John Reese quotes from Person of Interest

John Reese

Lot of mayhem just to figure out they still loved each other.

Harold Finch

I suppose anything is worthwhile when life gives you a second chance to be with the one you love.

John Reese

How can two people go from loving one another, to wanting each other dead?

Joss Carter

Love is one thing. Being married? Whole different animal. Those vows change everything.

John Reese

Which one? 'Til death do us part?

Joss Carter

(laughs) Something like that. One day you're married to your soul mate, then you watch them turn into someone else. Sometimes you're so in love with who a person was, you can't bring yourself to love who they've become.

John Reese

Acosta, he's having a pretty good year.

Harold Finch

Career year, Mr. Reese. He's top ten in OPS among infielders for the last three.

John Reese

You're a baseball reference machine, Finch. You should get out more, take in a game once a while.

Harold Finch

You're in a good mood, Mr. Reese.

John Reese

I am. I woke up this morning and felt, took me a while to put my finger on it, but felt happy. Must be this job.

John Reese

Finch, are you okay?

Harold Finch

Aside from riding on a motorcycle illegally, which was exhilarating, I'm fine!

Harold Finch

Why's she doing this? For Shayn?

John Reese

Yes. And her brother. She still feels a debt. The dead have a power like that, as you know.

John Reese

Kara. I thought you were—

Kara Stanton

Dead? I wasn't very good at it. Of course, neither were you. Our friend here, on the other hand, who sent us to kill each other, I suspect he'll be great at it.

John Reese

I don't have that much of an appetite.

Kara Stanton

Mark was like you at first. So was I when I woke up half-dead in a hospital in Dongsheng. You can't control anything around you so you fight back in whatever little ways you can, like refusing to eat. But in time, you accept your fate like Mark here and have a hamburger.

John Reese

I'm just not that hungry, Kara. But when I do fight back, you'll know it.

Kara Stanton

Something funny, Mark?

Mark Snow

You're both damaged goods. Having the two of you take each other out wasn't just efficient. It was poetic.

Harold Finch

Have you been under any excess stress?

John Reese

You mean besides being locked in an 11'x13' at Rikers and wearing a bomb vest around Manhattan?

So, strong handsome guy your age working as a bellhop? Must have made a wrong turn somewhere.

John Reese

Yeah. I...uh stopped counting a while back.

John Reese

[As Marshall Jennings] Body armor? I don't think we'll be taking heavy fire with this group.

Look Jennings, I spend most of my 9 to 5 tethered to a desk. I've questioned a few embezzlers and some identity thieves. We're about to walk into a room with a killer.

John Reese

And I'll be standing right behind you.

May I? This was one of my babies. Completely rebuilt the interface, disabled the portmapper.

Harold Finch

Secondary authentication?

Added for access to the FTP and SNMP.

John Reese

[amused watching the tech talk] If you two would rather be alone...?

John Reese

I thought I just might find you here.

Sameen Shaw

And you decided to drop in for a visit?

John Reese

Stakeouts can get a little tedious.

Sameen Shaw

And what made you think I wanted the company? The time I shot you or the time I ditched you at the cemetery?

John Reese

I'm persistent.

Sameen Shaw

Or maybe you just can't take a hint.

You want a tip? Never get hitched without a prenup.

John Reese

Here's a better one. Never get in a car with strangers.

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.