Minority Report features a moment in a greenhouse (more Raymond Chandler than Hammett) where Precrime's mad geneticist progenitor Dr. Iris Hineman (Lois Smith) presents
a sprung midway point that is quirky and ineffably menacing — it is one extreme of what the picture could have been, Minority Report's opening the other.
Setting their sights on Amagansett — a
midway point between Montauk, where Powers has a home, and the art center of East Hampton — the former Amagansett Applied Arts Building
sprung to mind, said Levine.