Person of Interest (2011–2016): Season 4, Episode 21 - Asylum - full transcript
The gangland war between Dominic/The Brotherhood and Elias is ramping up, with four of the Brotherhood found murdered without the Machine foreseeing that happening. The next numbers the Machine does dispense are for Elias and Dominic themselves. Reese and Fusco take the lead on this issue, which includes finding out why the Machine didn't see the deaths happening. But the more important issue is how Dominic and Elias' seeming battle will emerge from the other side, i.e. if either will still be standing. Meanwhile, Root receives a message implying that Shaw is still alive. Despite both she and Finch realizing that it may be a trap, they still pursue the lead on the scant possibility that she still is alive and needs their help. Finch is a reluctant participant, but feels he has to follow Root, who takes some extraordinary measures to prove her determination in finding Shaw. In the end, they may have to make some tough decisions in seeing which is the higher priority between Shaw's life, their lives or the Machine's life. What the team is unaware of is that Control is working on her own mission with regard to Samaritan.
(Finch) We are being watched.
The government has a secret system...
a machine that spies on you
every hour of every day.
I designed the machine
to detect acts of terror,
but it sees everything...
Violent crimes involving ordinary people.
The government considers
these people irrelevant.
We don't.
Hunted by the authorities,
we work in secret.
You will never find us.
But victim or perpetrator,
if your number's up, we'll find you.
We are only numbers to it.
No. The Machine cares about us.
The second that a bullet enters your brain,
the Machine will cast
you off and replace you.
(Elias) I want them to release you.
I just want it to be done.
Okay, Anthony.
[electronics beeping]
[explosion booms]
(Finch) If you better understood Samaritan,
you would know it employs a private army
to do its bidding.
You would suspect they would employ
at least one of them as a spy
in your own organization.
_
[phone line rings]
(Dennis) Hey, hon. Are you at work?
(Shelly) Not yet. My
morning has been hellish.
Oh, Jackson forgot his lunch again today.
But you know what, he
can eat cafeteria food,
because I have got a ton of papers to grade
before second period.
[tense music]
Oh, my God.
My brakes aren't working. My brakes!
(Dennis) What? What do you mean?
[tires squeal]
Dennis!
[screams]
[metallic crash]
_
♪
[car door clicks]
♪ ♪
[groans, yells weakly]
♪
(Control) Get the body.
♪
[device beeping]
♪ ♪
All good, ma'am. Right on schedule.
Drive.
♪
[explosion booms]
[dramatic music]
♪
[solemn music]
You look like hell.
Good to see you too, Lionel.
Maybe next time you decide
to take on a psychopath
in the frozen Tundra, you'll
call your partner first.
Hey. You're right.
You're a good detective,
and a damn good friend.
You have a temperature or something?
I'm still standing...
which is more than I can
say for our friends here.
(Fusco) Brotherhood soldier.
Elias's guy came out of nowhere,
shot Dominic's boys, and disappeared.
(Fusco) It's like deja vu all over again.
Lionel, tell me this.
How did a gunman get through security?
That's a good question, Detective.
Finch, I got four dead
Brotherhood soldiers.
(Reese) Why didn't the Machine give
us any of their numbers this time?
I wish I knew.
Though it's no stretch to imagine
that a cunning fugitive like
Elias might have found
a way to communicate that
even the Machine can't trace.
At least that's one theory.
You got another?
Samaritan has found the Machine.
If that were true, we'd all be dead.
What happened, Ms. Groves?
♪
Turns out the People's
Republic is surprisingly lax
on full-body searches.
♪
How goes your gang war, Harry?
Dangerous.
I'm afraid it's only a matter of time
before Dominic retaliates.
[phone ringing]
Might be sooner than you think.
[tense music]
[The Machine reciting numbers]
You getting this number, Finch?
It's actually two numbers, Mr. Reese.
Dominic and Elias.
It seem the two crime bosses
are hell-bent on killing each other.
God only knows how many innocent victims
will get caught in the crossfire.
We have to find a way to
stop this war, Mr. Reese.
Got a feeling this might help.
[camera shutter snaps]
(Finch) Hmm, it's some sort of canister.
I'll look into that.
In the meantime, I've managed to trace
the Brotherhood's security transport trucks
to a new location.
Thanks. I'll take Lionel.
♪
_
[indistinct chatter]
♪
(Link) We got a problem.
Boys want retribution for the courthouse.
And they'll have it in due time.
Time's running out.
We got soldiers with itchy trigger fingers.
Looks like there's trouble in paradise.
We need to take action.
You and me, we go back a long time.
Remember that skinny
pockmarked kid from Trinidad?
You told him it's not enough to hit back.
No, you need to put your
enemy in the ground.
I haven't forgotten.
Only one way this war ends.
♪
[camera shutter snaps]
Brotherhood's preparing for battle.
- Increased security, patrols.
- Mr. Reese?
I was thinking that you and Detective Fusco
might stop by the bank.
You need us to make a deposit, Finch?
The canister from the crime scene
is a remnant of a long-defunct
pneumatic tube mail network
that once ran beneath the city.
One of its hubs was an old retail bank
which has recently found new ownership.
- Carl Elias?
- Indeed.
Mr. Elias appears to have revived it
to conceal his communications.
And smuggle murder weapons
into highly secured government buildings.
(Reese) If Elias is at the
bank, we'll find him.
[phone ringing]
[dramatic music]
♪
Shaw's phone.
- Finch?
- I have to go, Mr. Reese.
(Finch) You'll have to
manage Elias yourself.
♪
Hello?
(Shaw) Root, are you there?
It's me. I need your help.
[line clicks]
Shaw?
Wait. Sameen.
♪
[tense music]
_
♪
[gasps]
W-where am I?
Why are you doing this?
We need to talk about Samaritan.
I don't... I don't know what that means.
♪
You know Tyler, don't you, Shelly?
What? N-no.
I don't know that man.
He was one of my best agents.
It's your last chance to say good-bye.
[inhales sharply] No.
Please don't...
(Shelly) No.
