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** Remember Elias's conversation with Finch at the end of "Reassortment"? Elias's prediction about him seems to come to pass at the end of this episode. Faced with [[spoiler:the deaths of Elias and Root]], Finch finally decides to throw [[TheFettered the rules he's lived by all his life]] right out the window and declares that he is going to end Samaritan, he's simply undecided on [[TheUnfettered how many of his rules he's willing to break in order to accomplish it]].
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** The scene where [[spoiler:Amir drops the wide-eyed, innocent cabdriver act and gives Fusco a psychotic smirk. Turns out he's a serial killer.]]
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* In universe, bombs are NightmareFuel for Harold Finch and if anyone he cares about is around one, he will immediately drop everything and try get that person of of the blast zone. [[spoiler: The trauma comes from when he nearly died from a bomb blast which his OnlyFriend was killed in.]]
* A lot of the stuff Kara Stanton says and does falls under this. Utterly ruthless [[AxeCrazy in]] [[ColdBloodedTorture more ways]] [[KillEmAll than one]], she seems to derive [[{{Sadist}} sick]] [[ForTheEvulz pleasure]] in causing as much pain and suffering as possible.
** Of special note is what she does to [[spoiler:Mark Snow]]. He's kidnapped and [[spoiler: put in a bomb vest for ''months''.]] Think of the sheer mental stress that would cause. Despite his CIA training, it's no wonder he acts at least slightly unhinged in "Dead Reckoning".
* The Machine itself. Think about it for a minute; a computer exists that is capable of watching your every move and then uses the data it collects to decide whether or not you are a threat to society. Oh yeah, and it's owned by the ''government who have well trained and lethal hit squads at their command.'' Sweet dreams.
** The [[spoiler:newly liberated Machine]] is now arguing with Root about whether or not killing people is a good idea. Let's hope it doesn't lose the argument any time soon.
** Root. Under that polite seemingly adorable smile lies a completely unpredictable Psychopathic WildCard who's willing to commit horrible crimes in order to satisfy her twisted obsession with the machine. What's worse is that she's the second best hacker in the show who can find a dozen different ways to blackmail people to do her bidding and even BadAss former assassins like Shaw have been bested by her due to her utter unpredictability. If you turn your back to her, it's a high chance Root will take the opportunity to taser you, torture you and/or shoot you dead.
* Andrew Benton; he's a serial sexual predator whose victims are too afraid to expose him, and at least one of them has committed suicide as a result. It's even more horrifying when you realize that the woman at the support group who gives a detailed account of being raped by an unnamed co-worker [[http://croik.tumblr.com/post/31561865270/watching-cura-te-ipsum-again-and-i-feel-like-the is one of his victims]].
* A lot of the stuff Kara Stanton says and does falls under this. Utterly ruthless [[AxeCrazy in]] [[ColdBloodedTorture more ways]] [[KillEmAll than one]], she seems to derive [[{{Sadist}} sick]] [[ForTheEvulz pleasure]] in causing as much pain and suffering as possible.
** Of special note is what she does to [[spoiler:Mark Snow]]. He's kidnapped and [[spoiler: put in a bomb vest for ''months''.]] Think of the sheer mental stress that would cause. Despite his CIA training, it's no wonder he acts at least slightly unhinged in "Dead Reckoning".
* The Machine itself. Think about it for a minute; a computer exists that is capable of watching your every move and then uses the data it collects to decide whether or not you are a threat to society. Oh yeah, and it's owned by the ''government who have well trained and lethal hit squads at their command.'' Sweet dreams.
** The [[spoiler:newly liberated Machine]] is now arguing with Root about whether or not killing people is a good idea. Let's hope it doesn't lose the argument any time soon.
** Root. Under that polite seemingly adorable smile lies a completely unpredictable Psychopathic WildCard who's willing to commit horrible crimes in order to satisfy her twisted obsession with the machine. What's worse is that she's the second best hacker in the show who can find a dozen different ways to blackmail people to do her bidding and even BadAss former assassins like Shaw have been bested by her due to her utter unpredictability. If you turn your back to her, it's a high chance Root will take the opportunity to taser you, torture you and/or shoot you dead.
* Andrew Benton; he's a serial sexual predator whose victims are too afraid to expose him, and at least one of them has committed suicide as a result. It's even more horrifying when you realize that the woman at the support group who gives a detailed account of being raped by an unnamed co-worker [[http://croik.tumblr.com/post/31561865270/watching-cura-te-ipsum-again-and-i-feel-like-the is one of his victims]].
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*In universe, bombs First and foremost, The Machine itself. Think about it for a minute; a computer exists that is capable of watching your every move and then uses the data it collects to decide whether or not you are NightmareFuel a threat to society. Oh yeah, and it's owned by the ''government, who have well trained and lethal hit squads at their command.'' Sweet dreams.
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* "Cura te Ipsum":
** Andrew Benton; he's a serial sexual predator whose victims are too afraid to expose him, and at least one of them has committed suicide as a result. It's even more horrifying when you realize that the woman at the support group who gives a detailed account of being raped by an unnamed co-worker [[http://croik.tumblr.com/post/31561865270/watching-cura-te-ipsum-again-and-i-feel-like-the is one of his victims]].
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* "Number Crunch":
** Bombs are an InUniverse example forHarold Finch and if Finch. If a POI or anyone he cares about is around one, he will immediately drop everything and try get that person of out of the blast zone. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:"God Mode" later reveals that the trauma comes from when he nearly died from a bomb blast which his OnlyFriend was killed in.]]
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* "Matsya Nyaya":
** A lot of the stuff Kara Stanton says and does falls under this. Utterly ruthless [[AxeCrazy in]] [[ColdBloodedTorture more ways]] [[KillEmAll than one]], she seems to derive [[{{Sadist}} sick]] [[ForTheEvulz pleasure]] in causing as much pain and suffering as possible.
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* "The Contingency":
** This is the first episode to really show us Root. Under that polite, seemingly adorable smile lies a completely unpredictable Psychopathic WildCard who's willing to commit horrible crimes in order to satisfy her twisted obsession with The Machine. What's worse is that she's the second best hacker in the show who can find a dozen different ways to blackmail people to do her bidding and even {{Badass}} former assassins like Shaw have been bested by her due to her utter unpredictability. If you turn your back to her, it's a high chance Root will take the opportunity to taser you, torture you, and/or shoot you dead.
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* "Masquerade":
** Of special note is whatshe Kara Stanton does to [[spoiler:Mark Snow]]. He's kidnapped and [[spoiler: put in a bomb vest for ''months''.]] Think of the sheer mental stress that would cause. Despite his CIA training, it's no wonder he acts at least slightly unhinged in "Dead Reckoning".
