"Do the math, and figure out a way to bend your rules, cause he's my friend. He saved my life. understand? And I won't do this without him."

John Reese absolutely nailed this scene with his brilliant acting! The pain and vulnerability he conveyed while asking the Machine for help were utterly captivating! I am a hugeeeeee fan.

I never knew this. I watched all the way until season 3 episode 4 which was Reasonable Doubt. Maybe I could watch clips on YouTube or just buy the show on amazon since it was a show I could watch when I’m bored and I got into it.

Watching the episode now, and the John Warren cover made me very curious. How did Finch pull that off?

Are the workers paid actors? I thought it was implied that the whole thing was as close to "real" as possible, so paid actors is probably not it. But then why did the boss say she'd worked with John for 2 years?

I've been watching POI on Freevee for the last week or so. They pulled it effective today (Dec 1). I've completed up to season 4 episode 11. Is there anywhere else I can watch it for free?

POI is my favourite show ever, I tried to find something like it but failed, Fringe is way more serious to be like it, i loved the chunks of humor every episode had in POI and the team dynamic but I wasn’t able to find something similar, Can you guys suggest something nice to watch like POI?

Why didn't the machine give Harold Gabby's number? Wasn't her murder premeditated too?

Photo is Sophia from the episode.

This has been an idea of mine ever since I watched Person of Interest.

In season 2 episode 5, the main protagonist Reese is forced to date the latest person of interest (POI), Maxine Angelis because he can't risk revealing his secret identity as a vigilante to her. Unfortunately, she is only into Nerdy guys and Finch creates a profile that tries to make Reese as nerdy as possible. In canon, Reese was able to pass off enough to get a date with Maxine and was able to do a good job of protecting her, but what if someone else was able to get to her first?

Here's what happens:

Despite Finch's best efforts, Maxine ends up falling for somebody else much to his disappointment. Although Finch is unable to determine the "real" identity of Maxine's date, he does figure out where she will be meeting him and Reese goes undercover as a restaurant patron in order to keep an eye on her. The next scene cuts to Reese asking if they should be worried about Maxine's date, Finch says that although is unable to determine his identity he seems harmless enough. The next scene shows us why. Because as soon as Finch finishes his sentence the soundtrack stops and turns goofy as a shot of a man coming out of a modest car reveals that Maxine's date is none other than .... >!<... in an ascot.

Although Reese is confused over what Maxine would see in Mozzie, the two bond almost instantly. Mozzie is a great admirer of Maxine and her dedication to her profession and Maxine's is charmed by Moz's intellectualism and witty quotations. That said no one knows who Mozzie really is or what his real name is. They only know him by his alias: Dante Haversham or whatever alias Moz uses on his University of Phoenix law degree.

Unfortunately before the can continue their date, Maxine gets a call that Zambrano isn't the Head of HR. Realizing, that she made a mistake she asks Mozzie to drive her to Zambrano to try and save him. Reese follows them both and protects them from the Toreros Caretel but they are all too late to save Zambrano.

The next scenes cut to the police station, where Agent Donnelly is grilling Maxine for information and berating her for getting Zambrano killed. Mozzie, being the loveable rogue that he is comes to Maxine's rescue by declaring himself as her lawyer, and fire off a bunch of legal chicanery and some anti-govt stuff warning Donnelly that if he continues with his line of questioning he will sue him for harassing his new client. When Donnelly threatens to arrest Maxine, Mozzie warns him that he has friends in the FBI. They leave and Mozzie drives her home.

After Max threatens the Head of HR, she gets a call from Mozzie inviting her to a bar to let off some steam. Knowing Mozzie, it turns out to be a wine bar. As Mozzie comforts her, Maxine asks for Mozzie's help through his FBI friends. Naturally this takes Mozzie for a loop and he leaves the bar in a panic. Max goes after him and begs him to help her. Just as Mozzie is trying to make up his mind he sees a laser site on her chest and shoves her behind a car before she gets shot at. Reese manages to provide covering fire without being seen and Mozzie grabs Maxine and drives away. When Maxine asks Mozzie where she is taking them, Mozzie says they are going to a friend's. After Reese fends off the shooter, he follows them to Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. When they get there Mozzie reveals his true identity after he knocks on the Burkes door and pleads for sanctuary.

In the next scene, Peter as usual is irritated with Mozzie at the mess he's gotten himself into. To top it off Mozzie has been passing off Satchmo as his dog in order to score some points with Maxine. Despite Mozzie's aggravation Peter is willing to put Maxine in protective custody and let her stay over night. When Mozzie quips that they will take separate bedrooms, Peter says that the offer only applies to Maxine not him, which leads to Mozzie being kicked out.

