Person of Interest: Pretenders
October 29, 2014 5:45 PM - Season 4, Episode 6 - Subscribe

An extremely ordinary POI takes a dangerous turn, as the team struggles to maintain their covers. Finch has to present a paper at a conference in Hong Kong, so Shaw takes over the train. Reese follows another fake cop, who turns out to be a bit of a fanboy.
posted by the man of twists and turns (9 comments total)
 
Elias and Dominic are shaping up to be the major confrontation. I wonder how much Finch will let Elias in on about the Machine and Samaritan?
posted by the man of twists and turns at 8:09 PM on October 29, 2014 [1 favorite]


I feel like the show quietly slipped in a major turning point - Finch successfully getting into that woman's laptop while Decima is still in the noticing-her-and-expressing-interest stage is I'm pretty sure the first time our heroes have been a step ahead of Decima/Samaritan, instead of the other way around.
posted by mstokes650 at 8:23 PM on October 29, 2014 [3 favorites]




Finch successfully getting into that woman's laptop while Decima is still in the noticing-her-and-expressing-interest stage is I'm pretty sure the first time our heroes have been a step ahead of Decima/Samaritan, instead of the other way around.

A step ahead of Samaritan finally, yes, but Decima was often ahead of the Machine Gang when they were getting Samaritan ready to come online (stealing the disks from the bank, stealing that chip from the NSA (though Root could have stopped that but chose to embrace the life-lesson the Machine was teaching her instead.) But yeah, here Finch really pulled off a coup by getting to her first.

But was that an actual chance meeting or did the Machine send him on that specific task?
posted by homunculus at 11:49 PM on October 29, 2014


I have to think it was something the machine sent him to do. It fits nicely with (and gives purpose for) the cover identity the machine gave him.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:27 AM on October 30, 2014 [1 favorite]


I thought the Elias/Dominic meeting was very well done; scripted, directed, and acted. It's a bit of a challenge, as they're both the same type -- superficially mild but scary and steel-hard underneath. There's all sorts of ways in which that scene could have gone awry from what it needed and intended to be. But it didn't -- they both were confidently scary and we really don't know what's going to happen next.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 11:23 AM on October 30, 2014


Rewatching it the line about how Harold couldn't have written a paper that irritated her and caught her attention more was very interesting, given that very likely that's exactly what he/the Machine was trying to do.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 2:20 PM on October 30, 2014 [2 favorites]


But was that an actual chance meeting or did the Machine send him on that specific task?

I seem to recall Harold looking into a street camera at the close of the previous episode and saying "We need to talk" to the Machine. I think this development is probably related to that conversation, and we'll see the pieces the writers are setting up around that pay off over the remainder of the season. The Elias/Dominic conflict doesn't feel like the season's main set-piece, more of an arc.
posted by axiom at 7:42 PM on October 30, 2014


Fanboy: How do you do that thing with your voice?

Reese [looking bemused]: What thing?

Fanboy: Never mind.

I got an inordinate amount of pleasure out of this exchange because Reese's voice has always annoyed me.
posted by orange swan at 6:31 PM on September 30, 2015


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