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* GambitPileup: Hoo boy. [[spoiler: Vigilance attempts to kidnap Arthur, but are foiled by Finch and Shaw. At the same time, Arthur's wife Diane is really Control in disguise, who was keeping an eye on Arthur in an attempt to find Samaritan. And then in response to everyone's gambits, The Machine begins activating Samaritan, which is presumably what she was working towards from the start of the series. Oh, and whatever Control is up to has earned her a red box, designating her as a "relevant threat!"]]relevant threat.]]
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** Right after the first 1979 flashback, [[spoiler: as Finch, Shaw and the Claypools exit the elevator, for less than a second, you can see [[FreezeFrameBonus a red square around Diane Claypool]], indicating she's a threat.]]
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* FreezeFrameBonus[=/=]RewatchBonus: When Root puts the three books together to make Arthur's number, and admonishing Finch that he should stop ignoring The Machine, the green book in the middle is called ''Remembering the Tabulator.''
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* FreezeFrameBonus[=/=]RewatchBonus: When Root puts the three books together to make Arthur's number, and admonishing admonishes Finch that he should stop ignoring The Machine, the green book in the middle is called ''Remembering the Tabulator.''
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** The transistor memory circuit Finch built in 1971.
* TakeThat: to the [=NSA's=] real-life surveillance program PRISM--it's a kludge used only as a decoy to keep people from discovering the truth about The Machine.
* TakeThat: to the [=NSA's=] real-life surveillance program PRISM--it's a kludge used only as a decoy to keep people from discovering the truth about The Machine.
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** The transistor memory circuit Finch built in 1971.
1971--not only is it possible to build one out of transistors, the prop they built actually works.
* TakeThat: to the [=NSA's=] real-life surveillance programPRISM--it's PRISM--Arthur says it's a kludge used only as a decoy to keep people from discovering the truth about The Machine.
* TakeThat: to the [=NSA's=] real-life surveillance program
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* GambitPileup: Hoo boy. [[spoiler: Vigilance attempts to kidnap Arthur, but are foiled by Finch and Shaw. At the same time, Arthur's wife Diane is really Control in disguise, who was keeping an eye on Arthur in an attempt to find Samaritan. And then in response to everyone's gambits, The Machine begins activating Samaritan, which is presumably what she was working towards from the start of the series.]] Oh, and whatever Control is up to has earned her a red box, designating her as a "relevant threat!"]]
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* ShownTheirWork: In one of the flashback scenes a teenaged Harold gets a pay phone to connect him to a random number in Paris for free using a plastic whistle. This was an actual method of phone phreaking during that time period, which was most commonly known to be used by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper John Draper]], AKA Captain Crunch.
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** In one of the flashback scenes a teenaged Harold gets a pay phone to connect him to a random number in Paris for free using a plastic whistle. This was an actual method of phone phreaking during that time period, which was most commonly known to be used by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper John Draper]], AKA CaptainCrunch.Crunch.
** The transistor memory circuit Finch built in 1971.
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** The transistor memory circuit Finch built in 1971.
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** In the flashbacks, Finch's father has a degenerative memory disorder, with effects similar to what the brain tumor is doing to Arthur.
** As a little boy, Finch wanted to build a machine to [[BrainUploading preserve his father's memories from being wiped out]]--just as The Machine did when it created [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS02E21 the "external hard drive made of people and paper" to preserve its memories from its nightly reboot]].
** In the flashbacks, Finch's father has a degenerative memory disorder, with effects similar to what the brain tumor is doing to Arthur.
** As a little boy, Finch wanted to build a machine to [[BrainUploading preserve his father's memories from being wiped out]]--just as The Machine did when it created [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS02E21 the "external hard drive made of people and paper" to preserve its memories from its nightly reboot]].
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** In the Baysean probability tree The Machine is constructing at the end of the episode, [[spoiler: there is a yellow box that reads "RETASKING ANALOG INTERFACE." Root to the rescue!]]
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** In the Baysean probability tree The Machine is constructing at the end of the episode, [[spoiler: there is [[FreezeFrameBonus a yellow box that reads "RETASKING ANALOG INTERFACE." "]] Root to the rescue!]]rescue!]]
