Season 1
Ep 1 - Pilot
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Reese and Finch must figure out whether a young prosecutor is a victim or a suspect.
Ep 2 - Ghosts
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Reese and Finch question the machine's reliability when it prompts the investigation of a teenager who was killed years earlier; Finch recalls the origin of the machine.
Ep 3 - Mission Creep
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Reese infiltrates a gang to get closer to a former Marine that the machine tagged.
Ep 4 - Cura Te Ipsum
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Reese and Finch try to unravel a threat to a promising young doctor.
Ep 5 - Judgement
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Reese and Finch have the added challenge of investigating a Person of Interest who wants nothing to do with their brand of vigilante justice.
Ep 6 - The Fix
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Reese becomes romantically involved with the newest Person of Interest: an attractive woman who isn't all that she seems.
Ep 7 - Witness
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The Machine identifies a school teacher who witnessed a mob hit as their next POI and Reese and Finch rush to save his life.
Ep 8 - Foe
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When Reese and Finch discover that their latest POI has connections to Cold War Soviet espionage circles, they quickly learn how covert ops were handled in a world before The Machine.
Ep 9 - Get Carter
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Reese and Finch’s game of cat and mouse with Detective Carter becomes infinitely more complicated when The Machine declares that she is their newest POI.
Ep 10 - Number Crunch
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As Detective Carter deals with the fallout from her recent encounter with Reese and Finch, The Machine ups the ante for the duo by giving them four Social Security numbers instead of one.
Ep 11 - Super
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Reese is confined to a wheelchair recovering from his gunshot wound, but Finch sets him up in an apartment where he’s to keep an eye on the Super, who is their latest POI. Also, Finch approaches Carter and gives her a POI to show her what they do.
Ep 12 - Legacy
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When Carter finally comes face-to-face with Reese, he urges her to join forces to help with their latest POI, a scrappy young woman from the wrong side of the tracks who turned her life around and became a lawyer.
Ep 13 - Root Cause
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The Machine gives Reese and Finch the number of a down-and-out man who has been pushed too far, and they're forced to turn to former Person of Interest Zoe Morgan for help.
Ep 14 - Wolf and Cub
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The Machine identifies Darren, a teenager whose brother was just murdered, as the next POI. Meanwhile, Finch is growing concerned that the son of his former business partner is dangerously close to finding out about the Machine.
Ep 15 - Blue Code
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Reese discovers there’s more to the story after he infiltrates a smuggling ring to get close to his latest POI.
Ep 16 - Risk
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The Machine leads Reese and Finch to Wall Street when a sharp young trader at a major investment bank becomes embroiled in a multi-million dollar financial scam.
Ep 17 - Baby Blue
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Reese and Finch are puzzled when the machine names a 6-month-old baby as the latest person of interest; Detective Carter questions her allegiances when Elias resurfaces.
Ep 18 - Identity Crisis
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The Machine's latest number presents a unique challenge for Reese and Finch since the person has virtually no digital footprint - and appears to be leading a double life.
Ep 19 - Flesh and Blood
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When The Machine spits out five numbers, naming the Don of each of New York’s crime families, Reese and Finch suspect Elias is planning to eliminate his competition.
Ep 20 - Matsya Nyaya
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To track the latest person of interest, Reese goes under cover as part of an armored truck crew; throughout the case, Reese is reminded of tough decisions he was forced to make during his last CIA mission.
Ep 21 - Many Happy Returns
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On Reese's birthday, Finch gives him the day off in hope of keeping him away from the latest person of interest.
Ep 22 - No Good Deed
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A person of interest winds up in the middle of a dark government conspiracy that Finch is all too familiar with; Reese makes a discovery about Finch's past.
Ep 23 - Firewall
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Reese becomes trapped with his POI in a heavily surveilled part of the city and must rely on Finch, Carter and Fusco's help.
Season 2
Ep 1 - The Contingency
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Reese asks Detectives Carter and Fusco for help finding Finch, who was kidnapped by his nemesis.
Ep 2 - Bad Code
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As Reese investigates a cold case, he gets closer to Finch and his kidnapper, Root.
Ep 3 - Masquerade
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Reese protects the spoiled daughter of a Brazilian diplomat.
Ep 4 - Triggerman
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Reese and Finch wonder if they should intervene when they learn that a mob enforcer's life is in danger; Finch turns to an unexpected source for help.
Ep 5 - Bury the Lede
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Reese must surreptitiously protect an investigative reporter without becoming a part of her story.
