MINORITY REPORT: PILOT {SERIES PREMIERE} {UNAIRED VERSION} (TV)
Summary
The unaired pilot of this science-fiction television series based on the short story and 2002 film of the same name, about a future society in which a few individuals have the ability to predict crimes before they happen.
In the year 2040, three children of drug addicts, Agatha, Dash, and Arthur, are born with precognition, i.e. the ability to perceive the future. Testing shows that the children are able to perceive every murder within a certain radius several days before they occur. They are sequestered away and utilized in the creation of a police organization called the “Precrime Unit,” dedicated to stopping violent crimes before they occur. Eventually the program is disbanded and the children, dubbed “precogs,” are sent to an undisclosed location to live out the remainder of their days. However, in Washington D.C. in the year 2065, one of the children, Dash, now grown, receives a vision of a woman being pushed out of a window to his death. He rushes to try to prevent it but does not arrive in time and the man dies. The police investigate the murder and discover a small child hiding within the apartment; apparently the woman died attempting to protect her.
Dash injects himself with a substance that makes his skin sag follows the lead detective, Lara Vega, as she walks away from the crime scene. He confronts her and shows her a feverish sketch he made when he received the vision earlier that day. He advises her to “catch him” and injects her with a temporary paralytic solution before running off. She looks through his sketchbook, finding similar sketches of other crimes. While conducting research, Detective Vega is approached by her superior Lieutenant Will Blake, who informs her that the victim of the murder that day was a patient at a clinic specializing in recovery from brain disorders for former prisoners of Precrime; they suspect that she worked as a nurse at the Precrime facility. Detective Vega offers the sketch that Dash gave to her as possible evidence, and a scan matches it to a former Precrime prisoner, Sahm Adrangi. They find him at a steel mill and attempt to apprehend him, but he makes cryptic remarks before committing suicide by standing beneath a falling steel beam.
Agatha upbraids Dash for his interference and attempts to meddle with the future, believing that he is attempting to make up for their troubled past. She says his powers are “incomplete” without his brother Arthur, and warns him that although he cannot perceive his own future she is able to, believing that he will be exploited by others who wish to utilize his powers for their own ends. Detective Vega attempts to discover Dash’s identity, but there is no record of his existence on file. Secretly, Detective Vega manages to locate Dash and confronts him at a diner, believing that he has some sort of fascination with violent crime and drew sketches of murder victims. He is quite frightened by her insinuation that he is involved in these crimes, but she concludes that he is not a killer. Suddenly Dash experiences a vision and suffers a fit, collapsing to the floor. Detective Vega realizes that Dash is one of the precogs and takes him away in her car, and also realizes that he just received a vision of a future murder. She attempts to get more information from him, but he says his vision is fragmented, explaining that without his brother Arthur he is like “one mind split in two” and is unable to produce names or other relevant information about what he perceives. Dash tries to leave, but Detective Vega sympathizes with him since he grew up without a mother, and states that she is frustrated with being unable to truly prevent crime. She convinces Dash to make a quick sketch of his vision, and it becomes clear that it depicts mayoral candidate and former Deputy of Precrime Peter Van Eyck; his wife Olivia is the potential victim.
Detective Vega takes Dash to speak to the Van Eycks. Olivia soon leaves with their infant son; they all plan to headline a rally the following day, which is when Dash predicts that Olivia will die. Detective Vega questions Peter; he is spearheading a new crime-prevention program called “Hawkeye,” involving mass surveillance of the city and predictive analyses. They then speak with Ashby, one of Peter’s security officers, who is monitoring all online media relating to Peter’s campaign. They discover Adrangi’s name in a list of potential threats, and they decide to visit the treatment center where he resided. It is occupied by other former Precrime prisoners suffering from mental degeneration due to the circumstances of their imprisonment. Dash remembers each former prisoner and feels responsible for their predicament. They investigate and discover a mobile device by Adrangi’s bed, also meeting a young woman, Liz, claiming to be there to visit her father Mason Rutledge, another patient. The device ran a search on Peter several hours before Adrangi’s suicide. Liz feels bitter about her father’s imprisonment, as it was for a crime that he potentially could have committed but did not, the murder of her mother. She explains that her mother died of grief while he was imprisoned and that he suffered from amnesia upon being released.
