She wasn't my favorite, but I didn't hate her. And I am glad they resolved her character arc, since we knew she was working for The Machine. Makes sense to put her here as a quick end to that.

And it speaks to him as an actor that I don't always immediately think of him as a McPoyle.

I think Relevance was definitely the first one to be from the point of view of a number, since both Shaw and her partner were the numbers, and we barely saw Reese and Finch (and especially Carter and Fusco).

Yeah, she was excellent.

They showed her picture as one of the "lighthouses" to get The Machine unstuck in time. Would have loved to see her back.

Amy Acker said that in their first scene of this episode (Finch in the car) she was hiding in the back seat, to run lines with Michael Emerson. To make sure their first real interaction since becoming the voice of The Machine seemed just like one of their normal conversations would.

No, she didn't. The place where she had the "chip" implanted in her episode was part of Samaritan's simulation getup. It looked like a node from an EKG machine. She pushed it towards the end of the episode when a simulation was confirmed, just like she was pushing the area where the sim told her a chip was located.

Michael Emerson shows up in S2, if you can make it that far. And my favorite character shows up in S3. It's worth sticking around for, in my opinion.

I mean, it's the 3rd episode of the entire show. I'm not surprised people didn't remember him since it's been 98 episodes since he appeared.

I did too, but then again, I have watched every episode of this show like 8 times.

Not only because of the acting, but because of the detail.

Harper said in S4 that she was communicating with someone named Thornhill, which is why she kept popping up around our heroes. And since Thornhill made an appearance again in this episode, I think that's definitely the case.

I am not sad they brought back Mr. Amy Acker. I just wish they'd have had a scene together!

She was in "This Is the End" and "The Night Before"

I'm pretty sure I saw in an interview that the producers said Amy Poehler gave them the fastest "no" that they had ever gotten.

You remember Selena calling Jonah "Jolly Green Jizz Face" early into the show's run, right? It's not like these jokes are coming from nowhere. They were happening in the early episodes also.

That's likely because the only non-white gay males I can think of on TV are Titus from Kimmy Schmidt, Andre Braugher on Brooklyn-99, and Joey from Agents of SHIELD.

This.

The Machine used clips of other people's voices to "speak" when it first started to do so.

I imagine she would become the voice of the dragons and do more violence.