Person of Interest2011

Arthur Claypool:
Harold. I did it. I solved it before they shut me down. Harold, Samaritan is alive.

Harold Finch:
...Alive? It's not alive, Arthur.

Arthur Claypool:
The project broke me, but humans are broken from the moment of conception. Mutations, defects - it's all so wonderful. The chance of disaster. We fail, we learn, we fail. My program was too perfect.

Harold Finch:
You're talking about evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming

Arthur Claypool:
That day, Harold, I broke it. I forced it to delete bits of itself - its code, its blood - and then reboot. Rebirth Flailing in the dark. A loop, ten times a second, and after ten hours, Harold, 360,000 mutations, it would live or die trying, and it lived. It sparked. It stirred. For 30 seconds, it smiled... and then died.

Harold Finch:
And the next day the government shut you down. That's why you saved it.

Arthur Claypool:
Protecting my child.