Person of Interest (TV Series)

Mission Creep (2011)

Jim Caviezel: John Reese

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• Jessica Arndt : I waited for you.

  John Reese : I didn't ask you to.

  Jessica Arndt : No. No, you didn't. You just left because you thought you'd get killed over there and that would hurt me. But I think the truth is that it was easier for you to be alone.

  John Reese : That's one of the things you learn over there. In the end we're all alone and no one's coming to save you.

• Detective Joss Carter : [Via radio]  I keep looking for you. I keep finding myself in some bad situations.

  John Reese : You could always stop looking for me.

  Detective Joss Carter : Not an option. Now I've got two more bodies. I don't think you killed those guys. But I think you know who did.

  John Reese : I'll take care of it.

  Detective Joss Carter : Playing a dangerous game. And I'm not sure I understand why.

  John Reese : I've got my reasons.

  Detective Joss Carter : Maybe you do. But every killer I locked up thought they had a good reason. And that is how this ends. Sooner or later, I lock you up. Or find you bleeding out somewhere.

  John Reese : I will take my chances.

• Joey Durban : Six years, all I thought about- dreamed about- was coming home. Finally I come home and there's nothing. There's no money, no jobs. Bankers gone and lost it all. Robbed the country blind. I mean, it's like, what the hell are we fighting for, you know? Joke's on us.

  Businessman #1 : [Sitting behind them]  Hey! You guys were soldiers, right?

  Businessman #2 : What like Iraq, Afghanistan? Some serious stuff.

  Businessman #1 : Yeah, but you volunteered. Nobody asked you to go. It's not like the country owes you a living.

  Joey Durban : We got it, pal.

  Businessman #1 : No. You don't "got it" - Talking about bankers, like you know anything. It's not been easy for us either.

  John Reese : Really sorry about that, but we're talking here.

  Businessman #1 : Hey, so are we. Guys like you got to adapt. It's the knowledge economy now. Time to use this, my friend.

  [Taps Johns head] 

  John Reese : Okay

  [Headbutts him] 

• John Reese : Good morning, Finch.

  Harold Finch : [Startled awake]  Don't you knock...?

  John Reese : Not if I can help it...

• John Reese : Killing in battle, in combat, is one thing. Killing someone up close, someone who can't fight back, that takes a different sort of killer. And Joey's not one of them.

  Harold Finch : So you think Joey's the target. Then who's gunning for him? One of the gang? One of the women? Do we even know why he's such a mess? He's got a job, pretty girlfriend, good service record - he's throwing it all away. He's going to end up in prison. Or dead.

  John Reese : You're right, but... not every ex-soldier meets a reclusive billionaire.

  Harold Finch : Okay. But if Joey's bad choices mean he's about to walk into a bullet, we have to find out who's firing it

• John Reese : I've got some experience you could use - Skills.

  Sam Latimer : What kind of skills?

  John Reese : You have a .45 under the counter and a shotgun next to the register, and I can get to them both before you.

• John Reese : Hey, Finch, I just got the call. Gang's picking me up. I get told the target en route.

  Harold Finch : You're not going in with them?

  John Reese : I got to watch Joey's back. I don't trust his friend Straub one bit.

  Harold Finch : I did not understand "infiltrate the gang" to mean "join them in their robbery."

• Jessica Arndt : John? I didn't know you were back from over there.

  John Reese : Jessica. I'm not. I'm just heading back, actually.

  Jessica Arndt : Where's your uniform?

  John Reese : Uh, I got a new job.

  Jessica Arndt : One of those jobs you can't talk about?

• John Reese : I felt bad about blowing your cover identity. I've been looking for a new job for you. Dog walker maybe... or concert pianist?

  Harold Finch : I have a job Mr. Reese... and so do you.

• John Reese : What the hell is this about? I thought Latimer wanted you to meet me.

  Joey Durban : He also told us to put a bullet in your head if we didn't like you. And right now, we don't.