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** "Last Call", following up on the throwaway joke in the episode proper about a man carjacked by squirrels:\\

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** "Last Call", following up on the throwaway joke in the episode proper about a man carjacked by squirrels:\\squirrels:



*** Later in that same episode, after Shaw mentions that she bugged Finch ([[CallBack again]]):

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*** ** Later in that same episode, after Shaw mentions that she bugged Finch ([[CallBack again]]):
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** This blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment where Reese creates a diversion, breaking the sink to distract Trask so Finch can investigate. Reese's smirk following Trask's comment is what makes this.
--> '''Trask''': Looks like somebody went at this with a hammer!
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* "Number Crunch"

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* "Number Crunch"Crunch":
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** This exchange from the beginning of the episode.
--> '''Reese''': Where did you come from?
--> '''Finch''': I breached the space-time continuum.
--> '''Reese''': ......
--> '''Finch''': Not really.
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* "Judgement":
** Reece kidnaps two gang members and has them in his trunk to interrogate them, when they don't talk he gets one to beat it out of the other. The next time we see the guy he's eating a burger while Reese tells Finch the information.
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** For that matter, the way their respective weapons fit their characters is pretty funny. Carter has her [[BoringButPractical trusty standard-issue police officer's piece.]] [[GunNut Shaw]] has the latest in state-of-the-art weapons tech. And [[TheChick Zoe]]... has a Taser. A ''pink'' Taser.
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** Carter mentions she looked for [[CallBack a "sorry I got you shot" card.]]
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* "Get Carter":
** Carter and Fusco are separately questioning the villain of the week's girlfriends (neither of whom know about each other). Trying to get them to roll on the guy, Carter puts both of them in with Fusco in an interrogation room, quickly telling him "make sure they don't kill each other!" and grinning as she hears the catfight begin as she shuts the door. The shouting is still audible as the scene continues.
** Reese is following Carter on a motorcycle, swapping his trademark suit for a motorcycle jacket. After his DynamicEntry into the villain of the week's car garage, Carter hears that the guy who busted up the place with a submachine gun and a grenade launcher had a leather jacket, not a suit. Carter remarks that his suit must be at the cleaners.
** The NYPD sends in a SWAT team to take down the bad guys, and Finch asks how Reese will be close enough to protect her.
-->'''Reese''': ''[dressed as one of the SWAT team]'' Oh, I'm...pretty close.
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** Carter's baffled look at the four mooks beaten half to hell by a bum when she hears that the bum declined medical treatment.
** Reese's first words to Finch.
-->'''Reese''': Do I owe you money? Because I'm uh...''[flaps the ragged coat he's wearing]'' a little short at the moment.
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** Boker's glomp completely overpowers Jim to the point that he needs assistance. Emerson is looking at the camera and clearly corpsing.
** "Remember, I'm Jesus and I can play tricks on you."

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-->'''Finch''': [[DeadpanSnarker The suspense]] [[GallowsHumor is killing me]]. ''[{{Beat}}]'' In addition to the gunshot wound.
** Finch bluffs that he's carrying a bomb, set to go off if his heart rate monitor indicates something has happened to him. After it works:

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-->'''Finch''': [[DeadpanSnarker The suspense]] [[GallowsHumor is killing me]]. ''[{{Beat}}]'' In addition to the gunshot wound.
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'''The Machine''': I don't remember. Everyone dies alone...and something else.\\
'''Finch''': ''[chuckles]'' That's so perfect. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny You learned the secret of life, and you've forgotten it!]]
** Reese and Fusco saying goodbye.
-->'''Reese''': TryNotToDie.\\
'''Fusco''': Yeah, I love you too.
** Finch bluffs that he's carrying a bomb, thermonuclear weapon in a briefcase, set to go off if his heart rate monitor indicates something has happened to him. After it works:
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** The wireless router the Machine sends Shaw and Reese to steal belonged to ''Edward Snowden.''
** Shaw and Reese get caught in the evidence lockup.
-->'''Shaw''': Oh, we were just...looking for some bad guys.\\
'''Mook''': ''[on his radio]'' We got a breach, evidence-\\
'''Shaw''': ''[shoots him]'' Look at that, found one.
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** Shaw's back to knocking out her nurse and threatening Lambert, mentioning that [[KickTheSonOfABitch "it's so fun getting you shot a thousand different ways."]] Lambert orders two mooks to disarm her and bandage her hand (from a broken shard of glass) and neither one wants to take on [[ActionGirl Shaw.]] [[spoiler: Too bad it's not a simulation this time.]]
** Finch dials Reese, warning him that Root is about to do something "excessively dangerous."
-->'''Reese''': Color me surprised.

