Harold Finch quotes from Person of Interest

Joss Carter

Yeah, it's just a machine right, I mean how smart can it be?

Harold Finch

[Sarcastically] Exactly. Just a machine.

Harold Finch

You could never be me because I save lives. You take them.

No, I live those lives better than real people ever could. I follow them and watch them waste what they have. I do those identities justice. The things I've seen. The lives I've lived. One day I'll stop, when I find the person I'm meant to be.

Harold Finch

What? People like you don't stop. You can rationalize it however you like. But you hurt people because you like it. Because you're sick! You're maladjusted and you need help.

Leon Tao

So this guy's dealing drugs?

Harold Finch

That's putting it mildly. Based on the financial information I've seen, he's laundering profits on the order of eight figures.

Leon Tao

Wow, I'm jealous... angry. Angry. He must be stopped.

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...?

Sameen Shaw

You think I should have a hobby? Now, what would that be? Hanging around a derelict library with you, your poorly-socialized guard dog, and Bear here?

Harold Finch

Bit of a come down from saving the world, I guess, but we have our moments.

Sameen Shaw

Is this your hobby? Running a halfway home for retired assassins?

Harold Finch

Hate to see talent go to waste.

Sameen Shaw

Awfully trusting of you, now, isn't it?

Harold Finch

I'm quite confident, Miss Shaw, that you are the first person who has ever said that to me.

Harold Finch

Everything all right?

Nathan Ingram

Yeah. Too much squash. Doctor says I should take up some low-impact activity, like drinking.

Harold Finch

I plan to ask her tomorrow, and I don't want to complicate that. But... if I'm gonna marry—

Nathan Ingram

You don't want to get married under another one of your pseudonyms? You don't think she will consent to be Mrs. Ostrich?

Nathan Ingram

I'm excited for you. Harold becomes himself again. Which would make this day one.

Harold Finch

I haven't actually asked her yet, so technically, it would still be day zero.

Harold Finch

I can tell you how it began. You were approached by a woman named Alicia Corwin.

She was killed last year.

Root

Such a tragedy.

John Reese

Two for one boilermakers in Hell’s Kitchen.

Harold Finch

That sounds horrible.

Harold Finch

Have you learned anything?

John Reese

Just that Kruger's got a lot of friends, appears to be happily married, and Shaw likes truffled quail eggs.

Sameen Shaw

You can't expect me to shoot somebody on an empty stomach.

John Reese

You doubt [Shaw's] ability to be discreet?

Harold Finch

I doubt her ability to keep from shooting someone.

Shaw

Our guy just went from blue blood to hipster faster than you can say 'ironic facial hair'.

Finch

I don't understand anything you just said.

Sameen Shaw

I disobeyed, some, pretty much all of your orders, Am I fired?

Harold Finch

On the contrary, Ms. Shaw. I think you finally got the job.

John Reese

Maybe the Machine blew a belt or something.

Harold Finch

It’s not a lawnmower, Mr. Reese.