Person of Interest Season 1 quotes

Peter Collier

Violent revolt is an American value.

Sameen Shaw

There's a time for a hammer and a time for a scalpel. It's hammer time.

[via Root] Why have you done this?

Control

The Machine belongs to me.

No. I don't belong to anyone anymore. You, however, are mine. I protect you. The only thing you love lives at 254 Wendel Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. I guard it. Same as I guard you. Do not question my judgement. Do not pursue me or my agents. Trust in me. I am always watching.

Control

What do you want?

To save you.

Control

From what? Save me from what?

Root

[giggling] Isn't she the best?

Sameen Shaw

Dizzy? Tongue a little itchy?

Shaw.

Sameen Shaw

You once taught me that an operative should always wet their lips and wait for symptoms before drinking anything.

Scopolamine.

Sameen Shaw

Tachycardia will be setting in shortly. Fatigue, amnesia--

I know what the drug does.

Sameen Shaw

You're conscious, but you've been rendered completely docile.

I'm on a job right now.

Sameen Shaw

You were. Guy with the glasses on the laptop, right? That was the number you were supposed to kill tonight?

I trained you well.

Sameen Shaw

I always liked you Hersh. Even after you killed me.

Shaw, your new employers - are they treating you okay?

Harold Finch

Mr. Reese, I understand your frustration with the opacity of the Machine, but there is a reason I chose to make it that way. The Machine only gives us numbers because I would always rather that a human element remain in determining something so critical as someone’s fate. We have free will, and with that comes great responsibility, and some times great loss. I miss her dearly too...

John Reese

I can field strip a .45 in the dark, Finch. I think I can handle a bow tie.

Sameen Shaw

Hate to interrupt this mildly erotic moment, gents, but the invitation advises us not to be late.

Sameen Shaw

Finch, there's no sign of danger in here, not counting the shrimp puffs.

Sameen Shaw

Would you really want someone to call 911 and get me?

Harold Finch

Point taken.

Is that him?

Harold Finch

I wanted to offer you the one thing that 911 operators never get: closure.

Control

[to Special Counsel] Nathan Ingram outlived his usefulness and he was dealt with accordingly. You might consider him a cautionary tale.

[to Finch] You knew I was a shark when you hired me. Don't be surprised when I smell blood in the water.

Peter Collier

See, America is dying and everybody knows it. It’s not just about privacy, it’s about principle. Our nation is assassinating people with drones, holding them without due process, and yes, spying on its own people without cause or limits and in direct violation of our Constitution.

Sameen Shaw

You're right, about all of it. I did work for the government and I do want revenge. But if that work taught me anything it's that how you do matters as much as what you do, and by that metric you're all just terrorists. And I kill terrorists.