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You are being watched.
The goverment has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day.
I know because I built it.
I designed the machine to detect acts of terror, but it sees everything violent crimes involving ordinary people ,people like you.
Crimes the goverment considered irrelevant.
They would't act,so I decided I would.
But I needed a partner.
Someone with the skills to intervence.
Hunted by the authorities,we work in secret.
You'll never find us.
But victim or perpetrator, if your number's up, we'll find you.

1. Introduce the background and how the computer system works.
Finch, Reese
Carter, Fusco(Lionel)

7, Elias

8, Wallace Negal International Export Works (Spy), real name Ulrich Kohl
Kohl's teammates betrayed him and killed his wife (Anja).
Third party: BDN-German Intelligence (German Intelligence Service)
hydrogen cyanide.
Anja is alive
Welord, only 73 decibels when fired
squeezing the carotid arteries on both sides of the neck, blocking the blood supply and waking up with a splitting headache.
The ulnar nerve is the largest unprotected nerve plexus in the body, leading from the shoulder to the nail bed. When it passes through the section of the elbow, it is called the "numb nerve".
daughter.
For my country, I left my country.
I would't have hurt her, I never had a tomorrow.
You are a soldier, like me.
They took everything I had. But part of me survived. It was her.
You don' t have any old friends. You see them, you don't know them.
We're walking in the dark.
Your country needs you...
This episode is a bit sadistic, interspersed with the 2006 Agent Reese line.

9. Carter Master
Getting too close enough already.
She goes today.
But it's got to be clean.
Carter doesn't understand the rules of the game, it's bad for business, Elias asks to do things "clean", instigates the criminals in the case to do it, pretending to be killed in the line of duty.
Interspersed with Carter's past in Afghanistan in 2004.
you should't make promises you can't keep
It's long war, and you're alone.
Reese to Carter: Whether you like me or not, Joss, You're not alone.

10. Any sign of the kid? -No.Still looking.
Knew we shouldn't have trusted him.Damn kid's always been reckless.
4 seemingly unconnected people, car accident, eyewitness,
car owner: son of congressman (speeding, drugging)
by establishing Fund money laundering, car owner accident, lost money + goods
ending Carter wrongly letter to CIA, Reese was sniped, Finch drove R away.

11. In 2005
we need progress, Nathan.or we're pulling the plug.
Have a little faith,Nathan.-In you or in the machine?

The machine will deliver actionable intelligence in tume to thwart any threat to national security.But its operating system is a black box.
And if we want to direct this machine at a specific target?
No need.It already watches every target.

It does this all the time...to all of us? That's...terrifying.
What you've achieved is historic. But no one will ever know.
It's the way it has to be sure. Sure that they'll use it the way I intended.

Now(11 years)
I don't know what to do anymore. How else to say no. He's always right there. Even when I can't see him, I can feel his eyes on me.
Reverse the plot, Female pastry chef, middle-aged building manager, young store manager (stalking, peeping), because Rsses was injured, Finch was responsible for the follow-up investigation.
The administrator received witness protection, and the information was hidden, so Reese misunderstood.
Sideline: Carter receives a message from Finch to stop a violent injury incident.
The CIA monitors Carter and tracks down Reese.

12. Carter want to know more.
Once you go down that road there's no looking back.
How are you getting your information?
All I can tell you is we hear about people in danger, or people who are causing it.
Why me?
Because your moral compass is pointed in the right direction.
case: Everyone deserves a second chance. The
parole officer sends the parolee back to prison, the family affairs officer forges the family foster care papers, hides her fabricated child, gives the parolee a fabricated child to get foster care money .
Branch line, Nathan's son and Finch.

13. You sure he's the right guy?
He's perfect. (selected target)
people are rarely what they seem.
In frame jobs, the decoy usually doesn't make it (frame this kind of work, The framed person usually doesn't survive)
If they're not taken out at the scene, they're eliminated soon after staged to look like a suicide or accident. The
point is to eliminate hidden dangers.
Framed, shot to kill Senator (deputy cut corners)
branch, Root appeared, anti-black Finch, forced a stronghold to be temporarily closed...

14. The higher up you go, the harder it gets to tell the good guys from the bad.
In the way, he(Nathan) was crushed by the machine.
We don't get to choose what happens to us just what we do about it.
Nathan Ingram
Only the paranoid survives.
Mainline 14-year-old witnesses brother's murder with revenge heart of.
Branch line Will (son of Nathan) tracks down his father.

