NOLAN : You get a sense that these guys are on a tragic journey — we announced it right from the pilot that they are not both going to make it. Reese, when we find him, is an extremist. Finch gives him a reason to live, a new purpose. This is really where the season started with the relationship between these two characters.
When we get to the end, there are so many amazing characters that we found along the way and they all play a role in that finale. The sort of odd couple. So we wanted to see Reese, as he says in the finale, he gets a chance to repay that great favor that Finch gave him a new lease on life. PLAGEMAN : Just to add to that, there is a sense, I believe, that all the characters on this show have sort of pushed away people in their lives and lived quiet lives of tortured anonymity to an extent.
We do have that sense that Harold will be able to go on and have a life with her in the end. Lionel Fusco is saved in the end in terms of going on and being able to have a life. Who knows what could happen with Shaw as well. It really felt to us like Reese fulfilled his purpose in order to allow everyone else to go on. When he made that connection with Grace on the show it was genuine.
He met the one person who understood him and he felt like he could actually have a life with. In time, Fusco developed an appreciation for the work he did with the team, and evolved into a willing ally.
But when his involvement went beyond being just an informant, Reese and Finch continuously kept the truth hidden from him. In Person of Interest season 5, episode 9, Reese finally took Fusco aside and told him everything, even though Finch appeared doubtful that this was the right move. Why did the team wait so long to tell him? First of all, Finch was extremely protective of the secret of the Machine. He preferred to hide it from everyone, but made an exception with Reese because he knew he had to trust someone, and he wholeheartedly believed that Reese could handle it.
Henderson found out on her own, and Shaw Sarah Shahi was told by Reese because her story was directly related to the Machine. After Harold Finch Michael Emerson unleashed the Ice-9 virus that would take out Samaritan and everything else with an internet connection -- including our beloved Machine -- in the last episode , all that was left was mopping up a backup copy of Samaritan that we learned existed in the basement of the Federal Reserve building New York City.
The information came out in classic Person of Interest style: through broken timelines, from various perspectives, and with a dab of uncertainty. But one thing that was for certain was that death was in the air as we saw Finch having a rooftop conversation with the Machine Amy Acker , representing the hallucinatory embodiment of the Machine and heard the Machine's chilling voiceover from the season premiere reminding us that "I don't know if anyone made it.
Did Person of Interest just create a potential spin-off? An early montage of clips made everyone a candidate to meet their maker. Finch had a bullet hole in his gut. We saw a glimpse of Reese with a gun at his head. Fusco was bleeding from the side. And the Machine was slowly failing. Death was everywhere in "return 0," we just never knew when it would strike, which made the whole hour a test of fans' tickers. Those looking for a truly happy ending would not leave satisfied, but again, Person of Interest was too busy using shades of reality to paint a fairy-tale sendoff traditional to most TV series.
I don't know about you, but my teeth are ground down to stumps from all the tension. Ultimately, the plan to stop Samaritan was anything but simple: Samaritan was uploading its final copy onto a Russian satellite to ride out the Ice-9 virus in the Earth's orbit until it was safe to beam back down, and Harold was going to upload his final copy of the Machine to the satellite for one final battle for A.
It came with a hitch though, as the only dish capable of uploading to a satellite was identified by Samaritan, which took control of an off-shore Destroyer and launched a cruise missile at the dish. In other words, whoever was sent to upload the Machine was going to get a face full of missile as well. Entertainment Inc. Finch locked Reese in the Federal Reserve vault to go on the suicide mission himself, but we later found out that Reese and the Machine had a deal: Reese would go on the suicide mission to save Finch's life in order to "pay him back all at once" for all the things Finch did for him.
John Reese died because without Harold Finch, he would already be dead. John Reese died because Finch gave him the one thing he always needed: purpose. John Reese died because he loved Finch like a brother. John Reese died a perfect hero's death.
This was always John Reese's path. Goodbye, you wise-cracking, knee-shooting, mumbling stud. You may be crushed under the weight of sadness, and you're absolutely forgiven if that's the case.
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