Person of Interest (TV Series)

Shadow Box (2012)

Taraji P. Henson: Detective Jocelyn 'Joss' Carter

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• Detective Joss Carter : John! Are you out of your mind? Impersonating a law enforcement officer? Marshall Jennings, you took his star.

  John Reese : He wasn't using it anymore. It's great, Carter. Just flash a badge, and people tell you everything.

• Detective Joss Carter : Donnelly's back, and he's hot for the man in the suit. He has a new theory.

  John Reese : Yeah, that I'm working for China or something. We heard. We also heard his offer. Maybe a transfer to the FBI would be good for you.

  Detective Joss Carter : Do you listen to all of my conversations?

  John Reese : More or less. You're looking nice, Carter. Maybe this Cal Beecher would be good for you too. So long as he treats you right. He messes with you, he'll be hearing from me.

  Detective Joss Carter : Okay, alright, look. We're gonna have to set some boundaries here.

  John Reese : Well, sure. Things get heavy with you and Cal, we'll tune out right away.

• Harold Finch : Were you able to trace the owner of the motorcycle, Detective?

  Detective Joss Carter : No, because it was stolen from a second-hand showroom in Queens four days ago. I got the camera tapes out of the robbery squad. I see the perp is a single male.

  Harold Finch : You looking at the footage now?

  Detective Joss Carter : Yes. Why?

  Harold Finch : [Hacks into her computer to see the video]  No reason.

  Detective Joss Carter : Blew the locks with det cord. Ignored the alarms, 'cause he knew he'd be less than 30 seconds. He broke the key case with his bare hand. Chose his machine, and

  [See's the perp drive strait through a window] 

  Detective Joss Carter : Whoa.

  John Reese : That's impressive.

  [John rewinds the footage] 

  Detective Joss Carter : What is - what - what is going on here? Don't tell me you can see what's on my computer too. What did I say about setting boundaries?

• Detective Joss Carter : So, does anyone know where this Abby Monroe lives?

  Planning Office Manager : We ran a check. The address she gave us is fake. The phone number is a pay phone.

  John Reese : Hey, solid background check there.

• Detective Cal Beecher : Is something wrong, Carter?

  Detective Joss Carter : Donnelly made me an offer today.

  Detective Cal Beecher : What, I got competition? From that guy?

  Detective Joss Carter : No, not that sort of offer. He, um, invited me to join the FBI.

• Special Agent Nicholas Donnelly : So, we've been tracking this man for ten months. Every time we get close, he slips right out from under us, as if he has some guardian angel. All I've looked for since then is a lead, any lead, and then I realized, the phone. He's in constant communication with his handlers.

  Detective Joss Carter : I thought of that. Cross-checked crime scenes he was reported at with cell tower logs of IMEIs. Came up with nothing.

  Special Agent Nicholas Donnelly : Exactly. Nothing. Our engineers at Quantico analyzed the cell tower traffic from that night he gave us the slip downtown. Under the wireless and radio noise, they found short bursts of a cloned IMEI with a unique signature. I tasked an FBI computer cluster to search for that signature. 24 hours ago, the cluster came online. It spotted another burst of cloned imeis at the exact time and location of the robbery. It's him. I've got SWAT teams standing by. If he uses that phone, we'll have him.