List of Person of Interest episodes

Person of Interest is an American crime drama television series created by Jonathan Nolan for CBS, who serves as an executive producer alongside J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Greg Plageman and Richard J. Lewis. The series stars Jim Caviezel as Reese, a presumed dead former CIA agent who is approached by a mysterious billionaire named Finch (Michael Emerson) to prevent violent crimes before they happen by using an advanced surveillance technology. Their unique brand of vigilante justice attracts the attention of two cops, Carter (Taraji P. Henson) and Fusco (Kevin Chapman), whom Reese uses to his advantage as he investigates persons of interest.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired		DVD and Blu-ray release date
			Season premiere	Season finale	Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
	1	23	September 22, 2011 (2011-09-22)	May 17, 2012 (2012-05-17)	September 4, 2012 (2012-09-04)	January 17, 2013 (2013-01-17)	November 7, 2012 (2012-11-07)
	2	TBA	September 27, 2012 (2012-09-27)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Episodes

Season 1 (2011−12)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code	U.S. viewers (million)
1	1	"Pilot"	David Semel	Jonathan Nolan	September 22, 2011 (2011-09-22)	296807	13.33
John Reese (Jim Caviezel), a former CIA agent and Army Special Forces soldier-turned homeless alcoholic, has a struggle with a group of hot-headed teenagers on the subway. After this, he is extracted from police custody, before Homicide Detective Joss Carter (Taraji P. Henson) can confront him on his links to previous killings discovered through analysis of his fingerprints on the police system. Reese is brought to a mysterious and somewhat secretive billionaire, Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), who is the creator of the next-generation software, "The Machine". After 9/11, Finch developed a computer program that can sift though enormous amounts of data, looking for patterns of behavior or activity that would predict another attack. It also provided information about individuals who could be in danger; it can predict the identity of a person involved in a premeditated crime that will happen at some point in the future – however, Finch's back-door link to the Machine only provides the social security number of the person, and offers no clues to their involvement or when the crime will take place. Finch, who needs to do something to help these people, enlists Reese to aid him in preventing these crimes. Finch offers Reese a job to do this, as well as give Reese a purpose following the death of his girlfriend, Jessica (which is the source of his depression). The first on his list is Diane Hansen (Natalie Zea), an Assistant District Attorney currently working on a major prosecution of a prominent drug killing. Reese agrees to help and begins by watching her. Reese soon learns that Hansen is not the victim, but the perpetrator, running a ring of corrupt police officers and planning to kill a fellow DA, Wheeler. After blackmailing one of the corrupt officers, Detective Lionel Fusco (Kevin Chapman), into being his source of information inside the NYPD, Reese reveals Hansen's corruption to an open court, kills the leader of the corrupt gang of cops, and links Fusco to the crime to ensure his future cooperation. Having previously rejected Finch's offer of work, Reese recants and agrees to continue preventing violent crimes.
2	2	"Ghosts"	Richard J. Lewis	Greg Plageman & Jonathan Nolan	September 29, 2011 (2011-09-29)	2J6202	12.51
Reese takes the case of Teresa Whitiker (Valentina de Angelis), a girl who supposedly died with her family two years previously. Reviewing the evidence, Reese finds the crime scene was staged to look like a murder-suicide. He deduces that Teresa's family was killed by a hitman, and that there is still a price on her head. He follows leads back to Solmick, the original contract killer, who admits he let Teresa live because he refuses to kill children. Meanwhile, Detective Carter starts investigating Reese, using his fingerprints to access his file, only to discover it has been redacted. Using information given to him by Reese, Finch manages to locate Teresa, but they are interrupted by the arrival of another hitman. Reese intervenes in time to save them, leaving Teresa in the care of Carter. When asked about Reese, Teresa claims the experience was too traumatic to recall anything. (The episode is interjected with flashbacks of Finch and his partner at the founding of "The Machine".) Finch is concerned that if the public ever found out about it, he would be forced to shut it down. At the end, a memorial bust of Finch's partner is shown in his offices.
