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S05.E10: The Day the World Went Away

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NOTE: In May, Person of Interest will be airing two episodes a week, the first on Monday and the second on Tuesday. In June, the show will revert back to one episode a week on Tuesdays.

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Finch's number comes up when a fatal error blows his cover identity and sets off a deadly series of escalating encounters with Samaritan's operatives.

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beadgirl
beadgirl

Wow. Root becomes the Machine.  That's all she ever wanted. We finally see how dangerous Finch can be.  And yet, the effect he has on people -- Root's comment about how he brought her to the

Jipijapa
Jipijapa

I'm so thrilled the writers took Root where she ended up, that I don't even mind all the "Another Dead Lesbian Trope" whining.  Being lesbian was only one aspect of Root's tremendous character; she wa

kwnyc
kwnyc

Just a side note to say that I have enjoyed this discussion and this board so much...it's really enhanced my love for the show.

fastiller

fastiller

19 hours ago, DeepRunner said:

I want to see Finch make it to the end of the season, and I think he will. I want them all to. But I am wondering if this when we start seeing members of Team Machine dropping...

Me too.  In the thread for Sotto Voce I said as much, that even though it's totally unrealistic, I want them all to survive.

I'd love a final scene that's something similar to the one that ended Sotto Voce: all our heros surveying the city skyline (except the series finale end-scene includes Bear too!).

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StarBrand

StarBrand

I've been privilaged enough to see in advance tonight's episode. I will not say anything about it except that things get real quickly, and never let up one second.

And this;

OH MY FUCKING GOD!

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StarBrand

StarBrand

A few more non-spoilery things;

Root has a very odd way of trying to cheer Shaw up.

Shit goes boom.

Root has a very heartbreaking speech. Two of them.

Finch has a speech near the end that is absolutely chilling..

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FormerMod-a1

FormerMod-a1

:-O = me through this episode. And there's 3 more left! Don't know if I can take this intensity through it all, but am also very sad it's ending.

Bye Elias (sniff), bye Root.

Damn, Finch! (And damn, Michael Emerson!  Chills, I got chills.)  Finch on the offensive.  This is going to be SO GOOD!

So Root believes in an afterlife and that afterlife is in The Machine.

I knew it!  I knew the Machine would choose Root's voice.

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mtlchick

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And THAT'S how you do an 100th episode: raise the stakes, and go all out to make it out (I'm looking at you, Blue Bloods.)  

 

Good bye Elias...for reals this time.  

Good bye Root.  Dammit, first Angel and now this?  Can Amy Acker make it to the end of one show? COME ON!  

That final speech Fitch gave is the reason why Emerson has an Emmy and dammit needs another one now.  But looks like he's going to heed Root's advice and start breaking some rules to reach the end game.

And at the end I'm wondering "Bear? BEAR?!  WHERE THE HELL IS HE?!"

3 episodes left. This is going to hurt. 

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beadgirl

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Wow.

Root becomes the Machine.  That's all she ever wanted.

We finally see how dangerous Finch can be.  And yet, the effect he has on people -- Root's comment about how he brought her to the light works to a lesser extent for Elias, who started out a dangerous criminal yet died a hero, sacrificing himself for the greater good.  And John, too.  And Fusco -- from corrupt cop to one of NYC's Finest.

I want the next episode now now now.

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HowdyTV

HowdyTV

It's amazing that I care so much about a character who was basically psychotic or sociopathic. I wanted Root and Shah to find happiness just to prove it can happen to the unlikeliest of people. 

 

Sniff.

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kaygeeret

kaygeeret

From the opening scene where Emerson blew me away to the last scenes, he was spectacular....just sayin'

In the midst of the intensity, the scene with Root and Shaw at the shootout had me smiling at their exchange.  These two dames certainly know how to own a scene.

The actor playing Shaw has been in my 2 favorite less well know series....POI and Life....if you haven't seen Life I urge you to check it out....but I digress.

I often watch tv while reading or doing other things.....

I was locked onto the tv the entire time tonight, cried, laughed and agonized.