Ep 6 - The High Road
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The Machine’s latest number sends Reese to the suburbs.
Ep 7 - Critical
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A resourceful third party raises the stakes as Finch and Reese try to protect their latest person of interest, a brilliant surgeon.
Ep 8 - Til Death
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The team faces a challenge when the numbers of both a man and his wife come up in the machine.
Ep 9 - C.O.D.
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When the machine names a New York cabdriver as a person of interest, any of his passengers could be a part of the impending crime.
Ep 10 - Shadow Box
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As the FBI pursues "the man in the suit," Reese is even more determined to protect the latest person of interest after learning she is the sister of a soldier who was killed in action.
Ep 11 - 2πR
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Finch goes under cover to protect a youth who reminds him of himself; Carter goes on a dangerous mission for the FBI.
Ep 12 - Prisoner's Dilemma
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Carter tries to help Reese by engaging in mental warfare with the FBI; Reese has encounters with old and new enemies; Detective Fusco must protect supermodel Karolina Kurkova, the latest person of interest.
Ep 13 - Dead Reckoning
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Reese is captured by a former acquaintance planning a massive and potentially deadly act of cyber-warfare.
Ep 14 - One Percent
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Finch and Reese meet their match: a tech billionaire whose curiosity and endless resources could expose their identities and ruin their efforts to save his life.
Ep 15 - Booked Solid
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As Reese and Finch try to save a hotel maid's life, they encounter a litany of suspects; Detective Carter considers a significant offer from the FBI.
Ep 16 - Relevance
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The latest POI - a deadly government operative who tackles terrorist threats - proves difficult for Reese and Finch to protect.
Ep 17 - Proteus
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As Finch and Reese try to protect six people simultaneously, clues lead them to a coastal town; when a storm forces Finch and Reese to seek shelter in a police station with a group of locals, they realize a killer may be in their midst.
Ep 18 - All In
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Finch and Reese head to Atlantic City to protect the latest person of interest, an elderly gambler; Carter tries to clear another detective's name.
Ep 19 - Trojan Horse
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Finch infiltrates a tech corporation to gather intel on an executive whose number has come up; Carter questions Beecher's integrity.
Ep 20 - In Extremis
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When a person of interest is poisoned, Finch and Reese only have 24 hours to identify the toxin and find the person responsible; Detective Fusco's past catches up to him.
Ep 21 - Zero Day
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When a virus causes the machine to malfunction, numbers are issued irregularly; the team searches for an extremely elusive tech millionaire.
Ep 22 - God Mode
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Finch and Reese team up with unexpected allies as they race to fix the machine; as Detective Carter tries to apprehend Cal Beecher's murderer, she finds herself up against HR -- a criminal organization.
Season 3
Ep 1 - Liberty
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Reese and Shaw struggle to find a naval officer among all those in town for Fleet Week; Carter puts a plan in motion to get rid of those who set her up; Root tests her new surroundings.
Ep 2 - Nothing to Hide
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Reese tries to protect an Internet entrepreneur who targets people's privacy; Carter is paired with a rookie partner.
Ep 3 - Lady Killer
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Finch and Reese ask Zoe Morgan, Carter and Shaw to help them determine if a playboy is a predator or a target; Root plots an escape from the psych ward with the help of the machine.
Ep 4 - Reasonable Doubt
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The team must figure out if a prominent lawyer orchestrated the murder of her husband or if she is being framed; Carter is spotted with Reese by her new partner.
Ep 5 - Razgovor
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Shaw must stay close to a 10-year-old girl with highly developed surveillance skills when she is identified by the machine; Carter's mission could be exposed.
Ep 6 - Mors Praematura
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After being freed from her confinement to the psych ward, Root needs Shaw's help with a directive from the machine; Finch and Reese look into a mild-mannered investigator.
Ep 7 - The Perfect Mark
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The team is met with surprises during an investigation into a hypnotherapist; an antiquities dealer has ties to a crime organization.
Ep 8 - Endgame
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The machine gives Finch 38 numbers at once; information about Carter's past is revealed.
Ep 9 - The Crossing
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The battle to bring a crime organization to justice reaches a new level; Reese's number comes up in the machine.
Ep 10 - The Devil's Share
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As the team seeks justice for a death, Finch fears one team member will go too far; the number of one of HR's key players comes up in the machine.
