SYNOPSIS:
Reese & Finch team up with surprising allies in a race to save The Machine from Root and the mysterious international organization Decima, who have both re-emerged with dangerous agendas. As the POI team faces off against enemies old and new, the nature of Finch's relationship with former partner Nathan Ingram is revealed along with his original motivation for wanting to save The Machine’s irrelevant numbers. Meanwhile, in her mission to bring Cal Beecher's murderer to justice, Detective Carter finds herself up against the criminal organization known as HR.
SYNOPSIS:
Reese and Finch realize that a virus has rendered The Machine erratic, causing it to issue numbers irregularly. As they race against the viral countdown, the team searches for a tech millionaire so elusive no one has ever seen him. Also, Detective Carter's mission to bring Cal Beecher's murderer to justice lands her squarely within the sights of the HR criminal organization.
ZERO DAY: A Zero Day virus is a previously unknown computer virus or other malware for which specific antivirus software signatures are not yet available. A zero-day attack or threat is an attack that exploits a previously unknown vulnerability in a computer application, meaning that the attack occurs on "day zero" of awareness of the vulnerability.
SYNOPSIS:
When a luminary in the world of medicine is poisoned, Reese and Finch have just 24 hours to determine the deadly toxin he was given and find the person behind the attack. Meanwhile, Detective Fusco’s past corruption catches up with him when an informant gives the Internal Affairs Bureau the crucial information they need to send him to prison.
IN EXTREMIS: In extremis is a Latin phrase meaning "in the farthest reaches" or "at the point of death".
SYNOPSIS:
When the number of a leading tech executive comes up, Finch infiltrates
her corporation to gather intel but can't determine whether she is
working in her company's best interest or planning to destroy it from
the inside. Meanwhile, Carter continues to question Detective Beecher’s
integrity after he provides incriminating information about a fellow
detective.
SYNOPSIS:
When an elderly gambler’s number comes up, Reese and Finch head to Atlantic City to delve beneath the surface of their POI’s seemingly ordinary life for answers. In New York, Carter’s crusade to clear a fellow detective’s name brings her perilously close to discovering the remaining HR faction within the department.
RECAP:
Reese and Finch must protect Lou Mitchell, a widowed retiree in his
seventies who likes to spend nearly all of his time at the Venus Casino
in Atlantic City. After looking into his financial records, Finch
determines that Lou is nearly flat broke, but somehow he manages to
gamble away thousands of dollars each day, to the tune of over $300,000
in the last six months. After checking into the shady casino owner,
Makris, and some of the other elderly casino regulars, our heroes
determine that Makris has been using the seniors to launder his dirty
drug money. Lou was the best card shark in Atlantic City, but Makris
caught him and forced him to work off his debt for cheating. Finch
offers to help Lou disappear, but Lou is too attached to the hometown
memories of his departed wife to ever leave. Instead, he takes matters
into his own hands and vows to clean Makris's casino out. With some
help from Leon Tao, Reese and Finch help Lou win over $20 million
dollars at the tables,
but Makris and his thugs blindside them and tie them up. After a scary
showdown involving Russian roulette, Reese gets the upper hand on Makris
and his thugs, saves Lou and the team, and giftwraps the casino goons
for the FBI.
Meanwhile, Carter is shocked when she learns that Detective Szymanski is
being charged with corruption by Internal Affairs, and that Detective
Beecher may have been involved in one way or another. When she discovers
that the charges against Szymanski reek of HR involvement, she brings
it up to the ADA prosecuting the case. However, Alonzo Quinn, the head
of HR, shoots the ADA and Szymanski to cover HR's tracks.
SYNOPSIS:
After the machine gives Reese and Finch six numbers at once, their search for clues leads them to a coastal town where they are forced to ride out a storm with a group of locals in a police station. However, as the weather rages outside, a sinister situation arises inside when they realize there is an unidentified killer hiding among them.
RECAP:
A brief three day hiatus without any numbers from the machine has Finch worried - could Agent Stanton's virus be to blame? Luckily, Finch and Reese soon find themselves with six new numbers, spread out across the country, with the lone New Yorker being Jack Rollins. Finch tries to find connections between the six POIs, all men who mysteriously vanished after a certain period of time, while Reese follows Rollins' paper trail to Owen Island, where he supposedly went in a hurry. While Reese heads for the island, Finch investigates Rollins' workplace and finds 32 human teeth in a basement furnace, and they quickly realize they're searching for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims. With a massive storm moving in, communications go down and Reese gets trapped on the island with an FBI agent, Alan Faber, and a handful of other locals at the sheriff station. Finch takes a sea plane and lands on the island, hoping to warn Reese about the serial killer, and they wind up administering a jerry-rigged polygraph to all the people holed up at the station. When one of the locals disappears out into the storm, Reese gives chase to capture him, only to discover the body of the real Agent Faber in the truck of his car. Back at the station, Declan, the killer, corners Finch and plans to assume his identity next. Luckily, Detectives Carter and Beecher arrive in the nick of time and killer Declan, saving Finch. After avoiding the issue for a while, Carter finally confronts Beecher about his issues with Internal Affairs. He appears stunned by her accusations and gives very noncommittal answers, which puts Carter even more on edge.
