Jim Caviezel credited as playing...
John Reese
- John Reese: What's good here?
- Harold Finch: That won't work, Mr. Reese.
- John Reese: What won't?
- Harold Finch: Your interrogation technique.
- John Reese: "What's good here"? It's an innocent question.
- Harold Finch: No question is ever innocent from you. You're trying to determine whether I come here often. Armed with that knowledge, you'll try to figure out where I live.
- John Reese: You're paranoid, Finch.
- Harold Finch: With good reason.
- Harold Finch: Mr. Reese, any sign of a threat?
- John Reese: [Watching Gates eat] Does cholesterol count?
- John Reese: [Last lines] He said we don't need to worry. He might even help us someday.
- Harold Finch: I was listening in, Mr. Reese.
- John Reese: I was reading between the lines
- Harold Finch: I suppose only time will tell which one of us is right.
- John Reese: Thank you.
- Harold Finch: I beg your pardon?
- John Reese: For giving me a job.
- Harold Finch: Try the eggs benedict, Mr. Reese. I've had them many times.
- Judge Samuel Gates: I wasn't sure I'd ever see you again.
- John Reese: Yeah, I'm, uh, not great at keeping in touch with people.
- John Reese: The longest I've ever taken me to break someone is 16 hours. You don't look like you're going to set a record. Want to talk?
- Judge Samuel Gates: Who are you?
- John Reese: I'm here to help you.
- Judge Samuel Gates: Where is Sam? Where is my son? You're with the kidnappers, aren't you? You're one of them!
- John Reese: No, I tried to stop them. The the kidnappers made contact. That's good. That means they want to negotiate. They won't hurt your son as long as he's worth something.
- Judge Samuel Gates: What do you mean, you tried to stop them? You were there?
- John Reese: I was. But not soon enough.
- Judge Samuel Gates: How did you know they were gonna take him? Who the hell are you?
- John Reese: You have two questions right now. Who are you and where is my son? Which one do you wanna focus on?
- John Reese: Stay here and wait for the next call.
- Judge Samuel Gates: They said no cops, no FBI.
- John Reese: They didn't say anything about me.
- Harold Finch: Not much on the SIM card. Some disconnected numbers and a handful of texts, all equally cryptic. So I'm trying to hack the cell company for more information. But their firewall is impressive.
- John Reese: You can't get in? You built a machine that spies on the entire country.
- Harold Finch: When you work for the government, access is not a problem.
- John Reese: I can't be there on time if I'm getting bad information.
- Harold Finch: The machine did not send us the wrong number. If it says that judge Gates is in danger, then he is.
- John Reese: Well, tell that to his son.
- Harold Finch: The kidnapping must connect. It could be the first step in a larger plot that ends with the judge dead. We can still put a stop to it, all of it. But we need a plan.
- John Reese: I have a plan. Find Sam. The man just lost his wife. I won't let him wind up alone.
- John Reese: Oh, he comes when he's called. Good. Now if I could just train you to stop trying to kill me.
- Lionel Fusco: How long am I going to have to work down here? Commute's a bitch.
- John Reese: You should be grateful. Takes some guys years to make task force. Plus, I let you live.
- John Reese: Find out if there's been any ransom kidnappings reported. White guys with crew cuts. One with long hair.
- Lionel Fusco: Kidnapping's big news. I'd have heard something.
- John Reese: What about Amber alerts? Child abduction?
- Lionel Fusco: Is that what we're dealing with?
- John Reese: We? Since when are you on board?
- Lionel Fusco: It's still a missing kid. Hey, whatever else I've done, I'm still a cop.
- Judge Samuel Gates: You had your chance. I'm not playing games with my son's life.
- John Reese: They'll kill you both as soon as they get what they want. Now, I can save your son. You just have to trust me.