JoeSchwike

I knew Peng was there as Simm's spy, but his bold-faced power grab, "I can already see I can make a big difference here" after being on ground for a whole 8 minutes? I was cheering for Mullins too!

She's still at Mason Industries, guessing they haven't had time to take her to a black site, and they can hardly take her to a regular precint and charge her with interfering with a stolen time machine.

Is there a rule about paying for a place to stay or earning it if not close friends? Both the two guys at the farm, and the two women who went to the salon, talked about doing work to earn their help?

Nice pun on the waffles... Seriously, why does Liz even have a half-empty box of Eggos in the freezer if she doesn't own a toaster, or a microwave? Why would she buy them? How did she cook the first two? Were they left over from the previous tenant??? I get they were going for the 'hopeless housewife' feeling, but that was strange. I am also thankful, as someone else mentioned, that Red was smart enough not to place the Pomeranians with Liz, but to find a good home with a respectable (if shady) government employee.

The whole 'race at 4 knots to the river' was driving me nuts. I get that the river mouth can screen them from sonar (disrupt the sonar, not disappear like a cloaking device, though). But once the sub started actively pinging them, the hiding is over - Fire the ASROCs (even if you miss, you make the sub evade and throw off their firing solution) and launch the helo. And at the very least, once they're pinging, no point in sticking with the 4 knots - full speed to get to the river mouth! I understand the need for drama, but they could have changed the last part of the chase, still have drama (sub crew fighting over whether to launch torpedo or evade ASROC), show the ship move a little faster, and still take the same amount of screen time. It's not like they have been worried about time-distance realism before...

Just getting caught up on the last few episodes (had to get through the last few weeks of grad school first), but this scene seemed suspenseful, then... stopped. Peter heard the stones or whatever they were knocking around, they started to look around (and it seemed like Margrove was looking through the whole at them earlier) then all of a sudden Peter and Emma are driving to meet Golan - No mention of what they found - it was like it never happened!

Awesome thought - makes more sense (if you follow the conspiracy logic) than anything on the show so far. Speaking of, if the world is ending in two days, why did the pastor have a million copies of a book printed? Who's going to read them all?

Your comment reminds me of the scene from the movie Kingpin, Woody Harrelson's character after milking the bull...

That's what was confusing to me, maybe it was the editing, but I saw Harold pull the activation switch out of his pocket when he went back to see Beth (and found out about the forged emails). Then he comes back to the subway hideout, and the drawer's been broken into and Root said she destroyed it. It certainly seemed like he came straight back (he accuses her of ruining Beth, as if its the first time he's seen her since his visit to Beth), so it seems like he should still have the switch on him. I'm wondering if he was prepared, left a spare in the subway desk, and still had the 'real' switch? If not, I agree, it seems like such a waste to plant the seed of the Hong Kong plot months ago, and then bring it back up just to kill it off?

Your post got me thinking about that meeting too, and the sequence of events. The only way I can make sense of it is if Red hired Tom (thru the Major) anonymously, to keep tabs on Liz, and Tom never knew Red was the one behind it. Tom seemed not to know who Jolene was initially, and I would imagine in an organization like the Major's where everyone is trained to always be someone else, there was little direct contact with any of the clients. However, Red knew who Tom was, and was getting his reports. Somewhere along the line (possibly right before he turned himself in) he realized that he had been double-crossed, and could no longer trust Tom, that he had been compromised by Berlin. So he turned himself in to pull Liz directly into his orbit, and keep better tabs on her. He couldn't kill Tom outright without tipping Berlin off that he knew he'd been double-crossed, and without making Liz suspicious of him, so he tried to make her suspicious of Tom instead. The conversation at the hospital was Red's way of warning Tom that he knew something, and Tom may have sensed that Red was a threat (or may have even heard of Red's reputation, due to dealing in those circles), but didn't realize Red was his original client. Doesn't make perfect sense (not much on this show does), but that's as close as I can understand it.

Our cable provider (Comcast) is having a 'Watchathon' week coming up, with past seasons available for viewing on-demand. I have been watching Person of Interest regularly starting last season (and all of the current season), but I haven't seen most of Season two, and hardly any of Season one. What would be the best episodes to watch? (I know the answer should be all of them LOL, but with work and school, that's not feasible). I am really interested in the flashbacks on how Finch and Nathan built the machine, as well as how the other team members were introduced. Any handy episode guide would be helpful! ETA - also interested in seeing Root before she became part of the team - I've seen the episodes where she was in the mental hospital, but not much prior to that.

Hate to revive a topic from the second page, but since this is a question about previous episodes/seasons, this seemed like the most appropriate place. Our cable provider (Comcast) is having a 'Watchathon' week coming up, with past seasons available for viewing on-demand. I have been watching Elementary regularly starting midway thru last season (and all of the current season), but I haven't seen most of Season one. What would be the best episodes to watch? (I know the answer should be all of them LOL, but with work and school, that's not feasible). I am definitely interested in those dealing with the Moriarty/Irene plot line, as I have seen references to her but no episodes that included her. Any handy episode guide would be helpful!

After that last scene, I think Red hired Tom to keep track of Lizzie. His soliloquy about being the 'secret benefactor' makes me believe Red wouldn't have let Tom get near her unless it was on his orders. Then Berlin outbid Red to get Tom to feed info to him on Red. And I think Tom fell in love w/Liz and wanted to get her out of the FBI (maybe the Nebraska stuff was genuine attempt for them to start over).

This seemed contrived and shoddy to me, but after seeing the final scene with Penguin and the old couple, and thinking it over, I think this was deliberately staged. Penguin told them about 'the deal' they had, that he would let them go and get them out of Gotham. I think the implication was he made the deal ahead of their visit. He knew where the house was, and while he was nervous to go in, he didn't seem too surprised. This way he gets Jim and Bullock into the house, they make it look like they're still doing their job for Falcone, but Jim and Bullock get what they want (which gets Penguin his time with the files). So when the fight happens, she deliberately fell near Penguin so he could cover them. I think he was just as surprised to find the girl, and knew he couldn't just let the old couple get away. I may be off base, but as wacky as some of the plots have been, that's how I took it. I saw this as forshadowing Bruce's turn to vigilantism, learning (from Alfred) that you can't depend on the police, sometimes you take matters into your own hands.

Exactly! Um, you're the FBI - aren't you supposed to be trained in observation, situational awareness, counter-surveillance? And someone TELLS you they are looking at "The Watchers" - maybe you are being watched?? What is this 'no time for back-up, lets just get her off the mountain" so they get in the SUV. So far in this series, getting into an SUV with Liz is equivalent to putting on a red Star Trek shirt - has she ever ridden in an SUV that hasn't crashed? So when they do crash, what's the SOP? Lets split up and wander off in different directions, and leave the crippled agent with the high-value witness. I love Red, and I would pay for a 2-hour on-demand special to see the plane flight with the DMV guy, but the rest of the FBI team is so terrible it drags the whole show down.