3	3	"Mission Creep"	Steven DePaul	Patrick Harbinson	October 6, 2011 (2011-10-06)	2J6203	11.57
The Machine produces the social security number of Joey (James Carpinello), a former soldier. Upon returning from Iraq, Joey joined a gang of former soldiers who have taken to robbing banks once they rejoin civilian life. Reese infiltrates the gang for their final robbery at an NYPD evidence lockup. They steal a file marked "Elias, M." before Latimer (Ruben Santiago-Hudson), the ringleader, starts killing the gang members off and escapes. Reese starts trying to track Latimer down, but discovers that Latimer has himself been murdered after handing the Elias file over to his employer. The file is revealed to contain photos from the scene of a brutal murder.
4	4	"Cura Te Ipsum"	Charles Beeson	Denise Thé	October 13, 2011 (2011-10-13)	2J6204	12.04
Reese begins twenty-four hour surveillance of Dr. Megan Tillman (Linda Cardellini) when the Machine names her as the next Person of Interest. He and Finch believe she is being targeted by Andrew Benton, a serial stalker and sex offender who drugs his victims before taking advantage of them, only to discover that Tillman is actually stalking Benton and planning to kill him; one of Benton's previous victims was Tillman's sister, who committed suicide shortly after Benton assaulted her. Reese assaults a group of dealers connected to a Mexican drug cartel, stealing their product and planting it on Benton to have him arrested before Tillman can catch him. Tillman, however, abducts Benton, forcing Reese to talk her down. Meanwhile, Detective Carter starts to get closer to Finch and Reese when she finds a surveillance tape from the robbery in "Mission Creep" that shows their exchange. Reese blackmails a police captain to transfer Fusco to Carter's precinct so that he can sabotage her investigation.
5	5	"Judgment"	Colin Bucksey	David Slack	October 20, 2011 (2011-10-20)	2J6205	12.42
A Polish street gang known as SP-9 kidnaps the son of Samuel Gates (David Costabile), a judge known to be tough on crime. In exchange for his son's safe return, they demand the judge release a banker who is key to their money laundering operations without any punishment. Breaking with his preferred means of operation, Reese makes himself known to Gates in an attempt to stall the kidnappers while he uses Detective Fusco to process evidence from the scene of the crime. He misleads SP-9 into believing their demands have been met, securing the release of Gates' son, before delivering them to Detective Carter and the NYPD. Meanwhile, Reese makes overtures of friendship towards Finch, but is actually trying to find out more about Finch's habits.
6	6	"The Fix"	Dennis Smith	Nic Van Zeebroeck & Michael Sopczynski	October 27, 2011 (2011-10-27)	2J6206	11.62
Reese takes the case of Zoe Morgan (Paige Turco), a professional fixer who uses her influence and her connections to powerful people to perform favors for her own clients. Zoe has been enlisted to retrieve an incriminating recording of a pharmaceutical executive from a rival company, but comes under threat when she hears the contents of the recording itself and realizes that her employer is just as corrupt as his rival. Finch finds that Zoe's case is connected to that of Dana Miller, a person of interest whom he was unable to save before meeting Reese. Meanwhile, Carter takes a homicide case when the murder weapon is proven to be the same one that was used in the "Elias M." case and begins to suspect that Reese is more than just a vigilante.
7	7	"Witness"	Frederick E. O. Toye	Amanda Segel	November 3, 2011 (2011-11-03)	2J6207	11.76
Reese must protect Charlie Burton (Enrico Colantoni), a school teacher who witnessed a Russian mobster shooting an Italian-American mob lieutenant in a Brighton Beach bodega. As Reese and Burton flee the Russians and the Five Families, they stumble into territory controlled by Bulgarian mobsters. Meanwhile, Carter searches for Burton to place him in protective police custody, and in doing so, draws closer to finding "Elias M." – believed to be the illegitimate son of an aging mobster with a plan to unite the Five Families and reclaim the New York underworld from the Russians. Cut off from Finch as he tries to evade the Russians and the Bulgarians, Reese comes to realize that Charlie is Elias. Elias warns Reese to stay away or face unpleasant consequences, leaving Reese feeling guilty that other people will suffer because he saved Elias' life.
