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** John's smile while [[spoiler: ensuring Finch gets a happy ending and finding peace in his last moments, having come to terms with his own demons and realizing that his pain and suffering were ultimately in service of a good and noble cause]].
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** [spoiler: Finch gets what he's always wanted but never thought would happen: reunited with Grace, who is overjoyed to see him.]]

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** [spoiler: [[spoiler: Finch gets what he's always wanted but never thought would happen: reunited with Grace, who is overjoyed to see him.]]

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** [spoiler: Finch gets what he's always wanted but never thought would happen: reunited with Grace, who is overjoyed to see him.]]
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* After Reese has rescued Finch from Root and returned him to the library, Root calls the person who just ruined her plans to get to the Machine (for now, anyway) ... and thanks him for finding out what happened to her best friend, who had been kidnapped and murdered twenty years previously. It is currently the only humanizing moment for an otherwise amoral character.

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* After Reese has rescued Finch from Root and returned him to the library, Root calls the person who just ruined her plans to get to the Machine (for now, anyway) ... and sincerely thanks him for finding out what happened to the body of her best friend, who had been kidnapped and murdered disappeared twenty years previously. prior, allowing the girl to have a proper burial at last. It is currently the only first humanizing moment for an otherwise amoral character.Root, who, at this point in the series, is generally amoral.
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** Fusco, the person who least understood her, is the one who gives the closet thing to a eulogy for [[spoiler: Root at her burial]].
-->'''Fusco:''' I really admired her. Don't get me wrong, she was crazy as a clown, but she had conviction. She gave this fight everything she had.
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** Reese may be shockingly bad at dealing with his own grief, [[spoiler:but he did really well with Shaw. Giving her the space she needed, and looking out for her without pushing.]]

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** Our Team Machine isn't the only one out there, and the one they meet in this episode is three former numbers: Joey Durban, Logan Pierce, and Harper Rose.

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** After Root dies, the Machine takes her voice, allowing at least some part of her analog interface to live on through her.

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** After Root [[spoiler: dies, the Machine takes her voice, allowing at least some part of her analog interface to live on through her. her.]]


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** Reese encounters the dead body of [[spoiler: Elias]], and closes its eyes in respect.

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** When Shaw details how she's killed herself in every simulation to prevent from hurting Root, she puts a gun to her head, saying she'll do it right now. Root responds by pointing a gun to ''her'' head, telling Shaw that she'd rather die than live without her.

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** When Shaw details how she's killed herself in every simulation to prevent from hurting Root, she puts a gun to her head, saying she'll do it right now. Root responds by pointing a gun to ''her'' head, telling Shaw that she'd rather die than live without her. It manages to make Shaw panic long enough for her to snap out of it.



** After Root dies, the Machine takes her voice, allowing at least some part of her analog interface to live on through her.

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** Shaw and Root's conversation minutes before Samaritan assets begin their attack on the Team Machine safe house.
** After Root dies, the Machine takes her voice, allowing at least some part of her analog interface to live on through her.
** Root's [[spoiler: final fate]], a testament to how she's grown as a character. [[spoiler: Spotting a man with a rifle aiming at Finch, she does not hesitate and makes the split second decision to move into the path of the bullet,]] sacrificing [[spoiler: her life for a man who had once loathed her when they first met.]]
** Elias [[spoiler: being willing to go to bat once last time for Finch against the army of Samaritan assets closing in on them. He doesn't hesitate in shooting his way through a numerically superior force and tries to get Harold to safety, simply because he doesn't want to see any harm come to one of the last friends he has left alive.]]

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** After Root dies, the Machine takes her voice, allowing at least some part of her analog interface to live on through her.
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** After he takes a bullet for Reese, Fusco is finally brought into the secret of the Machine to join the team fully.
** Seeing the gang united on a bridge, Shaw finally realizes this is no simulation and rejoins them.

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** When Shaw details how she's killed herself in every simulation to prevent from hurting Root, she puts a gun to her head, saying she'll do it right now. Root responds by pointing a gun to ''her'' head, telling Shaw that she'd rather die than live without her.

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** With the Machine's help, Root gets a message ("4 alarm fire") to Shaw, just in time to stop her from killing herself (for real).

