"MINORITY REPORT" (2002)

FOR EDUCATIONAL PUPOSES ONLY!

MINORITY REPORT

by

Scott Frank

REVISED DRAFT

May 16, 2001

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:

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

THE SCISSORS SNIP.

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...

THE THREE FACES

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

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.

ON A VIDEO SCREEN

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

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

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

As Anderton pulls a small disc from his pocket.

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...

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.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

VECTORS from the shadows appear on the screen now.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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...

The cop reacts, pushes the stick away...

As Jad spins around in his chair...

Anderton looks at him.

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

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.

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.

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

one knows where.Still searching for family and employer.

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

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...

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

FLETCHER

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

Fletcher introduces Witwer to a female member of the team.

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

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

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.

Witwer stares at them, blowing a bubble.

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

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

Witwer reacts to the incessant RINGING OF THE ALARM BELL.

Witwer looks at him.

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

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

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

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

As Sarah turns and smiles at Howard.

that these dead shall not have died in vain...

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

As Anderton indicates the screen to Jad.Witwer watches.

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

As the hovership lifts off.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

As Evanna takes off...

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

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.

As Anderton blows through the open front door...

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.

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

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

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

The lover rolls off of her and sits up.

She sees the scissors in his hand.SCREAMS.He’s bringing them down when, suddenly, the HAND HOLDING THE SCISSORS IS GRABBED by Anderton...

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.

Howard makes a run for the door...

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.

Howard stands frozen, mouth agape as he now fully sees the PRECRIME SHIP hovering right out the window.

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.

And now Fletcher steps forward with what is essentially a metal HALO.Fletcher places it on Howard’s head while he screams...

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.

As Witwer watches the Prevision Screen.

Jad looks over as Witwer indicates an image of Howard Marks stabbing his wife, now from a slightly different angle.

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.

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...

As Anderton, now in a hooded sweatshirt and sweatpants, jogs through the rain, the neighborhood around him getting worse and worse as he goes.

We can see Howard Marks’ breath as he’s laid out naked on a metal table.His head has been shaved.

As Anderton runs through the city, we now hear OTHER VOICES joining in saying the same thing, over and over, finally overlapping one another:

And now, PROJECTED ON THE WALL BESIDE ANDERTON, we start to see a SERIES OF HUGE CLOSE-UPS as he runs by:

And now we see a series of shocking murder scenes, as the above testimonials continue in the b.g.

A LARGER METAL HALO, spikes pointing inward, is fitted onto Howard Marks’ head.He starts to SCREAM...

As Anderton runs along the wall, the PROJECTIONS CONTINUE: the images are of different people on the street now.WE BEGIN PULLING BACK...

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.

Anderton, runs past the HUGE PROJECTION...

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

Above Anderton, in the middle of the projection, some MENTAL CASE sticks his head out a window and SCREAMS at the night.

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

Anderton turns and we see a dark FIGURE in a black coat sitting in a doorway.LYCON.

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.

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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 IN:

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...

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 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...

BURGESS’ VOICE John? Where the hell are you?

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

timing.

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

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.

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

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

As Anderton enters, is immediately cut off by Burgess.

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

His tone stops Anderton.

Burgess stares at Anderton.

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

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

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

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

Witwer looks at the ball in his hand.

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

WITWER

Speaking of interfacing, I’d love to say hello.

Witwer looks at the screens showing THE PRECOGS.

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

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

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.

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...

Witwer smiles, extends his hand.Wally backs away.

AND NOW WE SEE: THE TANK

As a RIPPLE APPEARS in the white liquid.

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.

REVEAL: THE PRECOG TANK

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

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

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...

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.

He sees Anderton and Wally looking at him.

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.

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

He looks at Anderton.

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

that.

Anderton says nothing.Hates the man all over again.

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...

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...

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.

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

Anderton turns and looks at the Precog writhing about.

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.

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 looks up at the screens...

Anderton takes off his sunglasses, looks at a screen:

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

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 --

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 looks around as Gideon quickly moves away from the organ.

Gideon turns to a computer screen on his wheelchair.

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

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

Gideon looks at the screen.

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

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

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...

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

And now Anderton watches as a fourth tier rises up.