[gunshot]
Oh, no! No!
How could you forget a face like that?
[crying] I don't understand.
♪
Why are you doing this?
I want you to be helpful.
Tyler was helpful.
At first.
He admitted to being
one of several Samaritan moles
embedded in the ISA.
He admitted that you were their handler.
I'm just a teacher and a mom.
I just... I just want to
go home to my family.
(Control) I understand.
I'm a mother too.
♪
That's why I'm giving you one last chance
to save your own life.
Tell the truth, Shelly.
Or you too...
will end up a spot on the wall.
♪
(Shaw) Root, are you there?
It's me. I need your help.
[phone rings]
[solemn music]
She's alive, Harold.
We wrote her off for dead, but she's alive.
We don't know that, Ms. Groves.
Except we do.
I just talked to her
on a call originating from the city.
♪
Can we take just five minutes
and talk this through?
The last time we had this conversation,
I actually listened to you.
And to the Machine.
I called off my search,
and all this time,
she needed us, Harold.
Like she needs us now.
Isn't this your specialty?
Helping people when the phone rings?
That call was most certainly a trap.
I know.
But Sameen's still alive,
and I'm going after her.
[tense music]
♪
(Finch) I can't help you, Ms. Groves,
if you insist on this impossible pace.
Root. What are we doing out here?
♪
When you told me to stop
looking for Shaw, I did.
But now I need you to help me.
I can't do this alone.
♪
Oh, dear.
Harold taught you blackjack and chess...
♪
But I wonder if he ever taught you
how to play chicken.
♪
I'm gonna walk across this
ledge with my eyes closed
until A, you help me find Sameen,
or B, I fall tragically to my death.
♪
[wind gusting]
- [gasps]
- Ms. Groves.
♪
You've calculated the wind speed,
so you know how treacherous this is.
[beeping] _
You have to ask yourself what's worse:
The two of us working together,
or me taking this next step alone.
♪
[beeping] _
♪
Thanks for playing.
Come on, Harry.
[siren wailing]
She found us a ride.
(Root) The Machine's located Sameen.
Buckle up.
(Root) Shaw's call
originated from a landline
somewhere inside that asylum.
Steiner Psychiatric Institute.
(Root) State controlled with
a closed security system,
which explains our little pit stop.
[tense music]
The Machine would never let us
show up empty-handed to a rescue mission.
♪
Did the Machine have any thoughts about
us not getting ourselves killed?
Right now, she's pretty
fixated on this shovel.
♪
_
This looks like the spot.
You got a plan to get in, partner?
Relax. We got a backstage pass.
♪
We need a word with your boss.
What makes you think he's here?
How 'bout we come back with a SWAT team?
♪ ♪
That's what I thought.
We're in the bank, Finch.
John, I may have to go offline for a while.
(Finch) We've found Sameen.
Shaw? She's alive?
Text me the address. I'm on my way.
I need you to babysit Elias.
(Elias) I don't need a sitter, John.
And I warned you not to interfere.
♪ ♪
By "interfering," you
mean saving your life?
Again?
Who says I need saving?
How long do you think you
got before the Brotherhood
comes looking to make their own withdrawal?
[air whooshes]
Pneumatic tubes once looped around
the entire island of Manhattan
delivering mail and money.
American ingenuity at its finest.
And you would have me leave?
Flee like a coward?
You know me better than that, John.
I know you used to be careful.
Canister in the trash? Sloppy.
And enough evidence to charge you
with conspiracy to commit murder.
Are you placing me under
arrest, Detectives?
If you don't go quietly.
[guns cocking]
Time to end this war.
[gun cocks]
This is your last chance, Detectives.
Walk away while you still can.
[gunfire]
(Reese) The Brotherhood.
Can't say I didn't warn you.
Hurry.
[gunfire and shouting]
You got another way out?
Just like old times.
This way.
♪
Fool me once, old man.
[tense music]
11 weeks ago, this second-rate facility
upgraded to a fiber-optics network
it can't possibly afford.
♪
(Root) Come on, Harry.
♪
Information travels through optical fiber
in pulses of light.
Just 1% of any one pulse contains...
100% of the data.
Like a drop of blood carrying DNA.
Exactly.
Our micro-clamping friend here
will bend the cable just
enough to leak a little light.
And they'll never know they've been hacked.
This is a cascade of information.
Samaritan is doing more than
just harboring Ms. Shaw in there.
We'll need to crack its
considerable encryption.
She's already accessing your laptop.
[laptop beeping]
(Root) "All forces on alert.
We will soon isolate the Machine."
♪
They're close to finding you.
I don't care what happens to me.
(Finch) What did the Machine tell you?
She says it's too dangerous.
I'm inclined to agree, Ms. Groves.
This isn't just a rescue
mission to save Shaw.
The Machine needs our help too.
If we don't save them, who will?
♪
♪
Detective, looks like you caught
a bullet through the shoulder.
Props to the shooter.
Oh, he's dead.
You'll be joining him soon enough.
♪
(Dominic) Extra cell.
Let me guess.
Belongs to our friend Riley.
Fake cop needs one for his day job
and one for special assignments.
What're we waiting for?
We should put Elias down
now while we have the chance.
Tell me, how do Elias and his buddies
manage to stay one step ahead?
They got good intel.
We kill them now, that
intel dies with them.
This isn't just about running the city.
This is about staying alive
long enough to enjoy it.
♪
What do the Romans say?
I came, I saw, I conquered.
You can't conquer what
you don't understand.
(Dominic) Exactly.
In this day and age, a fugitive crime lord
like yourself remains free.
How?
Because two of New York's
finest protect and serve you.
At least they used to.
(Dominic) From now on, they answer to me.
And you're all gonna tell me how
this little symbiotic relationship works.
♪
How are we gonna know
they're telling the truth?
That's why I invited a mutual friend.
Sorry, boys...
♪
But I got an offer I couldn't refuse.
♪
[tense music]
You admitted me to the funny farm once.
Turnabout's fair play.
I don't recall dressing you
like a homeless dope fiend.
