world's longest beat, he gets CLEARED and quickly
drops his eyeballs back into the bag and enters the secured
area.

INT.  ANDERTON'S OFFICE - DAY

As Fletcher comes into the room.

		WITWER
	Take a look.

He moves aside so Fletcher can see the screen.

		WITWER
	There are two others in the room
	besides Anderton and Crow.

		FLETCHER
	Two?

He indicates the face in the sunglasses...

		WITWER
	There's the man in sunglasses
	outside the window... here... but
	there's someone else... here... in
	the mirror.

Witwer begins enhancing THE FACE IN THE MIRROR...

INT.  NUTRIENT ROOM - DAY

As Anderton enters the room and closes the door behind him.
The room is full of pipes and tanks full of liquid.  We hear
A LOW HUM as Anderton makes his way through the room...

He stops at a thick glass window and we realize he's looking
into THE PRECOG TANK from below.  A series OF PIPES RUN INTO
THE TANK.  A DOOR is beside the window.  Another EYEscan...

He once more takes out the black plastic bag...

INT.  ANDERTON'S OFFICE - DAY

As the FACE IN THE MIRROR comes into sharper focus now...

		FLETCHER
	It's definitely female...

INT.  PRECOG TEMPLE - DAY

As Anderton comes through the door.  He starts to drag
Wally's desk over to barricade it...

		WALLY (O.S.)
	Hey!

Anderton turns, sees Wally coming over now.  A look on his
face...

		WALLY
	What're you doing in here?  I'm
	afraid I'm gonna have to ask you to
	leave...

Anderton ignores him, puts a screwdriver in his mouth and
jumps up and grabs a light fixture near the door, then pulls
himself up like a gymnast.  Wally is taken aback at the
strength of the "old man..."

		WALLY
	Careful there, old timer, you're
	gonna hurt yourself...

Anderton takes the screwdriver and jams the sliding-door
mechanism with it, then jumps down beside Wally.

		ANDERTON
	Wally, listen to me...

		WALLY
	Do I know you?  Who are you?

Anderton touches his face, realizes it's still sagging, old
looking.  He grabs Wally by the shirt...

		ANDERTON
	I like you, Wally, so I'm not gonna
	kick you, or hit you with anything,
	but only if you promise to help
	me...

		WALLY
		(beat)
	Oh... Hi, John.

INT.  ANDERTON'S OFFICE - DAY

As Witwer stops working, stares at the screen.

		WITWER
	Who does that look like to you?

Fletcher can't make it out, shakes his head.

		WITWER
	It's Agatha.

And now we see the image -- the ghost-like face of THE FEMALE
PRECOG in the mirror.

		FLETCHER
	So this means --

Witwer stands up straight as he realizes what it means.

		WITWER
	He's coming here to get her.

Witwer hits his comline...

		WITWER
	Jad, ask the building who's come
	and gone in the last couple of
	hours...

INT.  PRECOG TEMPLE - DAY

As Wally works the computer, Anderton looks up at the array
of horrifying images on the screens above.

		ANDERTON
	Are these all of her previsions?

		WALLY
	There's no way of knowing for sure.
	She could've forgotten whatever it
	is you're looking for...

INT.  CORRIDOR - DAY

As Witwer moves along with Fletcher, Jad falling in.

		JAD
	He was EYEdented five minutes ago
	in the maintenance area.

		WITWER
	There any way into the temple from
	there?

Fletcher and Jad look at each other.  Yes.

		WITWER
	No alarms.  We don't wanna lose
	him.  And call Wally.  Tell him to
	get out of there.

Jucket appears on Witwer's head up...

		JUCKET
	Chief, we got video on someone
	inside the temple.

		WITWER
	What do you mean "Someone?"

		JUCKET
	Looks like an old man.

INT.  PRECOG TEMPLE - DAY

An anxious Anderton looks over at Wally.  His face is
starting to tighten, regain it's regular shape and
characteristics.

		ANDERTON
	Just go to the beginning!

		WALLY
	Okay.  Fine.  Where the hell is
	that?

And now we see JAD ON WALLY'S HEAD UP...

		JAD
	Wally --

Anderton looks over...

		JAD
	Leave the temple now.

		WALLY
	Uh -- no can do there, Jad...

Anderton looks down at the female precog, she's suddenly
trashing about, trying to sit up...

		ANDERTON
	What is it?

She reaches out and GRABS HIS ARM.

A LOW ANGLE - ANDERTON

As he looks down at Agatha, WE see every video screen on the
ceiling shows the SCREAMING FACE OF ANNE LIVELY.  He slowly
looks up at them...

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - DAY

As Witwer, Jad and Fletcher push through the doors.  Jucket
and Paymen, geared up, meet him.

		PAYMEN
	He's inside.

		JUCKET
	Got some kind of mask on.

They all look at the monitors.  Knott and two others are all
in full gear.

		KNOTT
	We got four guys on the other door.

		WITWER
	Do not fire any weapons inside the
	temple.  Use only bindfoam or your
	sick-sticks.  We go on my count...

INT.  PRECOG TEMPLE - DAY

Anderton looks at Agatha... who now opens her mouth and
speaks:

		AGATHA
	Can you see?

She looks at Anderton, her eyes imploring him.  He thinks a
moment, then starts to unhook all of the cables.  We HEAR
WITWER AND HIS TEAM TRYING TO GET THROUGH THE JAMMED DOORS.
We hear as they finally BLOW THE MECHANISM, then...

		WITWER (O.S.)
	John -- move away from the tank!

Anderton looks over as the team starts to come in.

		WITWER
	Move away from the tank!

Agatha looks past him up at AN ORANGE LEVER.  Nods.

		WITWER
	John --

Anderton throws the lever.  Suddenly, a RUSH as the milk is
quickly flushed from the tank.  Witwer and the team rush up
the steps as...

Witwer freezes, watches as the two male precogs flail about
the milk, strapped into their harnesses while Anderton and
Agatha are sucked out through a large drain.

		WALLY
	Oh, God...

Wally, crying now, lifts Agatha's empty restraints and stares
at it.

		WALLY
	They've never been separated
	before.

		WITWER
	What does he want with a precog?

		WALLY
	What do you think?  So he can kill
	whoever he wants to without anyone
	knowing about it.

		WITWER
	But there's still the other two.

Wally doesn't say anything, just weeps over the tank.

		WITWER
	Wally, the other two can still
	function, right?

		WALLY
	You don't understand... they're a
	hive mind.  It takes all three for
	their predictive abilities to work.

		WITWER
		(incredulous)
	Are you telling me they can't see
	murders anymore?

		WALLY
	Maybe if he'd taken one of the
	males.  But the female, she's the
	key.  She's the one they listen to,
	the one with the most talent.  The
	one who takes care of the other
	two.

		WITWER
		(staring at the remaining
		 two)
	Jesus...

		WITWER
		(tears in his eyes)
	Please, bring her back.

EXT.  ALLEY - DAY

As Anderton, the Precog in his arms, both of them soaked,
runs to where THE LEXUS is parked.

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - DAY

As Fletcher barks into his heads up --

		FLETCHER
	Find out where that pipe leads -- I
	want every team underground now!

They look to where Witwer stares at the PREVISION SCREEN.

		WITWER
	It doesn't matter.  He wins.

		FLETCHER
	We can stop him.

		WITWER
	She's in the room with him when he
	kills Crow.
		(then)
	She's already a part of his future.

And now everybody looks at the image, the ghost-like face of
Agatha in the mirror, watching John Anderton shoot a man
named Leo Crow.

		WITWER
		(as he walks out)
	Put everything you've got into
	finding that room and we stop a
	murder.
		(to Jad)
	How much time have we got?

INSERT WATCH

As it COUNTS DOWN TO FIFTY-ONE MINUTES.  SHADOWS pass over
it...

REVEAL: INT.  LEXUS - MOVING - DAY

As Anderton looks at his watch, then out the window...

EXT.  INNER CITY - DAY

As Anderton's vehicle moves past the more downtrodden segment
of the D.C. population.  Agatha sits low in the seat, so that
just her eyes peer out of the window at the world around her.

INT.  LEXUS - DAY

Anderton looks over at the Precog, staring out the window at
the unfamiliar rush of humanity all around her.  She SHIVERS.

		ANDERTON
	Are you cold?

He moves to put his coat over her and she looks at his HAND.

		ANDERTON
	Can you understand me?

She holds onto his hand, is fixated by it.

		ANDERTON
	It's the drugs.  They'll wear off
	in a few hours.

She looks up, stares out the window now at the world she's
never been a part of.

		ANDERTON
	I'm sorry, but I need your help.
	You contain information.  I need to
	know how to get it.
		(then)
	Can you just tell me who Leo Crow
	is?  Can you tell me if --

		AGATHA
	Is it now?

		ANDERTON
	What?

		AGATHA
	Is it now?

He looks outside, understands what she means.  Then...

		ANDERTON
	Yes... this is all happening right
	now.

She nods, closes her eyes.

		AGATHA
	I'm tired...
		(then)
	I'm tired of the future.

INT.  MALL CITY - DAY

Anderton's vehicle pulls up in front of a GAP.

INT.  LEXUS - DAY

As Anderton turn to Agatha.

		AGATHA
	I have to take you someplace, in
	public, which means I have to get
	you something... else to wear.

She stares out the window, doesn't respond...

		ANDERTON
	I'll hurry.

INT.  THE GAP - DAY

As Anderton walks in the door, gets his new eyes scanned, and
we hear a voice say:

		STORE VOICE
	Hello, Mr. Yakamoto!  Welcome back
	to the Gap.

Anderton stops cold as a HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGE OF A HUGE ASIAN
MAN now appears standing in front of him.

		STORE VOICE
	How'd those assorted tank tops work
	out for you?

Anderton stops and stares at the thug-like previous owner of
his eyes who's now shown wearing a sweater that changes from
color to color.

		STORE VOICE
	Come on in and see how good you
	look in one of our new Winter
	sweaters.

INT.  LEXUS - DAY

Agatha leans out the window, experiencing the world outside
for the first time in years.  A group of TEENAGERS walking
by.  A WOMAN pushing A BABY in a pram.

A MAN WALKING A DOG.  The dog turns to Agatha, now trying to
pull his master over to her...

She turns to the street and watches people going by on
bicycles and inside other vehicles.