We open in Berlin, where we meet a fiery, skilled field agent named Shaw, who efficiently takes out a trio of suspected terrorists with her genius and tech-savvy partner, Cole. The duo operates quite a lot like Reese and Finch, though it is unclear what their connection is to our heroes. After the Berlin job is done, Cole informs Shaw that they have a new number, and that they're headed to New York City. Once in New York, they begin to stake out their new target, while Cole begins to question where, exactly their numbers and intel comes from. Shaw reminds him that their source is never wrong, and that they've prevented countless terrorist attacks because of it, but Cole is determined to get answers. He tells Shaw that he unearthed some odd irregularities in a past job (Krugman) that trace back to their superiors, and that he's asked for a formal internal investigation. That investigation never happens, however, because Shaw and Cole are set up inside a kill house, where Cole is mortally wounded. Shaw escapes, with a little help from Reese, before shooting him and making a run for it. Shaw's handler, Wilson, contacts Special Counsel and informs him of the situation, which is grave, to say the least. Despite her being one of their best operatives, Special Counsel wants Shaw found and neutralized as soon as possible. Shaw vows to avenge her partner's death, so she sets up a meeting with Cole's information contact, who turns out to be Root in disguise. Root disables Shaw and tries to extract information from her, but another hit team arrives and interrupts the interrogation. Reese comes to Shaw's rescue, but Root escapes. Reese takes Shaw to Finch, who encourages her to let them help her disappear, but she's determined to extract vengeance for Cole's death. Shaw then sets up meet with Special Counsel, where she gives him Cole's information, kills Wilson, and escapes. Hersh sneaks up on her and poisons her, but our heroes are there to save her once again. At the end of the episode, Finch offers her his card, which she takes and then disappears.
Air date: February 21, 2013
Written by Amanda Segel & Jonathan Nolan, and directed by Jonathan Nolan.
Reese and Finch go undercover at a swanky hotel as a bellhop and concierge, respectively, to protect Mira Dobrica, an Albanian immigrant who works as a maid. With over 700 guests at the hotel at any given time, the threat to Mira's life could seemingly come from anywhere, but as Reese gets closer to her, it's clear that her involvement with a daring journalist staying at the hotel presents the biggest threat to her safety. The journalist, Charles Harris, is working on a piece about a former Serbian Colonel named Petrovic, who committed war crimes in Kosovo that Mira saw with her own eyes. Unfortunately, Petrovic's people have figured out that Mira is Harris' informant, and they will do anything to silence both of them, including sending a hit squad to the hotel. Reese manages to disarm the hitmen and save Mira, but she has another close call later at the police precinct, where Carter and Fusco have to intervene and shoot the final hitman to save her life.
Air date: February 14, 2013
Written by Nic Van Zeebroeck & Michael Sopczynski, and directed by Frederick E. O. Toye.
Reese and Finch must protect Max Preston, a self-made internet billionaire and playboy with a penchant for breaking rules and making enemies. Preston helped create a social networking site with his partner Brian Ogilvy, who appears to be one of his closest friends, and the pair recently made the decision to take the company public. Finch speculates that Preston's competitors might want to harm him to prevent this from happening, so Reese has to go undercover as a hedge fund manager to see if he can suss out a threat. Preston, as it turns out, doesn't stick to anything close to a schedule, and Reese and Finch have problems keeping up with his active lifestyle. Reese is forced to break his cover to get close to Preston, and he winds up saving Preston's life twice from an unknown assailant. Preston is able to deduce quite a bit about Reese and Finch based on their actions, and his natural curiosity about them disturbs Finch greatly. Unsure of where to watch for threats, Reese accompanies Preston to St. Petersburg, Russia, at his urging, hoping to lie low until the company officially goes public. While there, Preston is abducted by thugs hired by his partner, Ogilvy, who learned of his plans to leave the company and start another one of his own, with a competing technology. Ogilvy couldn't let that happen, so he decided to kill Preston. Luckily, Reese intervenes in the nick of time, saving Preston's life and bringing the people who conspired against him to justice. In flashbacks, we get a glimpse into the partnership between Finch and Nathan Ingram. There are flashbacks to 9/11, which helped provide a stronger motivation for them to create the machine, and flashbacks to the day the machine was dismantled and moved, where the two men ended their partnership. In many ways, it mirrors the relationship between Preston and Ogilvy, with the two men ultimately going their separate ways due to ideological differences.