[chuckles softly] It's not that bad.
You look more hipster than homeless.
Did the Machine have
any instructions for me?
She said just be honest.
Hello, Doctor? How can I help you?
I need to admit this man on a TDO.
72-hour involuntary hold.
He's an increasingly dangerous
paranoid schizophrenic.
Unless he'd care to disagree?
♪
It's not paranoia if they're
really out to get you.
Who exactly is after you?
The Brotherhood, the federal government,
an artificial super
intelligence, obviously.
What's your name, sir?
I go by many names,
all derived from species of birds.
I'd mark him as a John Doe.
He basically lives in the subway.
Thanks. We'll take it from here.
Everything's gonna be okay. Find Lenny.
Tell him they stole his spaceman.
♪
♪
I hate to interrupt this
scintillating contest,
but I was hoping to find Lenny?
♪
Thank you.
Pardon me. Lenny?
Those gentlemen stole your spaceman.
♪
Liars.
[woman screams]
You stole my spacemen.
[Lenny yelling]
[shouting]
(man) Calm down, calm down.
♪
- No!
- Aah!
[grunting]
♪
[shouting]
♪
The ninth floor is reserved
for the most violent patients.
It's the most secure,
and it's the only floor
without surveillance cameras.
It's also the only floor
with secure elevator access.
This has to be it.
I'm searching the electronic charts
for a profile that might match Sameen's.
[suspenseful music]
♪
Okay, don't lose your head, Ms. Groves.
This might mean nothing,
but they're holding a compact
Persian sociopath in Room 914.
♪
[keypad beeping]
♪
Stay tuned, Harold.
♪
[keypad beeping]
♪
(Greer) Everything we have
worked for is coming to fruition.
The Correction is upon us.
Standby for instructions.
♪
You need to leave, Harold. Now.
Not without you, Ms. Groves.
(Root) You don't have a choice.
This is Samaritan's base of operations.
We're in the belly of the beast.
[tense music]
♪
You have to shut your eyes.
A lesson I've learned all too well.
I would've stayed in the dark too
if some...
[sighs]
Friends hadn't convinced
me to dig a little deeper.
♪
Now, I'm curious.
How does a prep school girl from Greenwich
ever come to work for Samaritan?
I... I have no idea
who this Samaritan is.
This is all a huge mistake.
Please...
please, I...
I have a daughter.
Sarah. She's a toddler.
And my son, Jackson, he's
just starting second grade.
I just want to go home
and see them.
♪
I'm sorry.
I know how you feel.
I lost my mother too at a very young age.
♪
But you already know
that, don't you, Shelly?
That's why you keep
playing the mother card.
Did it tell you to do that?
Did it think
that you could handle me too?
How many agents are you
handling for Samaritan?
♪
You recognize anyone?
(Control) Kind of looks like Tyler.
At least it used to.
I go... I go to the park on my lunch hour.
I like to watch the artists paint.
Who do you watch in the coffee shop?
I'm in that coffee shop at
least three times a week.
Okay, this is just...
this is just some sort
of freak coincidence.
A more pertinent question would be,
what's a middle-aged,
caffeine-addicted school teacher
doing roaming the halls of the White House?
♪
You have no idea what's
coming for you, bitch.
♪
(Dominic) I'm offering
a place at the table.
Acknowledge me as the
head of the five families,
and you and your men can live.
Just because you're sitting at the head
doesn't mean you can lead.
My men are loyal to me.
Which men?
The Cosa Nostra or our boys in blue?
Ah, and then there's the
mysterious third party...
the guy with the tech.
The hacker.
(Harper) Don't bother lying.
I told them about Harold.
Honest about your deceit.
How noble.
Harold's tapped into the city's cameras.
I want his system.
Well, you're gonna kill me regardless.
Why turn on a friend?
Like you turned on your right-hand man?
Anthony, right?
How's it feel knowing you're responsible
for your friend's death?
Do you really want to know?
[tense music]
Be careful what you wish for, Dominic.
♪
We'll start with the
hand and work our way up.
♪
[hammer thuds] [Elias screams]
Where do you meet Harold?
Do you have a safe house in the city?
♪
If I knew, I would've told you by now.
♪
Where is your boss, Detective?
Truth is,
I don't know.
The truth hurts.
[gurgling]
You want some air?
Tell me where your hacker boss is.
[coughs]
[groans]
- Again.
- Wait.
Wait. [coughs]
Wait.
You got... you got a loofah?
Maybe you can wash my
back while you're at it.
♪
[gurgling]
[door squeaks]
♪
Found this in one of the canisters.
Date and time of the courthouse hearing.
Got a rat in our crew.
He got our boys killed.
An inside man selling secrets to Elias.
♪
[gurgling]
♪
Fish him out. We got
more important business.
[gasping]
(Link) Come help me out.
♪
I'll go get the key.
[groans]
Listen, I got a little text from Thornhill.
She said I could name my
price if I save your ass.
[coughs]
[handcuffs jingle, lock clicks]
Hey, thanks for the spa day, sunshine.
I'm not done with you yet.
[grunts] [handcuffs jingle]
[coughs]
♪
This is a restricted floor, Doctor.
Sorry.
I was looking for an aspirin stash.
I have a lower back thing.
[gunshots ping] [men grunt]
[men groaning]
♪
Sameen?
_
♪
_
[metallic clang]
♪
You just missed her.
[gunshots ping]
♪
[gunshot pings]
Aah!
[gunshots]
[grunting]
[gun clicks]
[gun clatters on floor]
Time to finish what we started.
You read my mind.
[both grunting]
♪
Where are they taking her?
Relax. I'm sure it's someplace nice.
♪ ♪
[Root grunting]
(Martine) You should be proud of Shaw.
She held out for a month or two.
I had to hurt her pretty bad.
[gasps, groans]
But she broke eventually.
Lying bitch.
And by the way, thanks
for doing everything she said you would do.
[solemn music]
♪
_
You're calmer than normal, John,
given the circumstances.
I took a trip to the mountains,
and I saw an old friend.