But for Agatha, it is not a peaceful scene at all.  She sees
only death, pain and suffering.  The world is overwhelming.

She turns away, watches as RAINDROPS fall on the windshield.
She rolls down the window and sticks her head out to feel the
rain.

She listens to the now-soothing sounds of the rain mixed with
laughter mixed with the baby crying mixed with the snippets
of conversation she hears all around her.  Then:

WE HEAR A JACKHAMMER

And Agatha turns to A CONSTRUCTION SITE across the way.  A
HUGE BUILDING is going up.

A CRANE hoists a bundle of steal GIRDERS up to the top of the
site.

A TEENAGE BOY walks to a bicycle locked to a fence in front
of the site.  She closes her eyes and shudders, then sits up,
steels herself and calls to the boy...

		AGATHA
		(barely)
	Nathan --

The boy keeps going.

		AGATHA
		(tries again, louder)
	Nathan!

The TEENAGE BOY stops as he gets to the bike, looks at her.

		AGATHA
	Come here.

The Boy sees this pretty face inside a vehicle beckoning him,
looks around to make sure she meant him, then comes over.

		BOY/NATHAN
	Do I know you?

		AGATHA
	Hold my hand.

As she reaches for him, Nathan sees she must be blind.

		NATHAN
	What?

		AGATHA
	Please, Nathan, hold my hand.

The teenager sees she's only wearing Anderton's jacket...

		NATHAN
	Whoa --

Agatha reaches out and takes his hand and holds onto it.
Something pulses through him.  He looks at her, afraid...

		NATHAN
	Who are you?

INT.  THE GAP - DAY

As Anderton walks out with his purchases...

		STORE VOICE
	Thanks for shopping at the Gap, Mr.
	Yakamoto.

		ANDERTON
	Sayonara.

INT./ EXT.  LEXUS - DAY

Agatha looks up at Nathan, into his eyes, who tries to pull
his hand away.

		NATHAN
	Look, whoever you are --

We hear SOMEONE SHOUT and the teenager boy wheels around
as...

A STEEL BEAM

Falls from the construction site, landing directly on
Nathan's bicycle.  Nathan stares in horror at where he would
have been had he not come over to Agatha.  She lets go of his
hand.

		AGATHA
	You can go now.

Anderton comes out of the store, looks at the crushed bike, a
CROWD gathering around it.  Oblivious to what's just
happened, he walks past the stunned kid.

		ANDERTON
	Excuse me.

INT.  ANDERTON'S OFFICE - DAY

As Witwer sits there staring at the image, the rest of the
team gathers in the office.

		JAD
	What's he want with a precog?

		FLETCHER
	He knows we can't operate without
	her.  He's gonna ransom her.

		JAD
	Where's the note?

Witwer gets up and turns on the HOLO-COMPUTER.  AN IMAGE OF
SEAN (age 6) appears.

		JAD
	If he's ransoming her, where's the
	damn note?

		SEAN
		(jumping between ages)
	He, Dad!  How's... your... day?
	Hey, look what I built!  Thanks...
	for... helping... me... I... love
	you... Daddy.

Witwer stares at it.

		WITWER
	It has nothing to do with ransom.
	It has to do with the information
	that's inside of her.

They all look at him.

		WITWER
	He's trying to prove his innocence.

		FLETCHER
	He can't download her without a lot
	of technical help.

		WITWER
		(staring at the image)
	No.  He can't...

Suddenly, Witwer begins to tear apart the computer.  He pulls
off the cover, looks at the components inside, rips one out,
then tosses it aside.  He rips out another, sees a NAME
PRINTED on the bottom: PATENT PENDING - RUFUS T. RILEY.

		WITWER
	Who's Rufus T. Riley?

INT.  RUFUS' DREAMWEAVER HEADSPA - DAY

CUSTOMERS in dark corners, wearing bladdered bodysuits and
tiny headsets, act out various fantasies.

		RUFUS
	What's your pleasure?

RUFUS RILEY -- heavy, goateed, ponytail down to his waist and
a name tag that says "HI!  I'M RUFUS!" -- shows a NERVOUS
CUSTOMER around the place.

		RUFUS
	We got it all here.  We got guys
	come in, want to experience sex as
	a woman.  We got women come in,
	want to get laid by their favorite
	soap star.  We got rape fantasies
	from both sides.  We got sports
	fantasies.  And then we got what I
	call the "Look Ma, I can fly"
	fantasies which encompass
	everything from bungee jumping to
	soaring like an eagle over the
	Grand Canyon.

The nervous customer turns as we hear a MAN CRY OUT.  He
looks in and sees a man flailing about on a cushion.

		RUFUS
	Near Death's real popular right
	now, which includes everything from
	getting hit by a car, to falling
	off a high building to plane
	crashes.  It's a big rush, you come
	out the other side without a heart
	attack.

		CUSTOMER
	I wanna kill my boss.

		RUFUS
		(unfazed)
	Uh-huh.  Okay.  You got some images
	I can work with?

		CUSTOMER
		(holds out a disk)
	Right here.

		RUFUS
	Good.  What I can do is set you up
	down in the --

		ANDERTON
	Rufus...

Rufus sees Anderton come in now with Agatha on his arm.  He
turns back to the guy, says in a loud voice...

		RUFUS
	Uh, yeah, being concert master of
	the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
	is one of our most popular
	choices...

		CUSTOMER
	No, I wanna kill my boss!

		RUFUS
	Get the hell outta here.  You sick
	bastard.

He pushes the man away, sending him tripping for the door.

		RUFUS
	Detective.  Nice of you to come
	down here.
		(lowers his voice)
	Seeing as every cop in the world is
	looking for you right now.  Jesus,
	what's up with your eye?

		ANDERTON
	I need your help.

		RUFUS
	Well, hey, you didn't have to come
	all the way down here.  For you,
	Chief, I make housecalls...

		ANDERTON
	I need help with her.

		RUFUS
		(just notices her)
	Well, hello there, honey-pie.

Barely able to yet stand, Agatha is also too stunned by the
bizarre surroundings to even respond as Rufus takes her hand
and kisses it.

		RUFUS
	I'm impressed, Anderton.  You're on
	the lam, but you still got the time
	and energy to slice off a little
	jerky for yourself.

		ANDERTON
	Rufus.  She's a precog.

		RUFUS
		(looks at Agatha)
	She's a precog?

		ANDERTON
	That's right.

Rufus starts to laugh.  Agatha looks at Anderton.  Rufus
keeps on laughing... until he looks a little closer and
realizes --

		RUFUS
	You brought a Precog -- HERE?
	Jesus Christ...

And now Rufus looks at Agatha, a thought dawning and then
drops to his knees.  He genuflects, looking up at her.

		RUFUS
	Are you reading my mind right now?

		ANDERTON
	Rufus, for Christ's sake, get up.

		RUFUS
	I'm sorry for whatever I'm gonna
	do!  And I swear, I didn't do any
	of the stuff I did!

Anderton hauls him to his feet.

		ANDERTON
	She's got information inside of
	her.  I need you to get it out.

		RUFUS
	No.  No way.  I wouldn't even know
	where to begin!
		(to Agatha)
	Those thoughts about my cousin
	Elena -- they were just thoughts.
	I would never --

		ANDERTON
	C'mon, Rufus, you've been busted
	twice for felony hacking.

		RUFUS
	So?

		ANDERTON
	So now I need you to hack into her.

Rufus studies her a moment, then...

		RUFUS
	I tell you what.  I do this, I get
	to keep whatever images I get from
	her head.

		ANDERTON
	They don't belong to anybody.

		RUFUS
		(turns to go)
	Then take her to Radio Shack.

Anderton grabs Rufus and throws him against the wall.  Gets
right in Rufus' face... the one blown eye looking at him...

		ANDERTON
	Do I look like I'm leaving?

INT.  PRECRIME READY ROOM - DAY

As the precops get ready, ride the chairs up to the
hovership.

INT.  HOVERSHIP - DAY

As Evanna gets ready to lift off, looks over as Witwer gets
in and sits IN ANDERTON'S SEAT.  She gives him an icy look as
he starts to take out a piece of gum...

		EVANNA
	No chewing gum on my ship.

INT.  RUFUS RILEY'S BASEMENT - DAY

Agatha, hooked into some kind of LIGHT READER, sits in a
chair in the center of the room, surrounded by contraptions
of all kinds.  Rufus paces around, checking connections.

		RUFUS
	Okay, we're all set.  I can't
	promise you the images are gonna be
	any good, though.

Suddenly, there's A FLOOD OF MURDER-IMAGES (similar in type
to the ones used upstairs in the cyber-parlor) beamed from
the projector to the center of the room.

		RUFUS
	Good God...

Dozens of murders happening all around them.  Agatha begins
twitching.  The images shake, distort, go fuzzy, then clear
again.  It's a rapid-fire display of all the murder and
mayhem that Agatha has been privy to, including the last
image of the STEEL BEAM CRUSHING YOUNG NATHAN.

		RUFUS
		(watching)
	You know what, Chief?  On second
	thought I don't think I wanna keep
	any of these --

But now we see ANDERTON BLOW LEO CROW through a window.

		ANDERTON
	Stop --

		RUFUS
	Tell me how.

Rufus tries in vain to work the equipment.  THE IMAGES RUN ON
and now we see THE FACE WEARING SUNGLASSES.  The number 9
turning into the number 6.

		PROJECTED CROW
	You're not going to kill me...

		PROJECTED ANDERTON
	Good-bye, Crow.

		ANDERTON
	Rufus -- can you record this?!

Rufus moves to the computer as now we see Crow at the window,
the face with the sunglasses behind him as he wrestles with
the gun that ANDERTON holds.

The real Anderton walks up to his projection, amazed to see
his likeness frozen there, doing something he can't imagine.

He watches as the image jumps and once more Crow is blown out
the window.  Then we see nothing.

		ANDERTON
	What happened?  Where's the rest?

		RUFUS
	I guess that's all of it.

Anderton looks at Agatha, her expression calm.

		ANDERTON
	Is there a Minority Report?

She just looks at him.  A what?

		ANDERTON
	An alternate future.  Do I have
	one?

She looks at where the images were projected a moment ago.

		AGATHA
	No.

