Person of interest - JB Pasquier

Hello Mister Cox,

I chose to watch Person of Interest. I don't watch lot of series and Person of interest is the only one that I watched fully because It corresponds to the actuality of today where all our behaviors are observed.
In this serie, a machine observes the behavior of the inhabitants of New York and it gives the number of a person involved in a murder (Victim or criminal) to the main character : John Reese and Harold Finch.
I will to present the first present.

Episode 1 : The machine

John Reese, a former CIA agent and soldier in the Special Forces, has now become a homeless.Reese is recruited by Harold Finch, a millionaire and the creator of a software called "the Machine". After the attacks of September 11, Finch developed software that is capable of predicting new attacks by relying on many data. The Machine can also predict ordinary crimes and give the social security numbers of the people involved, but the government has decided not to do anything. Finch asks Reese to work for him, to help these people in danger. Reese accepts Finch's offer, and the two must then help Diane Hansen, an assistant who works at the prosecutor's office. Reese spies to find out what she is involved in but finds out she is not the victim but a criminal who runs a group of corrupt police officers and prepares a murder. Reese is singing Lionel Fusco, one of the corrupt policemen and now becomes his source of information within the NYPD.

Episode 2 : Ghosts

Reese takes the case of Theresa Whitaker (Valentina de Angelis), a girl who supposedly died with her family two years previously. Reviewing the evidence, Reese finds that the crime scene was staged to look like a murder-suicide. He deduces that Theresa's family was killed by a hitman, and that there is still a price on her head. He follows leads back to Solmick (Michael Medeiros), the original contract killer, who admits that he let Theresa live because he refuses to kill children. Meanwhile, Detective Carter starts investigating Reese, using his fingerprints to access his file, only to discover that it has been redacted. Using information given to him by Reese, Finch manages to locate Theresa, but they are interrupted by the arrival of another hitman (Ritchie Coster). Reese intervenes in time to save them, leaving Theresa in the care of Carter. When asked about Reese, Theresa claims that the experience was too traumatic to recall anything.

Episode 3 : Mission Creep

The Machine produces the Social Security number of Joey Durban (James Carpinello), a former soldier. On returning from Iraq, Joey joined a gang of former soldiers who have taken to robbing banks. Reese infiltrates the gang for their final robbery at an NYPD evidence lockup. They steal a file marked "Elias, M." before Latimer (Ruben Santiago-Hudson), the ringleader, starts killing off the gang members and escapes. Reese starts tracking him down, but discovers that Latimer has himself been murdered after handing the file over to Elias. The file is revealed to contain photos from the scene of a brutal murder.

Episode 4 : Cura Te Ipsum

Reese begins 24-hour surveillance of Dr. Megan Tillman (Linda Cardellini). He and Finch believe that she's being targeted by Andrew Benton (Adam Rothenberg), a serial stalker and sex offender who drugs his victims before raping them, only to discover that Tillman is actually stalking Benton and planning to kill him; one of Benton's previous victims was Tillman's sister, who committed suicide shortly after Benton assaults her. Reese assaults a group of dealers connected to a Mexican drug cartel, stealing their product and planting it on Benton to have him arrested before Tillman can catch him. Tillman, however, abducts Benton, forcing Reese to talk her out of it by saying she'll never forgive herself for taking a life after saving them for so long. Afterwards, Reese takes Benton to an empty home and to kill him to protect his future victims.

Episode 5 : Judgment

A Polish street gang known as SP-9 kidnaps the son (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) of Samuel Gates (David Costabile), a judge known to be tough on crime. In exchange for his son's safe return, the leader (Michael Cerveris) demands that the judge release a banker who is key to their money-laundering operations without any punishment. Breaking with his preferred means of operation, Reese makes himself known to Gates in an attempt to stall the kidnappers while he uses Detective Fusco to process evidence from the scene of the crime. He misleads SP-9 into believing that their demands have been met, securing the release of Gates' son, before delivering them to Detective Carter and the NYPD. Meanwhile, Reese makes overtures of friendship towards Finch, but is actually trying to find out more about his habits.

Episode 6 : The Fix

Reese takes the case of Zoe Morgan (Paige Turco), a professional fixer who uses her influence and her connections to powerful people to perform favors for her own clients. Zoe has been enlisted to retrieve an incriminating recording of a pharmaceutical executive from a rival company, but comes under threat when she hears the contents of the recording itself and realizes that her employer is just as corrupt as his rival. Finch finds that Zoe's case is connected to that of Dana Miller, a POI whom he was unable to save before meeting Reese. With the help of Zoe, Reese exposes a corrupt pharmaceutical company and Finch short sells their stock to cause further harm, finally getting justice for someone he was unable to save.

