THE HEAD OF SAMARITAN’S TEAM WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT BEGINS TO WONDER HOW MUCH CONTROL SHE REALLY HAS, ON “PERSON OF INTEREST,” TUESDAY, JAN. 13
“Control-Alt-Delete” – Control (Camryn Manheim), who oversees the handling of relevant numbers for the government, begins to question the methods and intentions of the Samaritan program. Also, alarming news reports of a pair of vigilantes rampaging through the Northeast begin to surface, on PERSON OF INTEREST, Tuesday, Jan. 13 (10:01-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
CHEAT TWEET: How much control does Control really have? Samaritan’s influence grows on a new #PersonOfInterest 1/13 10:01pm http://bit.ly/13xyJuw
REGULAR CAST:
Jim Caviezel (John Reese)
Michael Emerson (Harold Finch)
Kevin Chapman (Lionel Fusco)
Sarah Shahi (Sameen Shaw)
Amy Acker (Root)
RECURRING CAST:
John Nolan (Greer)
Camryn Manheim (Control)
John Doman (Garrison)
Oakes Fegley (Gabriel)
Theodora Wooley (Brooks)
Nick E. Tarabay (Grice)
GUEST CAST:
Suzy Jane Hunt (Shiffman)
Michael Potts (Travers)
Alice Chastain Levy (Julia)
Ryan Shams (Yasin)
Zarif Kabier (Massoud)
Shahar Isaac (Tariq)
Omar Rahim (Hussain)
William Jackson Harper (Stroble)
Malikha Mallette (Cable News Anchor)
Giuseppe Jones (Level 6 Security Guard)
Cliff Moylan (Shooting Victim)
Bill Timoney (Bob)
WRITTEN BY: Andy Callahan
DIRECTED BY: Stephen Surjik
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It has been WAY too long since we last saw Control. Excited for this - and we don't have a break between 11 and 12, which is fantastic.
ReplyDeleteWe've been speculating about Control for so long - now she's finally back. I just knew she'll intervene. As brutal and unjust as her methods are, she won't accept what's happening.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Senator Garrison and Samaritan's Analog Interface are on board. Sounds pretty promising! (Interesting there's Greer but no Martine)
Nice to see Brooks and Grice again! Didn't suspect that.
ReplyDeleteI knew Control and Brooks/Grice would try to intervene. Excited. It's going to be amazing.
ReplyDeleteGood. I didn't think the Samaritan story line would be completely taken care of in this three episode arc....I still wonder if the end game for it will be a Black Out, but no news of our machine or numbers...maybe it died...and Martine too?
ReplyDelete"*edit* Oh, I totally forgot Grice & Brooks - the two agents from the relevant side. "This should be fun!""
ReplyDeleteDidn't catch that! That will be fun!
Wow!!! Very, very interesting synopsis. An episode with Control is guaranteed to be awesome.
ReplyDeleteNo Martine and no Lambert - wonder what happens to them in 4x11.
I think it's too soon for Martine to be gone...
ReplyDeleteThat would be too early. This is definitely not the end of Samaritan.
ReplyDeleteYep. No way is it going to be so easy. And have viewers completely forgotten about that lady from Hong Kong? The one, whose algorithms Samaritan was interested in? The one whose laptop was infected by a virus by Harold? The one who said that she would soon be in NY for further discussions with her sponsor?
ReplyDeleteThere is definitely an important story line buried in those algorithms.
Well, I hope Martine sticks around and appears down the line. I have grown quite fond of her.
ReplyDeleteControl getting in touch with Team Machine for their help would be awesome. Too bad that Hersh is gone - he would have made an excellent liaison between Control and Team Machine.
Maybe Samaritan goes after someone that Control loves (that resides in Massachusetts as the Machine told her in 3x12) and Team Machine get that number. Cue, amazing story line.
ReplyDeleteGood call! I like your thinking!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis specific command just "ends task", (as in stops the program from running), but it doesn't necessarily "eliminate" the program from the computer so to speak or from it just running from somewhere else.
ReplyDeleteSamaritan just seems like such a big beast; I suspect that even Greer may have trouble with controlling at some point and I'm kind of hoping there is more to Martine than meets the eye and/or that she isn't immediately expendable, although she is not listed here...
It's amazing how many great story lines are still open :-) I for one cannot wait for the mysterious caller from Last Call to make his appearance.
ReplyDeletethink misunderstand Control. She controls the NSA feeds to Samaritan, Without those feeds Samaritan is blind and unable to affect things as it would. Having a Blind Samaritan could be interesting. The Machine might just strike at the moment.
