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* TheChessmaster: The Machine manipulates both Team Machine and Vigilance into breaking free a hacker who might be useful to it/her in the future. It might also have arranged for the dangerous yet potentially useful Root to be imprisoned by people who have the means to do so but who won't kill her.
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* MagnificentBastard: The Machine manipulates both Team Machine and Vigilance into breaking free a hacker who might be useful to it/her in the future. It might also have arranged for a psychopathically dangerous Root to be imprisoned (presumably until she is also useful).
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* DeepCoverAgent: Turns out Lanskey is a member of the Russian mob, infiltrated into the NYPD with the help of HR.
* PublicSecretMessage: Vigilance uses the lockups to pass on messages, written on the wall in infrared paint.
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* SadisticChoice: Collier shoots Greenfield in the femoral artery, saying Reese has a choice of getting him medical attention or chasing Collier.
* SadisticChoice: Collier shoots Greenfield in the femoral artery, saying Reese has a choice of getting him medical attention or chasing Collier.
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* TrustPassword: Several of these, by both CIA and Root.
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* VanInBlack
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* BigDamnHeroes: Reese turns up just in time to save Finch and Sloan from burning to death.
* BoobyTrap: The lockup is rigged with gasoline sprayers and an igniter, burning the evidence and anyone else who comes poking around.
* BoobyTrap: The lockup is rigged with gasoline sprayers and an igniter, burning the evidence and anyone else who comes poking around.
* FakingTheDead: Subverted; the CIA fakes Greenfield's death not to protect him, but so they can interrogate him at length in a BlackSite.
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* TrashOfTheTitans: Finch is squicked out searching through the effects of a compulsive hoarder.
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* TrashOfTheTitans: Finch is squicked {{squick}}ed out searching through the effects of a compulsive hoarder.hoarder.
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* TrojanPrisoner
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* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: Root munches on an apple while watching Shaw slug it out with a CIA mook.
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* BlackSite
* TheBookCipher
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The foster brother of the POI decided to run away from Vigilance when Peter Collier proposed to [[spoiler: kill Wayne Kruger]].
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: EvenEvilHasStandards:
** The foster brother of the POI decided to run away from Vigilance when Peter Collier proposed to [[spoiler: kill Wayne Kruger]].
** The foster brother of the POI decided to run away from Vigilance when Peter Collier proposed to [[spoiler: kill Wayne Kruger]].
* HomoeroticSubtext: Lots of FoeYay between Shaw and Root, with the two women leaning close and staring intently at each other whenever Shaw threatens Root's life.
-->'''Root:''' The only thing I know for sure is [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I... need... you.]]
-->'''Root:''' The only thing I know for sure is [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I... need... you.]]
* MagnificentBastard: The Machine manipulates both Team Machine and Vigilance into breaking free a hacker who might be useful to it/her in the future. It might also have arranged for a psychopathically dangerous Root to be imprisoned (presumably until she is also useful).
* ThisIsThePartWhere: Shaw is smart enough to know Root will have a reason why she shouldn't cut her throat.
* TrashOfTheTitans: Finch is squicked out searching through the effects of a compulsive hoarder.
* UnwittingPawn: The coded message from Vigilance refers to an undercover member of their organisation who will assist in the hit. That member turns out to be Root, acting on behalf of a Machine that's the antithesis of everything Vigilance stands for.
* TrashOfTheTitans: Finch is squicked out searching through the effects of a compulsive hoarder.
* UnwittingPawn: The coded message from Vigilance refers to an undercover member of their organisation who will assist in the hit. That member turns out to be Root, acting on behalf of a Machine that's the antithesis of everything Vigilance stands for.
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* WorkingTheSameCase: Reese, Finch, Shaw and Root end up running into each other during the climax. While Reese saves the number, Root [[spoiler:saves his brother, who had been unlawfully imprisoned by the CIA and [[FromBadToWorse is about to be executed]] by Vigilance.]]
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* WorkingTheSameCase: Reese, Finch, Shaw and Root end up running into each other during the climax. While Reese saves the number, Root [[spoiler:saves his brother, who had been unlawfully imprisoned by the CIA and [[FromBadToWorse is about to be executed]] by Vigilance.]]
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* KonamiCode: it stops the CIA's scrambler radio from acting up.
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* CoolGuns: And the gun in particular she brought along was a fully automatic Glock 18 machine pistol which allows her to even the playing field with Collier's numerically superior hit-squad hit-squad.
* DemotedToExtra: Carter and the HR storyline begins to take a back burner to the AI conspiracy despite being just about as plot-relevant. Carter (who has two scenes) does not interact with anyone in this episode but Laskey. Fusco very briefly appears. One might even think the scenes involving Carter and the scenes involving the rest of the team were completely different shows.
* DemotedToExtra: Carter and the HR storyline begins to take a back burner to the AI conspiracy despite being just about as plot-relevant. Carter (who has two scenes) does not interact with anyone in this episode but Laskey. Fusco very briefly appears. One might even think the scenes involving Carter and the scenes involving the rest of the team were completely different shows.
