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And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful house And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful wife I suspected something was hinky during the very first infirmary scene because Two was so hot to rescue the council. I was tentative because this show is so shaky about Two's characterization, so what seemed OOC to me might not have been to the writers (RME), but by the mess hall scene with Three and Five being so ADAMANT that Six's logic didn't make sense I was sure something was up. Even though I remained wary throughout the story, I still enjoyed all the twists and turns! The neurotoxin + mind-probe was a clever way to dig up some of Six's old memories. Damn, Six has been through a lot of shit! Speaking of neurotoxin, did it sound to anyone else like some of the cast were sometimes saying 'neural toxin'? Their pronunciations definitely were not consistent. Kinda bugged me. I think so. Lucky Six learned how to use that highly specialised equipment so quickly and with such proficiency, eh? Hee! So now that Six is back on board I suppose he and Two are going to restart their debate over being guardians of the galaxy? I'm guessing -- from a meta POV -- that Six is going to win the argument because of the simple fact that he said they should ally with Mikkei and Two didn't point out to him that they already are. I wasn't expecting Two's emerging vexation about social belonging, and although I remain bitter that the writers seemed to have dropped the exploration of this via interaction with The Android ("What does it mean to be human? Compare and contrast, etc."), at least Two's personal arc has arrived. The scene was Sarah was unexpected! I agree with snowwhyte that it's likely Sarah took over The Android. Funnily enough, during the Two/Sarah scene I thought that someone ought to be worried about system security!

My thought exactly. Alex is a demon. And/or she's going to transform into a praying mantis. Seriously, what is with the tri-folded arm thing she does? I also was confused by the mall group's failure to lock the back door after the first incident. Some of the actions in this show would make more sense in a fast-paced 2-hour movie. The priest is very hard-core, old-school fundamentalist. It's weird IMO. Why wouldn't any of those people want to know what happened the last time (the Black Spring)? Like wouldn't you want to know if it only lasted 7 days or the town fixed the problem by turning on all the water taps and dancing a jig? And his disciple is harbouring a dark secret, I bet. Like serial-killing.

She makes my FF-finger twitch. I got lost, it seems. Why did our crew let the alters go? Was that one of alt-Android's demands? I appreciated the high level of Two very, very much! But at the end, I pinpointed what's missing this season. Two doesn't have a season-long, personal arc. Three has Sarah, and Five has her pining, but Two doesn't have anything like that.

MTE. He may not have raped her, but his behaviour is very entitled, bordering on just-plain-creepy. And what's with Alex not being able to spit out a sentence sometimes, but others she's a veritable wellspring of sarcasm and antagonism. I'm glad she and her mother have moved to another part of the mall if for no other reason to get a respite from the rape plot. That just leaves her being an ass to her mother. Speaking of the move, with all that drama I thought they were leaving the mall, not simply moving to a separate room! Good grief! Mrs Raven has joined the list of characters I want to see Misted. I thought it was pretty clear that the blood writing said 'Army'. And didn't Bryan (or someone) mention Arrowhead before?

Needed more Two.

Army Soldier Bryan clearly has NO clue about anything related to addiction. When you have to make a run for it into Killer Mist that's not the time to detox an addict. It's not like she was taking Super Max Heroin Pills[TM]. Funny how everyone in the mall can overhear every conversation very clearly even from several yards away, yet no one in the enclosed space of the police car noticed that Mia looked like she was on death's door and shouldn't be driving! I'm having trouble liking several of the characters, but Police Brutality Action Figure is the worst of the worst. Yes, I felt the same way. I think the writers tried to hide the upcoming ~twist by omitting the scenes between Adrian and Alex and the police officer, respectively, so the audience couldn't analyze what was probably a very sketchy description of events. And of course it conveniently got stuck on an unseen nothing! Such lame screenwriting. I'm enjoying this show because it's right up my genre alley, but I chuckle at the badness.

The hijacking of TWA Flight 847 took place 14-17 June, 1985; and Back to the Future opened 3 July 1985. So they're playing a little loose with real-world chronology (though it's possible the Los Angelinos got to see an early screening), but it's roughly summer 1985.

The discord about whether Kirkman was fired and therefore illegitimate made little sense. If, in fact, he had been fired and were no longer the HUD Secretary, then he could not have been the Designated Survivor. This show is compelling for me only on the strength of Kiefer Sutherland. It needs much smarter writers.

Two was the perfect candidate for this. After all, as Dr Frankenstein showed us, building a person on a lab bench is not a great recipe for stable mental health. I guess she is kind of like this, what with the intermittent bursts of homicidal violence. OTOH, she's the empathetic commander and the one who's most resistant to getting her memories back. I don't know what that's supposed to mean. Irony, I guess?

