Okay, so John Anderton (Tom Cruise) tells us in the beggining that crimes of passion are not detected instantly by the pre-cogs, and therefore the police force only have a small window of time (say a space of ten minutes) to solve the crime (as seen on the display panel on one of those high-tech units) and catch the culprit.
These types of crime, we are told, are not detected because they were not pre-determined by the killer i.e. he did not intend and plan out the murder until whatever gave rise to his “passion” overtook him. Since there is no aforementioned “murder strategy”, the pre-cogs cannot possibly forsee and thereby predict the murder(s).
So why is it that when the pre-cogs determine that John Anderton has commited a murder (the murder of the guy who we later find out was set-up to look like he kidnapped Anderton’s son) of someone whom he has NO connection to (and must therefore have commited a “crime of passion”), the police are not suspicious of the evidence - considering that a crime of passion has been predicted abnormally early? Why does he himself not question this process - knowing that he has no idea who the poor sucker he ends up (accidently) killing is?
I understand that the slides used were fabricated (and therefore false)- but this part of the story does not make sense to me.
I noticed this as well. I thought of two possibilities:
Anderton says that he has thought about killing his son’s kidnapper ever since it happened. Thus it was sort of a planned crime: it was only not knowing the identity of the appropriate victim that had prevented it. This does not seem terribly convincing.
The murder was planned, only it was planned by the old guy whose name I can’t remember and the precogs picked up on that.
Yeah, we discussed this one before, but when has that ever stopped us?
Essentially, the murder was pre-meditated well in advance. It’s just that the person who actually committed the murder wasn’t the one who pre-meditated it.
My biggest problem with it was that, after being wanted for murder and escaping…his access card still worked! Better fire the security guy in THAT office.
[sub]That, and the haunting sing-songy word “murder” kept popping up in my dreams for a week or so and creeping me out…[/sub]