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** Two of Root's momentary cover identities are ballerina (strangling a guy with a pair of ballet shoes, which makes the guy she's protecting propose) and a ''colonial reenactor''. Then she takes up the cover of an alien conspiracy theorist going to a job interview for a gig at a radio station.
-->'''Root''': ''[deadpan]'' Take me to your leader.
** Root calls Reese for some info on a lead, and upon hearing that she's looking for Shaw, Reese immediately asks how he can help. And asks Root to be careful.

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** Finch neglecting to warn Reese that he was acting as a bodyguard at a Hen's night was ''hysterical.''

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*** As Finch sings, Root takes on an assassin and gives him an ImpaledPalm - and the assassin faints at the sight of his own blood. Reese has to take on a second hitman, and finishes him by cracking him across the head with a wedding present that sounded breakable. Then he casually bounces the present off the guy's head to knock him out.
-->'''Reese''': ''[clearly not sorry]'' Oops.
** Finch neglecting to warn Reese that he was acting as a bodyguard at a Hen's night was ''hysterical.'''' Even more so because that's where Finch intended to get Reese a date at the party - a HardDrinkingPartyGirl who loves Reese's type (tall, dark, silent, SilverFox type).


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** Reese knocks out a hitman in a field by beaning him with a horseshoe.
-->'''Reese''': [[BondOneLiner Must be my lucky day.]]
*** Almost immediately afterwards, the perp and two more hitmen show up and have Reese cold, [[BigDamnHeroes only for Root to arrive.]] ''[[HorseBackHeroism On a horse.]]''
--->'''Maggie''': WhoAreYou?
--->'''Root''': The caterer.
*** Later, Maggie mentions that Root gave her a quiche lorraine for the road.
** Rather than spoil the wedding with the news he's arresting one of the family, Reese locks the hitmen and their employer in the estate's wine cellar...and nicks some top-shelf bourbon while he's down there for Team Machine.

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** Root totally nonchalant about drugging a caterer to take her place at the wedding.

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** Root totally nonchalant about drugging messing with a caterer to take her his place at the wedding. And drugging the photographer so they could examine the photos.
-->'''Root''': The original caterer got caught on a health code violation earlier this morning. Something about a Belgian Malinois storming his kitchen with a rat in his jaw before his tall brunette owner could stop him. Luckily I was free! And I make a killer carrot soup with creme fresh.
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** Root meeting Fusco at the precinct with Bear in a service dog vest for "crippling anxiety." She pulls a ChairReveal on him and mentions that the chair must be killer on Fusco's back. She then leaves him the file on the latest Number...and leaves Bear behind as well. Fusco sits down in his chair...and winces, pressing his back.
** Fusco mentions he can't imagine Root at a wedding.
-->'''Root''': Please! [[CallBack I left a guy at the altar just last year!]]
** Greer has taken Shaw out to try and persuade her to join Samaritan's side, as brainwashing didn't work. He's pointed out several white-collar criminals that are responsible for countless deaths that the Machine will never pick up, because they aren't violent crimes. At the second site, Shaw starts snarking at him.
-->'''Shaw''': Let me guess. Those two are drowning orphans? ''[DisapprovingLook from Greer]'' Smothering cancer patients?

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** Finch is undercover at the wedding as the groom's Irish uncle... who apparently has an amazing singing voice. He's called to sing, and after it becomes obvious he's not going to get out of it, breaks into "[[Music/TwistedSister We're Not Gonna Take It]]". In an Irish accent. Finch downing the alcohol before hand was a nice touch.

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** Finch is undercover at the wedding as the groom's estranged Irish uncle... who uncle. When the groom runs into him, he says Finch looks [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses "different. Smarter. New glasses?"]]
-->'''Finch''': ''[{{beat}}]'' ''[in an Irish accent]'' Should help me see the ceremony.
** Finch later finds out his cover
apparently has an amazing singing voice. He's called to sing, and after it becomes obvious he's not going to get out of it, breaks into "[[Music/TwistedSister We're Not Gonna Take It]]". In an Irish accent. Finch downing the alcohol before hand was a nice touch.


