Tonight on FOX Minority Report airs with an all new Monday September 21, season 1 premiere called, “Pilot,” and we have your weekly recap below for you. On tonight’s episode, series premiere. The TV-adaptation of the 2002 sci-fi film about a cop in a futuristic hi-tech squad.
For those of you who don’t know, TV-adaptation of the 2002 sci-fi film about a cop in a hi-tech “pre-crime” unit in the future.
On tonight’s episode as per the FOX synopsis, “the TV-adaptation of the 2002 sci-fi film about a cop in a futuristic hi-tech squad that, in 2065, attempts to stop horrific crimes before they happen with help from a mysterious precognitive man.”
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#MinorityReport starts with three kids and we hear that they are children of drug addicts who were brain dead at birth. Then a group of scientists saved them but it also gave them the gift of precognition. The children are Dashiell, Arthur and Agatha. We seem at play in the field outside Woodhaven Clinic in the year 2040. We see the kids being put through exercises to test their gifts. Then one of the kids is at the window and they seem to be channeling something traumatic. The kids say “murder.” Vega says the scientists realized the kids could see crimes and the government took them away.
They took them and set up the pre-crime program. The kids never had the chance to grow up and had nothing but the visions. Then pre-crime was abolished and the kids were sent away to hide, but they couldn’t hide forever. We see one of the kids, now grown, playing a video game at a bar and he tells the bartender she’ll need a mop then someone spills. He gets a vision of a murder that will happen in 40 minutes. He sketches out the face of the killer and says Bartlett Plaza.
Dash rushes to the Plaza to try and stop the crime. He has less than three minutes and spots the window where someone will be pushed out of. He runs up and into the building and races up the stairs. He runs inside and finds a Tai Chi class taking place. He runs back out. Looks like he had the wrong building. His watch beeps and the body goes flying out the window. He’s devastated that he couldn’t stop it. Vega and Akeela are at the crime scene. They retrace the steps at the crime scene with tech gear.
They decide the victim let it happen to protect someone. They lament the end of the pre-crime program that stopped these things and wonder who she was protecting. They notice a sandwich with the crust cut off and run an infrared scan. They find a child hiding under the counter. Dash lurks outside watching the cops come out. Vega looks at the crowd with interest but Dash had ducked away already. Vega is on the street later and Dash lurks behind her. He gives himself a shot that changes his looks and pulls up his hood.
Some kids are on a museum tour that includes an exhibit on pre-cogs. Some kids take drone selfies of themselves. Vega senses she’s being tailed. She grabs Dash and slams him against the wall. He says he has something for her. He gives her the sketch of the perpetrator then hits her with his shot to get away from her. It makes her legs go numb and he calls back that it’s only temporary. He drops his bag in the fracas and she flips through his sketch book and sees other disturbing drawings.
Blake comes in and mocks Vega and they trade insults. She says he takes credit and he says he has a lead and doesn’t need her on this one. He says the rehab center is for future killers and they wonder which killer they were looking for. She says she has a face and says a weirdo gave her a sketch. He snatches the paper but she says it’s her tip. He reminds her it’s his case. He scans the sketch into the computer. He gets a match to Sahm Adrangi that pre-crime nailed for killing an agent by throwing him out the window.
Sahm is getting high when the cops show up to pick him up. Sahm says they have no idea what’s going on then says they never will and steps in the way of a falling beam. Agatha tells Dash they promised not to intervene in law enforcement. She says if he goes to the cops, it will be a mistake for them and says he can’t fix the past. She says his gift is incomplete without his brother and can’t do anything to fix the future. She says she can see his future and says he needs to come home where he belongs.
He ends the call and her hologram disappears. Blake and Vega come back to chat up Akeela and she shows him the shot that the mystery guy shot her with. Akeela pulled something off the selfie drone and says he’s a ghost. Vega shows them another sketch from his journal and says they are all murder victims. They wonder if he’s a watcher, someone with no human interaction. They search crime scene feeds for stragglers with weird body language. Vega spots him but lies and tells Blake she doesn’t see anyone. Blake says the guy lives off the grid and he needs to go to the Sprawl.
Akeela asks why she let him go and she says she’s delegating. Vega looks up the guy and says they found the watcher. They run facial identity and nail him at a fast food restaurant. Vega sits down beside him and asks if he gets munchies after watching men die. She shows him the visual of the murderer and she says the drawings put him at the scene of a dozen murders. He says he only sees them and she thinks he watches. He tries to leave and freaks out. She tells him to calm down and says he’s not a killer.
She asks why he came to her. He gets a vison and collapses to the floor. He asks if she can see. She says see what and he says – murder. Vega calls for someone to call an ambulance. Dash sits up and says he needs to go. He starts knocking things over and she helps him out. She realizes he’s one of the pre-cogs and he says people could use them. He asks if she’s going to bring him in and says he can only see the future of others. She asks for the victim’s name.
He says he isn’t linked to the others and says her and Arthur are like one mind split in two and Arthur gets the names and he gets the rest. She asks where Arthur is and Dash says to keep his journal and gets out of the car. Dash says he can’t help her and he tries but he doesn’t see enough. Vega says she can help him and says that little girl will grow up without a mother and that’s why he came to her. She promises she won’t let anyone know about him and begs him to work with her.
She hands him back the sketch book. He starts drawing. Vega sees that he’s sketched Van Eyck the former deputy chief of pre-crime. He asks how they can save the woman and they head to Van Eyck’s election center. They see his wife Olivia is the one who died. Dash gets a vision of her vomiting blood. Dash says she shouldn’t go to the rally at the mall. Van Eyck asks what he can do for them. Vega says they’re following a lead about the rally and asks about threats.
