Person of Interest (TV Series)

Lethe (2013)

Sarah Shahi: Sameen Shaw

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• Sameen Shaw : Well, I can get rid of the guard dogs. I just need a gallon of anything flammable.

  Harold Finch : What?

  Sameen Shaw : Oh, relax, Finch, we're in a hospital.

  Harold Finch : Miss Shaw, I am sure there are ways to get to Claypool that do not involve any kind of combustion.

• Sameen Shaw : [Enters the library silently]  I knew you were holding out on me.

  Harold Finch : [Startled]  Must you do that?

  Sameen Shaw : So we have another number.

  Harold Finch : I haven't decided.

  Sameen Shaw : Decided? I didn't think you got to decide.

  Harold Finch : Actually, I do.

  [Harold stares at his screen silently] 

  Sameen Shaw : Okay, well, is that going to happen anytime soon, or should I be looking for some action elsewhere?

• Harold Finch : Now, Arthur, what was Samaritan?

  Arthur Claypool : Oh, Samaritan is truly a remarkable project.

  Harold Finch : You say it is remarkable. Tell me about it.

  Arthur Claypool : Its primary function is to detect potential acts of terror through analysis of large data sets. Specifically, it will have the ability to anticipate acts of aggression and suggest strategic countermeasures before the perpetrators can act.

  Harold Finch : It sounds like quite a project.

  Arthur Claypool : Oh, Samaritan is revolutionary. Not so much for what it does, but how it does it. The system was designed to function autonomously, to continually adapt and upgrade itself through past experiences.

  Harold Finch : You're saying that it can remember and learn.

  Arthur Claypool : Yes. Harold, it's what we always dreamed of. Samaritan is a true artificial intelligence.

  Harold Finch : You're right, Arthur. That is remarkable. Excuse me.

  [Moves over to Shaw] 

  Sameen Shaw : Is he talking about what I think he's talking about?

  Harold Finch : It would appear so.

  Sameen Shaw : But then that would mean...

  Harold Finch : That there was a second machine. And Arthur built it.

• Harold Finch : You're in the hospital's employee database as Dr. Anne Moore.

  Sameen Shaw : You sure you don't want to play MD, Harold? I never made a convincing doctor, even when I was one.

• Sameen Shaw : And how are you doing today, Mr. Claypool?

  Arthur Claypool : I suspect more honeybee than dragonfly.

  Sameen Shaw : Excuse me?

  Arthur Claypool : Lifespans. Dragonfly is four months. Honeybee is four weeks.

  Sameen Shaw : Well, so long as you don't go mayfly on me, we won't have a problem.

• Arthur Claypool : Harold, do you recall Arise, Ye Sons Of MIT?

  Harold Finch : Oh, I...

  Arthur Claypool : [Starts singing]  Arise, ye sons of MIT, in loyal brotherhood the future beckons unto ye and life is full and good...

  Arthur Claypool , Harold Finch : [Harold joins in]  Arise, and raise your steins on high tonight shall ever be a memory that will never die, ye sons of MIT

  Sameen Shaw : John's gonna be sorry he missed that.

• Sameen Shaw : We have a new number yet?

  Harold Finch : No, not at this time.

  Sameen Shaw : It's been a while. Guess the city's scumbags have been behaving.

  Harold Finch : We could use a little quiet.

  Sameen Shaw : I don't do quiet. That's why I took this job, and the one before that.

• Sameen Shaw : Mrs. Claypool, do you know of anyone who'd want to hurt your husband?

  Diane Claypool : Arthur? No. He was - is the most gentle man. Why would you ask?

  Sameen Shaw : His security detail.

  Diane Claypool : Oh, them. No. They're just here because of where he worked.

  Sameen Shaw : And where was that?

  Diane Claypool : The National Security Agency. He would not want me to tell you that, but I don't really see the point in hiding it anymore.

  Sameen Shaw : Your husband must be a pretty important guy.

  Diane Claypool : I wouldn't know. He never talked to me about his work, so I finally just stopped asking, and then we kind of stopped talking altogether.

  Sameen Shaw : Talking's overrated.

  [Diane glances at her] 

  Sameen Shaw : I mean, that must have been really hard.

• Agent Easton : So what agency do you work with? FSB, MSS?

  Sameen Shaw : You're wasting your time. You should be protecting Claypool. That tech dosed him with sodium pentothol.

  Agent Easton : How would you know something like that?

  Sameen Shaw : The same way you would, if you'd done any real field work.

  Agent Easton : You know, I can make things very unpleasant for you.

  Sameen Shaw : Unpleasant? Oh, you Service boys are so polite. Look, whoever came after Claypool didn't get what they want. They will try again.

  [the agent starts choking] 

  Sameen Shaw : You all right there, Dudley? You don't look so good.

  [Easton passes out] 

  Sameen Shaw : Finch any chance you spiked the Secret Service guy's fried rice?

  Harold Finch : No.

  Sameen Shaw : Then we have a problem.

• Diane Claypool : Doctor? Why do you have a gun? What happened to his guards?

  Sameen Shaw : We have to go.

  Diane Claypool : Why?

  Sameen Shaw : Because there are people coming after your husband.

  Diane Claypool : What kind of people?

  Sameen Shaw : The kind you need a gun for.

• Sameen Shaw : So you two know each other?

  Arthur Claypool : Harold and I go all the way back to MIT.

  Sameen Shaw : The mighty engineers, huh?

  Arthur Claypool : You should have seen us, two young Turks at the dawn of the information age. We were gonna shape the future - remember, Harold?

  Arthur Claypool : I do. Yes, but so do I.

  [Notices Harold's walk] 

  Arthur Claypool : You're limping. Are you hurt?

  Harold Finch : No, it's just an old injury that never healed quite right.

• Arthur Claypool : [about his wife]  How come I remember you and not her?

  Harold Finch : Because tumors do mysterious things to memory. It's like you said. Your file system is corrupted.

  Arthur Claypool : [Shakes his head]  No. That's not it. I remember Diane. Diane is dead. I buried her two years ago, on June 12, 2011.

  Sameen Shaw : You do remember.

  [Turns to Diane] 

  Diane Claypool : I suppose this was inevitable. And seeing as how time is a luxury we no longer have - Hersh.

  Hersh : Perimeter is secure, ma'am.

  Sameen Shaw : Ma'am? He works for you?

  Diane Claypool : As did you at one time, Agent Shaw. I assume you always wanted to meet me.

  Sameen Shaw : Control.