8	8	"Foe"	Milan Cheylov	Sean Hennen	November 17, 2011 (2011-11-17)	2J6208	11.65
Reese and Finch track a former Stasi agent Ulrich Kohl (Alan Dale) across New York City. Kohl, having been secretly imprisoned by the German government for twenty-four years, has finally escaped and located his former Stasi team-mates - Hauffe, Wernick and Steiller, all of whom betrayed Kohl to the American and German governments in exchange for new lives in New York. Further, Kohl believes that his former Stasi colleagues are responsible for the murder of his wife Anja, who was killed while attempting to flee Germany with him. Kohl kills Hauffe and poisons Wernick, but Reese manages to save him. When confronting Steiller before killing him, Kohl learns a terrible truth – Anja is still alive, having staged her own death to escape from his atrocities. When he attempts to locate her (running into Reese instead – who he briefly connects to as a fellow spy and soldier), he also learns Anja had their child, Marie, and so sets out to find them both. Kohl finally locates Anja, having taken Marie hostage, and admits that he understands the reasons behind her flight, before raising an unloaded weapon to her, forcing Reese to shoot him dead. Kohl's predicament leads to Reese reflecting on his own life as a spy, where it is revealed that "John Reese" is an alias bestowed upon him by his former CIA partner, Kara Stanton (Annie Parisse).
9	9	"Get Carter"	Alex Zakrzewski	Greg Plageman & Denise Thé	December 8, 2011 (2011-12-08)	2J6209	12.66
Detective Carter's investigations into the Charlie Burton/Carl Elias case have earned her a place on Elias' hit list, making her the next person of interest named by the machine. This makes life complicated for Reese as he tries to protect her without revealing himself to her. While Carter investigates the murder of a teenager during a drive-by shooting and tries to counsel the wife of a violent drunk, Reese follows a confidential informant that Elias has turned against Carter. He stops the CI from killing Carter, but is disturbed by the way the Machine has started ignoring violent crimes; the Machine never predicted the death of the teenager killed in the drive-by.
10	10	"Number Crunch"	Jeffrey Hunt	Patrick Harbinson	December 15, 2011 (2011-12-15)	2J6210	12.93
Reese and Finch are confused when the Machine produces four numbers. When Reese finds one person of interest dead and is unable to prevent the murder of a second, he realizes that all four have something in common, and begins to dig deeper. He finds that the four stole drug money from the scene of a car accident, and that a corrupt banker and congressman are conspiring to have them killed for it. Meanwhile, Detective Carter has been stood down following the death of her confidential informant in "Get Carter". She is approached by a man named Mark Snow (Michael Kelly), who identifies himself as a CIA operative, and asks her to lead him to Reese, revealing the reason why Reese faked his death – Reese was responsible for the death of his CIA partner, Kara Stanton, and then disappeared, until Carter's investigation put him back on the agency's radar. Finch confronts the conspirators and records evidence that they established a charity in Haiti to launder drug money. Reese saves the two women by killing their attackers. But before he can escape, he is approached by Carter and Snow and flees after being shot by a CIA assassin. Carter eventually catches up to him, but decides to let him escape.
11	11	"Super"	Stephen Williams	David Slack	January 12, 2012 (2012-01-12)	2J6211	14.86
Finch takes the wounded Reese to the morgue where he pays a morgue assistant to suture Reese's wounds. While Reese is in a wheelchair, Finch rents an apartment for him. The building's super, Ernest Trask (David Zayas) is the newest number. Trask has bought a gun from a pawn shop and Finch discovers photos of one of the tenants, Lily Thornton, in his office, leading them to conclude that Trask is stalking Lily. Finch follows Lily home and Reese assumes that Trask is going after Lily's boyfriend, Rick. He confronts Trask, who reveals that Rick is the one stalking Lily. Finch, Trask, and Reese rush to Lily's apartment and in the resulting confrontation, Rick is thrown out of out a window. Meanwhile, Carter attempts to get in contact with Finch. Finch agrees to meet her and offers her the number of Derek Watson, a person of interest, as a show of good faith. As a result, Carter prevents Watson from killing a banker; Finch reveals that this is his purpose. Flashbacks of Finch and his partner, Nathan Ingram, are shown throughout the episode which describe the inner workings of the Machine and show the tensions with the NSA over constitutional rights. In the final flashback, the Machine names Nathan as a person of interest.