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* CoolGuns: And the gun in particular she brought along was a fully automatic Glock 18 machine pistol which allows her to even the playing field with the similarly armed Collier and his hit squad. Collier's numerically superior hit-squad
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* ArsonmurderAndJaywalking: "For what? The tasing, the drugging...or this?
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* WallOfWeapons: Shaw's refrigerator. The only food item stored in there is a jug of milk. Given that Reese sees nothing out of the ordinary in said refrigerator, he might be in the habit of doing the same thing.
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* ArsonmurderAndJaywalking: "For what? The tasing, the drugging...or this?
* ArsonmurderAndJaywalking: "For what? The tasing, the drugging...or this?
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* RealityEnsures: Root may have brought enough firepower to effectively take on the Vigilance hit squad but she didn't bring any spare magazines which becomes quite problematic when the hit squad corners her after she runs out of ammo for her Glock 18.
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* RealityEnsures: RealityEnsues: Root may have brought enough firepower to effectively take on the Vigilance hit squad but she didn't bring any spare magazines which becomes quite problematic when the hit squad corners her after she runs out of ammo for her Glock 18.
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** Later Shaw proves that for all of her use of surprise and a taser, in a head on confrontation, Root goes down like any normal non-military trained civilian.
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* KickTheDog: HR murders a shopkeeper for skimping on his protection money, then makes Laskey, who had known him since childhood and considered him a friend, bury the body.
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* KickTheDog: HR murders a shopkeeper for skimping on his protection money, then makes Laskey, who had known him since childhood and considered him a friend, bury the body.
* RealityEnsures: Root may have brought enough firepower to effectively take on the Vigilance hit squad but she didn't bring any spare magazines which becomes quite problematic when the hit squad corners her after she runs out of ammo for her Glock 18.
** Later Shaw proves that for all of her use of surprise and a taser, in a head on confrontation, Root goes down like any normal non-military trained civilian.
* RealityEnsures: Root may have brought enough firepower to effectively take on the Vigilance hit squad but she didn't bring any spare magazines which becomes quite problematic when the hit squad corners her after she runs out of ammo for her Glock 18.
** Later Shaw proves that for all of her use of surprise and a taser, in a head on confrontation, Root goes down like any normal non-military trained civilian.
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* CoolGuns: And the gun in particular she brought along was a fully automatic Glock 18 machine pistol which allows her to even the playing field with the similarly armed Collier.Collier and his hit squad.
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* CrazyPrepared: Having the Machine as MissionControl makes it easy for Root to be this.
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* CrazyPrepared: Having the Machine as MissionControl makes it easy for Root to be this. She makes sure there's a conveniently hidden gun in a specific location [[spoiler: the same location where Peter Collier and a Vigilance hit squad are trying to take out a target the machine wants saved]]
* CoolGuns: And the gun in particular she brought along was a fully automatic Glock 18 machine pistol which allows her to even the playing field with the similarly armed Collier.
* CoolGuns: And the gun in particular she brought along was a fully automatic Glock 18 machine pistol which allows her to even the playing field with the similarly armed Collier.
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-->'''Shaw''': The Machine gives missions to Harold and the government. Relevant, irrelevant. Why would it give one to you?
-->'''Root''': Because now there's a third category. Besides, my relationship with the Machine is a little... ''different''.
-->'''Root''': Because now there's a third category. Besides, my relationship with the Machine is a little... ''different''.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "How can you be so certain, Ms. Groves, that the Machine does not wish you to be precisely where you are?"
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The foster brother of the POI decided to run away from Vigilance when Peter Collier proposed to [[spoiler: kill Wayne Kruger]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The foster brother of the POI decided to run away from Vigilance when Peter Collier proposed to [[spoiler: kill Wayne Kruger]] Kruger]].
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** Lansky [[spoiler: is not pleased when Simmons orders him to bury the body of a childhood friend who's been murdered by HR and decides to help Carter destroy them.]]
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** Lansky Laskey [[spoiler: is not pleased when Simmons orders him to bury the body of a childhood friend who's been murdered by HR and decides to help Carter destroy them.]]
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* CrazyPrepared: Having the Machine as MissionControl makes it easy for Root to be this.
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* WhamLine: Finch, to Root, after [[spoiler: he imprisons her in a Faraday cage]]: "How can you be so certain, Ms. Groves, that the Machine does not wish you to be precisely where you are?"
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* WhamLine: [[WhamLine Wham Lines]]:
** Finch, to Root, after [[spoiler: he imprisons her in a Faraday cage]]: "How can you be so certain, Ms. Groves, that the Machine does not wish you to be precisely where you are?"
** Finch, to Root, after [[spoiler: he imprisons her in a Faraday cage]]: "How can you be so certain, Ms. Groves, that the Machine does not wish you to be precisely where you are?"
