Hell, Root even had a big speech about hope enduring after Samaritan and all seemed bleak in "Deus ex Machina."

If she's still alive, I could imagine Shaw breaking her out of whatever prison she's in and forcing her to help the Machine with its new relevant numbers.

I think Blackwell was a good counterpoint to the other members of the team. He had done bad things in his past, but instead of finding someone who believed in him, who gave him the chance to be a better man, he was caught up by someone who only wanted to use him. Despite that, he still had a choice; in the end, he…

"I'm afraid of Americans" hitting the chorus, right as the ISA agent tries to assassinate the whistleblower was a stroke of genius.

Oh hell yeah. Still hoping it's a stealth sequel, somehow.

And if her new show is one in which she teams up with Sarah Shahi save the world while building up a crazy cocktail of chemistry, I wouldn't complain.

Given the Machine's capacity to remember and simulate everybody she's known, I could see one possible outcome where humanity wipes itself out but lives on within her. Samaritan's aim for the Great Filter was to preserve humanity in the biological sense, while ignoring or reshaping that which actually made us human;…

Presumably, the new Machine would then be free to colonize other networked devices, now that Samaritan is no longer a threat. Hell, I can imagine her taking over Samaritan's former servers, since they'd be without much of a purpose anymore.

I think that Finch is ready to "retire" and move on with his life. Samaritan is gone, and the government thinks Northern Lights is no longer in operation. Thus, there is no longer any threat to his or Grace's safety, and he can begin to build a real life together. I imagine that he'd probably reclaim the wealth…

Could you imagine the difficulty of jury selection?

It's the wonderful catch-22 of the surveillance state. If there's no attacks, it's because the spying is working. If there are more attacks, it's because "we" need greater power to spy on people.

Could have been his dad's grave. Also, I think it's just a callback to John and Fusco's comments at Root's funeral.
"She was a soldier."
"She should have been buried like one."

I thought they moved the subway because it was the only other escape route for Shaw and Fusco, AND it would allow the Machine to persist long enough to guide John to the satellite uplink.

I feel like as the days pass, it's shifting more towards an Irish wake, where we remember the great times that This. Fucking. Show. brought us.

"Cura te ipsum" was the first episode that made me think "wow, this show is a lot more than just a procedural." A lot of other shows have the sympathetic murder go to jail, or the attempted murderer repent at the last minute; the ending for this episode was delightfully dark and ambiguous.

If you're going to choose an episode to go out in, this was a solid pick.

I think it's appropriate: much like Finch, Reese, and Shaw, she uses aliases (Thornhill), but we never learn her real name.

Only about five seconds of the scene were repeated, which I thought did an important job establishing when "Now" was.

I suppose that would make Samaritan Apep (Apophis for my fellow Stargate fans). Elias could be Set, a former enemy of Ra's who eventually became his protector against Apep.

I'd like to think she's rotting in a hole somewhere, and Shaw is going to pull her out if it and put her to work dealing with relevant numbers the way the Machine wants her to.