12	12	"Legacy"	Brad Anderson	Amanda Segel	January 19, 2012 (2012-01-19)	2J6212	14.40
Reese finally decides to meet with Detective Carter, who, by helping him and Finch in their next case, is provided a little insight into what he and Finch do. Their case is Andrea Gutierrez (April Hernandez-Castillo), a self-made attorney who specializes in suing the state of New York on behalf of convicts who claim they were wrongfully imprisoned. Reese and Finch believe Andrea's violent incident will be associated with her latest client, Terrence King. King's parole officer, Dominic Galuska, has been setting up convicts to go to prison and profiting off placing their children in foster care. In representing King, Andrea has come to the attention of people who want her silenced until Reese intervenes. Meanwhile, Reese realizes that despite trusting his life to Finch, his partner is still keeping secrets from him. He follows Finch to meeting with Will Ingram, the son of Finch's previous partner, Nathan Ingram. After Finch bails him out of police custody, Will begins asking questions about his father's death, the nature of his work and his connection to Finch.
13	13	"Root Cause"	Richard J. Lewis	Erik Mountain	February 2, 2012 (2012-02-02)	2J6213	15.10
Reese and Finch are alerted to Scott Powell, a dedicated family man and city construction project manager, who was laid off in the face of budget cuts advocated by Congressman Michael Delancey. They find he has secretly applied for a weapon permit and sending death threats to Delancey, and they conclude that Powell is planning to assassinate the Congressman. While Reese tries to intercept Powell, Finch realizes that the evidence against him has been planted, and they are unable to stop the real assassin from killing Delancey. Powell is arrested by the FBI in the face of overwhelming evidence, forcing Reese to help him escape. With the help of Zoe Morgan (last seen in "The Fix"), Finch identifies Peter Matheson—Delancey's business partner and chief of staff—as the man who hired the assassin and a hacker to kill Delancey and frame Powell, thereby covering up Matheson's corruption. Finch acquires a recording of a conversation between Matheson and the hacker, exonerating Powell. After Matheson is found dead, the hacker, identifying herself as "Root", admits to Finch that she had him killed to tie up loose ends. Root acknowledges Finch, by name, as a worthy adversary.
14	14	"Wolf and Cub"	Chris Fisher	Nic Van Zeebroeck & Michael Sopczynski	February 9, 2012 (2012-02-09)	2J6214	15.14
Finch and Reese return to the library for the first time since Finch's encounter with Root. Reese receives the next number of Darren McGrady (Astro). However, upon arrival at Darren's home, Reese finds that Darren's older brother was murdered three days before, and their apartment a crime scene. With Carter's help, he learns that the perpetrators were three males tied to Andre (Malik Yoba), a local comic-book store owner, and the boy's whereabouts are unknown. Darren, desperate for justice, pawns his television set and trumpet to buy a gun, and is about to shoot one of the men just as Reese finds him. The suspect is arrested but due to a lack of evidence and at the insistence of a corrupt Police Captain, is released in less than a day. Reese finds his partners and captures them, threatening them until they disclose the location of the murder weapon. However, before he is able to send them off to the police, Darren eludes him and takes the gun in an effort to kill his brother's murderers. Reese and the police arrive in time to capture killers and rescue Darren. The boy goes to live in a foster home, giving Reese a drawing of them both as a sign of gratitude.
15	15	"Blue Code"	David Von Ancken	Denise Thé	February 16, 2012 (2012-02-16)	2J6215	13.16
The latest number that the machine dispenses belongs to Michael Cahill (Michael Aronov), who on the surface is an unassuming and upstanding but solitary citizen, which masks the fact of being involved in a major smuggling ring led by a man named Vargas (José Zúñiga). Members of the ring will not hesitate to kill if anyone gets in their way. Reese quickly infiltrates the smuggling ring as one of their own. But when Reese follows Cahill away from the group, Reese finds that his former name is Daniel Tully, and that he is a husband, father and undercover cop, who is deep undercover. Cahill could have long ago put Vargas away, but is waiting to nab the ringleader, a man going by the code name L.O.S. Reese also learns that Vargas probably has a connection working inside the police force. While Finch gets Carter to provide information on the police workings of undercover cops, Reese gets Fusco to re-establish his connections with the dirty cops to flush out Vargas' connection.