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

... 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...

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

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

Anderton moves onto the platform they lift up and away.

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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 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 sees the dark red scar-lines around his eyes.

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

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.

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

Gideon works the computer.

like John Doe here, but I show an address history that includes the Beaton Clinic.

Gideon again works the computer, then sits back.

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

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.

Anderton looks at him.

THE WHITE LIQUID

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

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 sneezes, takes out his handkerchief.

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

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

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

Anderton doesn’t have an answer for that one.

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

This stings Anderton.Burgess softens.

Anderton turns away.

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

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

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.

ANDERTON/MARGIS Geraldine. Thanks for having me.

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

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

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 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.

The ON TV ANDERTON just smiles at her.

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

CLOSE ON MARGIS

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.

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

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.

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...

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

Anderton comes over now.

Anderton starts to put on his eyepiece and finger gloves.

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

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

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

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...

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:

Anderton turns to another part of the screen...

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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.

down there? I’m starving.

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.

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

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...

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

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 reaches for his phone.

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

Anderton’s too stunned to answer.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

You.

Anderton doesn’t say anything.

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

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.

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

Burgess appears on the windshield screen.

Suddenly, Anderton’s doors LOCK tight.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(points to another) You, too. (another) And you.

Everybody watches as the men Witwer dismissed walk out.

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

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.

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.

Witwer watches as Jad works the display, watching the movement of BLUE DOTS that represent EYEscanned citizens.A BEEP and Jad sits up.

(indicates the map) The train makes two stops, at 20th and then 33rd.

Witwer looks at Fletcher.Gives him an odd smile.

As Fletcher and the other Precops strap into HOVERSUITS.

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".

As Anderton gets off the train, stops cold when he sees...

NINE PRECRIME COPS IN HOVERSUITS stand waiting for him. Fletcher steps forward...

Anderton takes off running.He barges through a NEWSSTAND, knocking it over, momentarily slowing the cops behind him.

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.

He stares at Fletcher.The DOG GOES QUIET.

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...

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.

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...

As Anderton and Knott burst out of one apartment, cross the alley and burst into another...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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 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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

He starts to sway, touches his forehead.

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

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

Anderton staggers, grabs hold of the table for support.

Anderton struggles.She watches him a moment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

IRIS

And how would I know that?

He looks at her.

She chuckles bitterly at that one.

She sits down, pours herself some tea.

age of twelve.

She looks away, remembering it all now...

inexorably to his death.

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

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

reasonable, but it’s still doubt.

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

IRIS

Do you? Really?

He looks at her.

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

She shrugs.

He looks back at her.

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...

The vine suddenly whips out of her hand.

She looks at Anderton.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Fletcher calmly rights the photograph, indicates the screen.

building suggests public housing, but I can’t make out the location. Government architecture is modern/conformist which means --

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

Jad and Fletcher exchange looks.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

read the scar tissue.Alarms will go off. Large men with guns will appear...

Anderton stiffens as Dr. Eddie injects him...

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

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

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

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.

Anderton looks at him."Go way back?"

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 thinks a moment.The name rings a bell.

Boom. Anderton looks at him.

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.

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...

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

She looks at him.

She hands him his coffee.

He takes A BLACK INHALER from his pocket...

She stares at it.

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

Witwer watches her a moment, then...

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

He puts down his coffee and looks at her.

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

(then) And your son. (then) You have to choose, Lara.You have to choose sides now.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

As a Precrime ship cruises past the tenement.

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...

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

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.

The boy smiles, clings to the side.

Sean hauls himself up onto the side, lets his feet dangle in the water. Anderton takes his WATCH off, hands it to him.

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

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.

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

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...

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...

As Evanna, unaware that Anderton is in the building moves into position over the building.

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...

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...

As Fletcher and Knott exit the Precrime Ship.Fletcher does a thermal reading on the building while they talk.

Fletcher looks at him.

Knott grins at him now.Pleased with himself.

And the grin goes away as Fletcher looks through the scan lens on his helmet doing the thermal reading on the building.

As Evanna looks at the thermal read on the building.

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.

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.

