I'm so happy this show is back! This week is all about finding meaning and purpose for yourself, which really hit home for me. I'm in the middle of trying to find my place in the world and meaning for my actions, so this episode resonated with me and I could relate to Claire and Finch's attempts to find a purpose for their lives.
Purpose is something that drives all the main characters in this episode. Root is following the Machine blindly because it gave her life new meaning, Harold gave John a new focus and now John follows that purpose because he has nothing else, and Shaw found a new home with the team so she will continue with the mission they gave her, but Harold and Claire are different. Claire's life lost all meaning when her parents died and she has been trying to find it again ever since. And Samaritan saw it, saw that she could be useful and decided to recruit her. Harold, on the other hand, lost his purpose when the Machine wanted them to kill the congressman. At first, he is reluctant to help John and wants only to survive the threath of Samaritan but in the course of the episode he realises he cannot leave John and Shaw to fight this war alone. He has found his purpose again.
So Samaritan is recruiting, and looking for people like Root who will follow its every command without question, and using them to destroy the potential competition to Samaritan. Samaritan already feels like an all-powerful entity and now it has agents whose actions really cannot be predicted since even they don't know what they are really doing. The team is going to be in trouble... Though it might be interesting if Claire's path crossed again with Harold and the others.
I'm still not completely sure why Claire needed a gun. Was she really
taking the competition so seriously that she was ready to, if not kill,
then threaten/wound her competitors? It seems a bit extreme to me, even if you are desperate to find some meaning to your life.
Oh, Fusco, your face when you brought John the case files... You are amazing. He gets such satisfaction for being able to tell John what to do. John is not amused, though.
Shaw seems to like her new cover better than the last one. And it is nice to see her in action. We'll see if this will play a larger role in the future. And I still want to know what Root is doing when not giving her pep talks. Following the Machines commands, yes, but to what purpose?
Let's talk about the competition itself. I have never been good with puzzles or riddles, so I have no problem saying that puzzles in this episode are way beyond my abilities, and, as a viewer, I feel like I wasn't supposed to understand them, but just enjoy the mystery and watch others figure them out. But it does ensure that only the best and the brightest reach Samaritan. Which, weirdly, seems to include all of Team Machine since they all were able to solve the puzzles. Also, Harold, you can really do that multiplication of the phone number in your head?? I have always known you are a genius, but that is still very impressive.
I miss the library, but the new lair looks so cool. The team is now back together again and fighting the Samaritan with the help of the Machine. Like I said last week, I'm so excited for this season!
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