* The Machine itself. Think about it for a minute; a computer exists that is capable of watching your every move and then uses %%* "Triggerman":
%%* "Bury thedata it collects to decide whether or not you are a threat to society. Oh yeah, and it's owned by the ''government who have well trained and lethal hit squads at their command.'' Sweet dreams.
** The [[spoiler:newly liberated Machine]] is now arguing with Root about whether or not killing people is a good idea. Let's hope it doesn't lose the argument any time soon.
** Root. Under that polite seemingly adorable smile lies a completely unpredictable Psychopathic WildCard who's willing to commit horrible crimes in order to satisfy her twisted obsession with the machine. What's worse is that she's the second best hacker in the show who can find a dozen different ways to blackmail people to do her bidding and even BadAss former assassins like Shaw have been bested by her due to her utter unpredictability. If you turn your back to her, it's a high chance Root will take the opportunity to taser you, torture you and/or shoot you dead.
* Andrew Benton; he's a serial sexual predator whose victims are too afraid to expose him, and at least one of them has committed suicide as a result. It's even more horrifying when you realize that the woman at the support group who gives a detailed account of being raped by an unnamed co-worker [[http://croik.tumblr.com/post/31561865270/watching-cura-te-ipsum-again-and-i-feel-like-the is one of his victims]].Lede":
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* "Cura te Ipsum":
** Andrew Benton; he's a serial sexual predator whose victims are too afraid to expose him, and at least one of them has committed suicide as a result. It's even more horrifying when you realize that the woman at the support group who gives a detailed account of being raped by an unnamed co-worker [[http://croik.tumblr.com/post/31561865270/watching-cura-te-ipsum-again-and-i-feel-like-the is one of his victims]].
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* "Number Crunch":
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* "Matsya Nyaya":
** A lot of the stuff Kara Stanton says and does falls under this. Utterly ruthless [[AxeCrazy in]] [[ColdBloodedTorture more ways]] [[KillEmAll than one]], she seems to derive [[{{Sadist}} sick]] [[ForTheEvulz pleasure]] in causing as much pain and suffering as possible.
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* "The Contingency":
** This is the first episode to really show us Root. Under that polite, seemingly adorable smile lies a completely unpredictable Psychopathic WildCard who's willing to commit horrible crimes in order to satisfy her twisted obsession with The Machine. What's worse is that she's the second best hacker in the show who can find a dozen different ways to blackmail people to do her bidding and even {{Badass}} former assassins like Shaw have been bested by her due to her utter unpredictability. If you turn your back to her, it's a high chance Root will take the opportunity to taser you, torture you, and/or shoot you dead.
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* "Masquerade":
** Of special note is what
%%* "Bury the
** The [[spoiler:newly liberated Machine]] is now arguing with Root about whether or not killing people is a good idea. Let's hope it doesn't lose the argument any time soon.
** Root. Under that polite seemingly adorable smile lies a completely unpredictable Psychopathic WildCard who's willing to commit horrible crimes in order to satisfy her twisted obsession with the machine. What's worse is that she's the second best hacker in the show who can find a dozen different ways to blackmail people to do her bidding and even BadAss former assassins like Shaw have been bested by her due to her utter unpredictability. If you turn your back to her, it's a high chance Root will take the opportunity to taser you, torture you and/or shoot you dead.
* Andrew Benton; he's a serial sexual predator whose victims are too afraid to expose him, and at least one of them has committed suicide as a result. It's even more horrifying when you realize that the woman at the support group who gives a detailed account of being raped by an unnamed co-worker [[http://croik.tumblr.com/post/31561865270/watching-cura-te-ipsum-again-and-i-feel-like-the is one of his victims]].
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** The bit with the glasses is creepy on another level; for all Harold's various identities, he keeps the glasses because he actually ''needs'' them. So when Carter shoots 'Fahey' Harold is struggling to see her even from a short distance away, showing how terribly vulnerable the simple act (in the context) had left him.
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** The bit with the glasses is creepy on another level; for all Harold's various identities, he keeps the glasses because he actually ''needs'' them. So when Carter shoots 'Fahey' 'Fahey', Harold is struggling to see her even from a short distance away, showing how terribly vulnerable the simple act (in the context) had left him.
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* "Nothing To Hide" When you remove the AssHoleVictim Wayne Kruger from the equation, the scheme [[spoiler:Peter Collier]] instigates over the course of the episode to destroy him is quite terrifying. Put it this way, someone you don't know and have never met is effortlessly revealing embarrassing and terrible things about you and you don't understand why or who is responsible. Then that same group of people tries to kill you by trapping you in an elevator and causing it to free fall and when that fails, tries to cause a car crash. The icing on the cake is when the person who you thought you could trust then suddenly draws a gun and shoots you dead and the worst part is you don't fully understand why or what caused it to happen.
* "Razgovor": [[spoiler:Root standing over Shaw with a taser ''as she's sleeping''. For someone trained in intelligence and counterintelligence as Shaw is and after all the measures she taken such as destroying her cellphones after jobs with team machine, the fact that Root can still find her at her most unguarded moment is seriously creepy.]]
** In the same episode, when Peter Yogorov, who was previously on the phone, turns around and sees Shaw standing over his two body guards who she just took out, [[http://www.manicomioseries.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/person-of-interest-3x05-manicomio-series-02.gif and then comes at him with two syringes]]
* "Mors Praematura": Finch and the POI are showered in gasoline in a clever trap and nearly set on fire. Finch's terrified screaming sells it.
* "The Crossing": [[spoiler: Fusco's brutal torture at the hands of HR thugs.]] Made even worse when [[spoiler: Simmons threaten to have his son killed over the phone.]]
* "Razgovor": [[spoiler:Root standing over Shaw with a taser ''as she's sleeping''. For someone trained in intelligence and counterintelligence as Shaw is and after all the measures she taken such as destroying her cellphones after jobs with team machine, the fact that Root can still find her at her most unguarded moment is seriously creepy.]]
** In the same episode, when Peter Yogorov, who was previously on the phone, turns around and sees Shaw standing over his two body guards who she just took out, [[http://www.manicomioseries.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/person-of-interest-3x05-manicomio-series-02.gif and then comes at him with two syringes]]
* "Mors Praematura": Finch and the POI are showered in gasoline in a clever trap and nearly set on fire. Finch's terrified screaming sells it.
* "The Crossing": [[spoiler: Fusco's brutal torture at the hands of HR thugs.]] Made even worse when [[spoiler: Simmons threaten to have his son killed over the phone.]]
