Person of Interest (TV Series)

Wolf and Cub (2012)

Jim Caviezel: John Reese

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• John Reese : [Finch is sweeping the library for bugs]  I've never seen you like this. That hacker must've gotten to you.

  Harold Finch : Only the paranoid survive. Sage advice.

• John Reese : Morning, Detective. Miss me?

  Joss Carter : You know, I always pictured you in the back of my car... in handcuffs.

  John Reese : Well, to each his own.

• John Reese : Finch, Darren's run off, probably to go after Brick again. And this time he's got the gun they used to kill his brother

  Harold Finch : In other words, the idea of letting a 14-year-old hire you to avenge his brother has backfired?

  John Reese : You can lecture me later. Right now I need you to bring me the bag.

  Harold Finch : Which bag?

  John Reese : The one labeled "Plan B."

• Darren McGrady : Didn't know cops could pick and choose which calls to answer.

  John Reese : Never said I was a cop.

  Darren McGrady : So, what are you, then?

  John Reese : One of these days I'll have to come up with a good answer for that one.

• Darren McGrady : Yo I didn't hire you to just sit here and watch. When are we gonna take them down?

  John Reese : We've already started. Step one: Observe.The most efficient way to lose is a fight is to act without knowing your enemy.

• John Reese : [Darren drops a pile of bills and a quarter on the table]  What's this?

  Darren McGrady : It's all I got left. I want to hire you to help me take down those guys who killed my brother.

  John Reese : So, if I'm not a cop, I'm a mercenary, is that it?

  Darren McGrady : No, I figured it out. You're a ronin.

  John Reese : A ronin?

  Darren McGrady : Yeah, a ronin. It's like a samurai with no master. Technically, you should have killed yourself. That's the code. But instead you're out wandering the land, helping people. So now I'm paying you to help me.

  John Reese : I'm not for hire.

  Darren McGrady : You can't stop me from going after them. But I have a better chance with you there.

  John Reese : [Thinks it over]  There's no way to convince you to just lie low, huh? You can keep your money.

  Darren McGrady : Nah, man. Take it. It makes it official.

  John Reese : No. If we're gonna do this, we're gonna do it my way. That means no killing.

  [Takes the quarter] 

  John Reese : This is my going rate.

• Harold Finch : I'm not sure I'm in favor of your troubling arrangement with young Darren.

  John Reese : I'm not sure I'm in favor of our troubling arrangement, especially when you disappear on mysterious business.

  Harold Finch : [Ignores this]  GPS is up, Mr. Reese.

  Darren McGrady : Who are you talking to?

  John Reese : Tech support.

• John Reese : This is Detective Fusco. He's a... f-friend.

• John Reese : My friend on the police force will be able to put Brick and his friends away.

  Darren McGrady : Yeah, but what about Andre? He's still out there.

  John Reese : Andre didn't kill your brother. Now you want to go after him too?

  Darren McGrady : Hell, yeah. He's just as to blame.

  John Reese : Then what, hmm? Go after Andre's bosses The corrupt cops and the politicians that let them operate? You won't be able to stop until you destroy everyone you blame for taking your brother's life. It won't bring him back.

• John Reese : Fusco tells me they got a lead on a foster family.

  Darren McGrady : I had a family.

  John Reese : Darren, we don't get to choose what happens to us Just what we do about it. I looked into them. They're good people.

  Darren McGrady : And if they aren't?

  John Reese : I'll take care of it.

  [Holds up the quarter] 

  John Reese : I'm, uh, still on the clock.

• John Reese : I pulled some strings. You'll be starting at that charter school for the arts.

  Darren McGrady : My trumpet!

  John Reese : They got drawing classes too.

  Darren McGrady : They got drawing classes too. Is that right?

  John Reese : Remember, opportunities multiply as they're seized.

  Darren McGrady : Sun Tzu Right. Hey, don't worry, man. Someday you'll find a home too.

• Detective Lionel Fusco : [about Finch]  He's got so many aliases, I don't even know where to start. Oldest one I could find is a Harold Wren. He's an underwriter for an insurance company for a number of years. Before that, MIT student, top of his class. It was there where he met the kid's dad - You know, Nathan Ingram. He's that billionaire that got killed a couple years back.

  John Reese : Ingram Graduated from the same class as Wren.

  Detective Lionel Fusco : Yeah, except I did a little more digging. Wren was the name he used freshman year at MIT. That name doesn't appear on any records before '76, which tells me that Wren was a false identity too. This guy spent so much time being someone else, he probably doesn't know who he is anymore.

  John Reese : "Only the paranoid survive". You know, Lionel... you could have been a good cop if not for a few bad choices.

  Detective Lionel Fusco : You got me snooping around your boss, but I make bad choices?

  John Reese : Man has a point.

• Darren McGrady : Hey, you ever kill anyone?

  John Reese : Yes.

  Darren McGrady : Were they bad?

  John Reese : Some. Not all.

  Darren McGrady : Some? That means your master tricked you, told you to kill bad people that really weren't. A lot of ronin ended up that way.

• Darren McGrady : So... Step three?

  John Reese : To impose your will on your enemy, make for their weak points.

  Darren McGrady : Oh. Talking Art of War.

  John Reese : You read Sun Tzu?

  Darren McGrady : Of course, man. All samurai know Sun Tzu.

• John Reese : The higher up you go, the harder it gets to tell the good guys from the bad.

• John Reese : Witnesses can ID the shooters. They're just too scared.

  Harold Finch : Why would they want to talk to you?

  John Reese : I have my ways.

• Darren McGrady : Man, these cops let these guys do whatever they want - Kill my brother, walk around like they can't be touched.

  John Reese : But now we know how they're making their money. So they just got a lot less untouchable.

  Darren McGrady : Ah "Observe".

  John Reese : To tell you the truth, I've always hated observing.

• Darren McGrady : Now we know who's weak, who's in charge, and how to hurt him. What's step six, man?

  John Reese : Well, that's the fun part.

• John Reese : [Hands Finch the bolt cutters]  On my signal, you're going to cut power to the building

  [Finch looks puzzled, Reese pumps the shotgun] 

  John Reese : That's the signal.

• Darren McGrady : Curtis and Trim. I'm calling 'em out.

  Keach : You trying to get yourself killed, Scrappy Doo? You're beginning to wear my last nerve.

  Darren McGrady : You might be scared of 'em, but I'm not.

  Keach : You about to get yourself tossed, dwarf.

  John Reese : [Appears behind them]  Not unless you care to follow him.

• Darren McGrady : Sorry I thought you were a cop.

  John Reese : Nothing wrong with cops... just bad ones.

• John Reese : Finch, any chance your machine gave us the number a few days late?

  Harold Finch : No. Why?

  John Reese : Because I had to crawl through police tape to get inside Darren's apartment.

  Harold Finch : The library may have been compromised, but I can assure you that the machine was not. Whatever happened there, Darren's situation must be ongoing.

• John Reese : [after Fusco gets shot]  Fusco, you okay?

  Detective Lionel Fusco : Yeah, just peachy.