Nightmare Fuel / Minority Report

"In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king"

• During the Batman Cold Open sequence, we can see the brutal "future" murder at hands of Howard Marks. First he stabs his wife in the neck with a pair of scissors, then he begins to stab her lover as he drags him to the bathroom where he then proceeds to drown him the bathtub as he continues to stab him.
  • The majority, if not all, of the most recent Precrime cases being "red balls".^note Named after the color of the wooden ball naming the perpetrator(s) and victim(s) Fletcher mentions they rarely get premeditated cases anymore indicating D.C. citizens have become aware any thought toward murder will be picked up by the Precogs. A "red ball" means the murder is going to happen within minutes and the team has to rapidly solve, locate and prevent the murder within that timeframe every time with no guarantee the next case will be successful. The Marks case was only stopped at the very last second after they learned the location was different mid-investigation. How they've maintained a perfect record for 6 years is a goddamn miracle and an Awesome in itself.
• Unless it was just Precrime propaganda, the mere fact that the homicide rate in the U.S. by 2048 had reached "epidemic proportions". Just what happened exactly that led to that?
• A subtle example, but the utter invasiveness of ads in 2054, particularly with the use of the eye-dent system, is scarily plausible.
• The very existence of the Precogs. Imagine being perpetually kept in a drug-induced dream-like state where all you see is people being horrifically killed in all kinds of ways. Now imagine doing that every second of every day...for 6 years.
• Just the fact that Washington, D.C. became a kind-of Police State where those accused of a murder they haven't yet committed are imprisoned indefinitely with no day in court, no right to a fair or speedy trial or legal counsel, no due process of any kind. Made even worse by the fact that some of those detained in Precrime's containment unit were actually innocent with an alternate future where they weren't going to murder anyone.
• John Anderton's drug dealer seen in the picture. As he says his iconic phrase, he emerges from the shadows and removes his sunglasses, showing us a horrific display of his empty eye sockets. It's implied that he sold his eyes to sustain his own drug addiction, and/or to avoid the retina identification sensors everywhere.
• The whole spider sequence is pure tension, enhanced by the "Psycho" Strings of the music and how it ends with Anderton having a painful look on his face as his eye (who does look like it was recently surgically implanted!) is scanned.
• When Anderton finally finds Leo Crow and learns who he is. The whole scene is played in a horrific way as the cop watches the picture of his missing son with this stranger and his sadness turns into blind rage. When Leo enters into his apartment, Anderton lunges at him and begins to beating him into a bloody pulp, all this while Agatha screams in horror as she sees her prediction is coming closer and closer to become true.
  John Anderton: Every day for the last six years I've thought about only two things: The first is what my son would look like if he were alive today. If I would recognize him if I saw him on the street...
  ...And the second is what I would do to the man who took him. You're right. I am going to kill this man.
  • Also veering into Tear Jerker territory, we find out that Leo Crow actually wants to die due to being promised financial compensation for his family and that the evidence of him kidnapping Anderton's is staged. Dr. Iris Hineman's earlier speech about creatures prioritizing their own survival above all is subverted as Crow starting struggling with Anderton to make him shoot that fatal bullet. There is a Hope Spot like Anderton may be able to just walk away and change the future, but then Crow lunges for Anderton's gun, the pistol goes off, hits the windows instead and Crow is sent reeling backwards to break the weakened window and fall almost like the vision predicted, only the event is more accidental with Anderton left in shock and disbelief instead of appearing more deliberate like in the prevision. Seeing the ultimate context of how Crow ends up going out the window makes for a potentially haunting scene as though the same outcome happened with different circumstances.
• Anderton's scuffle with Witwer in the factory with both men wrestling each other inside a car as it's being assembled. Witwer manages to get away, but Anderton nearly gets impaled with reinforced bolts and almost gets crushed by what looks to be a seat.
• The Eye-Switch Operation. That whole scene is nothing but sheer tension, especially considering the sleazy surgeon was someone Anderton once had imprisoned...and is implied to have made the procedure painful as payback.
• Agatha foretelling of a hypothetical happy life for Sean turns into pure horror as she retells his kidnapping from his point of view.
  Agatha: He sees his daddy. He want to run into him. But he's only six years old and he can't do it. And the other man is so fast...
  There was so much love in this house.
• Agatha's scream as she warns John to escape from the incoming pre-cops approaching to his ex-wife's house is simply chilling.
  Agatha: I'm sorry, John, but you're going to have to run again.
  John: What?
  Agatha: RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!
• Agatha grabbing a random woman at the mall, and coldly stating to her "He knows. Don't go home," before stumbling away with Anderton. That woman's stunned reaction is unsettling, and she may not have realized it was a PreCog warning her, meaning she might have gone home anyway.
• The scene after Lamar accidentally reveals incriminatory information regarding Ann Lively's death. Realizing his mistake he slowly stands up, silently turns toward Lara and menacingly approaches to her. The contrasting shading and tension of the scene suggest he was to kill her right there if it weren't for his secretary's intervention.
  • Lamar's words after that.
    Lamar: We'll talk about this later. Perhaps... tomorrow, I'll come by the cottage.
• The full replay of Ann Lively's murder; a scared woman who just wanted to find her long lost daughter, and she died begging for her life as she was mercilessly drowned. The epilogue reveals Agatha kept the hologram, meaning one of her only memories of her mother is her last moments.
• Lara showing to Gideon how she got access to the prison. She slowly drops a bloody bag containing John's former eye on the organ's keyboard, all this with a very fitting Scare Chord.