ReplyDeleteThere is absolutely a storyline there! Finch's actions with that laptop mirror his actions in S1 when he re-coded a virus in a laptop. That one was "put out there" (stolen), ended up in Ordos, then Decima, and ultimately The Machine...directing it "move itself".
ReplyDeleteI speculate the programing on this laptop will end Samaritan or infect it with a "moral code"...or more interestingly, would direct it to merge with The Machine!
Even "ending the task" could mean the end for Samaritan, at least for right now...or, as well with the remnants of Team Samaritan like Greer or Martine, Samaritan itself could be recuperating and come back even stronger than ever.
ReplyDeleteTo each their own, but sometimes I feel like the Samaritan plot restrains the stories for Person of Interest because it's such a huge scope of a storyline to do just little episodes here and there.
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't really mean much. The hero should always be afraid of the villain.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure that Samaritan will be blind if the gov decides to withdraw the feed access. The Machine seems to not really need any official access- it seems to be fully operational despite what happened in Season 3. I think the point about the official feed access was to make Samaritan a "legal" force on the official side, which makes it much easier than being hunted by the machine and the government hand in hand. Also, this was necessary to do the Beta test without Samaritan's higher functions (just the "search system", in a way).
ReplyDeleteI don't think that the withdrawel of the feeds would bother Samaritan too much because as soon as it knows what Control is up to, it could already infect all systems relevant to its data access. I don't see how a simple "switch" could stop thi bdass AI (but maybe I just misunderstand the concept?)
But I do believe that government + machine as allies would definitely change the cards
Interesting suggestion! Though I'm not sure how Samaritan would be vulnerable. Let's assume this lady has some sort of programed algorithms... wouldn't Samaritan just check the source code before it.. you know, "executes" it? Like Samaritan virus protection?
ReplyDeleteThe idea is very interesting, though. Kinda like the thought of Finch infecting Samaritan with some sort of moral code!
Also, the whole laptop story really has to be relevant later this season. Makes me wonder what The Machine and Finch talked about when Finch told her it was time they had a talk.
I've been trying to wrap my mind around Greer's role in this. It seems like his part has ended, hasn't it? But I think there's more for him to come - first, his mysterious "employers" from Season 2 are probably still out there. If I'm not overlooking something, we still don't know how exactly he got on The Machine's and Finch's trail in the first place and how the obtained information about top secret cancelled Samaritan program.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I have a feeling that at some point Samaritan will turn on him - maybe he recognizes it's not a just ruler after all. Would Martine rise to 2nd in command?
It's so obvious that we still miss a big part of the picture but this is what makes me really excited.
This is great, I write my review of the 4x10 episode today, before came here and I mention that Control, Garrison and Grice would appears in some point in the next episodes, I'm glad this actually happens now.
ReplyDeleteI think Garrison and Control will be dead by the end of the episode, but I hope I wrong this time.
Makes me wonder what The Machine and Finch talked about when Finch told her it was time they had a talk.
ReplyDeleteI confess that I am waiting quite impatiently for this reveal.
Control. Garrison. Grice. Gabriel. Greer.
ReplyDeleteQuite the intimidating first professional writing assignment for Andy Callahan.
ah finally control is back.
ReplyDeletecontrol should be suspicious right now after what happened after 310.
i think its time for the machine to get a "slight" upper hand in this war.
samaritan is winning too easily right now.
I've never seen a pun in a press release before. This is awesome.
ReplyDeleteShe would have to be really horrible at predicting future
ReplyDeleteevents and calculating chances in order to get it this wrong. And if she cannot
‘think’ a couple of weeks ahead than that's all the more reason to expect
Samaritan to win.
I think that both machines needed to be 'let in', so to speak, at first. However, once they were given access, there is no way back. At the very least, not without a direct access to the Machine's or Samaritan's servers.
ReplyDeleteSure. Temporarily I could buy, I just couldn't by that it would be completely done for series/season and that we would be stuck with Elias and The Brotherhood for the rest of the season.
ReplyDeleteThere's an episode title coming up also titled, "Q &A", which was also an Alias episode title---Sydney gets locked down by the FBI, because they find her relativity to the Rambaldi Prophecy a threat. However, she escapes and goes out of her way to try and prove the prophecy wrong... She almost blows her cover with SD-6 too...
At the very least I think this episode could provide a review board about Samaritan, but it would be crazy twist if some of the characters get locked down...
