Minority Report Page #2

As Anderton pulls a small disc from his pocket.

ANDERTON:

Stand by...

The men all share knowing glances as he inserts the disc into

a player and we now hear a STRAUSS SYMPHONY OVER...

Anderton slips on an eyepiece and special finger gloves, then

moves his hands over the huge PREVISION SCREEN, "conducting"

the array of images we saw during the opening. The screen

responds to wherever he looks, or whatever he touches...

ANDERTON:

Alright, Howard, where are you...

INT. SUBURBAN D.C. KITCHEN - MORNING

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

A WOMEN'S VOICE

Breakfast!

SARAH, the woman we just saw murdered, cooks breakfast,

bathed in a halo of bright sunshine that streams in from a

window. She looks up, smiles. A beautiful day outside.

VOICE:

For score and seven years ago our

fathers brought forth on this,

um...

She sets two plates of scrambled eggs down on the table where

her SON -- 10 -- sits reciting the Gettysburg Address as he

cuts out A CARDBOARD MASK with a pair of SCISSORS, poking

through Lincoln's eyes to make holes he can see through.

SARAH:

Continent...

SON:

Continent. A new nation, conceived

in liberty...

SARAH:

Howard?! Breakfast!

INT. PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

Everybody in the room working on the vision. A team of

researchers study the buildings. The trees in the area.

JAD:

I show eight "Howard Marks" inside

the District. Sorting by race and

age.

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

PAST.

ANDERTON:

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

He ZOOMS IN on the image of a NEWSPAPER. The headline reads

PRESIDENT SUPPORTS PRECRIME AMENDMENT...

ANDERTON:

Come on...

EXT. BROWNSTONE IN GEORGETOWN - MORNING

As the SPRINKLERS COME ON just as HOWARD MARKS, the older man

we saw stab his wife, steps out of the house.

VOICE:

Morning, Mr. Marks.

He looks over as A PAPERBOY waves from a recumbent bicycle

and tosses A NEWSPAPER. As it flies at us...

INT. PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

The image auto-enhances as we zoom in closer to the newspaper

sitting on the KITCHEN TABLE. We see AN ADDRESS LABEL with

the name HOWARD MARKS...

EXT. BROWNSTONE - MORNING

As the paper lands on the lawn, starts to get soaked by the

sprinklers. Howard frowns at the kid, reaches through the

water to grab it...

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