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Person of Interest Season 1 Episode 15

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AIRED: Feb 16, 2012

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Reese infiltrates a smuggling ring so that he can protect his newest Person of Interest.

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The Hole Deepens

9.5

By dreamgoat, Feb 21, 2012

Reese goes undercover in the smuggler trade to help so to be smuggler but ends up being an undercover cop. And for his personal reason he's going after LOS, during the whole episodes their were a couple of surprises. But, no full twists it was pretty much straight forward because of the amount of information that was provided in this episode that has some explanation on the CIA guys who are after Reese, and dirty cops. The main question and makes you wonder after watching this episode is how far does this hole go. Just like Finch, Reese has a mysterious past that needs understanding too.moreless
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Dirty CIA & Dirty Cops Collide With Reese

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By AudioFileZ, Feb 17, 2012

This episode was dark, and viewers learned some prescient things about Reese and Fusco. These two are committed when things are at their worst, like when they're in mortal danger. Neither one flinches or capitualates. Reese infiltrates a drug smuggling ring only to find out his mark is actually an undercover cop to which he can't reveal himself to. Since you're "in" until you're "out" he feels he has to protect his former mark, and his family, at all costs. There's more than the usual "gang-type" bad guys behind the drugs, however. The kingpin, called "LSO" is actually a CIA operative financing the war on terror with drug money. The very guys trying to find Reese are now the ones he must not only save himself from, but save his undercover police agent too. Reese isn't afraid to gun down some of the collateral bad guys in order to proceed extracting the innocent. Furthermore, in saving the undercover cop he ends up taking a bullet and almost being burned to death in the process. As for Fusco, he has to extract sequestered files which are locked up so tightly that anyone who even is in the room in which the files are kept (in individual safes) goes to prison. In destroying the files he is caught by one of the inside "dirty cops" who then takes him to a wooded area to extract how he was alerted after which is to be murdered. Reese saves him and in the eleventh hour, but Fusco didn't crack. Revelations include that the PD's HR officer in charge is running the dirty cop operation and now Fusco has to get deep in bed with HR...They now own him for making any evidence disappear as for his association with the detective who would have eliminated him. Fusco's hopes of disassociating himself with his former dirty self are, effectively, dashed. As Reese predicted the CIA drug dealer named LSO walks and is taken out of the cold by non other than Reese's old department nemesis, the CIA agent who seeks Reese. Viewers are led to believe the CIA agent has LSO murdered. No loose ends.

The show continues to gain momentum. Reese is a clear and present danger to the CIA and it looks like that part will be dealt with soon. While Reese simply seeks to protect innocent would-be victims his own life is much more in danger. LSO's last words were that Carter must be eliminated thus we're to believe she is in a much worse "snake pit" herself. We're still not privy to who is behind all of the underlying imminent danger, so the hook of this great show is set yet deeper again. The next episode can't come too soon!moreless
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Exceptional episode...

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By DERBEST, Feb 17, 2012

Just when I thought it couldn't get any better, this show surprises me...Yes there are some intermediary episodes, like the previous one which was decent, but then it comes the good stuff...Seeing Reese shot and placed in a car then escaping nearly as the care was going to blow up was pivotal part...Seeing Fusco almost executed and being so serene and remaining loyal also was great...The story, saving a cop that goes undercover to eliminate a drug trafficking ring was also interesting...

I think all in all this is a solid show and I would love to see a Season 2, 3,-100 and hope JJ Abrams will advocate for it, and not pay attention to the downgrader elitists who love to give low ratings to good shows.moreless
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Cast & Crew: STARS

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James Caviezel	John Reese
Taraji Henson	Detective Carter
Kevin Chapman	Detective Lionel Fusco
Michael Emerson	Harold Finch

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Cast & Crew: RECURRING AND GUESTS

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Michael Aronov	Doug Tulley/Michael Cahill	Guest Star
José Zúñiga	Neil Vargas	Guest Star
Robin Lord Taylor	Ajax	Guest Star
Susan Misner	Jessica Arndt	Recurring Role
Annie Parisse	Cara Stanton	Recurring Role
Robert John Burke	Simmons	Recurring Role

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- Finch: How do you suggest we proceed, Mr. Reese?
  Reese: As usual, Finch, the more dangerous they are... the closer I want to be to them.
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- Stanton: How many times you going to clean that thing?
  Reese: In the Army, they taught us the fastest way to get shot was to fail to clean your weapon.
  Stanton: In the Marines, they taught us the fastest way to clean your weapon was to shoot a couple of people with it.
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- Carter: Files on undercovers are kept only as hard copies, so people like you can't hack into them.
  Finch: Words wound, detective.
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- Stanton: This isn't some speech. We're not... walking in the dark. we are the dark.
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- Carter: Need a lift? I was in the neighborhood.
  Reese: My lucky day.
  Carter: Your version of a lucky day is being shot and lit on fire?
  Reese: Not shot, just grazed.
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- Fusco: You think you're the first person to put a gun to my head?
  Davidson: No. But I will be the last.
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- Reese: I'll keep an eye on Cahill and make sure he stays safe and sound.
  Finch: He's about to have a screaming infant. I doubt he'll be anywhere close to sound.
  Reese: Poor guy.
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- Music: If I Had a Heart (Fever Ray)
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- International Airdates:
  Canada: February 16, 2012 on Citytv
  Turkey: March 8, 2012 on CNBC-e
  Germany: December 6, 2012 on RTL
  Slovakia: April 17, 2013 on Dajto
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