Person of Interest (TV Series)

God Mode (2013)

Jim Caviezel: John Reese

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• Sameen Shaw : Where's Bear?

  John Reese : Staying with a guy named Leon. Didn't think you even liked the dog.

  Sameen Shaw : Like Him? He's the only reason I'm sticking around.

• John Reese : We're gonna need to make a pit stop. Someone needs our help.

  Sameen Shaw : And the whole "prevent the AI apocalypse thing"?

  John Reese : You like a challenge, Shaw. We're the good guys, which means we have to do both.

• John Reese : [Shaw tosses him the shotgun]  What's this for?

  Sameen Shaw : [Seeing the yellow Ferrari]  To help you feel less inadequate while I drive this thing.

• Sameen Shaw : You wanna fill me in on who you're talking to, John? Our fairy godmother?

  John Reese : he group you used to get your intel from. You called them Research. Your ex-boss called it Northern Lights.

  Sameen Shaw : The ones your pal told me don't exist.

  John Reese : No, they exist. They're just an "it" rather than a "them. " A machine.

• John Reese : [Talking to the machine via a street cam]  Give me a location on Finch. You know almost everything that's happening, and you won't tell me the one thing I need?

  Sameen Shaw : Okay, look, I already broke you out of jail tonight. I'm not springing you from the funny farm.

• Root : [the facility where the Machine was supposed to be is empty]  Where is it?

  Harold Finch : I'm sorry. You said you wanted to set the machine free. I already did.

  Root : [Turns away from him]  Where are you? Please talk to me!

  [Turns back to Harold, angry] 

  Root : You lied to me. I believed you. I believed in you.

  Harold Finch : Ms. Groves...

  Root : My name is ROOT.

  [Turns her gun at him, only to shot as Reese and Shaw arrive] 

  John Reese : Harold. Are you okay?

  [Looks at the empty room] 

  John Reese : Is this what you expected?

  Harold Finch : It's what I hoped.

• John Reese : The machine said this is where I'll find the answer.

  Sameen Shaw : What was the question?

  John Reese : Where the machine is located.

  Sameen Shaw : Can't it just tell you?

  John Reese : I think Finch programmed it not to, to protect it.

  Sameen Shaw : No offense. Maybe Finch wants control of the machine himself.

  John Reese : If Finch had something to do with the virus, I'm sure he had his reasons. On the upside, hopefully the machine won't have told Root where it is either.

  Sameen Shaw : Next time I see that woman, I'm shooting her. And not in the knee.

• Sameen Shaw : Another pit stop? How often do you guys get a number?

  John Reese : Some days, none. Doesn't seem like today's gonna be one of those days though.

• John Reese : Finch, you think we'll ever get another number?

  Harold Finch : I don't know. Mr. Reese, I owe you an explanation. And an apology. Three years ago, when I put the code out there to free the machine, I had no idea what path it would take or what unintended consequences it might have. I never intended to hurt anyone, but I accepted that someone might get hurt. I always worried that events that I had set in motion may have... changed things for you.

  John Reese : My life changed when I kept my mouth shut at an airport terminal seven years ago. You didn't have anything to do with that. You lost a friend. You did what you had to do.

• John Reese : You didn't do this yourself?

  Harold Finch : I couldn't. I'd locked myself out. The machine was designed to accept alterations in its programming only as a response to an attack. I knew that sooner or later someone would try to take it over, but I didn't know who. So I made sure that when they did they'd do it with my code.

  John Reese : You hid a virus within a virus.

  Harold Finch : I realized that the people Nathan and I had entrusted the machine to were the wrong people and that the only way to protect it would be to teach it to protect itself. I didn't want to involve you in this business, Mr. Reese, because I had hoped that, if I hadn't returned, you would continue what we had started.

• John Reese : [On the phone]  Carter, I've been worried. You okay?

  Joss Carter : I've been better. But, look, that can wait. I think HR and Yogorov's crew are gonna take out Elias tonight.

  John Reese : Elias tried to kill you, Joss. He kidnapped your son. His well-being isn't exactly a priority for me.

  Joss Carter : His lieutenant was gunned down this morning. The first thing Elias did was get his bodyguards paroled to watch his man in the hospital. At least he's loyal.