No time for the usual entry speech - this is all the machines perspective, beginning with it's first eye-opening to see it's creators face (Can you see me? - in opposition to Can you hear me? which has been discussed here last week). The machine gives us a short summary of season 1 in it's own black-and-white style with glimpses of important conversations. And the story picks up at the exact same moment where it left, when Reese picks up the phone after urging the machine for it's help to find Finch - only this time the viewer can hear the eery voice that is a compilation of many voices, male and female: Uncertainty/Romeo-Kilo, Family/Alpha-Mike), Reflections/Juliet-Oscar. So strange and mysterious, although some of them might mirror John's feelings, like uncertainty, Alpha (Finch), Family and Reflections.
The machine is searching for Harold and finds him in a cafe with Root and we are back into PoI's complicated storytelling:
- John and Leon sorting out his mess with the Nazis money and with Carter and Fusco helping them,
- Harold and Root on a mysterious journey,
- Special Council, Denton Weeks and Hersh looking into the murder of Alcia Corwin,
- Flashbacks about the machines beginnings and explanation why it didn't protect Finch.