Anderton is about to turn away.  She takes his hand, as she
did in the temple, and suddenly the room is full of IMAGES:

		AGATHA
	Can you see?

Every single one of the images is the same: THE SCREAMING
FACE OF...

		ANDERTON
	Anne Lively...

Anderton looks at Agatha.  Her face is contorted in the same
way as the image.  Suddenly, there's a RUSH OF IMAGES, we
glimpse only some of them, TWO FIGURES STRUGGLING, a SPLASH.
ANNE LIVELY DROWNING.  Then nothing...

		ANDERTON
	Why are you showing me this?  What
	do you want me to see?

She doesn't move, a single TEAR rolls down her cheek.

		ANDERTON
	Rufus, play it back...

		RUFUS
	Uh, I'll try...

And now we see the FOLLOWING IMAGES ALL PLAYING BACKWARDS...
Anne Lively being drown, but now she comes OUT OF THE LAKE...
backwards.  We see Anne Lively on the ground by the lake,
struggling with A MASKED FIGURE.  Suddenly, the FIGURE POPS
up and RUNS BACKWARDS.  She pops up a second later (a STUMBLE
IN REVERSE) and runs BACKWARDS.  Now we see an OVERCOAT BEING
PUT ON, TURNING INSIDE OUT, FROM DARK TO LIGHT.

Anderton looks about the room, THE IMAGES ALL AROUND HIM.
The dark figure is just ABOUT TO TAKE OFF THE MASK when --

THE IMAGES STOP and Agatha holds on tight to him.

		ANDERTON
	What?

		AGATHA
	They're inside.

		ANDERTON
	Who?

Suddenly, a red light flashes on the wall.  Rufus scrambles
to a security monitor.

		RUFUS
	Your old Teammates.

INSERT MONITOR: Witwer leads a team through the parlor.

INT.  NEUROPLEX - DAY

Witwer and the Precrime team move through the parlor.

		WITWER
	Check every room.

INT.  BASEMENT CORRIDOR - DAY

As Rufus leads them down a long, dark corridor and up a
flight of stairs...

		RUFUS
	You come up just outside the sprawl
	on Millhouse.

EXT.  OUTDOOR CLOTHING MARKET - DAY

Anderton and Agatha come through a hidden door and hurry
through the market.  She stops at one of the stalls...

		AGATHA
	Can you see the umbrella?

Anderton looks at A STALL SELLING UMBRELLAS.

		AGATHA
	Take it.

		ANDERTON
	Agatha...

He buys an umbrella from the vendor, then drags her off.

INT.  INNER CITY - MALL - DAY

As they move through the crowded inner city shopping area.
She has trouble keeping up.  She looks ahead, something in
her eyes, then...

		AGATHA
	Can you see the man in the blue
	suit?

Sure enough a MAN walking by in the other direction is
wearing a blue suit.

		AGATHA
	He drops his briefcase.

He drops his briefcase, spilling all kinds of papers all over
the sidewalk, including a NEWSPAPER WITH ANDERTON'S PHOTO.

		AGATHA
	A woman in a brown dress is going
	to come out of the door up ahead.

This happens.

		AGATHA
	Wait -- she knows you face.  Turn
	in here.

The WOMAN looks at Anderton, squints, but before she can make
any kind of determination as to who he is and why he looks
sort of familiar, Anderton and the Precog have gone into...

A PET SHOP

They move through the store, jammed with all kinds of
animals, including FOXES and shrieking EXOTIC BIRDS.  They go
through the back door and come out...

IN A DIFFERENT SECTION OF THE MALL

As Anderton starts to lead her around a corner, she stops.
Anderton looks around, sees A PRECOP on the UPPER LEVEL.

		ANDERTON
	Agatha --

		AGATHA
	Can you see the balloon man?

		ANDERTON
	What?

PRECOP'S POV - FROM THE UPPER LEVEL

As the cop scans the mall.  He's about to spot Anderton and
Agatha when A BALLOON VENDOR comes around the corner where
they're waiting and blocks the cops view.  He moves on.

ANDERTON & AGATHA

Start walking again.

		AGATHA
	This way...

She leads him underneath the PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE.

		AGATHA
	Stop.

We now BOOM UP to the TOP OF THE BRIDGE where we see Knott
moving to the side, leaning over the rail and peering down...

ON ANDERTON & AGATHA

She gently pulls Anderton further under the bridge so that...

ON THE BRIDGE - KNOTT

Can't see them when he looks down.  They're a foot or two out
of his sightline.  He then moves to the other side of the
bridge and peers down as...

AGATHA

Now leads Anderton a step or two back the other way, so that
again...

KNOTT

Just misses seeing them.  He moves off across the bridge.

ANDERTON & AGATHA

Hurry through the mall now.

A BUM in one of the doorways begs for change.  They walk past
him...

		BUM
	May the Devil take you as his
	bride!

A few steps later, Agatha stops IN FRONT OF A DOOR.

		AGATHA
	Drop some money.

		ANDERTON
	Forget that guy --

		AGATHA
	Do it.  Right here.  On the ground.

Anderton reaches into his pocket, drops some change on the
ground.  Agatha looks back at the Bum who turns towards them
upon hearing the sound of the coins hitting the ground.  She
then leads Anderton off...

		BUM
	May God Bless You!

The Bum comes over, bends down IN FRONT OF A DOOR just as IT
OPENS INTO HIM, knocking him over, and TWO PRECOPS burst out
and TOPPLE OVER HIM.

EXT.  STREET - DAY

As Anderton and Agatha exit the mall and IT STARTS RAINING.
Anderton OPENS THE UMBRELLA along with the dozens of people
around him just as...

EXT.  UPPER LEVEL - DAY

As Fletcher leads some cops outside, they look down, but all
they can see is a sea of umbrellas below them.

EXT.  STREET - DAY

As Agatha and Anderton walk along the street.  Behind them
the way is blocked off with buildings.  There's only one way
out: Straight ahead.  They start for it.

Suddenly KNOTT COMES OUT OF A BUILDING IN FRONT OF THEM AND
STARTS WALKING IN FRONT OF THEM.  Anderton starts to turn
around... Agatha pulls on his arm.

		AGATHA
	No.  Follow him.

		ANDERTON
	He'll turn around.

		AGATHA
	He won't.

Anderton and Agatha walk past a LARGE METAL GATE, she stops.
Knott slows down ahead of them, starts to look this way and
that.  Anderton starts to back away...

		ANDERTON
	Agatha...

		AGATHA
	Wait.

WE HEAR A BELL RING and suddenly the GATE OPENS, and a beat
later, KIDS SWARM OUT OF A SCHOOL.  Knott turns around, is
about to spot them when...

		AGATHA
	Can you see his shoe?

In front of them one of the kids trips OVER HIS SHOE LACES.

		AGATHA
	Tie his shoe.

Anderton drops down to help him, Agatha does the same so
that...

Knott sees nothing but A SWARM OF KIDS.

		KNOTT
		(into his radio)
	He's not here.  I'll check one
	block east.

Knott moves off across the street.  Anderton smiles at the
kid as he helps him with his shoe...

		ANDERTON
	Here you go, buddy...

		KID
	I can do it myself!

Anderton finishes tying the kid's shoe, stays low as a
TEACHER ushers the kids off, REVEALING: PART OF A GIANT FACE
WEARING SUNGLASSES.

Anderton slowly stands up, looks at A BILLBOARD, spinning in
the wind as it's hoisted upward by a GIANT CRANE, it SPINS
AROUND, we see that it's for REVO -- on it is A HUGE GRINNING
FACE WEARING SUNGLASSES.  Anderton turns and looks at...

AN OLD HOTEL

A dozen stories up, WORKMEN motion for the CRANE OPERATOR to
hold up as they continue to get the steel frame prepared.

		ANDERTON
	Agatha.  Can you see that?

Anderton looks at Agatha, she's looking away.

		ANDERTON
	That's the man in the window.

He looks at his watch.  COUNTING DOWN: EIGHTEEN MINUTES.

INT.  RUFUS' CYBER PARLOR - DAY

As Witwer looks at the equipment, turns to Rufus.

		WITWER
	What was he looking for?

EXT.  STREET - DAY

As Anderton takes Agatha by the arm, but she stays put.

		AGATHA
	Don't go inside.

He looks at her.

		AGATHA
	You don't have to.
		(then)
	Walk away.

He looks at her, then turns and walks to the hotel.  We see
THE BILLBOARD as it's hoisted up towards the hotel.

INT.  RUFUS' CYBER PARLOR - DAY

As Witwer stands there looking at the Anne Lively murder.
Confused.

		WITWER
	This is what he wanted to see?

		RUFUS
	No... This is what she wanted him
	to see.

		WITWER
		(watches, then)
	I'll need a copy of this.

INT.  HOTEL - DAY

Once grand, now pretty much a flophouse.  The skinny and
skagged-out CLERK looks up from the tattoo magazine as
Anderton walks to the desk and looks around...

		CLERK
	Room's are ninety-five a night plus
	tax.
		(regarding Agatha)
	Or fifteen an hour.

		ANDERTON
	You mind if I take a look at your
	register?

		CLERK
	Yeah, I mind --

The guy starts to get up and Anderton pulls his gun, puts the
muzzle in the guy's eye.

		ANDERTON
	How about now?

He spins the register around so that Anderton can read it.

		CLERK
	Help yourself.

Anderton looks at the register...

ON THE REGISTER

As Anderton runs the BARREL OF THE GUN down the inky list of
names scrawled in the book.  Most of them Smith or Jones.  He
stops when he gets to L. CROW.

		ANDERTON
	He's here.

		AGATHA
	Anderton, leave.

He looks at her.

		AGATHA
	You have a choice.  Walk away.
		(holds out her hand)
	Right now.

He stands there a moment, torn.  He starts to close the
register and follow her to the door.  But then he stops,
takes his hand back.

		ANDERTON
	I can't.  I have to know.

		AGATHA
	Please --

		ANDERTON
	I have to find out what happened to
	my life.
		(then)
	Agatha.  I'm not going to kill the
	man.  I don't even know him.

She looks frightened.

		ANDERTON
	Don't you understand, going
	upstairs is the only way I'll ever
	find out what's underneath all of
	this.  Who's setting me up.
		(then)
	I have to know.

Anderton turns to the clerk.

		ANDERTON
	What room's Crow in?

