Minority Report

John Anderton:
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.

Agatha:
Murder.

Dr. Iris Henimen:
Sometimes, to find the light, you must venture through the dark.

Dr. Iris Henimen:
I call it a gift, for them it was more like a big cosmic joke.

Dr. Solomon:
For true enlightenment there is nothing like... well, let's just say taking a shower while this large fellow with an attitude you couldn't knock down with a hammer, that keeps whispering in your ear: Oh nancy, Oh nancy. Now that was alot of fun, thank you so very much John for putting me in there, than you so very much for givinig me an oprotunity to get to know myself much beter.

John Anderton:
No doubt the precogs have already seen this.

Lamar Burgess:
No doubt.

John Anderton:
You see the dilemma don't you. If you don't kill me, precogs were wrong and precrime is over. If you do kill me, you go away, but it proves the system works. The precogs were right. So, what are you going to do now? What's it worth? Just one more murder? You'll rot in hell with a halo, but people will still believe in precrime. All you have to do is kill me like they said you would. Except you know your own future, which means you can change it if you want to. You still have a choice Lamar. Like I did.

Agatha:
Is it now?

Officer Fletcher:
John, don't run.

John Anderton:
You don't have to chase me.

Officer Fletcher:
But you don't have to run.

John Anderton:
Everybody runs, Fletch. Everybody runs.

John Anderton:
Is he alive? He's alive. Where've you got him? Is he alright?

John Anderton:
Tell me, you f***, where is he?

John Anderton:
He set me up. He set me up.

John Anderton:
They set me up.

Director Burgess:
Who's the victim?

John Anderton:
Somebody, Leo Crow

Director Burgess:
Who's Leo Crow?

John Anderton:
I have no idea. But I'm suppose to kill him in less than thirty-six hours.

Director Burgess:
You don't have to run John.

John Anderton:
You don't have to chase me.

John Anderton:
There hasn't been a murder in six years. The system, it is perfect.

John Anderton:
Why'd you catch that?

Danny Witwer:
Because it was going to fall.

John Anderton:
You're certain?

Danny Witwer:
Yeah.

John Anderton:
But it didn't fall. You caught it. The fact that you prevented it from happening doesnt change the fact that it was *going* to happen.

John Anderton:
I need your help. You contain information. I need to know how to get at it.

John Anderton:
I have to know. I have to find out what happened to my life.

John Anderton:
Why don't you cut the cute act, Danny boy, and tell me what it is you're looking for?

Danny Witwer:
Flaws.

John Anderton:
There hasn't been a murder in six years. There's nothing wrong with this system it is...

Danny Witwer:
Perfect I agree, but there's a flaw. It's human.

Agatha:
Can you see?

Wally the Caretaker:
I like you chief, you've always been nice to me. I'll give you two minutes before i hit the alarm.

Gideon:
Careful, Chief. Dig up the past, all you get is dirty.

Agatha:
Is this now?

John Anderton:
My God, I forgot there were so many.

Gideon:
And just think, they'd all be out there killing people if it wasn't for you. Look at how peaceful they all are. But on the inside...

Gideon:
busy busy busy.

Gideon:
You're part of my flock now, John.

John Anderton:
Rough landing... have to work on that.

Officer Fletcher:
Yeah, it's this sh*t knee of mine.

Dr. Iris Henimen:
The precogs are never wrong. But sometimes they... disagree.

Dr. Solomon:
Now, you understand I can't just give you new irises. Because if I do, the retinal scans will read the scar tissue, alarms will go off, and large men with guns will appear.

John Anderton:
It's too fast. Slow it down.

Rufus Riley:
How do I slow this down, I should hit her on the head?

Agatha:
I'm sorry, John, but you're going to have to run again.

John Anderton:
I'd like to keep the old ones.

Dr. Solomon:
Why?

John Anderton:
Because my mother gave them to me.

John Anderton:
I'm not being set up. I really am going to kill this man.

Leo Crow:
You're not going to kill me.

John Anderton:
Goodbye, Crow.

John Anderton:
Don't you ever say his name.

Danny Witwer:
Looks like we won't be working together after all, John. Now put the gun down. I don't hear a red ball.

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

Dr. Iris Henimen:
If... you have one.

John Anderton:
and then walk out.

Dr. Iris Henimen:
Actually, I think you'll have to run out, but yes, that's what you have to do.

Dr. Iris Henimen:
Find the minority report.

John Anderton:
How do I even know which one has it?

Dr. Iris Henimen:
It's always the more gifted of the three.

John Anderton:
Which one is it?

Dr. Iris Henimen:
The female.

Dr. Iris Henimen:
You'd better drink this. Soon you won't be able to swallow, and then you'll be totally buggered.

John Anderton:
You set your patients on fire.

Dr. Solomon:
I put 'em out.

Agatha:
You can choose...

Lara Anderton:
I'd like a word with my husband.

Gideon:
You're not authorized. How did you get in here?

Howard Marks:
I didn't do anything! I wasn't gonna do anything!

John Anderton:
[about Witwer's father] What does he think about your chosen line of work?

Danny Witwer:
I don't know. He was shot and killed when I was 15 on the steps of our church in Dublin. I know what it's like to lose someone close, John. 'Course, nothing is like the loss of a child. I don't have any children of my own, so I can only imagine what that must've been like. To lose your son – in such a public place like that. At least now you and I have the chance to make sure that kind of thing doesn't happen to anyone –

John Anderton:
Why don't you cut the cute act, Danny boy, and tell me exactly what it is you're looking for?

Danny Witwer:
Flaws.