It's true they can always introduce "bigger fish", or even Greer's enemies, but it just seems like Greer himself has a lot he could still offer the POI mythology, because he just seems so central and I think it would be fun to see him learn from his own mistakes and work with Team Machine...
ReplyDeleteI keep wondering if Martine is not a double agent of sorts. The thought crossed my mind that she may be trying to get to Greer or his alleged employers/overseers, but she could easily just be killed too.
But I think they have a lot of options left on the table. I just hope they use some of them and just throw this part of the story away!
Yes, I absolutely agree. There seems to be much to tell about Greer - I hope they'll explore this. :)
ReplyDeleteYour suggestion about Martine is interesting! That would be something I didn't see coming
Its quit unfortunate this show is not nominated at least in the writing or ensemble categories. This is riveting television.
ReplyDeleteSee, I wouldn't mind if Samaritan is done until next season. I always felt like the Samaritan angle keeps certain loose episodes away from this season as the writers have tried to tie everything to either Samaritan or Brotherhood, so if it means we could get more loose episodes that are fun, then I wouldn't mind it. In fact, I think that would be one hell of a way to end the 100th episode with someone rebooting Samaritan.
ReplyDeleteHow could she 'think' a few weeks ahead with Samaritan around? Has she done this anytime this season?
ReplyDeleteThe problem might be that we/the writers don't know if they are getting another season...So they might have go about it like "this is it". I totally don't mind if Samaritan goes away temporarily, as long as this is not the end of it, because from a story telling/mythology aspect, it makes little sense to just "revert back" and kill something so important, something that has the potential to bring multiple game changes and connections/ideas from earlier seasons to the table and/or to be reconfronted by earlier fears....
ReplyDeleteI think it'll be a lock for POI to get a fifth season, but after this, I think all bets are off. POI's ratings seems to be doing down and down and that's why I think anything more than a fifth season would be up in the air. But you have a point, I think the writers are going about with the season they're working on as the final one, but still...I would hope they still at least have an idea if they do get another season.
ReplyDeleteI hope you're not
ReplyDeleteexpecting me to actually list all the instances when she did... Just think
about that work she wrote for Harold with all the misspellings that ultimately
led him to the new hideout or Sameen's involvement with the gang of thieves
allowing her to eventually crash the operation of the relevant side, weeks
later.
I think that even if you're wrong about them being dead by the end of the episode, there's a good chance they won't live to see the end of this season.
ReplyDeleteJanuary 6, 2015 can't come soon enough! Seriously, release the floodgates of POI Episodes.
ReplyDeleteShe's able to help out her comrades because of what Root did earlier with giving them a limited amount of safe passage while Samaritan is watching. I'm talking about herself being able to tell her own future now with Samaritan around.
ReplyDeleteStill, as far as we know they only have this safe passage because the Machine pointed Root in the direction of people who would be able to help and told her what to do... As for the Machine being able to tell her own future - you're right, as far as I can remember, the peace talks were the only example when we could get any prediction made by the Machine about her own future. And, let's face it, since she one of the good guys, in a sense, it's perfectly possible that she's wrong and Team Machine will eventually prevail, I just *really* do not think it's going to happen as soon as you've predicted.
ReplyDeleteThe Machine was able to guide Root to seek that safe passage through Samaritan's security because Samaritan wasn't on as of yet. I think think, with Samaritan on and capable, The Machine is only able to "look out" for Team Machine and not specifically herself.
ReplyDeleteI agree on the first point. It seems to me that if the Machine is to win, it will be up to Team Machine to come up with some creative solution. It’s clear that between the two ‘gods’ Samaritan is the more powerful one, partly thanks to Decima being able to steal the newest technologies for him and party because with no moral code to speak of he’s much more ruthless than the Machine. Still, precisely because it is such a powerful entity it wouldn’t make sense to me if the writers were to resolve the situation this early in the series. There are many threads left to be fully explored and some of them have only just been hinted at.
ReplyDeleteAs for people referring to the Machine as a ‘she’... for me it’s perfectly natural because in my native language a machine would be a ‘she’.
I don't see the Samaritan problem being resolved, only pushed to the side for a moment. Control+Alt+Delete could only end the task for the time being. I'm sure Samaritan will come back, and I hope when he does, he comes back without having someone like Greer and Decima behind it but appears more godlike than he does now so it's the actual machine itself without human components that Team Machine will have to face.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see that Poster I feel happy!
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone notice that is not Cara Buono among actors? Will she died in "IF-THEN-ELSE"?
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