16	16	"Risk"	Jeff T. Thomas	Sean Hennen	February 23, 2012 (2012-02-23)	2J6216	14.56
The next number that the Machine dispenses belongs to Adam Saunders (Matt Lauria), a proprietary trader with the Wall Street investment firm Baylor Zimm. Adam is seemingly a high roller who likes to play big and win big, all with the company's money. Reese approaches Adam as an asset manager for Finch, and finds the factors in whatever incident will be happening are deeper than originally believed – Adam is having a clandestine relationship with one of the company's managing partners, Sydney Baylor (Noelle Beck); Adam is being interrogated by Inspector Doug Rasmussen (Scott Cohen) of the SEC, who seems to think that Adam and/or Baylor Zimm as a company are involved in some securities illegalities; and Adam's uncle, Bob Sowoski (John Scurti), a food truck operator, has placed all his life savings into a shady company called Tritak, whose financial investment is increasing. Ultimately, it is established Adam is the target of Rasmussen and Paul Ashton (David Furr), a colleague of Adam's, who are using Tritak to defraud thousands of people out of tens of millions of dollars, as they are aware it will go bust due to a recently passed state legal bill that undercuts its business. Reese is able to protect Adam from assassins sent to kill him, Finch uses his unlimited funds to keep Tritak in operation and save all of the investor's money, and, exposed, Rasmussen and Ashton are arrested – however, only Ashton makes it to Carter's interrogation room, Rasmussen having apparently committed suicide. All parties involved realize Rasmussen and Ashton were working for Carl Elias, who has returned.
17	17	"Baby Blue"	Larry Teng	Patrick Harbinson	March 8, 2012 (2012-03-08)	2J6217	15.67
Reese and Finch are puzzled when the Machine names a six-month-old child, Leila Smith, as the latest person of interest. Reese and Finch turn into overly protective parents—with an arsenal at their disposal—as they investigate her origins. The child is re-kidnapped by the Albanian mob and Reese negotiates with Elias to help him get the child back. Carter begins to question her new allegiance with Reese and Finch after Reese's negotiation with Elias goes awry.
18	18	"Identity Crisis"	Charles Beeson	Amy Berg	March 29, 2012 (2012-03-29)	2J6218	14.59
Finch and Reese take on the case of Jordan Hester, who appears to be living a double life with a very small online footprint. They soon discover two Hesters: Reese follows a male Hester (Rhys Coiro) while Finch follows a female Hester (Sarah Wynter), who he believes is a target. Reese finds the male Hester's apartment, and discovers they are making ecstasy while Finch explains to the female Hester what he does and suggests she move somewhere safer. As they do, Fusco meets with a prisoner who was recently part of a similar case, and learns that the woman's name is actually Mary and the real Hester is the man. At her apartment, Mary drugs Finch and destroys his phone; Fusco rescues Finch as Mary leaves to kill Hester. Reese destroys the ecstasy lab with Hester's help, then follows Mary to a restaurant, where she is arrested. Carter, who is keeping her distance from Reese and Finch, is approached by the FBI, who are also looking for Reese.
19	19	"Flesh and Blood"	Stephen Semel	Amanda Segel	April 5, 2012 (2012-04-05)	2J6219	13.69
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. The town is filled with corrupt police known as "HR", and there are a group of F.B.I going after them, but who believe that Reese is working for Elias. Reese also has to save Carter's son, who has been kidnapped by Elias. Reese attempts to ask one of the Dons to follow him but he refuses and is killed in a car explosion set up by Elias. Carter kidnaps the remaining three Dons and takes them to an apartment owned by Finch but are tracked down with ease by "HR" cops. Elias goes over to the apartment and threatens Carter to open the door while Reese rescues Carter's son and Gianni Moretti (Mark Margolis), Elias's father. One of the Mafia members then reveals he was working with Elias but is killed, as Elias breaks through the door. Non-corrupt police are alerted by Fusco and arrive at the scene to arrest Elias. As Elias is going to his cell, he places a call to his recently rescued father before blowing up the car he is in. This episode primarily features Elias's past.
