Recap / Person of Interest

Person of Interest is a Post-Cyberpunk action-adventure drama created by Jonathan Nolan. It originally aired on CBS from 2011 to 2016.

As with all recap pages, all spoilers are unmarked.

Season 1 Episodes

"You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a Machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it. I designed the Machine to detect acts of terror, but it sees everything. Violent crimes involving ordinary people, people like you, crimes the government considered irrelevant. They wouldn't act so I decided I would, but I needed a partner, someone with the skills to intervene. Hunted by the authorities, we work in secret. You'll never find us, but victim or perpetrator, if your number's up, we'll find you."

— Finch, Opening Narration of Season 1

1. Pilot
2. Ghosts
3. Mission Creep
4. Cura Te Ipsum
5. Judgement
6. The Fix
7. Witness
8. Foe
9. Get Carter
10. Number Crunch
11. Super
12. Legacy
13. Root Cause
14. Wolf and Cub
15. Blue Code
16. Risk
17. Baby Blue
18. Identity Crisis
19. Flesh and Blood
20. Matsya Nyaya
21. Many Happy Returns
22. No Good Deed
23. Firewall

Season 2 Episodes

"You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a Machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I designed the Machine to detect acts of terror but it sees everything: violent crimes involving ordinary people. The government considers these people irrelevant. We don't. Hunted by the authorities, we work in secret. You'll never find us, but victim or perpetrator, if your number's up, we'll find you."

— Finch, Opening Narration of Seasons 2 & 3

1. The Contingency
2. Bad Code
3. Masquerade
4. Triggerman
5. Bury the Lede
6. High Road
7. Critical
8. Til Death
9. C.O.D.
10. Shadow Box
11. 2-Pi-R
12. Prisoner's Dilemma
13. Dead Reckoning
14. One Percent
15. Booked Solid
16. Relevance
17. Proteus
18. All In
19. Trojan Horse
20. In Extremis
21. Zero Day
22. God Mode

Season 3 Episodes

1. Liberty
2. Nothing To Hide
3. Lady Killer
4. Reasonable Doubt
5. Razgovor
6. Mors Praematura
7. The Perfect Mark
8. Endgame
9. The Crossing
10. The Devil's Share
11. Lethe
12. Aletheia
13. 4C
14. Provenance
15. Last Call
16. RAM
17. / ^note Yes, tropers, that's the full title. See the entry under "Title Confusion" for further explanation.
18. Allegiance
19. Most Likely To...
20. Death Benefit
21. Beta
22. A House Divided
23. Deus Ex Machina

Season 4 Episodes

"We are being watched..."

— Finch

1. Panopticon
2. Nautilus
3. Wingman
4. Brotherhood
5. Prophets
6. Pretenders
7. Honor Among Thieves
8. Point of Origin
9. The Devil You Know
10. The Cold War
11. If-Then-Else
12. Control-Alt-Delete
13. M.I.A.
14. Guilty
15. Q&A
16. Blunt
17. Karma
18. Skip
19. Search and Destroy
20. Terra Incognita
21. Asylum
22. YHWH

Season 5 Episodes

If you can hear this, you're alone. The only thing left of us is the sound of my voice. I don't know if any of us made it. Did we win? Did we lose? I don't know. I'm not even sure I know what victory would mean anymore. But either way, it's over. So let me tell you who we were. Let me tell you who you are...and how we fought back.

—Voice of Root, Opening Monologue of "B.S.O.D."

Finch: You are being watched. The government has a secret system...
Greer: A system you asked for to keep you safe.
Finch: A Machine that spies on you every hour of every day.
Greer: You granted it the power to see everything. To index, order, and control the lives of ordinary people.
Finch: The government considers these people irrelevant. We don't.
Greer: But to it, you are all irrelevant, victim or perpetrator, if you stand in its way.
Finch: We'll find you.

—Opening Narration from "Truth Be Told" to "Synecdoche".

1. B.S.O.D.
2. SNAFU
3. Truth Be Told
4. 6,741
5. ShotSeeker
6. A More Perfect Union
7. QSO
8. Reassortment
9. Sotto Voce
10. The Day The World Went Away
11. Synecdoche
12. .exe
13. return 0

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