This is one the most anticlimactic episodes of the whole show. The entire episode leads to some sort of Super Password Finch has to type or say that will activate some Super Virus that will destroy both machines. But the numerous plot holes really spoil the fun.
First, if Finch knew it would kill the Machine why not just install an anti-virus into it and save it. Or better yet, why didn't the Machine that knew about this virus didn't patch itself against it. And why didn't Samaritan? Second, didn't he "use a programming language that isn't used anywher else"? So why would the Machine die from executing a Windows file?
But the biggest disappointment comes from the password itself - Dashwood. The Internet says it's a character in "Sense and Sensibilities". How many viewers have read it outside of high-school literature program? And how many of them remember (or even know) the significance of the character? Personally, I don't. And neither do you, whoever you are reading this. Why pick such a vague book to derive such a detail from. I understand the writers' need to show off but in such an important episode on the verge of the Grand Finale, maybe it should've been put on the back burner.
First, if Finch knew it would kill the Machine why not just install an anti-virus into it and save it. Or better yet, why didn't the Machine that knew about this virus didn't patch itself against it. And why didn't Samaritan? Second, didn't he "use a programming language that isn't used anywher else"? So why would the Machine die from executing a Windows file?
But the biggest disappointment comes from the password itself - Dashwood. The Internet says it's a character in "Sense and Sensibilities". How many viewers have read it outside of high-school literature program? And how many of them remember (or even know) the significance of the character? Personally, I don't. And neither do you, whoever you are reading this. Why pick such a vague book to derive such a detail from. I understand the writers' need to show off but in such an important episode on the verge of the Grand Finale, maybe it should've been put on the back burner.