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Anderton and Lisa tell Witwer about the plot and show him the minority report. Anderton explains that all the chaos has been the Army’s attempt to discredit Precrime and seize power. Page has been an Army plant all along. Faced with the reality that Kaplan has outmaneuvered them, all they can hope for is that Kaplan will use this moment to make a deal with them instead of destroying them. Anderton decides to look at the majority reports of his crime to learn how he was meant to kill Kaplan. Studying the reports from the other two precogs, Anderton makes a stunning discovery.
Meanwhile, news comes that Kaplan has announced an Army rally. They realize the Army intends to publicly discredit Precrime. Anderton informs Witwer and Lisa that he’s decided to kill Kaplan after all. They are shocked, but Anderton asserts it’s the only way to save Precrime. He suggests Witwer might be able to commute his sentence to interplanetary exile instead of imprisonment. At the rally, Kaplan—who assumes Anderton won’t actually kill him—warmly tells Anderton that he intends to exonerate him and invites Anderton to come up with him on stage. Anderton readily agrees. Kaplan begins a speech about the human rights violations of Precrime. Anderton shoots him with Fleming’s gun.
In the aftermath, as Anderton prepares for exile on a colony planet, he explains to Witwer that one of the majority reports said that once Anderton learned of Kaplan’s plan, he’d kill Kaplan anyhow. Although this scenario is wildly different from the other majority report—the one that correctly predicted Anderton would kill Kaplan to save Precrime—the computer interpreted this prediction as simply agreeing with the other report that Anderton would kill Kaplan. Witwer worries about whether these strange circumstances means that there’s something wrong with the Precrime computer setup. Anderton tells him that his case is unique, something that can only happen to the Precrime Commissioner.