The Spyder climbs up the woman, up her arm and across her shoulder. It grips her cheek lightly as the EYEdentiscan reads her eyes...

school --

The spyder BEEPS as it reads her --

Fletcher gets a reading and checks off something on his clipboard with a laser pen.

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.

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

Knott checks off another tenant.He looks at the thermal scanner, sees the double reading.

We hear the bedsprings in the next room SQUEAK FASTER AND FASTER, the woman’s MOANING now getting louder and louder.

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

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.

Knott speaks into a microphone on his collar --

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.

Knott speaks once more into the microphone...

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!

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

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

Knott checks off another, looks up at the building.

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.

The spyder comes out of the apartment next door, moves down towards Anderton’s door.

Anderton dumps the stuff from the fridge into the tub.Peels off his clothes.

As the Spyder flattens out and eases under the door.

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.

Anderton lowers his head under the water, just as the spyder comes under the door and into the bathroom.

As Evanna looks at the thermal scanner.

Anderton HOLDS HIS BREATH.The Spyder finally turns to leave. Begins to flatten itself out to go back under the door...

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

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.

Also begin EMITTING THE SAME SOUND, stop, turn and head off in the same direction.

As Evanna starts to get a signal.

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...

Knott looks at the scanner.

As Evanna tries to read the scanner...

They grab their helmets and go into the building.

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.

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.

As Fletcher and Knott run up the stairs...

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

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 --

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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...

Then the other one slips.

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.

As Fletcher comes into the room.

He moves aside so Fletcher can see the screen.

He indicates the face in the sunglasses...

Witwer begins enhancing THE FACE IN THE MIRROR...

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...

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

As Anderton comes through the door.He starts to drag

Wally’s desk over to barricade it...

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

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..."

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

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

As Witwer stops working, stares at the screen.

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

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

Witwer stands up straight as he realizes what it means.

Witwer hits his comline...

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

As Witwer moves along with Fletcher, Jad falling in.

Fletcher and Jad look at each other.Yes.

get out of there.

Jucket appears on Witwer’s head up...

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

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

Anderton looks over...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Anderton looks over as the team starts to come in.

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

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

Wally doesn’t say anything, just weeps over the tank.

WITWER

(staring at the remaining two) Jesus...

As Anderton, the Precog in his arms, both of them soaked, runs to where THE LEXUS is parked.

As Fletcher barks into his heads up --

They look to where Witwer stares at the PREVISION SCREEN.

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.

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...

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.

Anderton looks over at the Precog, staring out the window at the unfamiliar rush of humanity all around her.She SHIVERS.

He moves to put his coat over her and she looks at his HAND.

She holds onto his hand, is fixated by it.

She looks up, stares out the window now at the world she’s never been a part of.

He looks outside, understands what she means.Then...

ANDERTON

Yes... this is all happening right now.

She nods, closes her eyes.

Anderton’s vehicle pulls up in front of a GAP.

As Anderton turn to Agatha.

She stares out the window, doesn’t respond...

As Anderton walks in the door, gets his new eyes scanned, and we hear a voice say:

Anderton stops cold as a HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGE OF A HUGE ASIAN MAN now appears standing in front of him.

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.

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...

The boy keeps going.

The TEENAGE BOY stops as he gets to the bike, looks at her.

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?

As she reaches for him, Nathan sees she must be blind.

The teenager sees she’s only wearing Anderton’s jacket...

Agatha reaches out and takes his hand and holds onto it. Something pulses through him.He looks at her, afraid...

As Anderton walks out with his purchases...

Agatha looks up at Nathan, into his eyes, who tries to pull his hand away.

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.

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.

As Witwer sits there staring at the image, the rest of the team gathers in the office.

Witwer gets up and turns on the HOLO-COMPUTER.AN IMAGE OF SEAN (age 6) appears.

Witwer stares at it.

They all look at him.

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.

CUSTOMERS in dark corners, wearing bladdered bodysuits and tiny headsets, act out various fantasies.

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.

The nervous customer turns as we hear a MAN CRY OUT.He looks in and sees a man flailing about on a cushion.

off a high building to plane crashes. It’s a big rush, you come out the other side without a heart attack.

Rufus sees Anderton come in now with Agatha on his arm.He turns back to the guy, says in a loud voice...

