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In .EXE, Finch is ready to kill Samaritan, even if it means also killing his own Machine. He and Greer have it out over who’s vision of the place of AIs in this world is better, bringing up front some of the core questions that this series has asked, and whether one or the other is willing to die themselves (or kill their creation) for that vision. Something to think about.
Fusco comes up against his own moral dilemma. If he has the chance to take out a Samaritan operative, thereby saving him and his family, should he? Or will that just make him as bad as them. Something to think about.
And in between crises, Harold and the Machine consider what life would have been like for our heroes had the Machine never been built. Better? Worse? Something to think about.
I have a feeling that after the series finale next week, there will even be more to think about.
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My guess for the finale episode is huge. Up there with Sopranos, LOST, FRINGE, Newhart, MASH, etc….
I believe that the entire 100+ episode series was “A Simulation”: Finch, Reese, Shaw, Fusco and Carter never were. The entire AI-building venture was all from the mind of Root. We only intially saw her as a pre-teen in Texas when the young lady she fancied as a good friend was murdered after leaving the library.
Root has always been the heroine (IT guru) since then and has been weilding her fanatical IT skills for years. Remember that we actually heard her voice after only a few episodes… she was a psychologist – but unseen. Currently, Root may be trying to sell an advanced AI system to the govt, or simply trying to improve the plight of mankind. But that is why we hear her voice at the beginning of the season – telling her AI about the simulations that are now over or ending – and the key personnel (our Team Machine) were the solution to the final 100+ simulations (aka episodes).
The AI leash is off. Now of course the folks on Team Machine actually exist, but in real-life were never physically involved.
“Return 0” refers to Root’s unleashing the AI from her VR-Sim world into the real-world.