They speak to Rutledge, but he claims to know nothing about the Van Eycks. Liz explains that he has occupied himself with genetically engineering the extinct passenger pigeon back into existence and controlling them via a computer interface in a glove. Detective Vega accuses Rutledge of planning Peter’s murder to get revenge on him for imprisoning him. He flees and Detective Vega chases after him, but he manages to get away. Detective Vega brings Dash back to her apartment, where he meets her mother Lily and younger brother Rico, both mistaking Dash for her new boyfriend. Later Detective Vega talks about her father, who was also a policeman before he was killed in the line of duty. This helped motivate Detective Vega to train to join Precrime, although the program was disbanded before she completed her training. Dash says he recalls little of his life outside of being kept in a containment unit in Precrime before retreating to an island with Arthur and Agatha; he notes that Arthur left first and has been in Washington D.C. for some time. He has seen visions of numerous murders since his arrival but was unable to stop any of them.
With the rally fast approaching, Dash and Detective Vega decides to visit Wally, the caretaker of the precogs in Precrime. Wally is overjoyed to see Dash again and they talk to Detective Vega about the “minority reports” of the precogs, when one of them would have a vision differing from the other two, thus creating an uncertain future. Wally hooks Dash up to a homemade neural interface, hoping to allow him to experience a more detailed vision and project it as a hologram visible to Detective Vega. It functions and reveals that Olivia is only one victim, and that the entire assembled rally will die from some sort of biological attack, delivered via Rutledge’s passenger pigeons. Dash cannot determine anything else, and says that he must find and consult Arthur. They discover that he is a real estate developer and visit him in his office. He is aware of the reason for their visit and gives them the name of an abandoned shopping mall to investigate. Detective Vega does not fully trust Arthur, believing that he became rich by selling secrets divined from his precognitive abilities on the black market. However, she agrees to follow up on his lead.
Rutledge releases his pigeons as Detective Vega and Dash investigate the shopping mall, finding him on the top floor. They apprehend him but Liz appears from nowhere and holds them at gunpoint, explaining that she wants revenge on Peter for destroying her family. Working together, Detective Vega and Dash manage to disable them and use Rutledge’s computer to call off the pigeons before they can infect the rally. Detective Vega goes to arrest Rutledge, but Dash suddenly has a vision of Rutledge stabbing Detective Vega to death. He rushes to the rescue and accidentally sends Rutledge hurtling off a balcony to his death. Detective Vega thanks him and tells him to leave, unwilling to have him linked to the deaths of Rutledge and his daughter. Later Detective Vega encounters Dash while out running and thanks him for saving her life and the lives of everyone at the rally. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: FOX
- DATE: 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:43:31
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 124050
- GENRE: Drama, fantasy/science fiction
- SUBJECT HEADING: TV - Drama, fantasy/science-fiction
- SERIES RUN: Fox - TV series, 2015
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Kevin Falls … Executive Producer
- Steven Spielberg … Executive Producer
- Darryl Frank … Executive Producer
- Justin Falvey … Executive Producer
- Mark Mylod … Executive Producer, Director
- Max Borenstein … Executive Producer, Developed by, Writer
- Greg Beeman … Co-Executive Producer
- Neal Ahern … Producer
- Dieter Ismagil … Co-Producer
- Philip K. Dick … Based on the short story "The Minority Report" by
- Sean Callery … Music by
- Stark Sands … Cast, Dash
- Meagan Good … Cast, Detective Lara Vega
- Nick Zano … Cast, Arthur
- Daniel London … Cast, Wally
- Laura Regan … Cast, Agatha
- Li Jun Li … Cast, Akeela
- Zhane Hall … Cast, Rico
- Wilmer Valderrama … Cast, Lieutenant Will Blake
- Michael Copeman … Cast, Rutledge
- Tina Lifford … Cast, Lily
- Alex Paxton-Beesley … Cast, Liz Rutledge
- Andrew Stewart-Jones … Cast, Peter Van Eyck
- Donna Benedicto … Cast, Female Bartender
- Jennifer Cheon … Cast, Andromeda
- Nadine Djoury … Cast, Tour Guide
- Zoé Doyle … Cast, Olivia Van Eyck
- Connor Fielding … Cast, Young Dash
- Owen Fielding … Cast, Young Arthur
- Ahmad Ismail … Cast, Adrangi
- Nahanni Johnstone … Cast, Dr. Hineman
- Krystal Kiran … Cast, Speaker
- Colin Lawrence … Cast, Hamilton Vega
- David Reale … Cast, Torlaksen
- Brielle Robillard … Cast, Young Agatha
- Zach Smadu … Cast, Ashby