History Awesome / PersonOfInterest

** Lionel Fusco is a mere NYPD Cop going up against ''[[{{Badass}} French Legionnaires]]'' you'd think he'd be completely out of his league. You'd be ''wrong''.

* In "Contingency" a neo-Nazi threatens Reese with an AngryGuardDog. Reese recognizes that it is a highly trained military dog and he worked with this type of guard dog before. He also knows that there are only three people in the world who train these dogs for the US military and they all train the dogs to obey commands in Dutch. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjTfHUH-yHs Reese shouts a few commands in Dutch]], the dog lies down and a few minutes later the neo-Nazi is flying out a window.

** Harold saving Reese from a Samaritan agent. Brownie points to the {{Mook}} for being able to one up Reese in a one on one fight.

** Reese gets a screwdriver to the bullet wound and [[TheStoic he doesn't even so much as yelp]].

%%* "SNAFU":

** On a meta level, this episode is currently the third-highest-rated television episode of [[http://www.imdb.com/search/title?num_votes=1000,&sort=user_rating&title_type=tv_episode all time]] on Website/IMDb, currently only topped by ''Series/BreakingBad''[='=]s "Ozymandias" and ''Series/GameOfThrones''[='=] "The Winds of Winter", and has a perfect user rating of 10/10.

** Kudos to Harold for getting a tracking device right into Decima's base of operations. Pity Greer was way too DangerouslyGenreSavvy for such a tactic however.

** Despite all the simulated failures, when it counts, the Machine is able to destroy Samaritan once and for all.
** On a meta level, this episode is currently the third-highest-rated television episode of [[http://www.imdb.com/search/title?num_votes=1000,&sort=user_rating&title_type=tv_episode all time]] on Website/IMDb, currently only topped by ''Series/BreakingBad''[='=]s "Ozymandias" and ''Series/GameOfThrones''[='=] "Battle of the Bastards", and has a perfect user rating of 10/10.

** On a meta level, this episode is currently the third-highest-rated television episode of [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4679214/ all time]] on Website/IMDb, currently only topped by ''Series/BreakingBad''[='=]s "Ozymandias" and ''Series/GameOfThrones''[='=] "Battle of the Bastards", and has a perfect user rating of 10/10.

** On a meta level, this episode is currently the third-highest-rated television episode of [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4679214/ all time]] on Website/IMDb, currently only topped by ''Series/BreakingBad'''s "Ozymandias" and ''Series/GameOfThrones''' "Battle of the Bastards", and has a perfect user rating of 10/10.

** John Reese's [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]].

%%* "Return 0":

** ISA agent Samantha Shaw gets lots of these over the course of the episode, but a standout is when she disarms a tactical team member, stuffs the man's flashbang grenade into his gas mask and sets it off, rides the man's body through the window down a two story drop, and then finally finishes the Mook off with her pistol. Reese gets his own offscreen moment during the same sequence when, immediately after being shot seven times in the body armor by Shaw's submachine gun, he immediately gets up and [[MookHorrorShow takes on a second tactical team]] to cover Shaw's escape. After Shaw gets outside we see her limping past two men that Reese had kneecapped on his way in.

** Samantha Shaw sneaking up on Reese. And then sneaking up on Finch!

** Lionel Fusco, Samantha Shaw, and John Reese working as a well-oiled team to waylay Decima's mook masquerading as an FBI agent:

%%* "Synecdoche":

** [[spoiler: [[Main/BewareTheNiceOnes Finch's]] bone-chilling [[Main/WorldofCardboardspeech monologue]] to Samaritan, while in federal custody. Pretty much indicating he's done playing by [[Main/TheUnfettered the rules]]. Which is soon followed by The Machine (taking the voice of the recently deceased Root), getting him out of prison, by [[Main/AIisaCrapShoot instigating a jailbreak]].]]

%%* "The Day the World Went Away":

%%* "Sotto Voce":

** Reese and an innocent are targeted by gunman not far from a barn. Reese pulls the girl down just as the gunmen are knocked down with bullets in thier ankles. Cue Root ''riding up on a horse'' with gun in hand.
%%* "QSO":

** Reese and an innocent are targeted by gunman not far from a bar. Reese pulls the girl down just as the gunmen are knocked down with bullets in thier ankles. Cue Root ''riding up on a horse'' with gun in hand.

%%* "A More Perfect Union":

* "Panopticon"

* "Nautilus"
** [[spoiler: Credit must be given to the POI of this episode, who solved Samaritan's code and was recruited by it as an asset.]]

* "Wingman"

* "Brotherhood"

* "Prophets"
** Root versus Martine. Martine is in "God Mode" communicating directly with Samaritan for directions and where to aim, and Root relies on her own skill with guns, MoreDakka (she takes four handguns), and the element of surprise with a gas grenade. A significant portion of the fight occurs with the two unable to even see each other, shooting through a roof and ceiling. While Martine gets the best of Root due to God Mode, Root is able to save the [=PoI=] by getting Samaritan confused between targeting her or him.

** Root didn't do badly as well [[spoiler: taking two bullets like a champ, and managing to confuse the hell out of Samaritan by successfully baiting it into being forced to prioritize between killing her or the POI.]]
** Going by the dates in the flashback scenes, Harold didn't just build the world's first true AI, he built the first forty-three true [=AIs=]... in ''three and a half months''.
*** And we later learn that he did it [[spoiler:while inventing his own operating system and programming language]].
* "Pretenders"

* "The Devil You Know"

* "The Cold War"

* "If-Then-Else"

-->'''Reese:''' I go to hell, I'm [[TakingYouWithMe taking you with me.]]
** Team Machine's chances of survival are at 1% and dropping. Then [[spoiler:Shaw]] arrives and their odds start rapidly increasing. In a combined effort, [[spoiler: Shaw lobs the suicide vest and slaughters almost all of Martine's hit-squad while those who survived the explosion get cut down in Shaw and Root's]] barrage.
* "Control Alt Delete"

* "Guilty"
** Fusco, to Reese, demanding to be kept in the loop with Team Machine:
-->Look, I get it. After what happened to Shaw, you and Glasses are worried the same thing's gonna happen to me. And you know what? It might. And I'm fine with that. You don't get to decide what or who I'm willing to die for. I made my choice a long time ago. So stop shutting me out.
* "Q&A"

* "Blunt"

* "Skip"

* "Search and Destroy"

* "Asylum"

* "YHWH"

'''Reese:''' Hell yes.
** Then when Dominic tries to run, he is greeted by Detective Fusco who brought two swat guys with him.

* "BSOD"
** Root beats the shit out of two men, while injured and unarmed. [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu She then proceeds to flip off Samaritan.]]

** Harold, the unarmed TechnicalPacifist, evades two Samaritan agents by stealing some guy's hat.

* "6,741"