He pushes the man away, sending him tripping for the door.

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 starts to laugh.Agatha looks at Anderton.Rufus keeps on laughing... until he looks a little closer and realizes --

And now Rufus looks at Agatha, a thought dawning and then drops to his knees.He genuflects, looking up at her.

do! And I swear, I didn’t do any of the stuff I did!

Anderton hauls him to his feet.

Rufus studies her a moment, then...

Anderton grabs Rufus and throws him against the wall.Gets right in Rufus’ face... the one blown eye looking at him...

As the precops get ready, ride the chairs up to the hovership.

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...

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.

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.

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.

But now we see ANDERTON BLOW LEO CROW through a window.

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...

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 looks at Agatha, her expression calm.

She just looks at him.A what?

She looks at where the images were projected a moment ago.

Anderton is about to turn away.She takes his hand, as she did in the temple, and suddenly the room is full of IMAGES:

Every single one of the images is the same: THE SCREAMING FACE OF...

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...

She doesn’t move, a single TEAR rolls down her cheek.

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.

Suddenly, a red light flashes on the wall.Rufus scrambles to a security monitor.

INSERT MONITOR: Witwer leads a team through the parlor.

Witwer and the Precrime team move through the parlor.

WITWER

Check every room.

As Rufus leads them down a long, dark corridor and up a flight of stairs...

Anderton and Agatha come through a hidden door and hurry through the market.She stops at one of the stalls...

Anderton looks at A STALL SELLING UMBRELLAS.

He buys an umbrella from the vendor, then drags her off.

As they move through the crowded inner city shopping area. She has trouble keeping up.She looks ahead, something in her eyes, then...

Sure enough a MAN walking by in the other direction is wearing a blue suit.

He drops his briefcase, spilling all kinds of papers all over the sidewalk, including a NEWSPAPER WITH ANDERTON’S PHOTO.

This happens.

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.

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.

She leads him underneath the PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE.

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...

A few steps later, Agatha stops IN FRONT OF A DOOR.

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...

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.

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...

As Fletcher leads some cops outside, they look down, but all they can see is a sea of umbrellas below them.

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.

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...

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...

In front of them one of the kids trips OVER HIS SHOE LACES.

Anderton drops down to help him, Agatha does the same so that...

Knott sees nothing but A SWARM OF KIDS.

Knott moves off across the street.Anderton smiles at the kid as he helps him with his shoe...

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 looks at Agatha, she’s looking away.

He looks at his watch.COUNTING DOWN: EIGHTEEN MINUTES.

As Witwer looks at the equipment, turns to Rufus.

As Anderton takes Agatha by the arm, but she stays put.

He looks at her.

He looks at her, then turns and walks to the hotel.We see THE BILLBOARD as it’s hoisted up towards the hotel.

As Witwer stands there looking at the Anne Lively murder. Confused.

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...

The guy starts to get up and Anderton pulls his gun, puts the muzzle in the guy’s eye.

He spins the register around so that Anderton can read it.

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.

He looks at her.

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.

She looks frightened.

find out what’s underneath all of this. Who’s setting me up. (then) I have to know.

Anderton turns to the clerk.

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.

Anderton and Agatha walk up the hall, stopping at a door marked 1006.Anderton knocks. No answer. He tries the door. It’s open.

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.

Anderton stands in the room, thinking.He looks out the open door into the hallway.

ANDERTON’S POV - THE ROOM ACROSS THE WAY

The number on the door to this room is also 1006.

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.

He turns and looks across the hall at the real 1006.He looks at his watch.COUNTING DOWN: EIGHT MINUTES...

Anderton knocks on the door.No answer.Agatha recoils as Anderton suddenly kicks the door open.

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...

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.

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.

A BOY we know very well, hugging himself in the back seat of some vehicle.

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.

Agatha sits beside Anderton on the bed.

Anderton looks at the photograph.

As Crow rides up.He takes out a DENTED FLASK and takes a long hit from it... draining it of the last drop.

We now hear the elevator DING.Anderton looks at his watch, gets to his feet.

yourself, there is no Minority Report. I don’t have an alternative future.

