Tom Cruise credited as playing...
Chief John Anderton
- 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: 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.
- Officer Fletcher: John, don't run.
- John Anderton: You don't have to chase me.
- Officer Fletcher: You don't have to run.
- John Anderton: Everybody runs, Fletch.
- [Dr. Solomon is about to transplant new eyes into Anderton]
- John Anderton: I'd like to keep the old ones.
- Dr. Solomon: Why?
- John Anderton: Because my mother gave them to me.
- Agatha: Dr. Hineman once said, "The dead don't die. They look on and help." Remember that, John.
- John Anderton: Agatha...
- Agatha: Sean... He's on the beach now, a toe in the water. He's asking you to come in with him. He's been racing his mother up and down the sand. There's so much love in this house. He's ten years old. He's surrounded by animals. He wants to be a vet. You keep a rabbit for him, a bird and a fox. He's in high school. He likes to run, like his father. He runs the two-mile and the long relay. He's 23. He's at a university. He makes love to a pretty girl named Claire. He asks her to be his wife. He calls here and tells Lara, who cries. He still runs. Across the university and in the stadium, where John watches. Oh God, he's running so fast, just like his daddy. He sees his daddy. He wants to run to him. But he's only six years old, and he can't do it. And the other men are so fast. There was so much love in this house.
- John Anderton: [sobbing] I want him back so bad.
- Agatha: So did she. Can't you see? She just wanted her little girl back. But it was too late. Her little girl was already gone.
- John Anderton: She's still alive.
- Agatha: She didn't die, but she's not alive.
- John Anderton: Agatha, just tell me, who killed your mother? Who killed Anne Lively?
- Agatha: [whispering] I'm sorry John, but you're gonna have to run again.
- John Anderton: What?
- Agatha: [screaming] RUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
- 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: [yells] Don't you *ever* say his name!
- Arthur: You used the memory of my dead son to set me up.
- John Anderton: [yells] You used the memory of my dead son to set me up! That was the one thing you knew would drive me to murder.
- Dashiell: What are you going to do now, Lamar?
- John Anderton: [yells] What're you going to do now, Lamar?
- Arthur: How are you...
- John Anderton: ...going to shut me up?
- Dashiell: I'm sorry, John.
- 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 perfect.
- Danny Witwer: [simultaneously] - perfect. I agree. But if there's a flaw, it's human. It always is.
- [last lines]
- John Anderton: [voiceover] 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.
- John Anderton: [to Agatha] Everyday for the last six years I've thought of only two things. The first is what Sean would look like if he were alive today, if I would recognize him if I saw him on the street, the second is what I would do to the man who took him if I ever found him. You're right... I'm not being set up.
- Agatha: You have to take me home.
- John Anderton: No. You said so yourself. There is no minority report, I don't have an alternate future. I am going to kill this man.
- [the readings Agatha is giving run quickly on a makeshift screen]
- John Anderton: It's too fast. Slow it down.
- Rufus Riley: How do I slow this down, I should hit her on the head?
- John Anderton: That's all, huh? Just walk right into Precrime, go in the Temple, somehow tap into these Precogs, and then download this Minority Report.
- Dr. Iris Hineman: If you have one.
- John Anderton: And then walk out.
- Dr. Iris Hineman: Actually, I think you'll have to run out, but yes, that is what you have to do.
- [after having his eyes replaced to fool retinal scanners]
- GAP Sign: Hello Mr. Yakamoto and welcome back to the GAP!
- John Anderton: *Mr. Yakamoto?*
- John Anderton: [his face inches from Agatha's] Where's my Minority Report?
- [screams]
- John Anderton: DO I EVEN HAVE ONE?
- [moment's silence]
- John Anderton: [softly] Do I have one?
- Agatha: [whispers] No.
- Dr. Iris Hineman: Find the minority report.
- John Anderton: How do I even know which one has it?
- Dr. Iris Hineman: It's always in the more gifted of the three.
- John Anderton: Which one is it?
- Dr. Iris Hineman: The female.
- Rufus Riley: [to Agatha] Are you reading my mind right now?
- John Anderton: Get up.
- Rufus Riley: [to Agatha] I'm sorry for whatever I'm going to do and I swear I didn't do any of that stuff I did.
- 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.
- [Hundreds of contained prisoners rise up around Anderton and Gideon]
- 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...
- [taps his head]
- Gideon: busy busy busy.
- John Anderton: Why should I trust you?
- Dr. Iris Hineman: 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.
- Director Burgess: Who's the victim?
- John Anderton: Somebody.
- Director Burgess: Who?
- John Anderton: [trying to remember the name] Somebody. Leo Crow.
- Director Burgess: Who is he?
- John Anderton: I have no idea! I've never heard of him! But I'm supposed to kill him in less than thirty-six hours.