Here ’s the funniest scene from last night ’s Person of Interest , in which Harold Finch find a clangour grade in swaying a jury from the inside . It ’s a very unlike kind of hacking than Finch is used to , and it requires him to be sort of a blowhard . But it ’s all part of an episode that looks at how “ mender ” reshape our perceptions .
despoiler ahead …
To be honest , “ hangdog ” was sort of an odd instalment . Until now , season four of Person of Interest has revolve pretty hard around Samaritan , the supercomputer that ’s trying to take over the humankind — even when there ’s been a “ number of the week , ” it ’s always come back to Samaritan , one style or the other . And the last smattering of episodes were hard focused on the escalating conflict between the benign Machine and the amoral Samaritan .
But “ hangdog ” is a rare number - of - the - workweek episode that does n’t relate to the meta - plot of ground that much at all — Samaritan is mentioned a few times , as is the need to keep our heroes ’ cover personal identity going . And one of the minor subplots is about some guy rope consociate with criminal offence boss Elias , who are going overleap . But it ’s mostly a standalone , and it re-introduce a distich of long - lose female characters , as part of the show ’s mad attempts to supplant Shaw ( and Root , who ’s missing this week . )
The real plot of land of “ Guilty ” feel like a hangover from season one . Finch catch stuck on a jury , because the Machine knows one of the other jurors is essay to tamper with the trial . And at first , our crew thinks the juror is trying to get the defendant found barren — but after Finch rolls out with his blustery “ the human ’s guilty as wickedness ” spiel , as use above , it turns out to be the contrary . The existent cause of death wants to ensure the falsely accused defendant is found guilty .
Oh , and the slaying was actually over a new cellular phone data signal standard , which would have misrepresent people like a microwave . Which is a slap-up motive .
Anyway , the main “ inwardness ” of the episode has to do with the whole process by which we determine “ reasonable doubt ” and guilt , and the extent to which these thing depend on your frame on reality and the personal kinetics of a group of people . Even though Samaritan does n’t really get a look in , this is the kind of stuff Samaritan has been trying to control , or else practice as an excuse as to why humankind ca n’t regularise ourselves .
The eternal sleep of the instalment has to do with Reese and Finch struggling with whether to permit other people in , now that Shaw is apparently dead and Root is work . So they have to decide whether to let the sexy - trouser Zoe Morgan help them un - fix the trial ( see the clip above for how that turns out . ) And Reese tries to shut out Fusco , who still goes off and look into some outstanding numbers on his own , and then delivers an impressive speech about how Reese does n’t get to decide what Fusco is willing to go bad for . And Reese pretty at random determine to have more sessions with the police therapist that he was assigned to after his shot incident — either because he really want to unburden himself , or because he ’s got the hots for therapist lady . ( Either way , the scenes with Reese and his therapist feel weirdly interchange - on and are the weakest part of the sequence . I just do n’t find any chemistry there . )
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