History Characters / PersonOfInterestLawEnforcement

* BadassBaratone: Comes with being played by Keith David. He's no slouch combat wise.

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* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: [[spoiler:To her credit, she is keenly aware of this trope and fires Reese as a patient because of it. She still ends up planting one on him.]]

->'''Played by:''' Ned Eisenberg

* InspectorJavert: Is convinced Fusco is a DirtyCop and his determine to take him down for Detective Stills murder. He's not ''wrong'' exactly.

* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: By Samaritan, using his pacemaker.]]

[[folder:Detective Joseph Soriano]]

* WildMassGuessing: His theories as to what The Man in the Suit is up to seem to come off as this in later episodes, with theories about Chinese intelligence agencies and . They'd be amusing if it wasn't for the fact that he honestly believes them and thinks they justify whatever dubiously legal things he has to do in order to bring The Man in the Suit in.

** Though oddly, [[Foreshadowing much of what he says is actually true about Decima Technologies]], its just that Reese is not working for them. Almost everything he said about Reese [[{{Irony}} was actually true]] about Kara Stanton, who kidnaps Reese almost immediately afterwards.

* WildMassGuessing: His theories as to what The Man in the Suit is up to seem to come off as this in later episodes. They'd be amusing if it wasn't for the fact that he honestly believes them and thinks they justify whatever dubiously legal things he has to do in order to bring The Man in the Suit in.

[[folder:Capt. Moreno]]

[[folder:Cal Beecher]]
!!Det. Calvin "Cal" Beecher

[[folder:Bill Szymanski]]

* BadAss[=/=]GenreSavvy[=/=]HypercompetentSidekick: She's one of the few people able to outplay Reese in a tactical exercise, and she also figures out he's a highly trained ex-military officer.

* GenreSavvy: She realises that Detective Riley is not a real cop--at least, that he's not the sort of person who normally goes into police work.

** WrongGenreSavvy: Reese is actually a [[PunchClockVillain CIA hitman]] turned vigilante. Which would still be illegal.

* InternalAffairs: A rare positive (and effectual example).

[[folder:Dr Iris Campbell]]

!!Dr Iris Campbell

* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: [[spoiler:To her credit, she keenly aware of this trope and fires Reese as a patient because of it. She still ends up planting one on him.]]

[[folder:Donnelly]]
!!Agent Nicholas Donnelly

[[folder:Moss]]
!!Agent Brian Moss

[[folder:Snow]]

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Jerkass as he may be, he does die delivering some KarmicDeath upon his captor.

[[folder:Evans]]

* GenreSavvy: She realises that Detective Riley is not a real cop.

An Internal Affairs officer first met when her number c0mes up while she is operating under cover to identify a Brotherhood mole in the NYPD. She becomes a recurring ally.

[[folder:Moreno]]
!!Capt. Moreno

[[folder:Beecher]]

[[folder:Szymanski]]

An Internal Affairs officer first met when she is assigned to identify a Brotherhood mole in the NYPD. She becomes a recurring ally.

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The alias of a CIA field agent, at one time partnered with Tyrell Evans. He was John Reese and Kara Stanton's handler in the CIA. [[BlatantLies He also claimed to be Reese's best friend.]]

The alias of a CIA Operative, partnered with Mark Snow. He assisted him in trying to "retire" Reese along with other assignments. He was shown to be an expert sniper and good with computers. He appeared many times with his partner, Snow.

** AlwaysGetsHisMan: Four of them, in fact.
* AFatherToHisMen

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[[folder:Cal Beecher]]
!!Detective Calvin Beecher

[[folder:Bill Szymanski]]
!!Detective Bill Szymanski

* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: After [[spoiler:his murder]], Det. Beecher asks imprisoned Elias if Szymanski was on his payroll. Elias says he offered Szymanski money, "and he threw it in our faces."

[[folder:Nicholas Donnelly]]
!!Nicholas Donnelly

[[folder:Brian Moss]]
!!Brian Moss

* TheDanza: Played by Brian Hutchison.

[[folder:Mark Snow]]
!!Mark Snow

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Reese thanks to the ExplosiveLeash on both of them.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With the late Agent Evans.

[[folder:Tyrell Evans]]
!!Tyrell Evans

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Was killed because he got close to identifying head of HR, and learning that Symanski was clean and refused Elias' money]].

* [[spoiler:SacrificialLion: As the godson of the head of HR, his death shows not only can anyone die, but HR will not let anything stand in their way]].

* RedHerring: After multiple suggestions that he's working for HR, it's ultimately revealed he's not.]]

* [[spoiler:SacrificialLion: Killed by HR for continuing to pursue the Russian Mob, whom HR wanted to solve their money problems]].

* BaldOfEvil

* FourEyesZeroSoul

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Was killed because he got close to identifying head of HR, and learning that Symanski was clean and refused Elias' money.

* SacrificialLion: As the godson of the head of HR, his death shows not only can anyone die, but HR will not let anything stand in their way.

* RedHerring: After multiple suggestions that he's working for HR, it's ultimately revealed he's not.]]

* SacrificialLion: Killed by HR for continuing to pursue the Russian Mob, whom HR wanted to solve their money problems.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: After his murder, Det. Beecher asks imprisoned Elias if Szymanski was on his payroll. Elias says he offered Szymanski money, "and he threw it in our faces."

An FBI agent who becomes interested in Reese when his case crosses one of Reese's. He periodically offers Carter the opportunity to work with him as he pursues Reese.

A CIA handler who once ran Reese.

* ProperlyParanoid: When he finds out that the DNA samples and fingerprints he sent out for testing did not match "the man in the suit", he correctly assumes that they were tempered with. Subverted right afterwards when he puts Carter [[MoleInCharge in charge]] of the interrogations because he does not trust anyone else on his team. [[spoiler: DoubleSubverted when he informs her that he believed she was the mole and kept her close for that reason]].

[[folder:Bill Szymanski]]
!!Detective Bill Szymanski
->'''Played by:''' Michael [=McGlone=]

* DirtyCop: Averted; he was set up to look like one by HR, but Carter proved his innocence. Elias even says he tried to bribe the man, but he wouldn't break his morals.
* TheGenericGuy: Appeared mostly when a detective other then Carter and Fusco was needed.
* SacrificialLion: Killed by HR for continuing to pursue the Russian Mob, whom HR wanted to solve their money problems.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: After his murder, Det. Beecher asks imprisoned Elias if Szymanski was on his payroll. Elias says he offered Szymanski money, "and he threw it in our faces."
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Shoots down L-O-S's suggestion of killing Carter, stating they "Can't go around killing cops." before black-bagging him, although this may instead be a case of PragmaticVillainy. Also is utterly terrified about Kara, making a special effort to hunt her down when she shows up in New York

* JerkAss: Not in a abrasive sense but in a much more slimy fashion when he ran John and Kara. However, with Carter, it qualifies fully due to his increasing failure to trap and kill Reese in which he suspects she has a hand in helping him get away

* TakingYouWithMe: To Stanton.