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Summary
DIR By: Team Shoot
Date: May 27, 2016, 8:15 am
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It's been 10 days since the machine gave Finch and Reese a new
number, and the countdown timer on the Stanton Virus is now
below the 24 hour mark. After hours of digging and coding, Finch
has determined that the virus is using a targeted DDoS attack on
the machine to force it to shut down and restart. They finally
get a new number, which leads them to the mysterious Ernest
Thornhill, a millionaire CEO of a data entry firm, and they go
to investigate. Thornhill's company consists of a handful of
office drones entering computer code from dot matrix printouts,
which Finch finds very strange, and no one appears to have ever
met Thornhill in person. Finch digs even deeper and discovers
that Thornhill doesn't exist as a real person, but is actually a
product of the machine's survival instinct. In other words,
Roger Thornhill IS the machine, and the machine is in danger.
Reese goes to "Thornhill's" registered apartment, where he runs
into Shaw, who is in town tracking Root, but he's taken into
custody when police storm the apartment after being tipped off
by Finch. Meanwhile, Root blackmails Finch into telling her
exactly what will happen when the virus overwhelms the machine
and it reboots, so that she can save it from falling into the
hands of Decima operatives. Finch explains that the machine will
search for a new admin by calling a specific public telephone in
the New York Public Library, and Root wants to take that phone
call to gain control. Aided by Shaw, Reese escapes police
custody and locates Finch at the library, taking out the Decima
operatives awaiting the machine's call. Just as the machine
reboots, Root takes the call... but Finch manages to send a
second call to a phone near Reese, who picks up the receiver and
answers... Carter, meanwhile, is faced with a flood of new
cases. The virus' stranglehold on the machine has prevented
Reese from halting murders and violent crimes, and the crime
rate is up nearly twenty percent. However, when Detective Terney
informs her that he has a lead on Detective Beecher's killer,
she drops everything to go with him. They arrive at the location
where the suspect is, and just when it looks like Terney is
going to shoot Carter in the back, an armed Russian thug runs
out of the building, forcing Carter to shoot him. Later, she is
stunned to learn that the gun the thug was carrying has
mysteriously vanished, and that Internal Affairs thinks it was
an unmotivated shooting. Carter slowly realizes that she's been
set-up... In flashback, we see the happier days of Finch's
relationship with Grace, including the day he decided to ask her
to marry him. The happy couple is contrasted with Finch's
crumbling relationship with his former partner, Nathan Ingram,
who built a backdoor into the machine's code without Finch's
knowledge. That backdoor provides Ingram with the "irrelevant
numbers" -- the numbers that Finch and Reese currently use.
Finch is furious with Ingram for his tampering and decides to
reverse the code, shutting the irrelevant list down just as
Ingram's own number comes up on the screen. Unfortunately,
neither Finch nor Ingram see it.
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