Season 5
(2016)
Overview
For years, the Person of Interest team have been protected by The Machine, but as worlds collided and a rival AI known as Samaritan finally cornered The Machine inside the nation’s power grid, it was the POI team’s turn to protect Finch’s creation. In season five, the cold war is over. The world around us might look the same, but something has drastically changed. Samaritan’s lethal “correction” has initiated its control. Finch’s Machine is essentially dead. Shaw is still missing. And the team …
Cast
as John Reese
as Harold Finch
as Lionel Fusco
as Root
as Sameen Shaw
Episodes
B.S.O.D. 9.1
May 3, 2016
Reese and Finch attempt to rescue the Machine’s source code before it deteriorates beyond repair. Also, Root fights for…
SNAFU 8.7
May 9, 2016
The Machine experiences a glitch during rebooting, supplying Reese and Fusco with the numbers of dozens of people not a…
Truth Be Told 7.9
May 10, 2016
Reese’s cover could be blown when he realizes the latest POI has ties to his old CIA colleague, Kara Stanton.
6,741 8.6
May 16, 2016
Shaw escapes her captors, but the team is unsure of her mental state when she begins to act paranoid and reckless.
ShotSeeker 8.5
May 17, 2016
Reese protects an NYPD analyst whose investigation into a software glitch has drawn the attention of Samaritan. Also, R…
A More Perfect Union 8.1
May 23, 2016
The Machine sends Reese and Finch to a wedding to protect a pair of POIs before their nuptials. Also, Fusco becomes ang…
QSO 8.5
May 24, 2016
Root goes undercover at a radio station to protect the host of a conspiracy theory show who stumbles upon information t…
Reassortment 8.5
May 24, 2016
Reese and Finch become trapped in a hospital that becomes ground zero for a deadly viral outbreak. Also, Samaritan’s ne…
Sotto Voce 8.8
May 30, 2016
The mysterious criminal mastermind known as “The Voice” returns and traps Reese and Fusco in their own precinct with se…
The Day the World Went Away 9.3
May 31, 2016
Finch’s number comes up when a fatal error blows his cover identity and sets off a deadly series of escalating encounte…
Synecdoche 8.5
June 7, 2016
The team must unravel a conspiracy and stay ahead of the Secret Service when the President of the United States becomes…
.exe 8.9
June 14, 2016
As Reese and Shaw race to catch up with Finch, he infiltrates a maximum-security government facility in a desperate mis…
return 0 9.6
June 21, 2016
Finch, Reese, Fusco and Shaw embark on one last mission to prevent Samaritan from destroying The Machine and cementing …