FOOTSTEPS. Anderton waits.The door slowly opens and we see Crow peering around it.

The man does a strange thing: he glances at his watch.Then takes a deep breath...

Anderton kicks the door shut on the man’s hand.Crow screams and he goes down.Anderton steps on him.

Anderton kicks the man in the stomach.

He doubles over.Anderton grabs him by the hair, pulls his head up. The guy is shaking like mad...

The guy doesn’t raise his head for a moment.Finally...

Anderton reacts to this.

The man just looks at him.Anderton is reeling...

Anderton stops.Shocked by this image.

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...

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...

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.

Crow looks at him.Not what he expected.

Crow doesn’t move, confused.

Crow still doesn’t move.

ANDERTON

(looks at Agatha) The precogs were wrong.

Anderton pauses, looks back at him as Crow comes forward.

Anderton goes stiff, looks at Agatha.

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...

Anderton tries to pull the gun away, but Crow hangs on.

Anderton looks at Crow who holds the gun muzzle tight to his chest, his eyes imploring Anderton to pull the trigger.

ANDERTON

Good-bye, Crow.

Anderton turns to go, but Crow hold onto the muzzle --

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.

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...

... 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...

Anderton grabs Agatha and runs out of the room.

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...

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:

And now everybody’s whispering...

Agatha leads Anderton around the back of the building.

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.

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.

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.

Witwer looks up at Fletcher standing in the doorway, looking around at the room.

Witwer looks at Fletcher a moment.

took these pictures, would you leave them out on the bed for anyone to find?

Fletcher nods, watches as Witwer looks around the room.

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.

ANDERTON’S VOICE He’s dead, Lara.

ANDERTON’S VOICE Nothing. I didn’t kill him.

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...

Anderton stands outside the Lexus, talking on the phone.He looks off towards the water...

LARA’S VOICE I’m right here.

As the Lexus moves along the coast.

Agatha stares out the window at the bay.She looks pale, weak. Anderton’s jacket is folded over her.

She looks at him.

She looks back out the window.

He reacts to this.She touches his arm.

He looks at her, but she closes her eyes.

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.

Burgess mutes the set, watches as the Attorney General, looking like shit right now, talks to the reporter.

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

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.

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.

Burgess looks sadly at the gun a moment.

Burgess looks around the apartment now.

He sighs, looks at Witwer.

Witwer nods, starts the image once more.

Burgess sits forward, watches as The Man in black shoves her face under the water.

We see the fragments of A MAN DONNING GLOVES, DROPPING AN OVERCOAT and then once more we see the Man in black drowning her...

Witwer gets up, moves to the image...

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...

Burgess stares at the image.Watches again as it repeats. Witwer hits the remote and the image of Anne Lively freezes.

Witwer moves around the frozen image of Anne Lively.

Witwer looks at him.

Witwer looks at the image.

Prevision in the first place, someone fairly high up --

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.

As Lara watches Anderton pull up to the cottage.

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.

As Lara watches Anderton lead Agatha towards the door.

BURGESS’ VOICE Has he got the precog with him?

Burgess looks around the room, making sure he hasn’t forgotten anything.

LARA’S VOICE Please don’t tell Witwer.I don’t trust him.

Burgess looks at Witwer’s body.

LARA’S VOICE He’s no killer, Lamar.

As Agatha looks at the house, watching as Lara now comes out

the front door and hugs Anderton.She looks at Agatha...

Lara smiles at her.Agatha turns and looks at the RUSTED TRICYCLE lying in the weeds near the door and shivers...

As Lara opens the door...

As Lara walks to the cliff, stands beside Anderton.

He turns to her.

It’s getting dark.He takes off his sunglasses and she now sees his "new" eyes.She gasps...

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.

The team flies silently over the countryside.

As Anderton paces along the cliff...

Lara reacts to this.

He stands there.A thought dawning on him.

He starts for the house.

Anderton comes in from the back.The place is dark.

Agatha sits on the floor in the midst of a pile of toys, face streaked with tears.

Agatha looks around the room...

She looks up at Anderton, smiling and crying at the same time.

She closes her eyes.

Anderton can’t move, can’t breath.

She’s shaking her head now...

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...

