Person of Interest (TV Series)

Trojan Horse (2013)

Tracie Thoms: Monica Jacobs

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• 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.

• 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 : 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.

• Monica Jacobs : You're firing me?

  Martin Baxter : Effective immediately, with civil and criminal charges pending.

  Monica Jacobs : Martin, I've worked for you for ten years.

  Martin Baxter : Then you can afford a good lawyer.

• Ross Haskell : I believe our network solutions proposal says it all. Rylatech's routers and switches have a 99. 7% reliability rating.

  TOVO Networking Advisor : On the basis of what?

  Ross Haskell : Independent tests run alongside three of our five main competitors. Our firmware is self-upgrading.

  TOVO Networking Advisor : Like everyone else's, including Censatek - who had better pastries. Look, what is your name again?

  Monica Jacobs : Ross Haskell, Head of Product Development...

  TOVO Networking Advisor : Ross, our VP didn't come here to listen to dry stats. Why should we use Rylatech's products?

  Monica Jacobs : Because you already do. We've spent the last 15 years building the backbone of the internet, and our latest components will set the standard for the next 15. Even the Department Of Defense trusts us to get their data from point A to point B. But, if you want just one reason, Martin Baxter. He started Rylatech in his parents' garage and built it into this. That determination, we all have it. We'll never stop working hard for you. Or, go with Censatek, who is known for offering kickbacks to networking execs... along with their nice pastries.

• 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.

• Martin Baxter : The world has changed, Monica. There is no value placed on outdated notions like patriotism anymore. And companies like ours, we have to constantly look forward to the future so that we can prepare for what comes next.

  Monica Jacobs : And what's that? Selling information instead of protecting it?

  Martin Baxter : Controlling it. Because whoever controls information will control the future.