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He convinces Finch to help him and the programmer manages to knock a knife off a table. Weeks
uses it to cut himself free and then attacks Hanna when she comes in. He mercilessly beats
her until she passes out and then takes her gun. Weeks has figured out that Finch created the
Machine, not Nathan, and says that he wants to know what he knows.
Landry arrives to take Barbara into custody while Reese and Carte continue searching the
house. They find sixteen copies of Flowers for Algernon, the book that Hanna checked out on
the day she disappeared. Barbara tells them that someone has mailed her a copy every year on
the anniversary of Hanna’s disappearance. There’s a Seattle receipt in the most recent book and
Reese goes back to the motel to check it out while Carter continues questioning Barbara.
Weeks assures Finch that he’ll have his people interrogate Roots, but asks him to confirm
that the Machine can’t be accessed. Finch finally admits that only someone with physical access
can reprogram the Machine, and Weeks tells him that the Machine is still safely hidden. The DoD
agent then says that it’s an honor to meet him and shoots him with the gun he took from Root.
However, the gun is empty and Root tasers Weeks unconscious. As she gets up, Root tells Finch
that Weeks is another example of how humanity is ”bad code.”
Reese goes back to the motel the next morning. Some of the locals are waiting for him but he
takes them out and then steals a crossbow and a laptop from one of the hunter’s trucks. He then
calls the bookstore in Seattle and, posing as Stills, starts tracking down the buyer.
Carter and Landry play the 911 call for Barbara and she tells them that she already knows
who made the call. It was Hanna’s friend Samantha Groves, who was at the library the night
that Hanna disappeared. In 1991 Sam was 12 and lived with her sick mother outside of town.
The librarian admits that she knows who made the call because Sam came to her and told her
that she saw Trent drive away with Hanna. Barbara, who had fallen in love with Trent and
didn’t believe he could do it, told her that she was lying to get attraction and browbeat her into
remaining silent. Carter wonders if Barbara believes Trent did it now and the librarian tells her
that two weeks after the disappearance, Trent redid the patio.
Reese traces the money from the Seattle bookstore. When the hunters come in to get their
gear, Reese aims the crossbow at them and tells them to get out.
The police dig up the patio and find a corpse and a buried backpack. Inside the backpack is
the copy of Flowers for Algernonthat Hanna checked out.
Using his stolen police ID, Reese traces the purchase from the bookstore through a bank and
to a credit card account. Someone purchased gas at a station in Relton, MD, and Reese realizes
that’s where he can find Root.
Finch realizes that Root set up Weeks to demonstrate her point about humanity, and she says
that he gave the Machine to violent and predictable people just like Weeks. Root wants to work
with him, saying she’ll be the best partner he could ever have, but he tells her that it will never
happen.
Carter meets Reese at the hotel and he tells her that he’s tracked down Hanna. However,
Carter tells him that they found Hanna’s corpse beneath the patio. She’s checked and learned
that Sam Groves left Bishop ten years ago and they figure that she’s Root.
1991 — After Hanna abandons her computer game and leaves, Hanna sits down and finishes
it in a matter of seconds. She then goes to the window and sees her friend get in the car with
Trent, who drives off.
The Present — Fusco follows Hersh after jacking into his phone. He listens in as Hersh calls
his superior, who tells him that Weeks has disappeared. The Special Counsel tells Hersh to check
on Weeks’ mistress, Julie Davenport, who has a home outside of DC.
Root returns and injects Finch with a sedative so she can safely transport him. Her bank calls
to tell her that someone has been tracing her credit card account and, surprised that Reese could
do the work, wonders if the Machine is helping him. Root then puts Finch in a wheelchair and
tells him that they’re going to the train station. She then interrogates Weeks and asks where the
Machine is, pointing a gun at him. Weeks finally cracks and tells her that all he knows is that
it was shipped to Des Moines, put on a train, and transported to salt Lake City. He warns Root
that she doesn’t know what she’s getting into, but she shoots him dead.
Meanwhile, the semi-conscious Finch has managed to get to her cellphone and dial a number.
When Root sees what he’s done, she tells him that she disconnected the phones and then hauls
him out... unaware that Finch has dropped his cufflink next to the discarded cellphone.
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