♪
Just reminded me what I've been missing.
And what is that?
Life.
And yet, here you are,
stuck in a dark basement with me.
You should have heeded my warning.
You knew that the Brotherhood was coming.
That canister in the trash...
that wasn't a mistake.
Did I leave a bread crumb?
Just wondering what's up your sleeve.
Trap door?
Pneumatic tubes rigged with C-4?
I'm afraid this is my last stand.
♪
You're an honorable man, John.
It's been nice knowing you.
[door clicks]
Gonna need you to write a little letter.
With your good hand.
At "Sunrise, 3648 Lafayette Avenue."
[tense music]
Unless you want Riley here
to wipe for you from now on.
How 'bout you come a little closer?
I'll settle my own score, John.
My friends are upset
because they're discovered
a traitor in their midst.
Now write,
"Veni, vidi, vici."
♪
It's the address to the Brotherhood's
base of operations.
As far as your men are concerned,
their boss just gave them orders to invade.
And when they come, the
Brotherhood will be waiting.
(Dominic) Your men can die by your hands
or you can give me the
name of the rat in my crew.
♪
(Martine) Let's get
her strapped to the bed.
This shouldn't take long.
[dramatic music]
[grunting]
(Greer) Really, Ms. Groves.
There's such a thing as nobility in defeat.
I have everything I
need to find the Machine,
and no amount of kicking will change that.
If you found the Machine,
I'd be the first to know.
(Greer) Exactly.
We have scoured every network device
on the planet without success,
until I realized, you are
the last piece of the puzzle.
The answer is in your head.
[chuckles]
I don't have the slightest idea
where the Machine's located.
Not in your brain.
In your head.
Your direct line to the Machine.
The cochlear implant.
Your little girlfriend
told us all about it.
She would never.
(Greer) We have no reason to
lie about something like that.
[tense music]
(Greer) Welcome, Mr. Finch.
You're just in time to see us
cut your friend's head open.
There'll be some brain damage,
but you'll still be able to
clothe and feed yourself.
Though I can't say you'll be
much a marksman moving forward.
♪
[saw whirring]
Harold doesn't have to see this.
If you want, I'll end him
first and let you watch.
Lay a hand on him, I'll kill you.
Sit back. Relax, honey.
Or I'll lay more than just a hand on him.
♪
He doesn't look like much of a fighter.
Bet he'll died without so much as a peep.
♪
[dramatic music]
[neck snaps]
♪
What do you know?
Not a peep.
Now I surrender.
_
[tense music]
♪
Who's your contact at the White House?
I used to admire you...
the work you did for your country.
You could still prove
that you're a true patriot.
[chuckles softly]
How? By letting you go?
No, this is not about me.
It's about to begin.
The Correction.
Correction?
For whom?
Don't worry.
It's nothing you haven't done yourself.
What are you talking about?
The ferry bombing.
You sanctioned Nathan Ingram's death
along with all the other innocent people.
Samaritan is planning an attack.
Attack?
Is that you would classify
the actions you took
to protect your country?
When?
♪
_
May 6th.
♪
What does that number mean?
[gun cocks]
You can go ahead and shoot me.
I'm not gonna tell you.
- [grunts]
- Aah!
[gasping]
You should save your energy,
because you're gonna need it.
(Sherry) Do you know the
story of Sodom and Gomorrah?
Lot's wife couldn't help but
look back at the burning city,
and she burst into a pillar of salt.
But you can still save yourself
if you don't do anything
to stop the Correction.
You said yourself, you're
good at shutting your eyes.
Well, the world is about to catch fire.
Here's your last chance to look away.
♪
[tense music]
Time's up.
Do we have an agreement,
or do we send the note and
exterminate your men?
♪
Send it through the tubes.
Okay, okay. You win.
Just please... just leave my men alone.
Now tell me,
who's your informant?
♪
He has me send payments to this account.
Your money man can verify.
♪
[camera shutter snaps]
We'll be hearing shortly.
♪
[phone rings]
Yeah, Lawrence. What do you got?
♪
No, that'll be all.
♪
Lawrence give you a name?
An alias.
I need your advice on
how to deal with this.
It's not enough to hit back.
Got to put your enemy in the ground.
♪
Whose name was on the account?
[gunshots]
It was yours, Link.
[laughing]
Oh. Oh, man.
You could take my title, but
you can't hold on to it.
You can't trust anyone.
And now your men won't trust you.
They trust that I will exterminate a rat.
Rat?
I might have lied about a few things.
Like the message your men intercepted.
♪
You planted that message?
You knew we were coming.
Well, good news,
there's no rat in your organization.
Bad new, you need a new right-hand man.
[grunting]
You want to kill me? Go ahead.
You were always gonna win this war anyway.
(Reese) Kill him, you'll never
get the information you want.
Tell me you have another plan, Elias.
This is my plan, John.
I told you I'd make
them answer for Anthony.
So tell me, how does it feel knowing
that you're responsible
for your friend's death?
♪
[tense music]
♪
Shall we continue?
Have you forgotten her so quickly?
You've already discarded her,
and you're a human being.
Imagine how quickly that
thing that you've created
would discard you.
Do you ever lay awake at night wondering
if one day it will see you as a threat?
Or worse, as irrelevant?
How arrogant of you to think
that any of us are anything but irrelevant.
♪
_
Samaritan is offering your
Machine a second chance
to save the lives of its human agents.
Give up its location,
or they die.
The offer expires in 60 seconds.
♪
[bone saw buzzing]
Don't do it.
Please.
Don't give yourself up.
Harold was right.
We are interchangeable.
You can replace us.
You can keep fighting.
[electronics powering down]
[solemn music]
[electronics beeping]
♪
_
_
_
_
No, don't do it.
Don't die for us.
♪
_
_
_
_
_
[electronics click, whir]
♪ ♪
Until the next time, Mr. Finch.
[tense music]
_
♪ ♪
(Shelly) Go home to your loved ones.
Hold your daughter tight,
because a new day is dawning.
