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Person of Interest Episode Guide
At Lewis’ apartment, Sam checks Cole’s laptop and finds Veronica’s phone number. When she
calls the CIA contact, Veronica refuses to help at first but Sam warns her that she can help her
or die. The CIA woman agrees to meet Sam at the Suffolk Hotel the next afternoon.
The next day, Sam calls Wilson on a disposable phone and agrees to turn herself in, but
only to Control. If Wilson doesn’t arrange the meeting, Sam says that she’ll go public with the
Aquino files. Wilson reluctantly agrees and Sam tells him that she’ll find Control at 11 that night.
She then goes to meet with Veronica... unaware that it’s Root. Root lets her into the hotel room
and explains that she helped Cole confirm that the U.S. government spoofed the wire transfers
to Aquino to make it look like he was working with terrorists. She tells Sam that the people
responsible are the Intelligence Support Activity group, and Sam says that she worked with
them until they tried to kill her. Root explains that the group has existed for five years and is
coded under Project Northern Lights. Aquino helped build a research facility for them, but he’s
the only one involved with the project that Root has identified.
As Sam takes it all in, she hears someone moving in the hotel bathroom. She goes in to
investigate and finds the real Victoria, bound and gagged in the tub. Root tasers Sam from
behind, drags her to a chair, and zip-ties her down. She then tells the CTU agent that Victoria
couldn’t tell her the name that Aquino gave Sam right before she killed him. As Root plugs in an
ironing dryer, she tells Sam that the Numbers she’s received didn’t come from Guantanamo, but
from something else. She then tells Sam to give her the name or she’ll proceed to torture. When
Sam says that she enjoys pain, Root smiles and says that she does, too.
Root’s PDA alarm goes off and she confirms that an agency tac team is heading for the hotel
room. She tells Sam that she’ll meet again and leaves via the adjoining room’s door as the team
breaks in and secures the hotel room. Their leader gets orders from Wilson to kill Sam and
prepares to give her a lethal injection. As he leans over her, Sam frees one hand, grabs the
leader’s gun, and shoots him and three of his four man. As she tries to free herself, a fourth man
prepares to shoot her... and Reese knocks him out from behind. When Sam decides whether to
kill Reese as well, he points out that the leader managed to plant the syringe in Sam’s shoulder
before he died. She lets Reese remove it and as he works, he says that if he bumps the syringe
then he’ll have five minutes to administer atropine to negate the poison. Once she’s free, Reese
tells Sam that he has a friend who wants to talk to her.
Reese takes Sam to the empty floor of an office building to meet with Finch, who tells Sam that
they help people in trouble. He knows what Sam has been doing and how she has been receiving
Social Security numbers of terrorists, and then gives Sam his own Number. Finch explains that
he received her Number and Cole’s but were unable to intervene in time to save her partner.
When Sam wonders who they work for, Finch simply says that they work for the same entity
and it sent them to help her. Sam insists that she only wants to find Control and avenge her
partner, but Finch warns her that she’ll never succeed. Cole had to die because he realized the
truth: Research doesn’t exist. Finch asks Sam to stop running so they can keep up and protect
her, but Sam insists on avenging Cole, one of the few friends that she ever had. Disappointed,
Finch warns the CTU operative that she may make things worse and gives her his card so she
can contact him if she changes her mind. Sam gives it back and leaves.
The Special Council calls to tell Wilson to get a team together and finish Sam off for good.
Later, Sam tracks the Special Council to the party that he’s attending. They talk quietly and
Sam realizes that the Special Council isn’t Control. He informs her that he’s as close as she’ll
ever get to Control, and is surprised that she’s trying to avenge Cole given her psychological
disassociation. Sam points out that they killed the one person that she liked, and she plans to
get revenge.
Wilson and his assistant arrive and the Sam says that they should talk privately.
Sam and the Special Council go to an isolated hallway and the Special Council explains that
they’ve managed to avoid a major terrorist attack because of the program. However, if the public
knew what they were doing, they’d end the program. The Special Council insists that Aquino’s
death was necessary to protect the lives of millions, and is surprised when Sam agrees with
him. She hands him Cole’s file on the Aquino case and explains that she wanted to give it to
him directly because Wilson screwed up. She points out that rather than come to her and Cole,
Wilson immediately issued a kill order.
The Special Council, impressed, realizes that Sam was carrying out her duty all along and
didn’t want revenge. Sam tells him that a good soldier does both, draws her gun, and kills
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