Person of Interest (TV Series)

Lethe (2013)

Tuck Milligan: Finch's Father

Quotes 

• Finch's Father : [Harold has fixed the car engine]  I'll be damned. But you're not supposed to take things apart like that. You understand, Harold?

  Young Harold Finch : Well, if they don't want you to get inside, they ought to build them better.

• Finch's Father : You have greatness in you, Harold. Your mind, the things that you can see...

  Young Harold Finch : It's not...

  Finch's Father : And it's wasted here. You should be heading off to college, not taking care of an old man.

  Young Harold Finch : I'm not going anywhere. And besides, they're building a computer network right now that's going to connect all the universities in the country. If I can't leave town, I'll bring the information to me. I'll find a way.

  Finch's Father : Careful, son. Don't be reckless. Don't get yourself into something you shouldn't.

  Young Harold Finch : [Smiles]  If they don't want you to get inside, they ought to build it better.

• Young Harold Finch : I'm making you a memory to help you remember stuff like turning off the stove, and if I keep working on it, I think I can make it so it can remember all the things that you can't.

  Finch's Father : Now, we talked about this. I mean, what's wrong with me can't be fixed by you or by anybody else, okay?

  Young Harold Finch : But what if I build a machine with lots of memory, one that could think?

  Finch's Father : Well, even if you could, even if you could fill it with all my memories, it still wouldn't be me. You know, not everything that's broken was meant to be fixed.