Jim Caviezel credited as playing...
John Reese
- John Reese: I know you won't carry a gun, but if I'm sending you back in the field, you're getting some basic self-defense.
- Harold Finch: Oh, I really don't think...
- John Reese: No, listen up. If Trask comes at you, put your fingers straight out like this and strike at his eyes.
- Harold Finch: Poke him in the eyes? That's your technique?
- John Reese: No that's YOUR technique. And if that doesn't work you can always take your thumb, jam it in his eye socket and twist until you hit his brain.
- Harold Finch: Please stop...!
- Harold Finch: You're not tailing her to work?
- John Reese: [In a wheelchair] I'm getting pretty good at this thing...
- Harold Finch: Yes, I'm sure the CIA will be deeply impressed... when they shoot you!
- Ernie Trask: I'm the super. Name is Trask. I tell you that already?
- John Reese: Twice.
- Ernie Trask: I guess I'm getting old. It seems like yesterday I was partying till dawn down in Miami. Used to own six nightclubs down there. You know, I had a mansion in coral gables, a white bengal tiger. Had to give all that up. Bad for my health. What about you? Where you from? What do you do? How'd you wind up in that chair?
- John Reese: I had a rough night.
- John Reese: How's it going with Lily?
- Harold Finch: This may be the best-catered stakeout in history.
- John Reese: Don't eat in the field, Finch. Never know when you'll have to move fast.
- Harold Finch: When the phone company puts in your wi-fi, the password is your phone number. Most people never even change it. The other ones might actually take a minute. Once we're in, we can turn every webcam, nanny cam, security system, and laptop on the network into our eyes and ears.
- John Reese: Just like the machine.
- Harold Finch: I suppose If one apartment building were the entire world.
- John Reese: [Looks at a screen] Well, Lily the cook seems to be dating Rick from the penthouse.
- Harold Finch: Hmm.
- John Reese: [Looks at another screen. There's a very fit woman doing a fitness routine] And Amber in 714 is... healthy.
- Harold Finch: Somehow I doubt that's what alerted the machine.
- Harold Finch: You know, his name isn't Ernest Trask, it's Ernesto Machado. He used to own six nightclubs in Miami, a yacht, house in Coral Gables, and...
- [Hands him a photo]
- John Reese: A pet tiger. It was all true.
- Harold Finch: Even the part about it being bad for his health. He testified against the Cuban mafia in 1996. Still a price on his head.
- John Reese: He's in Witness Protection.
- Harold Finch: That's why you couldn't find Mrs. Trask. She came with him from Miami, but without the houses and the clubs she didn't last long. She left him, moved in with relatives - In Boca Raton.
- John Reese: How'd you find all that out?
- Harold Finch: I'm good with computers.
- John Reese: Be honest, Finch. There is no machine, is there? It's just you.
- Harold Finch: Trask is armed, has a dangerous fixation on Lily, and just chased me up 3 floors. Safe to say he's our perpetrator!
- John Reese: I don't know Finch. You sure you don't want to check with your Machine?
- Harold Finch: Yes... that joke never gets old...!
- Harold Finch: Everything alight?
- John Reese: Yeah, I'm just sick of being cooped up and, uh, staring at screens all day.
- Harold Finch: I'd rather be doing that than trudging around half of Manhattan. I have half a mind to spot Lily cab fare.