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Person of Interest Episode Guide
Back at the library headquarters, Reese goes over the Machine’s three three-word phrases.
When he picks up a nearby book and notices the spine, he realizes that each three-word phrase
represents a title, last name, and first name. When he puts the three books together, the Dewey
Decimal numbers make a Social Security number. Reese then calls Fusco and has him traces the
SSN. The detective confirms that it belongs to Leon Tao, an accountant with no criminal record.
He activates the tracer on Leo’s car and Reese follows the signal to a bar.
Leon is talking to a man with an Aryan Brotherhood tattoo, and Reese flashes Stills’ stolen
badge at him to get him to move away. He then sits down with Leon and shows him photos of
Finch and Root, but Leon insists that he doesn’t know them. Glancing around, Reese notices
that the first man and two others with him all have guns and realizes that the Machine sent him
there to protect Leon, not to find Finch. The first Aryan comes over and tells Reese that Leon
stole money for him. Reese isn’t interested and says that he just wants to leave peacefully. When
the Aryans decline, Reese quickly takes them out and leaves. Leon has no choice but to follow.
2002 - Day 47 Finch tests the Machine’s capabilities by going out on the street and then
trying to avoid its electronic surveillance. He goes into a diner with no cameras, but the Machine
contacts him via his cell phone and a pleased Finch realizes that it’s watching him on a laptop
webcam.
The Present Leon is puzzled when Reese stops to talk to a camera, telling the Machine that he
knows that he’s Finch’s contingency in case the programmer disappeared. The accountant starts
to leave only to discover that they’ve towed his car. He asks Reese for help, insisting that he was
negotiating with the Aryans, but Reese doesn’t believe it and Leon admits that he stole $8 million
from them.
Leon lost his job and went to work for a startup company, only to discover that the Aryans
were using it as a front to launder their drug profits. He stole their money and left but they
tracked him down. Reese breaks the window on a police car, setting off the alarm, and then
handcuffs Leon to the door handle. As he walks away, Reese calls Fusco and tells him that
Leon will be coming in and to keep an eye on him. Fusco is less than thrilled at the grunt
work, especially when he looks over at Carter and sees her working on Reese’s investigation into
Corwin.
Deputy Director Denton L. Weeks meets with his superior, the Special Council, who informs
him that his agent Alicia Corwin is dead.
The Special Council warns that her death threatens their project and calls in his NYPD contact,
Hersh. Hersh assures them that he will make sure that the investigation on Corwin’s murder
dead-ends. The Special Council tells Weeks that his group will handle security from now on and
then shows him a photo of Reese from his recent attack on their men defending Peck. Weeks
doesn’t recognize him and wonders who he is, and Hersh promises to ask before he kills him.
After going over the info that Finch gathered on Root, Reese calls Carter and tells her that the
Caroline Turing driver’s license she used is legitimate. He figures that she has a contact in the
DMV and has Carter check on who could have issued it off the books.
As Carter talks, Fusco overhears her and complains that she’s on a first-name basis with
Reese. Meanwhile, Leon fakes a heart attack and escapes from holding. When Fusco gets word,
he calls Reese, who tells him that Leon is heading to the impound lot to recover his car.
Fusco catches up to Leon and the accountant warns that the Aryan Brotherhood will kill him
once he’s in jail. Before they can leave, Strohm and two of his Aryans how up with guns and
demand the $8 million that Leon stole. When he refuses, they prepare to kill him and Fusco
suggests that Leon’s life is more important than the money. Leon reluctantly gets $1 million in
bearer bonds out of his car and claims that he lost the rest when the market tanked. Fusco draws
his gun and tells the Aryans to let them go, but two more Aryans ambush him from behind.
2003 - Day 614 Finch goes to a casino and has the Machine monitor him via the security
cameras while he plays blackjack. Thanks to its messages via his cell phone, Finch soon wins
big and an older man congratulates him. However, Finch soon has second thoughts, ignores the
Machine’s advice, and loses everything. The older man consoles him as Finch looks up at the
camera and smiles.
The Present Root takes Finch to a pharmacy to buy some supplies for their trips. When he
argues with her, Root cuts his hand and warns him that from now on, she’ll hurt him. The
pharmacist comes over to tend Finch’s injury and Root uses the distraction to slip behind the
counter and steal some pills.
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