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* "Liberty":
** The [[spoiler:newly liberated]] Machine is now arguing with Root about whether or not killing people is a good idea. Let's hope it doesn't lose that argument any time soon.
* "Nothing ToHide" Hide":
** When you remove theAssHoleVictim AssholeVictim Wayne Kruger from the equation, the scheme [[spoiler:Peter Collier]] instigates over the course of the episode to destroy him is quite terrifying. Put it this way, way: someone you don't know and have never met is effortlessly revealing embarrassing and terrible things about you and you don't understand why or who is responsible. Then that same group of people tries to kill you by trapping you in an elevator and causing it to free fall and when that fails, tries to cause a car crash. The icing on the cake is when the person who you thought you could trust then suddenly draws a gun and shoots you dead and the worst part is you don't fully understand why or what caused it to happen.
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*"Razgovor": "Razgovor":
** [[spoiler:Root standing over Shaw with a taser ''as she's sleeping''. For someone trained in intelligence and counterintelligence as Shaw is and after all the measures she taken such as destroying her cellphones after jobs with team machine, the fact that Root can still find her at her most unguarded moment is seriously creepy.]]
**In the same episode, when Peter Yogorov, who was previously on the phone, turns around and sees Shaw standing over his two body guards who she just took out, [[http://www.manicomioseries.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/person-of-interest-3x05-manicomio-series-02.gif and then comes at him with two syringes]]
* "MorsPraematura": Praematura":
** Finch and the POI are showered in gasoline in a clever trap and nearly set on fire. Finch's terrified screaming sells it.
%%* "The Perfect Mark":
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* "TheCrossing": Crossing":
** [[spoiler: Fusco's brutal torture at the hands of HR thugs.]] Made even worse when [[spoiler: Simmons threaten to have his son killed over the phone.]]
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* "Liberty":
** The [[spoiler:newly liberated]] Machine is now arguing with Root about whether or not killing people is a good idea. Let's hope it doesn't lose that argument any time soon.
* "Nothing To
** When you remove the
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** [[spoiler:Root standing over Shaw with a taser ''as she's sleeping''. For someone trained in intelligence and counterintelligence as Shaw is and after all the measures she taken such as destroying her cellphones after jobs with team machine, the fact that Root can still find her at her most unguarded moment is seriously creepy.]]
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* "Mors
** Finch and the POI are showered in gasoline in a clever trap and nearly set on fire. Finch's terrified screaming sells it.
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** [[spoiler: Fusco's brutal torture at the hands of HR thugs.]] Made even worse when [[spoiler: Simmons threaten to have his son killed over the phone.]]
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** Even without the blood, Fusco's [[NightmareFace face]], when he [[spoiler: [[Awesome/PersonOfInterest kills the HR officer who was about to shoot him seconds before]]]], is downright shocking. This is NOT what one would expect the resident ButtMonkey [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass to look like]]. EVER.
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** Even without the blood, Fusco's [[NightmareFace face]], when he [[spoiler: [[Awesome/PersonOfInterest [[spoiler:[[Awesome/PersonOfInterest kills the HR officer who was about to shoot him seconds before]]]], is downright shocking. This is NOT what one would expect the resident ButtMonkey [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass to look like]]. EVER.
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-->'''[[spoiler:The Machine/Root]]:''' Why have you done this?
-->'''[[spoiler:Control]]:''' The Machine belongs to me.
-->'''[[spoiler:The Machine/Root]]:''' No. [[spoiler:I don't belong to anyone anymore. [[WhamLine You, however, are mine.]] I protect you. [[ParanoiaFuel The only thing you love lives at 254 Wendel Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]] I guard it. Same as I guard you. Do not question my judgement. Do not pursue me or my agents. Trust in me. I am always watching.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Control]]:''' The Machine belongs to me.
-->'''[[spoiler:The Machine/Root]]:''' No. [[spoiler:I don't belong to anyone anymore. [[WhamLine You, however, are mine.]] I protect you. [[ParanoiaFuel The only thing you love lives at 254 Wendel Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]] I guard it. Same as I guard you. Do not question my judgement. Do not pursue me or my agents. Trust in me. I am always watching.]]
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-->'''[[spoiler:The Machine/Root]]:''' Why have you done this?
-->'''[[spoiler:Control]]:'''this?\\
'''[[spoiler:Control]]:''' The Machine belongs tome.
-->'''[[spoiler:Theme.\\
'''[[spoiler:The Machine/Root]]:''' No. [[spoiler:I don't belong to anyone anymore. [[WhamLine You, however, are mine.]] I protect you. [[ParanoiaFuel The only thing you love lives at 254 Wendel Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]] I guard it. Same as I guard you. Do not question my judgement. Do not pursue me or my agents. Trust in me. I am always watching.]]]]
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-->'''[[spoiler:Control]]:'''
'''[[spoiler:Control]]:''' The Machine belongs to
-->'''[[spoiler:The
'''[[spoiler:The Machine/Root]]:''' No. [[spoiler:I don't belong to anyone anymore. [[WhamLine You, however, are mine.]] I protect you. [[ParanoiaFuel The only thing you love lives at 254 Wendel Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]] I guard it. Same as I guard you. Do not question my judgement. Do not pursue me or my agents. Trust in me. I am always watching.
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* "Death Benefit". [[spoiler: The Samaritan under the control of Decima Technologies is now online]]. Imagine if The Machine had never been programed with the restraints Nathan and Harold built into it, allowing it [[spoiler: to give a wider variety of information on a subject than just a single SSN and is able to be actively controlled by]] whoever is using it. And when said users happen [[spoiler: to be a ruthless Private Intelligence Firm]] with even less scruples than [[spoiler: the Northern Lights Counter-terrorism organization]] and with just as many resources, Team Machine is going [[spoiler: to have their work cut out for them in staying alive.]] What's worse is that [[spoiler: Greer has been able to convince senior members of the US government into allowing the Samaritan to become a potential replacement to The Machine]]
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* "Death Benefit".[[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The Samaritan under the control of Decima Technologies is now online]]. Imagine if The Machine had never been programed with the restraints Nathan and Harold built into it, allowing it [[spoiler: to give a wider variety of information on a subject than just a single SSN and is able to be actively controlled by]] whoever is using it. And when said users happen [[spoiler: to be a ruthless Private Intelligence Firm]] with even less scruples than [[spoiler: the Northern Lights Counter-terrorism organization]] and with just as many resources, Team Machine is going [[spoiler: to have their work cut out for them in staying alive.]] What's worse is that [[spoiler: Greer has been able to convince senior members of the US government into allowing the Samaritan to become a potential replacement to The Machine]] Machine]]
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* "Brotherhood". In a world where Samaritan watches your every step, where Decima quietly schemes to solidify its grip on the world, sometimes it's easy to forget that sometimes, it's a more-competent-than-average ''street gang'' that can be really terrifying. [[spoiler:Dominic's quiet nihilism is ''chilling'', especially considering that he's one of the most realistic depictions of a gang leader on the show yet.]]
