History Recap / PersonOfInterestS04E07

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* DoubleEntendre: Shaw and Tomas lay it on thick during their first meeting.

* HomoeroticSubtext: Root/Shaw. Which is rapidly becoming text.

* MsFanservice: Root's "French Mary Poppins Barbie" cover identity

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** How did Root and Shaw kill ten hours in that CIA safehouse?
** "Full decontamination. [[ShowerOfLove This could take all night]]."

* BiTheWay: Shaw

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: When the relevant numbers came from the Machine, the codenames of the agents assigned to deal with them followed the pattern of Indigo.[designation] (e.g. Shaw was 5A). Now that the government is getting its intel from Samaritan, the color designation of the agents has switched to 'Scarlet'.

** The [[MeaningfulName name]] "Tomas Koroa" alludes to the main character of the 1968 film ''Film/TheThomasCrownAffair.'' [[BilingualBonus "Tomas" is the Spanish equivalent of Thomas, and "Koroa" is the Basque word for crown]].

--->'''--Finch'''

* AmazonChaser: Tomas, and apparently Romeo too -- he gives a good recommendation for Shaw after she knocks him out and throws the bag of gold bars he just stole into the river.

** To [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E06 Mors Praematura]]. It seems that Shaw and Root had ten hours to kill in the CIA safe-house when infiltrating the prisoner pick-up.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: Samaritan gets close to identifying Shaw.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: When the relevant numbers came from the Machine, the codenames of the agents assigned to deal with them followed the pattern of Indigo.[designation] (e.g. Shaw was 5A). Now that the government is getting its intel from Samaritan, the color designation of the agents has switched to 'Scarlet'.
* ComplexityAddiction: Samaritan seems to be getting a taste for this, appearing to be running several schemes at once. Then again it is a computer, so multi-tasking would be second nature.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Tomas: "I'm not a saint, but some things are too far, even for a man like me."

* ImposterForgotOneDetail: Root DressesTheSame as a secretary, but Samaritan's analysis shows GAIT MISMATCH.

* JustFollowingOrders: One of the Relevant agents notes how he hates that they have turned into this. Even gets clearly frustrated when the orders were changed from destroying the virus to securing it and the person would not tell him why.
* KickTheDog: Finch acknowledges that he and Root thoroughly did this and he does not like it. Despite attacking one of Samaritan's projects he notes the man in charge of the project was completely unaware of Samaritan and truly just wanted to do good.

* NoSell: Try to delete the footage of an old colleague who you were inadvertently tasked with hunting down? Samaritan has other ideas, being able to recover and reconstruct the data ISA operator Delvin tried to delete, potentially spotting Shaw

* PetTheDog: Samaritan might be trying to take over the world, but it is made clear in this episode it still is a program designed to protect people.

** The [[MeaningfulName name]] "Tomas Korora" alludes to the main character of the 1968 film ''Film/TheThomasCrownAffair.'' [[BilingualBonus "Tomas" is the Spanish equivalent of Thomas, and "Koroa" is the Basque word for crown]].

** The thieves are dubbed [[Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid The Hole in the Wall Gang]].

* SpannerInTheWorks: Despite his best efforts at covering her trail, Grice spotting Shaw draws the attention of Samaritan

* ComplexityAddiction: Samaritan seems to be getting a taste for this, appearing to be running several schemes at once.

--> '''Samaritan: CONTACTING [[AffablyEvil ADMIN]]'''

-->'''Root''': He's a dangerous criminal, after all, and I just couldn't bear it if someone hurt you.
-->''beat, smiles''
-->I mean,[[BaitAndSwitchComment besides me.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: How Tomas' employer intends to "pay" him and his crew, possibly almost to [[Film/TheDarkKnight Joker]] levels: Tomas is to be killed by his compatriots, who are killed by their employer Marko, who is in turn killed by the Relevant side under orders from Samaritan to steal the virus. It's anyone's guess whether ''they'' would have lived after fulfilling their orders.

-->'''Root''': I couldn't bear it if someone hurt you.
-->''beat''
-->[[BaitAndSwitchComment Besides me.]]