What a great episode and how do they go on for 4 more episodes w/o killing me????

The intensity is something else, the acting is great and the writing is spot on.

Oh how I will miss this show...................

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DeepRunner

DeepRunner

Oh. My. Goodness. This episode took a lot out of me.

Root knew she was going to die. She knew it. Her last words to Harold were a farewell. And now the machine has her voice. Which makes the season opener clear as to who was really talking. 

Shaw will put a bullet in Blackwell's brain. And, I would guess, several hundred in other parts of his body.

Elias got it, as I expected he would. 

Michael Emerson was excellent in his searing statements. Harold's rage is now boiling over. His journey to the Dark Side is almost complete.

Three to go.

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benteen

benteen

Amazing episode.  Epic and tense as hell.

RIP, Root and Elias. :(

Harold's speech at the end was epic. 

Root "uploading" herself into the Machine makes sense but she and Shaw deserved happiness.

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kwnyc

kwnyc

Aww, crap. This really is the final lap, isn't it?

Root saved the person she loved most...and the father of God(dess).

That explains the voice of Root at the beginning of the season, when we saw the wrecked subway station. Which means that The Machine survives. For some reason, I think Shaw will, too. Everyone else...I wouldn't bet on it.

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Sakura12

Sakura12

If you're going to make a I'm gonna die speech, you're gonna die. But she lives on in the Machine, of course she would choose Root's voice, she was the interface. 

Bye Elias for real this time. 

We get Shaw back only to lose Root right after that. The Mayhem twins are back together. And Finch has gone rogue from his own rules. Elias is right, he's the scary one.

I can't wait to see Root vs Samaritan. 

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Cranberry

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I'm still half in denial... part of me wants to believe that The Machine figured out that Root's death would be the thing necessary to push Finch to really fight back, leading to them winning the war, so she conspired with Root to fake her death (or the ending of the episode was a simulation). I really don't think that's true, though. Root's speeches about shapes and living on forever in The Machine, The Machine choosing her voice... it seemed like a fitting ending to Root's journey. I'm disappointed to lose her before the end, but she got the girl (btw, did you notice this was the one time Shaw didn't meet Root's flirting with an eye roll, but with a held gaze and a smile?) and she'd accepted her imminent death, so it was handled about as well as it could have been.

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stealinghome

stealinghome

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT. Oh man. Oh, oh man. I want that to be a fake-out SO BADLY, and yet it's not (per this interview). ARGH. That just crushes me. I'm so, so bummed right now. Root was easily my favorite TV character on right now.

Acker and Emerson killed me tonight. The anvils were falling so hard that Root was going to die, and both AA and ME played the shit out of it. AA and SS too. Talk about an undesired outcome...that just feels sadistic. I mean, I'm glad Shaw and Root got to have several moments that were finally affirming, but that's just COLD. Especially to Shaw.

Finch is going to FUCK SHIT UP, and Shaw is going to be right behind him.

Wow. I really just don't know what to say. Objectively it was a great episode, but...so bummed right now. Root. :(

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HowdyTV

HowdyTV

Cranberry, I like your version. Wish it could be, but I don't think so either. 

Still, after 7000 some iterations, Shah(Shaw) deserved a little longer time with Root, and Root with her for her steadfast belief that Shah was alive and looking for her.

Acting on this episode was stellar. Congrats to the actors.

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HowdyTV

HowdyTV

When you've been steadfast to your core belief that good triumphs over evil, and finally break - will there be any reason to keep any rule? Even if Harold "wins," can he ever go back to how he was before, or will that slippery slope keep him from climbing back up to his ideals?

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stealinghome

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Oh, two more thoughts: Michael Emerson rocked the everloving SHIT out of his monologue in prison. I actually felt chills. And his "I wasn't talking to you"? Holy shit.

The sound mixing was TERRIBLE tonight. Especially when Shaw and Root had their last moment together by the cars, but also in Finch's monologue at times, the dialogue was practically drowned out.

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TigerLynx

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Damn Elias is dead for real.

I was hoping Root would die because I was tired of her constant lectures to Finch and Shaw.  Then she comes back as The Machine's voice.  Double Damn.

