The Best Director Lamar Burgess Quotes

Danny: [Using Anderton's projector and puts a clear recorded device into it] This is a murder of a woman named Anne Livley.
Lamar: You got this from containment?
Danny: Yes. This is from the twins, Arthur and Dashiell. Agatha's datastream is missing.
[Takes out the clear device and gets out another clear device from his suit pocket]
Danny: This is from the Cyber Parlor.
[Puts that clear device into Anderton's projector]
Danny: Anderton dowloaded this directly from Agatha, and Rufus Riley recorded it.
Lamar: It's the same prevision.
Danny: Not quite.
[Gets up and goes to the video on the wall]
Danny: Watch the wave action across the water. Watch the ripples. Moving
[Moves his pinky]
Danny: *away* from shore.
[Goes over to the projector and changes recorded devices]
Danny: This is from containment what Art and Dash saw.
[Goes back to the wall]
Danny: The wind has changed. The ripples are moving the other way.
[Moves his pinky to the direction of the ripples]
Danny: This murder is taking place at 2 different times. The sentry has said that Anderton was actually watching this in containment right before he was tagged.
Lamar: Yes, yes. He came to me and told me about the missing prevision. He was afraid that you might find it.
Danny: He was right. I *did* find it. But one question remains: Why would somebody want this erased from the data file?
Lamar: Danny. Tell me. What are you thinking?
Danny: I'm thinking somebody got away with murder.
Lamar: I don't understand.
Danny: Well, Jad told me that sometimes the Pre-Cogs see the same murder more than once.
Lamar: It's called an "echo".
Danny: Jad calls it "Pre-Cog Deja Vu".
Lamar: Yes. The Pre-Cog technician finds these echoes and disregard them.
Danny: [laughs slightly] Yes, but um... what if the technician only *thought* that he was looking at an echo? What if he was really looking at was a completely different murder altogether?
Lamar: Uh, I don't understand.
Danny: All you have to do is hire someone to kill Anne Livley for you, someone like a drifter, a neuroin addict, somebody with nothing to lose. Pre-Crime stops the murder from taking place, Halos the killer, takes him away but then, right then someone else that has viewed the pre-vision. Dresses in the same clothes, commits the murder in *exactly* the same way. Technician takes a look, *thinks* he's looking at an echo, erases it.
[Brief pause]
Danny: Of course, this would have to be somebody with access to the previsions in the first place. Someone *fairly* high-up...
Lamar: [Shushes Witwer] You know what I hear Danny? Nothing. No footsteps up the stairs, no jet out of the window, no clickeyty-click of the little spiders. Do you know why I can't hear those things Danny? Because right now, the Pre-Cogs can't see a thing.
[Shoots Danny in the chest as he slowley crumples to the floor, Burgess than comes over to Danny and shoots him in the head]

Director: Who's the victim?
John: Somebody.
Director: Who?
John: [trying to remember the name] Somebody. Leo Crow.
Director: Who is he?
John: I have no idea! I've never heard of him! But I'm supposed to kill him in less than thirty-six hours.

Lara: [starts fixing Lamar's bow tie]
Lamar: Listen, I'll tell you what I'll do. First thing Monday, I'll look over the Witwer evidence. And I'll have Gideon run the Containment files, see if anyone drowned a woman by the name of - what did you say her name was?
Lara: [freezes]
[Lamar's bow tie falls out of her hands]
Lara: Anne Lively
[pause]
Lara: ... but I never said she drowned.

Lamar: My father once told me, "We don't choose the things we believe in; they choose us."

Agatha: Think about all the lives that little girl has saved.
Lamar: Think about all the lives that little girl has saved, think about all the lives she will save, that little girl could have saved Sean.
John: [yells] Don't you *ever* say his name!
Arthur: You used the memory of my dead son to set me up.
John: [yells] You used the memory of my dead son to set me up! That was the one thing you knew would drive me to murder.
Dashiell: What are you going to do now, Lamar?
John: [yells] What're you going to do now, Lamar?
Arthur: How are you...
John: ...going to shut me up?
Dashiell: I'm sorry, John.

John: No doubt the precogs have already seen this.
Lamar: No doubt.
John: You see the dilemma don't you. If you don't kill me, precogs were wrong and precrime is over. If you do kill me, you go away, but it proves the system works. The precogs were right. So, what are you going to do now? What's it worth? Just one more murder? You'll rot in hell with a halo, but people will still believe in precrime. All you have to do is kill me like they said you would. Except you know your own future, which means you can change it if you want to. You still have a choice Lamar. Like I did.