Person of Interest (TV Series)

Asylum (2015)

John Nolan: John Greer

Quotes 

• Samaritan : [text on screen]  Willing to exchange lives for location.

  John Greer : Samaritan is offering your Machine a second chance to save the lives of its human agents. Give up its location, or they die. The offer expires in 60 seconds.

  Samaritan : [starts counting down]  60 seconds. 59 seconds. 58 seconds.

  [Samaritan's POV from its monitor "FAC ALPH 57": still counting down. The Machine's POV from security camera "FAC ALPH 58": "Situation lethal. Time to asset destruction" matching Samaritan's count to milliseconds; "Evaluating strategies" with enumerated options scrolling by rapidly. Samaritan's "asset//722" advances on root with the bone saw] 

  Root : [to the Machine via its security camera]  Don't do it. Please. Don't give yourself up. Harold was right. We *are* interchangeable. You can replace us! You can keep fighting!

  [electronics power down, killing the lights and powering down the bone saw, leaving only the displays and camera feeds still on] 

  The Machine : [displays text on medical screens]  You are wrong, Harold. You are not interchangeable. I failed to save Sameen. I will not fail you now.

• Harold Finch : Have you forgotten her already? You've already discarded her, and you're a human being. Imagine how quickly that thing that you've created would discard you. Do you ever lie awake at night wondering if one day it will see you as a threat? Or worse, as irrelevant?

  John Greer : How arrogant of you to think that any of us are anything but irrelevant.