History Recap / PersonOfInterestS01E21

* ShoutOut: Maybe; the episode title is also the title of an episode of ''Series/ThePrisoner.''

-->'''Reese:''' Only one way to deal with guys like this, [[DomesticAbuser guys who hide who they really are until they get home]].\\

* ActorAllusion: Sarah Jennings is played by Dagmara Dominczyk, who starred alongside Jim Caviezel in [[Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo "The Count of Monte Cristo"]].

'''Reese''': Leave the laptop, now Harold, and get out.

* AccidentalMurder: Jessica, followed by MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.

* BigDamnHeroes: Just as a Federal Marshall is threatening to haul Finch in for questioning, Reese (who shouldn't be anywhere near the place) appears and pretends to be a policeman, rescuing his 'confidential informant'. Turns out Reese knew Finch was up to something and has been following him around.
** Plus, just as Marshall Jennings has gone off the deep end and is about to kill Sarah, Reese busts in and beats him to a pulp.

* IAmAMonster

* NoExceptYes: Finch, when he suggests that Carter should accompany Agent Donnelly to New Rochelle:
-->'''Finch''': Well, if there was any evidence that threatened our mutual friend, I'm confident that you would find it before Donnelly would.\\
'''Carter''': Are you suggesting I obstruct a federal investigation?\\
'''Finch''': ''[hastily]'' Of course, what you did with that evidence would be entirely your concern...

* ThatManIsDead

* YourMakeupIsRunning

-> ''"When I was first building the Machine, I kept seeing the same numbers come up a week, a month, six months apart... Usually women. At first I thought it was a mistake; how could anyone's life be repeatedly threatened? And then I realized... they were living with the person who would eventually kill them."''
-->-- '''Finch'''

However, there is a new number and Finch is deliberately keeping Reese out of the loop, using Fusco to do the legwork instead. The number is Sarah Atkins, an abused wife on the run from her husband, a US Marshal named Jennings who is using his authority to track her down. Finch and Fusco are almost caught by Jennings before Reese intervenes, angry at being lied to and angrier still once he learns that the number is the victim of domestic abuse. Meanwhile, Agent Donnelly enlists Carter's help investigating what he suspects was Reese's first murder-for-hire in January of 2011. Though Donnelly and Carter don't realize the significance, the victim is Peter Ardnt, husband of Jessica; he was brutally murdered in his home and Reese was sloppy about cleaning up evidence he was there.

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* BerserkButton / UnstoppableRage: Abusive husbands apparently take this UpToEleven for Reese. And you thought he went berserk in "Baby Blue"!

-->'''Reese''': GetOut.\\

** The plots are also slightly similar. Both 6 and Reese appear to be getting a break from their usual routine but they end up involved in someone else's machinations as usual.

** Donnelly makes reference to the events in "L.O.S.", as Reese's prints were found in the burnt out car he was trapped in.

** ExactWords: In "RAM" it's revealed [[spoiler:that Finch had recruited another BadassInANiceSuit, but he betrayed Finch and was killed before the events in New Rochelle.]]

** ExactWords: In "RAM" it's revealed [[spoiler:that before New Rochelle Finch had recruited another BadassInANiceSuit, but he betrayed Finch and was killed.]]

* {{Tearjerker}}: Practically the whole episode qualifies. I dare you not to cry.

'''Reese:''' That's a good question. I haven't known the answer for a long time.

* ShoutOut: Maybe; the episode title is also the title of an episode of ''ThePrisoner.''

-->-- ''Finch''

-->'''Reese''': "GetOut."
-->'''Finch''': "Excuse me?"
-->'''Reese''': "Leave the laptop, now Harold, and get out."

-->'''Reese:''' Only one way to deal with guys like this, [[DomesticAbuser guys who hide who they really are until they get home]].
-->'''Finch:''' What will you do, Mr Reese?
-->'''Reese:''' Show 'em what a real monster looks like.

-->'''Finch''': Well, if there was any evidence that threatened our mutual friend, I'm confident that you would find it before Donnelly would.
-->'''Carter''': Are you suggesting I obstruct a federal investigation?
-->'''Finch''': ''[hastily]'' Of course, what you did with that evidence would be entirely your concern...

-->'''Peter:''' Who the hell are you?
-->'''Reese:''' That's a good question. I haven't known the answer for a long time.

* BigDamnHeroes: Just as a Federal Marshall is threatening to haul Finch in for questioning, Reese (who shouldn't be anywhere near the place) appears and pretends to be a policeman, rescuing his 'confidential informant'.

** Reese claims Finch is his confidential informant, a money launderer for the "late Don Moretti".

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: This episode gives us a vague idea of what happened to Peter and [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E04 Andrew Benton]]. Through the phone call with the Mexican Police and Carter she asks if any other Americans besides Peter is down there. He answers there are a few. Though not confirmed it suggests that Reese sent both of them down there.

* TrespassingToTalk

* YouMonster
-->'''Reese:''' Only one way to deal with guys like this, guys who hide who they really are until they get home. Show 'em what a real monster looks like.

!!Tropes present in this episode include
* AccidentalMurder: Followed by MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.

* YouMonster