In the sixteenth episode of the third season of Person of Interest<\/i>, CAN THIS SHOW GIVE ME A BREAK. PLEASE. I AM A GOOD PERSON. I DESERVE GOOD THINGS. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Person of Interest<\/i>.<\/p>\n
You are all allowed to laugh at the fact that it took me until the VERY END of this episode to realize that Daniel Casey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s laptop is THE laptop that set this whole fucking show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story into motion. HOW DID IT TAKE ME THAT LONG, IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S LITERALLY THE SAME PROP, I EVEN FIGURED OUT THE MOROCCO CONNECTION<\/b><\/p>\n
welcome to the way my mind works<\/p>\n
Look, this is one of those episodes where I almost wish I could just write WHAT ON EARTH DO I SAY ABOUT THIS because that succinctly conveys my entire reaction to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153RAM.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Right? That is a form of critical analysis all by itself. But I do<\/i> want to delve deeper in this because HOLY SHIT, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s such an unreal use of a flashback, one that provides perhaps the biggest single puzzle piece we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever gotten for the mythology of the show. IT TELLS US SO MUCH OH MY GOD.<\/p>\n
Dillinger<\/b><\/p>\n
I might be remembering this wrong, but I think<\/i> Root once made reference to the fact that John was not<\/i> the first person that Harold had working with him, so this episode would have been satisfying enough if it had just<\/i> been about the first partner that Harold ever hired. And \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hired\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is the best word to describe this, since Dillinger was a mercenary (I caught that Blackwater reference, which\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 that alone made me not want to trust Dillinger), and it ends up being the major mistake Harold made. He chose someone who did what he did for the money, not<\/i> because he believed in it. That flaw is one of the main reasons this unravels so quickly. And how could Harold have ever grown to trust someone who was so consistently trustworthy???<\/p>\n
Seriously, I greatly disliked Dillinger, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just mean that while comparing him to John. That would have been a difficult set of shoes to fill regardless, but Dillinger doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the ethical boundaries, the charm, or the finesse of John. Instead, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brash. Impulsive. Violent for the sake of it. And throughout this episode, he got dangerously close to screwing everything up until he just OUTRIGHT FUCKED UP AND DIDN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T CARE.<\/p>\n
And really, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what got me the most: he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care about any of these people. He cared about his paycheck, and he cared about sex. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about the only thing he ever seemed truly interested in this entire time, and he was never<\/i> going to make a good partner.<\/p>\n
Daniel Casey<\/b><\/p>\n
You know, it can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be stated harshly enough that Control is the WORST. Not just Control, but that whole wretched CIA group, who act in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153self interest\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the United States, but do so in ways that are consistently horrific and illegal. IT IS BARELY A FICTION, Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL. Barely! I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even start<\/i> to list the monstrous things the CIA has done in the name of national security. And with this flashback, we find out they hired someone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Daniel Casey, to be exact \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to attempt to break into Harold\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Machine, all so they could control <\/i>it. (This sheds even more light on their interest in Samaritan, JESUS CHRIST.) And when Casey began to get an idea of the massive<\/i> thing he was working on, he tried to get out, and THEY NEARLY MURDERED HIM. People are absolutely disposable to these demons!!!!<\/p>\n
Yet Casey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work unleashes hell upon everyone else in ways that are only understood years in the future. Because of Dillinger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sloppy and self-serving job trying to protect Casey, he caused complications in John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s assignment alongside Kara Stanton, which is what got them<\/i> sent to Ordos, China, where the CIA had that facility bombed in order to take out the laptop and<\/i> punish John and Kara. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s through this that we finally understand what Harold meant when he spoke about his guilt and complicity in John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life. IT WAS SO MUCH WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT.<\/p>\n
For what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth, he tried<\/i>. He tried to tell Dillinger that this would end in his death, that he was dealing with something he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand. But this was inevitable. It was entropy<\/i>. Dillinger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s selfishness backfired on him, and it is the other major thing that set in motion the events that led to\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 my gods, everything<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Seriously, HOW LONG HAVE THEY BEEN PLANNING THIS??? The same with Root and Greenfield??? Wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Greenfield that dude\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foster brother in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mors Praematura\u00e2\u20ac\u009d???? I CAN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T DO THIS, PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE, Person of Interest, <\/i>PLEASE.<\/p>\n
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