Person of Interest: Passenger 4C, Salvation

Person of Interest Season 3: Episode 13, 4C that aired on 01/14/2014 was a great after holiday’s comeback episodes in Person of Interest history. Since the death of Detective Joss Carter, Reese has been filled with a massive dose of guilt over her death. He has also been filled doubt that his work is really helping save lives. Carrying these burdens Reese  quit his job and set out on a soul seeking quest that involved doing anything except working for Harold Finch and in particular the “Machine”.

 

However, Reese some discovers that the “Machine” has other plans for him, which involves rescuing a high-tech web designer named, Owen , who has managed to create a software program to cripple the illegal sale of online drugs while slimming a $100 + plus off the bottom for himself. 

The action is centered on a commercial jet and Reese has 8-hours to safeguard Owen from several cartel assassins, who are all trapped aboard the jet.

The only help Reese has is a female flight attendant, Finch via a cell phone connection,  in which he relays information from  Samantha Shaw and her old employer’s connections,  and although Reese is reluctant to work with it, the “Machine” 

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The action and tension of the 4C is worthy of a full length featured film like Harrison Ford’s Air force One, and Wesley Snipes’ Passenger 57. 

 

As hoped, after the all the bad guys are put down and Owen is safe, Reese realizes that his saving of Owen and the other 136 passengers (himself included) aboard the airline put his purpose and true calling with Finch and the “Machine” back in the right perspective.  

Reese meets Finch in Rome where he tells him that he is in need of a new suit so he can return to work. This was an emotional moment of relief for all Person of Interest’s viewers that were surprised and upset by Carter’s death. Grant it, Reese had taken his grief too far, and he really needed to stop running from the one thing that gave his life purpose, even if that means his true boss was the “Machine”.

Personally, I think it is time the “Machine” acquired a speaking voice. If Amy Acker character of Root were surely dead, than the “Machine” adoption of her voice would seem appropriate, if not a little unsettling giving Root’s psychotic and dissociated personality traits. What married of heaven and hell that would be for both Finch and Reese?

Cast of the episode:

Jim Caviezel

Michael Emerson

Sarah Shahi