Minority Report Ending

[therealjohng]

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When Burgess kills the woman in the lake how come the Precogs didn't see that?

I've seen the movie twice and I haven't figured it out yet.

Something about an echo. He said he paid some drifter to kill the lady, then when the stranger gets caught Burgess dresses up in the same clothes as the drifter to kill the woman.

Wouldn't the Precogs see the murder in Burgess's head and stop him?

[ANTBond007]

Yes, the Precogs did see the murder, but the Pre-Crime workers disregarded it as an echo.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by therealjohng:
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When Burgess kills the woman in the lake how come the Precogs didn't see that?

I've seen the movie twice and I haven't figured it out yet.

Something about an echo. He said he paid some drifter to kill the lady, then when the stranger gets caught Burgess dresses up in the same clothes as the drifter to kill the woman.

Wouldn't the Precogs see the murder in Burgess's head and stop him?</font>There's another thread on this already but it's an easy enough question to answer...

The cogs don't read minds exactly, they see things in the future. They saw the paid guy do the murder but that murder is stopped since they saw it ahead of time.

Then Burgess dressed up like the killer did and killed her in the way it had looked in the premonition. The cogs DID see the 2nd version but it was deleted. Apparantly the cogs sometimes see the murders multiple times. When they saw the 2nd version the techs didn't look really really closely at it and deleted the file because they thought it was an echo of what they'd seen before. However in fact it was a totally different murder that they ended up not stopping because Burgess knew how to work the system.

[idealdiscountdude]

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