He says it’s a shame pre-crime was shut down and then calls the pre-cogs genetic freaks. Dash says – you lose by a landslide and Vega tells him to be quiet. They go with his head of security and see Sahm and something about Open Vista. Except someone ran the search after Sahm died so the threat was dismissed. They wonder what’s up with Open Vista where the pre-crime perpetrators are held. They head over there.
Dash recognizes most of this prisoners and says he did this to them. Vega says he stopped them from committing murders. Most of them look on the edge of lunacy or are catatonic. They ask a woman there about Sahm. She says her father is a patient there. Vega looks at Sahm’s device and says it ran the search on Van Eyck. She asks about the woman’s father but says her father never committed a crime and loved her mother more than anything. She says her mother died of grief and his brain was scarred.
Dash asks if that’s why she drinks and Vega shushes him. They ask to see her father. She takes them to the roof and she says her father only cares about this hobby. He’s playing with birds on the roof. They mention Van Eyck and he talks about birds. Dash warns Vega to move but she doesn’t and a bird poops on her. Vega asks if he was using Sahm’s device. Turns out he works with passenger pigeons and he gestures and the birds come flying back to their coop. He has a brain computer interface with WiFi.
Vega says he blames Van Eyck for taking his life away and asks if that’s why he’s planning on killing her. Dash tells her to arrest him before he jumps. He jumps and runs down stairs. Vega goes after him. She yells at him to stop. She makes a misstep and almost falls. Dash rushes down and pulls her up. Vega takes Dash back to her place after Open Vista and Akeela chats with her over the phone. Vega says she has a new CI that gave her the lead.
Dash watches a promo for the Simpson 75th anniversary show then her mom and brother Rico come in. She asks if he’s staying for dinner and Dash says yes and they’re ordering Chinese. Vega says she’s cooking but it’s burnt so they order Chinese. Dash talks about the Island and she asks if that’s where he was sent after pre-cog. He looks at a photo globe of her father and she says he was a cop who was killed on duty and the case was never solved.
Dash says he was 14 when they put them in the milk bath and then he remembers nothing for a decade. He says Arthur left first to come there. Dash says he’s seen 16 murders and hasn’t gotten there in time. Vega asks if Arthur will help but he says his brother only cares about himself. She talks about pre-crime seeing inside his head. She says maybe thy still can. They go to see Wally the Caretaker who was part of the pre-crime division.
They tell Vega that for the public to buy pre-crime, they had to believe the crimes they saw would definitely happen then they talk about outliers that were filed as Minority Reports. Wally pulls out an old neural headgear and says this will hurt – a lot. He turns it on and Dash screams. Vega tells him to stop but Dash says no. They see his visions on the wall. Wally says he’s all right now. They watch the crime scene unfold. They see it’s a bunch of people.
Vega says it’s an attack. They see birds overhead. Vega says Van Eyck isn’t the only target. Dash comes to and asks what they saw. They think Rutledge is using the birds to deliver a virus. Dash asks Vega to get them to cancel the rally. Vega says they need more. Dash says it’s time. He says they need to go to Arthur. Arthur is very successful – he’s in finance – looks like he’s using his psychic gifts for profit. Arthur isn’t happy his brother brought a cop and asks if she’s a crooked cop.
Arthur reads off her name and address. Vega asks what he saw about the crime and Dash asks what it will cost him – Arthur says they can talk about it later. He gives them a location – Providence Crossing – an abandoned shopping center. He asks Vega to go for a drink then says he has her number. They head to the old shopping center to look around. Vega drops four balls on the floor and they roll then take flight like snitches from Harry Potter.
The drones fly all over and then we see the rally and Van Eyck is introduced. Rutledge is with his birds. He has a computer and opens the cages electronically. The birds fly out a hole in the roof towards the rally. A drone approaches him and Vega says they have to move. Rutledge cripples the drone. They race upstairs to try and stop the virus drop. Vega calls out for Rutledge and gesture for Dash to stay back. Dash realizes Rutledge is coming and warns her. Vega gets him down but then the daughter is there too.
She has a gun and says it’s too late. She says Van Eyck took their family and now they’ll take his. Vega says more than the Van Eycks will die. Vega looks at Dash who shakes his head no when the daughter says to put the gun down. They get the two down then they realize they need Rutledge’s hand to control the computer. They frag his body over and scan his hand and they get the birds to veer off at the last minute. They stopped the crime and both Vega and Dash are thrilled.
Dash sees him stab Vega and her dying and Dash charges Rutledge and knocks him over the ledge. She sees the knife in his hand and thanks Dash for saving her. The daughter is also dead. Vega tells Dash he has to go and can’t be seen there. He takes off. Van Eyck later thanks the police for saving him and Blake thanks Vega for closing his case. Van Eyck talks about his Hawkeye System and how it could have prevented the crime.
Vega is out for a run when Dash finds her. She says they’re good for now but there’s an investigation into Rutledge’s death. She says he saved her life and all those others. Dash asks what about next time and she says he should be telling her that info. Agatha says she was scared to close her eyes after they set her free. She talks to Arthur. He complains about mosquitoes at her place. She asks if Dash came to him and tells Arthur to find out about Vega without sleeping with her.
Arthur asks if she’s still seeing the vision about them taking us again. He says they need to tell Dash but Agatha says not yet. She says not until they know what role he plays.
THE END!
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