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Are we free to determine our futures or are we destined by fate? Does the future exist? The year is 2054. The Justice Department of Washington, D.C. has been sucessful with creating a perfect , flawless system in order to prevent homicide. The system is called Pre-Crime, the pre-detection of criminals and their actions. The system operates mainly on three mutant psychics known as Pre-Cogs. The Pre-Cogs are connected advanced computer systems, by which the agents of the Pre-Crime unit can see murders before they take place. This allows the Pre-Crime unit to comprehend the would-be perpetrators. The Pre-Cogs a holy trinity of precognition- lay in a bath of amniotic fluid of vitamins and nutrients that also controls their levels of seretonin. Oracle's of the "21st Century" ,they are Agatha , Dashiell and Arthur . John Anderton, head chief and responsible for supervising the unit , reports to the director of the Pre-Crime unit, Lamar Burgess. Burgess has had a significant impact on Anderton's life, Anderton sees Burgess as a mentor and tries to model his life according to his. Early one morning, the Pre-Cog's give off a vision. They detect a murder which is about to happen within the time spand of next hour. The vision is o