Fusco walking into the safe house and being so blasé at everyone pointing guns at him was funny.

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MDL

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37 minutes ago, aquarian1 said:

Bye Elias (sniff), bye Root.

Damn, Finch! (And damn, Michael Emerson!  Chills, I got chills.)  Finch on the offensive.  This is going to be SO GOOD!

So Root believes in an afterlife and that afterlife is in The Machine.

I knew it!  I knew the Machine would choose Root's voice.

That is what I wanted to say, plus there were still some great lines-especially Shaw to Root.

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Gigi43

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Let me nitpick for a second: I like Elias more than I know I should... but... I didn't like he got added into the "people we've lost" among Nathan and Carter.... no. Nobody is shocked Elias isn't dead and he still had all those men? Being dead? And Bear should have been in the 100th

 

Everything got so crazy so fast, at one point I was kind of this expecting this to end up a simulation for Finch. I really need to rewatch to form real thoughts beyond "oh shit!" "Finch!!" and "poor Shaw!"

 

Fusco's "Temporary Solutions? Hired hitmen are a Permanent Solution",  and the dry "Love you too!" reaction to everyone having a gun aimed at him were much needed. 

 

So speech that kicked off the season could be the Machine?! Well, of course, Amy Acker always comes back in another form.

 

Michael Emerson is amazing.

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Dodginblue

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I don't know that Shaw is going to find the whole Root lives on in the Machine all that comforting.  

I wonder what Samaritan needs Harold's help for.  

I know it wasn't meant to be comical but I found the armored SUV chasing Root and Harold as they went wheeling down city streets find of funny, it was ridiculous with all that fire power and neither one of them is hit but the ex-con house painter guy turns out to be some kind of master sniper at a moment's notice.

I think the mention of Harold's father triggered something in him, pulled everything into focus for him at that moment.  

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Snarkette

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I hope they do not fake-happy with Root and Shaw by chipping Shaw.

Other than that. Holy cow. What an ep.

What happened in the 70's. What did Harold do? What treason? Why did he imagine himself in jail long since? What was his original crime he could not forgive himself for?

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yellowfred

yellowfred

4 minutes ago, Snarkette said:

What happened in the 70's. What did Harold do? What treason? Why did he imagine himself in jail long since? What was his original crime he could not forgive himself for?

Basically, he made the internet.  Like, he hacked into what was basically a closed, government-run network and made it open so that everyone could use it.  I think the mention of his father, particularly in that context, really emphasized exactly how long he's been hiding and how much of it was pretty fundamentally unfair.  

So, I've honestly been trying to resign myself to the fact that Root was probably going to die before the series ended, this whole episode I was trying to mentally prepare myself for it, but I'll be damned if that wasn't just completely gutting.  I'm glad that she got to go out protecting Finch and I kind of love the idea that the Machine picked her voice (which is kind of fitting, since Root was always the one She picked to speak for Her).  I also appreciated how understated it was, with each team member realizing/finding out and just kind of freezing for a second.  That being said, I don't know how much they'll really be able to deal with the aftermath of it, since they only have three episodes left, but I hope we see at least a little bit of the team tearing shit up out of grief.  

On a related side note, I've gone from hoping that Blackwell wises up and turns on Samaritan to hoping that he dies slowly and painfully.

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ElectricBoogaloo

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I accidentally found out that both Root and Elias die in this episode before watching it so there goes the element of surprise. I should have known better than to be on the internet but I figured this wasn't going to be like Game of Thrones where you have to hide your eyes until you see the episode. Oh well.

But I love that the episode where Fred dies on Angel is called "A Hole in the World" and the episode where Root dies on PoI is called "The Day the World Went Away." Amy Acker's characters always have a huge impact when they die!

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yellowfred

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1 minute ago, ElectricBoogaloo said:

But I love that the episode where Fred dies on Angel is called "A Hole in the World" and the episode where Root dies on PoI is called "The Day the World Went Away." Amy Acker's characters always have a huge impact when they die!

Ha, and they always turn into Gods.

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