Ep 11 - Lethe
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Flashbacks reveal Finch's creation of the machine; Reese hits the road, leaving the team to deal with the aftermath of their war with HR.
Ep 12 - Aletheia
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Multiple enemies target the team as they try to protect a dying man; Reese's absence could lead to catastrophic repercussions.
Ep 13 - 4C
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Reese gets on an international flight -- intending to leave the team and the past behind -- but realizes his travel plans were manipulated.
Ep 14 - Provenance
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Reese comes back to New York; surprising events lead to the team planning a heist that could send them all to jail.
Ep 15 - Last Call
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Finch tries to protect a 911 operator by going under cover in an emergency call center; the threat proves to be larger than anticipated.
Ep 16 - RAM
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Secrets of Finch's pre-Reese operation are revealed -- including surprising ties to current events.
Ep 17 - /
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The Machine assigns Root to seek out a janitor with a mysterious past, but when her very presence puts his life in danger, Finch also receives his number.
Ep 18 - Allegiance
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When Reese and Finch have to protect a former government contractor who is following a UN diplomat, they are thrust into the murky waters of international politics.
Ep 19 - Most Likely To ...
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In order to protect the latest person of interest, Shaw and Reese go under cover at a high school reunion; Fusco and Finch go to Washington, D.C., to investigate Vigilance's most recent attack.
Ep 20 - Death Benefit
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Reese goes under cover as a secret service agent in order to get close to the latest person of interest, a congressman who may have the key to derailing Decima's plan for a second machine.
Ep 21 - Beta
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Reese and Shaw are hunted by Decima; Greer uses Finch's greatest weakness -- his former fiancee -- to lure him out of hiding.
Ep 22 - A House Divided
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The machine sends the team five different numbers to investigate when an unknown entity blocks details about an impending catastrophic event; Root's hackers arrive in New York.
Ep 23 - Deus Ex Machina
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The team work to stop Samaritan from coming online and targeting them; the battle against Vigilance reaches a conclusion.
Season 4
Ep 1 - Panopticon
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In the fourth season premiere, the team must devise new ways to continue their work without being detected by Samaritan after they're forced to take on new identities created by Root. Some, however, find it hard to ignore the Machine's numbers, putting them all at risk of being seen by the rival machine.
Ep 2 - Nautilus
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Although Finch insists that he no longer wishes to help with new numbers, his interest is piqued when Reese learns that the newest POI is a brilliant college student engaged in a mysterious, life-and-death scavenger hunt. Now he must decide if he can help without alerting Samaritan.
Ep 3 - Wingman
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Finch recruits Fusco to stay close to the latest POI, a professional "wingman" whose number has come up, but learning how to approach women soon becomes the least of his worries. Meanwhile, Reese must find a way to play by the rules at his new day job as the Machine sends Finch and Root on a mysterious errand.
Ep 4 - Brotherhood
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Reese's cover job as an NYPD detective becomes complicated when the young brother and sister he's protecting become targets of a gang investigation.
Ep 5 - Prophets
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Finch is suspicious when a gifted political pollster's number comes up at the same time that his typically ironclad predictions go wrong – and believes that the two events are linked. Meanwhile, Reese is sidelined by a direct order from Captain Moreno. Jason Ritter guest stars as pollster Simon Lee.
Ep 6 - Pretenders
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Reese, Shaw and Fusco must protect an unassuming office worker who stumbles into a dangerous conspiracy while moonlighting as fake detective. Meanwhile, Finch travels to Hong Kong as part of his academic cover identity.
Ep 7 - Honor Among Thieves
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Shaw joins a team of international thieves in order to keep tabs on the latest POI, but an unexpected turn of events puts her in danger of being detected by Samaritan. Finch and Root, meanwhile, undertake a dangerous sabotage mission.
Ep 8 - Point of Origin
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Reese volunteers as an NYPD police academy instructor in order to keep an eye on a talented young officer whose suspicious actions make him question her motives. Meanwhile, Martine – armed with information from Samaritan – hunts a member of the team.
Ep 9 - The Devil You Know
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Reese must save Elias from the Brotherhood. He can't get any help from Root or Shaw since Shaw's cover is blown and Root is escorting her to underground.
Ep 10 - The Cold War
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Samaritan demonstrates its true power by taking control of New York for 48 hours and erasing crime from the city in an attempt to lure The Machine out of hiding.
Ep 11 - If-Then-Else
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Samaritan launches a cyber-attack on the stock exchange, forcing the team to risk their lives in a desperate mission to stop a global catastrophe.
