Person of Interest (TV Series)

Panopticon (2014)

Jim Caviezel: John Reese

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• John Reese : I need you to drop the eyeliner, pick up a gun, and help me take down a criminal street gang.

  Sameen Shaw : I'd really like to, but that sounds like a bad idea.

  John Reese : Yeah, that's what Fusco says. I guess I'm full of 'em today.

• Harold Finch : How goes the day job, Detective Riley?

  John Reese : Personally, I prefer my real job, Finch.

  Harold Finch : Professor Whistler, please.

  John Reese : We're getting numbers again Harold. We need to get back to work.

  Harold Finch : I'm no longer your coworker, Detective. I'm done taking orders from a computer. I thought I made that clear after it instructed us to kill a Congressman.

  John Reese : It also helped us to save Grace. And now more lives need saving.

• NYPD Officer : [after Reese breaks up a drug deal]  Detective? You okay?

  John Reese : Escort these clowns to the ER. Get the drugs and money to evidence. Gotta go.

  John Reese : Sir, don't you need to file a report, firing your service weapon?

  John Reese : It wasn't my weapon.

• John Reese : What brings you up to The Bronx, Detective?

  Detective Lionel Fusco : Last I checked, I was in Homicide. This here looks like a body. What's Narcotics doing here, Detective?

  John Reese : [Gestures to the body]  Felix here was an affiliate of a street gang taking over the heroin trade.

  Detective Lionel Fusco : Yeah, well, now he's unaffiliated.

• Harold Finch : If you or Sameen or anyone else attempt to intervene with these numbers, you will surely find yourselves dead.

  John Reese : We have to do something.

  Harold Finch : We have no resources, John! The library's gone.

  John Reese : So we'll get another place.

  Harold Finch : Don't you understand? They're always watching! We can't even talk on the telephone. There is no sanctuary. You can't just be the man in the suit. You're a cop now. I'm a professor. That's just the way it is.

  John Reese : We don't need jobs, Harold. We need a purpose.

  Harold Finch : The world has changed, John. I'm sorry.

  [Passes over Bear's leash] 

  Harold Finch : For the time being, I think he'll be happier with you.

  [Gets up to leave] 

  John Reese : Well, if it's not about helping the numbers anymore, then what?

  Harold Finch : It's about survival, John.

• Detective Lionel Fusco : We're gonna help you, Mr. Hasan.

  Ali Hasan : How?

  John Reese : By getting your son back.

  Ali Hasan : You? Haven't you done enough?

  John Reese : Not yet, I haven't.

• [from trailer] 

  Trailer V.O. : CBS next Tuesday: a machine created to protect our lives...

  Harold Finch : [whispering urgently]  They're always watching!

  Trailer V.O. : ...has decided to take over our world.

  Samaritan : [as individual words flashing on screen]  WHAT ARE YOUR COMMANDS

  John Greer : Launch official intelligence.

  Root : This is war.

  Alvin Lee of "Ten Years After" : [slow singing on soundtrack accompanies violent-act visuals]  I'd love to change the world

  John Reese : It's like old times.

  Harold Finch : Hardly.

  Alvin Lee of "Ten Years After" : [simultaneously with next]  But I don't know what to do

  Trailer V.O. : [simultaneously with previous]  Person of Interest season premiere. Next Tuesday, 10, 9 Central.