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!!Dominic Besson

->'''Played by:''' Winston Duke\\

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->'''Played by''': N/A
'''Appeared in''': "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E06 The Fix]] (corpse)

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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Started off as an orphan in the foster care system and eventually became New York City's most powerful crime boss.

* BaldOfEvil

* HeroicSacrifice: Okay, he's no hero, but when compared to the Brotherhood, he and Elias are definitely [[ALighterShadeOfBlack the lesser of two evils]]. So when he sacrifices himself to blow up several members of Dominic's gang, he's enacting a HeroicSacrifice.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Disappeared for a while after his Boss' defeat in "Flesh and Blood". Made a brief reappearance in "C.O.D.," was referenced in "All In," and may have been the "right-hand man" wounded offscreen by HR in "God Mode." As of "Liberty", he's alive and well and back in action, picking up some uncut diamonds for his boss in order to fund his comeback. Makes another appearance in "Endgame" and "The Devil's Share", killing Simmons. Season 4 has him returning to help Reese deal with a drug gang. He drives a large truck into the getaway car some of their members were using and in another episode helping Reese and Fusco attack a Brotherhood gang depot.

* AffablyEvil: He's not that bad in person (particularly in comparison to other mobsters), even Carter agrees.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Utilises a Benelli M4 during "Endgame" as the partnership with HR falls to pieces. After what happened with Shaw using him as a blood donor it's a pretty wise decision.

* AssHoleVictim: Due to his arrogant and smug dismissal of Carter's well meaning efforts at mediation and his underestimating of Elias, its impossible to feel sorry for him when Scarface breaks into his residence and enters his study with a suppressed pistol in hand.

* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: He thinks that Elias could make Finch could give up his surveillance system.

[[caption-width-right:350: ''"It's not enough to hit back. You gotta put your enemy in the ground."'']]

* {{Foil}}: To Scarface.

* ItsPersonal: Since his initial defeat at Reese's hands, Link has been bearing a grudge against him (although he knows Reese as 'Detective Riley').
* JerkAss: Link is an absolute jerk, treating others with disdain. However, he shows care for the lives of the "good soldiers" that died in Elias' penthouse explosion, where his boss does not.

* BadAss: For a man who prefers brains rather than brawn, Elias is very capable at killing any threats to his person, as seen when he was younger and managed to murder two mafioso who were about to execute them with a garrote wire and pistol. He later breaks out his skills one last time, by [[spoiler: attempting to get Finch to safety with nothing but a Walther PPK. He manages to decimate the Samaritan assets sent to murder them both.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: Okay, he's no hero, but when compared to the Brotherhood, he and Elias are definitely the lesser of two evils. So when he sacrifices himself to blow up several members of Dominic's gang, he's enacting a HeroicSacrifice.

** Scarface gets to do the honors and garrotes an injured Officer Patrick Simmons to death in his hospital bed.

* RevealShot: Used repeatedly whenever he does something cool and nefarious. A mysterious figure will show up (an assassin double-tapping the Russian mob boss in "Witness"; a man walking into a botched diamond exchange to nab both sides' jewels and cash in "Liberty"; the 'friend' stepping out of the shadows in Simmons' hospital room with a garotte in "The Devil's Share"; an FBI agent strolling through the precinct to kidnap this week's POI in "Pretenders") before the camera pans up to show us exactly who it is.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: "I'm true to what I am." He has his own code of ethics he works by. This is invoked by John to try and get him to help save a child's life, because if Elias permits children to be kidnapped and sold in his city, he's just as evil as the scum he's fighting against. He also places a great deal of value on loyalty, and is contemptuous of HR because they are "oath breakers." Elias also had great respect for Carter, which leads him to kill Simmons to avenge her death.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: He's pretty quick to catch on Reese's (or rather, "Riley's") strategies and Elias's weaknesses. Elias even commends him for such a detailed knowledge of his foes.

->'''Played By:''' Enrico Colantoni, River Alexander Aguirre (1981) & John Magaro (1991)

->'''Aliases:''' Charlie Burton

->'''Played By:''' David Valcin

->'''Played By:''' James [=LeGros=]

->'''Played By:''' Mark Margolis

[[folder:Moretti, Jr]]

->'''Played By:''' Paul Schulze & Anthony Giordano (1991)

->'''Played by:''' Morgan Spector

->'''Played By:''' Olek Krupa

->'''Played By:''' Creator/EnverGjokaj

->'''Played By:''' Winston Duke

->'''Played By:''' Jamie Hector

->'''Played By:''' Jessica Pimentel

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Scarface gets to do the honors and garrotes an injured Officer Patrick Simmons to death in his hospital bed.

