History Recap / PersonOfInterestS04E12

---> '''Yasim (while being held at gunpoint by Control)''': "Have you thought, for even a second, that they [Decima Technologies] may be lying to you [Control]?"

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: A ZigZaggedTrope and ''self-inflicted'' version. No matter the events of the day, the odd things that happen or the amount of [[BreakingSpeech Breaking Speeches]] she is subjected to, Control still blows away Yasin with little hesitation and seems to decide to work nicer with Samaritan. On the other hand, she then goes on to check the spot where Sam was shot and finds something is amiss...

* BatmanGambit: Finch correctly predicted that Samaritan has placed one of its agents on Control's security detail and that Control would call them in if she thought that Root was going to kill her. This gives Finch the opportunity to isolate the frequency Samaritan's agents communicate on and priovides them with a clue about where Shaw might have been taken.
* BrickJoke: the AT-4 antitank rocket from "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E05 Pretenders]]" finally gets used

* {{Profiling}}: Weaponized by Samaritan, who plays on the perception of Muslims as terrorists to kill four innocent hackers who were threatening their objectives.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: the "suspected terrorists" are really computer programmers who've finished the assignment Samaritan gave them

* TakeThat: While he is in Detroit, Fusco cannot help but tell an uncocious IAS agent that "the Red Wings suck".

** ParentalHypocrisy: Control, whose day job is to kill people and has no qualms about doing it herself, doesn't want Julia playing violent first-person shooter videogames

* ADayInTheLimelight: For Control.

* TermsOfEndangerment: Gabriel (and Samaritan) casually calling "Mike" after showcasing that Samaritan still has some power over the economy (enough to do some damage to Mike's stock options) and the order to want to see the President (with the implied threat of bankrupting if he says no).

* SmugSnake: '''Travers'''. The fact that he can shut down Research's link to Samaritan at any point he feels like with one tap of his cell phone and he uses it to keep Research under a leash makes Control rather furious.

** Yasin went to work for Samaritan after solving one of the [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E02 Nautilus puzzles]]

* ArcWords: "janitor"

* RunningGag: Reese and Root's campaign of CarFu all along the east coast

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: A ZigZaggedTrope and ''self-inflicted'' version. No matter the events of the day, the odd things that happen or the amount of [[BreakingSpeech Breaking Speeches]] she is subjected to, Control still blows away Yasin with little hesitation and seems to decide to work nicer with Samaritan. On the other hand, she then goes on to check the spot where Sam was shot and finds something is amiss...

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: the "suspected terrorists" are really computer programmers who've finished the assignment Samaritan gave them

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Control's daughter Julia

* SmugSnake: Travers and by extension Samaritan, relishes how much power he has over Control and when she requests more information about the suspected terrorists, he is extremely condescending and treats her like a child who has overstepped her bounds.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The "suspected terrorists" are really computer programmers who've finished the assignment Samaritan gave them

* SmugSnake: Travers and by extension Samaritan relishes how much power he has over Control and when she requests more information about the suspected terrorists, he is extremely condescending and treats he like a child who has overstepped her bounds.

* {{Expospeak}}: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded.]] Finch explains all sorts of details about the worm he's created to the much less technical Fusco. When it's done, Fusco gives him a blank look. "You talking to me?"

* TitleDrop: Fusco mentions to a reporter that they are investigating several persons of interest.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: the "suspected terrorists" are really computer programmers who've finished the assignment Samaritan gave them

* Expospeak: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded.]] Finch explains all sorts of details about the worm he's created to the much less technical Fusco. When it's done, Fusco gives him a blank look. "You talking to me?"

* RunningGag[=/=]NoNameGiven: We still don't know Control's name; her superiors don't use it in conversation; her subordinates only address her as "Ma'am," and Julia calls her "Mom," of course.

** ParentalHypocrisy: Control, whose day job is to kill people, doesn't want Julia playing violent first-person shooter videogames

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: the "suspected terrorists" are really computer programmers who've finished their assignment

When Samaritan abruptly denies the government access to a suspected terrorist's laptop, and then turns off the flow of information, Control becomes suspicious and embarks on a little field work of her own. Meanwhile, Gabriel infiltrates the White House with a message for the President, and Reese and Root are on a RoaringRampageOfRescue looking for Shaw.

* BrickJoke: the AT-4 antitank rocket from "Pretenders" finally gets used

* CallBack: Root's interrogation of Control recalls both Control's interrogation of Root in "Alethia" and Root's interrogation of Shaw in "Relevance."

-->'''--Finch, to Control