Episode
Person of Interest: Prophets
Overview
While Reese is forced to go to counseling for his violent tendencies, Root, Shaw and Finch try to help a new POI.
Details
- Series
- Person of Interest
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2014-10-21
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Prophets is Episode 5 in Season 4 of Person of Interest. It aired on 2014-10-21. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 4: Brotherhood
Reese's cover job as a detective at the NYPD becomes complicated when the young brother and sister he's protecting become targets of a gang investigation.
Episode 6: Pretenders
Reese, Shaw and Fusco must protect a unassuming office worker who stumbles into a dangerous conspiracy while moonlighting as fake detective. Finch travels to Hong Kong as part of his academic cover identity.
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Episode 3: Wingman
Finch recruits Fusco to stick close to the latest POI, a professional 'wingman', but learning how to approach women soon becomes the least of his worries. Reese must find a way to play by the rules at his new day job. The Machine sends Finch and Root on a mysterious errand.
Episode 7: Honor Among Thieves
Shaw joins a team of international thieves in order to keep tabs on the latest POI, but an unexpected turn of events puts her in danger of being detected by Samaritan. Also, Finch and Root undertake a dangerous sabotage mission.
Episode 2: Nautilus
Despite not wanting to help with the new numbers, Finch's interest is piqued when the newest person of interest turns out to be a brilliant college student involved with a mysterious scavenger hunt.
Episode 8: Point of Origin
Reese volunteers as an NYPD police academy instructor in order to keep an eye on a talented young officer whose suspicious actions make him question her motives. Meanwhile, Martine – armed with information from Samaritan – hunts a member of the team.
Episode 1: Panopticon
Forced to take on new identities provided by Root, the team members try to adapt to their new lives. However, some find it hard to ignore The Machine's numbers, which puts them all at risk of being detected by Samaritan.
Episode 9: The Devil You Know
Reese must save Elias from the Brotherhood. He can't get any help from Root or Shaw since Shaw's cover is blown and Root is escorting her to underground.
Episode 10: The Cold War
Samaritan shows its power by erasing crime from the city for a day in an attempt to force The Machine out of hiding.
Episode 11: If-Then-Else
Samaritan launches a cyber-attack on the stock exchange, forcing the team to risk their lives in a desperate mission to stop a global economic catastrophe.
Episode 12: Control-Alt-Delete
Control, who oversees the handling of relevant numbers for the government, begins to question the methods and intentions of the Samaritan program. Also, alarming news reports of a pair of vigilantes rampaging through the Northeast begin to surface.
Episode 13: M.I.A.
Root and Reese investigate a small town in upstate New York that holds the key to Shaw's location... and whether she's dead or alive.