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***** It [[Product Placement|was made to promote Lexus]].

* How did the precogs not see {{spoiler|Burgess killing Witwer}}?

** First of all, The PreCrime system only works with all three precogs working together, and Agatha was already gone. Also, it was a crime of passion, in the "[[Have You Told Anyone Else]]" manner, which the precogs would only have picked up on within thirty minutes or so, as opposed to a premeditated murder, which they can detect as much as forty-eight hours in advance.

** First of all, The PreCrime system only works with all three precogs working together, and Agatha was already gone. Also, it was a crime of passion, in the "[[Have You Told Anyone Else?]]" manner, which the precogs would only have picked up on within thirty minutes or so, as opposed to a premeditated murder, which they can detect as much as forty-eight hours in advance.

*** [[Idiot Ball|Oh]]

* The ending. The system prooved fallible (what a shock), so they released '''all''' the culprits it helped arrest. [[Flat What|Wat]]. Excuse me, isn't it a wee bit radical? Ok, maybe some of the prisoners might be innocent, but others were caught literaly red-handed, like the jealous guy in the beginning!

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* What was the deal with Agatha's monologue about Anderton's son growing up? Agatha is a precognitive psychic, not a retrocognitive; she can see events before they happen and read minds. We were never led to believe they could see past events or alternate timelines. And if she could look into the past, then why wasn't that ability mentioned before? That entire sequence seems completely out of place with what we were presented.

** Actually, "alternate timelines" is represented in the titular Minority Reports. One occurs when one of the three Precogs foresees a different future from the other two, and Agatha is explicitly named as the smartest, and therefore the only one who would be able to see those alternates.

** [[Where Are They Now Epilogue|At the end of the movie,]] Anderton and his wife have reconciled, [[Babies Ever After|and she's pregnant again]]. It's been awhile since I've seen the movie, but I don't remember Agatha actually using Shawn's name in her monologue. Maybe she's talking about their second son. [[Fridge Logic|Now that I've actually written that theory down]], [[TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|I have a disturbing feeling that the kid's going to be treated as a]] [[Replacement Goldfish]].

** [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue|At the end of the movie,]] Anderton and his wife have reconciled, [[Babies Ever After|and she's pregnant again]]. It's been awhile since I've seen the movie, but I don't remember Agatha actually using Shawn's name in her monologue. Maybe she's talking about their second son. [[Fridge Logic|Now that I've actually written that theory down]], [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|I have a disturbing feeling that the kid's going to be treated as a]] [[Replacement Goldfish]].

*** Alternately, wasn't Agatha born before Shawn? She could have seen [[What Could Have Been|a Minority Report]] the day that Shawn got killed, and she's telling the story to his parents now.

* Why exactly weren't the people arrested by the Precog department not charged with either attempted murder or conspiracy to murder? Colin Farrell's character has a perfectly valid point that the people caught hadn't actually committed a murder, so why were they charged with that? If the Precog system was good enough to predict murders then the recordings could have been used as iron clad evidence of intent to murder, so presumably the vanilla justice system could have handled it.