		CLERK
	Ten-o-six.

Anderton and Agatha ride up.  The elevator looks out at the
other buildings, people working in offices across the way.
Anderton looks at his watch: COUNTING DOWN ELEVEN MINUTES.

INT.  HALLWAY - DAY

Anderton and Agatha walk up the hall, stopping at a door
marked 1006.  Anderton knocks.  No answer.  He tries the
door.  It's open.

INT.  ROOM - DAY

Anderton steps into the empty room, just a bed (made), a
night table and a dresser.  He pulls out a drawer: it's
empty.  Turns on the bathroom light -- no personal effects --
turns it off.

		AGATHA
	He's gone.

Anderton stands in the room, thinking.  He looks out the open
door into the hallway.

		ANDERTON
	Wait a minute...

ANDERTON'S POV - THE ROOM ACROSS THE WAY

The number on the door to this room is also 1006.

INT.  HALLWAY - DAY

Anderton steps into the hallway and looks at the door he just
came through.  The "6" is lower than the other three numbers.

Now Agatha watches as Anderton reaches up and pivots the
number "6" into a "9", making the number now even with the
other three.

		ANDERTON
	It's the wrong room.

He turns and looks across the hall at the real 1006.  He
looks at his watch.  COUNTING DOWN: EIGHT MINUTES...

		AGATHA
	Anderton...

Anderton knocks on the door.  No answer.  Agatha recoils as
Anderton suddenly kicks the door open.

INT.  THE REAL 1006 - DAY

Someone definitely lives in this room.  The bed's unmade.
Clothes are strewn about, hanging from open drawers.
Anderton steps around a half-eaten meal that sits on the
floor.

He looks down and stares at a pile of POLAROID PHOTOGRAPHS
that sit on the dresser.

All of them are of CHILDREN.  Some sitting on beds in hotel
rooms like this one, looking afraid.  Others in parks and
schoolyards unaware that their picture was taken...

		ANDERTON
	Jesus...

EXT.  STREET - DAY

LEO CROW, the man we saw in the prevision, walks along the
sidewalk.  He's unsteady, and keeps bumping into people.  In
person we can see that the man's small, with countable wisps
of hair combed over one side of his head.  His eyes are dark,
almost black, more insect-like than human.

INT.  HOTEL ROOM - DAY

Anderton quickly rifles the stack of photographs.  He
suddenly stops and stares at one of them.  The impact of the
image makes his legs buckle, forcing him to sit down on the
bed.

		ANDERTON
	Oh, God...

		AGATHA
	What is it?

A BOY we know very well, hugging himself in the back seat of
some vehicle.

		ANDERTON
	This is Sean.  My son.

INT.  LOBBY - DAY

As Crow stands in the doorway a moment, teeters a bit, then
enters the hotel, the CLERK looks up from his magazine.  But
doesn't say a word.

INT.  HOTEL ROOM - DAY

Agatha sits beside Anderton on the bed.

		ANDERTON
	Every day for the last six years
	I've thought about only two things.
	The first was what my son would
	look like if he were alive today.
	If I would even recognize him if I
	saw him on the street.
		(then)
	The second was what I would do to
	the man who took him.

		AGATHA
	Anderton --

		ANDERTON
	You were right.  I'm not being set
	up.

Anderton looks at the photograph.

		ANDERTON
	I'm gonna kill this man.

INT.  ELEVATOR - DAY

As Crow rides up.  He takes out a DENTED FLASK and takes a
long hit from it... draining it of the last drop.

INT.  HOTEL ROOM - DAY

We now hear the elevator DING.  Anderton looks at his watch,
gets to his feet.

		AGATHA
	Please, I want to go back...

		ANDERTON
	I can't leave.  You said so
	yourself, there is no Minority
	Report.  I don't have an
	alternative future.

		AGATHA
	But you still have a choice.  The
	others never had a chance to see
	their future.  You did.

FOOTSTEPS.  Anderton waits.  The door slowly opens and we see
Crow peering around it.

		ANDERTON
	Leo Crow?

The man does a strange thing: he glances at his watch.  Then
takes a deep breath...

		CROW
	Who... who... The hell are you?

Anderton kicks the door shut on the man's hand.  Crow screams
and he goes down.  Anderton steps on him.

		ANDERTON
	Six years ago.  Baltimore.  You
	grabbed a kid at Francis public
	pool in the West End.

		CROW
	Did I?  I don't recall... I got
	lots of kids from that place --

Anderton kicks the man in the stomach.

		CROW
	Jesus --

He doubles over.  Anderton grabs him by the hair, pulls his
head up.  The guy is shaking like mad...

		ANDERTON
	Do you know who I am?

		CROW
	Some -- somebody's father?

		ANDERTON
	His name was Sean.  Six years ago.
	Francis pool.

The guy doesn't raise his head for a moment.  Finally...

		CROW
	I told him I was a policeman...

Anderton reacts to this.

		CROW
	... and that I needed his help.  It
	wasn't so bad really.
		(looks at Anderton)
	I sang him a song, made him laugh,
	bought him a pretzel.  I took care
	of him.  I made him happy.

		ANDERTON
	He's alive?

The man just looks at him.  Anderton is reeling...

		ANDERTON
	Where've you got him?  Is he all
	right?
		(shaking Crow)
	Tell me, you fuck -- WHERE IS HE?!

		CROW
		(beat)
	I put him in a barrel and sunk him
	in the bay.

Anderton stops.  Shocked by this image.

		CROW
	It floated back up.  I had to take
	him out and --

		ANDERTON
	NO!

Anderton screams and throws him against the wall, ignoring
Agatha's SCREAMS for him to stop.  For his part, Crow just
covers up and waits for it to end, shouting over and over...

		CROW
	I'm sorry!  I'm sorry...

INSERT - ANDERTON'S STOPWATCH.  Counting down from 18
SECONDS.

Anderton pulls the man to his feet, shoves him up against the
window and now stands there shaking, staring at Crow, the man
shaking as Anderton weighs what he's about to do.

And now behind Crow, we see THE REVO BILLBOARD as it's
hoisted upward by the crane, the SMILING FACE coming around
so that its grinning visage is just over Crow's shoulder as
it was in the prevision.

He cuts a look into the mirror off to his left, sees the
IMAGE OF AGATHA, her face imploring...

		AGATHA
	Anderton, you can choose... You can
	choose.

INSERT - ANDERTON'S WATCH.  Counting down from 5 - 4 - 3 -
2 - 1 - The ALARM on the watch goes off.  BEEP.  BEEP.  BEEP.
BEEP.  BEEP.

Finally, tears in his eyes, Anderton backs away from Crow and
looks at the gun in his hand.  Crow opens his eyes, watches
as Anderton finally lowers the gun.

		ANDERTON
	You have the right to remain
	silent.  Anything you say can be
	used against you in a court of law.

Crow looks at him.  Not what he expected.

		ANDERTON
	You have the right to an attorney
	present now and during any future
	questioning.  If you cannot afford
	one, one will be appointed to you.
	Do you understand these rights?

Crow doesn't move, confused.

		CROW
	You're not gonna kill me?

		ANDERTON
	No.

Crow still doesn't move.

		CROW
		(whispering)
	But you have to.
		(then)
	They said you would.

		ANDERTON
		(looks at Agatha)
	The precogs were wrong.

		CROW
	If you don't kill me, my family
	gets nothing!

Anderton pauses, looks back at him as Crow comes forward.

		CROW
	You're supposed to kill me.  He
	said you would.

		ANDERTON
	Who said I would?

		CHILDREN
	He called me in Prison.  Said if I
	went along, he'd get me released,
	take care of my family.

		ANDERTON
	If you did what?

		CROW
	Acted like I killed your kid.

Anderton goes stiff, looks at Agatha.

		CROW
	Look, I've put my family through
	enough misery.  You gotta kill me!
	This way I can leave 'em something.

		ANDERTON
	Crow.  I'm not gonna kill you.

		CROW
	Look, believe me, I know it's hard,
	but you gotta do it --

		ANDERTON
	I'm asking you again, who made you
	do this?

		CROW
	I don't know -- I never saw his
	face.  All I know is, the next day
	I was out, so the guy must've had
	juice somewhere.  Look, man, you
	gotta go through with this.

		ANDERTON
	What the fuck is going on?

Suddenly Crow steps forward, grabs the muzzle of Anderton's
gun, holds it up to his own chest.  Agatha's eyes roll, she
holds onto the table for support...

		AGATHA
	Anderton --

		CROW
	Kill me!

Anderton tries to pull the gun away, but Crow hangs on.

		ANDERTON
	What about the picture --

		CROW
	Fake.  He gave it to me.  Now --
		(pulling on the gun)
	-- shoot me, Goddammit, before I
	lose my nerve!

		ANDERTON
		(pulls the gun back)
	Tell me, who was it, set this up?

		CROW
	If I tell you, my family gets
	nothing.

		ANDERTON
	Who made you do this?

		CROW
		(pulls the gun)
	Kill me!

		ANDERTON
	Tell me!

Anderton looks at Crow who holds the gun muzzle tight to his
chest, his eyes imploring Anderton to pull the trigger.

		ANDERTON
	Let go of the gun.

		CROW
	You're not gonna kill me...

		ANDERTON
	Good-bye, Crow.

Anderton turns to go, but Crow hold onto the muzzle --

		CROW
	Anderton!  Wait -- don't --

Crow yanks on the gun, making Anderton pull the trigger.  We
hear a loud BOOM and Anderton turns, sees Crow holding the
gun to his own exploded chest.

		ANDERTON
	Jesus --

Crow looks at Anderton, a stupid look on his face.  He
stumbles backwards towards the window.  Anderton moves
forward and reaches for his shirt as...

		AGATHA
	NO!

... now she turns away, framed in the mirror, as Crow falls
through the glass window.

Anderton stands there frozen a moment, unable to move or
think.  We HEAR SOMEONE SCREAM O.S.  Anderton looks across
the way, sees everyone in the building across the street
watching him.  Agatha takes him by the arm...

		AGATHA
	Go...

Anderton grabs Agatha and runs out of the room.

INT.  HALLWAY - DAY

As People stick their heads out of their doors and WHISPER as
Agatha leads a stunned Anderton down the hall.