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* "6431"

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* "6431" "6,741"
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* "ShotSeeker"

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** Root looks ''heartbroken'' when she thinks Reese has been taken by Samaritan. Her immediate response is to ask the Machine for a location, and then to run in guns blazing. [[VitriolicBestBuds She immediate goes back to calling him "helper monkey" once she determines he's safe, but those two have come a long way.]]
** Reese tells Moran in no uncertain terms what will happen to him if he threatens Fusco again.
-->'''Reese:''' I'll kill you myself if you ever go near Fusco again.
** Reese thanking Fusco for his help.
-->'''Reese:''' You stuck your neck out for me and we really appreciate it. Thank you, from all of us.

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** When all is said and done, [[spoiler: a brainwahsed Shaw loves Root too much and dies for the person she loves by killing herself.]]
** The simple fact that [[spoiler: Shaw has resisted Samaritan's mind trick and successfully foiled it from finding out where Root, John and Harold are hiding.]]

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** Team Machine go on a ''picnic''. They're all genuinely happy for the first time since the ending of "The Crossing".
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** Root telling a former client that "She needed a change. Got a new job. Fell in love."

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** Root telling a former client that "She she needed a change. Got "Got a new job. Fell in love."
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** Root and Reese have never been friends. But Reese goes back to save Root from a small army.
-->'''Root:''' I knew you had a soft spot for me.
** Harold referring to the Machine as "her" rather than "it."
** Root telling a former client that "She needed a change. Got a new job. Fell in love."
** Root telling Harold that the reason she's so comfortable with the Machine is because "She's a reflection of you."
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** Shaw came back for Root.
---> '''' Root (over the phoneto Finch)'''' "Tell Shaw I was touched she came to look for me."

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** Shaw came back searched for Root.
Root after she was taken by Hersh and Control.
---> '''' ''' Root (over the phoneto Finch)'''' phone, to Finch)''' "Tell Shaw I was touched she came to look for me.""
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** Shaw came back for Root.
---> '''' Root (over the phoneto Finch)'''' "Tell Shaw I was touched she came to look for me."
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** Owen thanking Reese at the end of the episode. While he acts like a stereotypical UngratefulBastard for most of the episode, after he's safe, he honestly thanks John.

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** "I thought you deserved the gold."

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** "I Agent Bouchard's conversation with Kelli Lin at the end of the episode, after she's been arrested
---> '''Bouchard:''' Unfortunately, since you are a legal US citizen, I can't do what I really want and extradite you back to Europe. And there is so much I have you on. 40 counts of art and antiquities theft, and illicit trafficking in 20 countries. I could put you away for a lifetime on half the continents in the world, regardless of the duress you were under at the time. I'm a hero with Interpol now. I recovered the Bible and took down a cell of Czech extortionists in Prague. Don't know how I did that, but I'll take credit. I couldn't do anything wrong now if I tried... I always thought it was a shame.\\
'''Kelli:''' My life of crime?\\
'''Bouchard:''' No. Your life before that. I always
thought you deserved the gold."gold.
*** Then he leaves the key to her interrogation cell on the table in front of her.
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** Shaw giving Root medical instructions for her wounds, despite knowing full well that the Machine can give her better info than she ever could.
--->'''Root:''' [[LesYay I love it when you play doctor]].

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--->'''Reese:''' "I've looked in the eyes of traitors. You don't have that look. You look like a man who's trapped."

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--->'''Reese:''' "I've I've looked in the eyes of traitors. You don't have that look. You look like a man who's trapped."trapped.
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** The reason the villains win? Because the Machine refused to sacrifice a random washed-up executive turned janitor for its own sake. The plan would have been over before Decima got within a hundred yards of him if the Machine had just ordered Root to shoot him. But it absolutely refused to, even when Root realized what his role was and begged to just be allowed to leave him behind for more important matters.
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** Reese holds up his mobile so Finch can hear the passengers applauding his safe landing.
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* After watching one POI interact with his daughter in "The High Road", Reese is ''immediately'' convinced the man is a saint, even chuckling at parts of their conversation. It really speaks to how much calmer he's become working with Finch.
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** Reese and Carter exchanging a fist bump after agreeing how to work the case.

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