Ep 12 - Control-Alt-Delete
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Control, who oversees the handling of relevant numbers for the government, begins to question the methods and intentions of the Samaritan program. Root and Reese start looking for Shaw, whom they believe is still alive.
Ep 13 - M.I.A.
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Root and Reese’s hunt for Shaw takes them to a small town in upstate New York where it becomes apparent that not everything is as idyllic as it seems. Also, Fusco teams with a former POI to tackle the newest number.
Ep 14 - Guilty
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When the Machine arranges for Finch to sit on the jury of a murder trial, he begins to suspect that a fellow juror is set to rig the proceedings. Meanwhile, Reese begins to open up to the department’s therapist.
Ep 15 - Q&A
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Reese tries to protect a software programmer with a mysterious second life, but it’s unclear which side of her life the threat is coming from. Meanwhile, Claire, a young hacker whom Finch tried to protect from Samaritan, reaches out to him for aid.
Ep 16 - Blunt
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Reese and Finch must protect Harper, a street-smart grifter, when her plan to steal cash from a medical marijuana dispensary goes up in smoke.
Ep 17 - Karma
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Reese and Finch try to protect a psychologist whose unorthodox methods for helping his patients find closure could cost him dearly. Meanwhile, flashbacks reveal Finch’s fragile state in the days following the bombing that killed his best friend, Nathan Ingram.
Ep 18 - Skip
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Reese must protect a bounty hunter who refuses to let the potential threat to her life deter her from the relentless pursuit of her target. Also, Finch tries to set the plan he began in Shanghai in motion.
Ep 19 - Search and Destroy
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Reese and Finch scramble to protect a software CEO when his behavior becomes increasingly erratic following a hacker attack that reveals all his secrets and unravels his life.
Ep 20 - Terra Incognita
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Reese finds himself on a perilous personal journey when he takes on a homicide case Detective Carter was never able to close.
Ep 21 - Asylum
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Reese and Fusco get caught in the war between the two newest POIs, rival crime bosses Elias and Dominic. Also, a tantalizing clue to Shaw’s whereabouts leads Finch and Root into a possible trap, and Control goes rogue to uncover the true intentions of the Samaritan program.
Ep 22 - YHWH
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Finch and Root race to save The Machine, which has been located by the rival AI, Samaritan. Also, Reese is caught in the middle of the final showdown between rival crime bosses Elias and Dominic.
Season 5
Ep 1 - B.S.O.D.
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Reese and Finch attempt to rescue the Machine’s source code before it deteriorates beyond repair. Also, Root fights for her life against an onslaught of Samaritan’s agents and Fusco is faced with hard questions following the deaths of Dominic and Elias.
Ep 2 - SNAFU
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The Machine experiences a glitch during rebooting, supplying Reese and Fusco with the numbers of dozens of people not actually involved in crimes, while also locking Finch and Root out after identifying them as threats based on past violent behavior.
Ep 3 - Truth Be Told
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Reese’s cover could be blown when he realizes the latest POI has ties to his old CIA colleague, Kara Stanton.
Ep 4 - ShotSeeker
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Ep 5 - A More Perfect Union
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Ep 6 - QSO
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Ep 7 - 6,741
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Ep 8 - Reassortment
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Reese and Finch become trapped in a hospital that becomes ground zero for a deadly viral outbreak. Also, Samaritan’s newest recruit has second thoughts and Shaw continues to struggle with reality.
Ep 9 - Sotto Voce
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The mysterious criminal mastermind known as “The Voice” returns and traps Reese and Fusco in their own precinct with several armed gang members and the latest POI. Also, Root makes a shocking discovery.
Ep 10 - The Day the World Went Away
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Finch’s number comes up when a fatal error blows his cover identity and sets off a deadly series of escalating encounters with Samaritan’s operatives.
Ep 11 - Synecdoche
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The team must unravel a conspiracy and stay ahead of the Secret Service when the President of the United States becomes their newest POI. Also, Finch separates himself from the team and considers taking drastic action to combat Samaritan.
Ep 12 - .exe
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As Reese and Shaw race to catch up with Finch, he infiltrates a maximum-security government facility in a desperate mission which could mean the end for not only Samaritan, but for himself and The Machine as well.
Ep 13 - return 0
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Finch, Reese, Fusco, and Shaw embark on one last mission to prevent Samaritan from destroying The Machine and cementing its hold over mankind.