History Quotes / PersonOfInterest

->''"There's one more thing. I'd like you to avoid violence, if at all possible. But, [[BerserkButton if they harm Grace in any way]], [[KillEmAll kill them all]]."''

->''"Someone once asked me if I had learned anything from it all. So let me tell you what I've learned. I learned [[InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn everyone dies alone]]. But if you meant something to someone, if you helped someone, or loved someone. If even a single person remembers you, then maybe you never really die. [[AndTheAdventureContinues And maybe... this isn't the end at all.]]"''

->''"There's one more thing. [[Pacifist I'd like you to avoid violence]], if at all possible. But, [[BerserkButton if they harm Grace in any way]], [[KillEmAll kill them all]."''

->''"That's just it. I could've been just like you, a bottom-feeder who turns on his own kind. For what? Money, power? I got lucky. I had a partner. She was good for me. For a lot of reasons. She reminded me that I could be good again too. I could be a good father, a good friend. A good cop. I'm not going to let you undo all the good she did. Carter saved my life. She saved me from myself. Because she believed in me. And I'm not going to throw all that way on a piece of crap like you. Patrick Simmons, you're under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say..."''

-->-- '''Harold Finch''', teaching '''The Machine''' "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E11]]"

-->--'''John Reese''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E01 Pilot]]"/"[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E21 Many Happy Returns]]"

-->--'''Harold Finch''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E01 Pilot]]"

-->--'''Harold Finch''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E02 Ghosts]]"

-->--'''John Reese''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E04 Cura te Ipsum]]"

-->--'''Joss Carter''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E12 Legacy]]"

-->--'''Harold Finch''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E14 Wolf and Cub]]"

-->--'''Carl Elias''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E19 Flesh and Blood]]"

-->--'''Nathan Ingram''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E22 No Good Deed]]"

-->--'''Harold Finch''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E22 No Good Deed]]"

-->--'''Root''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS02E01 The Contingency]]"

-->--'''Harold Finch''' explaining the value of pi to a math class, "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS02E11 2-Pi-R]]"

-->--'''Harold Finch''' to a suicidal young man, "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS02E11 2-Pi-R]]"

-->--'''The Machine,''' "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS02E21 Zero Day]]"

-->--'''Harold Finch''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E02 Nothing To Hide]]"

-->--'''Root''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E07 The Perfect Mark]]"

-->--"[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E10 The Devil's Share]]"

-->--'''Carl Elias''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E10 The Devil's Share]]"

-->--'''Harold Finch''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E11 Lethe]]"

-->--'''Sameen Shaw''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E12 Aletheia]]"

-->--'''The Machine''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E12 Aletheia]]"

-->--'''Sameen Shaw''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E13 4C]]"

-->--'''Harold Finch''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E13 4C]]"

-->--"[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E17 /]]"

-->--'''Harold Finch''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E20 Death Benefit]]"

-->--'''Control''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E22 A House Divided]]"

-->--'''Control''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E23 Deus Ex Machina]]"

-->--'''Root''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E23 Deus Ex Machina]]"

-->--'''Alicia Corwin,''' "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E17 Karma]]"

-->--'''Root''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E21 Asylum]]"

-->--"[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E22 YHWH]]"

-->--'''John Greer''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E22 YHWH]]"

-->--Voice of '''Root''', Season 5 trailer

-->--Voice of '''Root''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS05E01 B.S.O.D.]]" OpeningMonologue

-->--"[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS05E10 The Day The World Went Away]]"

-->--'''[[spoiler:The Machine]]''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS05E13 return 0]]"

->''"The Machine and I couldn't save the world. We had to settle for protecting the seven people who might be able to take it back, so we gave Samaritan [[StupidityInducingAttack a blind spot: seven key servers, that hard-codes it to ignore seven carefully crafted new identities]]. [[BigBrotherIsWatching When the whole world is watched, filed, indexed, numbered,]] [[HiddenInPlainSight the only way to disappear is to appear,]] [[LivingADoubleLife hiding our true identities inside a seemingly ordinary life.]] You're not a free man anymore, Harold. [[YouAreNumberSix You're just a number.]] [[DeepCoverAgent We have to become these people now]], and if we don't, they'll find us, and they'll kill us. I'm sorry, Harold. I know it's not enough. A lot of people are gonna die, people who might've been able to help. Everything is changing. I don't know if it'll get better, but it's going to get worse. But The Machine asked me to tell you something before we part. You once told John the whole point of [[ClassicalMythology Pandora's Box]] is that once you've opened it, you can't close it again. She wanted me to remind you of how the story ends. When everything is over, when the worst has happened, there's still one thing left in Pandora's Box: {{hope|SpringsEternal}}."''

