How often alliances shift in times of war. Not that those alliances ever truly exist. They're an illusion, like seeing a sunset in a sky of flames.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Court is now in session.
Senator, you've denied any knowledge of Northern Lights, yet your name appears in these documents some 37 times. Now, how do you explain that?
Maybe you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet.
Where were you when Flight 77 hit the Pentagon? Because I was inside it. I carried out the wounded, I covered up bodies, and I have spent every day since putting bullets in the people responsible and in anyone else who even thinks they can do that to our country again. You wanna shoot me because I had to tap a few phone calls, read a few emails? Then you go right ahead. But you better turn that gun on yourself next, Mr. Collier, because you have broken just as many laws and the only difference is I didn’t wrap myself up in the American flag and try to convince people I was a hero.
You expect us to believe you gave one thought About people's rights as you were building The government a weapon of mass surveillance?
Not a weapon.
What else would you call it?
I would call it the best I could do.
What a piece of work is your Machine, Harold. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god.
Nothing wrong with a dictatorship, so long as you're the dictator.
The truth will come out.
To quote your Benjamin Franklin, "Three may keep a secret...if two of them are dead".
WHAT ARE YOUR COMMANDS?
I assure you, it's quite the other way around. The question is, what, my dear Samaritan, are your commands for us?
The Machine asked me to tell you something before we part. You once told John the whole point of Pandora’s box was that once you’ve opened it, you can’t close it again. She wanted me to remind you of how the story ends. When everything is over, when the worst has happened, there’s still one thing left in Pandora’s box: hope.
NNovak
I'm sorry. I'm sure I sound like a real conspiracy nut.
MRMartine Rousseau
No, I understand. You're saying an artificial intelligence bought your paper so you'd lose your job and your flight would be canceled. And you'd end up back at this bar...where the only security camera would go out. And the bartender would have to leave suddenly after getting an emergency text. The world has changed. You should know you're not the only one who figured it out. You're one of three. The other two will die in a traffic accident in Seattle in 14 minutes.
I have to say, the early results are impressive. Samaritan has preempted multiple threats to National Security.
You're welcome, Senator.
Your machine seems to be even more aggressive than Northern Lights.
Samaritan is designed to be proactive. We can't afford to miss even one terrorist now, can we?
All assurances aside, what really concerns me is accountability.
Accountability?
It appears Decima Technology has been dismantled as a viable business entity, which makes me wonder, who exactly is getting the NSA feeds?
We had a deal, Senator. We get the feeds. You get the relevant numbers. What we do with that information is entirely up to us.
That deal offered us plausible deniability. If the public ever gets wind of Samaritan, I just hope you're somewhere to be found.
Wait, the machine put me in this silly-ass job?
It's the only way to keep you alive and off Samaritan's radar. For what it's worth, I really like the new look. You're definitely an Autumn.
I could stab you with my stiletto.
Sorry, you have to pick a side, because this is war. And the thing we're up against, it has virtually unlimited resources. Governments working unwittingly at its behest. Operatives around the globe protecting it. You know how many we have? Five...six if we count the dog.
[to Finch] Every life matters. You taught me that.
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