History Characters / PersonOfInterestDecimaTechnologies

* [[HeKnowsTooMuch They Might Know Too Much]]: The suggested reason for why she and John were set up to be killed.
** Subverted in "Dead Reckoning" when Mark Snow reveals that his reasoning for setting them up to kill each other was because they were "damaged goods" and it was "poetic." It does nothing to help endear him to Stanton.
*** Not necessarily true. He was just noting the fact that it was poetic. But the fact that they knew too much likely was the main reason.

[[folder:[[spoiler:Samaritan]]]]

* NebulousEvilOrganization: The show's most prominent.

* NebulousEvilOrganization: The show's most prominent.

* {{Sadist}}/{{For The Evulzs}}: A lot of the stuff she does goes beyond "just part of the mission".

* SumgSnake: Extremely. Which is why she didn't count on [[spoiler: Mark and Reese breaking out of the DOD control room she locked them in and the former getting to her car in time to blow her sky high.]]

* TheChessmaster: He stands pretty much unmatched in the field of strategy.

* TheCracker: During "Trojan Horse", they shut out Harold from the Rylatech servers by taking control of his laptop, overheating its battery and cause it to explode. So far, this is the only demonstration of their hacking abilities.

[[spoiler:An incomplete proto-Machine developed by Harold's college classmate Arthur Claypool on behalf of the NSA, the development of which was suspended when Harold's Machine came online and starting catching terrorists before Samaritan was completed. Decima now holds the drives containing the backup copy of the code and is trying to bring it online. If operational, Samaritan would be fully controllable and targetable, thus making anyone who controls it virtually omniscient.]]

[[spoiler:An incomplete proto-Machine developed by Harold's college classmate Arthur Claypool on behalf of the NSA, the development of which was suspended when Harold's Machine came online and starting catching terrorists before Samaritan was completed. Decima now holds the drives containing the backup copy of the code and is trying to bring it online.]]

* SuicidePact: Seems to have an arrangement with its operatives--if they are captured or compromised, and they kill themselves before they can be made to give up any intelligence, their families will be provided for. Examples: Martin in "/" the {{Mook}} captured by Reese and Stanton who [[spoiler: throws himself out a skyscraper window]] to avoid further interrogation.

Introduced in season 2, Decima Technologies is China-based company said to be specialized in cyberwarfare. Responsible for infecting the machine with a virus so they can take control of it.

* SuicidePact: Seems to have an arrangement with its operatives--if they are captured or compromised, and they kill themselves before they can be made to give up any intelligence, their families will be provided for. Examples: Martin in "Trojan Horse," the {{Mook}} captured by Reese and Stanton who [[spoiler: throws himself out a skyscraper window]] to avoid further interrogation.

* {{Western Terrorist|s}}: Probably. Ironically, he's based out of Shanghai.

* {{Sadist}}/{{For The Evulzs}}: A lot of the stuff she does goes beyond "just part of the mission".
* SemperFi: She's a former Marine and has a playful InterServiceRivalry exchange with John who's former Army Special Forces.

* Occurs once again during the Season 3 episode "Ram" where [[spoiler: among other screw ups, Kara swiftly shoots three of their operatives before they can get a round off during a hostage standoff]]

* WalkingSpoiler: The only thing we can comfortably reveal at this point is that this one is a major threat to Team Machine as a whole.

* WalkingSpoiler

[[folder:Greer]]

* TheDreaded: Those who know him, which is an incredibly [[TheSpook samll list]], seem very fearful of him.

* RedShirtArmy: Unlike the Northern Light's hit Squads, Decima Technologies mooks go down rapidly during their attempts to eliminate Team Machine during "God Mode".

* DragonWithAnAgenda: They're employed by China's Ministry of State Security, and share intelligence with them. However,they run their own operations independent from Chinese control.

* ColdSniper

** [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist by Her Own Petard]]

* KillEmAll: Her solution to everything.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Subjects John and Mark to this. It doesn't stick and leads to her undoing.

* YouHaveFailedMe: In "RAM" he tells a subordinate that he's one more screwup away from this.

* TheMenInBlack: Employ mooks that look the part

->''"Do you recall The Titans? The Old Gods? They were so afraid of the New Gods, their own children, that they ate them. You work for the Old Gods, Kara. And they betrayed you."''

* NoNameGiven: On screen anyway. The press release for "Dead Reckoning" credits him as "Greer". Confirmed on-screen in season 3's "RAM".

* TheSpook
* TheSpymaster: The ultimate example in the show. ''He knows Reese and Shaw.'' And he knows of Finch.

* KarmicDeath: Snow kills her using the bomb vest she uses as his ExplosiveLeash.
** LaserGuidedKarma: Killed by the same explosive leash she was using to force Snow to work for her.

* KickTheDog: Has her moments but a major one is when she locks John, Mark and a innocent scientist in a DOD facility control room after activating the bomb vests.

* NeverFoundTheBody: Admittedly, it does look like she was blown up so there wouldn't be a body, but that it didn't work out too well last time.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: The first time she escaped death, it was somewhat believable since she was covered by building structure. But seeing as how she was sitting right next to Snow with less than 10 seconds from detonation, and the sheer magnitude of the explosion, it's very hard to believe that she survived.

* NoNameGiven: On screen anyway. The press release for "Dead Reckoning" credits him as "Greer".
** OnlyOneName

** [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist by Her Own Petard]]]]