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Person of Interest Podcast
All of the kneecapping, artificial intelligence, and government coverups on Person of Interest. Each episode incorporates listener feedback and occasional real world events.
With Doug Payton and Darrell Darnell
Episodes
S5E13 – Return a Hero
A computer program often ends with “Return 0”, meaning without an error. In this episode titled “Return 0”, while our beloved Machine may not have had such a normal exit, a number of the story…
S5E12 – It’s a Wonderful … Machine
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…
S5E11 – Team Machine: DC
In the episode “Synecdoche”, our heroes get out of their comfort zone in New York City, and are tasked with protecting the President.
POI Amy Acker Dallas Fan Expo Panel
With only 3 episodes left and following hot on the heels of the death of Root, Amy Acker came home to Dallas to mingle with fans at Fan Expo Dallas.
S5E0910 – Eulogy for Elias, Requiem for Root
In “Sotto Voce”, a villain from season 3 returns, and fakes out Team Machine. When even Elias is concerned for your safety, it’s really time to be careful, and beware in whom you trust.
S5E060708 – A More Reassorted QSO
In this 3-episode Person Of Interest extravaganza, Darrel and Doug (or Doug and Darrell) talk about all the episodes this week.
S5E0405 – The Return Of Shaw-lias
Two episodes again this week, and each let us know what’s been happening to a character we haven’t seen in a while.
S5E0203 – Truth be SNAFUed
There were 2 POI episodes this week, and we cover them both. In "SNAFU", we get a little facial recognition problem, as the Machine tries to figure out who's who on the team.
S5E01 – Ghost in the Game Console
Team Machine is trying to get our favorite AI back to the subway station lair before it dies with the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death).
Season 4 Recap and Season 5 Look-ahead
It's been almost a year since we've put out a podcast episode about a TV episode of POI; that's how long they've made us wait.
San Diego 2015 POI Press Room and Recap
Just when you thought you'd have to wait until 2016 to get more Person of Interest Podcast goodness, we're back!
S4E22 – Getting God Off the Grid
In the season 4 finale, “YHWH”, we find out where The Machine has been hiding all this time, but then, so does Samaritan.
S4E21 – The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
The battle between Elias and Dominic heats up, Shaw is almost rescued, Root may lose her contact with The Machine, and Control is out of control trying to find a Samaritan mole. Read more...
S4E20 – Carter Incognita
“Terra Incognita” is Latin for “unknown territory”, and we go into some territory that is very unknown.
S4E19 – Catch Me if You Khan
The threads start to get brought back together, as Samaritan plays a game of “Search and Destroy” with Sulaiman Khan.
S4E18 – Frankie, My Dear, I Don’t Skip on Bail
Hope you didn’t “Skip” this episode. A bounty hunter makes her catch, Root save Finch (but Finch doesn’t agree she did), Iris closes up, and Mr. Thornhill is back in play.
S4E17 – Revenge Is Not the Answer
Shane Edwards is a psychologist, and a one-man Karmic machine. But Harold Finch, drawing from his own emotional past, has to convince him that revenge is just not the way to get closure. Read more...
S4E16 – Team Machine vs. Mary Jane
Someone’s trying to steal from criminals, because they don’t call the cops. But, to be “blunt”, that can get you caught between the Brotherhood and the Cartel.
S4E15 – Siri, I’m Depressed
In today’s “Q&A”, we’ll talk about who you should take advice from when you’re depressed, and whether Samaritan is the good guy or the bad guy. The answers aren’t always what you’d expect.
S4E14 – 12 Angry Finches
Getting back to how it all started, with just Finch and Reese, “Guilty” puts Harold in the jury box sitting next to the latest number to save or arrest.
S4E13 – Welcome to Maple
Is Shaw dead, or is she just “MIA”? Reese and Root hope she’s still alive as they follow the clues and take in some of the sights of Maple, NY and its town fair.
S4E12 – Good Cop, Bad Cop, and Harold
In “Control-Alt-Delete”, Control finds out she’s not really in control;Samaritan is. And when Samaritan is done with you, he frames you as a terrorist and gets the ISA agents to take you out.
S4E11 – A Lot on Its Mind
The Machine has to rescue its “acolytes” (as Greer put it) from a Samaritan trap. And it has to choose between hundreds of thousands of potential scenarios in its head; hence the episode title…
S4E10 – Order and Chaos
This episode, “The Cold War”, is the first of a 3-part trilogy, and in it we see the two machines size each other up and show what they can do.
S4E09 – Invictus Maneo
Carl Elias is “The Devil You Know”, but Dominic and the Brotherhood manage to get him right where they want him. However, as Elias often points out, he has more than one way out of everything.
S4E08 – It’s All About the Relationships
In “Point of Origin”, Reese thinks he’s found a mole in the police academy, but she’s really a cop who’s looking for the mole. Mole-ception!
S4E07 – It Takes a Thief
In "Honor Among Thieves", it takes a thief to catch a thief, but this week it takes one to protect one, from Samaritan.
S4E06 – The Secret Life of Walter…Dang
Walter Dang is a mild-mannered insurance salesman by day. But when duty calls, he becomes Detective Jack Forge, a makeshift “Man in the Suit”.
S4E05 – Get Out And Vote…Or Not
Simon Lee, the ‘prophet’ in “Prophets”, may see his profits plummet after someone manipulates both the votes and the candidates to get a governor friendly to his cause into office.
S4E04 – The Man With the Plan
“Brotherhood”, the gang and the relationship, both play big parts as Team Machine saves a couple of kids trying to escape the foster system, while inadvertently running into the top dog in the gang…
S4E03 – Dating Tips From Lionel Fusco
Fusco gets a wingman, as he helps Team Machine protect their person of interest. Meanwhile, Finch and Root go on an errand for The Machine that tests Harold’s limits on how far he will go to do what…
S4E02 – Samaritan Plays A Game
“Shall we play a game?” That quote was dangerous back in the 80’s in the movie “War Games”, and it’s just as dangerous when Samaritan asks it.
S4E01 – Team Machine 2.0
With the team spread out to the four winds, with new identities given to them by The Machine, some are fine with their new surroundings, and some most certainly are not.
Introduction and Story Summary
Listen in as Darrell and Doug give you a bit of the backstory of Person of Interest. If you’re going to be watching it and either you’ve forgotten what’s going on, or if season 4 will be the first…
SDCC 2014 Person of Interest Press Room Interviews
In this special San Diego Comic Con 2014 podcast, we share press room interviews with the cast of the hit CBS drama, Person of Interest.
