Person of Interest2011

Psychiatrist:
I've been working with the survivors of the ferry bombing earlier this year. Their trauma is similar to yours. More extreme, of course. Many of them experience a sense of responsibility for what happened.

Harold Finch:
Survivor's guilt. I'm familiar.

Psychiatrist:
Well, then you're also familiar with what I'm about to say next - that you think your friend's death was your fault. Otherwise, you'd have to face a very painful truth.

Harold Finch:
Which is what?

Psychiatrist:
That you are not God. You don't control who lives or dies. That powerlessness also means that your friend's death is not your fault. I assure you, Mr. Wren, in time, the guilt you feel will pass.

Harold Finch:
Let me ask you a question then. Does survivor's guilt pass when everything that has happened actually is, in fact, your fault?