Emerson is an acting god!

Haha…that Panopticon allusion is funny. But I don't think that Reese and Shaw would just leave Finch behind because he said so. I think they lingered behind deliberating and will pop up in the final episode.

Yeah…they had a double feature for "QSO" and "Reassortment". It should've been done this time around.

May so…but it sounded desperate.

I thought that guy, I forgot his name (who appeared in True Detective), was a nobody.

It was almost as if Samaritan was pleading Finch not to go through with it.

Would've been nice if they had a double feature- ".exe" and "Return 0" back-to-back.

I think the style of Greer's death alluding to something literary…I don't know.

I've been ranting about this ever since they aired "If-Then-Else": Emerson's multiple dialogues with the Machine and his soliloquy in "The Day the World Went Away" are all Emmy-worthy.

The problems of a shortened season exposed.

This episode deserved an 'A'. I know the Fusco B-side was a bit sketchy, but I love the "what-if" moments. The simulations always pose some serious existential questions: the many lives which wouldn't have gotten redemption had the Machine not existed. Fusco wouldn't have found his true calling, Carter's HR bust…

He hacked the military network called ARPANET, which was a precursor to the modern day internet. Details can be found in flashbacks of the episodes "Lethe" and "Aletheia".

Some of the Reese-Hersch exchanges in that episode were epic…"Hersch: next time I see you, I might have to kill you. Reese: you're welcome to try." Deus Ex Machina was a finale unlike any I've seen. I hope Return 0 surpasses it.

Hmm…I forgot. But gone are the days of "Deus Ex Machina" where Bear helped Reese and Hersch take down the Decima goons.

We haven't seen Bear in action at all this season. Seems like he has been used merely as a prop.

Finch and Reese made a death pact in the Pilot episode…"both us will probably end up dead, for real this time."

But whatever happened to those Machine-Samaritan simulations?

I heard that Root's death was written back in last year before any of those other gay/lesbian deaths occured in TV.

Probably something that happened in the later Terminator films. I remember Helena Bonham Carter being Skynet's avatar in Terminator:Salvation.

FInch referred to her as Root quite a few times.