Minority Report

You know how blind I am without them. Howard, don't cry.

Murder.

Good luck, John. Any contractions?

Only the ones you give me.

Okay, Jad, what's coming?

Red ball. Double homicide. One male, one female.

Killer's male, white, 40s.

Agatha nailed the time frame at 8:04 a.m.

The twins are a little fuzzy on that, so we'll need confirmation.

Location's still uncertain. Remote witnesses are plugged in.

This will be case number 1108.

Good morning, detectives.

Case number 1108, previsualized by the Precogs,

recorded on holosphere by Precrime's Q-stacks.

My fellow witnesses for case number 1108...

are Dr. Katherine James and Chief Justice Frank Pollard.

Good morning. Good morning.

Will the witnesses preview and validate number 1108 at this time?

Affirmative. I will validate.

Go get him.

Stand by. Time of murder: 8:04 a.m.

That is 24 minutes, 13 seconds from now. This is a red ball.

You know how blind I am without them.

All right, Howard Marks, where are you?

Howard? Howard! Breakfast!

[ Playground Equipment Squeaking Rhythmically ]

Fourscore and seven years ago--

He looked familiar. [ Boy Reciting, Indistinct ]

Who? A man standing in the park across the street.

I've seen him before. How can you even tell?

You know how blind you are without your glasses. Where are your glasses?

I must have left them up in the bedroom. You are running out of time.

You know how blind I am--

I show eight Howard Marks in the District. Sorting by race and age.

Run their license and registration.

See if I can capture an address here.

You're running out of time.

I was thinking I'd play hooky, stay home today.

What about your meeting? I've been working too much.

Can you grab that? It's unclear.

I got six licenses. Where do you want 'em? Over here, please.

You know how blind I am without them.

Got him in the Foxhall. 4421 Gainsborough.

Send a D.C.P.D. blue and white. Set up a perimeter. Tell them we're en route.

I was thinking maybe I'd play hooky, stay home today.

Uh, "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field... What do you think?"

"As a final resting place--" What about your meeting? I'll reschedule.

I've been working too much anyway.

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

"But in a larger sense--" Good.

We could have lunch together.

What do you say? We cannot hallow this ground.

I would love to. brave men, living and dead,

I have an open house at the Ressler place.

Have consecrated far above our poor power to add or detract.

I guess that's why you look so nice.

Chief!

We got a problem with our location.

It's no longer there. Shit.

Time frame? Thirteen minutes.

Investigator from the Fed is here.

I don't need some twink from the Fed poking around right now.

John, I wrote it down on your calendar.

Check if they had the paper forwarded.

See if the neighbors knew where they went. Check all relations.

But, John-- Fletch, just get him some coffee.

Tell him how I save your ass every day.

I got coffee, thank you. Danny Witwer, the twink from the Fed.

Whoops. Gum?

Sorry, Danny. I'm gonna have to give you the full tour some other time.

The Markses moved a couple of weeks ago. Nobody knows where.

Still searching for family and employer. Time horizon: 12 minutes.

What he's doing is "scrubbing the image" --

Looking for clues as to where the murder's gonna happen.

Original running bond brick pattern.

Streamlined early Georgian details. Brick has been re-pointed.

And that this nation, under God, This nation, under God,

shall not perish from the Earth--

The victims are pronounced here, the killers here.

Beyond that and the date of the crime, all we have to run on...

are the images that they produce.

Show a cop on horseback.

Near the Capitol? No Maglev system.

The Mall?

Georgetown.

The Precogs can see a murder four days out. Why the late call?

We call it a red ball.

With crimes of passion there's no premeditation, so they show up late.

Most of our scrambles are flash events like this one.

We rarely see anything with premeditation anymore.

People have gotten the message. Uh-huh.

Oh, this is good.

I show a match for Dwight Kingsley, 18th-century architect.

He did two dozen houses in D.C. Time horizon: 10 minutes.

Ten minutes! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Look at this kid.

In this one, he's on the left side of the man in the suit.

Yes? So?

This one, he's on the right.

[ Playground Equipment Squeaking Rhythmically ]

Merry-go-round.

It's a park.

There's only 16 of these old merry-go-rounds left in D.C.

Two in Georgetown, one in Barnaby Woods. The other's in Woodley.

Woodley's all Victorian. It's gotta be Barnaby Woods. Evanna, flight time.

The way I drive? Three minutes after wheels up.

Clear!

Clear! Clear!

Time horizon: Six minutes.

Let's go to bed.

Let's do it in here.

The bed is soft.

I'm soft.

Shit.

Which one is it?

Not the bed! Not the bed! Come on, come on.

I don't want to be on the bed.

Time horizon: One minute. Chief, we're catching up to the future.

Shut up, Evanna. Jad?

[ John On Loudspeaker I Jad? Go ahead.

Did he close the front door? What?

Did Marks close the front door?

Mmm. Front door.

I don't want to be on the bed-- Ohh!

Go, baby, go.

Negative. The front door is open.

The front door is open! [ Evanna ] Time frame: 30 seconds.

I forgot my glasses. [ Screams ] Oh! Howard.

Oh, no, no. Look, Howard--

You know how blind I am without them.

Howard, don't cry.

Marks!

Wait, wait, wait--

Look at me. Look at me.

Positive for Howard Marks.

Mr. Marks, by mandate of the District of Columbia Precrime Division,

I'm placing you under arrest for the future murder of Sarah Marks and Donald Dubin...

that was to take place today, April 22 at 0800 hours and four minutes.

No! I didn't do anything.

Sarah! Give the man his hat.

Oh, God. Don't put that halo on me.

Sarah! Put your hands on your head.

Help me! I wasn't going to do anything!

I'm Officer Scott with the Precrime Trauma Response Unit.

Just sit here a minute and listen to me.

Your husband is being arrested by officers from Precrime.

Oh, God, Howard, no!

Howard, don't cry.

Howard, don't cry.

Howard, please don't cry.

Oh, God. Oh, God.

I thought they stopped the murder.

That's just an echo.

Precog deja vu, if you will.

The really bad ones, the Precogs see them over and over again.

Wally, erase the incoming.

Imagine a world without murder.

I lost my best friend. I lost my aunt.

I lost my dad. My father.

I lost my wife.

Just six years ago,

the homicide rate in this country had reached epidemic proportions.

It seemed that only a miracle could stop the bloodshed.

But instead of one miracle, we were given three-- the Precognitives.

Within just one month under the Precrime program,

the murder rate in the District of Columbia was reduced 90 percent.

They were gonna be waiting for me in the car. He was gonna rape me.

I was going to be stabbed. Right here.

Within a year, Precrime effectively stopped

murder in our nation's capital.

In the six years we've been conducting our little experiment,

there hasn't been a single murder.

And now Precrime can work for you.

We want to make absolutely certain that every American...

can bank on the utter infallibility of this system,

and to ensure that which keeps us safe will also keep us free.

Precrime? It works.

It works. It works.

It works.

It works. It works.

Precrime! It works!

On Tuesday, April 22,

vote "yes" on the National Precrime Initiative.

What's the matter? Can't sleep?

No, I just need a little clarity.

True, true, true, that.

You want the customary clarity,

or the new and improved kind of clarity?

Give me the new stuff.

Yes, indeed, clarity.

Come on, come on. Don't bust my balls.

You only gave me four, and some of these are duds.

Sweet dreams, Chief.

Ah, don't worry none. Your secret's safe with me.

'Sides, I could use a little juice on my side.

What do you think you know, Lycon?