20	20	"Matsya Nyaya"	Kevin Bray	Ray Utarnachitt	April 26, 2012 (2012-04-26)	2J6220	12.73
Tommy Clay (Pablo Schreiber), who works for an armored car service, is working with a team Finch believes will be robbed. Reese works with the team as a rookie as Finch tracks the car in an attempt to predict the robbery. When the team picks up platinum valued at $1.2 million, the vehicle explodes and Reese is shot by Clay. Reese awakes in a hospital and is rescued by Carter. Finch tracks Clay to a motel, where his two partners in crime have been killed. Fusco arrives and realizes HR is involved in the robbery as Finch finds Clay's partner, a waitress named Ashley. Reese finds Clay, and realizes that Clay is not only a perpetrator, but also a victim, just before Clay is killed by Ashley. Ashley leaves with the platinum, but is killed by a member of HR. In flashbacks, Reese, Snow and Kara are in China to retrieve a stolen computer. Snow orders Reese to kill Kara, who has allegedy been compromised, when their mission is completed. When the time comes, however, Reese hesitates and is shot by Kara, who was given identical instructions to Reese. Reese realizes that the CIA wants anyone who had access to the computer dead, including him and Kara, and escapes the building as an AC130 destroys it. In the present day, Snow and Evans follow a lead that they believe will lead to Reese. They arrive at a hotel, where they are subdued by a still-alive Kara.
21	21	"Many Happy Returns"	Frederick E. O. Toye	Story by: Erik Mountain & Jonathan Nolan Teleplay by: Erik Mountain	May 3, 2012 (2012-05-03)	2J6221	13.27
It's Reese's birthday. Finch gives him the day off and hands him small gift containing a key. Finch does this because he knows that the new number will bring back Reese's old memories. Finch decides to deal with the next number on his own with help from Detective Fusco: Karen Garner (Dagmara Dominczyk) a woman who is on the run from US Marshall Service for identity thefts. Finch decides to take help of Detective Carter, but she has a news of her own for Finch regarding a kill in New Rochelle relating to Reese's past. Carter and FBI agent Donnelly visit New Rochelle to find links related to Reese. Finch who is in pursuit of Karen gets help from Reese. They find out that Karen actual name is Sarah Atkins, who is on the run from her husband Brad Jennings of the U. S. Marshall Service, who framed Sarah for his own good. In the same way, Reese's ex-girlfriend Jessica Arndt was ostensibly killed in a fake car accident, when actually her husband Peter Arndt killed her by snapping her neck when she hit her head on a table during a fight. Sarah is taken into custody by Jennings and is taken out of the city where his plans to kill her are foiled by Reese. Finch asks Carter to look for Reese because he has lost contact with him. She finds Reese, who is taking Jennings to deal with him, and lets him drive off with Jennings in the back of the trunk, not knowing what Reese will do to him. Later, Carter gets Reese's old military information and shreds it afterward to avoid Donnelly finding out about everything. She then receives a call from a warden letting her know that Jennings is now serving an imprisonment in Torreón penitentiary in Mexico after "a man in a suit" turned him in. Reese is given an address that Finch forgot to give him with the key. The address leads him to an apartment that Finch has now given him. In the same flashback from the episode earlier on, the man in the wheelchair that Reese accidentally bumped in the hallway turns out to be Finch, who was too late to save Jessica.
22	22	"No Good Deed"	Stephen Williams	David Slack	May 10, 2012 (2012-05-10)	2J6222	12.96
Reese continues to spend time trying to learn more about Finch and his personal life; tailing him to see if he can learn anything. A new POI is given to Finch via. his cellphone: Henry Peck ((Jacob Pitts), a chartered financial analyst, who Reese and Finch find is actually undercover; he is a security analyst for the NSA, and a very good NOC operator. Peck is targeted by an unknown group and his life is destroyed; he is first framed for drug possession and loses his job, and soon after, assassins are sent to hunt him down. Ultimately, Finch and Reese find out Peck is being targeted by the government - Peck's uncovered some anomalies in some of his past security reports and, unknowingly, discovered the existence of the Machine, and his asking of questions has endangered his life - and now the government members who know about the Machine have sent black ops assassins from the Intelligence Support Activity, "an obscure army unit that does black ops so dark, technically they don't exist", to murder Peck. Reese saves Peck a number of times from the 3-man assassination team, while Peck continually manages to give them the slip thanks to his NSA training. Peck, while in NYPD protective custody, finally realizes the Machine really does exist; and hopes to find some he can tell his discoveries to. Reese sneaks him out of the police station and, after beign attacked by an assassin, who Reese kills, loses Peck again. The next day, Peck arranges a meeting with a reporter, but Finch shows up instead; having lured Peck to a private meeting. Finch answers some of his questions about the Machine, but suggests that he stop looking for answers, and then offers him an escape with a new identity - it is unclear what Peck decided, but Finch ends the conversation by telling Peck that Finch was the one who built the Machine. In a flashback to 2009, Nathan Ingram is ready to deliver the machine to his government contact, Alicia Corwin (Elizabeth Marvel). Alicia confirms with Nathan that only seven people in the government knows about the Machine - Finch, unknowing to Alicia, makes it eight. Nathan, while talking with Finch, shows he has a lot of moral issues with the way the Machine operates, and asks about making a backdoor entry in the Machine for the irrelevant threats in case the Machine is ever abused, which Finch claims is impossible as it could compromise it's security. Ultimately, Nathan starts developing a contingency program alone; he hacks Finch's code and accesses the irrelevant list, hoping to help the people who show up as irrelevant. The very first POI is Anna Sanders, who Nathan appears to choose to help save her life. Reese eventually tracks down Finch's former fiance, Grace; and comes to know their relationship ended when Finch "died" in an accident two years ago. Finch, aware of Reese's efforts, tells Reese he had to leave Grace for her own protection: if the government even came to know that he created the Machine, Grace's safety would have been put in jeopardy. Reese subsequently gains a new appreciation of Finch's privacy. The episode ends with a flashback to Peck and Finch's conversation, all of which has been recorded by Alicia - who very clearly heard Finch admitting to building the Machine.
