Well the way I interpreted the potential was, "We're sorry, but your daughter is dead. You can probably bring her back to life in a few weeks or months though, at your discretion," not making a new one. But fair enough.

interesting! yeah I guess we'll have to see what the literal effects of ice-9 are next week for the show to explain exactly how effective this virus is.

also though nice reminder that if you google "person of interest shaw glasses" half of the results are of Root in very similar ones :') :'( :'(

No, definitely not! They were talking about that - Harold is just delaying the inevitable. But that's always been the motto of Team Machine - prevent immediate harm, even when you have no idea of what lies in store as a result.

Hmm…that's interesting. I suppose I agree. But I think that just makes Root dying all the more terrible, because if she were around she never would let that stand!

I don't think the flashbacks lasted long enough to let us live in that world and have real, emotional impact, so…glasses?

Can someone please clarify why the virus killing the Machine was that big of a deal? I can buy that maybe Samaritan wouldn't have let anyone learn its core code, in case they decided to design another ASI, but Harold definitely can reprogram a new Machine quite easily at this point, right? He has the drives in the…