* "Prophets".
* "Prophets".
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*"Brotherhood". "Brotherhood":
** In a world where Samaritan watches your every step, where Decima quietly schemes to solidify its grip on the world, sometimes it's easy to forget that sometimes, it's a more-competent-than-average ''street gang'' that can be really terrifying. [[spoiler:Dominic's quiet nihilism is ''chilling'', especially considering that he's one of the most realistic depictions of a gang leader on the show yet.]]
*"Prophets". "Prophets":
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** In a world where Samaritan watches your every step, where Decima quietly schemes to solidify its grip on the world, sometimes it's easy to forget that sometimes, it's a more-competent-than-average ''street gang'' that can be really terrifying. [[spoiler:Dominic's quiet nihilism is ''chilling'', especially considering that he's one of the most realistic depictions of a gang leader on the show yet.]]
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-->'''Samaritan:''' [[spoiler:You know you can't win, don't you?]]
-->'''Machine:''' [[BluntYes Yes]].
* '' If-Then-Else'':
-->'''Machine:''' [[BluntYes Yes]].
* '' If-Then-Else'':
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-->'''Samaritan:''' [[spoiler:You know you can't win, don't you?]]
-->'''Machine:'''you?]]\\
'''Machine:''' [[BluntYes Yes]].
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* "Control Alt Delete"
** Said's plotline is pretty terrifying. [[spoiler:He was framed by an omniscient, all powerful, artificial super intelligence as a terrorist, all his friends were executed, and then he is unceremoniously shot by a woman who refused to see the evidence that he was being framed.]]
** Said's plotline is pretty terrifying. [[spoiler:He was framed by an omniscient, all powerful, artificial super intelligence as a terrorist, all his friends were executed, and then he is unceremoniously shot by a woman who refused to see the evidence that he was being framed.]]
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* "Control Alt Delete"
"Control-Alt-Delete":
** Yasin Said's plotline is pretty terrifying. [[spoiler:He was framed by an omniscient, all powerful, artificial super intelligence as a terrorist, all his friends were executed, and then he is unceremoniously shot by a woman who refused to see the evidence that he was being framed.]]
** Yasin Said's plotline is pretty terrifying. [[spoiler:He was framed by an omniscient, all powerful, artificial super intelligence as a terrorist, all his friends were executed, and then he is unceremoniously shot by a woman who refused to see the evidence that he was being framed.]]
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** The Machine, an omniscient being of nearly unlimited power, starts glitching. [[BlackAndWhiteMorality It goes]] [[AIIsACrapshoot exactly as well as you'd expect.]] Highlights include:
** The Machine, an omniscient being of nearly unlimited power, starts glitching. [[BlackAndWhiteMorality It goes]] [[AIIsACrapshoot exactly as well as you'd expect.]] Highlights include:
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** The Machine, an omniscient being of nearly unlimited power, starts glitching.
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-->'''Elias:''' Do you know what your problem is, Harold?
-->'''Finch:''' [[TranquilFury No, tell me.]]
-->'''Elias:''' Underneath all that intellect, you're the darkest of all of us. [[BewareTheQuietOnes It's always the quiet ones we need to be afraid of.]] I just hope I’m not around the day that pot finally boils over.
** Samaritan is now dabbling in bioweapons. It doesn't even have to manufacture anything. It just fiddles with computers until some unsuspecting doctor injects a guy already infected with the highly pathogenic Avian flu with another strain that spreads like wildfire. Thank God it didn't get it's hands on the MAR-V.
-->'''Finch:''' [[TranquilFury No, tell me.]]
-->'''Elias:''' Underneath all that intellect, you're the darkest of all of us. [[BewareTheQuietOnes It's always the quiet ones we need to be afraid of.]] I just hope I’m not around the day that pot finally boils over.
** Samaritan is now dabbling in bioweapons. It doesn't even have to manufacture anything. It just fiddles with computers until some unsuspecting doctor injects a guy already infected with the highly pathogenic Avian flu with another strain that spreads like wildfire. Thank God it didn't get it's hands on the MAR-V.
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-->'''Elias:''' Do you know what your problem is, Harold?
-->'''Finch:'''Harold?\\
'''Finch:''' [[TranquilFury No, tell me.]]
-->'''Elias:''']]\\
'''Elias:''' Underneath all that intellect, you're the darkest of all of us. [[BewareTheQuietOnes It's always the quiet ones we need to be afraid of.]] I just hope I’m not around the day that pot finally boils over.
** Samaritan is now dabbling in bioweapons. It doesn't even have to manufacture anything. It just fiddles with computers until some unsuspecting doctor injects a guy already infected with the highly pathogenic Avian flu with another strain that spreads like wildfire. Thank God it didn't get it's hands on theMAR-V.MAR-V.
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'''Finch:''' [[TranquilFury No, tell me.
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'''Elias:''' Underneath all that intellect, you're the darkest of all of us. [[BewareTheQuietOnes It's always the quiet ones we need to be afraid of.]] I just hope I’m not around the day that pot finally boils over.
** Samaritan is now dabbling in bioweapons. It doesn't even have to manufacture anything. It just fiddles with computers until some unsuspecting doctor injects a guy already infected with the highly pathogenic Avian flu with another strain that spreads like wildfire. Thank God it didn't get it's hands on the
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** As of this episode, Samaritan's assets number in the two ''thousands'' now.
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** Samaritan and the Machine both take to hiding things underground. Samaritan takes things a tad further by [[spoiler:hiding the the dozen or so corpses of all the people it has disappeared over the past month.]] The icing on the cake? [[spoiler:Fusco and bear got caught when it started to demolish the tunnel.]]
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** Samaritan and the Machine both take to hiding things underground. Samaritan takes things a tad further by [[spoiler:hiding the the dozen or so corpses of all the people it has disappeared over the past month.]] The icing on the cake? [[spoiler:Fusco and bear Bear got caught when it started to demolish the tunnel.]]