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** Early in the episode, Shaw asks Root why the Machine would work with her, because it's already got Irrelevant and Relevant people covered. She responds that there's "a third category." At the end, Root says that Jason was "[[spoiler: necessary]]," implying that she might be the one the Machine put in charge of [[spoiler: ensuring its own survival.]]survival]] and that [[spoiler: it has created a third category of "numbers."]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The foster brother of the POI decided to run away from Vigilance when Peter Collier proposed to [[spoiler: kill Wayne Kruger]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The foster brother of the POI decided to run away from Vigilance when Peter Collier proposed to [[spoiler: kill Wayne Kruger]]Kruger]]
** Lansky [[spoiler: is not pleased when Simmons orders him to bury the body of a childhood friend who's been murdered by HR and decides to help Carter destroy them.]]
** Lansky [[spoiler: is not pleased when Simmons orders him to bury the body of a childhood friend who's been murdered by HR and decides to help Carter destroy them.]]
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* CrazyPrepared: Having the Machine as MissionControl makes it easy for Root to be this.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The foster brother of the POI decided to run away from Vigilance when Peter Collier proposed to [[spoiler: kill Wayne Kruger]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The foster brother of the POI decided to run away from Vigilance when Peter Collier proposed to [[spoiler: kill Wayne Kruger]]
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* SlidingDownTheSlipperySlope: This episode reveals that Vigilance started out as a WellIntentionedExtremist group that did this sometime shortly before the events of "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E02 Nothing to Hide]]", when they decided to start killing the people they opposed.
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** Early in the episode, Shaw asks Root why the Machine would work with her, because it's already got Irrelevant and Relevant people covered. She responds that there's "a third category." At the end, Root says that Jason was "[[spoiler: necessary]]," implying that she might be the one the Machine put in charge of [[spoiler: ensuring its own survival.]]
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** Laskey revealing [[spoiler: his true name and the reason he's on the police force and on HR's payroll]] to Carter.
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* CallBack:
** The parallels between Laskey's arc and Fusco's in season one continue. See KickTheDog entry below.
** The [=PoI's=] brother is on the outs with Vigilance because [[spoiler: he objected to killing Wayne Kruger, the [=PoI=] in "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E02 Nothing to Hide.]]"]]
** The parallels between Laskey's arc and Fusco's in season one continue. See KickTheDog entry below.
** The [=PoI's=] brother is on the outs with Vigilance because [[spoiler: he objected to killing Wayne Kruger, the [=PoI=] in "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E02 Nothing to Hide.]]"]]
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* KickTheDog: HR murders a shopkeeper for skimping on his protection money, then makes Carter's partner, who had known him since childhood, bury the body.
* WorkingTheSameCase: Reese, Finch, Shaw and Root end up running into each other during the climax. While Reese saves the number, Root [[spoiler:saves his brother, who had been unlawfully imprisoned by the CIA.]]
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* KickTheDog: HR murders a shopkeeper for skimping on his protection money, then makes Carter's partner, Laskey, who had known him since childhood, childhood and considered him a friend, bury the body.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Root and Shaw.
* WhamLine: Finch, to Root, after [[spoiler: he imprisons her in a Faraday cage]]: "How can you be so certain, Ms. Groves, that the Machine does not wish you to be precisely where you are?"
* WorkingTheSameCase: Reese, Finch, Shaw and Root end up running into each other during the climax. While Reese saves the number, Root [[spoiler:saves his brother, who had been unlawfully imprisoned by theCIA.CIA and [[FromBadToWorse is about to be executed]] by Vigilance.]]
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Root and Shaw.
* WhamLine: Finch, to Root, after [[spoiler: he imprisons her in a Faraday cage]]: "How can you be so certain, Ms. Groves, that the Machine does not wish you to be precisely where you are?"
* WorkingTheSameCase: Reese, Finch, Shaw and Root end up running into each other during the climax. While Reese saves the number, Root [[spoiler:saves his brother, who had been unlawfully imprisoned by the
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Root has kidnapped Shaw, and quickly talks her into helping with an unspecified mission. While Reese tries to track down Root and figure out what's going on, Finch is working on their latest number, an estate investigator who is looking into the death of his foster brother - and aroused the ire of his brother's enemies in the process.
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* Crazy Prepared: Having the Machine as MissionControl makes it easy for Root to be this.
* KickTheDog: HR murders a shopkeeper for skimping on his protection money, then makes Carter's partner, who had known him since childhood, bury the body.
* WorkingTheSameCase: Reese, Finch, Shaw and Root end up running into each other during the climax. While Reese saves the number, Root [[spoiler:saves his brother, who had been unlawfully imprisoned by the CIA.]]
* KickTheDog: HR murders a shopkeeper for skimping on his protection money, then makes Carter's partner, who had known him since childhood, bury the body.
* WorkingTheSameCase: Reese, Finch, Shaw and Root end up running into each other during the climax. While Reese saves the number, Root [[spoiler:saves his brother, who had been unlawfully imprisoned by the CIA.]]
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* BilingualBonus: the title is Latin for "premature death.""
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