History Recap / PersonOfInterestS04E09

* WeHaveReserves: Dominic is rather untroubled by the loss of so many "good soldiers."

* CaliforniaDubbing: The show wasn't able to film at Bloomingdale's so they used a different department store for exterior shots.

* BookEnds: Elias starts the episode walking down the boardwalk of Brighton Beach with Marconi. He ends the episode [[spoiler: walking down it alone.]]

* MoreDakka: Shaw's FN-P90 in spades.

* ItsPersonal: Elias had been perfectly willing to consider the Brotherhood to be business rivals competing for shares of New York's criminal underworld. The death of Scarface makes it clear that they cannot be anything other than deadly enemies, and Elias decides that if Dominic wants war so badly, he can have it.

* CharacterDevelopment: Three seasons ago Elias was the closest thing the show had to a BigBad, and Reese only protected him because he didn't know who he was. Now Elias is a somewhat ally and Reese is protecting him despite knowing who he is - because allowing Dominic undisputed control of the streets would be much, much worse.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Shaw finally begins to suffer from this. Root catches on and has to [[spoiler: pump Shaw full of a powerful sedative to prevent her from resisting being taken back to the subway station.]]

* NotSoStoic: The unflappable MagnificentBastard Elias barely holds it together [[spoiler: as he gives up the arming code for a hidden bomb which he knows will catch his best friend in the blast radius.]]

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: If you saw the trailer, you knew ahead of time that there would be an explosion in the penthouse, which meant you'd [[GenreSavvy be able to predict]] that "combination" to the "safe" was actually the arming code for a bomb.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Shaw finally begins to suffer from this. Root catches on and has to [[spoiler: pump Shaw full of a powerful sedative to prevent her from resisting being taken back to the subway station.]]

* HyperAwareness: Fusco realizes [[spoiler: Rousseau isn't who she is claiming to be]]

* CoolGuns: Shaw's P90 which she uses to counter Martine's tactical advantage of being hooked up to Samaritan.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Tying into the above, Scarface calmly awaits his death.
* ItsPersonal: Elias had been perfectly willing to consider the Brotherhood to be business rivals competing for shares of New York's criminal underworld. The death of Scarface makes it clear that they cannot be anything other than deadly enemies, and Elias decides that if Dominic wants war so badly, he can have it.

* HyperAwareness: Fusco immediately catches on [[spoiler: to the fact that Martine Rousseau]] isn't who she claims to be.

* ATeamFiring: Shaw utterly neglects to use the sights and fore-grip of the FN-P90 when returning fire against Rousseau.

* CoolGuns: Shaw's FN-P90 which she uses to counter Martine's tactical advantage of being hooked up to Samaritan.

* DefiantToTheEnd: Scarface's last words? "Morior invictus."[[labelnote:Trans.]]"I die unconquered."[[/labelnote]]

That Number would be none other than Carl Elias, who is in The Brotherhood's crosshairs.

* ADayInTheLimelight: For Elias and Scarface's.

* BookEnds: Elias starts the episode walking down the boardwalk of Brighton Beach with Marconi. He ends the episode [[spoiler: walking down it alone]]
* CasualDangerDialogue: lots of it.
* CrazyPrepared: Seems Shaw has been talking to Root about what happened with Martine and made the appropriate preparations for a worst case scenario. When Martine tracks her down, Shaw breaks out an automatic weapon from underneath a cosmetic product storage counter, to prevent Rousseau's tactical advantages coming fully into play.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Shaw finally begins to suffer from this. Root catches on and has to [[spoiler: pump Shaw full of a powerful sedative to prevent her resisting being taken back to the subway station]]
* CoolGuns: Shaw's FN-P90 which she uses to counter Martine's tactical advantage of being hooked up to Samaritan.