Anderton turns away, see Lara in the doorway now, her own eyes full of tears.

They both look at her.She’s staring at the PHOTOGRAPH OF ANNE LIVELY.

Agatha looks up at Anderton now.

AGATHA

She’s not alive, but she didn’t die.

She looks at Anderton, keeps her voice calm as she says:

Suddenly the room is BATHED IN LIGHT --

The Precrime Ships hover over the house.Precrime cops are everywhere.

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.

Lara sees the surprise in Anderton’s face as he now turns at the mention of Witwer’s name --

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...

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.

He stops and looks at her a moment, then takes out a NEEDLE and injects her with the Drug...

She says nothing as he kisses her on the mouth...

Where Anderton lies still as a halo CLICKS into his shaved head. Anderton moves his eyes and sees Gideon smiling over him.

Welcome.

Anderton struggles, but can’t move.Gideon starts to roll away.

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."

As the TIER begins to SINK DOWN INTO THE FLOOR, Anderton starts to sink into the blackness below...

But Anderton’s scream is drowned out by a blast from Gideon’s PIPE ORGAN as we now...

CUT TO BLACK.

And now we see ANDERTON’S SON standing before him.He’s now eleven years-old.

Anderton looks at him.

SEAN

I know that. I know you would have done anything to find me.I know you would have died for me.

The boy begins to fade away.

And he’s gone.Anderton is left alone in the dark.

As Lara is greet by Burgess in a white T-shirt and slacks, no shoes -- in the middle of getting dressed.He embraces her.

She sits on the couch, a BOX OF ANDERTON’S BELONGINGS on the coffee table in front of her.

He moves to a mirror, starts to put on his Precrime dress uniform shirt.

it fits before tonight.

He watches in the mirror as she lifts John’s .45 out of the box.

Lara is about to say something when Burgess’ Secretary sticks her head in...

The Secretary exits.Burgess buttons his shirt.

He looks at her.

She looks at him, thinks about what he just said, watching as he pins his precrime badge to his shirt.

He pokes himself with the pin, winces.

Burgess doesn’t say anything.The news keeps getting worse.

Burgess looks at her.

She looks back at Burgess a moment, then:

six months before.

She lets Burgess react to that, then...

She takes a breath, tries to control herself.

Burgess looks at her, then takes her hand and sighs.

She keeps looking at him.He smiles.

LARA

Lamar --

Burgess looks at her, his expression slowly going icy as his Secretary once more reappears.

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.

He walks out, leaving her there on the couch.She looks around the office, then at John’s .45 sitting on the table.

Moving in on Gideon’s hands as he plays the ORGAN.Suddenly the fingers stop.We REVEAL: Lara standing there, Anderton’s

He looks at her.

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.

News crews are out front.A NEWS REPORTER faces a hovering NEWS BOT...

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...

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.

else.

Fletcher pours some more CHAMPAGNE into a paper cup, drinks it down. He’s drunk.

Fletcher looks at Knott.Gets to his feet.Unsteady...

Knott grabs the champagne from Fletcher, starts to pour it into a cup, but just sucks on the bottle instead.

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.

Applause. Then the room falls silent as Burgess’ STAFF presents him with an IVORY BOX.He opens it, looks at his secretary who smiles.

He holds up a beautiful ivory-handled ANTIQUE REVOLVER and the crowd ooohs and ahhhs.

BURGESS

How did you get this?

LAUGHTER. But as he stares at the gun, moved almost to tears, the room grows silent.He looks up.

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.

Everyone APPLAUDS.Burgess’ secretary gets a phone call and ducks her head so that she can hear...

As Anderton’s old team watches... silent.

Knott raises the bottle.

KNOTT

Now that’s cool.

As Burgess smiles now...

LARA watches as Burgess steps off the stage and his Secretary meets him. He’s immediately surrounded by WELL-WISHERS and AUTOGRAPH SEEKERS.

Burgess goes instantly pale as his wife comes up and kisses him on the cheek.

As Jad gets a phone call...

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...

As Jad listens a moment, then hits a switch and now we hear the conversation between Burgess and Anderton...

As Agatha lies there, staring upward.

