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If I hadn't seen Sarah Shahi's name in the opening scene credits for Season 3, I never would have watched the show to begin with, but the epi that I watched was "Liberty," I was hooked immediately and haven't missed anything since then. I have also seen the two seasons I missed, but it was Sarah/Sameen that "brought me" to PoI and I hope we get her back!

Has anyone else watched "Panopticon" with commentary by Plagerman on CBS.com/All Access?

Cable is just as bad, and a total ripoff. I ditched Comcast/Xfinity last November - I enjoy my Hulu, Funimation and CBS.com (for PoI) on my laptop and phone. Netflix is next, now that the deal is in place for the fall.

I understand, and I respect that you're speaking of the flagship show of the NCIS franchise. I just feel that PoI really broke the "procedural mold" and that is what sets it above and beyond everything else that CBS offers, at least, for me.

Well. This has been a fine how-do-yo-do/hello Friday....waking up to the gut punch news that BB King has passed and then, lighting up my laptop to discover that Person of Interest—not just the show I love, but the ONLY network show I even care about—has not only just devolved from a 22- to a 13-episode fifth season, but is being withheld from CBS' fall schedule as a replacement for an inevitable new programming FAIL in January. Meanwhile, asinine utter crapola such as CSI:Cyber continue as if nothing has changed, BECAUSE IT HASN'T. There is a huge surplus of push-all-the-right-buttons procedurals eg., the iterations of CSI/NCIS, and dramas like Elementary and Scorpions, and at 45 years old, I am out of the target demographic - too old for that stuff, but I'd rather stick red-hot knitting needles into my eyes than watch another CBS procedural with the time honored Bellisario formula of one or two good-looking male leads, at least one extremely attractive-yet-written-as-unapproachable female lead eg., Catherine Bell, Sacha Alexander, Daniela Ruah, on NCIS/NCIS LA, forced "sexual tension" and at least one old guy to provide some sort of gravitas, and regardless of the complexity/severity of the problem or the depth of the mystery, everybody knows that everything's going to be all sunshine and lollipops by the end of the show. Even with the focus on individual numbers of the week, PoI never fell into that trap. Oh well. Hello, Netflix, I'll get the DVDs and hopefully we can stream PoI in Hulu some day. Sorry about the rant - I just needed to get that out. I feel a bit better now.

I was thinking, when John told Iris, "Take care of yourself," maybe it meant that JN and GP were done with her character and she wouldn't appear in any more episodes (I'm hanging tough with hope for season five) and she'd be a rapidly fading memory.

It was worse last year - now, the team is united save for Sameen, nobody's cover has been blown save for hers, Martine Rousseau is snapped out of it, the IRT station hideout is safe and they've got Bear! : )

After YHWH, I really feel that hubris will be Greer/Samaritan's downfall, much as it turned out to be for Dominic.

CONTROL: Go back to the original system. GARRISON: What? Ingram's (machine)? So slick, it moved itself to who-knows-where? CONTROL: It never lied.

Well-played, stealinghome! I've been waiting for Dominic to get his ever since Lionel had him in his sights at that sit-down with Reese in the diner. Sad to see Grice get it, though.

I can't believe that PoI hasn't already been renewed....CSI: Cyber is worse than that asinine "PoI/Ghost in the Shell" rip-off/mash-up "Intelligence" mid-season CBS replacement from a couple years ago, and 'Cyber' stands a better chance of renewal.

For all of his resourcefulness, cunning and ruthlessness, it is a pity that Dominic never understood hubris - remember how Roman senators and emperors had their centurions to stand at their shoulders and whisper stuff like "all glory is fleeting?" He had one in Link and Elias played him like Jimi Hendrix on a Stratocaster and manipulated Dominic into murdering Link in front of the crew. So now, who steps on? Floyd??

"What do you know...not a peep."

Root: I liked you better as a blonde...

It looks like Nolan and Plagerman are trying to tie up as many loose ends as they can, just in case the unthinkable should happen for some absurd reason and PoI were to be cancelled without a fifth season, which would truly suck out loud.

"I've got places to go, people to kill...." Yep....I do love me some Ms. Gro-I mean, Root!

Two words: where's Bear??

Bruce: “I made a list....everyone that flipped.” Carl: “Let's start with...Gino.”

Has to be The Devil's Share for me. Along with the aforementioned opening montage—Reese in his wet works days, with his face back lit (?) so that he looks like a talking skull; Elias: "Well, there remains a debt. Civilization rests on the principle that we treat our criminals better than they treated their victims. That we not stoop to their level. But you and I are outliers. We're not really a part of civilization. We're something... older. Which means, of course, that we can do the things that civilized people can't. I offered to kill you for Detective Carter many times, and she always said no. She was civilized to the very end. I don't think she liked me. But I liked her very much. And you killed her. So now I consider it my responsibility to fix the particular problem that is you, Officer Simmons....;” the expression of almost feral rage on Lionel's face after breaks his own thumb, slips his handcuffs, and kills the HR killer by crushing his windpipe, and then thoroughly curb stomping Simmons, and then arresting him. I would add, in “The Devil You Know,” Anthony, knowing he is going to die one way or the other, facing Link as he is being viciosly beaten, telling him, “someday you might find yourself in a chair like this” and we see a shadowt of sudden doubt flicker across Link's face; Elias trying to hold back tears giving Dominic the key code, knowing that Anthony is going to get his when the safe bomb detonates...

I just hope we get more of “two-guns” Root....

I was hoping for something similar to the beginning of “The Devil's Share” but I realize that would have just been too obvious. Dear God, I love this show...

Always been a Root fan - I wouldn't have minded seeing her kill Ma'am, for sure...just as I'd have loved to see Shaw put a hot one in Hersh's frontal lobe at the restaurant. Oh well....

"We on it, String—like a 40 degree day!" ~ Sapper, after not quite getting Stringer's "40-degree day" speech. "At this range? This caliber? Even if I miss, I can't miss" ~ Omar to Brother Mouzone