Air date: February 7, 2013
Written by Denise Thé & Melissa Scrivner-Love, and directed by Chris Fisher.
Picking up where episode 2.12 left off, Reese is kidnapped by rogue Agent Kara Stanton, while Carter is left for dead in Donnelly's wrecked SUV. Stanton puts a bomb vest on Reese and tells him that he and Agent Snow will be running errands for her, and if they choose not to comply, she'll kill them both. Stanton's plan involves Snow and Reese breaking into a top secret Department of Defense cyber terrorism lab, which the men successfully do, only to have Stanton appear and hack into the database herself. She locks them in the lab, but Reese and Snow manage to break out. Reese races to the roof, hoping that he can get far enough away from innocent people, but he finds Finch waiting for him. Finch successfully hacks the cell phone detonator on Reese's bomb vest in the nick of time, saving both of their lives. Snow, meanwhile, manages to catch up with Stanton just as his bomb vest explodes, killing them both. Through flashbacks, we see Agent Stanton's interactions with a mysterious British man named Greer after her near-death experience in China. Greer offers to help her find the person responsible for stealing the laptop that she was sent to retrieve in China, but only if she'll do a few favors for him in return. In the end, the exercise in the D.O.D's lab was for Greer, and he informs her that the man she's looking for is Harold Finch. Though Stanton appears to be dead, it appears that Greer knows of Finch, though it remains to be seen what his long term goals are.
Air date: January 31, 2013
Written by Erik Mountain and directed by John Dahl.
Reese is locked up in Rikers under the order of Agent Donnelly, who is determined to root out the real Man In The Suit from the four suspects captured. Donnelly takes advantage of Carter's army interrogation experience and has her grill the four suspects, and she steadily chips away at their false identities--all of them except for Reese. Finch hacks into Carter's earpiece so he can simultaneously hear the questions Donnelly is feeding her and create fake documentation to corroborate the answers Reese gives during his interrogation. Reese also manages to dodge Hersh, who gets himself arrested at the request of Special Counsel in order to eliminate all of the suspects in holding. When Carter manages to point all of the evidence at another suspect and away from Reese, Donnelly finally relents and allows him to be released. Later, Reese goes to thank Carter, but Donnelly intercepts them and arrests them both. Finch frantically works to find a way to save them, but he gets a new number from the machine that he can't ignore--Agent Donnelly's number. Just as Donnelly is taking Carter and Reese in, their car is blindsided by an SUV driven by Agent Stanton, who calmly executes Donnelly before drugging Reese. In flashback, we see the beginnings of Reese and Stanton's partnership in various jobs overseas. Stanton appears to relish eliminating their targets, while Reese shows extreme reluctance. Tensions between them reach a boiling point and they begin to fight, but that fight slowly turns passionate. Meanwhile, Fusco must fill in for Reese and keep a gorgeous Hungarian supermodel safe from Armenian mobsters.
Air date: January 10, 2013
Written by David Slack and directed by Chris Fisher.
With Reese locked up in Rikers as Agent Donnelly struggles to figure out who the real 'man in the suit' is, Finch is left to his own devices to protect this week's POI, a high school student named Caleb Phipps. At first glance, Caleb appears to be a thoroughly average kid, but when Finch goes undercover as a substitute at Caleb's school, he learns that Caleb is remarkably good with computer code. Caleb gets involved with some vengeful drug dealers so Fusco and Finch try to keep him away from harm as he puts the finishing touches on a new memory software that could make millions of dollars. Gradually, Finch learns that Caleb's older brother died in a subway accident, and that Caleb feels responsible for it. He intends to sell his program and then commit suicide, but Finch is able to talk him out of it before he can go through with it. The two share an unspoken connection, which is clarified in flashback as we see echoes of Caleb's relationship with his mother in young Finch's interactions with his Alzheimer's afflicted father. Meanwhile, Carter struggles to locate and dispose of the DNA evidence that the Feds have on Reese, hoping that it will be enough to get him out of Rikers after 72 hours. When Donnelly learns that the DNA has gone missing, he gets the Attorney General to sign a Public Safety Exception, giving him the power to retain Reese and the other three suspects indefinitely. He then tells Carter that she'll have to interrogate the men to find the real 'man in the suit.'
Air date: January 3, 2013
Written by Dan Dietz and directed by Richard J. Lewis.
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