- Sameen, Harold, and Arthur make their escape. Root is captured and tortured. The others go to recover Arthur's back up hard drives but are caught in the crossfire when Vigilance arrives to claim them for themselves to expose Samaritan.
- Finch, Shaw and Arthur Claypool are able to escape from the clutches of Control, after which Arthur demonstrates that he has more lucid moments than he initially lets on. He informs Finch and Shaw more about Samaritan, and what from that project still exists, which is what Control was after. As the threesome try to protect Samaritan, they are tracked both by Control's team, led by Hersh, and Vigilance, led by Collier. Control has other issues on her mind, namely dealing with Root, who tries fruitlessly to explain to Control her relationship with the Machine, which Control believes rightly belongs to her. Meanwhile, Reese and Fusco are still in Colorado. In their current situation, they are able to have an uninterrupted philosophical discussion/argument about the nature of their work with Finch and with the Machine.—Huggo
- Reese and Finch are locked in a jail in Colorado for fighting each other outside the bar. Root saves Finch, Shaw and Claypool, but is captured by Hersh. Control tortures her severely, but she manages to escape with the support of The Machine. Meanwhile, Finch, Claypool and Shaw head to the bank where the drivers of the Samaritan are stored in a safe deposit box. Out of the blue, Shaw sees the Vigilance arriving and Finch locks Claypool, the Bank Manager and himself in the vault. But immediately after, Hersh and his team arrive at the bank. Finch convinces Claypool to destroy the drivers and discloses to his friend that Nathan and he have built a machine. When Collier prepares to blow-up the vault, there is a havoc in the bank with the confrontation of the Vigilance and Hersh and his men. Shaw heads to the vault to save Finch and Claypool, but they are surprised by Hersh and his men.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- We open with Control demanding answers from Finch, Shaw and Claypool. Just as she prepares to have Shaw killed, bullets start coming through the wall, killing some of Control's henchmen. It is Root, blasting through with the help of a handgun and the machine. Root, Finch, Shaw and Claypool are almost out the door when Hersh shoots Root in the back. She's injured and must be left behind.
We flash back to 1979 and a young Finch preparing to send his father to a facility that will be able to care for him. He promises to continue working on the device he thinks will help him with his memory problems.
In present day Finch tells Shaw that Control wants Claypool's broken drives because they can still be used. Finch and Claypool reminisce about MIT and Claypool tells him he did, in fact, make a back-up for his machine, Samaritan. Finch think finding Samaritan is the best way to ensure Claypool's safety.
Root has been locked in a secure cell away from technology. Control knows that Root has found a way inside the machine and wants the access. Root thinks it would be irresponsible and tells her nothing. Control pulls out a hypodermic and injects her with it.
Reese wakes up in a prison cell with Fusco following their fight. It seems they'll be there for a while.
Claypool brings Finch and Shaw to a bank where he has a safe deposit box. He's hidden the key in his medic alert necklace.
Root come to and is told that she's been given a combination of drugs that will take her body on a kind of roller coaster. It can only happen a few more times before her heart explodes. Root still isn't talking.
Shaw spots members of Vigilance in the bank working on destroying security cameras with lasers. The pull out weapons and put everybody on the ground. SWAT teams arrive, led by Hersh, and Shaw tells Finch he needs to get out of the vault. He realizes it's too late and closes the vault behind him.
Reese tells Fusco he thinks all they were doing was "delaying the inevitable." Fusco's upset that Reese seems to be giving up on Carter's legacy. They are released and Reese tells Fusco to tell Finch "thanks for the job." Fusco responds that he hasn't heard from Finch recently and is concerned.
Shaw tells Finch that she's considering taking out Vigilance, but they are keeping Hersh at bay. He tells her to think about exercising finesse.
Hersh calls Collier and threatens to wipe out his organization if they don't surrender. Collier doesn't think Hersh is letting them live either way and says exposing corruption is worth dying for.
Inside Claypool's box and pulls out a box that contains his back-up for Samaritan. It contains a famous quote Claypool wrote in 2005, but he isn't sure what it means.
Root is struggling and is calling out for help from the machine. Root tells her there is no username or password, that she herself is the interface. Control brings her a phone and asks how Root uses the machine. Root says "she uses me" and refers to the machine as a friend. Control threatens to remove a bone in the skull that allows sound to travel from the ears to the brain and begins cutting.
Claypool's note was dated one day prior to the program being shut down. He thinks this means Samaritan is alive.
Back in 1980 Finch is struggling with his machine. In an attempt to add more power he hacks into the US Government.
Claypool says he was the one who broke his machine, in order to reboot it and give it a chance to either live or die. It "lived" for 30 seconds before being shut down by the government.
Collier calls Finch inside the vault. He thinks Claypool needs to be held accountable and his program exposed. They are going to blow up the vault door. Shaw tells Finch that when the explosion happens she'll be able to get into the vault via a sewer and bring them to safety.
Control has left Root with only one good ear and threatens to do the same to her other if she doesn't cooperate. Root responds that the machine has been communicating with her via Morse code over the cell phone using a frequency that can't be heard by people over 40. It allowed Root to steal a knife in Control's pocket. Root lunges towards her.
Finch warns Claypool that is program could be abused and asks him to destroy Samaritan. When Claypool hesitates Finch tells him "we built it" and that it is "wonderful and terrible." Finch eventually succeeds in convincing Claypool to destroy it.
Vigilance blows the door and Shaw set off her device. Finch and Claypool wake up and are taken to safety by Shaw. A gun fight ensues in the bank lobby. When Shaw turns her back to take out a guy she finds Shaw and Claypool being held at gunpoint by Collier. Collier asks for the drives and Claypool and says he's destroyed it. Collier wants to take Claypool and orders Shaw and Finch to be killed. At this point Reese and Fusco show up to save the day.
Finch, Shaw, Fusco and Claypool jump into the sewer.
When Control won't tell Root anything, Root asks the machine for help asking questions. Through Root, the machine tells Control she guards the only thing Control loves, something which exists in Massachusetts and that the machines sees everyone at anytime. She warns Control to stop following her.
Finch sit by Claypool's bed. Claypool says he's glad Finch was the one to build the machine. Claypool tells Finch he's disappearing via his memories. Root calls Finch and indicates that the bank manager who was in vault with them was a plant and she switched out Claypool's drive with a fake. Finch gives Claypool the phone and machine shows him video of some of his greatest memories, including his wife and photographs with him and Finch at MIT as students.
In 1980 Finch visits his father in the home. He warns him that the government will come to see him and tells him his son did terrible things. Finch tells him not to believe them. But his father no longer remembers him, or much of anything. He asks his father to name a bird in the tree, he doesn't remember. Finch sees a government vehicle arrive and leaves his father's bird guide with him and leaves quickly.
Reese tells Finch he came to protect him, but he's not staying. He doesn't think the machine cares who matters and who doesn't and is there to say good-bye. Reese leaves.
In the end we flash to the banker who stole the actual Samaritan drive giving it to Greer. Greer asks if she has told anyone about the drives or accessed any of it. She says no and Greer kills her.
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