- Sameen Shaw: Where's Bear?
- John Reese: Staying with a guy named Leon. Didn't think you even liked the dog.
- Sameen Shaw: Like Him? He's the only reason I'm sticking around.
- John Reese: We're gonna need to make a pit stop. Someone needs our help.
- Sameen Shaw: And the whole "prevent the AI apocalypse thing"?
- John Reese: You like a challenge, Shaw. We're the good guys, which means we have to do both.
- John Reese: [Shaw tosses him the shotgun] What's this for?
- Sameen Shaw: [Seeing the yellow Ferrari] To help you feel less inadequate while I drive this thing.
- Root: I thought you said I wouldn't enjoy this, Harold. Sadly, though, if my access to the machine only lasts 24 hours, it's time to go. Your friend John's been keeping up with us. How is that?
- Harold Finch: I don't know...
- Root: I wasn't asking you, Harold.
- Sameen Shaw: You wanna fill me in on who you're talking to, John? Our fairy godmother?
- John Reese: he group you used to get your intel from. You called them Research. Your ex-boss called it Northern Lights.
- Sameen Shaw: The ones your pal told me don't exist.
- John Reese: No, they exist. They're just an "it" rather than a "them. " A machine.
- John Reese: [Talking to the machine via a street cam] Give me a location on Finch. You know almost everything that's happening, and you won't tell me the one thing I need?
- Sameen Shaw: Okay, look, I already broke you out of jail tonight. I'm not springing you from the funny farm.
- Root: [the facility where the Machine was supposed to be is empty] Where is it?
- Harold Finch: I'm sorry. You said you wanted to set the machine free. I already did.
- Root: [Turns away from him] Where are you? Please talk to me!
- [Turns back to Harold, angry]
- Root: You lied to me. I believed you. I believed in you.
- Harold Finch: Ms. Groves...
- Root: My name is ROOT.
- [Turns her gun at him, only to shot as Reese and Shaw arrive]
- John Reese: Harold. Are you okay?
- [Looks at the empty room]
- John Reese: Is this what you expected?
- Harold Finch: It's what I hoped.
- Special Counsel: I always knew there was someone behind Ingram. Like a black hole. Invisible, but powerful. So tell me, where did you move the machine?
- Harold Finch: It moved itself.
- Special Counsel: But who controls it?
- Harold Finch: As of now, it controls itself.
- Special Counsel: The numbers, will they continue to come to us?
- Harold Finch: That will be up to the machine.
- Special Counsel: If they don't start up again, the country is defenseless.
- Harold Finch: No, just less well-defended. I think we both understand that what's at stake here has moved beyond simply defending the country.
- Special Counsel: Has it? You built the machine for us to use to protect people. We do, very well. Don't fight us. Help us recover it or rebuild it. You can dictate your terms. You have my word.
- Harold Finch: You gave my friend your word. And you killed him.
- Root: We want to know about Northern Lights.
- Lawrence Szilard: I have no idea what you're talking about. I have nothing to say.
- Root: Your daughter, Christine. In LA, where you hid her. Such a shame if people running Northern Lights got a hold of her.
- Harold Finch: Please, there's no need for that.
- [to Lawrence]
- Harold Finch: I can tell you how it began. You were approached by a woman named Alicia Corwin.
- Lawrence Szilard: She was killed last year.
- Root: Such a tragedy.
- Lawrence Szilard: All of my colleagues on that project died in suspicious circumstances in the past two years. As far as I know, I'm the last one alive.
- Harold Finch: And you're the last person who can tell us about Northern Lights.
- John Reese: The machine said this is where I'll find the answer.
- Sameen Shaw: What was the question?
- John Reese: Where the machine is located.
- Sameen Shaw: Can't it just tell you?
- John Reese: I think Finch programmed it not to, to protect it.
- Sameen Shaw: No offense. Maybe Finch wants control of the machine himself.
- John Reese: If Finch had something to do with the virus, I'm sure he had his reasons. On the upside, hopefully the machine won't have told Root where it is either.
- Sameen Shaw: Next time I see that woman, I'm shooting her. And not in the knee.
- Sameen Shaw: Another pit stop? How often do you guys get a number?
- John Reese: Some days, none. Doesn't seem like today's gonna be one of those days though.
- Sameen Shaw: [Stops a car] Police business, ma'am.
- Lady Driver: Let's see your badge.
- Sameen Shaw: New Yorkers.
- [Shoots her gun in the air]
- Carl Elias: [Discovers he's been taken out of prison by HR] Oh, that sort of prisoner transfer.
- Peter Yogorov: Heard a story about you, Elias. Your daddy wanted to put you down. He had two of his goombahs take you for a walk in the woods.
- Carl Elias: Does this story have a moral?
- Detective Raymond Terney: Yeah. What goes around comes around.
- Carl Elias: No. You don't get to talk to me. I'm true to what I am. Like my friend Mr. Yogorov here. I killed his father. He kills me. Fair is fair. But you, you're a - you're an oath breaker. You're a worm.
- Hersh: Shaw.
- Sameen Shaw: You should have killed me better, Hersh.
- Special Counsel: I know it's a minor matter compared to the total and utter catastrophe I'm looking at here, but I didn't think you'd turn traitor, Shaw.
- Sameen Shaw: That's a strong word to be throwing around given where we're standing.
- John Reese: Finch, you think we'll ever get another number?