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** Samaritan is now dabbling in bioweapons. It doesn't even have to manufacture anything. It just fiddles with computers until some unsuspecting doctor injects a guy infected with the highly pathogenic Avian flu with another strain that spreads like wildfire. Thank God it didn't get it's hands on the MAR-V.
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** Samaritan is now dabbling in bioweapons. It doesn't even have to manufacture anything. It just fiddles with computers until some unsuspecting doctor injects a guy already infected with the highly pathogenic Avian flu with another strain that spreads like wildfire. Thank God it didn't get it's hands on the MAR-V.
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** [[spoiler:Shaw thinks that she's in a simulation. She's not. Samaritan tricks her into murdering an innocent woman.]]
** [[spoiler:Shaw thinks that she's in a simulation. She's not. Samaritan tricks her into murdering an innocent woman.]]
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** Even though Shaw's now physically free of Samaritan, they did a number on her mind. She's not quite sure if she's actually free of Samaritan or in another simulation, and she's got years of fake memories making it hard to trust the real ones. It's quite possible she'll never completely shake the feeling that at any minute she could wake up strapped to a hospital table, about to go through another thousand rounds.
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** Even though Shaw's now physically free of Samaritan, they did a number on her mind. She's not quite sure if she's actually free of Samaritan or in another simulation, and she's got years of fake memories making it hard to trust the real ones. It's quite possible she'll never completely shake the feeling that at any minute she could wake up strapped to a hospital table, about to go through another thousand rounds.rounds.
** There was something ''deeply'' unsettling about Elias and Finch's argument. Finch was absolutely ''livid''.
-->'''Elias:''' Do you know what your problem is, Harold?
-->'''Finch:''' [[TranquilFury No, tell me.]]
-->'''Elias:''' Underneath all that intellect, you're the darkest of all of us. [[BewareTheQuietOnes It's always the quiet ones we need to be afraid of.]] I just hope I’m not around the day that pot finally boils over.
** Samaritan is now dabbling in bioweapons. It doesn't even have to manufacture anything. It just fiddles with computers until some unsuspecting doctor injects a guy infected with the highly pathogenic Avian flu with another strain that spreads like wildfire. Thank God it didn't get it's hands on the MAR-V.
** There was something ''deeply'' unsettling about Elias and Finch's argument. Finch was absolutely ''livid''.
-->'''Elias:''' Do you know what your problem is, Harold?
-->'''Finch:''' [[TranquilFury No, tell me.]]
-->'''Elias:''' Underneath all that intellect, you're the darkest of all of us. [[BewareTheQuietOnes It's always the quiet ones we need to be afraid of.]] I just hope I’m not around the day that pot finally boils over.
** Samaritan is now dabbling in bioweapons. It doesn't even have to manufacture anything. It just fiddles with computers until some unsuspecting doctor injects a guy infected with the highly pathogenic Avian flu with another strain that spreads like wildfire. Thank God it didn't get it's hands on the MAR-V.
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** Samaritan and the Machine both take to hiding things underground. Samaritan takes things a tad further by [[spoiler:hiding the the dozen or so corpses of all the people it has disappeared over the past month.]] The icing on the cake? [[spoiler:Fusco and bear got caught when it started to demolish the tunnel.]]
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** Samaritan and the Machine both take to hiding things underground. Samaritan takes things a tad further by [[spoiler:hiding the the dozen or so corpses of all the people it has disappeared over the past month.]] The icing on the cake? [[spoiler:Fusco and bear got caught when it started to demolish the tunnel.]]]]
* "Resassortment"
** Even though Shaw's now physically free of Samaritan, they did a number on her mind. She's not quite sure if she's actually free of Samaritan or in another simulation, and she's got years of fake memories making it hard to trust the real ones. It's quite possible she'll never completely shake the feeling that at any minute she could wake up strapped to a hospital table, about to go through another thousand rounds.
* "Resassortment"
** Even though Shaw's now physically free of Samaritan, they did a number on her mind. She's not quite sure if she's actually free of Samaritan or in another simulation, and she's got years of fake memories making it hard to trust the real ones. It's quite possible she'll never completely shake the feeling that at any minute she could wake up strapped to a hospital table, about to go through another thousand rounds.
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** [[MindRape The entire premise of the episode.]] [[spoiler:Samaritan has figured out how to visualise Shaw's thoughts. It proceeds to make her relive the same scenario, to try and get her to, one, murder the team; and two, reveal the location of the Machine by making her think that she needs to go protect Harold in the subway. It's failed so far. Shaw only ''murders Reese'' and ''shoots herself in the head'' before she hurts Root. And the title of the episode? The amount of times Samaritan has forced her to do this.]] A little bit of FridgeHorror math... Shaw was captured by Samaritan in January, and Lambert says they've had her for nine months. [[spoiler:6741 simulations over nine months works out to about once per hour for the entire span.]]
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** [[MindRape The entire premise of the episode.]] [[spoiler:Samaritan has figured out how to visualise Shaw's thoughts. It proceeds to make her relive the same scenario, to try and get her to, one, murder the team; and two, reveal the location of the Machine by making her think that she needs to go protect Harold in the subway. It's failed so far. Shaw only ''murders Reese'' and ''shoots herself in the head'' before she hurts Root. And the title of the episode? The amount of times Samaritan has forced her to do this.]] A little bit of FridgeHorror math... Shaw was captured by Samaritan in January, and Lambert says they've had her for nine months. [[spoiler:6741 simulations over nine months works out to about once per hour for the entire span.]]
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** Samaritan and the Machine both take to hiding things underground. Samaritan takes things a tad further by [[spoiler:hiding the the dozen or so corpses of all the people it has disappeared over the past month.]] The icing on the cake? [[spoiler:Fusco and bear got caught when it started to demolish the tunnel.]]
* "A More Perfect Union"
** Samaritan and the Machine both take to hiding things underground. Samaritan takes things a tad further by [[spoiler:hiding the the dozen or so corpses of all the people it has disappeared over the past month.]] The icing on the cake? [[spoiler:Fusco and bear got caught when it started to demolish the tunnel.]]
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** [[MindRape The entire premise of the episode.]] [[spoiler:Samaritan has figured out how to visualise Shaw's thoughts. It proceeds to make her relive the same scenario, to try and get her to, one, murder the team; and two, reveal the location of the Machine by making her think that she needs to go protect Harold in the subway. It's failed so far. Shaw only ''murders Reese'' and ''shoots herself in the head'' before she hurts Root. And the title of the episode? The amount of times Samaritan has forced her to do this.]] A little bit of FridgeHorror math... Shaw was captured by Samaritan in January. [[spoiler:6741 simulations means this has been happening every day ''multiple times''.]]
