- Detective Lionel Fusco: Hey, you don't talk to people who just walk into the joint!
- John Reese: Lionel... you worried about me? I'm touched!
- John Reese: This was a professional hit. Muzzle impressions were made after the fact, made it look point blank, like the father did it. Cops missed it.
- Harold Finch: And you know that how?
- John Reese: That's how I would have done it.
- John Reese: And here I was thinking we were getting a little closer, Harold.
- Harold Finch: I told you I'm a very private person.
- John Reese: Well, you're gonna need to trust someone at some point.
- Harold Finch: Trust? That's not something I come by very easily. I have my reasons.
- John Reese: Are you ever gonna tell me those reasons?
- Harold Finch: Don't call me, Mr. Reese. I'll call you.
- Harold Finch: The police only see what they choose to look for. The machine sees almost everything. If the girl's number has come up, she must be alive.
- John Reese: [Enters an elevator, there's three men inside, one is holding flowers] Those for your wife?
- Businessman: Uh, yes.
- John Reese: I thought your wife liked roses.
- Businessman: Excuse me, do I know you?
- John Reese: No. But I know you, Bill. Little relationship advice, if you're gonna step out on your wife, you need to think it through.
- Businessman: Do you work here? Because if you do, you're fired.
- John Reese: I'm more like an independent contractor. Now, you don't seem like a bad guy, Bill. You and your wife are having some problems. It happens. Well, some women would just leave you. But some women, they might just hire a couple of guys to come to your office, dismantle your surveillance cameras to make it look like a robbery gone wrong.
- [the men behind them pull their guns, Reese is faster, he gets them in the knees]
- John Reese: I would call the police and a good divorce lawyer.
- Detective Raymond Terney: Detective Carter. Aren't you homicide? I don't have any cold ones for you. Just a couple of guys ain't ever gonna play golf again.
- Joss Carter: Yeah, it's part of an ongoing investigation. What do we know about the shooter?
- Detective Raymond Terney: This rich guy was on his way home, said a couple of guys tried to kill him, and this, uh, other gentleman quote "intervened," unquote.
- Joss Carter: Let me guess. Some guy in a suit.
- John Reese: I need you to pull a file for me.
- Detective Lionel Fusco: Yeah. Right after you pull my IAD file. 'Cause they got me one step from fighting off a whole cellblock of degenerates that I sent upstate. They think I'm dirty.
- John Reese: That's because you are dirty, Lionel.
- Solnick: I get it. You're like me. A killer. A genuine bad guy. Then I don't have to explain to you what happened to those people on that boat. You already know.
- John Reese: But what I don't know is why you let the girl live.
- Solnick: I wouldn't have killed the girl. Not even if they paid me my quote. I told her anyone ever knew she was alive, I'd finish the job. I don't kill kids. Had some punk on my cell block last week say he heard I did. I told him the same thing.
- John Reese: Who hired you to do it?
- Solnick: Some guy I met one time. No names. Cash. Who hired you?
- Joss Carter: So you can't tell me anything about how this man looks? Hotel staff said they might have seen two people coming and going, but it's nothing on the surveillance cameras. Was there anyone else helping you?
- Theresa Whitaker: It was a pretty traumatic experience. I don't remember much at all.
- Harold Finch: Wait. Theresa. You know I can't keep up with you. Can I ask you where you're going?
- Theresa Whitaker: I'm better off alone.
- Harold Finch: And how's that?
- Theresa Whitaker: It's safer.
- Harold Finch: I don't think so. Please. Sooner or later, you're gonna have to trust someone.
- Harold Finch: You know, I went to see your aunt Elizabeth. She seems like a lovely person.
- Theresa Whitaker: You tell her about me?
- Harold Finch: No. Of course not. But she did mention how much she missed you. She even showed me an old photo. You know, there's no changing what happened to your family, but you do have someone out there that loves you.
- Theresa Whitaker: Yeah? What do you know?
- Harold Finch: I know what it's like to lose someone. And to feel the need to disappear. But, trust me, you don't want to leave people behind.
- Nathan Ingram: When were you going to tell me?
- Harold Finch: I wasn't gonna tell you, I guess. I'd rather I didn't know myself.
- Nathan Ingram: All these people. And this damn machine knew. *You* knew. That someone wanted to harm them, kill them... and you d nothing?
- Harold Finch: You knew what we were building here. This thing looks for plotters, for schemers. It looks for malicious intent. We built it to stop terrorists before they could act. But a machine doesn't understand the difference between those crimes that are relevant to national security and the ones that are... irrelevant.
- Nathan Ingram: Irrelevant? So you taught it the difference? You want to play God? Is that the deal?
- Harold Finch: No, I don't. That's the whole point. There are exactly eight people in the world that know that this thing exists. If anyone else ever found out, there'd be such an outcry. They'd turn it off. The intelligence the machine produces has already foiled a half dozen major terrorist plots.
- Nathan Ingram: How are we supposed to live with this, knowing that someone out there needs help?
- Harold Finch: Well, we don't have to. I've coded the Machine. Every night at midnight, it deletes the irrelevant list. We didn't build this to save somebody. we built it to save everybody.
- Harold Finch: I'm starting with the basics here. I'm trying to teach it to track people using cell phone location data, facial recognition. I'm almost ready to move on to the next problem.
- Nathan Ingram: What's the next problem?
- Harold Finch: Sorting them all out. Terrorists don't exactly stand out on street corners, you know? You have to teach the machine to sift through the emails, wire-tapped phones, bank transactions, looking for people that are hiding something, living double lives.
- Nathan Ingram: People like you, in other words.
- Joss Carter: I've got eight case files connected to this guy's prints, and half of them have been redacted.
- Detective Kane: Here we go. Missing persons '07. Your trigger happy hobo, Carter.
- Joss Carter: Only now he's a killer in a suit.
- Detective Kane: Well, maybe he's a recovering diplomat.
- Joss Carter: [Looks at the missing person case, it's also been redacted] They pulled the whole file.
- Detective Kane: Feds. This one's above your pay grade, Carter.
- Nathan Ingram: I know our deal. I schmooze the board, I cash out the checks, I pick up the awards. You do most of the work. But, honestly, this is getting exhausting for me.
- Harold Finch: I'm perfectly happy with the division of labor. Always have been.
- [Gestures to the award]
- Harold Finch: What's this one for?
- Nathan Ingram: This is for services to humanity. I didn't tell them that we laid off half the staff in order to build this Orwellian nightmare.
- Harold Finch: Said you wanted to make a difference, give something back.
- Harold Finch: The number we've received is for a girl named Theresa Whitaker. Some disciplinary trouble, but basically a good kid.
- John Reese: Well, the machine did spit out her number, so she must be caught up in something. Where can I find her?
- Harold Finch: As I told you, Mr. Reese, this situation is somewhat unique. You see, Theresa Whitaker should be right here.
- [Shows him a grave stone]
- Harold Finch: She was murdered, along with the rest of her family. Two years ago.
- John Reese: So we're looking for a ghost?