A WOMAN watches them go, then moves to the doorway, and peers
into the room, sees the broken window through the doorway...

		WOMAN
	Murder!

EXT.  HOTEL - DAY

As they come outside, quickly move past where Crow's body
lies crumpled half-on and half-off the roof of the CRANE.
Gawkers stand around stunned, staring at the body until the
WOMAN sticks her head out of the WINDOW above and SCREAMS:

		WOMAN
	MURDER!

And now everybody's whispering...

		DIFFERENT VOICES
	Murder!!!

Agatha leads Anderton around the back of the building.

INT.  PRECRIME HOVERSHIP - DAY

As the ship comes over the roof of the hotel, Witwer looks
down at the billboard sitting there, and then, as they move
past the edge of the roof, he sees the crane with the body of
Leo Crow on top.

EXT.  HOTEL - DAY

Other COPS keep the crowd back as the ship lands in the
middle of the street and the team disperses.  Witwer goes
straight to the body.  He looks up at the broken window in
the hotel.

INT.  CROW'S HOTEL ROOM - DAY

As Witwer moves around the room.  He looks at the Polaroids
on the bed, spots the one of Sean and freezes.  As Anderton
did, he sits down on the bed.  He notices something on the
floor by the window and moves to it.  He slowly bends down
and picks up Anderton's .45.

		FLETCHER
	First murder in six years.

Witwer looks up at Fletcher standing in the doorway, looking
around at the room.

		FLETCHER
	Jesus, they're never wrong, are
	they?

Witwer looks at Fletcher a moment.

		WITWER
	There a maid in this hotel?

		FLETCHER
	I don't know, why?

		WITWER
	If you were a child killer, you
	took these pictures, would you
	leave them out on the bed for
	anyone to find?

		FLETCHER
	They could have been put away.
	Anderton could have found them.

		WITWER
		(beat)
	What kind of cop were you before
	this?

		FLETCHER
	I was a Treasury Agent for eight
	years.  Why?

		WITWER
	Treasury... Then this would be your
	first actual murder scene.

Fletcher nods, watches as Witwer looks around the room.

		WITWER
	I worked homicide before I went
	federal.
		(indicates the room)
	This is what we would've called an
	"orgy of evidence".
		(then)
	Do you know how many orgies I had
	as a homicide copy, Gordon?

		FLETCHER
	How many?

		WITWER
	None.
		(looks at the room)
	This was arranged.

INSERT -  A PHOTOGRAPH OF A CHILD

Slowly developing, floating in solution.  We HEAR A PHONE
RING.  And...

WIDEN TO REVEAL: A DARK ROOM

Lara Anderton working under the red light.  She watches the
photo develop a moment, drops it into the stop-bath and
answers the phone...

		ANDERTON'S VOICE
	Crow is dead.

She goes stiff.

		LARA
	John?

		ANDERTON'S VOICE
	He's dead, Lara.

		LARA
		(beat)
	Oh, God, what did you do?

		ANDERTON'S VOICE
	Nothing.  I didn't kill him.

		LARA
	Then how did he --

		ANDERTON'S VOICE
	Lara, I don't know why this is
	happening.  I just know they're
	setting me up.  I can't trust
	anybody.  I don't know who to talk
	to or where to go...
		(then)
	Lara?  Are you there?

She stands there a moment, staring at the image...

		LARA
	Yes, I'm here, John.

EXT.  COASTAL HIGHWAY - DAY

Anderton stands outside the Lexus, talking on the phone.  He
looks off towards the water...

		LARA'S VOICE
	I'm right here.

EXT.  CHESAPEAKE BAY - DAY

As the Lexus moves along the coast.

INT.  LEXUS - DAY

Agatha stares out the window at the bay.  She looks pale,
weak.  Anderton's jacket is folded over her.

		AGATHA
	Can you see?  So beautiful...

She looks at him.

		AGATHA
	Where are we going?

		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 shit 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.

Witwer suddenly understands.  See Anderton's .45 in Burgess'
hand and knows it's already too late as the gun goes off
loud, Burgess shooting Witwer right through the holo-image of
Anne Lively.

Burgess stands up as Witwer drops to his knees.  He looks up
at Burgess -- gasping, clutching his chest with both hands as
if in prayer -- and can do nothing but watch as the man
shoots him once more, knocking him down to the floor.

Burgess steps over him, crouches down and takes something
from Witwer's pocket.  A stick of gum.  He puts it into his
mouth, then starts to wipe the .45 down with a handkerchief.

HIS PHONE RINGS.  Burgess answers it.

		BURGESS
	Burgess.

INT.  THE COTTAGE - DAY

As Lara watches Anderton pull up to the cottage.

		LARA
	Lamar, it's Lara.

INT.  ANDERTON'S APARTMENT - DAY

Burgess talks to her, all the while continuing to wipe down
the gun, tidy up the apartment.

		BURGESS
	Yes, Lara.

He takes the DISK from the holo-computer and drops it into
his pocket.

		LARA'S VOICE
	You have to help him.

		BURGESS
		(beat)
	Is he there?

INT.  THE CLIFF COTTAGE - DAY

As Lara watches Anderton lead Agatha towards the door.

		LARA
	Yes.

		BURGESS' VOICE
	Has he got the precog with him?

		LARA
	Yes.

INT.  ANDERTON'S APARTMENT - DAY

Burgess looks around the room, making sure he hasn't
forgotten anything.

		BURGESS
	Keep them there.  I'm on my way.

		LARA'S VOICE
	Please don't tell Witwer.  I don't
	trust him.

Burgess looks at Witwer's body.

		BURGESS
	I won't say a word.  You just don't
	let John leave.  All right?

		LARA'S VOICE
	He's no killer, Lamar.

		BURGESS
	I know.

EXT.  THE CLIFF COTTAGE - DAY

As Agatha looks at the house, watching as Lara now comes out
the front door and hugs Anderton.  She looks at Agatha...

		ANDERTON
	It's all right.  Lara, I want you
	to meet Agatha.

Lara smiles at her.  Agatha turns and looks at the RUSTED
TRICYCLE lying in the weeds near the door and shivers...

		AGATHA
	I'm cold --

As Lara opens the door...

		LARA
	Come inside.

EXT.  COTTAGE - DUSK

As Lara walks to the cliff, stands beside Anderton.

		ANDERTON
	I... just need to sit and think,
	figure this out.

He turns to her.

		ANDERTON
	It's like a bad dream.  It's like
	I'm down the fucking rabbit hole.

It's getting dark.  He takes off his sunglasses and she now
sees his "new" eyes.  She gasps...

		LARA
	Oh, God, John... What have you
	done?

INT.  COTTAGE - DUSK

Agatha moves around the house.  Stops at a bedroom.  Inside
is a DAYBED, BEACH TOYS, STUFFED ANIMALS, TOY SOLDIERS.  She
puts her hand in Anderton's coat pocket, takes out the CARD
CONTAINING THE IMAGE OF ANNE LIVELY DROWNING.

INT.  PRECRIME HOVERSHIP - NIGHT

The team flies silently over the countryside.

		EVANNA
	ETA five minutes.

EXT.  COTTAGE - NIGHT

As Anderton paces along the cliff...

		ANDERTON
	They used Sean.  They wanted me to
	think Crow killed him --

Lara reacts to this.

		ANDERTON
	-- but he didn't.

		LARA
	Then who was he?

		ANDERTON
	Just some guy... they found.

		LARA
	Found?  Where?

		ANDERTON
	Somewhere.

He stands there.  A thought dawning on him.

		LARA
	Think, John.  Why would they set
	you up?

		ANDERTON
		(beat)
	Because I found out about her...

		LARA
	About who?

		ANDERTON
	Anne Lively...

He starts for the house.

INT.  CLIFF HOUSE - NIGHT

Anderton comes in from the back.  The place is dark.

		ANDERTON
	Agatha?

INT.  BACK BEDROOM - NIGHT

Agatha sits on the floor in the midst of a pile of toys, face
streaked with tears.

		AGATHA
	Dr. Hineman once said to me that
	"The dead don't die."
		(looks up)
	"They look on and help."
		(then, as a statement)
	Remember that, John.

Agatha looks around the room...

		AGATHA
	He's on the beach now, a toe in the
	water, asking you to come in with
	him.  He's been racing his mother
	up and down the sand.

She looks up at Anderton, smiling and crying at the same
time.

		AGATHA
	There's so much love in this house.

She closes her eyes.

		AGATHA
	He's ten years old.  He's
	surrounded by animals.  He wants to
	be a vet.  You keep a rabbit for
	him.  A bird.  And a fox.

Anderton can't move, can't breath.

		AGATHA
	He's in high school.  He likes to
	run.  Like his father.  He runs the
	two mile and the long relay.
		(then)
	He's twenty-three, at a University.
	He makes love to a pretty girl
	named Claire.  He asks her to be
	his wife.  He calls here and tells
	Lara who cries... he still runs.
	Across the University.  And in the
	stadium where John watches.

She's shaking her head now...

		AGATHA
	Oh, God -- he's running so fast,
	like his daddy.  He sees his daddy,
	wants to run to him, but he's only
	six years old and he can't do it.
	And the other man is so fast.

Agatha looks up at Anderton, weeping, shaking...

		AGATHA
	There was so much love in this
	house.

Anderton turns away, see Lara in the doorway now, her own
eyes full of tears.

		ANDERTON
	I'm so sorry... I just want him
	back... I want him back so bad...

		LARA
	I know... I do, too...

		AGATHA
	So did she.

They both look at her.  She's staring at the PHOTOGRAPH OF
ANNE LIVELY.

		AGATHA
	Can't you see?  She just wanted her
	little girl back.

		ANDERTON
	Who wanted her little girl back?

		AGATHA
	The drowning woman.
		(shows him the photograph)
	Anne... But it was too late.  Her
	little girl was already gone.

		ANDERTON
	She died?

		AGATHA
	She grew up.

		ANDERTON
	She's still alive?

Agatha looks up at Anderton now.

		AGATHA
	She's not alive, but she didn't
	die.

		ANDERTON
		(beat)
	Oh, Jesus...

		LARA
	John?  What is it?

		ANDERTON
	How did I not see this?
		(then)
	Agatha, who killed you mother?  Who
	killed Anne Lively?

She looks at Anderton, keeps her voice calm as she says:

		AGATHA
	I'm sorry, John, but you have to
	run again.

