I don't think the Machine advised them to kill the congressman. She gave them the information they'd need, and then let them choose. If she'd wanted the man dead, she would have sent Root.

Even Bear used to work for a group of white supremacists.

Does Archer count?

It gets less and less procedural as it progresses, and the sci-fi elements become more and more pronounced. Late Season 2 is where it really leans into the AI aspects of the show, and it really takes off from there.

She finally got nominated for season 3, but the award went to someone else.

Ah man, that's about the point in the show where everyone just said "fuck it, we're going full cyberpunk."

Just about all of the main characters have changed substantially (particularly Fusco and Root).

I'm still sad we never got Maslany and Enver Gjokaj to clone-off against each other.

Person of Interest ends its fifth, final season next week, and it has been spectacular.

I always assumed her actor was pregnant, which is why they wrote it into the show and she's had a minor role this last season.

Not sure if that would make sense, though, because the packet switching protocols (IP/TCP) were different back then, IIRC.

I'm wondering how many of those 800 people were killed after Samaritan started feeding them numbers. I also wonder how many people a deranged lone gunman would have to kill before he got flagged as a relevant number. Given how depressingly prevalent they have become in the last few years, preventing those could…

How sad must life be for Wun Wun the giant? He's almost certainly the last of his kind, he's left behind the land he's known for all his life, and he's reduced to fighting to save the lives of people he sort of kind of gets along with.

I meant in the what-if timeline.

They never sent Shaw to execute the guy who built the housing for the Machine, so Cole didn't investigate it. Also, the open system probably gave them a lot more intel than just a number.

I really loved Chuck for a while, but it lost me near the end of season 4.

Leon also had a brief appearance in "Relevance" (only time he met Shaw, I think).

That's probably my second favorite moment, only surpassed by his speech to Simmons in the next episode.

One hopes the Machine could have reorganized the list to minimize the chance of anyone needing a heart before their number was up.

Finch did take down the ARPANET back in 1980.