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A Precrime executive officer, Lisa is Anderton’s wife and former secretary. Because she is friendly to Witwer, Anderton suspects her of being involved in a plot with him and the Senate, a suspicion that Fleming, one of Kaplan’s cronies, reinforces. She does not believe that Witwer is involved in a plot, a point she tries to persuade Anderton of more than once. Lisa also believes Anderton is innocent, but she forces him at gunpoint to return to the police station because she thinks it will help to protect Precrime. This demonstrates that her loyalties ultimately lie with the greater good—Precrime and the safe society it creates—rather than her husband. However, at the end of the story, with Precrime’s reputation preserved in the wake of Kaplan’s death, she decides to flee from the planet to an off-world colony with her husband, proving that she does love him deeply after all. Even though Lisa is loyal to and protective of Precrime, she raises questions about the effectiveness of the system by suggesting to Anderton that there are innocent people in the detainment camp, and that future criminals would benefit from receiving precognitive information.
Lisa Quotes in The Minority Report
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Section 2
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“I’m being framed—deliberately and maliciously. This creature is out to get my job. The Senate is getting at me through him.”
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Section 7
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“Perhaps a lot of the people in the camps are like you.”
“No,” Anderton insisted. But he was beginning to feel uneasy about it, too. “I was in a position to see the card, to get a look at the report. That’s what did it.”
“But—” Lisa gestured significantly. “Perhaps all of them would have reacted that way. We could have told them the truth.”
“It would have been too great a risk,” he answered stubbornly.
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“You’ve convinced me that you’re innocent. I mean, it’s obvious that you won’t commit a murder. But you must realize now that the original report, the majority report, was not a fake. Nobody falsified it. Ed Witwer didn’t create it. There’s no plot against you, and there never was. If you’re going to accept this minority report as genuine you’ll have to accept the majority one, also.”
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Lisa Quotes in The Minority Report
The The Minority Report quotes below are all either spoken by Lisa or refer to Lisa. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Section 2
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“I’m being framed—deliberately and maliciously. This creature is out to get my job. The Senate is getting at me through him.”
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Section 7
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“Perhaps a lot of the people in the camps are like you.”
“No,” Anderton insisted. But he was beginning to feel uneasy about it, too. “I was in a position to see the card, to get a look at the report. That’s what did it.”
“But—” Lisa gestured significantly. “Perhaps all of them would have reacted that way. We could have told them the truth.”
“It would have been too great a risk,” he answered stubbornly.
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“You’ve convinced me that you’re innocent. I mean, it’s obvious that you won’t commit a murder. But you must realize now that the original report, the majority report, was not a fake. Nobody falsified it. Ed Witwer didn’t create it. There’s no plot against you, and there never was. If you’re going to accept this minority report as genuine you’ll have to accept the majority one, also.”
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