In the eighth episode of the fifth season of Person of Interest<\/i>, SAMARITAN IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST, WE ALL KNEW THIS, BUT STILL. THE WORST. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Person of Interest<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trigger Warning: For consent, nonconsensual medical procedures<\/b>.<\/p>\n
Good fucking GOD, this is a nightmare, and I KNEW IT, but that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make this any easier to watch, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Every time that Greer ever justifies Samaritan in a future episode, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just going to think of this. It hurts<\/i>. There is so much suffering here, so much injustice, so much terror all around, and I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fucking possibly imagine anyone seeing all of this and thinking that Samaritan makes the world better<\/i>.<\/p>\n
James Ko died, and he died solely because he could best spread a contagion. As far as we know, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like he was a horrible person, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like that would have justified his death regardless. Samaritan saw him as part of a calculation, one that would take out Dr. Mason and the nurse, as well as usher in a new wave of paranoia. It was also a means to test Jeff Blackwell as a possible asset, and LITERALLY NONE OF THESE THINGS JUSTIFY SUCH HEINOUS ACTS. We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know how many people died due to the flu outbreak, but for Samaritan, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just numbers in a global equation, one meant to bring order and stability through chaos and violence.<\/p>\n
Of course, this irony is always lost on the perpetrators. (Except Jeff, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get to him in a bit.)<\/p>\n
Instead, everything is kept at a distance. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our characters\u00e2\u20ac\u201despecially John and Harold\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwho must deal with this outbreak alongside all the innocent people who are forced to suffer for the greater good. This is clearly a disastrous situation, and the writers\/production team ramp up the unbearable tension, first by having Ko die, and then isolating everyone within a CDC quarantine. Predictably, the people within the quarantine start to turn on one another, but this doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually last as long as I thought it would. The focus shifts from the building paranoia to external forces, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a brilliant change. We get to watch Root work with an open system in the machine to find a solution, but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re also on edge because of the converging storylines that belong to Jeff and Fusco. That segue was so horrifying, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. IT WAS ALL CONNECTED. NO THANK YOU.<\/p>\n
And there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a tiny part of me that does<\/i> feel a bit bad for Jeff, given that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manipulated and extorted so ruthlessly by Samaritan. (Through Mona, that is.) Jeff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s role as an asset is so gradual, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not until the last couple assignments that they started to test his willingness to do \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bad\u00e2\u20ac\u009d things. I believe that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s intentional! Samaritan granted him security and success, something he otherwise would not have gotten as an ex-con, and then, Samaritan exploited that, further threatening to take away everything it had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153granted\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jeff. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a horrible, shitty situation to live with\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6YET HE INJECTED THAT NURSE WITH A MYSTERIOUS VILE DURING A QUARANTINE. Bad??? 100% bad, no question about it??? HE STABBED FUSCO IN THE NECK, OH MY FUCKING GOD. And now he knows the truth: that the outbreak was meant to inspire public panic, so that when the government asked for mandatory genetic marker testing, people would willingly give up their DNA.<\/p>\n
To Samaritan.<\/p>\n
THERE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S GONNA BE ANOTHER CORRECTION, ISN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T THERE. IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S GONNA HAPPEN AND I AM SCARED.<\/p>\n
And what about Fusco? He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so, so, SO close to the truth, and in his quest to find out what is actually<\/i> going on, he nearly dies. Does that stop him? HELL NO, IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S FUSCO. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m reminded of how much he went through in the latter half of last season, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Not just that, but after years of being forced into a sidekick role, he is PISSED. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say I feel sorry for John or Harold either. Fusco has repeatedly shown himself to be worthy of respect and worthy of at least being given a choice about whether or not he wants to involve himself in the full process. If he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not told the truth, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna find out on his own. Is that really going to be the ideal scenario here?<\/p>\n
AND THEN THERE IS SHAW. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re at a point where even the audience has trouble distinguishing between a simulation and reality. Even here, I just assumed the worst: none of this mattered. Shaw wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t truly escaping, and she hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually found a means to get out of her cell. Even after Lambert confronted her and she shot him (YES), I still had my doubts. How was I to know the truth? Should I invest in something that will most likely end with the reveal that it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t real?<\/p>\n
YET THIS IS. That radio broadcast proves it!!! That could not have been part of Shaw\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s memory because it happened in real time. So\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 oh my god. Lambert is dead. She escaped. SHE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S IN SOUTH AFRICA??? Oh my god, what the hell was Samaritan doing at that prison??? HOW IS SHE GOING TO GET TO NEW YORK???<\/p>\n
How is this show going to be over for me next week. HOW.<\/p>\n
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