15. The more dangerous they are the closer I want to be to them.
You look like the rest of these people but you're not like them anymore.
If they knew what you'd done you're barely even the same species.
Undercover, drug trafficking online CIA (Resse recalls)
We're walking in the dark.
We are the dark.
Fusco entered HR undercover

16. I don't know how this works, but he's seem too much.
We'll clean it up.
Whatever it takes.
Stockbroker, insider news, high stock price, short, high sell...
SEC (Securities Exchange Commission) insider killed
Boss ,Eilas

17. Did you hear?Moretti's getting out of the slammer.
Moretti?Do you think Elias knows?
Kidding me?I think Elias arranged it.Wants him out in the open.
6 month old baby girl, mother killed Disguised as a fire house accident (the lover's wife hired a murderer), the
main line is to cross Elias. Reese turns to Elias's underground intelligence network to rescue the baby girl, and exchanges Moretti's hiding place. Carter is dissatisfied with R.
Be nice to have a child. Children. Think that'
Not.Our Line of work.The Trouble Probably with Children How They know you're gonna Never Turn OUT.

18, Two people, social Security Number The One, only One CAN BE Hester, someone IS SO AN imposter.
Impersonation identity system poison, the others on charges of prevarication
FBI tried to obtain the trust of Carter's

Goodnight Nathan ...

19, the I Wonder Sometimes the What kind of man the I'd BE IF SHE HAD not been killed.
the I Hear They lose the when people Change a parent, ESPECIALLY when that parent is murdered.
Elias buys people . People who'll murder for money.
Elias'll gonna unite the family, and take control.
Fbi has a new task force set up in your honor. They think you're working with Elias .(Reese)
Mainline Elias assassinated the gang leader, merged with a new gang that conformed to his rules, and kidnapped Carter's son... (Interspersed with Elias' childhood, youth encounters...)
Carter and Fusco work together (you are my backup)

20. In the end, we are all alone.
It all comes down to a matter of trust, the foundation of any healthy relationship.
Stuxnet
branch Reese and Kara are in China Erdos' actions (planning to kill each other before killing them)
I got the same orders as you.
Whoever sents us here doesn't want us to retrieve the package.
They want to confirm it's destroyed . They want everyone who had contact with it destroyed. And you just gave them a beacon.
Problem with trying to be the bad guy is there's always someone worse.
Mainline escort thieves → HR makes a plan → escort kills, swallows it alone → instigated by the third girlfriend → girlfriend kills, swallows it alone → Fusco murder blame infighting
ending Kara revenge CIA

21, the When you One the Find the Person that the Connects you to the WHO at the world, you Different Become someone, someone of Better.
When that person is taken from you...
What do you become then...
Reese's birthday, get a key(Finch)
Carter with FBI, New Rochelle, Arndt (Peter failed investment, domestic violence Jessica)
In the end, we' re all alone. And no one's coming to save you.
Two timelines, February 2011
You don't have anything I want. Not anymore.
I know who I was, I was the guy who left her behind.
Because I thought she deserved someone better than me.
I thought she deserved someone who would look after her be there for her.
I thought she deserved someone like you. So I don't know. Who I'm supposed to be now. Now that she's gone.
When you find that one person who connects you to the world, you become someone different, someone better.
When that person is taken from you, what do you become then?
Reese missed Jessica in this episode.
There are things you can do, and things you can't.

22. We never had this conversation, but I wanted to thank you personally for your work on the Dubai report.If you hadn't flagged Carlson...
Carlson,Sir?
He was the key to the whole thing.
You saved our assets,son.-Thank you,Sir.
2009--Nathan : Everyone is relevant someone. You would know that if you had anyone in your life you cared about.
2012--Finch: I've never regretted building the machine.But I didn't fully realize the personal cost.I'm good with computers.People,well,people other than Grace have always been a mystery to me.I failed to recognize the lengths to which they would go to protect the machine, to control it.By the time I realized it, it was too late for me.If knowing about the machine is like a virus, that makes me patient zero.
a national security Bureau employees asked questions they shouldn't have asked, and they discovered the existence of the machine.
At the end Alicia finds out that Finch is the maker.

23. I can feel it right now. Watching us, listening to us. There's no hiding from it.
You haven't been running from the machine. You've been running from people, from people that you and I both trusted.
Root hired HR herself. to find Finch
multi-party melee, HR disintegrated, Carter, Fusco know each other's identity

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Person of Interest quotes

  • John Reese: [When asked who he is] A concerned third party.

  • [Opening narration, Season 5]

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

    Harold Finch: [voice warping] secret system

    John Greer: A system you asked for to keep y-y-you sssafe.

    [visuals glitch POVs between that of Samaritan and of the Machine]

    Harold Finch: A Machine that spies on you every hour of every day.

    John Greer: You've granted it the power to see everything, to index, order, and control the lives of ordinary people.

    Harold Finch: The government considers these people irrelevant. We don't.

    John Greer: But to it, you are *all* irrelevant. Victim or perpetrator, if you stand in its way...

    Harold Finch: We'll find you.