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** Root sitting alone on the floor of the subway base, leafing through a bridal magazine and sharing a sandwich with Bear. The only way it could be more over-the-top is if she was singing "All By Myself."
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** Root calls Finch to help her look at a laptop with Samaritan malware on it, and he finds her in a delivery truck (part of her latest cover) with her trainer unconscious on the floor. The man had "taken an errant package to the head" after a few too many unwanted sexual advances. The man starts groaning while they're working, so Root grabs a package and beans him again.
-->'''Finch''': I don't think he's going to be making any more unwanted advances.
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** Iris and John are apparently at the "meet the parents" phase of their relationship...and are at a pirate-themed restaurant. Apparently, ''it was John's idea''. Reese is initially nowhere to be found, and Iris calls him to see what the holdup was. [[KindaBusyHere Cut to John mid-fistfight in the restaurant's bathroom as his phone rings.]] Once he rescues the latest number and picks up, he covers up by saying he had to make a pit-stop in the "little buccaneer's room."
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*** After Reese successfully neutralizes security, Finch enters the building to find Reese holding several looted assault rifles.
-->'''Reese''': ''[deadpan]'' Look. Souvenirs.
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** Dominic is [[ColdBloodedTorture waterboarding Fusco,]] trying to find out where Finch is.
-->'''Fusco''': ''[about to get dunked again]'' Wait! Wait! Wait! You got a loofah? Maybe you can wash my back while you're at it!
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** The jury is sequestered after [[spoiler: Finch swings to the lone holdout when they find out that the trial is being fixed towards a conviction, not an acquittal]], leaving Finch with no way to contact the others. He starts taking apart the ''thermostat'' to try to find an internet link. Cue a laser dot appearing on the wall of his room. Finch ducks, thinking a sniper's got him in his gunsights. It turns out to to be John...pointing a sniper rifle at his room. Using the laser sight to signal in Morse code.
-->'''Finch''': ''[signalling with the lamp]'' [[DoesNotLikeGuns Please stop pointing that thing at me.]]\\
'''Reese''': ''[signalling with the laser sight]'' [[FalseReassurance Don't worry,]] [[{{Troll}} pretty sure it's not loaded.]]

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** Reese and Root taking the police chief prisoner and smuggling him into their room at the bed & breakfast.

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** A scuzzy police chief in Maple gets...handsy with Root. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
** Reese and Root taking the police chief prisoner and smuggling him into their room at the bed & breakfast.breakfast in a duffel bag. By all appearances, [[AmusingInjuries he's head-down when Root drags him up the stairs.]]
** Fusco lampshades Silva's {{Determinator}} status.
-->'''Fusco''': Dog with a bone. You'll make a good detective, terrible spouse. ''[Silva gives him an irritated look]''
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-->'''Shaw:''' [[GenreSavvy I clocked you and Zoe right off the bat]], but I never thought you and Carter...

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-->'''Shaw:''' [[GenreSavvy I clocked you and Zoe right off the bat]], bat, but I never thought you and Carter...



** Hersh insisting that he needed to off the wounded Decima agents [[GenreSavvy because they'll take the chance to commit suicide]] after Reese and Shaw looked at him. (And we start to see where Shaw's "shoot anyone" attitude comes from...)

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** Hersh insisting that he needed to off the wounded Decima agents [[GenreSavvy because they'll take the chance to commit suicide]] suicide after Reese and Shaw looked at him. (And we start to see where Shaw's "shoot anyone" attitude comes from...)
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*** In the same conversation, Zoe accuses Finch [[AccidentallyAccurate (correctly) of being from the Midwest]] due to his politeness. Finch is visibly agitated.

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*** In the same conversation, Zoe accuses Finch [[AccidentallyAccurate (correctly) of being from the Midwest]] Midwest due to his politeness. Finch is visibly agitated.
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-->'''Finch''': I ''am'' handi-capable.
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** The student looks like she's going to debate the issue, until Reese takes out a gun and starts screwing a silencer on the end.
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** [[NotGoodWithPeople Shaw]] gets stuck talking down a suicidal man in a bomb vest. Realizing the issue with this situation, she calls Reese.
-->'''Shaw''': How do you talk down a psycho in a bomb vest? ''[Reese doesn't answer]'' Hello?
-->'''Reese''': ''[weakly]'' I was waiting on the punchline.

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