Person of Interest (TV Series)

Zero Day (2013)

Jim Caviezel: John Reese

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• Sameen Shaw : You put a bug on your friend?

  John Reese : Just on his glasses. I've lost people before, so when I care about someone, I plant a tracking device on them.

  Sameen Shaw : I can understand why you and Harold get along.

• John Reese : You got an update for me Finch?

  Harold Finch : If this is becoming your version of 'Are we there yet?', no we are not.

  John Reese : It's been ten days since we got a new number.

  Harold Finch : I'm working as quickly as I can.

  John Reese : Well, work faster. I don't wanna find out what happens when that clock hits zero; do you?

  Harold Finch : Not particularly.

  John Reese : Can you tell me if we're ever gonna get another number, or has that virus destroyed your machine for good?

  Harold Finch : I believe that the machine is still active, it's just unable to make contact.

  John Reese : If we knew where it was, maybe we could just unplug it and then plug it back in.

  Harold Finch : Simplicity was never my strong suit.

• John Reese : Any sign of Thornhill?

  Detective Joss Carter : That's where it gets strange. No of his employees have ever met him; even his secretary was hired online. I think we're looking for someone with a Howard Hughes level of paranoia - or maybe he's taking lessons from Finch.

  Harold Finch : I would never book a car service under my own name.

• John Reese : Finch I think I know who Thornhill is. He's a ghost. He doesn't exist.

  Harold Finch : I think you may be right, Mr. Reese.

  John Reese : I've seen it dozens of times before. A NOC sets up a business, residence, a whole life. Then the operation gets scrapped. No one cleans up the fake ID, and you wind up chasing empty town cars around the city.

  Harold Finch : Interesting theory. I have a different one. I was curious why I could only find one photo of Mr. Thornhill, so I did some investigating, inside the photo that we already have, and I uncovered some peculiar information within the file. Look at this.

  [Shows the photo on his computer] 

  Harold Finch : It's a composite.

  John Reese : So Thornhill's definitely a fake.

  Harold Finch : Of a sort. I accessed Mr. Thornhill's cell phone records, and according to the GPS data, was near Columbus Circle two days ago. He sent an email from that exact location at 4:32PM.

  [Opens camera feed] 

  John Reese : And no one's there?

  Harold Finch : Someone spoofed the data. An algorithm. Complicated one. It's one of mine. I used it in the one place where it could never be duplicated - in the machine. Ernest Thornhill is not a spy, but you're right about the fact that he doesn't exist. He's the product of a survival instinct. Ernest Thornhill is the machine.

• Harold Finch : It's still not clear to me how stalking the NYPD helps either of us at this unfortunate time.

  John Reese : If I can't get there before something bad happens, I can at least get there the second it does.

• John Reese : How did Root get your phone number?

  Harold Finch : How does she get anything, Mr. Reese? Subterfuge. She hacks human beings as easily as she hacks computers.

• John Greer : You must be wondering who I am.

  John Reese : I think you work for Decima. I think you're the man to blame for all this.

  John Greer : And what gives you that impression, Mr. Reese? Oh, yes, I know all about you, John. And you, Ms. Shaw. Since your untimely departure from Northern Lights, I understand that you're in need of a cause.

  Sameen Shaw : The only thing I need is an excuse to put this bullet in between your eyes.

  John Reese : I got one. Your company strapped a bomb to my chest and used me to plant a virus, a virus you're going to tell me how to stop.

  John Greer : I don't think so. I'm rather invested in the outcome of that virus. Besides, my company adapted its code, but it didn't originate with Decima. We found it on a laptop, the very same laptop that you and Kara Stanton were sent to retrieve from Ordos, China. But if you shoot me, Mr. Reese, then you'll never learn the name of the man responsible for its creation.