History Characters / MinorityReport

!Pre-Crime Division

* InsuranceFraud: Attempts to [[SuicideForOthersHappiness secure money for his family]] by trying to get executed by Anderton.
* OrgyOfEvidence: The trope-naming incident. [[spoiler:He seemingly leaves a massive, incriminating pile of photos of missing and abducted children on his hotel room bed, so as to make Anderton's "motive" unambiguous. However, all of it reads as a little too convenient for Witwer, who drops the trope name and realises that Anderton's being set up.]]

->'''Played By:''' Steve Harris

->'''Played By:''' Daniel London

An elderly official in Washington, D.C. who is a co-founder and current director of the Precrime Program. He and his former wife, Dr. Iris Hineman started the Precrime experiment in 2048 and is anticipating the country's approval of the system to go national. He is Anderton's superior as well as good friend and father figure to him [[spoiler:until he found out about Anne Lively that is]].

* BlatantLies: Indulges in this during his introduction; halfway through discussing a VR scenario featuring the murder of a client's boss, Riley [[OhCrap notices]] Anderton striding towards him. Without missing a beat, Riley starts talking as loudly as possible about [[VirtualReality VR]] scenarios about becoming a conductor, then acting disgusted when the client tries to push the issue.

* JunkieProphet: Because their visions of the future are experienced in dreams, the Precogs were kept in a state of perpetual sedation while in Precrime activity. Plus, it was because of the drug Neuroin that they were born with their powers to begin with.

* WomenAreWiser: Dr. Hineman notes that she is the most talented one among the three precogs.

* OfficerOHara: Witwer is a native Irishman, like his actor Colin Farrell, and a cop working for the General Attorney, and for a Homicide department in the past.

* EvilIsPetty: After explaining his arrest and imprisonment in great detail, the film briefly gives the impression that Eddie might take revenge by deliberately botching the surgery or straight-up murdering Anderton. Instead, Eddie seems pretty content to leave Anderton unharmed except for a few extremely cheap jokes at his expense - namely by adding rotten sandwiches and rancid milk to his post-surgery supplies.

* PercussiveMaintenance: Discussed; when the report fails to emerge from Agatha's mind, Riley sarcastically suggests bonking her on the head.

A former U.S. Treasury Agent who became the second-in-command Precrime officer and John's right-hand man.

* TheHero

* ChronicEvidenceRetentionSyndrome: Subverted. When Anderton tracks him down, Crow's bed is covered in photographs of children -- [[spoiler:supposedly all the children he murdered; however, it's later revealed that the evidence was deliberately planted in order to drive Anderton to murder, making this an...]]

%%* TheChick: Well, at least one of two.%%ZCE

* NamesTheSame: Shares her first name with the female protagonist of the series.

* DecompositeCharacter: Anderton of the short-story was both the chief of Precrime and its founder. Anderton of the film is only the chief, whilst his role as its founder went to Lamar.

* FugitiveArc: Roughly three quarters of the film is spent running from his former Precrime allies.

* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Getting too close to the crime he was hiding when he thought that no one would never mention it again, prompts him to tell Lara that he is going to [[DeadlyEuphemism "pay a visit"]].]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:He killed Anne Lively when she was clean from drugs and wanted to get Agatha back, manipulated the Precogs' minority reports to get free from murder and framed John for getting too deep inside the Anne Lively case]].

* CoolOldGuy: He is in good terms with John, like father and son, and he is worried about his drug addiction much like Lara. [[spoiler:That is until John mentions the name of Anne Lively and tries to silence him by framing a murder]].

** [[spoiler:He accidentally mentions that Anne Lively was drowned to Lara when she didn't said that at all. He menaces her and Lara runs to free John from prison]].

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Precrime is his life's work, and he believes it ultimately does good. It later transpires that he knew about the minority reports, but kept it quiet for the greater good. [[spoiler:And he killed Anne Lively when she wanted to get Agatha back, something that would brought down Precrime.]]

* OrgyOfEvidence: The TropeNamer. He tells this to Fletcher at the Leo Crow crime scene when he knows that [[spoiler:it was all a frame up for John Anderton]].

* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: He's obsessed with finding the flaw in Precrime, but drug abuse is a legit reason for busting Anderton and [[spoiler:he doesn't blame Anderton]] for being framed for Crow's murder when he sees the forged evidence. Also, in the end it turns out that [[spoiler: he was [[TheExtremistWasRight right all along]] about Precrime. Too bad he didn't live to see it.]]

