Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Recap / PersonOfInterestS04E21

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Martin invades Finch's personal space, and says that she'll lay "more than just a hand on him" and that "he doesn't look like much of a fighter", which seems almost more like a threat of sexual assault than a death threat.

Added: 547

Changed: 55

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* OhCrap: Shelley when she realizes Control is going to kill her.

to:

* OhCrap: OhCrap:
**
Shelley when she realizes Control is going to kill her.her.
** Dominic when he realized that Elias manipulated him into killing Link.
* PlotParallel: Both Samaritan and Dominic had the same plan: Lure their enemies (Team Machine and Elias' men, respectively) to their headquarters, so they can be killed and end their conflict. Both also failed, slightly: Samaritan succeeded in getting the Machine's location but left Harold and Root alive; Dominic didn't go through with it, thanks to Elias "[[BatmanGambit giving up his mole in the Brotherhood]]."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* WhamEpisode: As usual, a few things quantify it:

to:

* WhamEpisode: As usual, a few things quantify qualify it:

Added: 507

Changed: 75

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* WhamEpisode: Samaritan has finally located the Machine and its assets are out to get her.

to:

* WhamEpisode: As usual, a few things quantify it:
**
Samaritan has finally located the Machine and its assets are out to get her.her.
** Link and Martine die.
** Team Machine finds out Shaw is alive. She is glimpsed and is heavily implied to be working for Samaritan now.
** Finch and Root's covers appear to be blown, but this doesn't seem to be much of an issue since Samaritan has stopped hunting them, instead choosing to go after the Machine.
** Control finds out that Samaritan is planning an event resulting in a massive loss of life called "The Correction".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* FakeShemp: Shaw being led into a car. The most we see of her is a reflection in the passenger-side mirror.

to:

* FakeShemp: Shaw being led into a car. The most However, we also see of her is in a reflection in the passenger-side mirror.mirror of a car and she is definitely not a Fake Shemp here.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* BackForTheDead: Link
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* ThePurge: Samaritan's ultimate plan, dubbed [[DeadlyEuphemism the Correction]], and targeting all those Samaritan has determined to be deviant or aberrant.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* GenreSavvy:
** Elias is using the old [[http://untappedcities.com/2013/03/15/nycs-pneumatic-tube-mail-network/ pneumatic tube postal system]] to communicate with his henchmen because it can't be tapped by electronic surveillance. This also [[FridgeLogic explains]] why The Machine is not predicting premeditated attacks on the Brotherhood by the Elias organization--there are no phone calls or e-mails for The Machine to analyze.
** Control realizes that whenever Shelly mentions her children, it's a strategy to emotionally manipulate her.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Greer brings up this trope while scolding Root for continuing to fight, even when the situation was hopeless. Root waits until she's snapped Martine's neck like a twig before she stops.
-->'''Root:''' Now I surrender.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

** Also, after Elias identifies Link as the traitor within the Brotherhood, and Dominic shoots Link:
-->'''Elias:''' I might have lied about a few things, like the message your men intercepted. . . . Well, good news, there's no rat in your organization. Bad news, ''you need a new right-hand man.''
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* NewEraSpeech: Shelly gives one to Control.
--> '''Shelly:''' Go home to your loved ones. Hold your daughter tight, because a new day is dawning. And those who impede progress--the disruptive, the aberrant--will be systematically purged from our society. There will be no mercy, no stay of execution. For some this will be the end, but for others a rebirth, a second chance to live the life they were designed for. Every life given a purpose. Samaritan will build a new world, a better world.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* BondOneLiner: Root when she kills Martine.
-->'''Martine:''' ''(about killing Harold)'' Doesn't look like much of a fighter. Bet he'll die without so much as a peep.\\
''({{Beat}}. Root [[NeckSnap snaps her neck]].)''\\
'''Root:''' What do you know? [[IronicEcho Not a peep.]]

Added: 92

Changed: 21

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* MyGreatestFailure: The Machine feels this way with respect to Shaw's capture by Samaritan.



--> '''The Machine:''' You are wrong, Harold. You are not interchangeable. I failed to save Sameen. I will not fail you now.

to:

--> '''The Machine:''' You are wrong, Harold. You are not interchangeable. [[ILetGwenStacyDie I failed to save Sameen. Sameen.]] I will not fail you now.

Added: 379

Changed: 147

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Harper is only working with Dominic because [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E16 they met when Reese took down the Brotherhood's marijuana operations]].

to:

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Harper NiceJobBreakingItHero:
**Root's [[LoveMakesYouCrazy crazy love]] over Shaw causes her and Harold to run into what both he and the Machine suspected of a trap, causing, Samaritan, whose own search yielded no results at all, getting the Machine's location.
**Harper
is only working with Dominic because [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E16 they met when Reese took down the Brotherhood's marijuana operations]].

Added: 1019

Changed: 190

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Adding tropes.


* AintTooProudToBeg: Root, out of sheer desperation, begs the Machine to let herself and Harold die.

to:

* AintTooProudToBeg: Root, out of sheer desperation, begs the Machine not to let herself and Harold die.give in to Samaritan's SadisticChoice.
* AnticlimaxBoss: Martine, who is killed in a single short NeckSnap.



