History Recap / PersonOfInterestS02E22

-->''"You wanted to set The Machine free. [[spoiler:I already have.]]"

--> "I'm true to what I am. Like my friend Mr. Yogarov here--I killed his father, so now he kills me. Fair is fair. ''{to Tierney)'' But you, you're [[DirtyCop an oath-breaker, a worm.]]"

* IfICantHaveYou: Attempted by a man at his ex-girlfriend's wedding. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Then Reese and Shaw pull up on the curb, shoot the homicidal ex, congratulate the couple and leave.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: One of the many perks from gaining admin status is the ability to detect Mooks. Reese uses it to great effect in getting rid of a Decima Technologies hit squad while Root actually has the machine customise her's to deal with the Mooks hiding behind doors and walls.

* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: Tierny pleads for his life--"Please, I have a family!"--when Carter rescues Elias, despite having been arrogantly about to commit murder a few seconds before]] Totally Averted by Greer. Even when his security detail is going down around him from an onslaught by Shaw and Reese, he stays put, finishes the paperwork that he's working on, and calmly talks to them until reinforcements arrive allowing him to slip away.

* ContinuityNod: At the end of the episode, we learn that Reese has been giving 90% of his salary to charity. That probably explains why his old apartment--seen briefly in "Many Happy Returns"--was such a run-down place: he didn't leave himself enough to afford anything better.

* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: Tierny pleads for his life--"Please, I have a family!"--when Carter rescues Elias, despite having been arrogantly about to commit murder a few seconds before]] Totally Averted by Greer. Even when his security detail is going down from an onslaught by Shaw and Reese, he stays put, finishes his paperwork that he's working on, and calmly talks to them until reinforcements arrive.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: One of the many perks from gaining admin status is the ability to detect Mooks behind cover. Reese uses it to great effect in getting rid of a Decima Technologies hit squad while Root actually has the machine customise her's to deal with the Mooks hiding behind doors and walls.

* CoolCar: The yellow Ferrari that Reese and Shaw borrow. Averted earlier with the station wagon.

* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: Tierny pleads for his life--"Please, I have a family!"--when Carter rescues Elias, despite having been arrogantly about to commit murder a few seconds before]].

* ImprobableAimingSkills: One of the many perks from gaining admin status is the ability to detect Mooks. Reese uses it to great effect in getting rid of a Decima Technologies hit squad while Root actually has the machine customise her's to deal with the Mooks hiding behind doors and walls.

* IfICantHaveYou: Attempted by a man at his ex-girlfriend's wedding. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Then Reese and Shaw pull up on the curb, shoot the homicidal ex, congratulate the couple and leave.]]

* CoolCar: The yellow Ferrari that Reese and Shaw borrow.

* SeasonFinale

--> "I'm true to what I am. Like my friend Mr. Yogarov here--I killed his father, so now he kills me; that's fair. ''{to Tierney)'' But you, you're [[DirtyCop an oath-breaker, a worm.]]"

* CallBack: Tons. [[spoiler:Reese addresses The Machine through street cameras like he did in the season premiere, the book title that The Machine directs him to in the Library is the one he found while snooping in "Number Crunch", the episode ends with someone answering a ringing payphone, and numerous others.]]

* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: Terny pleads for his life and uses the fact he has a family to not be killed when Carter rescues Elias, despite arrogantly about to commit murder a few seconds before]].

* PersonalEffectsReveal: [[spoiler:Grace is convinced that Harold is dead after finding the book he was carrying among the victim's personal effects.]]

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The Machine is fully self-aware and is now controlling itself, Special Counsel was executed by his own henchman and new BigBad has taken his place, the cause of Nathan's death and the reason for Harold's injuries are finally revealed, Root went crazy but now The Machine is calling her too. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Carter saved Elias' life]].]]

[[spoiler:Reese and Root have 24 hour unlimited access to the Machine and they and the ISA are racing to find it. Carter is about to be framed for Elias' murder.]]

* MeaningfulName: a nuclear engineer named "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3_Szil%C3%A1rd Szilard]]."

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The Machine is fully self-aware and is now controlling itself, Root is suffering from a VillainousBSOD, Special Counsel was executed by his own henchman and new BigBad has taken his place, the cause of Nathan's death and the reason for Harold's injuries are finally revealed, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Carter saved Elias' life]].]]

* DoomedAppointment: Obviously, [[spoiler:Nathan's]] decision to meet with a reporter was not going to end well.
* EasterEgg / ShoutOut: The library book that The Machine leads Reese to is Arthur Koestler's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_in_the_Machine The Ghost in the Machine]],'' a non-fiction work of philosophy critiquing "the Cartesian dualist account of the mind–body relationship."

* MyGreatestFailure: The event that drove Finch to protect the "non-relevant" numbers was his discovery that [[spoiler:Nathan's death had been predicted by the Machine, but it was unable to warn them because he had blocked Nathan's access to the list]].

* BrickJoke: Reese finally steals a helicopter like he almost did in the season 1 finale, "Firewall".

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The Machine is fully self-aware and is now controlling itself, Root is suffering from a VillainousBSOD, Special Counsel was executed by his own henchman and new BigBad has taken his place, Nathan's death and the reason for Harold's injuries are finally revealed, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Carter saved Elias' life]].]]

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler:The reveal that the Machine is no longer located in [[MacGuffinLocation Washington]]]].

* CoolCar: The yellow Ferarri that Reese and Shaw borrow.

* CasualDangerDialog: Reese and Shaw are both [[DeadpanSnarker Deadpan Snarkers]], so they engage in a fair amount of this.
** Elias has a few as well when he realizes his prison transport is "that kind of prison transport".

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler:The reveal that the Machine is no longer located in [[MacGuffinLocation Oregon]]]].

* MyGreatestFailure: The event that drove Finch to protect the "non-relevant" numbers was his discovery that [[spoiler:Nathan's death had been predicted by the Machine, but could not warn them because he blocked Nathan's access to the list]].

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Finch reveals that he did sell the laptop to the Chinese, but that he included a virus within the source-code they used to create the virus to attack the Machine ("a virus within a virus") that enabled the Machine to free itself.]]

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The Machine is fully self-aware and is now controlling itself, Root is suffering from a VillainousBSOD, Special Counsel was executed by his own henchman and new BigBad has taken his place, Nathan's death and the reason for Harold's injuries are finally revealed, and Carter saved Elias' life.]]

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