When the cops arrest Anderton, they tell him that he killed Crow (something the Precogs saw) & Witwer (something they didn't see since the girl is missing).
Because the Precogs didn't see it, there should have been a trial to decide whether Anderton really killed his colleague or not. You can't definitly say that he killed someone because of the gun used.
I don't disagree. However, you could say that the police had become so used to haloing "killers" that it was just what they did. Perhaps they were just complacent.
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Good point! What's even more: if I remember correctly, right after Burgess killed Witwer, Burgess received a phone call from Lara who tells him that John and Agatha were just arriving at her house. So John probably had a watertight alibi too!
However, the movie makes a jump after Precrime caught John, we don't know how much time passed before he was finally put into Containment (it could be weeks or even months). Maybe that dystopian society sentenced suspects of non-previsioned crimes with some sort of relatively short/fast/cheap "McCourt" trial that we didn't get to see, and John was found guilty because Burgess had the justice system in his pocket. But it's already a long movie, I think the audience doesn't really need scenes of a trial to fill in the technical gaps of how Anderton ends up incarcerated.
Also, I think it just goes to show in what kind of flawed, totalitarian society the movie takes place, in which the Police force is also pretty much judge-jury-executioner-in-one.
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One word: pothole.
shareI don't remember the exact line. Do they tell him he's under arrest for the murders of Crow and Witwer? Because cops in modern day will do that. For example: "You are under arrest for the murder of John Doe". That's just why they're arresting him. Sentence later. But, I don't remember the exact line, so...
shareI thought he was exonerated ???
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No, he was placed in Containment. But he escaped from the tank with the help from his estranged wife. Later he was exonerated, as Precrime was abandoned.
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John Anderton, by mandate of the District of Columbia, precrime division, I'm placing you under arrest for the murders of Leo Crow and Danny Witwer.We only see him being arrested for both crimes we don't know exactly what he was eventually charged with no more than what would happen to you or I at the point of arrest for a murder we didn't commit.
We only see him being arrested for both crimes we don't know exactly what he was eventually charged with no more than what would happen to you or I at the point of arrest for a murder we didn't commit.And that, right there, settles the debate. Great response.
In reality for all we know an investigation was launched into the death of Witwer and even if it wasn't proven beyond a reasonable doubt that John pulled the trigger the murder of Leo Crow would have been sufficient to demand his incarceration. So in a sense the point is moot. Trial or not either way he gets haloed.
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He was convicted of killing Crow, and put away anyway. Yes, it is strange that they automatically assume Anderton as guilty without proof. Agatha did not provide any help to clear Anderton after the fact.
shareBurgess was in such a high position that he could probably influence/manipulate the case anyway. Such as have Anderton trialed on circumstantial evidence (Witwer was killed with Anderton's gun, in Anderton's apartment), and have Agatha dismissed as a reliable witness (she's on drugs and in a constant state of dreaming/hallucinating, moreover rather than "wasting time" with testifying in a "clear-cut case" she has a much more important job to do).
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Joe Satriani - "Always With Me, Always With You"
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