* FreezeFrameBonus[=/=]RewatchBonus: When Root puts the three books together to make Arthur's number, and admonishing Finch that he should stop ignoring The Machine, the green book in the middle is called ''Remembering the Tabulator.''
* FreezeFrameBonus[=/=]RewatchBonus: When Root puts the three books together to make Arthur's number, and admonishing Finch that he should stop ignoring The Machine, the green book in the middle is called ''Remembering the Tabulator.''
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** In the Baysean probability tree The Machine is constructing at the end of the episode, [[spoiler: there is a yellow box that reads "RETASKING ANALOG INTERFACE"--that is, Root.]]INTERFACE." Root to the rescue!]]
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* AlmaMaterSong: Finch sings one with Arthur. Shaw snarks that Reese will be sorry that he missed that.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Look closely at the end. [[spoiler: Hersh's box is yellow (knows about the machine), and not red (relevant threat).]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Arthur remembers Harold, but not his own wife. [[spoiler: His wife has been DeadAllAlong...]]
* GambitPileup: Hoo boy. [[spoiler: Vigilance attempts to kidnap Arthur, but are foiled by Finch and Shaw. At the same time, Arthur's wife Diane is really Control in disguise, who was keeping an eye on Arthur in an attempt to find Samaritan. And then in response to everyone's gambits, the Machine begins activating Samaritan, which is presumably what she was working towards from the start of the series.]]
* GambitPileup: Hoo boy. [[spoiler: Vigilance attempts to kidnap Arthur, but are foiled by Finch and Shaw. At the same time, Arthur's wife Diane is really Control in disguise, who was keeping an eye on Arthur in an attempt to find Samaritan. And then in response to everyone's gambits, the Machine begins activating Samaritan, which is presumably what she was working towards from the start of the series.]]
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** Arthur remembers Harold, but not his own wife. [[spoiler: His wife has been DeadAllAlong...]]
** In the Baysean probability tree The Machine is constructing at the end of the episode, [[spoiler: there is a yellow box that reads "RETASKING ANALOG INTERFACE"--that is, Root.]]
* GambitPileup: Hoo boy. [[spoiler: Vigilance attempts to kidnap Arthur, but are foiled by Finch and Shaw. At the same time, Arthur's wife Diane is really Control in disguise, who was keeping an eye on Arthur in an attempt to find Samaritan. And then in response to everyone's gambits,the The Machine begins activating Samaritan, which is presumably what she was working towards from the start of the series.]]
** Arthur remembers Harold, but not his own wife. [[spoiler: His wife has been DeadAllAlong...]]
** In the Baysean probability tree The Machine is constructing at the end of the episode, [[spoiler: there is a yellow box that reads "RETASKING ANALOG INTERFACE"--that is, Root.]]
* GambitPileup: Hoo boy. [[spoiler: Vigilance attempts to kidnap Arthur, but are foiled by Finch and Shaw. At the same time, Arthur's wife Diane is really Control in disguise, who was keeping an eye on Arthur in an attempt to find Samaritan. And then in response to everyone's gambits,
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* ContinuityNod: Arthur mentions that Samaritan was shut down on February 25, 2005. According to the flashback in "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E11 Super]]," Alicia Corwin told Nathan Ingram that the first "number" The Machine gave the government had turned out to be accurate the day before that, on February 24, 2005.
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* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Fusco tries this on Reese, but it's not very successful since Reese is a ''significantly'' better fighter than Fusco, despite having a good deal of whiskey in his system.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Fusco tries this on Reese, but it's not very successful since Reese is a ''significantly'' better fighter than Fusco, despite having a good deal of whiskey in his system.
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After [[spoiler:Carter's]] death has been avenged, Reese hangs up his suit and drops off the map to drown his sorrows, leaving Finch and Shaw behind to safeguard their latest number, Arthur Claypool, a friend of Harold's from college, now a retired NSA programmer whose terminal brain cancer does odd things to his memory - sometimes he can't remember things at all, and sometimes he blurts out what he now remembers (However classified it is) to whoever's around.