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** [[MindRape The entire premise of the episode.]] [[spoiler:Samaritan has figured out how to visualise Shaw's thoughts. It proceeds to make her relive the same scenario, to try and get her to, one, murder the team; and two, reveal the location of the Machine by making her think that she needs to go protect Harold in the subway. It's failed so far. Shaw only ''murders Reese'' and ''shoots herself in the head'' before she hurts Root. And the title of the episode? The amount of times Samaritan has forced her to do this.]] A little bit of FridgeHorror math... Shaw was captured by Samaritan in January. January, and Lambert says they've had her for nine months. [[spoiler:6741 simulations means this has been happening every day ''multiple times''.over nine months works out to about once per hour for the entire span.]]
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--->'''The Machine:''' [[AC: You're hurting me now.]]
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--->'''The Machine:''' [[AC: You're hurting me now.]]
* "6741"
** [[MindRape The entire premise of the episode.]] [[spoiler:Samaritan has figured out how to visualise Shaw's thoughts. It proceeds to make her relive the same scenario, to try and get her to, one, murder the team; and two, reveal the location of the Machine by making her think that she needs to go protect Harold in the subway. It's failed so far. Shaw only ''murders Reese'' and ''shoots herself in the head'' before she hurts Root. And the title of the episode? The amount of times Samaritan has forced her to do this.]] A little bit of FridgeHorror math... Shaw was captured by Samaritan in January. [[spoiler:6741 simulations means this has been happening every day ''multiple times''.]]
* "6741"
** [[MindRape The entire premise of the episode.]] [[spoiler:Samaritan has figured out how to visualise Shaw's thoughts. It proceeds to make her relive the same scenario, to try and get her to, one, murder the team; and two, reveal the location of the Machine by making her think that she needs to go protect Harold in the subway. It's failed so far. Shaw only ''murders Reese'' and ''shoots herself in the head'' before she hurts Root. And the title of the episode? The amount of times Samaritan has forced her to do this.]] A little bit of FridgeHorror math... Shaw was captured by Samaritan in January. [[spoiler:6741 simulations means this has been happening every day ''multiple times''.]]
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** Samaritan invoking the CutTheJuice trope and using it to try [[spoiler: murder the Machine with a series of coordinated nationwide blackouts.]] One must consider the potential millions which died from medical equipment not functioning and disrupted transport infrastructure to understand how horrific the chaos it caused must have been.
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** Samaritan invoking the CutTheJuice trope and using it to try [[spoiler: murder the Machine with a series of coordinated nationwide blackouts.]] One must consider the potential millions which died from medical equipment not functioning and disrupted transport infrastructure to understand how horrific the chaos it caused must have been.been.
* "SNAFU"
** The Machine, an omniscient being of nearly unlimited power, starts glitching. [[BlackAndWhiteMorality It goes]] [[AIIsACrapshoot exactly as well as you'd expect.]] Highlights include:
*** Locking Root and Finch in the carriage.
*** Deeming [[spoiler: John Reese a threat and ''paying a hitman to kill him.'']]
*** Overloading Root's cochlear implant every time she comes near the monitor.
*** The nature of the Machine's glitch [[spoiler: is that she's unable to differentiate past from present. She can't put information in context. As a result the poor thing can't tell the difference between Finch killing the 43 previous versions of the Machine in the past and killing her ''now.'' No wonder she's freaking out.]]
--->'''The Machine:''' [[AC: You're hurting me now.]]
* "SNAFU"
** The Machine, an omniscient being of nearly unlimited power, starts glitching. [[BlackAndWhiteMorality It goes]] [[AIIsACrapshoot exactly as well as you'd expect.]] Highlights include:
*** Locking Root and Finch in the carriage.
*** Deeming [[spoiler: John Reese a threat and ''paying a hitman to kill him.'']]
*** Overloading Root's cochlear implant every time she comes near the monitor.
*** The nature of the Machine's glitch [[spoiler: is that she's unable to differentiate past from present. She can't put information in context. As a result the poor thing can't tell the difference between Finch killing the 43 previous versions of the Machine in the past and killing her ''now.'' No wonder she's freaking out.]]
--->'''The Machine:''' [[AC: You're hurting me now.]]
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This show has comparatively rare instances of it, for all that it involves a Machine spying on all and sundry. But there are a few instances of it:
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This show has comparatively rare instances of it, for all that it involves a Machine spying on all and sundry. [[ColdBloodedTorture But there are a few instances of it:
when]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge they]] [[AIIsACrapshoot want to be]] [[ParanoiaFuel terrifying]]...
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*** What's even worse is that ''they're clearly planning on killing both of them anyway''. There's no reason they couldn't have removed Root's implant after she and Finch were already dead, other than to add proof that Greer [[FauxAffablyEvil is nowhere near as nice as he acts]].
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** According to Martine, it took two months to [[spoiler: [[FaceHeelTurn brainwash Shaw]]]]. Just thinking of what had to have happened to her during those two months is horrifying.
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** In "God Mode" Hersh is interrogating a terrorist and then ''shoots the translator!'' At the end of the episode he guns down his own mook simply for hearing the Machine has been moved. Plus every man who built the Hanford facility has been killed. It's not just asking the wrong questions or making a mistake -- just ''doing your job'' can get you killed by Northern Lights.
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** In "God Mode" Hersh is interrogating a terrorist and then ''shoots the translator!'' At the end of the episode he guns down his own mook. It's not just asking the wrong questions or making a mistake -- just ''doing your job'' can get you killed by Northern Lights.
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** In "God Mode" Hersh is interrogating a terrorist and then ''shoots the translator!'' At the end of the episode he guns down his own mook. mook simply for hearing the Machine has been moved. Plus every man who built the Hanford facility has been killed. It's not just asking the wrong questions or making a mistake -- just ''doing your job'' can get you killed by Northern Lights.
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** In "God Mode" Hersh is interrogating a terrorist and then ''shoots the translator!'' At the end of the episode he guns down his own mook. Even just doing your job can get you killed by Northern Lights.
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** In "God Mode" Hersh is interrogating a terrorist and then ''shoots the translator!'' At the end of the episode he guns down his own mook. Even It's not just doing asking the wrong questions or making a mistake -- just ''doing your job job'' can get you killed by Northern Lights.
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** In "God Mode" Hersh is interrogating a terrorist and then ''shoots the translator!'' At the end of the episode he guns down his own mook. Even just doing your job can get you killed by Northern Lights.
