History Recap / PersonOfInterestS05E10

* CoolCar[=/=]CoolGuns[=/=]{{BFG}}:
** Team Samaritan breaks out a [[GatlingGood M134 Gatling gun]] mounted on the roof of a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHHj8IavEjk Dillion Aero Chevy Suburban]] in an attempt to turn Shaw and Root into red mist.
** Root utilizes a Desert Arms Tactical Recon sniper rifle to crash the Suburban by taking off the bonnet with a round.
** Shaw wields a Heckler and Koch [=MP5A3=] in the attempt to rescue Finch.
** One of the Samaritan assets responding to Shaw and Root's assault brings along a FN MAG light machine gun. Unfortunately for him, its bulkiness allows Shaw, who is wielding a lighter submachine gun, to quickly take him out of play.
** Elias goes up against a numerically superior team of Samaritan operatives armed with high capacity pistols, using only a stainless steel Walther PPK, and proceeds to wipe the floor with them.
** The janitor of the apartment building is working for Elias. He's packing a heavily customized Desert Eagle and proceeds to give a pair of Samaritan assets trapping his boss the old DoubleTap.
** Jeff Blackwell uses a DRD Tactical CDR-15 rifle to kill Root.

* BookEnds:

* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: After Root is fatally shot, Finch calls her by her chosen name rather than Ms. Groves. He has done this before, but this time he's desperately shouting it at her unconscious body.

* WrongGenreSavvy: The FBI agent takes Finch's WorldOfCardboardSpeech as a MotiveRant from a WellIntentionedExtremist taking the law into his own hands. But of course, Finch [[BorrowedCatchphrase wasn't even talking to him.]]
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Finch delivers a glorious one in TranquilFury to Samaritan, while an FBI agent interrogates him.
-->'''Finch:''' I have played by the rules for so long.\\
'''Agent:''' Not from where I'm sitting.\\
'''Finch:''' No, not ''your'' rules. You work at the behest of a system so broken that you didn't even notice when it became corrupted at its core. When I first broke your rules, a sitting president had authorized assassination squads in Laos, and the head of the FBI had ordered his men, ''you'', to conduct illegal surveillance on his political rivals. Your rules have changed every time it was convenient for you. ''[[TheFettered I was talking about my rules.]]'' I have lived by those rules for so long. ''Believed'' in them for so long. Believed that if you played by the right rules eventually you would win. [[BeingGoodSucks But I was wrong, wasn't I? And now all the people I cared about are dead. Or will be dead soon enough. And we will be gone without a trace.]] So now I have to decide. Decide whether to let my friends die. To let hope die. To let the world be ground under your heel all because I played by my rules. [[ToBeLawfulOrGood I'm trying to decide.]] [[PrepareToDie I'm going to kill you.]] [[GodzillaThreshold But I need to decide how far I'm willing to go. How many of my own rules I'm willing to break to get it done.]]\\
'''Agent:''' [[WrongGenreSavvy Look. You want to add threatening the life of a federal agent to your file, I will draw up those charges right now. No waiting is required.]]\\
'''Finch:''' [[BorrowedCatchphrase I wasn't talking to you]].

* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask (also definitely a CrowningMomentOfAwesome): Root drives a car--using her heel, while sticking out the sunroof facing backwards, while simultaneously shooting off the bonnet of the Samaritan operatives' SUV with a sniper rifle.

* ThisIsThePartWhere
-->'''Machine:''' There's something else I wanted to tell you before I'm gone.
-->'''Shaw:''' Is this the part where you tell me that... I should live out the rest of my days in peace? [[CallTheAgriculture Grow an herb garden]] or something?
-->'''Machine:''' No.

* {{Kneecapping}}: Reese congratulates Fusco on his shooting after putting one through the knee of a Samaritan mook. Subverted when he then produces the grenades as they've no time for ThouShaltNotKill.

* TemptingFate: Elias' words: "Underneath all that intellect, you’re the darkest of all of us. It’s always the quiet ones we need to be afraid of. I just hope I’m not around the day that pot finally boils over." When this happens, Elias no longer is around.

* ItIsDehumanizing: Root calls Finch on not giving the Machine a name, saying it's because [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman She would be easier to kill]]. But Finch says that he preferred the Machine come up with Her own name.

* OlderThanTheyThink (InUniverse): All this illegal surveillance and covert assassination in the name of national security was going on long before the War on Terror and Northern Lights.

* DullSurprise: Shaw's reaction to Root's death is...[[EmptyShell nothing]]. It's all just a simulation, after all.

* DullSurprise: Shaw's reaction to Root's death is...nothing. It's all just a simulation, after all.

* DullSurprise: Shaw's reaction to Root's death is...nothing. It's all just a simulation, after all.

* SmugSmiler: The receptionist refuses to let 'Detective Riley' and Fusco check out their employee records without a warrent. When Reese insists on talking to their supervisor, she has a definite smirk when she asks if they're ''sure'' they want to do that.

* ItIsDehumanizing: Root calls Finch on not giving the Machine a name, saying it's because it would be easier to kill. But Finch says that he preferred the Machine come up with Her own name.

* CommandOverride: After Finch has the Machine revert to a closed system, Root reveals that she's built in a backdoor override, but it can [[MoralityChain only be activated by Finch]].

* ThisMeansWar: At the end of the episode, Finch basically declares that he's done with simply resisting Samaritan and that he intends to kill it, [[TheUnfettered whatever the cost]].

* JustKeepDriving: Robo-Car variant during the car chase. Root's BMW and Samaritan's Dillon Aero Chevy are swerving and shooting and generally making hell out of the street they're on, and none of the cars around them are responding. Contrast this with the start of the shoot-out, where large numbers of {{Innocent Bystander}}s are seen fleeing the scene.

* BlackComedy: A student is trying to bully the mild-looking 'Professor Whistler' into giving her a better grade. She changes her tune [[OhCrap once Reese and Root enter and produce their guns.]]

* ItMakesSenseInContext: Root asks Finch to pass her "...the {{BFG}} big gun]], and a hair scrunchie."