@avclub-6e2b7ad1592a846b2b9b16b6e8a018af:disqus  @facebook-565892767:disqus  The possibility that the government had a hand in Nathan's death opens the door to the possibility that Finch sold the laptop (or more specifically, the code) to the Chinese as an act of revenge or, more likely, a backup plan to ensure that…

You mean like "The Best of Both Worlds" on Star Trek?
The disappointment would be everything returning to status quo, which I'm fully prepared for, but I'm glad that took it to these extremes in setting it up.

You mean in "One Percent" when he pulls out the gun while watching the woman? It was a yellow box. I don't think we've ever seen Nathan with a red box before.

@avclub-cb0e59b8f769a8698b9f7154dd8809b5:disqus I was going to mention Illyria, but I thought that would feed into the typecast thing. Most definitely her work on Angel demonstrated her range, but I think she does timid introvert really well.

The semantics are ambiguous - "restart time" could mean a) time at which the system restarted (i.e. 00:00:00), or b) time in which it takes the system to restart (i.e. the reboot time).

@Meander061:disqus Technically, poisoning someone isn't always murder. Since you never see it resolved on-screen, you can't say one way or another. The Mexican prison thing suggests there's a way out to "exonerate" Mr. Reese, but without actually seeing the outcome (i.e. you see a newspaper clipping "Billionaire hedge…

@AnalBumCover:disqus It wasn't an accident when Finch bumped into Reese - Finch was actively looking for him as a PoI since he had the file on Reese, his ex and the husband. I had the same interpretation about the time of his injury, but that's just a guess.

@Meander061:disqus Doesn't everyone? (fingers crossed that Paige Turco's pilot doesn't take away her ability to do guest spots here)

In the context of PoI, it's both marvelous and chilling. The realization that the Machine was able to adapt to Finch's programming and overcome it by manipulating the physical world is extremely disturbing. In a way, the Machine has done exactly what Finch has done, and if it had decision-making capabilities and went…

So in another way, Finch kills himself every night - whoops, too deep. I thought it was hilarious that the Machine was as paranoid as Finch, and the line "I wouldn't book a car service using my real name" was a real clincher.

@dah_sab:disqus  Yeah, that makes sense. Root sounded like she was talking to someone, and it was short enough for her to get instructions on how to gain admin access. We didn't see her ask any questions, but once again, it might be the editing. 
I'm not worried about Jocelyn - she's tough enough to handle IAB, and I'd…

@avclub-d72f705337e5adcf7e33ec0381c5f5b2:disqus  I think that actually might be Finch's greatest fear. The more sentience it shows, the more likely it will put it into a position where it could compromise its primary objective. It's not just its capabilities, but also the fact that if it was ever discovered by the…

If it is the government, I think any attack on Nathan would be completely reactionary - i.e. they find out about the leak and immediately send someone to take him out. And for Finch, I think it all comes back to the greater good, and not losing sight of the fact that the Machine helps the government prevent…

And not her three years of great work on Angel? There is no justice. I'll always see her more of a timid scientist.

Ah. Finch and his complex and convoluted algorithms and processes. He is truly the paranoid king.

Carter's "partner" seemed genuinely surprised when she shot the guy, which makes the improvisation of the setup highly likely. It's amazing that the Machine could set this all up while it was under siege from the virus.

And there lies the problem with getting all of your info from a single review. There's nothing wrong with a procedural being a procedural - but when you get episodes like Zero Day in a procedural, it really kicks it up a notch.

@avclub-c20d80be8816d38362a75bd62f11ddf0:disqus  @avclub-2e1341ee265905ca26999f7505897fd7:disqus   While it's not definitive in the sense that the warden doesn't go out an say "Yes, we have the following people (list of Reese's previous arrests) in the prison", the whole purpose of the scene (with Reese telling the…

It's funny how many of the things which Finch did could be considered a "necessary evil". In building the Machine, he has always tried to do the right thing - the thing in which the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. The Machine was built to save people from large-scale attacked which would cost massive…

If Root considers the Machine as a loved one (i.e a parent), then her actions aren't that different from, let's just say, Liam Neeson in Taken. That wouldn't make her a sociopath - people do extreme things to save the ones they love. The anger she shows when she discovers that Finch set the Machine to delete itself…