As Reese tries to follow Moz home to figure out exactly who he's dealing with, Moz manages to spot him and lose him.

The next day Peter and Neal are confronted by Agent Donnelly. Apparently he and Peter were rivals back in Quantico, and he is infuriated that Peter is butting into his case. They take it up with Peter's boss boss Kyle Bancroft. Bancroft lets Peter take the lead on this case for two reasons, one is that despite Neal and Peter's unorthodox methods they do have a good rate of success. The second is that Agent Donnelly's ineptitude and pursuit of the urban legend the "Man in the Suit" hasn't won him many friends with the Top Brass in the agency.

Diana and Jones go over the Pub's security footage and run the gunmen's faces through their facial recognition system. They discover that they are Bogle and Pitt, ex-FBI agents that were kicked out for harassment and malicious prosecution. They were also suspected of working for HR but they were never arrested for it. Neal suggests that he and Peter visit an old friend of his to figure out where they are working for.

The next scene cuts to Peter and Neal waiting a cafe for this "friend" of his while Reese is keeping an eye on them. Finch fills him in on both of them and confirms that Mozzie is an associates of Neal's but he is unable to determine Mozzie's true identity. While they are talking Zoe shows up behind Reese. While Reese is glad to see Zoe he is curious on why she is here. He gets his question answered when Zoe goes up to Peter and Neal. It turns out Neal used to help her at least 3 times. There was also a fourth time but that was between them. Anyway Peter asks her if he knows who Bogle and Pitt are working her, and she says that while she is unsure she suggests looking into the Mayoral candidates based on that disposable phone number Maxine got.

After their meeting Neal calls Mozzie to bring him up to speed. Unfortunately, Peter also gets a call from the Agents protecting Maxine saying that she was released into her "lawyer's" custody. When they figure out who that is Peter snatches Neal's phone and demand that he return Maxine to protective custody. Mozzie assures them that his "client" is much safer with him, than with the FBI. He hangs up and tosses his burner cell phone.

Reese is back at the library and Finch informs him that he located Maxine and Mozzie's location based on her blue jacked phone. Apparently, Maxine has been taken to one of Mozzie's safehouses. Reese is planning to storm the place, but Finch talks him out of it by pointing out that Maxine is probably safter with Mozzie given his ability to stay off the grid. That said they decide to listen in to Mozzie and Maxine's conversation to make sure she is okay. They discover that Maxine has been looking into Bogle and Pitt and she has discovered that they have been harassing Griffin's opponents. However, she's not going to publish anything until she gets some hard proof, namely Zambrano's ledger.

Until then, Mozzie opens a bottle of wine and tells Max about his past and how he became a con man, (though he leaves out that he was the "Dentist of Detroit"). When Max asks her why he chose to be a con man, he tells her that she doesn't want to live under anyone's time or dime, he wants to be a truly free man. When she asks if that why his partner Neal was a con man too, Mozzie tells her that Neal prefers the attention and notoriety while he is content to stay out of the limelight. That's when it dawns on Maxine about Zambrano saying that no one looks at the good things he does.

The two of them go to Zambrano's carousel and discover Zambrano's ledger. Unfortunately, Bogle and Pitt also discover the two of them and plan to kill them both. Reese wants to intervene but Finch insists that he stay down and let Carter and Fusco deal with this. Before Bogle has a chance to kill him, Mozzie launches into a soliloquy buying him and Maxine enough time for Carter and Fusco to rescue them. The rest of the episode play out like it does in canon only this time Carter and Fusco are the one who take down Bogle and Pitt instead of Reese.

The episode ends with Reese looking after Maxine and Mozzie during their first "official" date. However, Maxine breaks up with Mozzie saying that her work is too important right now, but she wishes Mozzie the best.

Harold got his Billions back. He never really lost it he just couldn't access it because then Samaritan would've discovered him. Now that he's free he can Grace can finally retire and live in peace. Obviously she'd be mad at him but with a little time a explanation she'd understand and forgive him.

The machine survived and continued the mission, and creating further assets. It didn't contact Harold as it thinks he's done enough and deserves retirement I guess. (But may contact him if need be). Now since there's no competing elements things are back to normal.

Reese sadly dies (maybe). It could be argued that he might have survived because the machine hacked the missile and diverted it but that doesn't make sense as it would've had to target another building, but then again those buildings could've been cleared preemptively by the machine since it knew Samaritan would launch a missile. In this arc John is also now retired. He's been through too much to carry on and also isn't contacted by the machine again for the same reasons as Harold.

Shaw and Fusco continue the work, recruit people to complete the team and, the machine rebuilds the bases and safe houses.