And those who impede progress...
the disruptive, the aberrant...
will be systematically
purged from our society.
There will be no mercy,
no stay of execution.
For some, this will be the end.
But for others,
a rebirth.
A second chance to live the life
that they were designed for.
Every life given a purpose.
Samaritan will build a new world.
A better world.
Too bad you won't live to see it.
♪ ♪
[gunshots ping]
♪
The Machine gave up its
location to save our lives.
They're going to kill her, Harold.
Do you know where they're going?
I don't know.
But we have to get there first,
before it's too late.
♪
_
The government has a secret system...
a machine that spies on you
every hour of every day.
I designed the machine
to detect acts of terror,
but it sees everything...
Violent crimes involving ordinary people.
The government considers
these people irrelevant.
We don't.
Hunted by the authorities,
we work in secret.
You will never find us.
But victim or perpetrator,
if your number's up, we'll find you.
We are only numbers to it.
No. The Machine cares about us.
The second that a bullet enters your brain,
the Machine will cast
you off and replace you.
(Elias) I want them to release you.
I just want it to be done.
Okay, Anthony.
[electronics beeping]
[explosion booms]
(Finch) If you better understood Samaritan,
you would know it employs a private army
to do its bidding.
You would suspect they would employ
at least one of them as a spy
in your own organization.
_
[phone line rings]
(Dennis) Hey, hon. Are you at work?
(Shelly) Not yet. My
morning has been hellish.
Oh, Jackson forgot his lunch again today.
But you know what, he
can eat cafeteria food,
because I have got a ton of papers to grade
before second period.
[tense music]
Oh, my God.
My brakes aren't working. My brakes!
(Dennis) What? What do you mean?
[tires squeal]
Dennis!
[screams]
[metallic crash]
_
♪
[car door clicks]
♪ ♪
[groans, yells weakly]
♪
(Control) Get the body.
♪
[device beeping]
♪ ♪
All good, ma'am. Right on schedule.
Drive.
♪
[explosion booms]
[dramatic music]
♪
[solemn music]
You look like hell.
Good to see you too, Lionel.
Maybe next time you decide
to take on a psychopath
in the frozen Tundra, you'll
call your partner first.
Hey. You're right.
You're a good detective,
and a damn good friend.
You have a temperature or something?
I'm still standing...
which is more than I can
say for our friends here.
(Fusco) Brotherhood soldier.
Elias's guy came out of nowhere,
shot Dominic's boys, and disappeared.
(Fusco) It's like deja vu all over again.
Lionel, tell me this.
How did a gunman get through security?
That's a good question, Detective.
Finch, I got four dead
Brotherhood soldiers.
(Reese) Why didn't the Machine give
us any of their numbers this time?
I wish I knew.
Though it's no stretch to imagine
that a cunning fugitive like
Elias might have found
a way to communicate that
even the Machine can't trace.
At least that's one theory.
You got another?
Samaritan has found the Machine.
If that were true, we'd all be dead.
What happened, Ms. Groves?
♪
Turns out the People's
Republic is surprisingly lax
on full-body searches.
♪
How goes your gang war, Harry?
Dangerous.
I'm afraid it's only a matter of time
before Dominic retaliates.
[phone ringing]
Might be sooner than you think.
[tense music]
[The Machine reciting numbers]
You getting this number, Finch?
It's actually two numbers, Mr. Reese.
Dominic and Elias.
It seem the two crime bosses
are hell-bent on killing each other.
God only knows how many innocent victims
will get caught in the crossfire.
We have to find a way to
stop this war, Mr. Reese.
Got a feeling this might help.
[camera shutter snaps]
(Finch) Hmm, it's some sort of canister.
I'll look into that.
In the meantime, I've managed to trace
the Brotherhood's security transport trucks
to a new location.
Thanks. I'll take Lionel.
♪
_
[indistinct chatter]
♪
(Link) We got a problem.
Boys want retribution for the courthouse.
And they'll have it in due time.
Time's running out.
We got soldiers with itchy trigger fingers.
Looks like there's trouble in paradise.
We need to take action.
You and me, we go back a long time.
Remember that skinny
pockmarked kid from Trinidad?
You told him it's not enough to hit back.
No, you need to put your
enemy in the ground.
I haven't forgotten.
Only one way this war ends.
♪
[camera shutter snaps]
Brotherhood's preparing for battle.
- Increased security, patrols.
- Mr. Reese?
I was thinking that you and Detective Fusco
might stop by the bank.
You need us to make a deposit, Finch?
The canister from the crime scene
is a remnant of a long-defunct
pneumatic tube mail network
that once ran beneath the city.
One of its hubs was an old retail bank
which has recently found new ownership.
- Carl Elias?
- Indeed.
Mr. Elias appears to have revived it
to conceal his communications.
And smuggle murder weapons
into highly secured government buildings.
(Reese) If Elias is at the
bank, we'll find him.
[phone ringing]
[dramatic music]
♪
Shaw's phone.
- Finch?
- I have to go, Mr. Reese.
(Finch) You'll have to
manage Elias yourself.
♪
Hello?
(Shaw) Root, are you there?
It's me. I need your help.
[line clicks]
Shaw?
Wait. Sameen.
♪
[tense music]
_
♪
[gasps]
W-where am I?
Why are you doing this?
We need to talk about Samaritan.
I don't... I don't know what that means.
♪
You know Tyler, don't you, Shelly?
What? N-no.
I don't know that man.
He was one of my best agents.
It's your last chance to say good-bye.
[inhales sharply] No.
Please don't...
(Shelly) No.
[gunshot]
Oh, no! No!
How could you forget a face like that?
[crying] I don't understand.
♪
Why are you doing this?
I want you to be helpful.
Tyler was helpful.
At first.
He admitted to being
one of several Samaritan moles
embedded in the ISA.
He admitted that you were their handler.
I'm just a teacher and a mom.
I just... I just want to
go home to my family.
(Control) I understand.
I'm a mother too.
♪
That's why I'm giving you one last chance
to save your own life.
Tell the truth, Shelly.
