FEMALE FACE
Howard --

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

MALE FACE
I forgot my glasses.

THE SCISSORS SNIP.

MALE FACE
You know how blind I am without
them.

WE SEE THE WOMAN IN THE BEDROOM

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

The bloody scissors bounce open onto the bathroom floor.

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

DISSOLVE TO:

THE THREE FACES

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

THE THREE OF THEM
Murderer.

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

A RED BALL - ANALYTICAL ROOM

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

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

INSIDE PRECRIME HEADQUARTERS - MAIN FLOOR

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

INT. PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

ANDERTON
Okay, Jad, what's coming?

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

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

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

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

ON A VIDEO SCREEN

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

ANDERTON
Have the witnesses previewed and
validated #1108?

INT. POLLARD'S OFFICE - MORNING

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

POLLARD
Affirmative. Validated.

INT. DR. JAMES' OFFICE - MORNING

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

JAMES
Go get him.

INT. PRECRIME ANALYTICAL ROOM - MORNING

As Anderton pulls a small disc from his pocket.

ANDERTON
Stand by...

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

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

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