* NumberTwo: Anderton's right hand man. When John goes on the run, Lamar notes that Fletcher is next in line to assume command of the team, objecting to Witwer seizing authority over him.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Presumably she has to be an adult or at least teenager, but looks about 10 years old. For what it's worth, Capshaw was 26 at the time so not that old (but, still, not a child). She does at least ''sound'' like an adult, so it's easy enough to guess she's probably just gifted with a baby-face.

* [[HeKnowsTooMuch She Knows Too Much]]: [[spoiler: When Lamar accidently reveals to her how Ann Lively was murdered,]] and subsequently promises to further "discuss" the issue at her place later on, she pretty much figures that she'll fall victim to this trope unless she does something, so...

* {{Irony}}: She gives a speech about how organisms will focus upon their own survival as a priority, but later in the movie, this assumption is subverted when [[spoiler: Crowe begs Anderton to kill him so that his family is "taken care of", and eventually provokes Anderton to [[SuicideByCop pull the trigger]] while struggling to force the weapon to aim at his chest, being pushed back towards window and falling through to his death from the bullet weakening the glass pane.]]

* BackAlleyDoctor: His profession. Working out of a filthy apartment, the only thing stopping the operations from turning disastrous is a combination Eddie's own expertise and a metric ton of antibiotics.

-->For true enlightenment there is nothing like... well, let's just say taking a shower while this large fellow with an [[UnusualEuphemism attitude]] [[RagingStiffie you couldn't knock down with a hammer]] keeps whispering in your ear "Oh Nancy, oh Nancy." [[SarcasmMode Now that was a lot of fun]].

* ReformedCriminal: He might be a bit of a sleaze, but for a former cyber criminal, Riley's actually running a semi-legitimate business and rather shaky about virtual reality scenarios that might draw police attention.

* HopeSpot: Murdered while waiting to be reunited with her long-lost daughter. [[spoiler: Agatha's vision of the future makes this moment even nastier: Anne had just been rescued from an unknown assailant by Precrime cops, and Lamar had followed this up by personally comforting her and giving her every assurance that she'd be allowed to meet Agatha soon. Minutes later, Lamar dons ski mask and gloves, and murders Anne Lively in cold blood.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only appears in a handful of scenes, most of them Precog visions of her death... and yet the events of the film could never have happened without her. [[spoiler: To begin with, her Neuroin addiction ends up bestowing psychic powers upon her unborn daughter, completing the Precog triad with it's most powerful member and ensuring the formation of Precrime. Anderton's investigation into her murder ends up getting him framed in order to prevent him from discovering the truth, kicking off the main plot of the movie. Finally, Agatha's vision of her death, as displayed before the public, ends up helping to discredit Precrime for good.]]

The Precogs were the children of [[FantasticDrug Neuroin]] addicts who developed the ability to see the future. Though capable of having visions of anything, the most common thing is murder -- which caught the attention of the authorities. At a young age they were inducted into the Precrime system and spent six long years having visions of every murder within the city. After Precrime dissolves, they are moved away from the public to live peacefully, but while Agatha prefers her new life, her brothers are not as content.

* ThemeNaming: Agatha, Arthur and Dashiell are named after iconic mystery fiction writers Creator/AgathaChristie (''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress''), Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'') and Creator/DashiellHammett (''Literature/SamSpade'').

* CloudCuckoolander: Agatha and reality have a rather tenuous relationship, and most of her dialogue following her initial release swings from traumatized mumbling to barely-comprehensible advice.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Without her, the 6-year Precrime experiment wouldn't have existed. The people of DC can live in peace knowing that Precrime will keep them safe from any murders that are about to go down...but only at the cost of keeping her and the twins constantly sedated and continually seeing human nature at it's worst on a daily basis.

* WomenAreWiser: Dr. Hineman notes that she is the most talented one amongst the three precogs.

One of twin Precogs who, along with Agatha and Arthur, form a hive-minded psychic link to see future murders. After his release he was still troubled by the murders he saw, and returned to DC in order to try and solve them. He comes up short until he teams up with Detective Lara Vega. For tropes applying to him in the SequelSeries, [[Characters/MinorityReport2015 see here]].

* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Dash is the youngest and "weakest" of the precogs. His name even starts with a different letter. When they were in the temple, Agatha would get the clearest image and Arthur would get the names while Dash's visions would be used to fill in the gaps. Now that Dash is trying to operate alone, the limitations of his abilities makes trying to stop murders all the more difficult.

One of twin Precogs who, along with Agatha and Dashiell, form a hive-minded psychic link to see future murders. Between the events of the movie and the series, Arthur grew dissatisfied with being locked away from society and returned to DC. When Dash next meets him he's become arrogant and rich through his abilities. For tropes applying to him in the series, [[Characters/MinorityReport2015 see here.]]

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