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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, June 01, 2012 - 8:35 am 
Seems to me that the Root Cause episode leads me to believe that Root discovered Finch/machine when Finch was trying to track down who set up last night's PoI. Finch was trying to get into their system, but it backfired and Root got into his.
So, that reminds us that Root was a killer for hire too. She was hired to kill the Senator and set up Powell. When it went bad, she didn't hesitate to kill the fella that hired her.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Friday, June 01, 2012 - 11:22 am
But why would Root kidnap Finch? He didn't know who she was.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, June 01, 2012 - 11:29 am
Because as a criminal who gets highly paid apparently, she realizes he has access to information that could make her profession more lucrative? That's my theory. She wants full access to the machine.
She already knows a lot about them, she called him Harold in the repeat epi last night. Also, in the therapy sessions with Reese, she asked Reese if he was in the profession of saving people to make up for someone in his life he couldn't save. Also, that he had been CIA. It was positioned as her excellent therapeutic insight at the time, but I think it was her excellent hacking skills!
And of course she does know that they save people in danger. That's how she hooked them, by pretending to be a person of interest, and knowing she would get flagged and they would come 'save' her.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Friday, June 01, 2012 - 1:20 pm
Damn it Karuuna - you are shooting holes in my theory that Root was the eighth person to know about the machine !!!!! 
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Friday, June 01, 2012 - 1:20 pm
Yeah... I did catch where she called him Harold.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Friday, June 01, 2012 - 1:21 pm
eeeerrrr... so she did know about the machine - but maybe she wasn't the eighth person to know about the machine.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, June 01, 2012 - 2:44 pm
yeah, that eighth person convo took place 2 years ago. I think she just learned about the machine when Harold tried to infiltrate HER network to find out who was framing Powell.
and now she wants it! 
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Trini
Member
07-06-2004
| Friday, June 01, 2012 - 5:22 pm
Is it important yet who hires(ed) Root?
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Trini
Member
07-06-2004
| Friday, June 01, 2012 - 5:30 pm
I answered my own question.
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Trini
Member
07-06-2004
| Friday, June 01, 2012 - 6:51 pm
Karuuna - "Seems to me that the Root Cause episode leads me to believe that Root discovered Finch/machine when Finch was trying to track down who set up last night's PoI. Finch was trying to get into their system, but it backfired and Root got into his."
Root let Harold into her sys deliberately in "Root Cause. Which was way before "No Good Deed" Po1; someone hacked into Henry Peck's computer, inserting names into his e-mail (in Root Cause Finch said "I did not hack in I was let in") that is when he disconnected the loft and started in the library. So we are ment to believe Root already knows what Harold's business is. And has already planned to meet him again, hence "Firewall"
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, June 01, 2012 - 7:10 pm
Trini, the stuff inserted into Henry Peck's computers was from the machine's intelligence ops. It *secretly* identifies possible terrorist threats (remember the machine itself violates US law, so its all clandestine, and only known to a very few CIA folks (less than 8)  ). So when they find a terrorist threat, they have to find a way to get it into the system, without revealing the machine itself, or their clandestine operation.
So, those CIA operatives inserted the names into those Emails of a respectable (and legal) intelligence agent (from No Good Deed), in order to get the information into the *legal* system and get the terrorists stopped. When Peck realized his emails were getting altered, he investigated, and the clandestine agents realized he was getting to close to their operation, so they tried to kill him.
I don't see any connection to Root there, at all.
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In Root Cause, in my theory, Root is intrigued by someone hacking into her system, and wants to find out who it is. So yeah, she lets him in, in order to plant a virus to read his system. So, in reality, she doesn't really "let him in," it appears that way because it's installing a virus on HIS system. Before Finch shuts down the generator, she gets just enough info to figure out who he is, who Reese is, and that they are using some kind of predictive surveillance system to identify potential victims to save them. She thinks that would be a great way for her to kill more people and make more money, so she sets herself up as a potential victim to suck them in.
Of course, we don't know what twists and turns will come in the next season. But at this point, I don't see any connection between No Good Deed and Root, nor any indication that Root knew about the machine BEFORE the first encounter in Root Cause.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Saturday, June 02, 2012 - 6:27 am
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Glenn
Member
07-05-2003
| Thursday, June 07, 2012 - 8:00 pm
Trini, I don't think Root has been hired but I Do think she is working with Ingram's son. I think he is the one who told her who Harold is.
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Trini
Member
07-06-2004
| Saturday, June 09, 2012 - 6:35 pm
what is with the fainting!
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Trini
Member
07-06-2004
| Saturday, June 23, 2012 - 7:07 am
i love this show and this board; I will continue to watch all my 15 taped shows and figure it out myself. I feel intimidated by the fainting spells; I have nothing more to say about Person of Interest. I will keep it all to myself.
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Lazylu
Member
04-09-2010
| Saturday, June 23, 2012 - 10:24 am
I'm lazy, I am going to let the writers figure it out and let me know all in due time. 
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Konamouse
Member
07-15-2001
| Sunday, September 23, 2012 - 7:47 am
Coming back this week, Thursday 9pE/P (between Big Bang/2 1/2 Men and Elementary - very weird programming).
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Trini
Member
07-06-2004
| Monday, September 24, 2012 - 1:36 pm
Thanks Konamouse, I'll be watching both PI and Elementary.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 3:17 pm
Bumping... season premiere is tonight!!!
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 3:27 pm
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Lazylu
Member
04-09-2010
| Friday, September 28, 2012 - 2:31 pm
I wonder if Finch will be missing all season? I like the addition of the dog.
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Trini
Member
07-06-2004
| Friday, September 28, 2012 - 3:30 pm
love the dog.
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Glenn
Member
07-05-2003
| Saturday, September 29, 2012 - 10:12 am
Yeah, Bearer(Bear?) is going to make a great addition to the world of Reese. We now have a man and a dog who are highly trained to attack/kill? on command. Loyalty is earned by providing for their needs and gaining their respect. I really like John and maybe I shouldn't be questioning the right or wrong of being a vigilante.
Ms Turing is one intense young lady. The ability to walk up behind Alicia and put a bullet into her head without a spoken word still kind of amazes me. There was no request for Alicia to put down her gun, get out of the car, etc. So what is to be believed, is Ms. Turing a psychopath?
It will be interesting to get the back story on Ms. Turing.
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Trini
Member
07-06-2004
| Sunday, September 30, 2012 - 6:50 am
Hi Glenn.
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Trini
Member
07-06-2004
| Sunday, September 30, 2012 - 7:02 am
See the creepy way Ms Turing dines Finch and kills the woman at the other table, didn't Ms Turing say why she killed her. All the while Finch is trying to mentally figure things out. To see the machine had the ability to protect him and Finch corrected it.
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