Episode
Person of Interest: Number Crunch
Overview
As Detective Carter deals with the fallout from her recent encounter with Reese and Finch, The Machine ups the ante for the duo by giving them four Social Security numbers instead of one.
Details
- Series
- Person of Interest
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2011-12-15
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Number Crunch is Episode 10 in Season 1 of Person of Interest. It aired on 2011-12-15. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 9: Get Carter
Reese and Finch’s game of cat and mouse with Detective Carter becomes infinitely more complicated when The Machine declares that she is their newest POI.
Episode 11: Super
Reese is confined to a wheelchair recovering from his gunshot wound, but Finch sets him up in an apartment where he’s to keep an eye on the Super, who is their latest POI. Also, Finch approaches Carter and gives her a POI to show her what they do.
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Episode 8: Foe
When Reese and Finch discover that their latest POI has connections to Cold War Soviet espionage circles, they quickly learn how covert ops were handled in a world before The Machine.
Episode 12: Legacy
When Carter finally comes face-to-face with Reese, he urges her to join forces to help with their latest POI, a scrappy young woman from the wrong side of the tracks who turned her life around and became a lawyer.
Episode 7: Witness
The Machine identifies a school teacher who witnessed a mob hit as their next POI and Reese and Finch rush to save his life.
Episode 13: Root Cause
The Machine gives Reese and Finch the number of a down-and-out man who has been pushed too far, and they're forced to turn to former Person of Interest, Zoe Morgan, for help.
Episode 6: The Fix
Reese becomes romantically involved with the newest Person of Interest: an attractive woman who isn't all that she seems.
Episode 14: Wolf and Cub
The Machine identifies Darren, a teenager whose brother was just murdered, as the next POI. Meanwhile, Finch is growing concerned that the son of his former business partner is dangerously close to finding out about the Machine.
Episode 5: Judgement
Reese and Finch have the added challenge of investigating a Person of Interest who wants nothing to do with their brand of vigilante justice.
Episode 15: Blue Code
Reese discovers there’s more to the story after he infiltrates a smuggling ring to get close to his latest POI.
Episode 4: Cura Te Ipsum
Reese and Finch get some help from Detective Fusco as they surveil their latest POI, Dr. Megan Tillman, while she’s on call and after hours to unravel the threat surrounding the promising young physician.
Episode 16: Risk
The Machine leads Reese and Finch to Wall Street when a sharp young trader at a major investment bank becomes embroiled in a multi-million dollar financial scam.