History Recap / PersonOfInterestS03E12

->''"I belong to no one now."

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: The Vigilance operative being questioned by Hersh.]]

* MeaningfulRename: when Harold comes to the nursing home to say goodbye to his father, the bird he spots outside the window is, of course, a finch.

* SWATTeam: Hersh leads a Northern Lights team that's dressed as an FBI Hostage Rescue Team into the bank. [[spoiler: Reese and Fusco "borrow" two uniforms to slip in.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Reese and Fusco, dressed as Northern Lights' SWATTeam,]] rescuing Finch, Claypool and Shaw.

* GasMaskMooks: The Northern Lights SWATTeam. [[spoiler: Which helps Reese and Fusco disguise themselves.]]

* [[spoiler: ShaggyDogStory]]: [[spoiler: At the end of it, everything Finch went through was for nothing, because Samaritan is now in Decima's hands (which is worse than being under Northern Lights' control), Reese quits Team Machine, and Arthur Claypool is dying.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: Reese. [[spoiler: He quits Team Machine.]]
* GambitPileup: Finch and Claypool head to a bank to obtain Samaritan's drives. While there, Collier (and an armed Vigilance squad) comes in to steal the drives, with Hersh and the ISA impersonating FBI hostage negotiators to defuse the situation and attempt to take the drives themselves. [[spoiler: And it was all for nothing, with Decima having swapped the drives for fakes beforehand.]]

* [[spoiler: ShaggyDogStory]]

* WhamEpisode: Control, Vigilance and Team Machine finally collide in their GambitPileup. [[spoiler: And it turns out Decima got the better of them.]]

* WhamEpisode: Control, Vigilance and Team Machine finally collide in their GambitPileup.

** The [[http://www.technologyreview.com/article/408457/that-hack-25-years-later/ MIT Balloon Hack]] really happened.

* [[spoiler: YouCantThwartStageOne: Finch does everything right, but Decima still win.]]

* ShownTheirWork[=/=]DoingItForTheArt: We finally learn how The Machine has been communicating with Root: [[spoiler: Morse Code audio signals at frequencies above 15kHz, which only younger people can hear.]] In the sequence with Root and Control in the Faraday cage, [[spoiler: there's a high frequency "beeping" sound effect that only younger viewers could hear.]]
** [[http://www.reddit.com/r/PersonOfInterest/comments/1up00n/decoded_the_morse_code_spoilers/ It actually is Morse code!]]

* WhamEpisode: The promo shows Control, Vigilance and Team Machine finally colliding in their GambitPileup.

* WhamLine: "[[spoiler: 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.]]"

* WhamLine: "[[spoiler: 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.]]

* BigBad [[spoiler: Wannabe]]: Control.

* CosmicPlaything: Finch has the most ridiculous run of bad luck in this episode, to the point where not a single thing goes right. [[spoiler: He was held at gunpoint twice, Root escapes (and this time doesn't come back), Reese leaves, the Machine doesn't even belong to him anymore, he had to escape through a sewer, and Decima switched the drives.

* FailureHero: Finch fails ''spectacularly'' in this episode.

* RunningGag: As shown in the promo, Finch and Shaw must be getting pretty tired of [[spoiler: being held at gunpoint.]]
** And [[spoiler: Root has to be annoyed at being imprisoned in a Faraday cage.]]

* And [[spoiler: Root, of being imprisoned in Faraday cages.]]

* GeniusBonus: the word "aletheia" in Greek can be translated as "disclosure" or "truth." It's the antonym of "lethe," which was the title of [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E11 Season 3 Episode 11.]]