Or you too...
will end up a spot on the wall.
♪
(Shaw) Root, are you there?
It's me. I need your help.
[phone rings]
[solemn music]
She's alive, Harold.
We wrote her off for dead, but she's alive.
We don't know that, Ms. Groves.
Except we do.
I just talked to her
on a call originating from the city.
♪
Can we take just five minutes
and talk this through?
The last time we had this conversation,
I actually listened to you.
And to the Machine.
I called off my search,
and all this time,
she needed us, Harold.
Like she needs us now.
Isn't this your specialty?
Helping people when the phone rings?
That call was most certainly a trap.
I know.
But Sameen's still alive,
and I'm going after her.
[tense music]
♪
(Finch) I can't help you, Ms. Groves,
if you insist on this impossible pace.
Root. What are we doing out here?
♪
When you told me to stop
looking for Shaw, I did.
But now I need you to help me.
I can't do this alone.
♪
Oh, dear.
Harold taught you blackjack and chess...
♪
But I wonder if he ever taught you
how to play chicken.
♪
I'm gonna walk across this
ledge with my eyes closed
until A, you help me find Sameen,
or B, I fall tragically to my death.
♪
[wind gusting]
- [gasps]
- Ms. Groves.
♪
You've calculated the wind speed,
so you know how treacherous this is.
[beeping] _
You have to ask yourself what's worse:
The two of us working together,
or me taking this next step alone.
♪
[beeping] _
♪
Thanks for playing.
Come on, Harry.
[siren wailing]
She found us a ride.
(Root) The Machine's located Sameen.
Buckle up.
(Root) Shaw's call
originated from a landline
somewhere inside that asylum.
Steiner Psychiatric Institute.
(Root) State controlled with
a closed security system,
which explains our little pit stop.
[tense music]
The Machine would never let us
show up empty-handed to a rescue mission.
♪
Did the Machine have any thoughts about
us not getting ourselves killed?
Right now, she's pretty
fixated on this shovel.
♪
_
This looks like the spot.
You got a plan to get in, partner?
Relax. We got a backstage pass.
♪
We need a word with your boss.
What makes you think he's here?
How 'bout we come back with a SWAT team?
♪ ♪
That's what I thought.
We're in the bank, Finch.
John, I may have to go offline for a while.
(Finch) We've found Sameen.
Shaw? She's alive?
Text me the address. I'm on my way.
I need you to babysit Elias.
(Elias) I don't need a sitter, John.
And I warned you not to interfere.
♪ ♪
By "interfering," you
mean saving your life?
Again?
Who says I need saving?
How long do you think you
got before the Brotherhood
comes looking to make their own withdrawal?
[air whooshes]
Pneumatic tubes once looped around
the entire island of Manhattan
delivering mail and money.
American ingenuity at its finest.
And you would have me leave?
Flee like a coward?
You know me better than that, John.
I know you used to be careful.
Canister in the trash? Sloppy.
And enough evidence to charge you
with conspiracy to commit murder.
Are you placing me under
arrest, Detectives?
If you don't go quietly.
[guns cocking]
Time to end this war.
[gun cocks]
This is your last chance, Detectives.
Walk away while you still can.
[gunfire]
(Reese) The Brotherhood.
Can't say I didn't warn you.
Hurry.
[gunfire and shouting]
You got another way out?
Just like old times.
This way.
♪
Fool me once, old man.
[tense music]
11 weeks ago, this second-rate facility
upgraded to a fiber-optics network
it can't possibly afford.
♪
(Root) Come on, Harry.
♪
Information travels through optical fiber
in pulses of light.
Just 1% of any one pulse contains...
100% of the data.
Like a drop of blood carrying DNA.
Exactly.
Our micro-clamping friend here
will bend the cable just
enough to leak a little light.
And they'll never know they've been hacked.
This is a cascade of information.
Samaritan is doing more than
just harboring Ms. Shaw in there.
We'll need to crack its
considerable encryption.
She's already accessing your laptop.
[laptop beeping]
(Root) "All forces on alert.
We will soon isolate the Machine."
♪
They're close to finding you.
I don't care what happens to me.
(Finch) What did the Machine tell you?
She says it's too dangerous.
I'm inclined to agree, Ms. Groves.
This isn't just a rescue
mission to save Shaw.
The Machine needs our help too.
If we don't save them, who will?
♪
♪
Detective, looks like you caught
a bullet through the shoulder.
Props to the shooter.
Oh, he's dead.
You'll be joining him soon enough.
♪
(Dominic) Extra cell.
Let me guess.
Belongs to our friend Riley.
Fake cop needs one for his day job
and one for special assignments.
What're we waiting for?
We should put Elias down
now while we have the chance.
Tell me, how do Elias and his buddies
manage to stay one step ahead?
They got good intel.
We kill them now, that
intel dies with them.
This isn't just about running the city.
This is about staying alive
long enough to enjoy it.
♪
What do the Romans say?
I came, I saw, I conquered.
You can't conquer what
you don't understand.
(Dominic) Exactly.
In this day and age, a fugitive crime lord
like yourself remains free.
How?
Because two of New York's
finest protect and serve you.
At least they used to.
(Dominic) From now on, they answer to me.
And you're all gonna tell me how
this little symbiotic relationship works.
♪
How are we gonna know
they're telling the truth?
That's why I invited a mutual friend.
Sorry, boys...
♪
But I got an offer I couldn't refuse.
♪
[tense music]
You admitted me to the funny farm once.
Turnabout's fair play.
I don't recall dressing you
like a homeless dope fiend.
[chuckles softly] It's not that bad.
You look more hipster than homeless.
Did the Machine have
any instructions for me?
She said just be honest.
Hello, Doctor? How can I help you?
I need to admit this man on a TDO.
72-hour involuntary hold.
He's an increasingly dangerous
paranoid schizophrenic.
Unless he'd care to disagree?
♪
It's not paranoia if they're
really out to get you.
Who exactly is after you?
The Brotherhood, the federal government,
an artificial super
intelligence, obviously.
What's your name, sir?
