Person of Interest (TV Series)

Bury the Lede (2012)

Jim Caviezel: John Reese

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• Harold Finch : [as Reese checks his rifle]  I do wish you wouldn't do that here.

  John Reese : When I do it in the park, people look at me funny.

• Harold Finch : Did you get a a good look at the men who were shooting you?

  John Reese : I tried, but they were shooting at me.

• John Reese : Finch, is that feedback?

  Harold Finch : No, I simply made the grievous error of buying Bear a squeaky toy.

• John Reese : So you off to chase your man in the suit?

  Maxine : No, you were right. Urban legend. And with the week I just had, if there really was a man like that, I think I'd have met him by now.

• Maxine : There's a rumor about this guy. The police just call him the man in the suit. No one's seen his face. No one knows his name. I'm not even sure he exists, but he's like something out of a comic book. When people are in trouble, he comes out of nowhere. He always seems to be there just in time. And whoever he is, he saves a lot of lives. And he shoots a lot of kneecaps.

  John Reese : Sounds like a great guy.

• John Reese : Finch, I can't protect her like this. I've got to get close to her.

  Harold Finch : Oh, you're about to. It seems that Maxine's job doesn't afford her opportunities to meet nice men, so she somewhat reluctantly signed up with a popular online dating site. I took the liberty of back-engineering the matching algorithm to make you her ideal man. She really likes that you love dogs.

  John Reese : Wait, you're trying to get me a date with her?

  Harold Finch : Already have, tonight at 8pm. You've been flirting all day.

  John Reese : [Sees Maxine check her phone and laugh]  Finch, what did I just say to her?

  [Finch smiles] 

• Harold Finch : New cuff links I could understand, but buying a $100,000 sports car? Was that really necessary?

  John Reese : Relax, Finch. The car's stolen.

• John Reese : Maxine, this is Zoe. She's a friend.

  Maxine : So, how did you two know each other?

  Zoe Morgan : Oh, we spent two very long nights together last year.

• Detective Joss Carter : I'll talk to Donnelly, see who else is on HR's payroll hasn't been arrested yet.

  Detective Lionel Fusco : And if your reporter friend gets into trouble before we find the shooter?

  John Reese : Guess I'll have to call the police.

• John Reese : So Maxine wasn't the victim. She was the perpetrator.

  Harold Finch : Unwitting, involuntary, but a perpetrator all the same. With one stroke, the boss wipes out the only witness who could bring him down and destroys the career of a troublesome reporter to boot.

• Harold Finch : Mr. Reese, this may not be over.

  John Reese : You're paranoid, Finch.

  Harold Finch : Be that as it may. I don't think we've the right guy.

  John Reese : Walker was on HR's payroll. He'd have motive to have Zambrano dead

  Harold Finch : Yes, yes and he definitely hired Pitt and bogie to hunt down Maxine but that's what troubles me. The head of HR is brilliant, not the type to hire a pair of washed up feds to gun down a reporter. And Walker? I'm not convinced he has the cunning or the connections to mastermind something this complicated.

  John Reese : If Walker isn't the head of HR, who is?