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** Martine throughout the whole episode. She barely says a word but her face when hunting the members of Team Machine is pure Nightmare Fuel. Especially near the end when [[spoiler:she makes ready to shoot Shaw in reality. Thankfully, she doesn't.]]
** The fact [[spoiler:each failed mission went bad with all deaths based on several simulations means that for the Machine, it must be predicting her friends lives every day, foreseeing thousands of millions of possibilities for it to happen]].
** An InUniverse example for the Machine. Harold mused that chess, especially with having to make the opening move, must be so terrifying because of the practically countless possibilities for a single game to have. With the first set of moves, there are 400 possibilities. The total number of possible games of chess is roughly 10^120, that is more than the total number of atoms in the universe. With such a practical infinite number of paths, how many could lead to failure?
** The fact [[spoiler:each failed mission went bad with all deaths based on several simulations means that for the Machine, it must be predicting her friends lives every day, foreseeing thousands of millions of possibilities for it to happen]].
** An InUniverse example for the Machine. Harold mused that chess, especially with having to make the opening move, must be so terrifying because of the practically countless possibilities for a single game to have. With the first set of moves, there are 400 possibilities. The total number of possible games of chess is roughly 10^120, that is more than the total number of atoms in the universe. With such a practical infinite number of paths, how many could lead to failure?
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** Martine throughout the whole episode. She barely says a word but her face when hunting the members of Team Machine is pure Nightmare Fuel. Especially near the end when [[spoiler:she makes ready to shoot kill Shaw in reality. Thankfully, she doesn't.]]
** The fact [[spoiler:each failed mission went bad with all deaths based on several simulations means that for the Machine, it must be predictingher friends its assets' lives every day, foreseeing thousands of millions of possibilities for it to happen]].
** An InUniverse example for the Machine. Harold mused that chess, especially with having to make the opening move, must be so terrifying because of the practically countless possibilities for a single game to have. With the first set of moves, there are 400possibilities.possibilities, and as the second, third and fourth moves are made, the number skyrockets to 72,084, 9 million, and 318 ''trillion'' possibilities. Again, in just four moves. The total number of possible games of chess is roughly 10^120, that is more than the total number of atoms in the universe. With such a practical infinite number of paths, how many could lead to failure?
** The fact [[spoiler:each failed mission went bad with all deaths based on several simulations means that for the Machine, it must be predicting
** An InUniverse example for the Machine. Harold mused that chess, especially with having to make the opening move, must be so terrifying because of the practically countless possibilities for a single game to have. With the first set of moves, there are 400
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** Said's plotline is pretty terrifying. [[spoiler:All his friends were executed, he was framed by an omniscient, all powerful, artificial super intelligence as a terrorist, and then he is then unceremoniously shot by a woman who refused to see the evidence that he was being framed.]]
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** Said's plotline is pretty terrifying. [[spoiler:All his friends were executed, he [[spoiler:He was framed by an omniscient, all powerful, artificial super intelligence as a terrorist, all his friends were executed, and then he is then unceremoniously shot by a woman who refused to see the evidence that he was being framed.]]
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** Root [[spoiler:torturing the Mayor by drilling through her hand.]] Reese was pretty damn intimidating too.
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** Root [[spoiler:torturing the Mayor torturing [[spoiler:the Mayor]] by drilling through her hand.]] hand. Reese was pretty damn intimidating too.
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** Not for the first time, Harold's encounter with one of the bad guys yields a rather unnerving NotSoDifferent comparison, this time regarding his ability to take on another identity, to improvise within that role, and move on when necessary. The killer seems to get [[OhMyAccentIsSlipping muddled]] when confronting Harold. Yet throughout the episode Harold himself goes from his 'usual' self with Reese, his slightly reckless (landed ''in the middle of town'') Harold Gull persona with the ill-fated Deputy, to the moment when his calculated CreepyMonotone abruptly becomes NotSoStoic during the scene with 'Fahey'. At which point the SerialKiller decides Harold's identity is not for him.
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** Not for the first time, Harold's encounter with one of the bad guys yields a rather unnerving NotSoDifferent comparison, this time regarding his ability to take on another identity, to improvise within that role, and move on when necessary. The killer seems to get [[OhMyAccentIsSlipping [[OohMeAccentsSlipping muddled]] when confronting Harold. Yet throughout the episode Harold himself goes from his 'usual' self with Reese, his slightly reckless (landed ''in the middle of town'') Harold Gull persona with the ill-fated Deputy, to the moment when his calculated CreepyMonotone abruptly becomes NotSoStoic during the scene with 'Fahey'. At which point the SerialKiller decides Harold's identity is not for him.
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** Finch goes from calmy stating that the killer has no idea ''whose'' identity he's attempting to take - "You're an amateur at this" - to sounding increasingly disturbed, to the point where he becomes NotSoStoic in his ShutUpHannibal! speech to the man.
** The bit with the glasses is creepy on another level; for all Harold's various identities, he keeps the glasses because he actually ''needs'' them. So when Carter shoots 'Fahey' Harold is struggling to see her even from a short distance away, showing how terribly vulnerable the simple act (in the context) had left him.
** Not for the first time, Harold's encounter with one of the bad guys yields a rather unnerving NotSoDifferent comparison, this time regarding his ability to take on another identity, to improvise within that role, and move on when necessary. The killer seems to get [[OhMyAccentIsSlipping muddled]] when confronting Harold. Yet throughout the episode Harold himself goes from his 'usual' self with Reese, his slightly reckless (landed ''in the middle of town'') Harold Gull persona with the ill-fated Deputy, to the moment when his calculated CreepyMonotone abruptly becomes NotSoStoic during the scene with 'Fahey'. At which point the SerialKiller decides Harold's identity is not for him.
** The bit with the glasses is creepy on another level; for all Harold's various identities, he keeps the glasses because he actually ''needs'' them. So when Carter shoots 'Fahey' Harold is struggling to see her even from a short distance away, showing how terribly vulnerable the simple act (in the context) had left him.
** Not for the first time, Harold's encounter with one of the bad guys yields a rather unnerving NotSoDifferent comparison, this time regarding his ability to take on another identity, to improvise within that role, and move on when necessary. The killer seems to get [[OhMyAccentIsSlipping muddled]] when confronting Harold. Yet throughout the episode Harold himself goes from his 'usual' self with Reese, his slightly reckless (landed ''in the middle of town'') Harold Gull persona with the ill-fated Deputy, to the moment when his calculated CreepyMonotone abruptly becomes NotSoStoic during the scene with 'Fahey'. At which point the SerialKiller decides Harold's identity is not for him.