I go by many names,
all derived from species of birds.
I'd mark him as a John Doe.
He basically lives in the subway.
Thanks. We'll take it from here.
Everything's gonna be okay. Find Lenny.
Tell him they stole his spaceman.
♪
♪
I hate to interrupt this
scintillating contest,
but I was hoping to find Lenny?
♪
Thank you.
Pardon me. Lenny?
Those gentlemen stole your spaceman.
♪
Liars.
[woman screams]
You stole my spacemen.
[Lenny yelling]
[shouting]
(man) Calm down, calm down.
♪
- No!
- Aah!
[grunting]
♪
[shouting]
♪
The ninth floor is reserved
for the most violent patients.
It's the most secure,
and it's the only floor
without surveillance cameras.
It's also the only floor
with secure elevator access.
This has to be it.
I'm searching the electronic charts
for a profile that might match Sameen's.
[suspenseful music]
♪
Okay, don't lose your head, Ms. Groves.
This might mean nothing,
but they're holding a compact
Persian sociopath in Room 914.
♪
[keypad beeping]
♪
Stay tuned, Harold.
♪
[keypad beeping]
♪
(Greer) Everything we have
worked for is coming to fruition.
The Correction is upon us.
Standby for instructions.
♪
You need to leave, Harold. Now.
Not without you, Ms. Groves.
(Root) You don't have a choice.
This is Samaritan's base of operations.
We're in the belly of the beast.
[tense music]
♪
You have to shut your eyes.
A lesson I've learned all too well.
I would've stayed in the dark too
if some...
[sighs]
Friends hadn't convinced
me to dig a little deeper.
♪
Now, I'm curious.
How does a prep school girl from Greenwich
ever come to work for Samaritan?
I... I have no idea
who this Samaritan is.
This is all a huge mistake.
Please...
please, I...
I have a daughter.
Sarah. She's a toddler.
And my son, Jackson, he's
just starting second grade.
I just want to go home
and see them.
♪
I'm sorry.
I know how you feel.
I lost my mother too at a very young age.
♪
But you already know
that, don't you, Shelly?
That's why you keep
playing the mother card.
Did it tell you to do that?
Did it think
that you could handle me too?
How many agents are you
handling for Samaritan?
♪
You recognize anyone?
(Control) Kind of looks like Tyler.
At least it used to.
I go... I go to the park on my lunch hour.
I like to watch the artists paint.
Who do you watch in the coffee shop?
I'm in that coffee shop at
least three times a week.
Okay, this is just...
this is just some sort
of freak coincidence.
A more pertinent question would be,
what's a middle-aged,
caffeine-addicted school teacher
doing roaming the halls of the White House?
♪
You have no idea what's
coming for you, bitch.
♪
(Dominic) I'm offering
a place at the table.
Acknowledge me as the
head of the five families,
and you and your men can live.
Just because you're sitting at the head
doesn't mean you can lead.
My men are loyal to me.
Which men?
The Cosa Nostra or our boys in blue?
Ah, and then there's the
mysterious third party...
the guy with the tech.
The hacker.
(Harper) Don't bother lying.
I told them about Harold.
Honest about your deceit.
How noble.
Harold's tapped into the city's cameras.
I want his system.
Well, you're gonna kill me regardless.
Why turn on a friend?
Like you turned on your right-hand man?
Anthony, right?
How's it feel knowing you're responsible
for your friend's death?
Do you really want to know?
[tense music]
Be careful what you wish for, Dominic.
♪
We'll start with the
hand and work our way up.
♪
[hammer thuds] [Elias screams]
Where do you meet Harold?
Do you have a safe house in the city?
♪
If I knew, I would've told you by now.
♪
Where is your boss, Detective?
Truth is,
I don't know.
The truth hurts.
[gurgling]
You want some air?
Tell me where your hacker boss is.
[coughs]
[groans]
- Again.
- Wait.
Wait. [coughs]
Wait.
You got... you got a loofah?
Maybe you can wash my
back while you're at it.
♪
[gurgling]
[door squeaks]
♪
Found this in one of the canisters.
Date and time of the courthouse hearing.
Got a rat in our crew.
He got our boys killed.
An inside man selling secrets to Elias.
♪
[gurgling]
♪
Fish him out. We got
more important business.
[gasping]
(Link) Come help me out.
♪
I'll go get the key.
[groans]
Listen, I got a little text from Thornhill.
She said I could name my
price if I save your ass.
[coughs]
[handcuffs jingle, lock clicks]
Hey, thanks for the spa day, sunshine.
I'm not done with you yet.
[grunts] [handcuffs jingle]
[coughs]
♪
This is a restricted floor, Doctor.
Sorry.
I was looking for an aspirin stash.
I have a lower back thing.
[gunshots ping] [men grunt]
[men groaning]
♪
Sameen?
_
♪
_
[metallic clang]
♪
You just missed her.
[gunshots ping]
♪
[gunshot pings]
Aah!
[gunshots]
[grunting]
[gun clicks]
[gun clatters on floor]
Time to finish what we started.
You read my mind.
[both grunting]
♪
Where are they taking her?
Relax. I'm sure it's someplace nice.
♪ ♪
[Root grunting]
(Martine) You should be proud of Shaw.
She held out for a month or two.
I had to hurt her pretty bad.
[gasps, groans]
But she broke eventually.
Lying bitch.
And by the way, thanks
for doing everything she said you would do.
[solemn music]
♪
_
You're calmer than normal, John,
given the circumstances.
I took a trip to the mountains,
and I saw an old friend.
♪
Just reminded me what I've been missing.
And what is that?
Life.
And yet, here you are,
stuck in a dark basement with me.
You should have heeded my warning.
You knew that the Brotherhood was coming.
That canister in the trash...
that wasn't a mistake.
Did I leave a bread crumb?
Just wondering what's up your sleeve.
Trap door?
Pneumatic tubes rigged with C-4?
I'm afraid this is my last stand.
♪
You're an honorable man, John.
It's been nice knowing you.
[door clicks]
Gonna need you to write a little letter.