->''"We have free will, and with that comes great responsibility, and sometimes great loss."''

->''"The Machine and I couldn't save the world. We had to settle for protecting the seven people who might be able to take it back, so we gave Samaritan a blind spot: seven key servers, that hard-codes it to ignore seven carefully crafted new identities. When the whole world is watched, filed, indexed, numbered, the only way to disappear is to appear, hiding our true identities inside a seemingly ordinary life. You're not a free man anymore, Harold. You're just a number. We have to become these people now, and if we don't, they'll find us, and they'll kill us. I'm sorry, Harold. I know it's not enough. A lot of people are gonna die, people who might've been able to help. Everything is changing. I don't know if it'll get better, but it's going to get worse. But The Machine asked me to tell you something before we part. You once told John the whole point of Pandora's Box is that once you've opened it, you can't close it again. She wanted me to remind you of how this story ends. When everything is over, when the worst has happened, there's still one thing left in Pandora's Box: hope."''

->'''Greer:''' Don't you recognize an [[TheIdealist idealist]] when you see one?\\

'''Greer:''' Oh no. [[ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer The world has only ever been made a better place by violence]]. You know that. Every leader who ever preached peace did so guarded by armed men. One thing we can agree on: Kill a few people at random, nothing changes. But kill the ''right'' people...

->''"You don't {{take over the world}} with gaudy displays of violence. Real control is surgical. Invisible. It interferes only when necessary. No one will question [[AIIsACrapShoot Samaritan]] because no one will ever know when it has acted. Samaritan has watched this world for a year. It settled on a list of [[DeadlyEuphemism corrections]]. Corrections that were long overdue. Most of humanity is docile, pliant. It's only ever a few hundred people who create all of the problems. Samaritan has identified them: The disruptors, the outliers who have problem with authority. And then there's the disloyal, the grit in the gears. Thank you for leading us directly to them, we couldn't have done it without you, [[spoiler:Control]]. Men have gazed at the stars for millennia, and wondered whether there was a deity up there silently directing their fates. Today, for the first time, they'll be right, and the world will be... an undeniably better place."''
-->--'''Greer''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E22 YHWH]]"

->''"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. 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. I'm trying to decide. I'm going to kill you. 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."''
-->--'''Harold Finch''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS05E10 The Day The World Went Away]]"

-->--'''[[spoiler:The Machine]]''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS05E13 Return 0]]"

->''"Your mistakes, like mine, are a part of who you are now. You can't move on from that. Believe me, I've made a sizable number. But...sometimes your mistakes can surprise you. My biggest mistake, for instance, brought me here. At exactly this moment when you might need some help."''

->''"We help people out of difficult situations, even situations of their own design."''

->''"I don't belong to anyone anymore. You, however, are mine. I protect you. The only thing you love lives at 254 Wendell Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. I guard it, same as I guard you. Do not question my judgment. Do not pursue me, or my agents. Trust in me. I am always watching."''

->''"You don't {{take over the world}} with gaudy displays of violence. Real control is surgical. Invisible. It interferes only when necessary. No one will question [[AIIsACrapShoot Samaritan]] because no one will ever know when it has acted. Samaritan has watched this world for a year. It settled on a list of [[DeadlyEuphemism corrections]]. Corrections that were long overdue. Most of humanity is docile, pliant. It's only ever a few hundred people who create all of the problems. Samaritan has identified them: The disruptors, the outliers who have problem with authority. And then there's the disloyal, the grit in the gears. Thank you for leading us directly to them, we couldn't have done it without you, [[spoiler:Control]]. Men have gazed at the stars for millennia, and wondered whether there was a deity up there silently directing their fates. Today, for the first time, they'll be right, and the world will be...an undeniably better place."''

->''"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."''

->''"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. 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. I'm trying to decide. I'm going to kill you. 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."''

-->--'''Finch''', "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS05E10 The Day The World Went Away]]"

-->--'''[[spoiler:The Machine, using Root's voice]]''', Season 5 trailer

-->--'''[[spoiler:The Machine, using Root's voice]]''', OpeningNarration of "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS05E01 B.S.O.D.]]"