Person of Interest (TV Series)

Trojan Horse (2013)

Jim Caviezel: John Reese

Quotes 

• Monica Jacobs : May I? This was one of my babies. Completely rebuilt the interface, disabled the portmapper.

  Harold Finch : Secondary authentication?

  Monica Jacobs : Added for access to the FTP and SNMP.

  John Reese : [Amused watching the tech talk]  If you two would rather be alone...?

• Monica Jacobs : [while they're being fired upon]  Who are you?

  John Reese : Right now, an easy target.

• John Reese : I thought I just might find you here.

  Sameen Shaw : And you decided to drop in for a visit?

  John Reese : Stakeouts can get a little tedious.

  Sameen Shaw : And what made you think I wanted the company? The time I shot you or the time I ditched you at the cemetery?

  John Reese : I'm persistent.

  Sameen Shaw : Or maybe you just can't take a hint.

• John Reese : Darlene and Evan Cole. Your former partner's parents.

  Sameen Shaw : Dead partner.

  John Reese : The government framed Cole as a domestic terrorist. I thought you might come back here to set the record straight.

  Sameen Shaw : How'd you figure that?

  John Reese : It's what I'd do.

  Sameen Shaw : Control killed their son. They didn't need to take their memory of him. Even the CIA wouldn't stoop that low. They'd just sweep their mess under the rug and give him a star on the wall.

  John Reese : Your former employers killed Cole for discovering the truth, and nothing's stopping them from killing his parents, too. But you already know this. That's why you're out here and not in there.

  Sameen Shaw : Next time you want some fresh air, pick a different spot.

  John Reese : A friend once told me, in our line of work, we walk in the dark. Doesn't mean we have to walk in it alone.

• Harold Finch : Good evening, Mr. Reese. Have you made contact with your quarry?

  John Reese : Not yet. You keeping track of yours?

  Harold Finch : Yes. Thanks to the chips in the ID cards, I can see the location of every employee in the building.

  John Reese : Identify any potential threat?

  Harold Finch : So far, just overwork and the consumption of raw seafood. Ms. Jacobs is dedicated, passionate, technically astute.

  John Reese : You've got a crush on this number, don't you, Finch?

  Harold Finch : A human being can recognize qualities in another human being without - She's leaving her office.

• Harold Finch : There's a matter that we need to discuss. The night we broke into Rylatech, I recognized some of the encrypted code in the spy's network. It had a signature similar to that virus that Stanton uploaded. I was able to crack the virus's code and learn two things.

  John Reese : I'm all ears, Finch.

  Harold Finch : First, only a fraction of the stolen data made it to the Chinese government. The rest went to another organization. I believe they may have placed the final call to Baxter. I dug further, but all I could come up with was a name - Decima Technologies.

  John Reese : And the second thing?

  Harold Finch : Whoever Decima is, I believe they created the virus to find and infect a single target: The Machine.

• Harold Finch : Mr. Reese, I have news.

  John Reese : [Being fired upon]  Can it wait?

  Harold Finch : I've cracked Lee's encrypted emails. They're messages, reporting back to his father, a high-ranking official in the Chinese Communist Party.

  John Reese : What are you saying?

  Harold Finch : Lee wasn't spying for a company. He was spying for his country.

  John Reese : We just picked a fight with the People's Republic of China.

• Martin Baxter : I know how this looks, Monica.

  Monica Jacobs : How it *looks*? You're a murderer, and a spy for China.

  Martin Baxter : No! I'm just protecting what I've spent my life building.

  Monica Jacobs : How could you do this?

  Martin Baxter : imple economics. When the dot-com bust hit, we were bankrupt. A prime takeover target. And then an opportunity presented itself.

  John Reese : To save your company by selling out your country.