With your good hand.
At "Sunrise, 3648 Lafayette Avenue."
[tense music]
Unless you want Riley here
to wipe for you from now on.
How 'bout you come a little closer?
I'll settle my own score, John.
My friends are upset
because they're discovered
a traitor in their midst.
Now write,
"Veni, vidi, vici."
♪
It's the address to the Brotherhood's
base of operations.
As far as your men are concerned,
their boss just gave them orders to invade.
And when they come, the
Brotherhood will be waiting.
(Dominic) Your men can die by your hands
or you can give me the
name of the rat in my crew.
♪
(Martine) Let's get
her strapped to the bed.
This shouldn't take long.
[dramatic music]
[grunting]
(Greer) Really, Ms. Groves.
There's such a thing as nobility in defeat.
I have everything I
need to find the Machine,
and no amount of kicking will change that.
If you found the Machine,
I'd be the first to know.
(Greer) Exactly.
We have scoured every network device
on the planet without success,
until I realized, you are
the last piece of the puzzle.
The answer is in your head.
[chuckles]
I don't have the slightest idea
where the Machine's located.
Not in your brain.
In your head.
Your direct line to the Machine.
The cochlear implant.
Your little girlfriend
told us all about it.
She would never.
(Greer) We have no reason to
lie about something like that.
[tense music]
(Greer) Welcome, Mr. Finch.
You're just in time to see us
cut your friend's head open.
There'll be some brain damage,
but you'll still be able to
clothe and feed yourself.
Though I can't say you'll be
much a marksman moving forward.
♪
[saw whirring]
Harold doesn't have to see this.
If you want, I'll end him
first and let you watch.
Lay a hand on him, I'll kill you.
Sit back. Relax, honey.
Or I'll lay more than just a hand on him.
♪
He doesn't look like much of a fighter.
Bet he'll died without so much as a peep.
♪
[dramatic music]
[neck snaps]
♪
What do you know?
Not a peep.
Now I surrender.
_
[tense music]
♪
Who's your contact at the White House?
I used to admire you...
the work you did for your country.
You could still prove
that you're a true patriot.
[chuckles softly]
How? By letting you go?
No, this is not about me.
It's about to begin.
The Correction.
Correction?
For whom?
Don't worry.
It's nothing you haven't done yourself.
What are you talking about?
The ferry bombing.
You sanctioned Nathan Ingram's death
along with all the other innocent people.
Samaritan is planning an attack.
Attack?
Is that you would classify
the actions you took
to protect your country?
When?
♪
_
May 6th.
♪
What does that number mean?
[gun cocks]
You can go ahead and shoot me.
I'm not gonna tell you.
- [grunts]
- Aah!
[gasping]
You should save your energy,
because you're gonna need it.
(Sherry) Do you know the
story of Sodom and Gomorrah?
Lot's wife couldn't help but
look back at the burning city,
and she burst into a pillar of salt.
But you can still save yourself
if you don't do anything
to stop the Correction.
You said yourself, you're
good at shutting your eyes.
Well, the world is about to catch fire.
Here's your last chance to look away.
♪
[tense music]
Time's up.
Do we have an agreement,
or do we send the note and
exterminate your men?
♪
Send it through the tubes.
Okay, okay. You win.
Just please... just leave my men alone.
Now tell me,
who's your informant?
♪
He has me send payments to this account.
Your money man can verify.
♪
[camera shutter snaps]
We'll be hearing shortly.
♪
[phone rings]
Yeah, Lawrence. What do you got?
♪
No, that'll be all.
♪
Lawrence give you a name?
An alias.
I need your advice on
how to deal with this.
It's not enough to hit back.
Got to put your enemy in the ground.
♪
Whose name was on the account?
[gunshots]
It was yours, Link.
[laughing]
Oh. Oh, man.
You could take my title, but
you can't hold on to it.
You can't trust anyone.
And now your men won't trust you.
They trust that I will exterminate a rat.
Rat?
I might have lied about a few things.
Like the message your men intercepted.
♪
You planted that message?
You knew we were coming.
Well, good news,
there's no rat in your organization.
Bad new, you need a new right-hand man.
[grunting]
You want to kill me? Go ahead.
You were always gonna win this war anyway.
(Reese) Kill him, you'll never
get the information you want.
Tell me you have another plan, Elias.
This is my plan, John.
I told you I'd make
them answer for Anthony.
So tell me, how does it feel knowing
that you're responsible
for your friend's death?
♪
[tense music]
♪
Shall we continue?
Have you forgotten her so quickly?
You've already discarded her,
and you're a human being.
Imagine how quickly that
thing that you've created
would discard you.
Do you ever lay awake at night wondering
if one day it will see you as a threat?
Or worse, as irrelevant?
How arrogant of you to think
that any of us are anything but irrelevant.
♪
_
Samaritan is offering your
Machine a second chance
to save the lives of its human agents.
Give up its location,
or they die.
The offer expires in 60 seconds.
♪
[bone saw buzzing]
Don't do it.
Please.
Don't give yourself up.
Harold was right.
We are interchangeable.
You can replace us.
You can keep fighting.
[electronics powering down]
[solemn music]
[electronics beeping]
♪
_
_
_
_
No, don't do it.
Don't die for us.
♪
_
_
_
_
_
[electronics click, whir]
♪ ♪
Until the next time, Mr. Finch.
[tense music]
_
♪ ♪
(Shelly) Go home to your loved ones.
Hold your daughter tight,
because a new day is dawning.
And those who impede progress...
the disruptive, the aberrant...
will be systematically
purged from our society.
There will be no mercy,
no stay of execution.
For some, this will be the end.
But for others,
a rebirth.
A second chance to live the life
that they were designed for.
Every life given a purpose.
Samaritan will build a new world.
A better world.
Too bad you won't live to see it.
♪ ♪
[gunshots ping]
♪
The Machine gave up its
location to save our lives.
They're going to kill her, Harold.
Do you know where they're going?
I don't know.
But we have to get there first,
before it's too late.
♪
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