* OutsideContextVillain: Is killed by a sniper sent by Samaritan, whose existence he's not even aware of.

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* FatherToHisMen: When his right hand man got gunned down, he had his prison bodyguards paroled so that they could guard over him in the hospital. Carter noted that as evil as he was, he was loyal. This is in contrast to his opponents at HR who don't mind knocking off each other if they fail to do their jobs or threaten the success of the organisation.

* LesserOfTwoEvils: Lesser of ''many'' evils. Compared to the other criminal organizations, Elias is by far the most honorable and least actively evil one. Even Finch comments Elias's presence brought order to the city's crime.

* NotSoStoic: It takes him four seasons but Elias finally looses his cool when he is forced to kill his best friend. [[spoiler:After surviving Samaritan's attack, he's also clearly shaken and traumatised.]]

* ProperlyParanoid: As of Season 4 he's reclaimed his stature once more in the New York underworld. He now has his own sniper team providing him with security as John and his enemy Dominic found out. [[spoiler:He becomes even more paranoid after Samaritan's attack, with eminently justifiable reasoning. He correctly recognises that the wisest course of action for him is to hide from the world, since it's the best way of preventing Samaritan from finding him again, or even from knowing that he survived.]]

* StartOfDarkness: Kicked off with his mother's death, making him seek the criminal's path to prosper. However, it ''really'' kicks off when his Father attempts to murder him, turning a small time criminal with no ambition or planning skill into the [[TheChessmaster Carl]] [[DiabolicalMastermind Elias]] we know today.

* SmugSnake: So very much like the other Don's.

* AssholeVictim: Of Elias and Scarface

%%* HotBlooded
* {{Jerkass}}: Like father like son.

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: In the pursuit of Simmons for killing Carter Team Machine is very pissed and out for blood. However, neither Reese, Shaw, nor Fusco actually kill him or Alonzo Quinn. Reese's blood jams the gun when he tries to shoot Quinn and Fusco arrests Simmons instead of killing him to honor Carter's memory. While resting later in the hospital, Simmons is visited by Elias who gives a very elegant speech about civility and the righteousness Carter held within her and which was instilled into Team Machine. He and Simmons, however, are cut from a much darker and older cloth of malevolence. As such, Elias watches as his man kills Simmons for the debt he owed Carter and could not fully pay back to her in life.

* {{Badass}}: In the span of a season, he became the city's most powerful crime boss. He still continued to be so after he was sent to prison. Even when the Russians and HR team up and take a lot of his power away from him near the end of Season 2, he's DefiantToTheEnd when they come to kill him in "God Mode".

* {{Badass}}: Scarface isn't the right hand man of Elias for nothing. He is an extremely formidable enforcer who has experience with explosives and is a dab hand with a garrote wire, as officer Patrick Simmons found out the hard way.
** In Season 4's episode "Pretenders" he handles the formidable Barrett [=XM109=] sniper rifle very well when supporting John and Fusco in their rescue attempt of the POI.

* {{Badass}}: This man has ''such'' a resistance to pain that he improved a rather clever plan that completely pulled one over on Shaw herself while suffering from the beginnings of shock.

* BastardBastard: He's the illegitimate son of a mobster who murdered his mother and later tried to kill him. Elias's own rise to power largely coincided with his efforts to get revenge for the lifetime of suffering he experienced.

* {{Troll}} : Does this to HR, sending them on a wild goose chase after a Mafia don who's made peace with Elias and making sure it fails with the don forewarned and ready with a hidden bodyguard to kill HR cops sent to kill him and leaving only Lionel alive to give a message.

* NotSoStoic: It takes him four seasons but Elias finally looses his cool when he is forced to kill his best friend.

* ProperlyParanoid: As of Season 4 he's reclaimed his stature once more in the New York underworld. He now has his own sniper team providing him with security as John and his enemy Dominic found out.

* PyrrhicVictory: He eventually does get his revenge and takes down the entire Mob Family that he hated so much, but as a result, he winds up in prison. Although this hasn't really affected his control of the criminal underworld.
** Occurs for him in "The Devil You Know". Elias ends the episode alive, [[CallBack walking on the boardwalk]] proclaiming "I remain unconquered" in Latin, but Scarface is dead, his other best friend is in Dominic's sights and his empire is falling bit by bit to Dominic.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Done on purpose. Elias is abruptly shot in the chest by a sniper and bleeds out in his own car. Quite a ignobious end for New York's finest criminal mastermind, but it only goes to show how terrifying Samaritan is.

* SacrificialLion: In the fourth season finale, a Samaritan-backed sniper uncerimoniously snipes him out during their worldwide "correction", an action that displays just how efficient the "correction" has been.