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A Person of Interest

Season 5, Episode 3, Aired Feb 16, 2009

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While working on a 17 year-old-crime, Allison exhibits unusual behavior that may be pivotal in solving the case, but at the same time puts her family at risk. Meanwhile, Joe's dinner invitation to a colleague yields surprising results.

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GUEST STAR
Enzo Rossi

Young Arlo Slocumb
GUEST STAR
Lois Mathilda Atkins

Debbie Brewer
GUEST STAR
Eileen Gonzales

Reporter

Jake Weber

Joe DuBois
Patricia Arquette

Allison DuBois
Maria Lark

Bridgette DuBois
Sofia Vassilieva

Ariel DuBois
David Cubitt

Det. Lee Scanlon
Miguel Sandoval

D.A. Manuel Devalos

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Allison makes a bomb and has to figure out why.

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By XooKey, Oct 03, 2011

The show starts out with Allison having a dream about people being drawn to do things that are bad for them. The things they most desire are glowing A man is found dead in a garbage dump with fake ID's and no fingerprints. Allison sees an old microwave oven glowing and she takes it. After taking it home she takes it apart wondering how it works. Joe comes home and doesn't really notice what she has done. He lets her know that he has invited his new employee David Brewer and his wife over for dinner the following night. The next day she goes to the hardware store and starts buying things that are glowing. She uses the parts from the microwave oven and the items she bought at the hardware store and unknowingly builds a bomb. When Joe gets home he is wondering where dinner is and when he sees what she has done he goes bananas. She even bought a large amount of fertilizer to make a big big boom. Once Joe tells her what she has built she comes to her senses. When the Brewer's show up, they play like she is sick, but before they leave David gives here a bottle of wine and she has a vision of 17 people.

Allison has another dream that identifies the dead man from the beginning as Mitchell Slocum, a wanted domestic terrorist. He set off a bomb that killed 17 people 17 years ago. In a vision she also realizes that Joe's employee David Brewer is Mitchell Slocum's son Arlo. The police bring him in for questioning in the murder of his father. After this they find the actual man who murdered Mitchell Slocum, but it is to late, David/Arlo's life is already turned upside down.

Allison has another dream that shows David/Arlo making the bomb his father used to kill the 17 people. She confronts him and he doesn't deny it but says there is no proof. She shakes his hand and the 17 people flash again. She tells him he has to life with that vision and it will never go away.moreless
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Allison exhibiting strange behaviour again.

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By dustjessie2, Oct 03, 2011

Allison exhibiting strange behaviour we have seen before, but the charm for me lies in the way Joe Dubois is forced to deal with it.
The actual police drama took a back step this week to Alison's possession of a newly acquired bomb making skills. Always handy when guests are coming over for dinner.
It did seem however just a little bit of a stretch that Joe's newly acquired member of staff was a bomb making prodigy.

The writers always seem to get the family story and dialogue just right. Always well acted by the main regular cast. Jake Weber,Patricia Arquette, Maria Lark, and David Cubitt are particularly excellent.
It is a crying shame that Jake Weber has been ignored by the Emmys for the last 5 years.moreless
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Great episode

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By Hopejoyfaith, Jan 26, 2011

Once again! Another great episode! I LOVED the beginning when it had viva la vida as an instrumental song. And just how they put the intro in words and how they were giving examples of compulsions, just blew my mind. I also thought was cool that Patricia's son Enzo stared in this. He plays a teenager but he's really 20 years old, and cute! Hehehe. Anywho, I also liked that she was in a store and this white light thing surrounded these items and she had no idea why, until Joe came and found out what she was building... A bomb. And she was completely clueless about it. I just love Medium and the whole season of season 5moreless
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Allison begins building a bomb in her garage, which leads her to believe that Joe's new business partner was involved a bombing that killed several people years ago.

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By mikeverdon, Jun 05, 2010

Patricia Arquette directs one of the most power episodes of Medium yet. It all begins as a regular murder case, when they find a man dead at a local dump, after leaving the dump Allison begins having the strange urge to buy an unusual assortment of materials. The song Viva la Vida by Coldplay plays throughout the episode which I though fit very well. I also really enjoyed the way Allison saw the materials. Upon discovering his wife is building a bomb and has failed to prepare for his dinner guest, Joe is thrown into a fit of anger. Both Patricia Arquette and Jake Weber's acting was fantastic in this episode. The only thing I didn't like about this episode was that it was kind of far fetched that Joe's new business partner ends up being involved. First he is held hostage at work, then he is fired for insurance purposes, then he gets and idea of his own and it is stolen by his new business partner, and now when things finally are looking up his new business partner is a terrorist.moreless
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- Goof: When Allison looks up information on the murdered Supreme Court justice, she uses a search engine that bears a close resemblance to Google. Though the Google name is replaced with "Search" in large letters at the top, the link at the bottom right of the page still reads "About Google."
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- Allison: (narrating the opening dream sequence) Everyone has dangerous fascinations and unhealthy fixations. Some of them are a little harder to explain than others. But most of us know how to keep our impulses in check. We use willpower to fight off our darker instincts. Unfortunately, for others, willpower just isn't enough. The siren call of one's own obsessions, is simply too strong to resist. The thing we used to want ... becomes the thing we now need. Our obsession becomes our compulsion ... until eventually we realize, pursuing the one thing we want most in life ... has left us without much of a life at all. But in the end, our compulsions are still there, even after they've pushed us to the brink of death, or guided us into places of unimaginable horror.
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- Bridgette: (to Marie) Don't just stand there, you know. Fold some more. Ariel: Bridgette, that's your job. You're supposed to fold the laundry. That's why you have an allowance. Bridgette: It's not my job, it's my responsibility. And I'm keeping that responsibility. I'm just ... outsourcing, that's all. It's no big deal. Everyone's doing it. Ariel: Mom! Joe: (entering the room) Sorry, not Mom. Feel free to continue fighting till she gets here.
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- Allison: (narrating, in the show-opening dream, as a set of cupcakes is shown) Looks pretty tempting, doesn't it? But what if I told you that each one of these delicious little morsels has almost a thousand calories. Would it make you want one any less? Me neither. And that's normal. We all want things that we know are bad for us. (Allison continues narrating, explaining that in general, people are able to rein in their fascinations, but sometimes these fascinations develop into horrifying obsessions. Then she wakes up and sees Joe eating a cupcake.) Joe: Okay, don't be mad. I know, I know, they're for the bake sale at Bridgette's school but, what can I say? I couldn't resist. You want some? Allison: (jumps backwards, as though utterly horrified) God, no! I'm going to bed. Joe: (still chewing) What? It was a cupcake.
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- (Joe realizes Allison is building a bomb instead of preparing for their dinner guests) Joe: Now I may be crazy, but I think you're minutes away from having an uncontrollable urge to rent a panel truck and fill it with all that stuff, and drive it to a federal building somewhere. (doorbell rings) Oh God. You know what, on second thought, why don't you just- just continue doing exactly what you're doing. Okay? Because, you know, if we're all dead then maybe no one will notice that there's no dinner!
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- Xander Berkeley (Mitchell Slocumb) received the "And" credit in this episode.
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- International Air Dates: The Netherlands: March 15th, 2009 on Net 5 Sweden: March 19th, 2009 on TV4 Latin America: July 20th, 2009 on Sony Entertainment Television (Canal Sony) Norway: October 27th, 2009 on TV2 Czech Republic: February 23rd, 2010 on Hallmark
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- Featured Music: "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay (during the opening scene, and during several other scenes when Allison sees glowing objects)
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- This episode marks Patricia Arquette's directorial debut, not only on Medium, but overall in her career.
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