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** Said's plotline is pretty terrifying. [[spoiler:All his friends were executed, he was framed by an omniscient, all powerful, artificial super intelligence as a terrorist, and then he is then unceremoniously shot by a woman who refused to see the evidence that he was being framed.]]
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** Said's plotline is pretty terrifying. [[spoiler:All his friends were executed, he was framed by an omniscient, all powerful, artificial super intelligence as a terrorist, and then he is then unceremoniously shot by a woman who refused to see the evidence that he was being framed.]]]]
** A small detail regarding Samaritan's screens. They now have readouts of [[spoiler: the number of assets which have been cultivated in America's government buildings]] In the case of the Pentagon [[spoiler: it's in the hundreds]].
** A small detail regarding Samaritan's screens. They now have readouts of [[spoiler: the number of assets which have been cultivated in America's government buildings]] In the case of the Pentagon [[spoiler: it's in the hundreds]].
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* "YHVH"
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* "YHVH""YHWH"
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** "The Correction" [[spoiler: Samaritan agents are sent to mass murder all of the 'deviants', all of those who refuse to play by the rules. Elias and Dominic are taken out by a sniper and several other minor characters are killed by some injection. [[FridgeHorror And those are just the ones we saw]] ]]
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** "The Correction" [[spoiler: Samaritan agents are sent to mass murder all of the 'deviants', all of those who refuse to play by the rules. Elias and Dominic are taken out by a sniper and several other minor characters are killed by some injection. [[FridgeHorror And those are just the ones we saw]] ]]]]
** Samaritan invoking the CutTheJuice trope and using it to try [[spoiler: murder the Machine with a series of coordinated nationwide blackouts.]] One must consider the potential millions which died from medical equipment not functioning and disrupted transport infrastructure to understand how horrific the chaos it caused must have been.
** Samaritan invoking the CutTheJuice trope and using it to try [[spoiler: murder the Machine with a series of coordinated nationwide blackouts.]] One must consider the potential millions which died from medical equipment not functioning and disrupted transport infrastructure to understand how horrific the chaos it caused must have been.
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** The scenes of the brotherhood goons torturing Elias, Reese, and Fusco. Elias gets a hammer to the hand, Reese is stabbed with a screwdriver, and Fusco is waterboarded.
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** The scenes of the brotherhood goons torturing Elias, Reese, and Fusco. Elias gets a hammer to the hand, Reese is stabbed with a screwdriver, and Fusco is waterboarded.waterboarded.
* "YHVH"
** "The Correction" [[spoiler: Samaritan agents are sent to mass murder all of the 'deviants', all of those who refuse to play by the rules. Elias and Dominic are taken out by a sniper and several other minor characters are killed by some injection. [[FridgeHorror And those are just the ones we saw]] ]]
* "YHVH"
** "The Correction" [[spoiler: Samaritan agents are sent to mass murder all of the 'deviants', all of those who refuse to play by the rules. Elias and Dominic are taken out by a sniper and several other minor characters are killed by some injection. [[FridgeHorror And those are just the ones we saw]] ]]
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** Control abducts and interrogates a caffeine addicted school teacher. A mother of two. Accuses her of being a Samaritan agent. What's scarier than a WellIntentionedExtremist torturing an innocent school teacher? ''A WellIntentionedExtremist being right.'' The second Control shows her irrefutable evidence, she does a complete 180 and references the bible story of Sodom and Gomorrah of all things.
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** Control abducts and interrogates a caffeine addicted school teacher. A mother of two. Accuses her of being a Samaritan agent. What's scarier than a WellIntentionedExtremist torturing an innocent school teacher? ''A WellIntentionedExtremist being right.'' The second Control shows her irrefutable evidence, she does a complete 180 and references the bible story of Sodom and Gomorrah of all things.things.
** The scenes of the brotherhood goons torturing Elias, Reese, and Fusco. Elias gets a hammer to the hand, Reese is stabbed with a screwdriver, and Fusco is waterboarded.
** The scenes of the brotherhood goons torturing Elias, Reese, and Fusco. Elias gets a hammer to the hand, Reese is stabbed with a screwdriver, and Fusco is waterboarded.
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** Martine stroking Finch's face while threatening to kill him in front of Root was... unsettling. [[NeckSnap Root put an abrupt end to that particular line of thought.]]
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** Martine stroking Finch's face while threatening to kill him in front of Root was... unsettling.[[IHaveYouNowMyPretty unsettling]]. [[NeckSnap Root put an abrupt end to that particular line of thought.]]
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** Martine stroking Finch's face while threatening to kill him in front of Root was... unsettling. [[NeckSnap Root put an abrupt end to that particular line of though.]]
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** Martine stroking Finch's face while threatening to kill him in front of Root was... unsettling. [[NeckSnap Root put an abrupt end to that particular line of though.thought.]]
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** As it turns out, Samaritan [[spoiler: has deemed a lot of humanity irrelevant and is about to initiate an operation called "The Correction", to murder everyone it deems unworthy of living in the new world it is about to officially establish.]]
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** As it turns out, Samaritan [[spoiler: has deemed a lot of humanity irrelevant and is about to initiate an operation called "The Correction", to murder everyone it deems unworthy of living in the new world it is about to officially establish.]]]]
** Martine stroking Finch's face while threatening to kill him in front of Root was... unsettling. [[NeckSnap Root put an abrupt end to that particular line of though.]]
** Greer calmly informs Finch that he's going to witness one of the Decima mooks cutting out Root's implant (who is decidedly not under anesthesia). And then informs Root that there will be some brain damage but she should still be able to feed and clothe herself.
** Control abducts and interrogates a caffeine addicted school teacher. A mother of two. Accuses her of being a Samaritan agent. What's scarier than a WellIntentionedExtremist torturing an innocent school teacher? ''A WellIntentionedExtremist being right.'' The second Control shows her irrefutable evidence, she does a complete 180 and references the bible story of Sodom and Gomorrah of all things.
** Martine stroking Finch's face while threatening to kill him in front of Root was... unsettling. [[NeckSnap Root put an abrupt end to that particular line of though.]]
** Greer calmly informs Finch that he's going to witness one of the Decima mooks cutting out Root's implant (who is decidedly not under anesthesia). And then informs Root that there will be some brain damage but she should still be able to feed and clothe herself.
** Control abducts and interrogates a caffeine addicted school teacher. A mother of two. Accuses her of being a Samaritan agent. What's scarier than a WellIntentionedExtremist torturing an innocent school teacher? ''A WellIntentionedExtremist being right.'' The second Control shows her irrefutable evidence, she does a complete 180 and references the bible story of Sodom and Gomorrah of all things.
