Person Of Interest - Part 2

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If pedigree alone were enough to get a TV show greenlit, this next project would be a slam dunk: J.J. Abrams is currently shopping a crime-thriller series created by Jonah Nolan, brother and frequent collaborator of The Dark Knight/Inception auteur Christopher Nolan.
This would mark the first small-screen foray for Nolan, who not only co-wrote The Dark Knight and The Prestige but penned the short story on which Memento was based.
According to an insider, one network is extremely interested in the untitled project. My hunch is, it won’t be the only one.
All in all, it’s shaping up to be a busy development season for Bad Robot boss Abrams, who is also pitching an Alcatraz-set drama series written by fellow Lost producer Elizabeth Sarnoff.

 

[BlueLightning]

At last! I managed to watch the last episode, "Relevance" and... Holey Moley! It was awesome. It had everything! It was a part of this universe that we haven't seen before: how does the government prevent the terrorist attacks with the Machine.

It was such a great setup from the beginning (the interruption of the intro). Seeing the agents Shaw and Cole doing their jobs was just an awesome way to show how these skilled people managed to do what Finch and Reese do, but in a different way. It was a little more ruthless and to the point. Having her retrieving the bullets from the body and then blowing up the place was a great way to completely cover their tracks. Essentialy, just as Finch and Reese, they are ghosts.

At first I thought the number in NY was the same for Shaw and Reese, but then switching it to Shaw was surprising. I really felt a little when they killed Cole, tough thing to do with a brand new character. It was pretty smart for Shaw to kidnap the drug dealer, she had a nice way to protect her whereabouts and providing her with guns and healing aids. have her going Having Root pulling some strings from behind was very nice. The confrontation between her and Shaw was great, Root is still on the top of the baddies, along Elias. Also it showed that Shaw is radically different than Reese.

At the end, having Hersh (or the Anti-Reese, as I call him) killing her was a nice touch. Unexpected and subtle, nothing that could be traced back to the Council. And more unexpected even, having the entire team working to save her, so nice.

I blew my mind! Congratulations for Jonah and the entire team, this was perhaps my favorite episode so far!

 

[Kaleb]

 

[Dr Lee]

*Thud*

I stumbled across an album on iTunes last night with a track on it that has her singing... She has a nice voice.

 

[BlueLightning]

Has anybody heard this?

[YT]_wEi6sL40hM[/YT]

 

[Hunter Rider]

Carter is an undercover hottie!

 

[BlueLightning]

Also, I was checking the wiki of Person of Interest, and apparently since the episode "One Percent", the Machine has been "glitching", giving away strings of code in hexadecimal, which some dedicated people over there converted to ASCII. There are eight embedded codes so far:

From "One Percent"

Code 01:

Spoiler

Converted to ASCII is an excerpt of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Lady M. Out, damned spot! out, I say! One; two: why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky! Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? ...

From "Booked Solid"

Code 02:

Spoiler

Converted to ASCII, this is a transcript from a news report of CNN back in 2001:

BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN US August 6 2001. After U.S. missile strikes oh his base in Afghanistan in 1998, bin Laden told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a -- -- service ...

Code 03:

Spoiler

Converted to ASCII, this is a transcript of a part of the book of Revelations from the Bible:

And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image ...

Code 04:

Spoiler

Converted to ASCII, it appears to be a fragment of a page from the CIA site about dangerous chemicals:

Types of CW Agents. Choking agents are the oldest CW agents. This class includes chlorine and phosgene, first used in World War I. These agents have a corrosive effect on the respiratory system that causes the lungs to fill with water and choke the victim ...

From "Relevance"

Code 05:

Spoiler

Converted to ASCII, is the fragment of the book "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. The badly placed logo prevented a full conversion. The "#" symbols fill in the blanks.

