Samaritan launches a cyber-attack on the stock exchange, leaving the team with no choice but to embark on a possible suicide mission in a desperate attempt to stop a global economic catastrophe.
Finch, Reese, Fusco and Shaw embark on one last mission to prevent Samaritan from destroying The Machine and cementing its hold over mankind.
The team takes desperate action in its race to prevent Samaritan from coming online and making them its first targets. Meanwhile, the months-long battle with the anti-surveillance terrorist group ...
Related lists from IMDb editors
Related lists from IMDb users
Title: Person of Interest (2011–2016)
Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.
| Series cast summary: | |||
| Jim Caviezel | ... | John Reese 103 episodes, 2011-2016 | |
| Kevin Chapman | ... | Lionel Fusco 103 episodes, 2011-2016 | |
| Michael Emerson | ... | Harold Finch 103 episodes, 2011-2016 | |
| Amy Acker | ... | Root / ... 65 episodes, 2012-2016 | |
| Taraji P. Henson | ... | Joss Carter 55 episodes, 2011-2015 | |
| Sarah Shahi | ... | Sameen Shaw 50 episodes, 2013-2016 | |
A billionaire software-genius named Harold Finch creates a Machine for the government that is designed to detect acts of terror before they can happen, by monitoring the entire world through every cell-phone, email and surveillance camera. Finch discovered that the machine sees everything, potential terrorist acts and violent crimes that involve ordinary people. When the government considered violent crimes between normal people "irrelevant", Finch built a back door into the system that gives him the social security number of a person involved in a future violent crime so he could act. Partnered with John Reese, an ex-CIA agent, the two work in secret to prevent violent crimes before they can happen. Eventually their activities lead to being hunted by the New York Police Department, CIA Agents in pursuit of Reese who was listed as dead, a computer hacker named Root who wants access to the Machine, and government officials who want to keep all knowledge of the Machine a complete secret. Written by Jones
Explore popular and recently added TV series available to stream now with Prime Video.
It is hard to do something fresh or different in this genre. I've found, usually, it is either writing or chemistry that produces success. This show has both (at least in the pilot). Cav can carry the weight of holding one's attention for an hour. He's proved that in spades.
I see this (so far) as Bourne Identity meets Minority Report but, done in a lower key with Cav as the focus not Tom Cruise (that indicates a lower key right away!).
Storyline? Plausible. That's enough of a base for the rest of the team to do something special. If the other five episodes (currently sold) are as good as the pilot, I predict it will be a memorable season.
That doesn't mean it will run longer. We've all see very well done efforts that didn't make it past a season. They appear, years later, strung together like strings of pearls (on a cable channel).
Then we weep for for might have been. However, the quality effort will shine through always.
My fingers are crossed for more than one season. I think the ingredients have all been shown as being present. That is what scares me a bit. The networks have a habit of taking something this good and moving all over the schedule until they've lost its audience.
I hope this doesn't happen and I wish the team the very best of LUCK, because mere TALENT is only part of the recipe.