John Anderton:
There hasn't been a murder in 6 years. There's nothing wrong with the system, it is--

Danny Witwer:
Perfect. I agree. But if there's a flaw, it's human. It always is.

Danny Witwer:
I thought they stopped the murder?

Jad:
That's just an echo. Precog déjà vu. Some of the really bad ones, the precogs see over and over again.

Witwer:
We keep strict separation so that no one can be accused of tampering.

Jad:
- I'll be the first one to go in then?

Witwer:
hmm, maybe you didn't hear me then.

Jad:
If it's a question of "authority" ... you know, we could make things interesting

Witwer:
- There are no questions here.

Jad:
I have a warrant in my pocket that says different, you wanna see it?

Lamar Burgess:
You can't run, John!

John Anderton:
Everybody runs.

John Anderton:
You can tell me how someone could fake a pre-vision.

Dr. Iris Henimen:
How would I know that?

John Anderton:
Because you invented Precrime.

Dr. Iris Henimen:
[laughs dryly] If a series of genetic mistakes and science gone haywire can be called "invention", then yes, I invented Precrime.

John Anderton:
You don't sound very proud.

Dr. Iris Henimen:
I'm not. I was trying to cure them, not turn them into something else.

John Anderton:
Cure who?

Dr. Iris Henimen:
The innocents we now use to stop the guilty.

John Anderton:
You're talking about... the Precogs.

Dr. Iris Henimen:
You think the three in the tank came out of a test tube? They are merely the ones who survived.

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

Iris Henimen:
And yet, a chain of events has started, a chain that will lead inexorably to his death.

John Anderton:
Not if I stay away from him.

Iris Henimen:
How can you avoid a man you've never met?

John Anderton:
Why should I trust you?

Dr. Iris Henimen:
You shouldn't. You shouldn't trust anyone. Certainly not the Attorney General who just wants it all for himself, and not the young Federal agent who wants your job, not even the old man who just wants to hold on to what he created. Don't trust anyone. Just find the Minority Report.

Rufus T. Riley:
Yeah, being concert master for the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra is one of our most popular choices.

Customer:
No, no, no. I wanna kill my boss.

Rufus T. Riley:
You sick bastard. You're the kind of person that makes this a terrible world to live in!

Agatha:
Think about all the lives that little girl has saved.

Lamar Burgess:
Think about all the lives that little girl has saved. Think about all the lives she will save. That little girl could have saved Sean...

John Anderton:
Don't you EVER SAY HIS NAME!!

John Anderton:
You used the memory of my dead son to set me up!! That was the one thing you knew would drive me to murder!

Male Precog:
What are you going to do now, Lamar?

John Anderton:
What're you going to do now, Lamar?!

Male Precog:
How are you gonna

John Anderton:
shut me up?!

Male Precog:
Forgive me, John.

John Anderton:
In the middle of the Civil War, for example, Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus observing that a limb may be sacrificed to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb.

John Anderton:
[Final voice-over] In 2054, the six-year Precrime experiment was abandoned. All prisoners were unconditionally pardoned and released, though police departments kept watch on many of them for years to come. Agatha and the twins were transferred to an undisclosed location, a place where they could find relief from their gifts. A place where they could live out their lives in peace.

Dr. Iris Henimen:
I was doing genetic research at the Woodhaven Clinic in Rhode Island on Renning's Syndrome, a neurological condition that affects the cerebral cortex of children. All these kids were born with severe brain damage, most died before the age of 12. Those few, those precious few who survived, they had a gift. They would wake up in the night, curled up in the corner of the room, screaming, clawing at the wallpaper. Because, when these little children, if they closed their eyes at night, they dreamt only of murder. And it didn't take long for us to realize that the real nightmare was that these so called dreams were about to become true, that these murders were actually happening!

Dr. Iris Henimen:
Well, in my experience, parents often see their children as they want them to be, not as they are.

Dr. Iris Henimen:
Sometimes, in order to see the light, you have to risk the dark.

Dr. Iris Henimen:
It's funny how all living organisms are alike. [She starts crushing a mutated plant] When the chips are down, when the pressure is on, every creature on the face of the Earth is interested in one thing and one thing only. [the plant cuts her palm] Its own survival.

Agatha:
You still have a choice.

Lamar Burgess:
We don't choose the things we believe in; they choose us.

Lamar Burgess:
You know what I hear, Danny? Nothing. No footsteps up the stairs, no hovercraft outside the window, no clickety-click of little spyders. Do you know why I can't hear any of those things, Danny? Because right now, the precogs can't see a thing. [kills Witwer]

Lamar Burgess:
[Showing off a revolver, given as a gift by his staff] Revolvers like this one were given to generals at the end of the Civil War by their troops. The cylinders were loaded with five gold-plated bullets, to symbolize the end of the destruction and death that had ripped the country apart for five years. Ladies and gentlemen, with PreCrime going national, maybe we can all look forward to a time when none of us will have to discharge another firearm ever again.

[Discussing access to the Precogs]

Anderton:
Cops aren't allowed inside the Temple.

Witwer:
Really? You've never been inside?

Anderton:
We keep strict separation so that no one can be accused of tampering.

Witwer:
So I'll be the first one to go in, then.

Anderton:
Maybe you didn't hear me.

Witwer:
If it's a question of authority...

Anderton:
No, there is no question. You don't have any.

Witwer:
I have a warrant in my pocket that says different.

Anderton:
Show it to me.

Witwer:
Sure. [hands over a warrant; Anderton reads] This investigation of Precrime and its personnel is being conducted under the direct supervision and 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. It seems you've been left out of the loop, John.