		ANDERTON
	What --

		AGATHA
	RUN!

Suddenly the room is BATHED IN LIGHT --

EXT.  HOUSE - NIGHT

The Precrime Ships hover over the house.  Precrime cops are
everywhere.

INT.  HOUSE - NIGHT (SLOW MOTION)

We hear NO SOUND as the cops burst into the room and grab
Anderton.  We see, but don't hear, Lara scream as they throw
him to the floor.

He sees Knott come forward, pulling the temporary halo from
his belt.

		KNOTT
		(muted)
	John Anderton, by mandate of the
	District of Columbia, precrime
	division, I'm placing you under
	arrest for the murders of Leo Crow
	and Danny Witwer --

Lara sees the surprise in Anderton's face as he now turns at
the mention of Witwer's name --

		ANDERTON
	Witwer --

But another cop pulls his head back and begins to quickly
shave his head, his hair falling onto the picture of his dead
son.

He looks over, sees Agatha in the center of it all, THE ONLY
ONE MOVING AT NORMAL SPEED, going from one cop to the next,
whispering in their ears, startling them, until Fletcher
takes her by the arm and ushers her away...

She nods and that's the last thing Anderton sees before his
body racks and goes stiff with a shock, and we then...

FADE TO BLACK.

We hear a soft cooing voice, like someone talking to a
baby...

		VOICE
	That's it... that's my girl...

FADE IN: ON THE PRECOG TANK

As Wally gently lowers Agatha into the tank and begins the
process of reconnecting her to her "brothers".  Her eyes are
sunken and dark.

		WALLY
	I was so worried about you.  Did he
	hurt you?

He stops and looks at her a moment, then takes out a NEEDLE
and injects her with the Drug...

		WALLY
	God, I missed you so much...

She says nothing as he kisses her on the mouth...

INT.  A DARK PLACE

Where Anderton lies still as a halo CLICKS into his shaved
head.  Anderton moves his eyes and sees Gideon smiling over
him.

		GIDEON
	You're part of my flock now, John.
	Welcome.

		ANDERTON
	Lara --

		GIDEON
	It's actually kind of a rush.  They
	say you get visions; that your life
	flashes before your eyes.  That all
	your dreams come true.

Anderton struggles, but can't move.  Gideon starts to roll
away.

INT.  PRECOG TANK - DAY

As Wally climbs down.  Agatha then turns to her brothers and
takes each one by the hand as the tank begins to refill with
the "milk."

INT.  DEPARTMENT OF CONTAINMENT - DAY

As the TIER begins to SINK DOWN INTO THE FLOOR, Anderton
starts to sink into the blackness below...

		ANDERTON
	Gideon --
		(screams)
	GIDEON!

But Anderton's scream is drowned out by a blast from Gideon's
PIPE ORGAN as we now...

CUT TO BLACK.

		SEAN (V.O.)
	Dad?  Wake up...

And now we see ANDERTON'S SON standing before him.  He's now
eleven years-old.

		ANDERTON
	Sean -- you're not real.

		SEAN
	You gotta have faith, Dad.

		ANDERTON
	It's a little late for that.

		SEAN
	Wanna hear something funny?

		ANDERTON
	What the hell.

		SEAN
	I lived for a year with a man who
	was pretending to be my father.  He
	took me all over the world.

Anderton looks at him.

		ANDERTON
	You're alive?

		SEAN
	No.
		(then)
	He got tired of pretending.

		ANDERTON
	Oh, Sean --

		SEAN
	The funny thing is, I started to
	believe he really was my Dad.

		ANDERTON
	Sean --

		SEAN
	I feel bad about that.
		(then)
	I need you to forgive me.

		ANDERTON
	I forgive you.

		SEAN
	Once I even told him I loved him.

		ANDERTON
	I forgive you...

		SEAN
	The more you want to believe
	something, the easier it is to be
	fooled.

		ANDERTON
	I was looking for you...

		SEAN
	I know that.  I know you would have
	done anything to find me.  I know
	you would have died for me.

		ANDERTON
	I wanted to.

		SEAN
	Good-bye, Dad...

The boy begins to fade away.

		ANDERTON
	Who are you?

		SEAN
	I'm your son.  I'm you.

		ANDERTON
	Sean, wait...

		SEAN
		(now six years old)
	Hold your breath, Dad...

And he's gone.  Anderton is left alone in the dark.

INT.  LAMAR BURGESS' OFFICE - DAY

As Lara is greet by Burgess in a white T-shirt and slacks, no
shoes -- in the middle of getting dressed.  He embraces her.

		BURGESS
	This is all my fault.

		LARA
	No, it isn't, Lamar.  There was
	nothing anyone could do.

She sits on the couch, a BOX OF ANDERTON'S BELONGINGS on the
coffee table in front of her.

		BURGESS
	I thought you might want to have
	those.

He moves to a mirror, starts to put on his Precrime dress
uniform shirt.

		BURGESS
	I haven't worn this damn thing in
	years.  I just wanted to make sure
	it fits before tonight.

		LARA
	You look great.

He watches in the mirror as she lifts John's .45 out of the
box.

		BURGESS
	I knew he was having trouble for
	some time, and yet I did nothing
	about it.

Lara is about to say something when Burgess' Secretary sticks
her head in...

		SECRETARY
	The guy from USA Today is here.

		BURGESS
	Tell him not now.

		SECRETARY
	He just wanted a few minutes
	before --

		BURGESS
	Not.  Now.

The Secretary exits.  Burgess buttons his shirt.

		BURGESS
	It's insanity around here.

		LARA
	I thought you were retiring?

		BURGESS
	I was, but this whole incident with
	John made me realize the fragility
	of what we've built here.  This is
	John's legacy as much as mine and I
	want to protect that.

He looks at her.

		BURGESS
	I know how hard this all is for
	you, but you can at least find some
	comfort in the fact that John
	finally found the man who killed
	your son.

She looks at him, thinks about what he just said, watching as
he pins his precrime badge to his shirt.

		LARA
	Who's Anne Lively?

He pokes himself with the pin, winces.

		BURGESS
	Who?

		LARA
	Anne Lively.  John was talking
	about her right before they took
	him.

		BURGESS
	I don't know who that is.

Burgess doesn't say anything.  The news keeps getting worse.

		LARA
	John said something about him being
	set up because he "found out about
	her."

		BURGESS
	We know why John was tagged.

		LARA
	He also said Crow was a fake.

Burgess looks at her.

		BURGESS
	And Witwer?  He was shot with
	John's gun inside John's apartment.

She looks back at Burgess a moment, then:

		LARA
	Lamar, do you know the reason why
	John came here to work with you?

		BURGESS
	Sean --

		LARA
	No.  That's what everyone thinks.
		(then)
	John shot a man dead in Baltimore
	six months before.

She lets Burgess react to that, then...

		LARA
	He was serving a warrant on a
	murder suspect when the guy opened
	fire from inside.  It was a good
	shooting.  The department gave John
	a commendation for it.  But John
	couldn't let it go.  He'd say the
	man's name in his sleep.  He didn't
	eat.  It was all he talked about.
	It was all he thought about.  He
	came to work for you because he
	thought if he could just stop that
	kind of thing from happening...

She takes a breath, tries to control herself.

		BURGESS
	I understand.

		LARA
	No.  I don't think you do.
		(then)
	The other day, when he came to the
	cottage, he talked about a lot of
	things, but Danny Witwer, the man
	he was supposed to have just
	killed?  He didn't mention him.  He
	didn't say his name even once.

Burgess looks at her, then takes her hand and sighs.

		BURGESS
	Lara, John was the best cop I ever
	knew, and in some ways, the best
	man.  But the scars he carried
	around, well...
		(shakes his head)
	I know that he'd want us to honor
	the good things we remember about
	him.

She keeps looking at him.  He smiles.

		BURGESS
	But I also know why he married you:
	you're as stubborn as he is.

		LARA
	Lamar --

		BURGESS
	All right.  Tell you what I'll do.
	First thing Monday, I'll look over
	the Witwer evidence and I'll have
	Gideon run the Containment files,
	see if anyone drowned a woman named
	-- what did you say her name was?

		LARA
		(beat)
	Anne Lively... But I never said she
	drowned.

Burgess looks at her, his expression slowly going icy as his
Secretary once more reappears.

		SECRETARY
	Sir, the press conference is
	starting.

		BURGESS
		(looking at Lara)
	I'll be right there.

The Secretary backs out of the room.  Burgess moves to Lara.
She flinches slightly as he reaches past her head, and grabs
his HAT from the back of the couch.

		BURGESS
	We'll talk about this later.
		(kisses her)
	I'll come by the cottage.

He walks out, leaving her there on the couch.  She looks
around the office, then at John's .45 sitting on the table.

INT.  DEPARTMENT OF CONTAINMENT - NIGHT

Moving in on Gideon's hands as he plays the ORGAN.  Suddenly
the fingers stop.  We REVEAL: Lara standing there, Anderton's
.45 pressed to Gideon's temple.

		LARA
	I'd like a word with my husband.

He looks at her.

		GIDEON
	You're not authorized.  How did you
	get in here?

She drops THE BLACK ZIPLOC on the table in front of him.
Gideon nods as Anderton's old eyes "swim" past the clear
plastic window.

		GIDEON
	Okee pokee... off we go...

EXT.  WILLARD HOTEL - NIGHT

News crews are out front.  A NEWS REPORTER faces a hovering
NEWS BOT...

		REPORTER
	... today a six year experiment was
	deemed a success when all fifty
	states overwhelmingly ratified the
	National Precrime Amendment...

INT.  HOTEL BALLROOM - NIGHT

A gala ball.  Lamar Burgess and HIS FAMILY are surrounded by
WASHINGTON DIGNITARIES and WELL-WISHERS, all here to
celebrate the passage of the National Precrime bill.

On a giant screen, victims are expressing their thanks for
the programs existence, including Sarah Marks.

ATTORNEY GENERAL NASH

Speaks to a throng of reporters, not looking too happy about
what he has to say...

		NASH
	The President feels, and I agree,
	that the best way to avoid any
	appearance of impropriety, or any
	kind of infighting was to create an
	entirely new entity...

PULL BACK TO REVEAL: INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - NIGHT

As the team watches the "festivities" on a monitor.  Their
faces are all glum.  Evanna looks like she's been crying.