The hacker girl and the Kid Samaritan recruited. They're now in the machine's cross heirs. They won't be killed but technology won't be kind to them either. The machine would create chaos in their lives so they're forced to avoid all connected devices maybe imprisoned forever. If push comes to shove then it might kill them too.

I feel there's still potential for the show to comeback for most of the original cast to return. With a few minor relevant changes it still would thrive and be a success if it picked up where POI left off.

In 5x13 after Finch locked John in the vault, how did he actually get out?

I’d understand if Finch just shut the vault door and John used the machine to open it again, but Finch pushed something up against the door so how on earth did John get out?

Not huge a spoiler (and maybe not very interesting), but, in S2E12 34:58, I found it really amusing when Finch, certain that he'd exhausted his options in his wheelhouse, was nervously gearing up to jailbreak Reese while holding an iteration of the quintessential break-barrel grenade launcher from Terminator 2 (and many others) and wearing gear that looked extremely out of place with his face and frame (I believe the term is "tacticool," so...yeah, I can't think of a clever "nerd" version).

It was/is heartwarming to see the lengths to which the main characters will go to protect each-other. Light years from his comfort zone, Finch didn't hesitate for an instant to suit up when he thought that his only option was to go on a suicide mission to extract Reese. Thank goodness Carter pulled it off at the last second (I was really starting to hate the FBI guy [Packer?]).

The no-bs workaholic, obsessive lady detective; the formerly (and arguably still, to different ends) crooked cop with a kid for whom he wants to better himself; the eccentric, connected, tech-savvy, genius billionaire; the disillusioned, alcoholic, highly trained, ex-operative; the dog who know Dutch. I get that it's a different blend of the same clichéd, formulaic components, but they're clichéd for a reason, and this group does work quite well (in my opinion...and I assume many others who follow its Reddit page).

I am a bit curious as to how Mr. FBI never found any connection between Carter and Reese. They've met, fought, and worked together in too many public places to count. Assuming "The Machine" had the sentient wherewithal to eliminate/alter all surveillance footage of the Carter and Reese meeting in a non-hostile manner, as well as all clear images of Reese's face at "man in the suit" incidents, too many people (including many enemies) know who he is for such a capable and obsessed agent to find no evidence.

My other question (and maybe they answered this) is, when they'd planned to blackmail one of the mercs to finger another, and the patsy supposedly "hanged himself" in his cell, did Finch arrange his death? I know he's a killer and general bad guy, but Finch isn't The Punisher. Of course, like I mentioned earlier, he doesn't hesitate to take uncharacteristically drastic measures to save his friend.

Spoiler alert! On my third series watch I heard this phrase in season 5 episode 2: Mona says to Jeff Blackwell: "You need a purpose. More specifically you need a job" I remember this from the pilot episode, In the pilot episode Finch says to John: "You need a purpose. More specifically you need a job" both were said by potential employers to potential employees. Nice way to say what goes around comes around.

This is probably more of a comment about The Rolling Stones, but I was just watching the end of S2E10.

The scene was already tense. Emotions were charged as the situation grew dark and our heroes' futures became less certain.

Then "Gimme Shelter" fades in and multiplies the gravity of the situation (at least for me).

That song is often used to enhance the feeling of (often) dire situations. Although the only example that I can currently think of is Goodfellas, I know I've seen at least a few others.

Earlier this week, I fell asleep while watching a movie on Prime Video, and when I awoke, the first episode of Person of Interest was playing on my phone.

(Side note, the movie was Law Abiding Citizen, and while watching that, I'd remarked that the CIA agent was played by the same actor who played the same type of covert CIA agent in Jack Ryan. Then I saw him AGAIN in Person of Interest, playing, you guessed it, "the" CIA Agent.)

Anyways, I'd never seen this show, but I like Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson, so I gave it a chance, enjoyed the first episode and the premise, and continued to watch/listen that evening and the last couple of days at work. I'm partway through season 2.

So, despite having this incomparably advanced surveillance/AI software that can do...well, all that it can, they have the brilliant creator of said software, the ability to hack phones into microphones, and they have this highly trained, also brilliant, observant, and experienced ex-special ops CIA field agent with all he brings to the table. Yet they constantly seem to find themselves being limited by a lack of access to information that, at least in similar shows, is a given for any operatives or law enforcement.

For example, in one episode, Finch mentioned how tracking a partial license plate (with like 2/3 of the characters) would be difficult. It seems to me that such a query would be simpler than a Google search compared to some of the networks and hardware that they're able to hack.

My question is this: Do they ever explain the imbalance in technological sophistication from one scenario to another?