23	23	"Firewall"	Richard J. Lewis	Greg Plageman & Jonathan Nolan	May 17, 2012 (2012-05-17)	2J6223	13.47
Reese is set the task of protecting their new POI; Caroline Turing, PhD (Amy Acker), a high-end psychologist who works as a therapist to an extremely powerful and secretive client list. Finch's attempt to hack into her system to get more information about her fails, forcing Reese to go into therapy with Turing in order to get closer to her. Fusco attends a meeting of HR's leadership, and learns HR has been hired to kill Turing. Reese intervenes in the initial attack, and hides her in a high-end hotel downtown - in a heavily monitored part of the city and, with HR in pursuit, must rely on Finch, Carter and Fusco's help. HR finds their location, as well as the FBI task force led by Agent Donnelly, who is still hunting for Reese; both corrupt cops and federal agents converge on the hotel and lock it down, cornering Reese and Turing. Carter's suspicion that Fusco is working for HR comes a head, and she corners him at gunpoint - only to learn he is working with Reese and Finch as well. With covert help from Carter and Fusco, and some technical magic from Finch, Reese manages to get Turing out of the hotel alive, and stays with Carter and Fusco to take down the corrupt HR members, and then Reese avoids FBI capture once again. When Finch arrives at his designated rendezvous with Turing, he is instead confronted at gunpoint by Alicia Corwin, who has been following Finch - she accuses the Machine of killing Nathan Ingram, a belief Finch denies, and demands his help in shutting the Machine down; tired of her life of running from it. Turing arrives by surprise and kills Alicia, revealing herself to be "Root", the hacker from "Root Cause", and that she hired HR herself; willingly putting herself in danger to capture Finch for interrogation about the Machine. Reese arrives only to find Alicia's dead body and Finch missing. While Carter and Fusco anonymously reveal HR's membership to the FBI, Reese talks to the Machine itself, staring into a nearby surveillance camera - Reese, labelled as a Machine asset, asks the Machine to help him find Finch. A nearby pay phone then rings, which Reese answers.

Season 2 (2012)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code	U.S. viewers (million)
24	1	"The Contingency"	Richard J. Lewis	Denise Thé and Jonathan Nolan	September 27, 2012 (2012-09-27)	TBA	TBA
Reese enlists Detectives Carter and Fusco in his search for the kidnapped Mr Finch. Meanwhile, the machine produces a new number which Reese must deal with alone.
25	2	TBA	Unknown	Unknown	October 4, 2012 (2012-10-04)	TBA	TBA
26	3	TBA	Unknown	Unknown	October 18, 2012 (2012-10-18)	TBA	TBA
27	4	TBA	Unknown	Unknown	October 25, 2012 (2012-10-25)	TBA	TBA
28	5	TBA	Unknown	Unknown	November 1, 2012 (2012-11-01)	TBA	TBA
29	6	TBA	Unknown	Unknown	November 8, 2012 (2012-11-08)	TBA	TBA

External links

• Official website
• Person of Interest at IMDb
• Template:Tv.com episodes