		NASH (TV)
	... and, of course, the only man
	qualified to run such an entity is
	Lamar Burgess...
		(then)
	Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm
	urgently needed... uh, somewhere...
	else.

Fletcher pours some more CHAMPAGNE into a paper cup, drinks
it down.  He's drunk.

		FLETCHER
	Why don't I feel like celebrating?

		KNOTT
	Cause all of a sudden you got no
	one you can fucking brown nose
	anymore.

Fletcher looks at Knott.  Gets to his feet.  Unsteady...

		FLETCHER
	John Anderton was my friend!

		KNOTT
	You "friend's" a murderer and he
	ruined our perfect record.  Six
	years, not one damn murder...

Knott grabs the champagne from Fletcher, starts to pour it
into a cup, but just sucks on the bottle instead.

INT.  WILLARD BALLROOM - NIGHT

A VIDEO PRESENTATION of the history of Precrime, and LAMAR
BURGESS.  We hear music, see different shots of Burgess at
his Rehab-Prison, we hear about its fabulous success rate.
The video ends to GREAT APPLAUSE.

		ANNOUNCER
	Ladies and gentlemen, Lamar
	Burgess, Director of the new,
	national Precrime.

Applause.  Then the room falls silent as Burgess' STAFF
presents him with an IVORY BOX.  He opens it, looks at his
secretary who smiles.

		SECRETARY
	Congratulations, sir.

		BURGESS
	My God...

He holds up a beautiful ivory-handled ANTIQUE REVOLVER and
the crowd ooohs and ahhhs.

		BURGESS
	How did you get this?

		SECRETARY
	I padded your expense account for
	the last six months.

LAUGHTER.  But as he stares at the gun, moved almost to
tears, the room grows silent.  He looks up.

		BURGESS
	Revolvers like this one were given
	to Generals at the end of the Civil
	War by their troops.  The cylinders
	were loaded with six gold-plated
	bullets to symbolize the end of the
	destruction and death that had
	ripped the country apart for six
	years.

He opens the gun and shows them the six GOLD BULLETS.  We
pick out LARA in an evening gown at the back of the room,
watching, her eyes fixed on Burgess.

		BURGESS
	With Precrime going national, maybe
	we can all look forward to a time
	when none of us have to discharge
	another firearm ever again.

Everyone APPLAUDS.  Burgess' secretary gets a phone call and
ducks her head so that she can hear...

		BURGESS
	I think people forget that, for all
	the talk about the Precogs,
	Precrime is only as good as the men
	and women who support them...

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - NIGHT

As Anderton's old team watches... silent.

		BURGESS (TV)
	I'm grateful to you for all that
	you've done to make this happen.
	And I assure you that I won't
	forget you when bonus time comes
	around!

Knott raises the bottle.

		KNOTT
	Now that's cool.

INT.  WILLARD BALLROOM - NIGHT

As Burgess smiles now...

		BURGESS
	Now enjoy yourselves.  That's an
	order!

LARA watches as Burgess steps off the stage and his Secretary
meets him.  He's immediately surrounded by WELL-WISHERS and
AUTOGRAPH SEEKERS.

		SECRETARY
	You have an emergency call on your
	private line.

		BURGESS
	Thank you.
		(into his phone)
	This is Burgess.

		ANDERTON (PHONE)
	Hello, Lamar.

Burgess goes instantly pale as his wife comes up and kisses
him on the cheek.

		BURGESS
	John --

		ANDERTON (PHONE)
	I just wanted to congratulate you.
	You did it.  You've created a world
	without murder.  So what if you had
	to kill someone to do it.

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - NIGHT

As Jad gets a phone call...

		JAD
	A-room.  Jad.

INT.  BALLROOM - NIGHT

Burgess smiles at his unaware wife, then starts walking to
the side doors, trying to get away from the crowd, many of
whom now thrust PRECRIME BASEBALL HATS at him to sign.  He
moves past Lara, on her phone, who turns away...

		LARA
		(to Jad)
	John needs a favor...

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - NIGHT

As Jad listens a moment, then hits a switch and now we hear
the conversation between Burgess and Anderton...

		ANDERTON (PHONE)
	All these years Agatha's had the
	truth locked inside of her -- the
	Minority Report.  All these years
	she's the only one who knew what
	really happened...

INT.  PRECRIME TEMPLE - NIGHT

As Agatha lies there, staring upward.

		ANDERTON (V.O.)
	... until last week when she took
	my hand and showed me the image of
	a drowning woman... an image that
	would eventually lead me back to
	you.

CLOSE ON BURGESS

A forced smile, nodding to this person and that.

		BURGESS
	I don't know what you're talking
	about, John.

CLOSE ON THE BACK OF ANDERTON

We don't know where he is yet...

		ANDERTON (PHONE)
	I'm talking about Anne Lively.
	Just a junkie who had a kid once
	and had to give her up.

INT.  BALLROOM - NIGHT

As Burgess smiles tightly at people, mouths "excuse me" as he
tries to make for the damn door, but can't seem to get away
from the crowd of well-wishers including the Attorney General
who reluctantly shakes his hand...

		ANDERTON (PHONE)
	But, surprise, this junkie cleaned
	herself up.

INT.  PRECOG TANK - AGATHA - NIGHT

As Agatha opens her eyes.  We begin moving into ONE OF
THEM...

		ANDERTON (V.O.)
	And she wanted the kid back.

AND NOW WE SEE IN HER EYE:

The screaming face of Anne Lively.

		ANDERTON (V.O.)
	She wanted Agatha...

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - NIGHT

As Jad sees the image on the screen, starts patching it in.

		ANDERTON (V.O.)
	But you and Hineman had already
	turned the girl into something
	else: A Precog.

INT.  PRECOG TEMPLE - NIGHT

As Wally looks up at the image on the screen.  ANNE LIVELY
DROWNING...

		JAD (PHONE)
	Wally?  You getting this?

		WALLY
	Uh-huh...

INT.  BALLROOM - NIGHT

As Burgess, surrounded by AUTOGRAPH SEEKERS, is forced to
stop and sign their PRECRIME HATS... while Anderton
continues.

		ANDERTON (PHONE)
	And without her, there was no
	Precrime.  She's always been the
	strongest of the three.  And you
	know that without Agatha, you had
	nothing.  Without her, you wouldn't
	be where you are now, standing
	there signing autographs...

Boom.  Burgess stops cold, starts looking around the room.
Knows Anderton is somewhere nearby.

INT.  PRECOG TEMPLE - NIGHT

As Wally studies the IMAGE OF ANNE LIVELY DROWNING plays over
and over.

		WALLY
	It's a single stream, from the
	female only, with no time or
	incident data.

		JAD (PHONE)
	Meaning?

		WALLY
	Meaning whatever this is, it ain't
	the future.
		(watches the drowning)
	It already happened.

INT.  HOTEL BALLROOM - NIGHT

As the screen starts to show the SAME VISION and people
react.  Burgess, at the back of the room sees it, too.

		ANDERTON (PHONE)
	So now you had to get rid of Anne
	Lively, you had to find a way to
	shut her up... which presented a
	problem.  How can you murder her
	without the precogs seeing it?
	Simple: you use the system against
	her.

Burgess quickly goes through a swinging door into...

A CORRIDOR

Where he looks up and down the corridor for Anderton.

		ANDERTON (PHONE)
	You hired someone to kill her for
	you, knowing full well the precogs
	would see that murder.

Burgess turns back, looks through a CIRCLE OF GLASS in the
swinging door at...

THE BALLROOM SCREEN - A SERIES OF GRAINY IMAGES

A FIGURE in a black overcoat pulls on a mask...

		ANDERTON (PHONE)
	You lured Anne Lively out to the
	lake with the promise of doing the
	right thing, reuniting her with her
	daughter...

And now we see Anne Lively standing by the side of A LAKE,
her hair whipping in the wind.  As THE FIGURE APPROACHES...

		ANNE
	Mr. Burgess?

INT.  PRECOG TEMPLE - NIGHT

As the IMAGE PLAYS OUT IN AGATHA'S EYE...

		AGATHA
	Run...

INT.  HOTEL BALLROOM - ON THE SCREEN - NIGHT

As Anne Lively looks up, sees the source of the wind is THE
PRECRIME HOVERSHIP.  The figure takes off running...

		ANDERTON (PHONE)
	You even made the arrest
	yourself...

And now we see a series of images, Lamar Burgess standing
there in a WHITE COAT getting off the hovership as the KILLER
IS BROUGHT DOWN, THE MASK RIPPED OFF.  We see the RED LINES
AROUND THE EYES.  We see it's the JOHN DOE from Containment.
HIS FACE SHOVED INTO THE MUD...

THE CROWD

Stands there stunned by what they're watching.

INT.  HOTEL KITCHEN - NIGHT

As we move through the chaos of fifty SERVERS, COOKS, and
DISHWASHERS, we find Anderton for the first time, standing in
a corner, in a hooded sweatshirt, his back to us...

		ANDERTON
	And then, when you were all
	alone...

INT.  THE CORRIDOR - BURGESS - NIGHT

Staring through the glass at the BALLROOM SCREEN as we see
the younger Burgess facing Anne Lively beside the lake, as
the HOVERSHIP LIFTS OFF IN THE B.G.

		ANNE
	Where's my daughter?

On screen, the younger Burgess takes off the WHITE OVERCOAT.
He pulls his arm from the coat and we see that the inside is
BLACK; that the coat is REVERSIBLE.

		ANDERTON (PHONE)
	You killed her yourself in the same
	way the Precogs predicted your John
	Doe would kill her.  You made the
	real murder look like an echo,
	knowing the tech would ignore it.

INT.  PRECOG TEMPLE - NIGHT

As the image plays out in Agatha's eye... Anne Lively backing
away...

		ANDERTON (V.O.)
	You fooled the other two precogs,
	but not Agatha.

And now inside her eye, we see the image of BURGESS pulling
on the same MASK that John Doe wore...

		ANDERTON (V.O.)
	She was going to see the murder of
	her own mother no matter what state
	you did it in, or how you tired to
	hide it.

INT.  PRECOG TEMPLE - NIGHT

As Agatha tries to sit up...

		AGATHA
	Run!