* OriginStory: We finally learn how Scarface got [[CaptainObvious the scar on his face]]

* ShoutOut: A particularly devastating one. The safe code [[spoiler: Elias provides is the date of Muhammed Ali and George Foreman's]] "Rumble In The Jungle". It also happens to activate [[spoiler: a booby trap which kills a group of Brotherhood Thugs and Scarface]]

* ShoutOut: A particularly devastating one. The safe code [[spoiler: Elias provides is the date of]] Muhammed Ali and George Foreman's "Rumble In The Jungle". It also happens to activate [[spoiler: a booby trap which kills a group of Brotherhood Thugs and Scarface]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: at the end of the episode, Elias orders one against "everyone who flipped."

** Elias's final exit strategy relies on Reese following his moral compass and putting the Number's safety above all else, despite the fact that Elias pulled a gun on him to put himself in Dominic's grasp in the first place.

* ADayInTheLimelight: This is Elias and Scarface's episode.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Shaw finally begins to suffer from this.

* ArcWords: "You know me. There's always another way out."

* CasualDangerDialogue: lots of it.
* CharacterDevelopment: Three seasons ago Elias was the closest thing the show had to a BigBad, and Reese only protected him because he didn't know who he was. Now Elias is a somewhat ally and Reese is protecting him despite knowing who he is - because allowing Dominic undisputed control of the streets would be much, much worse.

* ShutUpHannibal: Dominic tries to use a BreakingSpeech on Elias once he's capture, only for Elias to turn it around on him and reveal that Dominic's overconfidence has played right into his own contingency plans. Cue OhCrap moment and massive explosion.

* DarkAndTroubledPast[=/=]FireForgedFriends: Elias and Scarface, both alumni of a reform school in Brooklyn which was later closed down for abusing its residents. Scarface ended up there after killing his own father.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: at the end of the episode, Elias orders one against "everyone who flipped"

* BatmanGambit: Elias deliberately leaks the location of a trusted subordinate's office to an employee who betrayed him, and once there reveals the location of a very high tech hidden safe. Once Dominic finds it, he spends half the episode trying to get the combination out of Elias and Scarface. In the end, Elias gives the combination over a cellphone, only for the men in the penthouse to discover that the safe is a bomb Elias prepared to deal with anyone launching a serious offensive against him. The blast takes out a lot of Dominic's best men - and Scarface.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: If you saw the trailer, you knew ahead of time that there would be an explosion in the penthouse, which meant you'd [[GenreSavvy be able to predict]] that "combination" to the "safe" was actually the arming code for a bombfspoi.

-> '''Elias:''' Whose guardian angel are you this time?
-> '''Reese:''' Yours.

After Martine [[spoiler: identifies Shaw and shoots up the department store]], Root (with The Machine's assistance) [[spoiler: helps Shaw escape]], leaving Reese to work the latest Number alone.

* BatmanGambit: Elias deliberately leaks the location of a trusted subordinate's office to an employee who betrayed him, and once there reveals the location of a very high tech hidden safe. Once Dominic finds it, he spends half the episode trying to get the combination out of Elias and Scarface. [[spoiler:In the end, Elias gives the combination over a cellphone, only for the men in the penthouse to discover that the safe is a bomb Elias prepared to deal with anyone launching a serious offensive against him. The blast takes out a lot of Dominic's best men - and Scarface.]]

* ItsPersonal: Elias had been perfectly willing to consider the Brotherhood to be business rivals competing for shares of New York's criminal underworld. The death of [[spoiler:Scarface]] makes it clear that they cannot be anything other than deadly enemies, and Elias decides that if Dominic wants war so badly, he can have it.

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Scarface]]
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: If you saw the trailer, you knew ahead of time that [[spoiler: there would be an explosion in the penthouse]], which meant you'd [[GenreSavvy be able to predict]] [[spoiler: that "combination" to the "safe" was actually the arming code for a bomb]].

* DarkAndTroubledPast[=/=]FireForgedFriends: Elias and Scarface, both alumni of a reform school in Brooklyn. Scarface ended up there after killing his own father.

* DarkAndTroubledPast[=/=]FireForgedFriends: Elians and Scarface, both alumni of a reform school in Brooklyn. Scarface ended up there after killing his own father.