CBS’ Person of Interest wrapped its midseason “trilogy” with an episode that focused on she who is known as Control — including, specifically, whether she has much if any left.
Exhibit No. 1: Control (recurring player Camryn
Manheim) knows nothing of Samaritan’s role in the “flash crash,” writing
it off as the same “computer glitch” the news reports are citing.
Exhibit No. 2: Unbeknownst to Control, Samaritan’s
child avatar is hounding the president’s chief of staff, using facts
about the “flash crash” to prove his cred and demand a sit-down with,
you know, the leader of the free world.
Exhibit No. 3: Summoned to the ops room, Control
looks into a terror threat percolating in Detroit — a quartet of
(allegedly) sketchy programmers who (allegedly) plan to bomb a series of
historic landmarks. When Control sics Grice and Brooks on the cell, one
of them, Yasin Said, escapes termination and flees. Control orders
Samaritan to read Yasin’s laptop hard drive, but access is denied, which
just never happens with a super-intelligent, omnipotent AI. Speaking on Samaritan’s behalf, Travers (True Detective‘s Michael Potts) tells Control that the laptop is “irrelevant,” that finding Yasin is Job 1.
Exhibit No. 4: Control’s pursuit of Yasin — giving
chase via SUV when the lad tries to hitch a train to Canada — is
interrupted by the “ski mask-wearing vigilantes” who’ve been on a
rampage of sorts in NYC, stealing stock exchange security cam footage
and what not. After interrogating/beseeching Control for any intel on
Shaw’s whereabouts — Reese and Root, at least, believe she could be
alive — it is gleaned that she knows nothing about the shootout beneath
the stock exchange, or Samaritan’s human army.
Exhibit No. 5: Upon tracking Yasin to a cabin in
Canada, Control is met with a rather convincing version of events, in
which the four friends merely were recruited to help with some sort of
eco start-up. They each worked on separate pieces of code, and had just
made their final delivery — the laptop files Samaritan won’t let Control
see — before being targeted as relevants. Control seems slightly
affected by Yasin’s explanation… but kills him anyway.
That said, Control obviously is forming questions, as evidenced by
her “tour” of the sixth level beneath the stock exchange, where Team
Machine’s epic shootout with Samaritan’s army is said to have taken
place. Everything appears clean and in order… until she drags a finger
along a wall that has freshly been painted over. Hmmm.
Elsewhere as the hour came to a close: Armed with a semblance of a
lead from Finch — a Samaritan soldier’s phone traveled in a refrigerated
truck from the stock exchange to upstate New York — Reese and Root set
out to (hopefully) find Shaw on the other end of that ping. As they
drive there, Root is visibly full of emotions and fear for the worst….
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