The flashback scenes of the episode show a young Harold (And yes, that really ''is'' his name, though a surname is never mentioned in those scenes) growing up in Iowa with his increasingly forgetful father (Mother not mentioned), demonstrating his talent for taking things apart, breaking into computer systems and expressing a desire to make a machine that can genuinely think.
The flashback scenes of the episode show a young Harold (And yes, that really ''is'' his name, though a surname is never mentioned in those scenes) growing up in Iowa with his increasingly forgetful father (Mother not mentioned), demonstrating his talent for taking things apart, breaking into computer systems and expressing a desire to make a machine that can genuinely think.
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* ActorAllusion: Like Creator/MichaelEmerson, Finch is originally from rural Iowa.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Look closely at the end. [[spoiler: Hersh's box is yellow, and not red.]]
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** Specifically, [[spoiler: Shaw has an 85% chance of death, while Finch and Claypool both individually have a 45% chance of death. There's a 10% chance that they both get to leave alive...]]
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survive.]] Specifically:
**Specifically, Death, 46.18%: [[spoiler: Shaw has an 85% chance of death, while Finch and Claypool both individually have a 45% chance of death. There's a 10% chance that they both get to leave alive...]]Arthur T. Claypool]]
** Death, 43.68%: [[spoiler: Admin]]
** Death, 84.98%: [[spoiler: Sameen Shaw]]
** Death, 26.50%: [[spoiler: Robert N. Hersh]]
** Death, 11.65%: [[spoiler: Control]]
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** Death, 43.68%: [[spoiler: Admin]]
** Death, 84.98%: [[spoiler: Sameen Shaw]]
** Death, 26.50%: [[spoiler: Robert N. Hersh]]
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Finch debates quitting after [[spoiler: Carter dies and Reese runs off to Colorado.]] Only the prospect of [[SociopathicHero Shaw]] running around without supervision stops him.
* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: Well, Control ''does'' end up with Shaw, Finch and Arthur at gunpoint.]]
* BilingualBonus[=/=]GeniusBonus: the word "lethe" in Greek literally means "oblivion", "forgetfulness", or "concealment.""; perfectly suited to Arthur Claypool's predicament.
* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: Well, Control ''does'' end up with Shaw, Finch and Arthur at gunpoint.]]
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** Specifically, [[spoiler: Shaw has an 85% chance of death, while Finch and Claypool both individually have a 45% chance of death. There's a 10% chance that they both get to leave alive...]]
* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler: Control is Diane.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Diane Claypool.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Arthur remembers Harold, but not his own wife. [[spoiler: His wife has been DeadAllAlong...]]
* HeroicBSOD: After the events of the HR subplot, Reese goes through one and goes to drink himself to death in Colorado.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Project Samaritan's status is unknown.]]
* WhamEpisode: Just look at all of the spoilers.
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--> '''Arthur''': [[spoiler: Diane is dead. I buried her two years ago.]]
** Specifically, [[spoiler: Shaw has an 85% chance of death, while Finch and Claypool both individually have a 45% chance of death. There's a 10% chance that they both get to leave alive...]]
* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler: Control is Diane.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Diane Claypool.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Arthur remembers Harold, but not his own wife. [[spoiler: His wife has been DeadAllAlong...]]
* HeroicBSOD: After the events of the HR subplot, Reese goes through one and goes to drink himself to death in Colorado.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Project Samaritan's status is unknown.]]
* WhamEpisode: Just look at all of the spoilers.
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--> '''Arthur''': [[spoiler: Diane is dead. I buried her two years ago.]]
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** In ancient Greek mythology, it was the name of the underworld's "river of forgetfulness."" If you drank water from the River Lethe, [[EasyAmnesia you forgot everything.]]
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'''Season 3, Episode 11''':
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* GeniusBonus: the word "Lethe" in Greek literally means "oblivion", "forgetfulness", or "concealment." In ancient Greek mythology, it was the name of the underworld's "river of forgetfulness."
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* GeniusBonus: the word "Lethe" in Greek literally means "oblivion", "forgetfulness", or "concealment." In ancient Greek mythology, it was the name of the underworld's "river of forgetfulness."