* TheHandler: Shelley, with the cover of a schoolteacher, is working for Samaritan to handle his moles inside ISA.

to:

* TheHandler: Shelley, Shelly, with the cover of a schoolteacher, is working for Samaritan to handle his moles inside ISA.



* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Dominic's attempts to get information on the mysterious Harold are... ineffective at best.
** He asks Elias to make Finch give up his surveillance system - but it's an inaccessible black box.
** He asks Reese and Fusco to give up Finch's location - but Fusco [[DefiantToTheEnd mocks him]] (and doesn't know anyway), and Reese [[UndyingLoyalty would die for Finch.]]



* LackOfEmpathy: Greer. His only reaction to Root begging the Machine to let her die is to look on impassively.
--> '''Greer''': Welcome, Mr. Finch! You're just in time to see us cut your friend's head open.



* NotSoStoic: Control keeps up a calm facade for the entire episode - but, when she finds out about [[ThePurge the impending Correction]], she brutally strikes Shelly in the face with her pistol, screaming as she does so.



* TortureChamberEpisode: Control tortures Shelley, Dominic tortures Elias, Reese and Fusco, and Decima were going to vivisect Root.

to:

* TortureAlwaysWorks: For Control, it's played straight. Averted with Dominic, who fails to get information on Finch from Elias, Reese and Fusco.
* TortureChamberEpisode: Control tortures Shelley, Shelly, Dominic tortures Elias, Reese and Fusco, and Decima were going to vivisect Root.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* HeroicSacrifice: The Machine gives up its location (thus giving Samaritan all it needs to end it) in order to save Harold and Root.


Added DiffLines:

* OhCrap: Shelley when she realizes Control is going to kill her.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* FaceHeelTurn: According to Martine, Shaw has done this. She's later seen driving a Decima van.

to:

* FaceHeelTurn: According to Martine, Shaw has done this. She's later seen driving aboard a Decima van.

Added: 144

Changed: 53

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


** Root points out that Harold taught the Machine to play [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E11 chess]] and [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS02E01 blackjack]].



* FaceHeelTurn: According to Martine, Shaw has done this.

to:

* FaceHeelTurn: According to Martine, Shaw has done this. She's later seen driving a Decima van.



* RageBreakingPoint: Root hits this when Martine gloats about what happened with Shaw while she disappeared. Root [[spoiler: kills her in response.]]

to:

* RageBreakingPoint: Root hits this when Martine gloats about what happened with Shaw while she disappeared. Root [[spoiler: kills her in response.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* WhamEpisode: Samaritan has finally located the Machine and its assets are out to get her.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: The Machine's eventual message to Harold.

to:

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: The Machine's eventual message to Harold.Harold.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: The Machine always refers to Finch as Admin. She called him Harold before she gave her location up.

Added: 220

Changed: 1

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* PyrrhicVictory: Dominic has captured Elias, and is poised to take over New York - but he'll never be able to hold it, as he killed his [[TheDragon right-hand man]] on mere suspicion, and now nobody will trust him.

to:

* PyrrhicVictory: Dominic has captured Elias, and is poised to take over New York - but he'll never be able to hold it, as he killed his [[TheDragon right-hand man]] on mere suspicion, and now nobody will trust him.
* RageBreakingPoint: Root hits this when Martine gloats about what happened with Shaw while she disappeared. Root [[spoiler: kills her in response.]]
* ShutUpHannibal: Root does the most permanent one possible to Martine.

Added: 2013

Removed: 171

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Adding tropes.


--> '''Finch''': Have you forgotten [[DragonInChief her]] so quickly? You've already discarded her and you're a human being, imagine how quickly [[AIIsACrapshoot that thing that you've created]] would discard you. Do you ever lay awake at night, wondering if one day it will see you as a threat? Or worse, as irrelevant?
--> '''Greer''': How arrogant of you to think that any of us are anything but irrelevant.



* AintTooProudToBeg: Root, out of sheer desperation, begs the Machine to let herself and Harold die.



* BerserkButton: Don't even touch Harold around Root. [[NeckSnap Or she will kill you.]]
--> '''Root''': Lay a hand on him, and I'll kill you.



* TheComputerIsYourFriend: Samaritan is getting closer to this with every episode.



* GreaterNeedThanMine: Root begs for the Machine not to give away its location to Samaritan, even if it means herself and Finch being killed.
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Finch taught the Machine never to value one person over another. The Machine, however, admits that Finch and Root are not interchangeable as he says.



* LastStand: Elias admits that this was his.



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Harper is only working with Dominic because [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E16 they met when Reese took down the Brotherhood's marijuana operations]].



** Harper. Although she was working with Dominic, Thornhill (note: the Machine) says she can name her price if she rescued Fusco, and she didn't tell Dominic about Finch's safehouse.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Deconstructed with Dominic; he kills Link on the suspicion of him being a rat, but it was exactly what Elias wanted.



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Harper is only working with Dominic because [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E16 they met when Reese took down the Brotherhood's marijuana operations]].



