Person of Interest (TV Series)

Trojan Horse (2013)

Michael Emerson: Harold Finch

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• Sameen Shaw : You think I should have a hobby? Now, what would that be? Hanging around a derelict library with you, your poorly-socialized guard dog, and Bear here?

  Harold Finch : Bit of a come down from saving the world, I guess, but we have our moments.

  Sameen Shaw : Is this your hobby? Running a halfway home for retired assassins?

  Harold Finch : Hate to see talent go to waste.

  Sameen Shaw : Awfully trusting of you, now, isn't it?

  Harold Finch : I'm quite confident, Miss Shaw, that you are the first person who has ever said that to me.

• 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 : Wait, so you're not an IT guy?

  Harold Finch : Not in any traditional sense.

• Harold Finch : Ms. Jacobs, how are you doing?

  Monica Jacobs : Oh, not bad, considering the company I devoted the last ten years of my life to is under Federal investigation. And, please, we breached firewalls together. Call me Monica.

• 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 : [Playing chess, Elias has removed some of his own pieces]  Interesting strategy, Mr. Elias. Care to explain?

  Carl Elias : Trying to learn how to win at a disadvantage.

  Harold Finch : I assume we're talking about more than just chess. Rook and knight, valuable pieces. The Assistant District Attorney and Detective Szymanski. Their deaths benefited your enemy, Peter Yogorov.

  Carl Elias : That's very good, Harold.

  Harold Finch : And I'm in touch enough to know that a number of your associates inside have recently been transferred elsewhere.

  [Looks at the board] 

  Harold Finch : Who are you playing against? The Russians? HR?

  Carl Elias : A ghost. Someone I'd very much like to identify.

  Harold Finch : From the board, I'd say the outcome is a foregone conclusion.

  Carl Elias : Don't count me out just yet, Harold. I might have a few moves left.

• 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.

• Harold Finch : I've located the end users receiving the traffic.

  Monica Jacobs : You mean the spies?

  Harold Finch : Yes. It appears that we may have underestimated the scale of the operation.

  Monica Jacobs : [Looks]  That's over half of our senior-level employees in every department.

  Harold Finch : All this rerouted traffic seems to be coming from an unending number of networks belonging to the government.

  Monica Jacobs : Military, banking institutions. These are Rylatech clients. But how - Our routers and switches. They've been compromised. They have back doors. The spies aren't spying on Rylatech. They're using Rylatech's technology...

  Harold Finch : To spy on the entire country.