"It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream -- making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream#####ation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and ######erment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notio#####being captured by the incredible which is of the ver######nce of dreams. . . ."
He was silent for a while.
". . . No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence -- that which makes its truth, its meaning -- its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream -- alone. . . ."
He paused again as if reflecting, then added:
"Of course in this you fellows see more than I could then. You see me, whom you know. . . ."
It had become so pitch dark that we listeners could hardly see one another. For a long time already he, sitting apart, had been no more to us than a voice. There was not a word from anybody. The others might have been asleep, but I was awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative that seemed to shape itself without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river.
". . . Yes -- I let him run on," Marlow began again, "and think what he pleased about the powers that were behind me. I did! And there was nothing behind me! There was nothing but that wretched, old, mangled steamboat I was leaning against, while he

Code 06:

Spoiler

Converted to ASCII, is a fragment of "The Principles of Surgery" by John Bell:

On removing the bandage and dressings, I had now an opportunity of seeing the extent and appearance of the disease. The scalp had ulcerated and sloughed off to the extent of five or six inches in diameter, exposing almost all the upper part of the scull. The insulated piece consisted of the upper and back part of the right and left parietal bones. It extended from the lambdoid suture behind, to within two inches of the coronal suture before. The sagittal suture was seen to run along the middle of this caries, wheh measured transversely five inches, and longitudinally three inches and a half. A great part of the external table of the loose bone had mouldered away, and the dura mater was seen through the trepan-hole, and through many ulcerations in the scull, covered with pale unhealthy granulations. The edges of the scalp were swollen, livid, and painful, and the discharge of pus was profuse, of a dark colour, and very fetid. The insulated piece of bone was immersed in matter, blacke ned on its surface, and incrusted with the discharge. I could easily move this piece of bone a little way upwards or downwards, or to either side, the thin edges of it passing at each movement under the edge, or between the tables of the surrounding bones. It could even be depressed a few degrees, though the resistance to this was very considerable ; nor did the patient complain of any uneasiness. It was this resistance that enabled Lr. Anderson to apply the trepan]

Code 07:

Spoiler

Converted to ASCII, it appears to be a excerpt of the Voinych Manuscript, and apparently used an special font to describe its peculiar characters:

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Code 08:

Spoiler

Converted to ASCII, it is again an exerpt of "The Principles of Surgery" by John Bell:

In excessive fractures (says Dionis) we should not hesitate to make two, three, or four perforations, if required. A young girl, of eleven or twelve years of age, having, by a fall down stairs, fractured the whole of the parietal with a part of the temporal bone, Mr. Marechal trepaned her next day in two places: he made his son trepan her a third time; he allowed my son, who was present, to trepan her a fourth time : the next day, applied the trepan twice more, and in the end had actually perforated twelve times, and cured her completely. So precious an example shows how little reason we have to be surprised dt the frequent application of the trepan." Here is a doctrine laid down, which, I fear, there is little occasion to enforce ; and I cannot but persist in being surprised and shocked, at the frequent and large perforations which I have both read of and seen, and cannot but think of these veterans in surgery in no very amiable light, when I see them indulging their boys in the novelty of operating, probably on very slight compulsion. These reports, and especially the last clause of this paragraph, viz. " that we should not be surprised at the number of trepans," have plainly a reference to the ever memorable operation performed in the time of King William's wars, on hilip Count of Nassau, by Henry Chadborn, chirurgeon. Godifredus, chief surgeon to the Ckates of Holland, mentions with particular exultation this operation performed by his f

They have been appearing on the show since the events of "Dead's Reckoning" in which Kara Stanton uploads the malware to the net by orders from Evil Mr. Fredericks. Apparently it is taking a toll, and most of the converted code relates to the spread of something evil.

I freaking love this show!

For more info, go to the wikia page!

 

[Frico]

Dear Carter, you can arrest me any day.

 

[ThePhantasm]

Those embedded codes are really interesting.

 

[Snow Queen]

Those codes are why I love this show. It's so densely packed with information.

 

[TheVileOne]

My basic guess is I dunno some sort of hostile take over of the US's grid and holding the country for hostage?

I mean the show is all about hacking so are they basically going to hack the US or use the machine against the good guys?

 

[Webfoot Hero]

With Kara seemingly working for the Chinese or foreign government, I could them hijacking the US' infrastructure and asking for some type of ransom (not sure what since I don't know what their endgame or motives are.)