* PyrrhicVictory: Dominic has captured Elias, and is poised to take over New York - but he'll never be able to hold it, as he killed his [[TheDragon right-hand man]] on mere suspicion, and now nobody will trust him.



* TortureChamberEpisode: Control tortures Shelley, Dominic tortures Elias, Reese and Fusco, and Decima were going to vivisect Root.



* XanatosGambit: Samaritan's plan: Either the Machine gives up her location in exchange for letting Root and Finch live, or they get the Machine's code from Root's cochlear implant, and use that to locate her.

to:

* XanatosGambit: Samaritan's plan: Either the Machine gives up her location in exchange for letting Root and Finch live, or they get the Machine's code from Root's cochlear implant, and use that to locate her.her.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: The Machine's eventual message to Harold.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* IronicEcho: Dominic asks Elias how it feels to be responsible for [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E09 the death of his friend]]. After baiting Dominic into killing his own [[TheDragon Dragon]], Elias asks him the same question.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Samaritan's plan is revealed: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Correction]], during which Samaritan will eliminate all those it deems deviant, aberrant, or unfit to live in its new world.

to:

* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Samaritan's plan is revealed: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast [[DeadlyEuphemism the Correction]], during which Samaritan will eliminate all those it deems deviant, aberrant, or unfit to live in its new world.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Samaritan's plan is revealed: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Correction]], during which Samaritan will eliminate all those it deems deviant, aberrant, or unfit to live in its new world.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Fixing a typo.


** The Machine [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E20 continues]] sent Root on yet another NoodleIncident.

to:

** The Machine sent Root on [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E20 continues]] sent Root on yet another another]] NoodleIncident.

Added: 3065

Changed: 148

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* TheBusCameBack: [[TheDragon Link]] appears after an eleven episode absence.
* WorkingTitle: The episode was originally entitled "Black Site."

to:

----
* TheBusCameBack: BatmanGambit:
** Elias planted the pneumatic canister and the mole note at the bank to lure the Brotherhood to a trap.
** Samaritan knew Root had the only code of the Machine in her cochlear implant, and would come running to save Shaw.
* BeneathTheMask: Shelley's mask comes off after Control shows photographic evidence that she's working for Samaritan.
* TheBusCameBack:
**
[[TheDragon Link]] appears after an eleven episode absence.
** [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E18 Harper Rose]] is working for the Brotherhood.
* CassandraGambit: Used to insert Finch into the mental hospital.
* CallBack:
** The Machine [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E20 continues]] sent Root on yet another NoodleIncident.
** Once again, [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E19 Finch and Root climb down a tunnel in the snow to get data about Samaritan]].
** The Machine again [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E11 evaluates strategies prior to asset destruction]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: Elias gets his hand smashed by a hammer, John is stabbed with a screwdriver, and Fusco is waterboarded.
* ContinuityNod:
** Root calls back to when [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS02E22 he had Root admitted into a mental hospital]].
** Harper's still receiving texts from [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E17 Ernest Thornhill]].
** Samaritan is still [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E19 searching for the Machine's code, in an attempt to locate it]].
* FaceHeelTurn: According to Martine, Shaw has done this.
* FakeShemp: Shaw being led into a car. The most we see of her is a reflection in the passenger-side mirror.
* GameOfChicken: Root and the Machine.
* TheHandler: Shelley, with the cover of a schoolteacher, is working for Samaritan to handle his moles inside ISA.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Enough for Root to play chicken on a skyscraper ledge, to convince the Machine to help find Shaw.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Harper is only working with Dominic because [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E16 they met when Reese took down the Brotherhood's marijuana operations]].
* MobWar: The cold war between the Brotherhood and Elias turns hot.
* TheMole: Subverted. Elias made Dominic think Link was the mole in the Brotherhood. There was no mole.
* NeckSnap: Root does this to Martine.
* NoodleIncident: Root went to a "[[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny People's Republic]]" (presumably UsefulNotes/{{China}}) to get a key, using a fake cast to smuggle it out.
* ProperlyParanoid: Invoked as part of Finch's CassandraGambit.
* StrawNihilist: Greer sees himself, and all of humanity, as irrelevant.
* ThereAreNoCoincidences: Invoked by Control to get Shelley to admit she's working for Samaritan.
* WhamLine:
--> '''The Machine:''' You are wrong, Harold. You are not interchangeable. I failed to save Sameen. I will not fail you now.
* WhamShot:
** Shaw's phone ringing.
** Samaritan's map of the United States, locating the Machine.
* WorkingTitle: The episode was originally entitled "Black Site.""
* XanatosGambit: Samaritan's plan: Either the Machine gives up her location in exchange for letting Root and Finch live, or they get the Machine's code from Root's cochlear implant, and use that to locate her.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* TheBusCameBack: [[TheDragon Link]] appears after an eleven episode absence.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

Reese and Fusco get caught in the war between the two newest numbers, Elias and Dominic. Also, a tantalizing clue to Shaw’s whereabouts leads Finch and Root into a possible trap, and Control goes rogue to uncover the true intentions of Samaritan.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

'''Season 4, Episode 21'''
!Asylum

* WorkingTitle: The episode was originally entitled "Black Site."

Top