I understand that much of it is a plot device to make Joss and Fusco's police privileges valuable enough to justify their presence on the team. I just wanted to know if they worked out a reason for the glaring lapse in logic, or do they just gloss over it, expecting us not to worry about it and shut up and enjoy the show. I am enjoying the show...and now I'm shutting up.

Im binging for the first time and loving the show But that ending with all the shooting at root and harry and not one cpu gets knicked and john not gettin shot immediately after stepping out amd the killing what seemed 100s smh And then MORE arrive and all 3 walking into gunfire?? And Harold just walking normally behind them with a smile on his face? Wtf was that shit, it almost seemed on purpose as a fuck you or someting

This was the first time i couldnt just let go of something so ridiculous from the show and theres been many times

Intro goes like this:

Harold: You are being watched. The government has a secret system…

Greer: A system you asked for to keep you safe…

Unless I was zoned out on the show I never remember the American people asking for Samaritan or even the Machine. The reason it is kept secret is because it’s illegal. Now, I remember the government officials asking for Samaritan, but I never remember the broader American public consenting to it (regardless to how they consented to some amount of searching post-9/11.) And that’s who I assume Harold is referring to, given that in the season prior he changes it to “we” are being watched. I don’t know why but this always grinded my gears with Greer saying that they asked for it when they never did. It doesn’t even make logical sense upon why he would even say that either, like in my mind if the American people had found out about this Machine who was finding out their DNA, tracking their every move, it would be a total shit storm.

I'm rewatching for the nth time (who knows how many at this point lol) and I'm finding all kinds of continuity errors. What are some that I should look out for on this re-watch? The two that stick out the most to me are s2e16 where root zipties shaw to the chair arms but it's done so in a way where shaw can technically just slide them forward and would be free and s1e1 where Reese is taken by finch's employee from the police station and it is nighttime and the next shot is Reese meeting Finch and it is clearly daytime.

Every shot of Bear when people arrive or leave or mention him or whatever is paired with a dog whine sound. I get it. He's cute. But was the sound engineer ordered on pain of death to add a cute/sad dog sound to EVERY SINGLE second that he's in frame? I hate it. Dogs are silent too. Especially trained ones. But mostly it's the fact that noticing it is ruining the binge.

End rant.

This became such a chore to watch. Constantly going to well with the same stuff. Finding their POI and then losing track of them. The predictable changing of the upper-hand. A protagonist always moments from their impending doom for someone to jump out of the woodwork and take them out. A get-away vehicle evading danger and seemingly home-free only to be t-boned by some giant truck. Highly-trained killers who were constantly caught off-guard and almost exclusively shot people in the legs but magically rendered them completely incapacitated...every time. For some inexplicable reason in the universe of this series, getting shot in the pinky toe made people fall-over unconscious routinely. The incessant opposition and preachy altruism from Finch about not wanting to resort to murder despite being mercilessly hunted by operatives that only had murder on their mind and continued to off the people that he cared about.

These were the most grating aspects of this series. I typically would have never completed the series but resorted to fast-forwarding through all the over-used plot devices just to get to the end. The writers really started phoning it in pretty early in this series and it didn't take very long to feel as the viewer, I was just getting the runaround.

I don't know if I missed a detail, but I don't get why the government switched to samaritan. They shut off "the machine" because of the public reaction to the leaked budgets. But at no point did they know something about the machine, right?

So way did they (Senator etc.) settle with Samaritan despite not liking the idea of Decima having access to all the Feeds instead of just putting back the machine online?

https://deadline.com/2024/11/carrie-preston-michael-emerson-elsbeth-interview-season-2-first-look-photos-1236181544/

Preston: "I got to play the love of his life [on PoI], you know? So we got to bleed over a little bit on what our real relationship is. — Luckily, he is nothing like [his character on Elsbeth] Judge Crawford, and I’m not that similar to Elsbeth, so we did inhabit these very different characters together and that was fun."

Emerson: "This will be the first time I’ve ever had to play against Carrie and not like her, as in not have warm feelings toward her."

On my first rewatch and y’all ‘Relevance’ slaps so hard! I’m still in absolute awe of Sarah’s performance in this episode. She’s just so good at making me feel all sorts of things while barely emoting herself… how does she do that?! This episodes’ plot is really the star of the show though! The different pov was everything!

This show is just so amazing! I could rave about it all day.

S1E13

I loved it when Shaw said in 2x16 that "trust is overrated" because, in my opinion, she was quite right about it. However, I then remembered that John Reese said something similar about trust in the S01 finale. And both make sense. Anyway, these simple yet deeply thoughtful lines make this show even more incredible for me, as the little things often capture your heart more beautifully, I guess.