CLOSE ON BURGESS

A forced smile, nodding to this person and that.

CLOSE ON THE BACK OF ANDERTON

We don’t know where he is yet...

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.

As Agatha opens her eyes.We begin moving into ONE OF THEM...

AND NOW WE SEE IN HER EYE:

The screaming face of Anne Lively.

As Jad sees the image on the screen, starts patching it in.

As Wally looks up at the image on the screen.ANNE LIVELY DROWNING...

As Burgess, surrounded by AUTOGRAPH SEEKERS, is forced to stop and sign their PRECRIME HATS... while Anderton continues.

Boom. Burgess stops cold, starts looking around the room. Knows Anderton is somewhere nearby.

As Wally studies the IMAGE OF ANNE LIVELY DROWNING plays over and over.

As the screen starts to show the SAME VISION and people react. Burgess, at the back of the room sees it, too.

Burgess quickly goes through a swinging door into...

A CORRIDOR

Where he looks up and down the corridor for Anderton.

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...

And now we see Anne Lively standing by the side of A LAKE, her hair whipping in the wind.As THE FIGURE APPROACHES...

As the IMAGE PLAYS OUT IN AGATHA’S EYE...

As Anne Lively looks up, sees the source of the wind is THE PRECRIME HOVERSHIP.The figure takes off running...

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.

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...

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.

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.

As the image plays out in Agatha’s eye... Anne Lively backing away...

And now inside her eye, we see the image of BURGESS pulling on the same MASK that John Doe wore...

As Agatha tries to sit up...

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.

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...

As Burgess turns away from the window and leans against the wall. Sweating. Ashen faced.

Anderton turns around, so that we see the two different colored eyes peering out...

Burgess looks down for a moment, then holds up his hand.And we see that he STILL HOLDS THE REVOLVER.

As now ALL THREE PRECOGS float to the surface.

A RED BALL

Screaming at us...

As an ALARM SOUNDS and Wally appears on screen...

As Agatha rises to the surface...

As Burgess collects himself, starts walking...

He peers into a room, looking for Anderton.

As Anderton moves through the steamy room...

Anderton slams his hand down on a metal counter.

As Burgess hears the sound, starts down the corridor for it.

As one of the males speaks...

People in the kitchen are now looking at Anderton.He turns away...

to set me up!That was the one thing you knew would drive me to murder.

As up ahead Burgess sees A WAITER EXIT THE KITCHEN.

As the male speaks...

Anderton starts for the kitchen door...

And now, behind him, we see BURGESS COME INTO THE KITCHEN...

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...

And now Burgess SHOOTS ANDERTON AT POINT BLANK RANGE.

ON THE RED BALL (VICTIM)

As it slows and we see the name JOHN ANDERTON...

As the two men move about the giant kitchen, Burgess now stalking Anderton.

Burgess catches a glimpse of Anderton, moves that way.

As the Team gets ready.A drunk Fletcher tries to put on his uniform.

Jad rests a hand on his shoulder.

Knott looks at Fletcher...

As Burgess moves through the huge space looking this way and that for Anderton...

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...

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.

As the male precog rolls over...

With nowhere else to go, Anderton stands at the balcony.His hood is off exposing his shaved head.

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...

As the HOVERSHIP whips past us like a gunshot...

Burgess begins moving towards Anderton.

Burgess is now right in front of Anderton, the gun inches from Anderton’s chest.

As EVANNA’S WATCH COUNTS DOWN: SEVEN SECONDS...

Anderton waits for Burgess to pull the trigger.

And now THE HOVERSHIP RISES UP OVER THE TERRACE...

Burgess looks at the ship...

Burgess turns back, raises the gun: his hand shakes.

(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.

Burgess looks off as the PRECOPS run across the terrace.

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.

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...

We hear A GUNSHOT and everybody freezes.Anderton falls to his knees. Looks up at Burgess.A RED STAIN now spreading around BURGESS’ heart...

And as Anderton and now the rest of the precops all move to a dying Burgess, we HEAR THE SOUND OF RAIN OVER and...

It’s raining.A CRANE dismantles the statue.

As "regular cops" patrol the rainy streets.

The tank is empty... the equipment gone.

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...

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...