Last week on Person of Interest a lot was going on.
Why are these always late? Well, here are some thoughts about last week's episodes.
Last week we got three episodes and in the first one episode Harold, Root, and John attend a wedding. This episode is very much like the calm before the storm. It's funny and lighthearted, for the most part, but the cliffhangers at the end show us that things are about to get a lot more serious.
I don't have a lot to say about the main plot of this episode, there are a lot of funny moments (like Harold singing), and Michael Emerson's Irish accent is quite decent, from what my uneducated ear can tell (certainly it was nowhere near as bad as David Boreanaz's accent on Angel was), but this wasn't something special in my opinion.
But how sweet was that scene where Root asked Harold to dance. Sure they talked about how Root knows Harold has been lying to her about the results of the simulations, but the gesture was sweet. And I'm glad Root knows the truth, because I was uncomfortable with Harold lying to her.
Fusco is still investigating the rise in missing persons when Root puts him on a trail of a man that has dealings with Bruce, Elias' money guy. This leads Fusco to a building about to be demolished. When he investigates the building, he finds the bodies of Bruce, the man Fusco was investigating and the woman that went missing in the previous episode. Just as Fusco is about to leave the building comes down, leaving Fusco's fate unknown.
Meanwhile Greer is trying alternative techniques to try to convert Shaw. He creates a new simulation to show Shaw what kind of threats the Machine might miss and the consequences that will have in his attempt to make Shaw realise that Samaritan is superior to Harold's Machine. This leads to Shaw "meeting" with Samaritan, who shows Shaw how fragile peace in this world is and how quickly things can escalate to apocalyptic measures. Shaw's reaction to all this and her decision whether to join Samaritan or not is not shown. Guess we'll find out soon.
After the event's of 'A More Perfect Union' Fusco is in the hospital and angry at Harold and John for not telling him the truth about what is going on. I feel bad for Lionel and I think he deserves to know the truth. Keeping him in the dark is not keeping him safe, so his decision to quit working with the rest of the team is understandable. Let's hope this doesn't bring him more trouble.
Meanwhile the Machine has sent Root on a mission at a radio station. You know, I don't know why these people are still surprised when it is revealed that Samaritan is behind something. Come on, guys! At this point you should assume that Samaritan is behind everything. Anyway, Root is trying to protect a radio host who has discovered how Samaritan communicates with its operatives and plans to reveal his findings to the public.
This communication method gives Root a way of contacting Shaw and letting her know that they are still out there, looking for her. But they cannot save the radio DJ. After promising to Root and John that he'll forget what he discovered, he goes public anyway. This causes Harold to question the Machine as to why it didn't protect this man even if it knew what he was planning to do. The Machine tells Harold that it respected this man's freewill. The Team told him what would happen if he went public and he still decided to do it.
I have to say, in this argument, I'm siding with the Machine. Freewill is what makes us human, and that is exactly what Samaritan is trying to take away from everyone. It is trying to make a better world, but it is making a better world according to its view, what it views to be the best world, not what is best for humans. And the fact that the Machine respects freewill, and people's ability to choose for themselves; it means everything.
Greer has also been upping his manipulation on Shaw, and she mistakes a situation, that turns out to be reality, for a simulation and kills a woman. She is losing her grip on reality, but let's hope Root's message helps.
Last week's third episode, 'Reassortment' that reveals more of Samaritan's plans for humanity.
John and Harold end up in a middle of ground zero of a virus outbreak designed by Samaritan and have to stop both the people trapped in the ER from panicking and the virus from spreading.
But in the end, spreading the virus was not the end game. It was designed for two reasons: to kill the employees of the hospital that were against a new computer system (Samaritan's system) and to harvest DNA samples from every citizen.
I don't know if this was the intention and I don't know if anyone else saw it that way, but when Mona was talking about sorting people by their DNA I immediately starting thinking about Nazis and their ideology that Aryan race was superior to everyone else. Now Samaritan is sorting people by their DNA, picking out the strongest, and those that have the best qualities for whatever it is that Samaritan is planning on doing.
Fusco continues his investigation on the bodies he found and finds an ally in Elias. Since Harold neglected to tell Elias about Bruce's demise, he is more than willing to help Fusco. Fusco's own inquiry leads him to the hospital and puts him in harms way that in John's opinion could have been avoided. You know, I'm not a fan of John and Harold keeping things from other people for what they perceive is in their own good. And in the end this strategy alienates them from Fusco and Elias. Fusco decides he wants a new partner, leaving John in a difficult situation and Elias criticises Harold's leadership skills causing a possible rift between the two.
Shaw is having difficulties telling the difference between reality and simulation, which means that the viewers are equally confused. But it seems Root message gave her new hope and she devises a new escape plan that she executes even if it might not be real. At the last minute Lambert tries to convince her that this is not real and she will never escape. Shaw decides to go for it anyway, at worst, she gets to have her fun, at best she escapes for real. So she shoots Lambert and makes a break for it. And it seems like this was real and Shaw is finally free and heading for New York.
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