INT.  HOTEL BALLROOM - SCREEN - NIGHT

The crowd is SILENT as they watch A SERIES OF FAST IMAGES:
Anne Lively stumbles.  Burgess grabbing her... Anne's face
hitting the water... Burgess shoving her head under and
holding it down...

ON BURGESS

Through the glass window, watching himself murder this woman.

INT.  PRECOG TEMPLE - IMAGE IN AGATHA'S EYE

As Anne Lively dies under the water, her arm floating across
her chest, beckoning us to her as she floats away.  Agatha
raises her own arm now...

		AGATHA
	Mama...

INT.  CORRIDOR - NIGHT

As Burgess turns away from the window and leans against the
wall.  Sweating.  Ashen faced.

INT.  HOTEL KITCHEN - NIGHT

Anderton turns around, so that we see the two different
colored eyes peering out...

		ANDERTON
	You still there, Lamar?

INT.  CORRIDOR - NIGHT

Burgess looks down for a moment, then holds up his hand.  And
we see that he STILL HOLDS THE REVOLVER.

INT.  PRECOG TANK - NIGHT

As now ALL THREE PRECOGS float to the surface.

		MALE FACE
	Murderer.

						 CUT TO:

A RED BALL

Screaming at us...

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - NIGHT

As an ALARM SOUNDS and Wally appears on screen...

		WALLY
	We got a Red Ball!

INT.  PRECOG TANK - NIGHT

As Agatha rises to the surface...

		AGATHA
	Think about the lives that little
	girl saved.

INT.  CORRIDOR - NIGHT

As Burgess collects himself, starts walking...

		BURGESS
	Think about the lives that little
	girl saved.

He peers into a room, looking for Anderton.

		BURGESS
	Think about all the lives she will
	save?

INT.  HOTEL KITCHEN - NIGHT

As Anderton moves through the steamy room...

		BURGESS (PHONE)
	That little girl could have saved
	Sean --

Anderton slams his hand down on a metal counter.

		ANDERTON
	DON'T YOU FUCKING SAY HIS NAME!

INT.  CORRIDOR - NIGHT

As Burgess hears the sound, starts down the corridor for it.

INT.  PRECOG TANK - NIGHT

As one of the males speaks...

		MALE PRECOG
	You used the memory of my dead
	son...

INT.  KITCHEN - NIGHT

People in the kitchen are now looking at Anderton.  He turns
away...

		ANDERTON
	You used the memory of my dead son
	to set me up!  That was the one
	thing you knew would drive me to
	murder.

INT.  CORRIDOR - NIGHT

As up ahead Burgess sees A WAITER EXIT THE KITCHEN.

		ANDERTON (PHONE)
	What are you going to do now,
	Lamar?

INT.  PRECOG TANK - NIGHT

As the male speaks...

		MALE PRECOG
	How are you gonna shut me up?

INT.  HOTEL KITCHEN - NIGHT

Anderton starts for the kitchen door...

		ANDERTON
	How are you gonna shut me up?

And now, behind him, we see BURGESS COME INTO THE KITCHEN...

		BURGESS
	John, people have seen a future
	where they feel safe.  If all it
	cost was the death of a former drug
	addict...
		(then)
	Leave it alone, John.  Leave it
	alone.

INT.  PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - NIGHT

As THE ANNE LIVELY IMAGES distort into static, we now see an
image of Lamar Burgess embracing Anderton, THE CITY SKYLINE
behind them.  We see ANDERTON WHISPER IN BURGESS' EAR...
Burgess looks at him, then...

		BURGESS
	Forgive me, John.

And now Burgess SHOOTS ANDERTON AT POINT BLANK RANGE.

		FLETCHER
	Oh, God --

ON THE RED BALL (VICTIM)

As it slows and we see the name JOHN ANDERTON...

INT.  HOTEL KITCHEN - NIGHT

As the two men move about the giant kitchen, Burgess now
stalking Anderton.

		BURGESS
	People want to believe in the
	system.  That's the beauty of it...

		ANDERTON
	Beauty?  The precogs don't even
	always agree with each other!

Burgess catches a glimpse of Anderton, moves that way.

		BURGESS
	The precogs don't have to always
	work, John, just as long as people
	believe they do, that's enough.

INT.  PRECRIME READY ROOM - NIGHT

As the Team gets ready.  A drunk Fletcher tries to put on his
uniform.

		FLETCHER
	Willard Hotel... Two minutes...

Jad rests a hand on his shoulder.

		JAD
	Fletcher, I think you should stay
	with me.

Knott looks at Fletcher...

		KNOTT
	Not to worry, Gordon.  I'll save
	your pal.

INT.  HOTEL KITCHEN - NIGHT

As Burgess moves through the huge space looking this way and
that for Anderton...

		BURGESS
	My God, John, a few hundred years
	ago, they used to bleed the sick.
	Twenty years ago, you had a tumor,
	they'd cut it out of you, with a
	knife, for Christ's sake.

He peers into a walk-in freezer as it's opened...

		BURGESS
	Since then the focus of medicine
	has gone from cure to prevention.
	Well, now law enforcement is going
	the same way.

As the FREEZER DOOR is closed, he sees A MOVING REFLECTION IN
THE STAINLESS STEEL, turns and sees Anderton go through a
door at the back.

		ANDERTON (PHONE)
	Lamar, it's over.

INT.  TEMPLE - NIGHT

As the male precog rolls over...

		MALE PRECOG
	The question you have to ask is...

EXT.  HOTEL TERRACE - NIGHT

With nowhere else to go, Anderton stands at the balcony.  His
hood is off exposing his shaved head.

		ANDERTON
	What are you gonna do now?

He turns, sees Burgess standing in the doorway, holding the
gun on him.  Anderton looks off at the SKYLINE.  We see a
BLINKING RED LIGHT moving towards us over the city...

		ANDERTON
	No doubt the Precogs have already
	seen this.

		BURGESS
		(seeing the red light)
	No doubt.

		ANDERTON
	Then go ahead, pull the trigger.

EXT.  WASHINGTON D.C. - NIGHT

As the HOVERSHIP whips past us like a gunshot...

EXT.  HOTEL TERRACE - NIGHT

Burgess begins moving towards Anderton.

		ANDERTON
	What's the matter, Lamar?  You see
	the problem, don't you?  If you
	don't kill me, it means the precogs
	were wrong and Precrime is over.
	If you do kill me, you go away,
	but... it proves the system works.
	The precogs were right.

Burgess is now right in front of Anderton, the gun inches
from Anderton's chest.

		ANDERTON
	So what do you do?

INT.  HOVERSHIP - NIGHT

As EVANNA'S WATCH COUNTS DOWN: SEVEN SECONDS...

		EVANNA
	We're not gonna make it...

EXT.  HOTEL TERRACE - NIGHT

Anderton waits for Burgess to pull the trigger.

		ANDERTON
	What's it worth?  Just one more
	murder...

And now THE HOVERSHIP RISES UP OVER THE TERRACE...

		ANDERTON
	You'll rot in hell with a halo, but
	people will still believe in
	Precrime.

Burgess looks at the ship...

		ANDERTON
	All you have to do now is pull the
	trigger like they said you would.

Burgess turns back, raises the gun: his hand shakes.

		ANDERTON
	Except...
		(a step closer)
	You've seen your own future.  Which
	means...

A wind blows AS THE HOVERSHIP NOW COMES DOWN ON THE TERRACE,
THE PRECOPS DESCENDING FROM INSIDE.

		ANDERTON
	You can change it if you want to.

Burgess looks off as the PRECOPS run across the terrace.

		ANDERTON
	You still have a choice, Lamar...

Suddenly, all at once, THE PRECOPS' WATCHES BEGIN TO BEEP AS
THE TIME RUNS OUT.

Anderton, his eyes on Burgess, raises his hand, and motions
for the Precops to all stop where they are.  The SOUND OF THE
SHIP IS LOUD, Anderton speaks into Burgess' ear.

		BURGESS
		(finally)
	Yes, I have a choice... and I've
	made it.

He lowers the gun, the precops stand there, waiting for him.
Anderton takes Burgess by the arm, but the man is unsteady,
and Anderton holds onto him.  Burgess looks him in the eye...

		BURGESS
	Forgive me, John.

We hear A GUNSHOT and everybody freezes.  Anderton falls to
his knees.  Looks up at Burgess.  A RED STAIN now spreading
around BURGESS' heart...

		BURGESS
	Forgive me...

And as Anderton and now the rest of the precops all move to a
dying Burgess, we HEAR THE SOUND OF RAIN OVER and...

					DISSOLVE TO:

EXT.  PRECRIME HEADQUATERS - DAY

It's raining.  A CRANE dismantles the statue.

EXT.  DOWNTOWN - DAY

As "regular cops" patrol the rainy streets.

INT.  PRECRIME TEMPLE - DAY

The tank is empty... the equipment gone.

INT.  ANDERTON'S APARTMENT - DAY

Anderton stands alone, watching the rain fall, looking out at
the city.  A figure walks up to him.  But this time it's not
digital -- it's Lara.  She's flesh and blood.  And she's
PREGNANT.  She stands beside him, watching the rain as we...

					DISSOLVE TO:

THE IMAGE OF ANNE LIVELY

On the PLASTIC CARD Anderton had downloaded from Containment.
It's cracked, but the image still moves: Anne Lively
drowning, her hand beckoning us in death.  A FINGER caresses
the image as we now PULL BACK TO REVEAL...

AGATHA.  Sitting in a rocking chair, bundled up, wind blowing
her hair.  She stares at the photograph.  We hear LAUGHTER
O.S. as we continue PULLING BACK TO REVEAL...

A SMALL CABIN.  She sits in front of it, rocking back and
forth.  She looks off as we PULL BACK FARTHER TO REVEAL...

THE OTHER TWO PRECOGS, dressed in warm clothing, working in a
crude garden, one of them pulling rocks from the flower bed.
We now begin TO CRANE UP so that we see they're...

BY THE SHORE.  The ocean, murky and fierce, with HUGE WAVES
crashing on the rocky beach.  WE CRANE ALL THE WAY UP AND
BACK so that now we see that the three of them are...

ON A SMALL ISLAND.  In the middle of the North Atlantic
somewhere.  With no other people... no civilization...

And no murder.  And then we...

FADE OUT.
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