 

[Snow Queen]

Great episode. Loved Finch's scene with the killer, absolutely riveting.

"Just bleed for yes."

 

[jonathancrane]

Agreed.

The exchange between the killer and Finch was tense; it was one of the few times when watching television - even though I knew they were not going to off him - I sat on the edge of my seat. I have not been that emotionally invested in a television program for a while.

 

[Anno_Domini]

Very good episode that still made the major plot point of the virus so important as well and even a Shaw mention!

 

[Snow Queen]

Agreed.

The exchange between the killer and Finch was tense; it was one of the few times when watching television - even though I knew they were not going to off him - I sat on the edge of my seat. I have not been that emotionally invested in a television program for a while.

"What? People like you don't stop. "

"You could never be me, I help people."

"You're nothing but an amateur at this."

That was by far Emerson's best scene on the show so far for me, followed by when he was kidnapped by Root.

And I just heard that Paige Turco is starring in a new show that's going to be filming right near me. I wonder if I can get down there and get an autograph one day during filming or at least watch.

 

[ravn0s]

picked the fbi agent as the serial killer from the moment he showed up. still a great ep though.

did anyone else notice all the blank surveillance screens?

 

[Dr Lee]

So did I... Rather too obvious IMHO, an age old cliche... But done well.

I did notice the blank screens, I took them to be out due to the storm, but they could also be out due to whatever it was that was uploaded...

 

[Webfoot Hero]

Had a feeling it was the FBI due to how much he was being shown but still a very good episode. Really like how they weaved in Shaw and the virus to make John and Finch start to question if the Machine has been possibly compromised.

 

[Webfoot Hero]

"What? People like you don't stop. "

"You could never be me, I help people."

"You're nothing but an amateur at this."

That was by far Emerson's best scene on the show so far for me, followed by when he was kidnapped by Root.

And I just heard that Paige Turco is starring in a new show that's going to be filming right near me. I wonder if I can get down there and get an autograph one day during filming or at least watch.

Hopefully she'll still be able to do a guess appearance every now and then if that show is picked up by The CW.

 

[Hunter Rider]

The FBI agent was obvious but who was in Rollins house when Finch found the teeth?

Quality episode with a really great atmosphere, it felt like an old fashioned thriller and I loved the little nod of Reese and Finch coming out of a screening of Rashamon at the beginning.

 

[TheVileOne]

Rollins had an accomplice? Someone else tracking Finch?

Looks like Finch's glasses are fakes and just for show. The clear implication is that he doesn't need them. When Carter showed up he started squinting like he was "performing" for her benefit.

Finch does seem to be disabled to some degree. It looks like the limp is legit because he has like four pins or something in his spine. So it looked like he might've been temporarily disabled or paralyzed at some point. He was in a wheelchair when he first saw Reese, but that could've just been a hospital wheelchair to help him get around the hospital.

 

[Sawyer]

It really hit me how much I'm used to seeing him on POI that Emerson looked totally different to me without the glasses, which he never wore on LOST.

 

[Webfoot Hero]

Rollins had an accomplice? Someone else tracking Finch?

Looks like Finch's glasses are fakes and just for show. The clear implication is that he doesn't need them. When Carter showed up he started squinting like he was "performing" for her benefit.

Finch does seem to be disabled to some degree. It looks like the limp is legit because he has like four pins or something in his spine. So it looked like he might've been temporarily disabled or paralyzed at some point. He was in a wheelchair when he first saw Reese, but that could've just been a hospital wheelchair to help him get around the hospital.

They've given us bits and pieces of what happened to Finch and even Nathan Ingram. We know that Ingram tampered with the Machine to some degree, but we don't know exactly what he did. The Machine did consider him a threat so may have done something to warn Finch about his intentions.

I have a feeling that somebody or some group tried to have them killed and Finch's injuries are a result of that failed attempt. There are a lot of unquestioned answers about the partnership of Ingram and Finch so I could see that being touched upon in upcoming seasons, considering Ingram is dead and Finch is forced to live under an assumed name. I'm kind of figuring that maybe "Control" had something to do with their possible termination.