Season 3 poster

Season 3

(2013)

Overview

The team suffers a devastating loss and confront staggering challenges. Adapting to the next evolution of The Machine, now completely self-governed and hidden from all, Finch and Reese team with rogue agent Sameen Shaw to save lives and seek justice, but their missions now threaten to tear them apart. Joss Carter and Lionel Fusco finally unravel the criminal police conspiracy "HR" - but at a tragic cost. And former cyber-enemy — and now highly tuned confederate of The Machine — Root becomes an …

Cast

Jim Caviezel as John Reese
Jim Caviezel

as John Reese

Michael Emerson as Harold Finch
Michael Emerson

as Harold Finch

Kevin Chapman as Lionel Fusco
Kevin Chapman

as Lionel Fusco

Taraji P. Henson as Joss Carter
Taraji P. Henson

as Joss Carter

Amy Acker as Root
Amy Acker

as Root

Sarah Shahi as Sameen Shaw
Sarah Shahi

as Sameen Shaw

Episodes

Liberty poster

Liberty 8.1

September 24, 2013

The Machine, now completely self-governed with its whereabouts unknown, resumes giving Finch its "irrelevant" numbers f…

Nothing to Hide poster

Nothing to Hide 7.6

October 1, 2013

The number comes up for an Internet entrepreneur in the business of eliminating people's privacy, but finds his own bei…

Lady Killer poster

Lady Killer 8.2

October 8, 2013

The team suspects the latest number to be a potential stalker/ killer. Root plots her escape from the institution and g…

Reasonable Doubt poster

Reasonable Doubt 8.0

October 15, 2013

The team must figure out if a prominent lawyer orchestrated the murder of her husband or if she is being framed; Carter…

Razgovor poster

Razgovor 8.6

October 22, 2013

Shaw must stay close to a 10-year-old girl with highly developed surveillance skills when she is identified by the mach…

Mors Praematura poster

Mors Praematura 8.6

October 29, 2013

After being freed from her confinement to the psych ward, Root needs Shaw's help with a directive from the machine; Fin…

The Perfect Mark poster

The Perfect Mark 8.1

November 5, 2013

The team is met with surprises during an investigation into a hypnotherapist; an antiquities dealer has ties to a crime…

Endgame poster

Endgame 8.9

November 12, 2013

The machine gives Finch 38 numbers at once; information about Carter's past is revealed.

The Crossing poster

The Crossing 8.8

November 19, 2013

The battle to bring a crime organization to justice reaches a new level; Reese's number comes up in the machine.

The Devil's Share poster

The Devil's Share 9.2

November 26, 2013

As the POI team seeks justice for Carter’s murder, Finch realizes one of his team members may go one step too far in or…

Lethe poster

Lethe 8.5

December 17, 2013

Flashbacks to Finch’s adolescence provide insight into his creation of The Machine. Also, the team receives the number …

Aletheia poster

Aletheia 8.7

January 7, 2014

Multiple enemies converge on the POI team as they protect a dying man whose number has come up. They struggle to keep t…

4C poster

4C 8.4

January 14, 2014

Reese boards an international flight in an attempt to put the team and the past behind him, but is angered when he real…

Provenance poster

Provenance 7.4

February 4, 2014

Reese rejoins Finch in New York, but when the team receives the number of a highly skilled antiquities thief, a surpris…

Last Call poster

Last Call 7.7

February 25, 2014

Finch goes undercover in an emergency call center to protect a 911 operator, but it soon becomes clear that the threat …

RAM poster

RAM 8.6

March 4, 2014

The secrets of Finch’s operation before he enlisted Reese are revealed, including shocking ties to present-day events.

/ poster

/ 8.7

March 18, 2014

The Machine assigns Root to seek out a janitor with a mysterious past, but when her very presence puts his life in dang…

Allegiance poster

Allegiance 8.1

March 25, 2014

Finch and Reese must delve into the murky waters of international politics when they are given the number of a former g…

Most Likely To... poster

Most Likely To... 8.2

April 1, 2014

Reese and Shaw pose as alumni at a high school reunion in order to keep eyes on the latest POI. Meanwhile, Finch and Fu…

Death Benefit poster

Death Benefit 8.6

April 15, 2014

Reese poses as a Secret Service agent to get close to the latest POI, a U.S. congressman who may hold the key to derail…

Beta poster

Beta 8.5

April 29, 2014

As Decima uses Samaritan’s feeds to hunt Reese and Shaw, Greer exploits Finch’s greatest weakness in an attempt to lure…

A House Divided poster

A House Divided 8.6

May 6, 2014

When an unknown entity prevents The Machine from seeing the full picture of an impending catastrophic event, it sends t…

Deus Ex Machina poster

Deus Ex Machina 9.2

May 13, 2014

The team takes desperate action in its race to prevent the malevolent AI program Samaritan from coming online and makin…