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1'''Season 3, Episode 18''':
2!Allegiance
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4->''"You have some things that don't belong to you-- two hard drives, a superconducting chip, and six generators. Which means, either you're planning to bring Samaritan on line or you're the world's most ambitious gamer."''
5-->-- '''Root''' confronting Greer
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7Maria Martinez works at a company that delivered six generators to Iraq to help with reconstruction. When they disappeared she found herself targeted after her translator, Omar, was held by US Homeland Security after attempting to emigrate from Iraq for his own security and she began to investigate.
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10!!Tropes present in this episode include
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12* BookEnds: Root starts and finishes the episode tracking Greer in the subway. But at the ending he is waiting for her.
13* BrainUploading: In an easy-to-miss line, Greer seems to offer Root the ability to do this and [[SplitPersonalityMerge merge with Samaritan]] as part of his WeCanRuleTogether offer.
14* CatchPhrase: Ken Davis uses the phrase "beyond reproach" often. It appears in his letter of recommendation for Omar Risha, and it used as proof that he forged the letter from the Iraqi government.
15* ChekhovsSkill: Bear's tracking abilities. After all of The Machine's high tech tools are thwarted, Root uses Bear to find Greer in the subway.
16* DestinationDefenestration: Reese takes one of the assassins out a window. Doubles as a CallBack to "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS02E16 Relevance]]."
17-->'''Fusco:''' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Hope that guy has health insurance]].
18* DiplomaticImpunity: Which tends to get revoked when you shoot another diplomat.
19* DitchTheBodyguards
20* ElevatorActionSequence: Shaw gets in an elevator to save Maria from the Legionnaire who's planning on chloroforming her in it.
21* EvilAllAlong: Lapointe. And Davis. Sevon, too.
22* FiveFingerDiscount: Shaw name-drops this trope on seeing Maria sneak out one of her company's GPS trackers to plant on Lapointe's car. Later, she herself gets access to a UN event by deftly removing a ticket from someone stopping at the cloakroom.
23* GonnaNeedMoreTrope
24* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Sevon to Maria.
25* HiddenDepths: After claiming ignorance of anything outside the US, Fusco buys Shaw a drink for Persian New Year.
26* HijackedByGanon: The case of the week seems like a standalone story, until a scene near the end reveals that Davis was working for Greer and Decima the whole time. The surprise may have been spoiled, however, for anyone who saw [[{{Foreshadowing}} Maria's name come up]] in the chart of threats The Machine generated at the end of the [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E17 previous episode]] regarding Samaritan's development.
27* HollywoodLaw: The [=UN=] does not have any legal power to determine someone's [=US=] immigration status.
28* MadeOfIron: Reese smashes through a window while fighting a mook and falls four stories onto a CarCushion. Reese walks away. The man he landed on top of? Not so lucky.
29* MouthOfSauron: Root, who keeps contacting Finch with what the Machine is saying, even when she has no idea what it means.
30* MundaneSolution:
31** How does Greer counter the Machine tracking his phone's GPS? Drop it in someone else's pocket and slip away into the crowd.
32** How does Root finally foil all of Greer's counter-surveillance tricks and find Greer? She uses Bear to track him by scent.
33* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: After Reese and co beat up most of the crooked French Foreign Legionaries in hand to hand, the last one pulls out a knife. Reese counters by drawing his gun and kneecapping him.
34* NotMyDriver
35* NotSoDifferentRemark: Greer tries this approach with Root when they finally meet. He points out that she understands what is coming, pointing out that he believes that she isn't crazy.
36* NewEraSpeech: Greer decides to forego this, as he believes Root holds the same ideals, or at least the [[DeusEstMachina same view of the endgame]].
37* OddCouple: Shaw and Fusco.
38* SheFu: Shaw does a backflip in the elevator.
39* TheSingularity: What Greer hints will happen.
40* TemptingFate: "Let's hit it." ''(gets punched by Reese)''
41* VillainTeleportation: Greer's bodyguards sneak up for a ClickHello without Bear noticing.
42* WeCanRuleTogether: Greer proposes that Root join with him.
43* WeNeedADistraction: Shaw with a GrenadeLauncher.
44* WeWillMeetAgain: Rather than have his men shoot Root, and risk being shot in turn, Greer declares a draw and leaves, telling her to consider his offer. She doesn't.
45* WorkingTheSameCase: It turns out that this week's Number and Root's pursuit of Greer and Samaritan are connected; Maria's boss stole the generators and delivered them to Greer, who's using them to power Samaritan.

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