History Recap / PersonOfInterestS03E01

* NotSoDifferent: Reese shares more than a few similarities with Jack. In the end Reese requests that if Jack's life ends up even more similar to Reese's and he ends up getting a job offer from the CIA, he should deliberately ''not'' follow in Reese's footsteps and decline.

* NotMyDriver: After the Devildogs throw Salazar in the trunk, the car to drives off as Reese is driving.

* NotMyDriver[=/=]PunkInTheTrunk: The Devildogs throw Salazar in the trunk, only for the car to drive off before they can get in as Reese is driving.

* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Well it's not like Reese shot the hostage takers including the driver which crashed the van.

* HelloNurse: Carter gets a lot of appreciation from the [[HornySailors sex-starved squids]]. She's not adverse to the attention.

* HelloNurse: Carter gets a lot of appreciation from the [[HornySailor sex-starved squids]]. She's not adverse to the attention.

* HelloNurse: Carter gets a lot of appreciation from the sex-starved squids. She's not adverse to the attention.

* ClimacticMusic[=/=]AwesomeMusic: "Feeling Good" by Nina Simone.

->''Fleet Week! An annual deluge of drunken sailors that somehow does'' not ''qualify as a military attack.''
---> - '''Finch'''

-->''"Hey Reese, no offense, but if the vigilante thing doesn't work out I'm not really seeing a future for you in [[Series/FairlyLegal conflict resolution.]]"''

* BarBrawl: Notable if only for the fact that Reese actually wasn't involved for once, apart for being [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl clobbered with a stool at one point]].
* BatmanColdOpen: The episode opens with Reese rescuing a POI from a van full of kidnappers. At the same time Shaw is shown in her first case as an official member of Team Machine protecting a con man from killers sent by the family of his last victim.

* TheBigBoard: Carter has one at the back of her closet, diagramming her pursuit of HR.

-->''I would have taken a head shot, but Finch gets annoyed when I kill people.''

* ClimacticMusic / AwesomeMusic: "Feeling Good" by Nina Simone.

* DealWithTheDevil: Carter has Elias hidden away, and not even Team Machine knows this. In exchange Elias has agreed to lie low and is providing information on his enemies (the Russians and presumably HR) while seeking to manipulate events to his advantage.

* FailedASpotCheck: The Cartel kidnappers are confused when they realise there's another masked man in the back of the van with them. Violence and HilarityEnsues.

* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Friend]] / HostageForMacGuffin
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Shaw with the sniper rifle
-->''“In the arm through a brick wall in the dark....You’re welcome.”''
** DestinationDefenestration: Subverted when the wounded man stumbles through the window to his death.

* InsistentTerminology

* NotHelpingYourCase: The man strapped to the bomb asks if Fusco is with the Bomb Squad.
-->'''Fusco:''' Homicide. ''(man flinches)''
* NotMyDriver / PunkInTheTrunk: The Devildogs throw Salazar in the trunk, only for the car to drive off before they can get in as Reese is driving.

* ReasoningWithGod: Root tells her psychiatrist that she's been arguing with 'god' (The Machine) about whether or not she is going to kill him.

* SteelEardrums: The horses don't startle at all the gunfire near their ears. Fusco isn't happy though.

* WeNeedADistraction / BlindedByTheLight: Reese uses a foil wrapping to reflect sunlight in the sniper's face so Shaw can sneak up and clobber him.

* SteelEardrums: The horses don't startle at all the gunfire near there ears. Fusco isn't happy though.

* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Well it's not like Reese shot the driver and crashed the van.

* MachineWorship: Root openly states that the Machine is God.

* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Or do not cut off contact between a fervent sociopath and the all-seeing AI she worships.

* MexicanStandoff

* AwesomeMusic: "Feeling Good" by Nina Simone.

* BatmanColdOpen: The episode opens with Reese playing hostage negotiator to a van full of kidnappers. At the same time Shaw is shown in her first case as an official member of Team Machine protecting a con man from killers sent by the family of his last victim.

* CallBack:
** The episode opens with Reese grumbling that the numbers never say thank you after he saves their life. At the end, Jack does just that.
** There's a couple to the Pilot episode as well; Reese tells Finch that he's "[[IronicEcho a very private person]]", and also snarks that he's 'a concerned third party'.

* BombDisposal: Fusco has to remove a detonator from a large tank of propane before it's detonated remotely, despite no training in this matter.