History Recap / PersonOfInterestS04E20

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Chase is last seen downing a bottle of pills at gunpoint; his ultimate fate is unknown. Presumably, he was rescued along with Reese.

* FanNickname: "Hallucination!Carter"

* RealityEnsues: Reese follows a [=PoI=] to a remote location without cellphone reception. He knows that the [=PoI=] is either a vicious killer or the likely target of one, yet he still goes there alone, without any backup or means of calling for help. A moments' inattention gets him shot and it's definitely not OnlyAFleshWound. While Reese is able to take the shooter down, he barely has the strength to retrieve his car keys and crawl to his car. Due to the cold, the car won't start, and Reese does not have the strength left to look for help or some other shelter. One of the show's biggest {{Determinator}}s is forced to sit in a freezing car waiting to either bleed out to death or more likely die from hypothermia.

* WhamShot: Reese is shot InTheBack.

* RealityEnsues: Reese follows a [=PoI=] to a remote location without cellphone reception. He knows that the [=PoI=] is either a vicious killer or the likely target of one, yet he still goes there alone, without any backup or means of calling for help. A moment's inattention get him shot and it's definitely not OnlyAFleshWound. While Reese is able to take the shooter down, he barely has the strength to retrieve his car keys and crawl to his car. Due to the cold, the car won't start, and Reese does not have the strength left to look for help or some other shelter. One of the show's biggest {{Determinator}}s is forced to sit in a freezing car waiting to either bleed out to death or more likely die from hypothermia.

* NoodleIncident: Root returns to the subway lair [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext in a wedding dress and athletic shoes]].

* FeverDreamEpisode: Carter and Reese in the stakeout turns out to be a hallucination after Reese is shot.
** FanNickname: "Hallucination!Carter"

* CopKiller: Gil tries to invoke this.

* TheLostLenore: As well as Jessica, Carter has taken on aspects of this for Reese too.

--->I know you've spent the last couple of months trying to drink yourself to death. I know you're contemplating more efficient ways to do it.

-->'''Finch:''' ...Congratulations?
-->'''Root:''' Don't go buying me that blender just yet, Harry.

* RealityEnsues: Reese follows a [=PoI=] to a remote location without cellphone reception. He knows that the [=PoI=] is either a vicious killer or the likely target of one, yet he still goes there alone, without any backup or means of calling for help. A moment's inattention get him shot and it's definitely not OnlyAFleshWound. While Reese is able to take the shooter down, he barely has the strength to retrieve his car keys and crawl to his car. Due to the cold the car won't start and Reese does not have the strength left to look for help or some other shelter. One of the show's biggest {{Determinator}}'s is forced to sit in a freezing car waiting to either bleed out to death or more likely die from hypothermia.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Chase is last seen downing a bottle of pills at gunpoint; his ultimate fate is unknown.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: Reese is near death. An unknown car is approaching.
** At the screening of the episode at the Paley Convention, [[WordOfGod Greg Plageman said Fusco was in the car]].

-->'''-Carter'''

* CopKiller: Phil tries to invoke this.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Phil murders his half-brother's entire family because their father refused to recognize him.

** Reese is momentarily distracted by Chase and fails to see Phil entering from the back of the cabin. This gives Phil the opportunity to shoot Reese in the back.
** Phil fails to spot the backup gun that Reese has in an ankle holster. This gets him shot just as he is getting ready to finish Reese off.

* FrameUp: Phil tries to frame Chase as a druggie who murdered his family.

* NotGoodWithRejection: Phil was obsessed with his biological father's approval.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: if the tea it isn't [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sencha Sencha green tea]], Finch doesn't want it.

* AccidentalMisnaming: Chase calls Phil "Gil." Apparently it wasn't the first time.

* NoodleIncident: Root tries to find the Machine... [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext by dressing in a wedding gown]].

** Resse constantly turning up the heat in the car is one of the early hints that something weird is happening during the stakeout.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Phil murders his half-brother's entire family their father refused to recognize him.

* InterruptedSuicide: Retroactively. John's hallucination of Carter implies that she stopped Reese from jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E01 back in the pilot]].
** MythologyGag: In the original draft of the pilot script, the first scene was Reese standing on the bridge, deciding whether or not to jump. In the episode as filmed, it's referenced when Finch says:
--->I know you've spent the last couple of months trying to drink yourself to death. I know you're contemplating more efficient ways to do it.

* MonochromePast: Reese's flashbacks of Carter's investigation have a blueish hue to them.