Person of Interest Season 3

Synopsis

The team suffers a devastating loss and confront staggering challenges. Adapting to the next evolution of The Machine, now completely self-governed and hidden from all, Finch and Reese team with rogue agent Sameen Shaw to save lives and seek justice, but their missions now threaten to tear them apart. Joss Carter and Lionel Fusco finally unravel the criminal police conspiracy "HR" - but at a tragic cost. And former cyber-enemy — and now highly tuned confederate of The Machine — Root becomes an unpredictable ally when the team learns a second surveillance apparatus to rival The Machine is on the verge of activation.

Main Cast

Jim Caviezel

John Reese

Age : 55 | Popularity : 40%

Michael Emerson

Harold Finch

Age : 69 | Popularity : 18%

Kevin Chapman

Lionel Fusco

Age : 61 | Popularity : 11%

Taraji P. Henson

Joss Carter

Age : 53 | Popularity : 22%

Amy Acker

Root

Age : 46 | Popularity : 20%

Sarah Shahi

Sameen Shaw

Age : 43 | Popularity : 15%

Episodes

Episode 1

24 September 2013 - Liberty

The Machine, now completely self-governed with its whereabouts unknown, resumes giving Finch its "irrelevant" numbers for people in danger, which include a U.S. naval officer in town for Fleet Week. However, with so many sailors flooding the streets of New York City, finding the officer in time presents an even bigger challenge for Reese and Shaw.

Episode 2

01 October 2013 - Nothing to Hide

The number comes up for an Internet entrepreneur in the business of eliminating people's privacy, but finds his own being rapidly stripped away. As his life spirals out of control, Reese tries to protect him while Finch calls on Shaw, Carter and Fusco for help finding whoever is after him.

Episode 3

08 October 2013 - Lady Killer

When the Machine gives the number of Ian Murphy, a man suspected of being a stalker, Reese along with Shaw recruits Carter, Fusco and Zoe to investigate further into his background. But when they discover that Murphy has a son from a former lover who is now dead, they work to reunite the boy with his father and right the wrong set in motion by the boy's grandfather, who wanted Murphy dead after he didn't approve of him and saw him at his daughter's funeral. Meanwhile Root sets her escape plan in motion with the help of the Machine when government operative Hersh tracks her down. Finch arrives at the hospital and finds to his horror the hospital staff incapacitated and Root gone.

Episode 4

15 October 2013 - Reasonable Doubt

The team must figure out if a prominent lawyer orchestrated the murder of her husband or if she is being framed; Carter is spotted with Reese by her new partner.

Episode 5

22 October 2013 - Razgovor

Shaw must stay close to a 10-year-old girl with highly developed surveillance skills when she is identified by the machine; Carter's mission could be exposed.

Episode 6

29 October 2013 - Mors Praematura

After being freed from her confinement to the psych ward, Root needs Shaw's help with a directive from the machine; Finch and Reese look into a mild-mannered investigator.

Episode 7

05 November 2013 - The Perfect Mark

The team is met with surprises during an investigation into a hypnotherapist; an antiquities dealer has ties to a crime organization.

Episode 8

12 November 2013 - Endgame

The machine gives Finch 38 numbers at once; information about Carter's past is revealed.

Episode 9

19 November 2013 - The Crossing

The battle to bring a crime organization to justice reaches a new level; Reese's number comes up in the machine.

Episode 10

26 November 2013 - The Devil's Share

As the POI team seeks justice for Carter’s murder, Finch realizes one of his team members may go one step too far in order to end the war with HR. Also, The Machine gives out the number for NYPD Officer Patrick Simmons, one of the crime organization’s key players.

Episode 11

17 December 2013 - Lethe

Flashbacks to Finch’s adolescence provide insight into his creation of The Machine. Also, the team receives the number of an already dying man, and Reese leaves the POI team behind in the aftermath of the war with the crime organization, HR.

Episode 12

07 January 2014 - Aletheia

Multiple enemies converge on the POI team as they protect a dying man whose number has come up. They struggle to keep their enemies at bay but without Reese, who has left them and their mission behind following the tragic war with HR, being down one man could have catastrophic repercussions for the team.

Episode 13

14 January 2014 - 4C

Reese boards an international flight in an attempt to put the team and the past behind him, but is angered when he realizes his travel plans have been manipulated.

Episode 14

04 February 2014 - Provenance

Reese rejoins Finch in New York, but when the team receives the number of a highly skilled antiquities thief, a surprising turn of events finds them planning a heist which could land them all in jail.

Episode 15

25 February 2014 - Last Call

Finch goes undercover in an emergency call center to protect a 911 operator, but it soon becomes clear that the threat reaches further than the team could have anticipated.

Episode 16

04 March 2014 - RAM

The secrets of Finch’s operation before he enlisted Reese are revealed, including shocking ties to present-day events.

Episode 17

18 March 2014 - /

The Machine assigns Root to seek out a janitor with a mysterious past, but when her very presence puts his life in danger, Finch also receives his number.

Episode 18

25 March 2014 - Allegiance

Finch and Reese must delve into the murky waters of international politics when they are given the number of a former government contractor who is stalking a UN diplomat. Also, an enemy attempts to gain an upper hand on Root.

Episode 19

01 April 2014 - Most Likely To...

Reese and Shaw pose as alumni at a high school reunion in order to keep eyes on the latest POI. Meanwhile, Finch and Fusco travel to Washington, D.C., to investigate the motivations behind Vigilance’s latest attack.

Episode 20

15 April 2014 - Death Benefit

Reese poses as a Secret Service agent to get close to the latest POI, a U.S. congressman who may hold the key to derailing Decima’s plans to bring a second Machine online.

Episode 21

29 April 2014 - Beta

As Decima uses Samaritan’s feeds to hunt Reese and Shaw, Greer exploits Finch’s greatest weakness in an attempt to lure him out of hiding: his love for his former fiancée, Grace Hendricks.

Episode 22

06 May 2014 - A House Divided

When an unknown entity prevents The Machine from seeing the full picture of an impending catastrophic event, it sends the team five separate numbers to help them piece together the bigger picture. Meanwhile, Root’s team of hackers arrives in New York.

Episode 23

13 May 2014 - Deus Ex Machina

The team takes desperate action in its race to prevent the malevolent AI program Samaritan from coming online and making them its first targets. Meanwhile, the months-long battle with the anti-surveillance terrorist group Vigilance comes to a shocking conclusion.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Bryan Burk Stephen Semel Athena Wickham
	Co-Producer	Joshua Levey
	Co-Executive Producer	Amanda Segel David Slack Kathy Lingg
	Executive Producer	Greg Plageman Bryan Burk J.J. Abrams Jonathan Nolan
Writing	Story Editor	Nic Van Zeebroeck Michael Sopczynski
	Executive Story Editor	Sean Hennen
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Gary Jones
Sound	Original Music Composer	Ramin Djawadi
Department	Role	Name

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