Jim Caviezel credited as playing...
John Reese
- John Reese: I need you to drop the eyeliner, pick up a gun, and help me take down a criminal street gang.
- Sameen Shaw: I'd really like to, but that sounds like a bad idea.
- John Reese: Yeah, that's what Fusco says. I guess I'm full of 'em today.
- Harold Finch: How goes the day job, Detective Riley?
- John Reese: Personally, I prefer my real job, Finch.
- Harold Finch: Professor Whistler, please.
- John Reese: We're getting numbers again Harold. We need to get back to work.
- Harold Finch: I'm no longer your coworker, Detective. I'm done taking orders from a computer. I thought I made that clear after it instructed us to kill a Congressman.
- John Reese: It also helped us to save Grace. And now more lives need saving.
- NYPD Officer: [after Reese breaks up a drug deal] Detective? You okay?
- John Reese: Escort these clowns to the ER. Get the drugs and money to evidence. Gotta go.
- John Reese: Sir, don't you need to file a report, firing your service weapon?
- John Reese: It wasn't my weapon.
- John Reese: What brings you up to The Bronx, Detective?
- Detective Lionel Fusco: Last I checked, I was in Homicide. This here looks like a body. What's Narcotics doing here, Detective?
- John Reese: [Gestures to the body] Felix here was an affiliate of a street gang taking over the heroin trade.
- Detective Lionel Fusco: Yeah, well, now he's unaffiliated.
- Detective Lionel Fusco: We're gonna help you, Mr. Hasan.
- Ali Hasan: How?
- John Reese: By getting your son back.
- Ali Hasan: You? Haven't you done enough?
- John Reese: Not yet, I haven't.
- Harold Finch: If you or Sameen or anyone else attempt to intervene with these numbers, you will surely find yourselves dead.
- John Reese: We have to do something.
- Harold Finch: We have no resources, John! The library's gone.
- John Reese: So we'll get another place.
- Harold Finch: Don't you understand? They're always watching! We can't even talk on the telephone. There is no sanctuary. You can't just be the man in the suit. You're a cop now. I'm a professor. That's just the way it is.
- John Reese: We don't need jobs, Harold. We need a purpose.
- Harold Finch: The world has changed, John. I'm sorry.
- [Passes over Bear's leash]
- Harold Finch: For the time being, I think he'll be happier with you.
- [Gets up to leave]
- John Reese: Well, if it's not about helping the numbers anymore, then what?
- Harold Finch: It's about survival, John.
- [from trailer]
- Trailer V.O.: CBS next Tuesday: a machine created to protect our lives...
- Harold Finch: [whispering urgently] They're always watching!
- Trailer V.O.: ...has decided to take over our world.
- Samaritan: [as individual words flashing on screen] WHAT ARE YOUR COMMANDS
- John Greer: Launch official intelligence.
- Root: This is war.
- Alvin Lee of "Ten Years After": [slow singing on soundtrack accompanies violent-act visuals] I'd love to change the world
- John Reese: It's like old times.
- Harold Finch: Hardly.
- Alvin Lee of "Ten Years After": [simultaneously with next] But I don't know what to do
- Trailer V.O.: [simultaneously with previous] Person of Interest season premiere. Next Tuesday, 10, 9 Central.