History Recap / PersonOfInterestS01E15

* HalfTruth: Snow once again misrepresents what happened between Reese and Stanton in "Matsya Nyaya", to deter Carter from working with him.

* TakeMeInstead: When the criminals realise the undercover has a mobile on him, Reese steals it off Tully so he will be 'uncovered' as the cop.

!Blue Code

Reese and Finch work to protect Michael Cahill -- real name Daniel Tully -- a narcotics officer working undercover in a smuggling ring. He's trying to arrest "L.O.S.", the head of a major drug smuggling operation, and Reese goes undercover in the gang as well to keep Tully's cover intact. When Reese and Finch learn that the smugglers have paid off HR to expose the undercover cop in their operation, Fusco breaks into a secure part of police headquarters and destroys the file that would've exposed Tully before being caught by HR's officer on the inside. Reese frames himself as the undercover cop and Tully pretends to kill him, giving Reese a chance to slip away and call for backup. With Carter's help, he and Tully apprehend the smuggling gang and L.O.S., who is really a CIA officer selling drugs on the company's behalf to fund UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror. Fusco is driven to a remote location so that HR's officer can kill him, but Reese intervenes at the last moment and kills the officer. He orders Fusco to ask for HR's help in covering up the murder, giving Fusco a way to infiltrate HR. L.O.S. is bailed out of prison by Mark Snow, only to be killed in the back of an SUV as punishment for being caught.

In flashbacks to 2008, Reese, Stanton and Snow are on assignment in a "god-forsaken place" where they're not sanctioned to operate: New York. Their job is to extract a government official who tries to sell "software" to the Chinese, but it's another twelve hours before their extraction arrives so Snow orders Reese to get some R&R. He goes down to the bar and strikes up a friendly conversation with Peter, seemingly a random patron, but when Stanton arrives she recognizes Peter as the new husband of Jessica, Reese's ex-lover. She convinces him to let the past go and they leave before Peter can "introduce" the pair to Jessica.

!!Tropes present in this episode include:

* TheWarOnTerror: Mentioned as having eclipsed the War on Drugs as America's number one concern.

Reese and Finch work to protect Michael Cahill -- real name Daniel Tully -- a narcotics officer working undercover in a smuggling ring. He's trying to arrest "L.O.S.", the head of a major drug smuggling operation, and Reese goes undercover in the gang as well to keep Tully's cover intact. When Reese and Finch learn that the smugglers have paid off HR to expose the undercover cop in their operation, Fusco breaks into a secure part of police headquarters and destroys the file that would've exposed Tully before being caught by HR's officer on the inside. Reese frames himself as the undercover cop and Tully pretends to kill him, giving Reese a chance to slip away and call for backup. With Carter's help, he and Tully apprehend the smuggling gang and L.O.S., who is really a CIA officer selling drugs on the company's behalf to fund TheWarOnTerror. Fusco is driven to a remote location so that HR's officer can kill him, but Reese intervenes at the last moment and kills the officer. He orders Fusco to ask for HR's help in covering up the murder, giving Fusco a way to infiltrate HR. L.O.S. is bailed out of prison by Mark Snow, only to be killed in the back of an SUV as punishment for being caught.

* BaitAndSwitch: Reese and Stanton are involved in an illegal rendition of a government official. The numbers station Reese is listening to, and the conversation with Snow, imply they're operating in a foreign country, but when Reese walks out the door he's shown to be in New York.

* ConspiracyTheory: The [=CIA=] selling drugs to finance its covert operations.

-> ''"This isn’t just some speech. We’re not... walking in the dark. We are the dark."''
-->-- '''Kara Stanton'''

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!!Tropes present in this episode include

* CrypticBackgroundReference / {{Foreshadowing}}: The crime for which the government official is being extracted is offhandedly mentioned as having "sold something of ours to the Chinese. Software."

* DestroyTheEvidence / GoodIsNotNice: Reese destroys the only evidence that Fusco was acting in self defense when he shot the IA officer, because he wants him to infiltrate HR instead by asking ''them'' to cover up the evidence.

-->'''Stanton:''' How many times are you gonna clean that thing?
-->'''Reese:''' In the Army, they taught us the fastest way to get shot was to fail to clean your weapon.
-->'''Stanton:''' In the Marines, they taught us the fastest way to clean your weapon was to shoot a couple people with it.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark / FaceDeathWithDignity: Fusco refuses to betray Reese, even though it looks like Reese has abandoned him.

* YouHaveFailedMe[=/=]YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Why Snow has L.O.S. killed.

** Snow says that Reese killed his CIA partner because she'd outlived her usefulness. [[spoiler:At the end of the episode it's Snow who kills a fellow CIA agent for that reason, foreshadowing the revelation in "Matsya Nyaya" that Snow tried to get Reese and Stanton to MutualKill each other.]]

* HalfTruth: [[spoiler:Snow once again misrepresents what happened between Reese and Stanton in "Matsya Nyaya", to deter Carter from working with him.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: Reese and Stanton are involved in an illegal rendition of a government official. The music Reese is listening to, and the conversation with Snow, imply they're operating in a foreign country, but when Reese walks out the door he's shown to be in New York.

* HalfTruth: Snow once again misrepresents what happened between Reese and Stanton, to deter Carter from working with him.

* BaitAndSwitch: Reese and Stanton are involved in an illegal rendition of a government official. The music Reese is listening to, and the conversation with Snow, imply they're in the Middle East, but when Reese walks out the door he's shown to be in New York.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain

* CutPhoneLines: The leader of the gang has them destroy all their mobile phones, cutting off both Reese and Tully from their backup.

* PercussivePickpocket: Fusco scanning the swipe card.

* PunkInTheTrunk: This time Reese ends up there, but fortunately the undercover slips a torch into his pocket, so he's able to free himself.

* BaitAndSwitch: Reese and Stanton are involved in an illegal rendition of a government official. The Arabic music Reese is listening to, and the conversation with Snow, imply they're in the Middle East, but when Reese walks out the door he's shown to be in New York.

* CoffinContraband: Drugs are smuggled in the stretcher of an emergency heart transplant.

* BaitAndSwitch: Reese and Stanton are involved in an illegal rendition of a government official. The Arabic music Reese is listening to, and the conversation with Snow, implied they're in the Middle East, but when Reese walks out the door he's shown to be in New York.

* ShootYourMate: A subversion, as Reese is shot for real, [[OnlyAFleshWound but just grazes him]].
* ShoutOut - ''Film/ReservoirDogs''.

* ShootYourMate: A subversion, as Reese is shot for real, just not fatally.