The play opens in 2050, the 10th Anniversary of the British pre-crime initiative.  We are at a lecture given by Dame Julia Anderton (Jodie McNee) where she has a plastic bucket, and is wearing rubber gloves.  She is showing us a human brain and discussing what each sliver of brain might disclose about its human.  Julia’s personal motive in this anti-crime legislation was the murder of her twin sister Lara some years before in 2042 in Highbury Fields.

You see Science has managed to identify those who might commit murder and in 2040, the first pre-murderer has been arrested. They were detained in a Humane Detention Centre. There was a Referendum passed to decide whether tracking neuropins should be inserted to protect everyone from violent crime.  There are three mutants who are pre-cogs, they can predict who will murder.  The minority report is when one of these pre-cogs dissents from the others casting doubt on a decision.  To get this prediction wrong would cause a scandal and undermine the basis of the Pre-Crime system.