History Recap / PersonOfInterestS03E19

Written by Creator/DeniseThe

* BigDamnHeroes[=/=]GunsAkimbo: "Sorry I'm late, Harry."

* [[BreatherEpisode Breather]][=/=]WhamEpisode: Manages to be [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot both]]. The [[BuffySpeak whamminess]] comes from the Finch vs. Vigilance storyline, which opens the episode with a bang ([[StuffBlowingUp literally]]) right off the bat and ultimately ends in Vigilance leaking information about the existence of Northern Lights (though not the Machine, specifically) to the press, causing the government to shut down the program. The Machine, in turn, reassigns the relevant numbers - to Root. However, this is mostly compressed into the last five minutes of the episode with only a few elements of it showing up in the earlier acts, letting the fairly comedic plot involving Reese and Shaw at the reunion comprise the majority of the story.

-->'''Shaw:''' Torturing Doug so he would confess and then staging his death to look like a suicide? That's just plain artistry. ...but killing's not the answer.

* RefugeInAudacity: Root pretends to be an FBI Agent to Fusco who knows exactly who she is but has no way of proving it.

* ReunionRevenge: Reese and Shaw's part of the episode, though they start the case thinking the Number is going to be on the receiving end when the truth is the opposite.

* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: The Number was suspected by all his classmates of murdering his prom date.

* PlausibleDeniability

** Reese, as "Frank," is getting slapped in the face by every attractive woman in the class. It's explained when Shaw reveals that the real Frank was quite the womanizer in his high school days, [[Film/TheGraduate even sleeping with one girl's mother]].
*** ...a [[TheReveal reveal]] which also turns Finch's description of the real Frank as "the mattress king of Kenosha, Wisconsin" into a neat DoubleEntendre.

* SympatheticMurderer: Reed.

* StuffedInTheFridge: The Vigilance hitman.

** Reese, as "Frank," is getting slapped in the face by every attractive woman in the class. It's explained when Shaw reveals that the real Frank was [[YourCheatingHeart quite the womanizer in his high school days]], [[Film/TheGraduate even sleeping with one girl's mother]].

-->'''Shaw:''' I don't do relationships. ''(walks off)''
-->'''Reed:''' [[FriendsWithBenefits Who said anything about a relationship?]] ''(Shaw smiles)''

* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Reese and Shaw solve this by both taking the floor.

* BigDamnHeroes / GunsAkimbo: "Sorry I'm late, Harry."

* BreatherEpisode: Until the last five minutes, while there are elements involving Finch vs Vigilance, a large part of the story is the fairly comedic plot involving Reese and Shaw at the reunion.

* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Collier. He thinks Northern Lights ''is'' the Machine, rather than a project of the Machine's, for starters.
** WrongGenreSavvy: Like Shaw in [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS02E16 "Relevance"]], his assumptions make sense for a GovernmentConspiracy rather than a work of ScienceFiction.

* WhamEpisode: In the last five minutes of the episode, Vigilance leaks information about the existence of Northern Lights (but not the Machine, specifically) to the press, causing the government to shut down the program. The Machine, in turn, reassigns the relevant numbers - to Root.

!!Tropes present in this episode include

* BreakTheHaughty: Control acts cocky through this episode until [[spoiler: she is forced to shut down Northern Lights]].
* BreatherEpisode: Until the last five minutes, while there are elements involving Finch vs Vigilance, a large part of the story is the fairly comedic plot involving Reese and Shaw at the reunion.

* ClearMyName: The Number seeks to do this by [[spoiler: murdering the person actually responsible and [[FramingTheGuiltyParty leaving a forged suicide note]].]]

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: As of the end of the episode, [[spoiler:Northern Lights has been shut down, meaning the government will no longer investigate or deal with relevant threats.]]

* ReunionRevenge: Reese and Shaw's part of the episode, [[spoiler:though they start the case thinking the Number is going to be on the receiving end when the truth is the opposite.]]

* SlippingAMickey: [[spoiler: A friend of the Number's prom date did this to her at the prom twenty years before. She didn't get sufficiently stoned to accept the drugger's advances, but ''was'' sufficiently stoned to die of an overdose.]]

* WhamEpisode: In the last five minutes of the episode, [[spoiler:Vigilance leaks information about the existence of Northern Lights (but not the Machine, specifically) to the press, causing the government to shut down the program. The Machine, in turn, reassigns the relevant numbers - to Root.]]

!Most Likely To . . .

-->'''-Shaw'''

-->'''Reed:''' Who said anything about a relationship? ''(Shaw smiles)'

* ModestyShorts

* TossACoin: Shaw and Reese deciding who has to sit through a musical to protect the Person of Interest.

* FauxHorrorific: Shaw's reaction to everything. Except Reed.

* CacaphonyCover: A shootout between Team Machine and Vigilance with silenced weapons is covered by the reunion party.

* FauxHorror: Shaw's reaction to everything. Except this week's Number.

* HumanShield / NeckSnap
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer

* SarcasticConfession: "I shoot someone."

* ArsonMurderAndAdmiration
* BigDamnHeroes: "Sorry I'm late, Harry."

* CacaphonyCover: A shootout between Team Machine and Vigilance with silenced weapons is covered by the reunion party.

* CoinToss

* RansackedRoom: The FBI have cleaned out the previous numbers room, so Finch has to break into the evidence locker to steal her information. Unfortunately Collier has the same idea.

* ArsonMurderAndApproval

* RansackedRoom