Episode 7 : Witness

Reese must protect Charlie Burton (Enrico Colantoni), a school teacher who witnessed a Russian mobster shooting an Italian-American mob lieutenant in a Brighton Beach bodega. As Reese and Burton flee the Russians and the Five Families, they stumble into territory controlled by Bulgarian mobsters. Cut off from Finch as he tries to evade the Russians and Bulgarians, Reese comes to realize that Burton is Elias. Elias thanks Reese for saving him, but warns him not to interfere with his future goals or face unpleasant consequences, leaving Reese feeling guilty that other people will suffer because he saved Elias' life.

Episode 8 : Foe

Reese and Finch track former Stasi agent Ulrich Kohl across New York City. Kohl, having been secretly imprisoned by the German government for 24 years, has finally escaped and located his former Stasi teammates—Hauffe, Wernick and Steiller , all of whom betrayed Kohl to the American and German governments in exchange for new lives in New York. Further, Kohl believes that his former Stasi colleagues are responsible for the murder of his wife Anja , who was killed while attempting to flee Germany with him. Kohl kills Hauffe and poisons Wernick, but Reese manages to save him. When confronting Steiller before killing him, Kohl learns a terrible truth—Anja is still alive, having staged her own death to escape from his atrocities. When he attempts to locate her, he also learns that Anja had their child, Marie , and so sets out to find them both. Kohl finally locates Anja and Marie. Kohl's predicament leads to Reese reflecting on his own life as a spy, where it is revealed that "John Reese" is an alias bestowed on him by his former CIA partner, Kara Stanton .

Episode 9 : Number Crunch

Reese and Finch are puzzled when the Machine produces four numbers. After Reese finds one person of interest dead and is unable to prevent the murder of a second, he realizes that all four have something in common, and begins to dig deeper. He finds that the four stole drug money from the scene of a car accident, and that a corrupt banker and congressman are conspiring to have them killed for it. . Meanwhile, detective Carter is approached by a man named Mark Snow, who identifies himself as a CIA operative, and asks her to lead him to Reese, revealing the reason why Reese faked his death—supposedly, Reese was responsible for the death of his CIA partner, Kara Stanton, and then disappeared, until Carter's investigation put him back on the agency's radar. Reese saves Wendy and Paula by killing their attackers. But, before he can escape, he's approached by Carter and Snow and flees after being shot by a CIA assassin (Darien Sills-Evans). Carter eventually catches up to Reese and Finch, but decides to let them escape.

Episode 10 : Legacy

Reese finally decides to meet with Detective Carter, who, by helping him and Finch in their next case, is provided a little insight into what he and Finch do. Their case is Andrea Gutierrez, a self-made attorney who specializes in suing the state of New York on behalf of convicts who claim they were wrongfully imprisoned. Reese and Finch believe the threat to Andrea will be associated with her latest client, Terrence King. King's parole officer, Dominic Galuska, has been setting up convicts to go to prison and profiting off placing their children in foster care. In representing King, Andrea has come to the attention of people who want her silenced. Meanwhile, Reese realizes that, despite trusting his life to Finch, his partner is still keeping secrets from him. He follows Finch to a meeting with Will Ingram, the son of Finch's previous partner, Nathan Ingram. After Finch bails him out of police custody, Will begins asking questions about his father's death, the nature of his work and his connection to Finch.

Episode 11 : Root Cause

Reese and Finch are alerted to Scott Powell, a dedicated family man and city construction project manager, who was laid off in the face of budget cuts advocated by Congressman Michael Delancey. They find out that he has secretly applied for a weapon permit and is sending death threats to Delancey; they conclude that Powell is planning to assassinate the Congressman. However, as Reese tries to intercept Powell, Finch realizes that the evidence against him has been planted, and they are unable to stop the real assassin from killing Delancey. Powell is arrested by the FBI in the face of overwhelming evidence, forcing Reese to help him escape. With the help of Zoe Morgan (last seen in "The Fix"), Finch identifies Peter Matheson, Delancey's business partner and chief of staff, as the man who hired the assassin and a hacker to kill Delancey and frame Powell, thereby covering up Matheson's corruption. Finch acquires a recording of a conversation between Matheson and the hacker, exonerating Powell. After Matheson is found dead, the hacker, identifying herself as "Root", admits to Finch that she had him killed to tie up loose ends. Root acknowledges Finch, by name, as a worthy adversary.