- Harold Finch: I don't know. Mr. Reese, I owe you an explanation. And an apology. Three years ago, when I put the code out there to free the machine, I had no idea what path it would take or what unintended consequences it might have. I never intended to hurt anyone, but I accepted that someone might get hurt. I always worried that events that I had set in motion may have... changed things for you.
- John Reese: My life changed when I kept my mouth shut at an airport terminal seven years ago. You didn't have anything to do with that. You lost a friend. You did what you had to do.
- Carl Elias: [after Carter rescues him from HR] Detective Carter. What a funny old world. Where are we going?
- Joss Carter: I don't know.
- Harold Finch: I know you've been looking for the machine. Nathan, if you're trying to get back in to access the irrelevant numbers...
- Nathan Ingram: It won't work, I know. You locked me out. You were always the better engineer. But I do have one advantage over you. I am the face of IFT, which means when I call a reporter to meet me for coffee, he'll be there.
- Harold Finch: What are you going to do, Nathan?
- Nathan Ingram: I'm going to tell them what we did. What we built.
- Harold Finch: No, you can't do that!
- Nathan Ingram: Why? Because the government will shut it down? Because of the greater good? I'm sick of hearing it.
- Harold Finch: No, it's not just that anymore. I've been looking into this. I think the government may be killing them. The engineers that Corwin had reassemble the machine after we shipped it off? There have been accidents, disappearances. The head of the project, a man named Lawrence Szilard, went missing last month.
- Nathan Ingram: Harold, you have been running so long, it's rattled you. Alicia isn't going to have me bumped off.
- Harold Finch: It might be out of her control.
- John Reese: You didn't do this yourself?
- Harold Finch: I couldn't. I'd locked myself out. The machine was designed to accept alterations in its programming only as a response to an attack. I knew that sooner or later someone would try to take it over, but I didn't know who. So I made sure that when they did they'd do it with my code.
- John Reese: You hid a virus within a virus.
- Harold Finch: I realized that the people Nathan and I had entrusted the machine to were the wrong people and that the only way to protect it would be to teach it to protect itself. I didn't want to involve you in this business, Mr. Reese, because I had hoped that, if I hadn't returned, you would continue what we had started.
- Special Counsel: How did it get moved?
- Caretaker: Exactly as you instructed. Over the last five weeks, one node at a time, so it was never off-line. Moved from here in containers marked for fissile materials. To where, I have no idea, which is what I thought was the point.
- Special Counsel: You didn't think to call to confirm?
- Caretaker: I did call. You confirmed it.
- Special Counsel: [Into his phone] We'll find it, ma'am. With something that large, we'll find a way to track it. I'm sure - Yes, ma'am.
- [Passes the phone to Hersh]
- Hersh: Yes, ma'am. I'll seal the room.
- [Shoots the caretaker, then turns the gun on Special Counsel]
- Special Counsel: Fair enough.
- John Reese: [On the phone] Carter, I've been worried. You okay?
- Joss Carter: I've been better. But, look, that can wait. I think HR and Yogorov's crew are gonna take out Elias tonight.
- John Reese: Elias tried to kill you, Joss. He kidnapped your son. His well-being isn't exactly a priority for me.
- Joss Carter: His lieutenant was gunned down this morning. The first thing Elias did was get his bodyguards paroled to watch his man in the hospital. At least he's loyal.
- Root: Your machine is telling me about all these people, Harold. Their secrets. I'm beginning to understand how you acquired such a dim view of humanity, Harold.
- Detective Raymond Terney: So I made my statement. I don't know what else to do. Still no sign of the weapon. You really ought to contact your union rep.
- Joss Carter: No. I'll be fine. I know who took the weapon. I recognized one of the unis at the crime scene. He was questioned in the HR sting, but they let him go. Gonna have Fusco have a little talk with him.
- Detective Raymond Terney: [Changes his tone] That's always been the problem with you, Carter. You - you just never figured out when to keep your big mouth shut. Listen, you always been okay to me, Carter. And frankly, I don't like killing women. You keep digging, we're gonna put you in the ground, just like we did to your boyfriend. You drag your recovering dirtbag partner into this, we will pull the rip cord on him too. And maybe your kid. Now, do yourself a favor and sit here and take it.
- Lawrence Szilard: We were contracted to build a structure. It had to be hidden in plain sight and have power for 50,000 people. At first, you know, I said, "That's a joke. What about a nuclear reactor?" The next day, I was given specs for a nuclear reprocessing facility and the army corps of engineers as a work force. And then it started to arrive. Disguised as radioactive material to evade scrutiny. We were just told to - to plug it in. They would take care of the rest, but I've always been the curious type.
- Harold Finch: So you took a look at the data.
- Lawrence Szilard: Just the I/O. The rest was encrypted. But what I saw... it was like a glimpse of the future. Elegant, intuitive. Practically alive.
- [Turns to Root]
- Lawrence Szilard: It's speaking to you right now, isn't it?
- Harold Finch: We gave the government the ultimate power. If they know you've called a journalist, they won't take any chances. They'll kill you and anybody else they think might know about it.
- Nathan Ingram: You've never trusted anyone. Not me, not the machine. Have you even told your fiancee your real name yet?
- Harold Finch: ...I'm waiting for the right moment. Nathan, please, tell me what I can do to stop you.
- Nathan Ingram: Give me back the irrelevant list. You could even help me.
- Harold Finch: What, you and me sitting here, trying to rescue them one at a time?
- Nathan Ingram: Someone's number's on that thing right now. It's gonna be erased at midnight. Maybe - maybe we can help them.
- Harold Finch: I'm not trying to help them. I'm trying to help you.