Those were exactly my thoughts, aquarian1. I would have liked especially to see Two struggling between pragmatism (and the need to keep the crew safe and successful) and her desire not to be (fear of?) her old self. Instead we got yet another story resolved by the power of Kill-Them-All-Five's plaintive platitudes. But perhaps this will be a season-long thread? I'm also still confused about the show's internal psychology -- specifically personality vs. memory and how they relate to one another. This episode seemed to suggest that they are both the same thing and different things. It's the central question of the show, but I also find it the show's greatest conundrum. iRarelyWatchTV, I think you're right that One and Six wouldn't have joined the crew yet. My memory is hazy on this (heh), but I think it was implied or stated last season that Corso joined up with them for a specific mission, which is why One was able to infiltrate without raising suspicion.

I like Five less and less with each passing episode. I was surprised they escaped the prison so quickly if for no other reason than the set was so elabourate. Heh.

Not enough Two. I did not see that twist coming with One. I am actually intrigued for once by his story, so well done, show! I hope they are not suggesting that Nyx is also a constructed human. When Five was going on about betrayal and friendship, all I could think was, "you were only friends because you'd wiped all their memories... after they let you stay on board instead of throwing you out the nearest airlock." Glad to have the show back, and really cool to see Franka Potente!

The showrunners explicitly stated that CBS refused -- even behind closed doors -- to say whether S5 would be the last, so they took it upon themselves to write as if the show were ending. CBS did not cancel the show officially until the day of or day after they announced the schedule for S5 (in March).

I had a different take on this than others did here. Shaw wasn't honestly talking about Team Machine; she was toying with Blackwell. Like, "this is the speech you would hear if your life were a movie, but PSYCH!" *blam blam*

I never saw it specified that Dr Kagawa's lab was in NY. Her building had no identifying marks. The exterior shots of Chinatown after the scene in which Shaw killed her were to transition to Finch in the subway.

TVInsider: http://www.tvinsider.com/article/90128/person-of-interest-bosses-on-finchs-new-mindset-roots-evolution-episode-100s-losses/

I honestly entertained the idea that Jim Caviezel and Kevin Chapman were reacting to a green screen. There's "not huggy" and then there's dead...pan. I think the desire to have an Iconic! Group! Shot! worked at cross purpose to having authentic character reactions. Shaw tracked Samaritan agents the same way Shaw, elite ISA agent, has tracked other people, I suppose. After all, she tracked down Root way back in S2 using only a list of blown aliases. Perhaps this will be a plot point in upcoming episodes: Shaw wants to go on the offensive and others aren't sure that's wise?

The only thing good about this ep was Shaw's Hero of the Migrant Family scene. The rest was terrible. There better be an actual team reunion tomorrow.

Root's father abandoned the family, and last we heard of Shaw's mother, she was on her way to collect Shaw from the car accident that killed Mr Shaw.

Yes, I call him "younger, American Tony Curran."

This took me completely out of the episode. Root as Shaw's Safe Place™ strikes me as completely unearned. Where? When? It paints Shaw as some sort of trope-y "oh noze, feelings! Iz scared!" stock character. That is largely at odds to how I see her and creates deep cracks in her characterisation overall. All for a ship. In contrast, other "emotional" displays didn't bother me. The math worked out to one simulation per hour for 9 months. That is a level of stress that is beyond the pale. And contrary to popular opinion, having psychopathy does not mean the person MUST have complete, asolute, Kelvin-zero lack of emotion. It just doesn't, and it's not what's been depicted in Shaw.

I noticed this too. It took me a second to regain my equilibrium in 5x01, but it's great. It makes the whole show better.

Wednesday, 13 July at 10 ET .

The sniper who killed Dominic and Elias was a man. We saw him both in 4x22 and in this episode during flashback when Fusco was on the rooftop.

Reese mentioned her. Glad to have the show back! Good episode, though I was surprised at how linked it was to the S4 finale and how it was mainly setup for the remainder of the season. The single best scene to me was the conversation between Finch and 2006!Machine about death. Very effecting, and immeasurably better than "Father, I've failed you scene" from 4x22. I really liked how this ep put Finch front-and-center and left no doubt that The Machine story in S5 would be primarily his. The team really does need to figure out a way to bring Fusco further into the fold. He's a police detective -- a damn good one -- a colleague and a friend. The arms-length paternalism is counter-productive at this point. The Machine-less flashback transitions were really cool.