Person of Interest2011

[last lines]

Harold Finch:
I take it your plan to stop Samaritan was unsuccessful.

Root:
Any chance we had of stopping it ended when we didn't kill the Congressman. This was never about winning. It's just about surviving.

Decima Tech:
[Cut to Decima lab] Higher functions online, sir. Searching for targets now.

John Greer:
Good. Eliminate them all.

Decima Tech:
Yes, sir.

Root:
[V.O] The Machine and I couldn't save the world. We had to settle for protecting the seven people who might be able to take it back. So we gave Samaritan a blind spot: seven key servers that hardcodes it to ignore seven, carefully crafted new identities. When the whole world is watched, filed, indexed, numbered, the only way to disappear is to appear, hiding our true identities inside a seemingly ordinary life. You're not a free man anymore, Harold. You're just a number. We have to become these people now, and if we don't, they'll find us, and they'll kill us. I'm sorry, Harold. I know it's not enough. A lot of people are going to die. People who might have been able to help. Everything is changing. I don't know if it will ever get better... but it's going to get worse. But the Machine asked me to tell you something before we part. You once told John, the whole point of Pandora's Box is that once you've opened it, you can't close it again. She wanted me to remind you how the story ends. When everything is over and the worst has happened, there's still one thing left in Pandora's Box: hope.

John Greer:
[to Samaritan] Good morning.

Samaritan:
[as individual words flashing on screen] WHAT ARE YOUR COMMANDS?

John Greer:
I assure you, it's quite the other way around. The question is, what, my dear Samaritan, are your commands for us?

Samaritan:
CALCULATING RESPONSE.